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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29
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DRYNESS IN THE SHEEP BARN.
During the winter months the care
of sheep means principally two things
shelter and feeding. The average
farmer puts too much care on the
former and not enough on the latter.
Experience has shown that flock
will go through a winter with no
more shelter than that afforded by
an open shed, and cases are constant
ly occurring in which sheep are great
ly injured by excessive care in the
matter of shelter. But no one ever
saw flock come thriftily through a
winter without judicious feeding. The
sheep will st.ll be sheep and lambs
will be born, but during the next sum-
mer there will be plenty of chances
to wonder why some neighbours lambs
look fat and his ewes have so quickly
picked up since the weaving.
The two requisites of a sheep barn
are dryness and ventilation. Damp
ness and drafts will bring on pneu-
monia, and dampness in the litter will
cause foot-rot and kindred ills Too
much heat will bring tuberculosis
and the health inspector. But once
have dry quarters and plenty of air
and a full half of the risk of sheep
raising will be eliminated
Some prefer to leave the litter down
all winter, and if plentifully given
and of the right kind it may be al
lowed to accumulate AS it is trodden
down compactly it gives off no more
odors than can be absorbed by the
fresh litter daily thrown down If
straw or cornstalks are used, they
should be run through the cutter. 1t
increases their power of absorption
and makes removal easier. If litter
is removed weekly there VIII be more
odor, and fresh litter should be spread
thickly at once.
Under no circumstances should the
used litter be heaped where the sheep
can get at it. Fermentation rapidly
sets in, giving forth vapors and gases
in damp weather The sheep will lie
on it and catarrh and pneumonia
will inevitably ensue, or the wool will
come off in patches.
Feed racks should be made so that
the sheep may get at the feed without
filling their fleece with dust and chaff
or getting the wool torn from their
necks. Troughs for roots should have
partitions to stop crowding. Many
ewes lose their lambs from being
damned at the feeding troughs.
The best feeds are clover hay. mea-
dow hay, roots and bran. With good
hay and an allowance of roots and
bran sheep will pass from the green
succulent food of summer to that of
dry concentrated character without
the attendant ills of such changes.
Run the roots through root cutter
to prevent choking on large pieces,
and be careful not to feed in excess
and when too cold When fed prop
erly their laxative effect BEAUTIFULLY
opposes the tendency of the hay and
adds a considerable proportion of
phosphates and sulphur for the grow
ing animal and its fleece. But if fed
in excess, and cold, the large quantity
of water contained and their bulk re-
duces the temperature of the animal
too much and is particularly harmful
to the ewes. Some mix the bran AMI
roots together
Keep rock salt in the feed troughs
and plenty of fresh water accessible.
Foul water is deadly to sheep.-IE.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

farm In Hudson In 1879, moving on II
with his wife and being as poor as
the farm. The most important thing
he added to 1t was a mortgage OF
$4,000 at per cent. and he had an
old horse, few tools and nine cows,
kept practically out Of doors. The
land was so run down that he could
not raise weeds on it. Without know
ing anything about the ACCESSIBILITY of
1t he sowed a field with clover. 1t
grew and two years later plowed
1t up for corn Not having manure
land near the highway and the clover
sod got none of it. The same year,
in his ignorance, he rented a five
acre field of neighbor and plowed
and narrowed it, rolled and narrowed
it and then gave it more rolling and
narrowing while the neighbors laugh
ed at him. He sowed il to Hungarian
grass and got a bumper crop which
Melted him $40.
Thus, to begin with, he learned the
value of clover on the one hand and
tillage on the other. He needed more
manure and the clover was furnish
ing that, therefore the immediate
thing was to raise more clover, to
make more manure to raise more
clover. Being, luckily, too poor to buy
fertilizers he bent his efforts to save
what was produced in the barnyapd.
The first year his wife helped him
load what little hay the place pro-
duced; the first and second years it
was hard work to meet the interest
money and the taxes, and the cloth
ing of the couple was only kept to-
gether by miracle In twelve years
the mortgage was gone the farm was
producing $50 bushels of potatoes to
the acre against forty the first year.
1t had from thirty-three to thirty
eight bushels of wheat to the acre
against eight when he took it, and it's
doing better now than it did the
twelfth year Glover, he says, is all
any farm needs if it is raised on the
farm, fed out on it, and the manure
returned to the farm. The clover is
rich in nitrogen, which it takes from
the air. It's roots run deep down into
the soil where they get what potash
they need and the farmer needs and
the dense shade a thick crop of clover
makes is ideal for the production of
phosphoric acid.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29
CARE OF POULTRY HOUSES.

