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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
The Most Profitable Horse.

Very few farmers ever make a sue
cess of breeding and rearing trotting
horses; that is, they never get the big
money that such horses occasionally
bring. 1t is the trainer or the man
that develops them that makes the
money, and most farmers have Meth.
er the time nor skill to train such
horses. And again, there is only one
in a great many that brings the big
prices. If they haven't the speed
they sell comparatively cheap
Then there is the coach or heavy
harness horse that sells very well,
providing he has quality with style
and action. These horses will sell
in pairs, so they must be we'll matched
and nicely trained, accustomed to the
sights and sounds of the city, such as
steam cars, street cars, automobiles,
ETC., so that they are perfectly safe
when hitched to the family carriage.
On the farm they DO not see such
things, and therefore will not bring
the big prices until they are educated.
Taking all in all, think the draft
horse is the most profitable one for
the farmer to raise. The term draft
applies to horses weighing 1000
pounds or more, but a good many
horses that are put on the market in
working order. or in thin condition.
weighing 1900 pounds, could be made
to weigh 1900 pounds or more If
properly fitted for market. so have
them fat when they are ready to sell.
The larger the horse, if he has quail
ity, the more he will bring. Those
weighing from 1900 pounds up to
draft weight are called chunks, and
sell fairly well, but not with the draft
class. So in breeding, we should Sc
lect our best mares. of good weight
and quality having feet and legs,
such as Mr. Martiny has described
to you, and breed them to a good
horse.
When you find a horse that breeds
well with your mares, use him right
along as long as you get good colts,
and you will have lot of colts OF the
same disposition, conformation and
color, so that you can match up
teams, for it takes all three of these
to make perfectly matched team.
You can sometimes put three-year-
old and a four-year-old, or a four and
five, or five and six-year-old to-
gether, and mate them up better, as
a nicely matched team always brings
a little more money than If not
matched, but the least defect in a
matched team is color. After all.
there is no bad color for a good
horse. David Imric.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
Shrinkage of Wheat.

An old farmer recently told the
writer of an experiment which dis
proves the common idea of a loss in
wheat by shrinkage between harvest
time and winter, which leads many to
sell wheat early if prices are good.
A -four barrel was filled with wheat
threshed in July. dry and in good
condition. 1t weighed 210 pounds
tbarrel thirteen pounds) and was
kept in dry place, gimlet holes
being bored in the barrel to prevent
heating. Occasionally barrel and
contents were weighed and it was
found that it did not vary except in
damp seasons, when it increased
three-fourths of a pound At the
end of twelve. months the weight was
just the same to the ounce as it was
the year before, or the day when the
wheat was stored away.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
Diamonds in rnitcd stntes.

Never before in the history of the
United States has there been such a
demand for diamonds as there was
in 1905. Large quantities were i'm
ported but the country produced
none. IN 1903 It produced diamonds
to the value of $50, in 1901 1t hal
an output worth 500, in 1900 it,
production was valued at $3.50, and
in 1899 the country boasted native
diamonds to the value of $500.
Diamonds have been discovered In
the United States In four different
regions but their actual place OF ori-
gin is in every case unknown. All
have been found in loose and super
hcial deposits and all accidentally.
It IS not at all improbable. however.
that some day the original sources
of this queen of gems may be dis
covered.
Ti.o high price Of diamonds has
made the recent search for these pre-
cious stones in the United States and
Canada keener than ever befors 4
careful watch for diamonds was Kept
during the examination by the Uni
ted States Geological Survey OF many
samples of gold and platinum snads
at the Lewis and Clark Exposition IN
Portland. Ore.
A lookout for diamones has also
been kept by number OF people who
have been dredging for gold on an
extensive scale in the rivers of Call
fcrnia. In neither case have any
finds reported. Scientific Amer
lean.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
Dust and Hogs,

A dust bath does very well for
fowls, but it is hard on hogs. Per-
haps you have kept your hogs in one
lot till the grass is all killed off
where they feed. The corn is thrown
out in one spot, and the hogs root in
the dust for the kernels, says an ex-
change. Every time they run for
feed or swill they stir up a cloud of
dust in dry weather. Maybe they
sleep in dusty place.
The result is that they breathe
more dust than they should, and
many die because their lungs get
clogged up and inflamed.
They may act as though they had
a bad cold or pneumonia or cholera
when none of these things are the
matter.
Change the feeding ground so as
to get the hogs out of the dust. No
matter whether they have reached
the stage of dying or not, it is best
to guard against loss.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
A Mistake Frequently Made.

