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The Western news., 1903-04-29
Shipment of Dressed Fowls.

1t is common saying that the mar
ket is never over-stocked with the best,
and this is probably correct. Whenever
the market is over-stocked it begins at
the poorest quality to reject. If the
market does not reject the low quality,
it at once reduces the price to point
below cost of production and market
ing. Therefore the only people that
stand a chance of making money are
those that send to market good prod
ucts in good shape. In way markets
are always over-stocked. except in
times Of special scarcity. But the mar
ket is never over-stocked with choice
fowls. Great loss to the producers re-
suits from the manner in which
fowls are dressed and shipped to mar
ket. One man says that the quantity Of
fowls daily dressed and sent to market
in an unstable condition is enormous.
Farmers Review.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
AMONG THE POULTRY.

Keep one cock for ten to fifteen hens.
Let the fowls fast q few hours before
killing.
Hens lay best ut the aga OF one to
two years.
Always give fowls plenty OF frssh.
pure water.
Sitting hens must have daily run to
insure them good health.
There is no danger of the poultry
business being overdone because the
demand is rapidly increasing.
If a scratching place is provided
where you can bury corn, your fowls
will receive much benefit from the ex-
ercise.
A quick way to fatten geese is to put
a few in a darkened pen and feed
pound Of oats per day to each one.
They fatten in two wesks.-Farmers'
Voice.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
THE RORsE BUSINESS.
1Aose Who Raise the Right Sort OF
AASAals Have Never Yet AAAo
. Failure of 1t.

At the roundup institute in Wiscon-
sin last year, H. A. Briggs, an extensive
breeder of that state, gave the fol-
lowing good advice in regard to the
brood mare:
II you are going to raise draft horses
see what kind of brood mare you have.
Don't try to raise a draft horse from
a 1000 or 1,1O0-pound trotting mare.
Select your largest mares and cross
them with the breed you like best.
a pure-bred draft horse, whether he is
imported or American bred. you must
get size and quality. If you are going
TO breed carriage or coach horses, Sc
lect your mares that have size and
quality, and cross them with the very
best carriage horse you can. am not
going to point out the particular breed
you should have. Among our American
trotters we can get as good type of
coach horse as there is in the world, if
we look to size and quality, but there
are not enough of them. If American
people had paid as much attention to
producing good carriage horses as they
have to producing speed. and speed
alone, we would have the best coach
and carriage horses of any nation in
the word. and we would have ma
tional reputation for producing car
riage horses equal to the one we have
had for producing little trotters. That
has been the one great trouble with the
men who have been raising trotting
horses, they have lost sight of every
thing except the speed and the speed
pedigree. and the result in many cases
has been that not one in 25 has been
fit to put on the market to sell for any
kind of Legitimate use. Get the idea
Of trying to raise trotting horses out
of your head; if he can't do anything
but trot you do not want him, because
you would do more harm to yourself
and your family in financial and a
moral way than anything you can do
on the farm. But if you have good
standard trotting mare, and can cross
her with a good French or German
coach or standard bred horse you can
make money in raising coach or car
riage horses. Such horses are SELL
ing all the way from $3.50 to $780,
They weigh from 1850 to 1850
pounds. and stand from 15h to 16
hands high, with all of the style and
nice, easy action that you can get in
horse, not low shuffling gait. but
one that gets his feet up and shows
nice knee action and nice hook action.
That will give you an idea of the kind
of horse that l think is advisable for
the farmer to raise. You may have
the very best breeds of either one of
these kinds, and if you neglect feed
you will have the veriest scrub that
ever grew on Wisconsin farm.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
PRESERVING EGGS.
Formula Used by Spectators and
Dealers Engaged in the BusineSs
ON a Large Scale.

