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The Florida agriculturist., 1906-01-03

The Production of Irish Bacon.-The
larger farmers i'm Ireland are all more
or less engaged i'm the production of
pigs. but the industry particularly
occupies the attention of the small
tenant farmers. In some respects
the conditions are very favorable for
the successful production Of swine. as
dairy farming is so generally carried
on that skim milk and buttermilk can
be obtained on almost every farm.
Were it not for the fact that such a
large percentage of the country is in
grass and that if grain is not grown in
large quantities pigs would be pro-
duced in much larger numbers.
The bacon type is the only one
raised. and the Irish farmers have
been very successful. as they produce
some of the best bacon in the world.
With so many small farmers, each
working INDEPENDENTLY. it is a rather
difficult matter to control the quality
of the product and bacon curers find
if difficult to secure uniform quality.
However. methods of feeding are i'm
proving as a result of the work being
done by the experts of the Department
of Agriculture and technical instruc-
tiOn for Ireland. These experts are
advising the use of feed which can he
Drofitably combined with those avail
able on the farm. The pigs are ready
for market at from six to eight months
of age. when thev weigh in the neigh
borhood of two hundred pounds.
On the best managed farms breed
ing animals are very well fed and
cared for but on many of the smaller
farms the methods are very crude
An impetus has been given to better
breeding by means of q plan whereby
| S25 premiums are awarded by the De
nartment of Agriculture TO good bOars
owned bv farmers who are willing
| to allow the small tenant farmers the
rse of such animals at very low serv-
| ice fees fixed by the department.
The best breeders allow their sOws
| q considerable amount of exercise
during the period of CESSATION to in
Snre strong. healthy litter. Two
| litters are usually each year from
each SOW and liberal ratiOnS are
| necessary. During the first half of
~pstation sows have pasture and a
light ration of grain and cooked po-
tatoes after which time feeding is
more liberal and skim milk is added
| At farrowing and afterward the man.
| arement is similar to that of English
breeders. with the exception of pOta-
toes.
Roars are given abundant exercise
and kent in moderate flesh. Their
mana cement as well as that of young
ni@s is similar to the English method
| The experts from the Irish Depart
ment of Agriculture are advocating
| the use of n ration composed of cook
| ed nOtatOeS. equal parts shorts. ground
barley and cOrnmeal. TO be fed with
skim milk or buttermilk. They also
recommend the feeding of some crush
ed oats during the last three or -four
weeks TO whiten the fat and make
| the flesh firm. AS rule. the pigs
are fed three times day and receive
steamed feed during cold weather. AL
though some exercise is allowed dur
! ing early life. the prevailing custom
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is to restrict it during the last two
months.
How Denmark Captured England
In no other European country has
such a close study been made of pig
production as i'm Denmark, and i'm no
other country i'm the world has such
uniformity of product been obtained.
During the last seventeen years the
Danish pig breeders have devoted
their entire attention to the production
Of bacon. During that time they have
captured the British bacon market by
their careful methods of breeding and
feeding and the quality of the bacon
produced. and since 1888. the year
when imports of Danish bacon were
first reported by the British govern
ment they have received a consider
ably higher average price for their
total output than any other country
exporting bacon to Great Britain
whose trade is enumerated in the
official reports. All of their export
bacon is sent to the British markets.
and the trade has increased in this
time from less than $4,000 600 to more
than SIS, S,OOO. 900 annually.
These results are all the more strik-
ing when we bear in mind that less
than twenty years ago the Danes
were sending practically all of their
hog products to Germany. Holland.
Belgium and France countries which
demand the fat type of pig. Although
these markets furnished a fairly re-
munerative output for a time. the
business was improbable. and Den
mark decided TO enter new markets,
which demanded and paid for special
products The british markets were
paying fancy prices for high-class ba-
con. especially that coming from Ire
land. and the Danes saw new open
ing for them. but they realized that in
order to secure this trade it would
he necessary to produce bacon equal
to or better in quality than that from
Ireland. Always willing to profit bv
the experience of others. the Danish
government sent special experts to
Ireland to study the methods of breed
ing and feeding the pigs from which
this sunerior bacon was made These
exnertS had Instructions to remain
abroad until the desired information
was obtained. They were successful
and since then the Danes have not
imnroved upon them to such an ex-
tent that If is the Danish and not the
Irish brand of bacon that now COM
mands the highest prices on the Brit
ish markets. Notwithstanding the fact
that ireland has sent three special
commissions to Denmark during the
last ten years TO ascertain. if possible
how If is accomplished. The chief
.al~
has over that coming from other
countries is its uniform quality
While in london the writer visited
| the Smithheld market. and was
shown three sides of bacon from
| various countries. Although in some
| instances better sides could he found
in the bacon from other countries. in
no instance did the product from any
other country exhibit such marked
uniformity of quality and finish as
that from Denmark, and it was un-
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The Best Bacon in the World.