Professor P. Brouardel in an ad,
dress on the measures adopted BY
different nations for the prevention
OF consumption. calls attention 10
mistake made in the different coun.
tries by ministers Who have the
charge of the financial department
of the State He says they like 10
calculate the sum the State gets from
the duty on alcohol, but they should
deduct from it the cost TO the com.
munity of the family OF the ruined
drunkard, his degenerate, inflrm,
scrofulous and epileptic children, who
must have shelter. This invasion Of
alcoholism ought to be regarded by
everyone as a public danger, and this
principle, the truth OF which is incon-
testable, should be lnculcated into
the masses, that the future of the
world will be in the hands of the
temperate.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
Black Bass Yarn.

Black bass! Listen to an honest
statement. Sitting on fiat shelf of
rock over deep water and wiggling
my toes just beneath the surface pre-
paratory to diving for swim, behold
half-pound bass suddenly swim into
sight and examine those strange
things! Wiggle a little more and
suddenly five beauties, almost of
equal size, each about two pounds,
came swimming along as placidly as
could be, straight up to my feet,
looked at them carefully and swan
slowly of again. OF course we hur-
ried, Knowlson and l, to get our rods,
and we caught and caught bass. Did
we? We did what everybody else
does when place is found where the
fish are thick.--New York Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
CHRISTIAN ENDEAV0RN NOTES
DECEMBER NINTH.

christs Life. XII. Lessons from the
"seven Words from the Cross"
John 1e:25-3o; Luke 3:34-46;
Mark 1884.
Honoring a mother. Prov. 23 3:22-25.
Our Great High Priest. st.--Heb. 2:
l4-1S.
Paul's finished life.--2 Tim. 4:1-S.
Forgiving enemies--Mark 11:20-26.
Save to the uttermost Heb. Z:
22-2s.
Into thy hands. ."-Ps. Bills.
Father, forgive them"
This is the climax of love, and so
the climax of Christ.
Christ considers not what Is done
but what is willed If we know not"
God Furnishes not.
To-day shalt thou be with me-"
No ono of us can be in worse case
than the thief ON the cross; he has
shown us how any man may be saved.
The cross the gateway to paradise!
Do we find it so?
"Why hast Thou forsaken me7"
This only was needed to complete
Christs union with mankind-that He
should doubt His Father.
We can never be so far forsaken OF
God as Christ seemed to be, and yet
how near God was to Him!
"Behold Thy Mother"
Christ on the cross took thought for
the lowest sinner, and pardoned him;
and for the highest of His creation, a
loving mother.
This word was also a blessing to
John: there is no comfort of grief
equal to a task.
81 Thirst"
Not only the most bitter pangs OF
the spirit broke the heart of Christ,
but the most intense anguish of body.
He can sympathize with all our aches.
Remember that if Christ had not
come, such cruel deaths would still
be inflicted.
"Father, Into Thy Hands,"
Christ had used His life all through
as a steward of it for another; now
He returns it,--how gloriously enlarg-
ed,
The clouds had passed away; there
is no more thought Of being forsak-
en-.
SIT is Finished"
And yet it was only begun, as Luke
rightly said In the first verse OF the
Acts.
There is no finished" complete life
outside of Christ.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
Value of Corn stoyer.

Many now living will remember
when 1t was almost the universal GUS
tom in New England for the farmers
IN harvesting their corn to cut the
tops OF the stalks off just above the
good ears and bind them up to be
used as fodder. The ears were left
TO ripen in the full blaze of the sun.
and were later picked off to be taken
to the barn for husking, or in a few
cases the stalks were cut and taken
with the ears on them, that they
might also be added to the winter
fodder. Others less careful did not
even take the pains to save the tons
that had been cut of, and denounced
the corn stover as poorer fodder than
the hay from the bog meadows. Per-
haps when dried in the sun, as IT
was before cutting, trampled in the
dirt, wet with many showers, and
often mouldy as 1t was, this might
have been true, though it scarcely
seems that the bog hay dried and
grown mouldy before cutting would
have been better. Now there are few
who do not cut their corn stover close
to the ground when the grain is still
soft and milky, allowing it to ripen
as they do their other grain, in the
bundle an tie bundle in the stock.
The fodder is carefully saved and the
COWS are said to produce as much
milk or butter fatwhen they are feed
ing on 1t as when they are having
good English hay. We are reminded
of this by reading an extract from an
old paper, which told that the man
ager for the Standard Cattle Com
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
sunflower Seed For Poultry,

A head or two of sunfower that
has gone to seed is good thing to
throw into the chicken yard two or
three times a week at this season.
Too many sunflower seeds are not
good for them, but many fanciers
feed them quite freely when they arc
preparing their birds for exhibition.
1t gives a gloss to the plumage and
fattens the birds. 1t also stimulates
the egg production when limited
amounts are given. but when fed too
literally the excess OF fat produced
internally Injuries the egg producing
orgaSs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
RIDDLES.

