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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-07-12
The Poultry Industry.

The hen has come to the front
with extraordinary strides In our do
nestle and commercial economy
The demand for fresh eggs and
choice table poultry is increasing
much faster than the supply The
aen is a money maker. The COM
nercial poultry people who buy their
iced, still find in them a good profit
The farm poultry raiser has vast ad-
gantages if he will adopt the i'm
proved breeds, so easily done, and
provide good poultry houses. He
can give them range, which is es-
sential to health and good growth
He can raise them with the mini
mann use of any commercial com
modify. The run on the farm and
orchard is an actual benefit rather
than an expense. They destroy in
sects and weed seeds and make their
living with a little extrG corn or
summer feed. A market is always
ready.
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Sharpening HENS Teeth.

AS all who raise poultry know the
portion of the hens anatomy an
swering to teeth is the gizzard. it is
therefore important that material be
provided which will enable the gig
card to do its duty fully. One veter-
an poultryman says he would as
soon think of trying to raise fowls
without grain as without grit, and
ne is very near right. While all
sorts of things are recommended for
grit, we believe that there should be
considerable mixture here as we'll as
In the food. A neighboring florist
willingly gives us all of the broken
Hover pots we will cart away, and
these are broken in still smaller
pieces and mixed with short bits of
stone and irregular pieces of gravel.
broken china, and with the hard
portions of clam and oyster shells.
All OF this mass is placed in a box
protected from soil as much as pos
slble and situated where the fowls
can get it at any time they please.
We go to considerable trouble to
keep 1T clean and free from dirt so
that the fowls can pick out the pieces
they want as they please.-Indian-
apolis News.
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Seed Corn From Growing Grain.

The experiment station of Ohio
furnishes valuable information in a
bulletin on the selection of corn for
seed, the selection being made dur
Ing the growing OF the plant in the
held, which ought to have the care
fui attention of growers OF corn
everywhere Taking Dent corn for
the purpose, 1t is scored as follows:
Vigor of plants, twenty points; DO
sltion OF ear, points; weight of
ear. 80 points; length of ear, five
points; uniformity of plant and ear.
III points, and shape of kernel and
size OF germ. ten points. Very i'm
portant Is the note which gives the
olsQualncationS, as plants growing
uhder less than normal stand; plants
lying upon the ground or badly brok-
en-; plants diseased plants maturing
100 late or too early. To select the
SEED corn from such plants is fatal
TO the following crop. The vigor of
tue plant is indicated by the circum-
ference OF the stalk below the ear:
Dy us upward growth and by It's leaf
development and freedom from dis
ease The ideal position of the ear
is such that 1t does not pull too heav-
lily upon the plant. The weight of
ene ear is to be determined by scales
wnen the ear is thoroughly dry. The
plan OF uniformity OF plant and ear
is based on the habit of growth and
Flgor OF plant as well as size. shape
color and indentation of ear. Corn
growers everywhere should profit bv
these POINTS, which will mean de-
cldediy improved crops.-Indianapo-
lis News.
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The Way to Raise Colts.

Rearing a flly which is just
as good as she looks, can scarce
ly be done except by a genuine lover
of horsefiesh. Stella, the subject of
the article, was foaled April 4, 1905,
and was large colt at birth. Her
sire is a we'll bred and well built
Percheron, whose colts are greatly
in request at good prices, and his sire
was an imported horse, whose colts
we're remarkable for stability and en-
durance. The colts dam is young,
not pure bred, but good road horse
of pleasant disposition and good
size, and she proved a good mother,
Stella being her first colt. The
youngster had no serious setbacks
and never ceased to grow as long as
1 owned her. She was like a baby
to the whole family, petted and ca
ressed and fed salt and sugar from
our hands, yet she never contracted
a vicious habit, nor had tricks which
were annoying. If her future train
ing is as kind as that which she re-
eeived while 1 owned her she will
make the much. quoted kind family
horse" / sold her at seven months
! old. She began taking a nibble from
her mothers grain box when she
was very young. Later she had a
little box of her own, where she
found light ration of bran and
oats. Salt was always within easy
reach, and water when she cared for
it. The work horses made n pet of
her and she ran in pasture with
them in perfect safety, or, when all
the horses were working, she went
to pasture with my hornless dairy
cows, and neither she nor they suf-
fered from the association. Colt rails
ing is little risky and could not be
included in a woman's farm unless
there was a man who could be trust
ed fully; but with good fences and
patient, painstaking care it yields
a rather better profit than cattle
raising. except where one has regis
tered stock; and the chances of real
ly good sales of pure bred cattle are
small unless one shows them at the
great exhibitions, which is very ex-
pensive advertising for women farm
ers. Young horses of good size, COM
mand good prices and are always in
demand. Breeding from vicious par
ents will rarely give the sort OF
horses which the majority like.
Breeding from trotting stock will not
produce the sort of horses which
farmers and others, who need real
work from their teams, want. Study
the sort of horse you can sell and
when the colts arrive take good care
of them.-Sara A. Little. Clyde, N.
W
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Farm and Garden Notes.