Numerous methods of preserving
eggs are in use. The idea of all of them
is to keep air out of the eggs, as by
such absence of oxygen decay can be
arrested for a considerable length of
time, especially if the eggs are perfect
ly fresh at the start and are kept in
cool, dark place. The standard meth
cd most used by spectators and deal
ers is to put eggs in lime water. The
process is as follows, this recipe having
been widely sold at five dollars under
pledge of secrecy: Take two gallons of
water, 12 pounds of unslaked lime and
four pounds of salt, or in that proper
tion according to the quantity of eggs
to be preserved Stir several times
daily and then let stand until the liquid
has settled and is perfectly clear. Draw
or carefully dip off the clear liquid.
leaving the sediment at the bottom.
Take for the. above amount of liquid
five ounces each of baking soda, cream
of tartar, saltpeter and borax and an
ounce of alum. Pulverize and mix these
and dissolve in one gallon of boiling
water and add to the mixture about 30
SdllOlS Ol pure lille water. 1ulS Will
about fill cider barrel. Put the eggs
in carefully's SO as not to crack any of
the shells, letting the water always
stand an inch above the eggs, which
can be done by placing barrel head a
little smaller upon them and weighing
it. This amount of liquid will preserve
$50 dozen of eggs. 1t is not necessary
to wait to get full barrel or smaller
package of eggs, but they can be put
in at any time that they can be OBJ
tanned fresh. The same liquid should
be used only once.-Michigan Trades
man.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
ABOUT BELGIAN HARES.


In answer to q number Of Inquiries
in regard to the Belgian hare, we
find, upon investigation, that the
try as an industry began about ten
years ago. The breeders are natural
ly enthusiastic and possibly are too
optimistic in their view of the future
of this constantly enlarging business.
1t is claimed by them that no other
line of breeding offers anything like
the profits that the breeding of the
Belgian hare does. Both the meat
and the hide are valuable. The cost
il not over five cents a pound at the
most, and we have been informed by
breeders in the vicinity of Denver,
COL, that the meat in that market
sells from Is to 25 cents pound.
The meat of a young Belgian hare il
highly extolled by those who are ac-
quainted with its quality, and all such
unite in saying that as toothsome
article of diet it cannot be excelled
by any meat that comes to our tables.
The hare is exceedingly prolific, tho
doe sometimes producing IS to so
young hares in the course of the
year, and does begin to breed at the
age of six months.
The food is that which is common
ly eaten by sheep, and should be q
variety which can readily be provid-
ed from oats, clover, roots. bread and
milk, etc. All the shelter that il
needed is an open shed that will
always be dry and must be clean.
Cleanliness in the hutch must be
maintained. Three by four or five
feet is large enough for hutch. The
nesting box, which must be provided
for each breeding doe, should be three
feet hong and two feet in width and
height \ portion of the cage should
be covered with wire netting. Cover
the bottom with fine straw. A litter
is from six to dozen. When about
two months old the young are weaned
and the sexes separated. The weight
of Belgian, if pure bred, at ma
turity is from eight to ten pounds
Epitomist.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
Horses Require Good WATER.

If horse could speak he would at
times demonstrate against the treat
ment accorded him by his masters.
For instance, when driven to a stag
nant pond or muddy creek for drink
would be one occasion for him to ex-
press his displeasure. But he cannot
speak and apparently his master, in
too many cases, cannot see, and the
result is thc faithful beast drinks wa
ter with green skum on it from
shallow pond teeming with all kinds
of animals" or from milk-warm
creek or branch that happens to be
handy. Good water is abundant every
where; if not on the surface it is be-
meath only few feet perhaps. Dig
it out from the bosom Of the earth
and enjoy the bounties Of nature
Farmers Voice.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
MAN WITH THE HOE.
He Has Disappeared from the Aver
aOo American Farm to an "a
justiAable ExteAt.