the bulletin some extracts which we
Florida farmers could not make as
good bacon as can be found anywhere
in the world
Willard John Kennedy, b. S. A.,
professor of animal husbandry, Iowa
State College of Agriculture, and vice
director Iowa Experiment Station, has
prepared for the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture bulletin on
Cattle. Sheep and Hog Feeding in
Europe" from which the following Is
taken:
In pra ctically all European countries
considerable attention is given to the
production of hogs. As a rule, farm
ers are not engaged in the industry
as speciality. The prevailing Gus
tom is for each farmer to rear only
enough pigs to utilize the waste of
the farm. but where dairy farming
is followed as the chief occupation
pigs are reared and fed in consider
able members as an auxiliary industry.
The two industries go hand in hand,
and to all appearances neither one
can be so successfully conducted alone
those countries which rank high in
the production of high-class bacon.
The real secret of success in European
feeding for prime bacon is due to the
large amounts of skim milk and but
termiIk fed with grain and meal.
Hog Raising in England.-Pigs are
fattened for market in many districts
of England Both the fat and the
hrIf
attention is given to the development
of the bacon type. In Wiltshire the
finest bacon i'm the world is produced,
and very close discrimination on the
part of packers in grading the pigs
and paying for them according to
quality has caused the farmers in
these districts to use every possible
precaution in feeding In the produc-
ton of fat or lard pigs much less
skill is demanded of the feeder AL
though the majority of farmers aim
to produce either one type or the
other. on some farms both types are
produced. The fat pig is especially
useful in utilizing damaged and CHEAP
feed when skim milk is not available
On the best farms the sOws are
often twelve months old before being
breu- WO lltteTS II year is TIE pre-
vailing CUSTOM and a good breeder
is never discarded so long as she con
tinueS TO rear good litters. The period
of usefulness varies from three tC
eight years The sOws get exercise
during the summer, and feed from
pasture or a forage crop. Glover and
alfalfa are both largely used. ani
many farmers use vetcheS and Oats
or peas and oats. In the milder parts
of the country SOWS have exercise
during winter on pasture. and in the
colder districts special exercising pen.
are provided under cover Raw ol
steamed mangels beets or turnips are
fed i'm winter
Previous to farrowing brood SOW.
are fed moderately. Any fattening o.
heating feed, is eliminated entirely
from the ration or fed in very small
quantities. and then in conjunction
with cooling feeds. such as skim mill
and bran. Within week or so o
farrOwing time the principal part o.
the ration is decreased. and the brar
is increased. Sometimes from fou1
to eight ounces of EPSON salts. ac
cOrtling to the size of the animal. ar,
given each SOW about two days he
fore farrOwing
During the sucking period. which
varies from five TO seven weeks th.
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DID NOT GET PERMIT.