Every farmer should have a few
sheep.
Sunlight in the cow stable is
worth money.
Mutton is growing in favor with
meat eaters.
Roots for breeding ewes are al
most a necessity.
Just as likely as likely as not the
pig pen is unclean. See to it
Hog killing is a trying time for
the women folks.
There are too few good horses
and too many poor ones.
For mating the pullet should be
q year younger than the cock This
will co1duce to- the strength and
good health of the offsprings.
Strong constitutions are the means
whereby the wide-awake man lays a
firm course in the steady upbuilding
of fine family Of stock.
Drinking vessels should be kept in
the shade and cleaned every day.
Disease is transmitted through the
drinking vessels in many cases.
Move the brood coops often. The
ground becomes filthy if the coops
are allowed to remain in ono place
very long. Remove them at least
once a week.
Apple and pear trees usually bear
only every other year, but with prop
er culture and by thinning the fruit
when the heavy crops are borne the
trees may be made to produce abun-
dant crops each season. This is an
important item In fruit culture.
Colts which are to be exhibited in
the show ring should be trained to
be led by the side or driven ahead
of pony. A second-class colt, we'll
educated and we'll shown, will beat
RSSt-class one every time that is
poorly -ShowD before the judges when
competing 70 the ring.
Put up the SSnces or invite your
stock to jump over them. If they ac-
cept the invitation and set a taste OF
your growing corn 1t will take two
boards to keep them ont while one
may do 1t now. A breechy animal ON
the farm generally has a commission
given by the negligence of the OWNER.
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Spray For Fruit.

!. Spray with Bordeaux mixture
>efore the leaves unfold.
2. Spray with diluted Bordeaux
mixture just after the blossoms fall.
3. Spray with diluted Bordeaux
mixture two weeks after the second
spraying.
Diluted Bordeaux mixture is used
Tor the second and third spraying
because of the tender foliage of this
group of trees. Pears may be, how
ever, sprayed each time with the Bor-
deaux mixture.
These sprayings will be efTectual
Tor leafspot, mildew, leaf curl. scab.
brown rot and plum pockets.
In case of pear blight, winter
all diseased branches, cutting of
several inches below the diseased
area. Several weeks after blossom
ing remove all young dead twigs in
the samc way. Use a knife that is
sterilized from time to time by WIN
Ing 1T with a cloth saturated with
carboHc acid. The disease occurs
also on apple and ounce. Use the
same treatment.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-07-12

There are cases where an operation
is the only resource, but when one con-
siders the great number of cases of
menacing female troubles cured by
Lydia r. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound after physicians have advised
operations, no woman should submit to
one without first trying the Vegetable
Compound and writing Mrs. Pinkham.
Lynn, Mass, for advice. which is free.
Miss Margret Merlley, Of 275 Third
Street, Milwaukee, Wis, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
Loss of strength, extreme nervousness,
shooting pains through the pelvic organs,
bearing down pains and cramps compelled
me TO seek medical advice. The doctor, after
making an examination, said had a female
trouble and liberation and advised an opera
ton. To this strongly objected and decided
to try Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. The liberation quickly healed, all
the bad symptoms disappeared and L ann
once more strong, vigorous and we'll"
Female troubles are steadily on the
increase among women. If the month
ly periods are very painful. or too fire.
quent and excessive-if you have pain
or swelling low down in the left side,
bearing down pains, don't neglect your
self: try Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
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REALISTIC

The book agent was showing the old
farmer one Of the six best sellers"
"A wonderful book" said the agent.
as he turned to the first chapter. "Just
listen to this plot: There's an ominous
cloud on the sire's brow when he sees
the lightning fash in the determined
eyes of his beautiful daughter"
Great shoats = calculated the old far
mer. his jaw dropping.
Then comes The shower Of tears. But
bark The hero is thundering1'"
The old farmer jumped down from
the fence and held up his hand.
"One minute, mister" he drawhd.
One minute till I put the chickens 'up
and get my umbrela.-d swan. that thar
book is so stormy feel like am getting
wet now."-CoumbuS Dispatch.
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WHOLESALE MARKETS.