Why does an onion resemble a
ringing DELL? Because peel follows
peel in an onion and peal follows
peal in bell when It is ringing.
What word Of three syllables tells
us at what time we should dance?
t-ten-danee
Why is Ireland likely TO become
the richest country in the world? Be-
cause its capital Is always doubling
Dublin
When you go to bed, Why are your
slippers like deferred resolution?
Because they are put on till the
next day
When is a nose not nose? When
1t is a little reddish (radish) Lon
don News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
Clogs in the North of England.

AT least 100000 pairs of clogs
are sold In the northern counties of
England every year. The clog is
sort of shoe with wooden sole
(made In one piece) and aleather top.
The sole of the clog Is finished with
a set OF 'cokers'"' or irons" one for
the heel and another for the front OF
the sole. These irons are made about
a quarter of an inch wide, one-eighth
OF an inch thick. and are made to fit
the shape OF the sole somewhat as
shoe is fitted to horses hoof. A
good trade might be built up by
American manufacturers In supply
ing either machine made wood soles
or. the "blocks" from which the hand
sole makers shape the finished sole.
as well as in the irons or Cookers"
Daily Consular and Trade Reports.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
Stranger Than Fiction.

THAT man Plunkett seems to bear
4 charmed life"
why, I've never heard that he
vas mixed up in a railroad wreck
and escaped unhurt while the people
all around him were killed and in
jured- He has never, as far as
know. had a miraculous escape from
q disaster at sea, and don't believe
he ever was in battle. was he?"
mo, but he's gone down TO Maine
regularly during the past six years to
hunt and come away every time With
out scratch. Chicago Record Herr
aid.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
Cooling Milk by Aeration.

The cooling of milk by forcing air
through it (aeration) is an excellent
method, as the oxygen of the air as
sists in purifying it, but the aera-
tion must be done in some place
where the air is as pure as possible
and free from dust To force air
that is laden with dust and odors
into the milk is as injurious as to
expose the milk to such influences,
hence the greatest care should be ex-
ercised in aerating
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
Mexico's Fighting Force.

In the quarter of century that
Portirio Diaz has been enforcing
peace in Mexico he has been prepar-
ing for war. In the promotion of
railroad construction, the encourage
ment of agriculture, mining and man
ufacturing; the establishment of
schools and the improvement of har-
bors, the question of national defense
has not been forgotten. Starting
with the disorganized troops that
placed him in power in 1876 and
those that opposed them, he has built
up an army of 27,000 men-an army
well fed. well clothed, well equipped
and well ofiicered-and has perfected
arrangements quickly to increase the
fighting force to at least 10000 in
case of war. Crediting the country
with a population o. 100000, Mex
leo now has soldier to every 519
inhabitants, and within a short time
following declaration of war against
foreign foe the ratio could be
changed to one to every 233.-Re-
view of Reviews.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
Radical Measures with "Yellows.'

Never wait for a disease to spread
on trees. If the "yellows" appears
in the peach orchard dig up the tree.
burn it at once and examine the trees
at least once a week Black knot on
plums and blight on pear trees should
be looked after before damage is
done: but II remedies fail It is bet
ter to burn the trees than to allow
other trees to become infected.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
E3Es r.,
AscIEsNl561E ~

DR.. William Henry, an English
physician. states as the result of ex-
periments that, in all forms of ami.
NAL life, insects included, exists the
Taste for alcohol. He says that fishes
are the only real teetotalers" in ere.
alton.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
Was He a Yankee.

Adam was not an Englishman.
When he swoke and found Eve by
his side she was an absolutely new
thing. The English always run
away from the new; he did not
Adam cannot have been an Bnglish-
man.---London Truth.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06

There Is no true prayer without
some response. Invisible wires from
heaven to earth are ever vibrating
with divine blessings, and when
prayer touches them the electric
stream uf love enters tho aouL--
Newman Hall.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06

Liquid ar instead of powder for
cartridges is the latest French nov
city. These cartridges must be fired
within Ave minutes after their prepa-
ration. however, as the liquid air
evaporates rapidly. They are, there
fore, OF no value commercially.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
DELICATE FLATTERy.