The best remedy for lice in poultry
houses is to add a pound of concen-
trated I've to wash boiler of soap
suds, and apply the suds hot on the
walls, floors and roofs of the houses.
All lice, with their nits, will thus be
destroyed surely and quickly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

Every farmer, in fact all those who
live in rural communities, should in
terest themselves in good roads. The
roads of community have a great
deal to do with the value of tha
land.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

For rushing onto railway trac,S
10 save. his daughter from bein,
crushed beneath freight train, 4
man at Danzig, Germany, was prose-
cuted for trespass by the railway an
thorities and fined
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29
Uncle Sans Paper Bill.

The Government Printing Office in
Washington uses 10000 tons of
paper a year and receives about s40,-
900 year for the waste.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

Not Quite So Close, However.
The sense of duty. like our shadow,
lings to us to the grave.-Baltimore
American
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

A judgeship at Sacramento, CAL.
was vacant. There were three can
didates. Two of them. who believed
their chances equal, agreed to shake
dice as to which should withdraw,
and did SO. The Governor heard of
it and appointed the third candidate
to the place.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29
ARRANGEMENT OF sHRUBBERY


With the leaves stripped from shrub
berries, the planter has an opportunity
to observe what the skeleton of his
plan looks life. If it is not satisfac-
tory, he can rest assured that the
mere growth of leaves in the spring
will not materially improve matters.
Strawberries as a rule are too care
lessly thrown together. This applies
to the grouping of ten shrubs or a
hundred. The average planter does
not give the subject any serious
thought, but buys his stock and sets
it out irrespective of its suitability.
Recently the writer was shown a
list of shrubs prepared by a so-called
landscape gardener and designed to
cover a space of twenty feet wide and
fifty feet long. The list was too long
by half and the most of the shrubs
included were not at all adapted for
harmonious results.
Here, for instance, is a plan of the
kind of arrangement that usually does
duty for design in strawberries:
Weigela, Lonicera, Cornus alba,
Golden Elder, Purple Barberries, Hy-
drangea, pig, Spirea Van Houten,
Philadelphus cor, Berberis, Rosa rug
osa, Symphoricarpus vulgaris, Rosa
rugosa alba, Thunbergii and so on.
A sort of mosaic of patch of this,
a patch of that, and a patch of the
other, all about the same size, all
about the same shape, and put to-
gether, apparently, without any particu-
lar system other than a general idea
that No. 1 would s1ook we'll next to
No. and No. 2 to No. 3. When it all
grows up the general effect is often
not half bad with its accomplishments
of neat lawn and bright skies, the
varied richness and textures of the
several patches, their abundant bios
som at different times, and, in short,
the inyincible beauty of all the ma
terial.
But what relation has this kind of
thing to what is usually known as de-
sign? Why does It appear to have no
traceable relation to the scheme of
ones carpet or favorite picture or any
thing else constructed on traditional
principles of design? Design depends
on subordination of parts, on the pre-
dominance of principal motives and
the due proportioning of lesser ones,
on the separation of mere decorative
lines and surface from constructive
ones, and this subordination is trace
able in any piece of good design from
a small piece of jewelry to a Doric
Column, and from an Armenian rug
to a landscape of Corot. But this
shrubbery of patches-where does it
begin and where does it end? What
is there for the eye to rest upon and
prevent its wandering, aimlessly in
search of something else?. There are
no principal parts and no secondary
onSs, but they are all about the same
size and Importance Neither are the
plants so intermingled as to produce
an effect OF continuity, of one mass
with one motive like a Wild thicket,
or a plantation of one variety. That
simple and salient principles of de-
sign can be applied to shrubbery as
to any kind of decoration is sure, but
there is not space to discuss it in a
short article 1t may, however, be
worth while to encourage those who
have such work to do to think for
themselves. --Indianapolis News.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29
10 RESTORE A. FARM.

T. B. Terry, Of Hudson, Ohio.
speaking of restoring land, said that
what he did was to buy run down
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

The Rothschilds are to compete
with the Rockefellers for the control
of the oil business.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

Hungary spends s17.500.0O0 yearly
on its technical and agricultural
schools.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

1t is claimed that forty-five per
cent. of photographers die OF tubercui
losis.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

A train whistle has been heard In
a balloon four miles above the earth.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

Of the great nations of Europe. Ger
many and France have the most need
of disarmament, and they are least
disposed to consider the subject in
the Peace Conference at The Hague.
in Germany, notes the Philadelphia
Record, taxes are weighing more and
more heavily upon the masses of the
people to meet the increasing expen-
ditures for new ships of war and
colonial expenditures, while the cost
of living is steadily rising. With a
constantly growing Treasury deficit
the French Government hardly knows
where to turn for means to stop the
gap.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