Baltimore.-FLOUR-Quiet and I'M
changed; receipts, 4,22I barrels; exports,
1884 barrels.
WHEATON, and easy; spot, con-
tract, S0@SoA July, 80 asked; Au-
gust, 82H asked
CORN-Dull and lower; spot. 500
56H; June, 56056H July, 56;4@56S;
September, 57H@57}s; steamer mixed,
53K@55M.
OATS-Firmer No. 2 white, 44H@
45; No. white, 44@44H; No. mixed,
81 sales.
RYE-Steady; No. Western export.
65@65X; No. Western domestic. 6o@
BUTTER-Steady; unchanged; fancy
imitation. I76IS; fancy creamery. 216D
~; fancy ladle, I5@I6; store packed.
I3H@I5.
EGGS-Steady, Is.
CHEESE-Active unchanged; large,
IIN medium. M; small, 1855.
SUGAR-Steady; unchanged; coarse
graduated, 400; fine, 400
New OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. TN
changed.
EGGS-Stcady, unchanged.
POULTRY-Alive quiet and steady
spring chickens, 10; fowls, 1871; turkeys,
II0I2; dressed easy; Western spring
chickens, I7@21; turkeys, II0I3; fowls
IIMI4.
FLOUR-Receipts. 1865 barrels; ex-
ports, 35zt barrels; sales, {, 800 packages :;
market steady, but quiet
LARD-Steady; Western prime, $50
ass; refined steady
POTATOES-Weak; Rose, Southern,
per barrel, 225@275; do, Irish cobblcrs.
2oo92o2; do. Chilis, 2.oo62. 80; do.
Southern, 1.oo@I75; old, per bag, $50
COTTONSEED OIL-Steady; prime
crude I. o. b. mills, 26H nominal new
crop; do, yellow, 36O36X.
SCAR Raw firm; fair refining.
3I-IoCG3M; centrifugal, 90 test, 3 10 sea
32s; molasses sugar, ? I3-I6027s; re-
fined firm
WHEAT Receipts, $4,000 bushels
sales. 100000 bushels futures: snot
barely steady; No. red, o3H nominal
elevator; No. 2 red, o. f. O. b. afloat; No.
Northern Duluth. o2N nominal f. O. b.
aiioat; No. I Northern Manitoba. oIT
nominal {. O. b. ahoat
CORN-Receipts, o7,Soo bushels; sales
$4,000 bushels futures; spot easy: No
?. 90 nominal elevator and sou nominal
I. o. b. atloat; No. yellow, 90; No. ?
white, coz.
OATS-Receipts, 43.soo bushels; spot
steady; mixed oats. 26632 pounds. "A.
natural white, 3o@33 pounds. 43M4s;
clipped white, 38(G4o pounds, 47HM4OX.
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Spiritual NEED

George O'Donnell, the actor, tells the
lrfcsiowing story of his four-year-old niece
whose mother is the wife of 4 clergy.
nan:
One night Edith wasn't feeling very
we'll and so was put to bed rather early
Vas her mother was about 10 leave her
IS called her back.
~.Mamma. | want to see papa"
No. dear" her mother replied: "youi
father is busy and must not be dis.
turbed"
But mamma" the child persisted, q
Want to see him."
; As before, the mother replied: mo
your father must not be disturbed"
Mamma" declared her daughter sol
EMMY, i am sick woman, and | warf
to see my minister, Harper Weekly
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Live Stock

New BEEVES-Dressed beet
in moderate demand at 7HMSNc. per
pound. Liverpool and London cattle and
BEEF markets slow Export II sheep.
CALVES-Very little doing veals dull,
1t yesterdays decline; common to choice,
100000; $50 calves unsold: dressed
calves slow and barely steady; city dress
FL veals, 6H@Ioc. per pound; country
'rcssed, 5Goc.; dressed buttermilks and
orassers. sac.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Shcep slow
and unchanged; lambs weak to shade
over, except top grades; everything
sold except one and one-half cars OF
sheep. Sheep, 3.5o@5.oo; lambs, $500
$40.
HOGS-Nominally firm to higher.
Chicago. = CATTLE - Market, best
strong; others slow; common to prime
steers. 4.coC66. 10: cows, 3oo64 80; heif-
srs, 2.75G5.25; bulls, 2.75@425; calves.
5.5odo.5o; stockers and feeders, 2.z50
I65.
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HE GOT Il REPLY.