The man with the hoe is largely .
memory. There. is nothing that the
average farmer SO much dislikes az
the hoe. Hoeing he regards as too
hard work, and besides it is slow work.
We have become so accustomed to
rapid working and riding implements
that we have no patience with the
hoe. We do not desire to be under
stood as trying to convey the idea
that handling the hoe is altogether
pleasure. We are not particularly in
love with the work, but there is lots
work on the farm that is not particu
larly inviting. Writer'S, ana especial
ly the editors Of the city agricultural
papers, may talk eloquently of the
beauty of the flowers on the farm,
the fragrance Of new-mown hay and
the delightful shady retreat, but if
these fellows would spend hot day
in getting that sweet, new-mown hay
into the barn-even with modern tools
and machinery-or should spend day
in carting out manure, or even riding
on a cultivatOr, to say nothing about
walking after one. they would con-
clude that there were other "smells"
on the farm besides the fragrance of
new-mown hay and roses, and that
the shady retreats were a mockery to
a man who must spend 12 hours in the
scorching heat. Farming is not fun
by long ways. 1t is hard work and
some of the work is very disagreeable.
The farmers consolation, however, is
that there is hard work in any calling.
No, the hoe is not fascinating tool.
1t is about on the level in that respect
with the obsolete fail, but while it
has been discarded to an unjustifable
extent it is an exceedingly useful tool
We keep the hoe going somewhere on
the farm almost constantly, and are
satisfied that it is the most profitable
tool we use. 1t can be profitably used
by cheap help, which cannot be said
of most implements. A boy can hoe
as well as man, if lie will, and some
boys will. We have boy who we are
satisfied makes the hoe pay. The
modern hoe suffers because of the bad
reputation of its old clumsy predeces-
sor, which was a backaching, hand
blistering. dull and heavy tool. The
modern hoe is light and graceful and
should be sharp. 1t is easily handled
and efficient. Let us use it more
Agricultural Epitomist.
The Western news., 1903-04-29

hour. In order to get the ma ximum
way Of feed grinding. it is necessary to
provide large bin above the grinder.
in which the grain to be ground can be
placed, and then have this arranged
in such a way that the grain feeds di
rectly into the mill whenever the mill
isrunning. With this sarrangementm must
also OF course be provided a bin into
which the ground meal can fall out of
the way Of the grinder Such an ar
rangement is shown by the cut, taken
from the Wisconsin agricultural expert
ment station bulletin No. 50. The
grinder there shown is arranged di-
rectly on the driving shaft of 12-foot
geared windmill. and upon the same
shaft is shown driving pulley, to
which bet may be attached for the
purpose of saving wood or driving any
other piece of machinery which the
mill has the capacity of handling. This
driving pulley can be useG to drive a
machine set anywhere on the circum-
ference of a circle surrounding the
shaft and without disturbing the feed
grinder; it only being necessary to
throw the grinder out of use when the
driving shaft is desired for some other
purpose.-F. II. King, in Rural New
Yorker
The Western news., 1903-04-29
TIMELY SWINE NOTES.

The hogs are mortgage ifters this
year.
Converting corn into pork this sea-
son has been a paying business.
Do not let the harvest work or culti-
vation Of the crops interfere with the
care of the pigs.
The wheat that did not pay to cut
can be harvested by the hogs to a de-
cided advantage.
Let the hogs run in the orchard now
and they will destroy lots of worms
and insects by eating up the dropping
fruit.
A farmer who cannot find pleasure
in handling the swill pail for the pigs
is not able to enjoy all the pleasures
of the farm.
Hogs are filthy animals only when
they are compelled to be filthy. They
enjoy clean quarters as much as any
other animal, and will keep them so if
given a chance National Stockman.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
Proper Handling of Bees.

If you know how to handle bees you
can earn good pay overhauling the
apiaries of farmers who are too busy in
sprisy and fall to put their colonies in
shape for the season. Many swarms
are worthless now that might bring
good profits to the owner if cleaned up
and perhaps combined with another.
Wormy hives and hives with old brood
might as well be burned or thrown in
the sea as to be kept in their present
condition. Let man get reputation
for knowing how to handle bees and
being willing to do it for others, and no
would not find time to fill his orders.
He would soon carry large stock Of
bees and bee goods as we'll as honey TO
sell, and sh ould make it all turn in good
profts.-Midland Farmer.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
sheep as Farm Eertilixers,

Prof. Roberts, of Cornell university,
says the fertilizer produced by sheep
in year is worth $3.17. While the
most of this is left in the pasture, its
value to the farmer depends much
upon the condition of the grass there.
Many pastures are in such condition
that they need breaking up and re-
seeding as much as they do fertilizer,
and until something is done to remedy
this trouble the value of the manure
made by the sheep would to some ex-
tent be wasted. We know that the
sheep improve the pasture by killing
many varieties of weeds, and thus give
the grass better chance, but the
sheep should not be forced to live en-.
tirely upon weeds and bushes. II they
are, it will be . question whether the
bushes or the flock of sheep will be
killed first.
The Western news., 1903-04-29