Social Club Proposed to Hold Boxing
 Bout, But Chief Wants to Look Into
 Matters.
 Since the boxing bouts which have been held in this city during the past couple of weeks have been pulled off a boxing enthusiasm seems to have come over a portion of the citys inhabitants. Last evening a permit was asked from Chief Wrinn for boxing match to be held under the auspices of a club called the Elm City Social club, which is plan ming a bout. The chief did not look with much favor on the petition, how ever, and declined to issue the permit until he had time to look into the status and responsibility of the club. The chief does not want the boxing fever to grow into a money making business, and desires to be acquainted with the status of the club before issuing a per- init.
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THE CoLoRED Y. M. c. A.

Forms Separate Organization and
 Elects Oflcers-Resolution Adopted
 Not to Confne Privileges to Any
 Race,
 Following the declaration made some weeks ago, the colored members of the Goffe street Y. M. c. A. have completed an organization following along the lines of the Central Y M. c. A., from which they were forced to withdraw short time ago because of differing views on the question of the use of the swimming tank and gymnasium be- tween the governing board of the cen- tral body and the Goffe street mem- bers.
 The meeting was very largely attend ed and the following officers elected to have charge of the affairs of the asso- citation, which will be known as the Goffe Street Y. M. c. A:
 George w. Crawford. Secretary-James w. Pugh.
 Treasurer-J, w. Stewart.
 The governing board will consist of the officers and Dr. I. N. Porter, Rev. A. c. Powell, Rev E. F. Coin, P. H. Davis, c. B. Johnson, F. B. Howell J. F. Cannon and J. A. Hagan.
 Committees were appointed to ar range a campaign and also to draw up a constitution and bylaws. A commit tee of seven ladies was also selected to organize a ladies' auxiliary.
 As instruction to the committee on the constitution and to firmly set forth the privileges of the organization the following resolution was unanimously adopted;
 Resolved That the following be de- clared as the policy of this association, viz; That it's work shall be primarily, but not exclusively, for colored men, and that it's privileges shall be availa- ble to all young men, desiring them, without regard to race"
 The meeting adjourned to await re- ports of committees.
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FINE SUCCESS.

Concert of the New York Symphony
 Orchestra.
 All that had been said in advance about the New York Symphony orches- tra was more than sustained by it's performance in Woolsey Hall last night In every way 1t was a concert of the highest quality. Such technic such lightness of touch doxterity, sufeness and such solid and satisfying tone volume it has rarely been the for tune of even confirmed symphony go- CTS to hear. The men played as though inspired which gave that final touch of perfection to the whole. MT, Walter Damrosch has, in the New York Sym phony orchestra a really marvellous body of musicians and he has welded them into one perfect unit through his magnetic leadership.
 In Josef Lhevinne, the plano soloist of the evening, the audience recognized a master before he had played twenty measures and sat spell-bound through the long concerto. His appeal was not through any jugglery of the keyboard or pose or affectation. Nor was 1t through his dazzling technic, which even in these days of digital wonders was something to marvel at. It was rather the quiet dignity of the man and the monumental proportions of his per formance. 'Leonine power" is the phrase which best describes Lhevinne. One point of the purely technical side of his playing stands out with remark able sharpness-his octave work. Af- ter Lhevinne octaves by Mir. Padersws- Xxi or any one else would sound tame It is clear that a new giant of the pla- no has arisen, worthy successor of Anton Rubinstein. The audience re- called Lhevinne again and again after the concerto and he finally came back to the piano and played a nocturne for left hand alone. It only further illus trated the astonishing control he had of his left hand. It was hardly possible to believe that two hands were not being used on the keyboard.
 A review of the concert In detail can not be entered into here because of the limitation of time, but mention must b made of the wonderful performance the orchestra gave of the composition by Sir Edward Elgar. This composition, which was dedicated to his friend, Pro- lessor Samuel & Sanford of Yale Uni- versity was the distinct novelty of the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-22
THE MANY-sIDED FRANKLIN.