Several years ago farmer drove to
Buffalo to buy from a wholesale firm q
bill of goods for his country store At
ter coming down stairs and while wait
ing for his goods to be packed he noticed
several men using the speaking tube.
After a while his curiosity got the
better of him and he asked the proprie-
tor what that thing was. "a speaking
tube said the proprietor Speak to
someone upstairs and see how it works"
What viii say?' said the farmer,
going over to the tube
Oh. say anything you like" said the
proprietor.
Heyp shouted the farmer. "Are the
goods Mr.. Parsons. of Williamsville. or
dered readyi"
Yes" said thu man upstairs, "the
goods are ready, but we are looking the
old skinfilnt up. We think he is kind
Of shal<y."
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Pc -RU Ma STRENGTHENS
THE ENTIRE SYSTEM,

Mr.. Chas. L. Saucr, Grand Scribe, Grand
Eacempment i. o. o. r. of Texas, and
4ssaEtsnt CITY Auditor, writes from the
Sssy Hall, San Antonio, Tex:
Weary two years ago L accepted a po-
Nt,on a. secretary and treasurer with one
q the leading dry goods establishments OF
lhe sudden change from a high and
cry attttnde to sea level proved too much
Tor me and became afflicted with catarrh
and cold IN the head, and general debility
40 sucaesn extent as to almost incapacif-
tate me for attending to my duties
scae induced to trg Pe-ru-nG.
osso 9fter tGctStJ several bottles ia
small doses 4 am pleased to say thnt
sras entirely restored to my normal
oonottton and have ever since rec
otses'ss,sdcd the use or PeT-,s,aa to nsy
frfossdeO
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AGGRAVATlNG ECZEMA.

Troubled Badly For Several Years with
Eczema on Limbs-Another Won
derful Cure by Cuticura.
FOR several years l was troubled bad
ly with an eczema on my limbs and wrists.
Physicians In several towns had pre-
scribed for me without giving me any re-
suits. 1 had often used Cuticura Oint-
ment and received relief temporarily. In
the spring of 1904 took the Cuticura Re
solvent Pills and used the Cuticura Oint-
ment for about five weeks, and at the
end OF that time there was not blotch
on me anywhere. This spring 1 took a
few walls of the Cuticura Resolvent Pills
as precautionary measure, and will con-
tinue to do so every spring simply as a
spring tonic, as they are so easy to carry
with you, and they certainly fix your
blood for the ensuing yea-. 1 now use
only Cuticura Soap. The Cuticura Oint-
ment and Pills certainly cured ME of an
aggravated case of eczema. st. Clair Nc
Vicar. San Antonio, Texas, July 9, 1905. "
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DEATH IN BARBER'S CHAIR.

Only forty city BARRIERS in London have
certificates of cleanliness. 1t is optional
with them to take out license. This
prGses that the average Londoner doesn't
care much about the barber shop he
visits. Testimony in a coroner's court in
East London last week brought out that
in 1905 only twenty-one city BARRIERS had
certificates, and that the number was in
creased to forty last May The inquest
was on a man who died Of blood poison
ing afer a barber had cut his chin. A
Bellevue Hospital physician tells me that
at least ten men year die in New York
from "razor poisoning York
Press.
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along WITHOUT worrying much until
dropsy set In. My feet and ankles
Swelled up, my hands pulled and be-
came so tense could hardly close
them. had great difficulty in
breathing, and my heart would fiut-
ter with the least exertion. I could
not walk far without stopping again
and again to rest. Since using four
boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills the
SfSting has gone down and the feel
aeA. distress have disappeared.
dealers. 80 cents
a Co., Buffalo,
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MEMORY AND HEARING TEST.

= Try this some evening when you want
new way of entertaining your friends
Give them paper and pencil. Let some
one play snatches of pieces at the piano
There must be no pauses between the
different selections, and a couple of the
most saIrs,iiSz Lines from each piece will
be enough. Have some hymns in the
group, some patriotic songs. little we'll.
known as rag time, and then something
of a higher order, like Lohengrin's
wedding March" which every one viii
be sure to recognize. OF course. the
writing must be done very promptly and
no time can be allowed for thinking
If Yankee Doodle" be played very, very
slow but few OF the people will be able
to name it. It will probably be classeo
as ilymn.-Philadelph Record.
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IN THE HELD OF LABOR.