I feed my hogs corn and oats princi-
pally. Bulk Of the feed, corn. Make
q swill using corn and oats ground to-
gether one-third corn and two-thirds
oats, and add to that little wheat
shorts. Hogs have run Of pasture.
Have access to salt at all times; plen-
ty Of water. Pumpkins are fed in the
fall, also small potatoes and waste ap-
pies and such stuff from the garden
not usable in the house. In fact any
and all things raised on the farm that
will tempt their appetite and be con-
ducive to their health.-F. G. Bartoot,
in Tarmers' Review.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
Poultry Hou.e n.infeet..t.

1t is we'll to keep the fact in mind
that pure air and sunshine are the best
Of disinfectants. They discount every
thing in keeping the nursery coops in
condition. Turn these coops over fre-
quently so when tie hens and their
broods are out on the range the sun
may shine on them all day. If this il
regularly attended to and their loca-
tion changed so as to occupy fresh
spot of ground once week you can re-
lieve your mind of any fear of foulness
which will be injurious to the chicks.
This kind of disinfecting costs nothing
in the way of labor, and il one of the
cheap things which is thoroughly good.
Farmers Voice.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
1--WE N>B~
49T:!~Sf0CK
BARN AND MANURE SHED.
Just the Kind of a Structure Needed
By FaFmers who Cannot Spend
Mach Money.

offer the plan of small barn and
manure shed. cheap and thoroughly
strong. 1t is 3Ox5Q feet. shed and al.
The shed is for manure and can be used
for a place to drive in to unhitch or to
leave team hitched during rain. etc.
In this barn there is no expensive
bridge to build or strong barn floor to
construct, for the driveway is on level
ground or the ground raised gently to
keep water out. This makes driving in
easy and no backing down steep grade
to get out, as there are slide doors sc
as to drive clear through.
The bay on the right of main drive
The Western news., 1903-04-29

Every rooster n OF intended especially
for breeding should be killed or sold a.
soon as large enough to eat. Not over
one good rooster should be kept on any
farm, and that one cooped and mated
with not to exceed ten hens, the eggs
from those hens to be kept expressly
for Matching. The other hens should
be kept especially for eggs for market
or table use, and no rooster should be
allowed among them. On the ordinary
farms about one-tenth Of the fowls are
roosters, which il about nine times a.
many as are necessary.-Farm and
EireSide.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
WINDMILL GRINDER.
NOW to Arrange aAA Pat Up Oae TAa4
Will Saw Wood and GFlAd
Cora fer Feeding.

One Of the best plans is to secure. in
the first place. good windmill, and
second, good ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
feed grinder. which will regulate the
amount of feed strictly in proportion
to the speed at which the mill is be-
ing driven, and which will stop empty
whenever the mill stops. With such
feed grinder as this, arranged prefera-
bly, directly upon the driving shaft OF
the geared mill. large amount OF feed
may be ground wherever there is any
considerable amount of steady wind
above velocity Of IL to Is miles per
The Western news., 1903-04-29

way is 12x15x3O feet, and could be made
Is feet wide by extending joists out
over driveway one foot. This would
still leave enough room. If the bays
on left Of driveway are both used for
hay it would be 26 feet wide by 80 feet
long, but would not all be the same
depth, as the shed floor is higher than
the rest. 1t should be about 12Ha feet
from floor to ground. This will make
it so large load of hay can pass
through easily. If this shed is built
on the south end of barn l would
weatherboard between the two west
The Western news., 1903-04-29
LOW POULTRY HOUSE.

four feet high, but in the front there
is height enough for even tall per-
son, and the work can all be done
in the high part. Such building
looks much better than "shed"
more.
By removing the sash and substi-
tuting netting, or Stats, it may be
converted into comfortable summer
Quarters.-Farm Journal.
The Western news., 1903-04-29

turned on its side, to make o level
floor, and nail two strips at the front,
as shown. Make front of laths as
shown in the cut and place against
the strips. "A nail at either side will
hold it in place. During the day let
the Slated part be at the bottom,
so the chicks can run in and out. At
night simply turn the front around
in it's place, so that the more solid
part may come at the bottom to keep
out prowling enemies and to keep the
chicks in.-Orange Judd Farmer.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
was Popular Years Ago.