THE MAN Y -SlDED FRANKLIN.
 Everywhere we touch him he is the human, and therefore the fascinating Franklin. This statement is, to be sure an exaggeration-ope of the sort at which he would have smiled with depreciating modesty or else, with a malicious twinkle of the eye, would have told an unsavory anecdote with disenchanting results. There were sides of Franklin's character-Well remembered, it would seem, in Phila- delphia-that were not at all attrac- tive. Prof. Smyth calls attention in a paragraph to the "smudgy trail" the facetious printer left behind him in the Pennsylvania Gazette to the grossness of some of his letters, to the effect of his strong animal instincts upon his conduct.
 It is this, combined with his com- parative insensibility to poetry and to spiritual religion-when Prof, Smyth does not emphasize-that put Frank lin, in the final analysis, below such men as Johnson and Washington, to whom he was vastly superior in many intellectual respects and who may themselves be justly taxed with aes thetic deficiencies. But when his limitations have been duly considered. l it remains true that Franklin, like Defoe, and for much the same req sons, is one of the most fascinating of mortals, at least to students who ex- anime minutely every phase of his character by means of his self-reveal- ing writings. Both men had in it's fullest development what may be called the genius for the prose of life In both this genius is fused with a sort of plebeian spirit, with the result that they do not greatly appeal to over sensitive souls. Other souls less squeamish, more robust, more cath ollie, if you will, take a special delight in watching the effects o fthis com bination of democratic and aristocratic clements upon the lives and writings of these two great sons of the people, whose masterpieces will not cease to be read until the precious style affected by numerous moderns becomes an eternar possession of the English speaking masses. When that delee- table day comes. Robinson Crusoe" and Franklin's Autobiography may be banished fro whatever substitute the aesthetic world shall have devised for homely book-shelves. Pending this consummation, it is to be hoped that Franklin's writing will remain in broad circulation.-Prof.W w. P, Trent In the Forum.
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BILLY HE'LL BUCKING BRONCO

BILLY HE'LL BUCKING BRONCO.
 By now we had all "saddled up" and mounted, save fine Swede." He was very short, with a long body and bowed legs; his hair and eyebrows light against the burned red of the face, His belt hung very low on the hips and his blue jeans were turned up nearly to the knee. The ribbon of his iligh-crowned felt hat was bordered by the red ends of many matches and he wire a new white silk handkerchief that hung like new white silk handkerchief that hung like a bib over his checkered shirt.
 We watched him as he led his mount into "open country, for the horse was known to be bad" Hisname was Billy Hell, and he looked every bit of that, He was white, of poor breed and prob ably from the North
 "The Swede" walked to the nigh side of his horse and hung the stirrup for a quick mount. Then he ran his hands over all parts of the saddle, giving the cloth a tug to see if it were well set He pulled up the latigo one or two more hales for luck and spit into his rough hands, The horse stood perfectly still, his hind legs drawn well under him; his head aung lower and lower, the ears were fattened back on his neck and his tail wag drawn down between his legs. "The Swede" frightened his belt, pulled his hat well down on his head, seized the check strap of the bridle witfo one hand. and then carefully fitted his right over the shiny metal horn, For an in- stant he hesitated and then, with a glance at the horses head he, thrust his boot into the iron stirrup and swung himself with a nightly effort into the saddle.
 The horse quivered and his eyes be- came glaring white spots His huge muscles gathered and knotted them selves in angry response to the insult, Tlen with his great brutish strength he shot from the ground, bawling and sauealing in a frantic struggle to free himself of the human burden. It was like unto death. Eight times he pound- ed the hard ground twisting and weaV- ing and bucking in circles. The man 8 part of the ponderous creaking saddle: his body responded to every movement of tine horse, and as he swayed back and forth he cursed the horse again and again in his own native tongue.-Scrib- ner
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SAME OLD ToWI.