''How did Percy gain her fathers
CONSENT"
''Oh, he sold his auto and bought
one like the old mans. ."-Brooklyn
Life
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06

1t has been observed that the num-
ber of accidents increases progress
sively from hour to hour during the
first half of the day. says an Eng
lish scientist; after the midday rest,
in the first hours of the afternoon,
the number is notably less than In
the last hour of the morning.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-02-21

successful, has simply started the old process in a
new place How many churches of your acquaint-
ance have had any other origin? But for Scotch
Presbyterian tendency to split it would be hard to
ma church that did not grow out of IL mission
Sunday school.
In helping to organize and nourish such schools
the Executive Committee of Publication is proving
itself to be a missionary agency of the first rank.
Through the General Superintendent and his assist
ants, the committee seeks stimulate and guide the
churches, and to reach out little way into the
glons beyond the churches The free literature fur
nished to schools enables them to win the conf
dence and loyalty of the people before calling for
money, which is small advantage among strangers.
Better STILL this excellent literature, instead of the
union papers that might otherwise be adopted,
gives the school IL UNCONVENTIONAL basis from the
start. If it prospers, it becomes IL church and
cause of strife.
In mission Sunday -schoos the private membership
of the church is doing its best work for the churchs
progress, and should wake up to the fact that
the Committee of Publication has its hand vital
spot and that every dollar give for this goes
straight to the mark-straghter than any other
money given for the benevolent causes. none of
1T stops the way to pay expenses of the Committee
OF course. this is reflection the other executive
committees. There is way to meet their expenses,
except out of the funds contributed through Them and
the percentage thus consumed exceedingly small.
but in the work of this committee the business de-
parment of the publishing house than pays all
operating expenses. The collection for qualification
was always doomed to failure by its name and in
these modern days it is not strange that "Publicaton
and Coportage" should have dragged but it will be
surprising if SUNDAY school Missions does not pull
up to the 100000 asked for by the Assembly
j. A. MCMURRY,
Lynchbug, Va.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-02-21
THE NINETIETH ANNIVERSARY.

The American Bible Society," organized in 1876
VIII complete the nnetieth year of it's operations
next May. Our last Assembly instructed Per-
manent Committee the Bible Cause to arrange
for the appropriate celebration this court during
the sessions of the Assembly and steps have
already been taken toward the execution of this
order. But the Bible Society DESIRES and the As
sembly approves the general recognition by all our
churches of this milestone in the progress of the
great and important work, and the fourth Sabbath
in February has been suggested as a suitable time
our pastors and sessions to this matter and urge
that the interesting court be noticed I'm some an
proprate manner on that day. or any other more
convenient.
Inc relations of our church to the American Bible
society are very close and important. 1t has done
d great work Tor us and for the Christ in
thls ana other lands During the ninety years of
ITS existence it has distributed rs 600 600 comics f
the Scriptures in about 100 different dialects and
languages, and has greatly assisted us i'm our work
at nome and abroad, especially the difficult and
Tuuous task OF eVangelizing the heather nations
1t WIFI therefore be interesting and profitable to ou
people TO consider ON the occasion of this nineteth
anniversary what the noble Society has done and
what are our relations it's work
And all this is the more important at ,resa,,t b
cause the Society is most seriously straitanad fo.
lack of funds to seize magnificent onnortuniti.
peIore IL and to maintain its work upon which On
many vital interests of the worlds GENERALIZATION
depend.
Literature suitable for the occasion NAV he OH
tanned free of expense on application to the Sec
retaries' American Bible Society," Bible House New
York T11ONt &c - NC"
Chairman AssembIy's Committee
Spartanburg, S. c.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-02-21
WHERE TO FIND THE DOCTOR
Spartanburg, S. c.

Under this caption is pleasing paragraph in the
FEBRUARY number of the Earnest Worker If calls I'M
another questions Where was the Doctor found ON tb
sabbath day? Answer. In the midst of the Assembled
congregation. ~
From about 1871 to 1881, there practiced medicine
III Rich Valley Va, DIR. f. b. Ward His family
pew was In the middle of the church building and he
was very certain to be there Il A. NJ He would
Visit his patients before that hour if need be and re-
trh; or he would defer his visit until public worsbip
was over. BY one shift and another he would he at
the preaching, and it a common thing for q mes
sehSer to walk up the isle during the service and call
MIN out; 1T was so common that 1t made no disturb
ahce' One could not but consider how he and his
profession were advertised by these frequent and pub
lie calls Surely he lost nothing by being at church
recurring to the question, where to find the doc
TORS, the answer is, at the church ton Sabbath
by way OF Renaissance it may be added that he
was seen now and then to be greatly moved durino
the worship without any special causes that could be
mentioned and as he died at the age of ffty-six we
may regard his lively experience the work of Grace
rapidly rpening the saint for another world.
When he gone the Chatham Hill community
was LETT to mourn the loss of friend neigbor cti-
zen, doctor and church man, all at once He left q
good family, upon whom may the Lords blessing rest
" they meet again!
u. MCCLUER