The great reputation now being
given the COW pea is not new. Many
years ago the praises of the COW pea
were heard everywhere, and the coH
pea is also one of the oldest N
best known plants in this con-
The fact is that the cow pea vi
make much headway where clos
. leading crop. 1t will prove ser ."
able where clover is not easily gio, II
but a. it in expensive to save the
seed of the cow pea, much difficulty is
In its way. Il il . valuable plant,
however. and should be grown on
overy farm =
The Western news., 1903-04-29
wlfd Onion In PastuPes.

The wild onion is the bane Of the
pasturea. but it can be eradicated en-
tirely il attention is given it. One
of the remedies suggested for the
wild onion odor in milk is to stable
the COWS about three o'clock and give
hay, allowing their regular food as
usual. The odor will pass of in the
secretions N three or four hours.
Every season, however. the wild onion
regularly appears and increases, yet
the pests are easily destroyed BY pull
ing them up or keeping them cut
down. This may be tedious for
awhile, but pays well in the end.
The Western news., 1903-04-29

o 8, open shed: B 8. box stalls: 8, stalls:
D. slide door; D. driveway on level
ground.
posts and hang large slide door on
west side to keep out storm. This would
Tut three slide doors on the west side
OF barn, but they can work all right,
if they are not all wanted open at
once.
If this barn is all used for hay it
would hold over 30 tons. but if the shed
NOW is wanted for straw | would fill
the other with hay built up straight;
then with a hay sling the straw could
be thrown over the hsymrw easily AM
would be convenient to get cor bedding.
Thirty feet is quite 4 narrow barn. but
it can be enlarge! to almost any size
desired. This stable has Il box stall
in each end and stalls enough for ten
horses or cows, and b- cutting OF one
end of the driveway with light rack
to keep feed in, the rest could be used
to stable bunch of sheep or calves by
hanging light racks on VAL. for man
gers. | think this barn would suit a
small farm in many respects. l would
not keep any bulk grain in a barn.
Haymows, grain bins and rats don't
suit in one building.-W. d. Watson, in
Ohio Farmer.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
ADJUSTABLE COVER.
Useful for Many Purposes, But More
Especially for the Protection of
Hay and Corn Fodder.

The illustration shows novelty in
the shape of an adjustable covering for
hay cornfodder, etc, which any farmer
and little labor. Set four good. sound
posts firmly in the ground. about IA
feet apart. The posts may be about
IL to 16 feet in length. Next make a
rafter frame of proper dimensions to
The Western news., 1903-04-29
TROUGH FOR HOGS.

ing in slop. The height (E, H) is two
feet; width of opening at B, two inches;
C, D, 6 inches; D, f, eight inches. Slop
is poured in at A and runs down
through the two-inch opening into
trough. the rear side of which slopes
forward so that the pigs can reach all
the slop in bottom of trough.-Ohio
Farmer.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
LOW POULTRY HOUSE.
II Costs But Little More Than q
"ShsA" Rooted Affair, and 10
Prettier by Far.

In cold climates the poultry quar-
ters must be built low to conserve
heat. The cut shows an excellent
house of this sort. The rear 10 but
The Western news., 1903-04-29
A GOOD HOG TROUGH.
Pigs Cannot Get Their Feet Into 1t
and Cannot Get in the Way While
SlOp Il Poured In.

I send sketch of a hog trough have
had in use for some time, and it is
success. Pigs cannot get their feet into
it and cannot get in the way when pour
The Western news., 1903-04-29

Keep the pigs growing from start to
finish. When they cease to grow they
cease 70 be profitable.
The Western news., 1903-04-29
GOOD BARREL COOP.
Poultry Yard Device That IL 30 Sin.
PIE AID Inexpensive That Every.
body Can Have 1t.

A tight barrel makes an excellent
coop for chickens, az it is almost
ready for use as it is. Throw a lot
of dry loan into the bottom, when
The Western news., 1903-04-29

Save seeds of everything from the
best In the patch. Do not forget this.