A travelling salesman whose "terri- tory'' lies in the Southwest was one afternoon in the depot awaiting an eastbound train, when a 1ashily dress ed person covered with cheap jewelry came into the waiting room from the platform, where he had been standing since the coming of the last train.
 Well this old town hasn't changed a bit since I lived here" said he, by way of general observation to the drummer and two or three natives of the place Everything just the same as it was fifteen years ago. Not particle of change!"
 T reckoned thta's abo ut it, mister, :"
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bunngst

Since Marlborough House opened it's doors four years ago, it's substantial and artistic construction, it's superior location, and itsowners hip manage ment have made it the most successful resort hotel in the country. It's in- creasing popularity has necessitated enlargement, and we have the pleas- ure of announcing the opening of it's sister hotel, "BLENHEIM," with 2s0 guest chambers and 25O Private baths (every room has it's own private hath. with sea water and fresh water and running ice water in each). The structural partsare reinforced conerete and the walls are hollow tile thus if- surfing an absolutely dry atmosphere, so important at the shore The two houses connect with each other and will be run as one under the name "MARLBOR OUGH-BLENHEIM." There IS an American plan dining room, and a separate European plan dining room
 so that all guests have the privilege of living either way. A noteworthy fea- ture is semi~circular enclosed and heated solarium and open plaza front ing l5O feet along the ocean and oyer- looking the Boardwalk. As heretofore. high class music will be a feature throughout the year. Golf privileges.
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programme and was received with great applause. The impression of the first hearing is of originality in form and thematic material, imposing breadth and highest scholarly attain enmt It was so big a composition that It's meaning could not be grasped in one hearing,
 It has been learned that Professor Sanford Is the generous friend of the university who brought the orchestra to New Haven, and who gives the gross receipts of the concert to the Yale Infirmary. In this action Profes- sor Sanford has performed two bene- factions of which the one to the people of New Haven is not the least.
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happy, I love my garden, and, please God, if you come back next summer you'll see a difference. I won't trouble so much about potatoes next spring They've worried my heart out this year, and nearly broken my back. Now carrots is different; you can get 50 wounds an acre for carrots"
 Bill" said Jack. you was always a queer one. We'll, must be jogging my way back. never could make out how the cows sleeep, but guess they make themselves comfortable, though they look stupid enough to be unhappy, Goodnight BiBll."
 Good night, Jack. Philadelphia Telegraph.
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Perhaps the labor unions haven't
 been entirely wise. The Philadelphia beard of education is considering thu establishment of mechanical trades school. A subcommittee of the board has reported that there is need of public school for training in the several mechanic arts, including carpentry plumbing, plasterlng, electrical con struction, brick laying and iron work.
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SITUATED DIRECTLY
 ON THE BEACH
$ $ $

Beautifully improved and en- larged by a strictly fireproof addition of 100 rooms and baths, (hot, cold and sea water,) equipped with every known modern convenience. Large sun parlors on first floor, smaller sun parlors on all sleeping floors over- looking the ocean. The Hotel Dem his is liberally appointed and con- ducted, affording every comfort and luxury. Ar enclosed steam heated sun parlor connecting with the hotel. situated directly on the strand at an elevation that commands beautiful view of the ocean and Board walk. Room plans and information.
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Timkins-I hear that young stringer

Timkins-I hear that young Stringer came to an untimely end in Arizona.
 Simkins-Yes. Ee went there with the intention of living by his wits.
 Timkins-Poor fellow! He ought to have known he didn't have sufficient capital for an undertaking like that Chicago Daily News.
 Casey-Are yez in favor av this here new pure food bill?
 Dooley-Oi dunno if I'm for it or agin it. Do they have wan in Eng land7-Cleveland Leader.
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TO ELECT MEMBER OF CORPORA

Circulars have been sent out to all graduates of Yale university eligible to vote calling their attention to the fact that a member will be elected to the corporation in June to succeed Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, of New York, whose term expires at that time. The circular also calls for nominations.
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replied an oldfellow who embracing [ stove in the corner. Your leavin' t don't pear to have made much differ ence in the durned old town. "Harper' Weekly.