The new constitution of the Pattern
makers League of North America pro-
vldes for several important changes, in.
Guiding the division of the Patternmak-
RS League into four districts, an in
crease III the per capita from so to y
cents month and graded system of
death benefits
A voluntary wage increase of 10 per
cent. has been granted cotton mill EN-
aloyees in Windham and New London
Counties, Conn.
Delegates at the recent annual con-
vcntion of the International Union of
PAYERS and Rammersmen, Flaggers,
Bridge and Curbsetters represented about
1000 members scattered around the coun-
try in thirty-Gve different locals. The
union is affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor.
Colorado Springs. Col, where the
union printers home is situated. is in
the face- for the Aposcd $4,000 in
. tcrnatioil1t hoy Abe built nv ~
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DOCTORS SHIFT
Now Gets Along Without 1t.

A physician says: Until last fall ]
used to eat meat for my breakfast
md suffered with indigestion until
ne meat had passed from the stom-
b.
Last fall I began the use of
for breakfast and very
soon found ! could do without meat,
for my body got all the nourishment
necessary from the Grape-Nuts, and
since then l have "ot had any indi-
gestion and am feeling better aEI
have increased in weight.
Since finding the benefit derived
-~>om Grape-Nuts I have prescribed
SRe food for all of my patients suf-
--f6ring from indigestion or over-feed-
Ing and also for those recovering
from disease where want a food
easy to take and certain to digest
and which will not overtax the stom-
ach.
always find the results I>>look
for when prescribe Grape-Nuts. For
ethical reasons please omit my
name" Name given by mail by Pos
tam Co.. Battle Greek. Mich.
The reason for the wonderful
amount OF nutriment, and the easy
digestion OF Grape-Nuts is not hard
20 md.
In the first place the starchy part
OF the wheat and barley goes through
various processes OF cooking to per-
fect1y change the starch into Dex-
trose or Post Sugar, in which state it
u ready to be easily absorbed by the
blood. The parts In the wheat and
,<s Avwhich Nature can make use
81 }n the Ans brain and nerve
y -----~lrk in this remark
If Teddy and human body
cot gis'e us a fes, .vsS,rengtn
csSsiie acc.t dir Z q 60 one
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The Best Calf Food.

Separated milk as a food for
calves, when fed direct from the ma
:hine. makes a model milk food.
Careful experiments show that prac-
scally as good calves can be raised
IN separated milk, direct from the
machine, as can be raised on whole
milk, provided the butter fat lost in
he removal of the cream, is replaced
oy linseed meal, corn meal, or flour
,r molasses.
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Orchard Cultivation.

Referring to the fact that manv
trees die whi,s yet in their prime .
wrfser asserts that it is simply a
matter OF starvation--soiI exhaus-
ton. The land has produced the
trees, also foliage and fruit. wear
after year. for period OF ten. TWEEN
~. thirty, forty or fifty years. often
caiien npon to produce a. cereal crop,
as Well, and In many cases with -
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says: For over
three years 1
suffered with a
dropsical condi-
ton without be-
ing aware that
1t was due to
kidney trouble.
The early stages
were principal
ly backache and
bearing d o w n
pain but / went
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QUALIFIED.

"I'm going to quit dentistry and try
for Congress-"
why, you're not fitted for legislative
work"
mot, eh? Doesn't Senator Bailey say
the laws of the future are to have teeth ?"
day"-Philadelp Public Ledger.
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Special Crop for Profit.

1t is not bad plan for any farmer
20 have some speciality aside from
Ills regular crops, If he is too short
If help. Among the things to be
suggested a small area in some kind
Of fruit would be within the reach
If all. This would afford a profit in
the majority of seasons, and every
aow and then comes a year when a
,ruit crop is worth a handsome sum.
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HER MIRROR

III take that" said the man, indicat-
ing silver-mounted handglass, "and |
want you to engrave on 1t, From ]. ].
b.. to Phyllis"
q Very WELL" replied the salesman
NIL put 1t on the back here"
On, no, put it around the edge on
the front. ] want her to see it.n-Phila,
delphia Public edner
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GETTING Il TRUTHFUL STATE
MENT.

Bill-A man doesn't know who to be-
lieve, nowadays.
Jil-Oh, l don't know! Just ask the
cashier at your bank how your account
stands, and you're not likely to get an
extravagent Observation-Disclosures States
man.
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Call at tho Drug Store To Day,
Get q bottle of DR.. Biggers Huckleberry
Cordial for Diarrhoea. Dysentery, Children
Teething, etc. At Druggists 25c and 5Oc.