The ball is placed in the loop. The
small bubbles of air which form un-
der the cup at temperature Of about
$50 degrees are held captive until
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

One result of the law requiring can
packed provisions to be genuine and
prepared in wholesome way is an in
crease IL. their price, notes the Bos-
ton Herald The price of canned
chicken has gone up from 95 cents for
a dozen quarter-pound cans to $1.75,
and canned corn beef, in half-pound
cans, from $125 a dozen to $I90
dozen. There has been no rise in the
price of chickens and beef cattle to
warrant such advances. But the cheat
ing has been stopped, and the foul
conditions of preparation that former
lY existed
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

Brown sugar, which after being
characterized for many years as odd
fashioned" passed completely out OF
the repertory of the grocery store and
the ken of the housewife, is among
the articles promised as a result of
the pure food crusade. White sugar
is now said to owe its crystal like par
ity to a chemical process which robs
it of a great deal of its natural sweet
ness, even if downright adulteration,
through the addition of marble dust
and other insoluble substances, has
not taken place.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

American railroads buy annually
5000, 900 feet of sound timber for
jPs, and, according to the Courier
Journal large number of rotten leg
islators for purposes quite as useful
The Chicago News observes that:
"The American people are appalled, at
the number of needless railroad acct
dents and are determined that the
number shall be lessened.'
A Missouri man was arrested for
SEoring in church, but was let off,
notes the Atlanta Constitution, when
he explained that it was only way
he had of saying amen" to the SER
mon.
The Baltimore American thinks: 'It
is conceivable from the progress to-
ward the perfect type of dirigible air
craft that is being made that the air
fleet may soon becN.-e as recognized
a part of the war outfit of nations as
TIE marin>s fleets"
A Connecticut prosecuting attorney
mad his father fined S. for violation
of the sidewalk ordinance and al
though his mind no doubt went back
to his boyhood days, he refrained
from saying, 1T hurts me more than
it does you," declares the Washington
Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

ut would be better for the country
If there could be a greater dispersion
of the immigrants" suggests the
Pittsburg Post. Various States of the
interior are offering inducements to
attract them from the Atlantic coast,
but these have not been very effective.
The great congestion of aliens in GER
tain portions of the country is GER
tainly not beneficial either to them or
to our own people"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

Every child throughout the Jap
anese empire of 100000, who has
not a valid excuse for non-attendance
is enrolled in the schools. The ma
tional determination, declares the Bos
ton Transcript, is to make the country
as successful in improved methods, in
agriculture and the industrial arts
through the growing intelligence OF
the people as it has shown itself to
be in war. All classes feel the same
expectancy as to the future.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

OF the ships of all nations which
sailed from Atlantic ports in 1905 nine
teen were lost, with 257 men. -Four
vessels in the Pacific trade went out
of reckoning. with eighty-eight souls
on board On the Great Lakes. rs has
been previously reported. 126 lives
we're lost during the season. The
total number of dead thus far account-
ed for is All, and they were under
six different flags. On the railroads
of the United States alone during this
same year of report more than 4,200
passengers, employees and other peo.
pie were killed and more than $4,000
injured.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

A. movement is in progress among
general of the religious denominations
to create endowment funds for the
benefit of their disabled and superan-
n1ated clergy. At one of the recent
Methodist Episcopal conferences in
New York a special commissioner was
appointed to raise fund of 100000
for this purpose. The money when
raised will be invested, and the income
devoted to the support of infirm and
superannuated ministers, of whom
there is said to be fifty in this particu-
lar conference. The fund will be adj
ministered by a commission of eigh-
teen members elected by the confer
ence
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

1t is possible, of course, that the
tomb of Cicero has been discovered,
remarks the New York Times. But it
is to be remembered that it is by no
means the tomb of all of Cicero. I'm
less Plutarch was very much misin-
formed and misinforming, the head of
the orator was cut off at the time of
the murder, and also, at the particular
request of the Antony family, the
right hand which had written the
Philippics.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29
Gas Lighted Automatically.

OttS IHSHtCU AutUfHsttICdIIy.
The tendency of the majority of in
yentors seems to be to devise some
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

The Rochester Democrat and Chron-
icle declares: 1T is better to take
rest without medicine than to take
medicine without rest. If you have an
attack of grip go to bed. Call ply
stefan, if possible, but go to bed any
way. You may begrudge the time
lost, but it is better to lose two or
three days than two or three weeks"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-03-29

The annual increase in mems sal
aries is sos, in women's, $40. 1t is
difficult to see by what system these
figures were obtained. The woman
teachers increase is one-ifteenth Of
her first salary. The mans is be-
tween one-eighth and one-ninth. The
regulation governing this appears to
be entirely arbitrary and unscientiic,
declares the New York Sun.
The Newtown bee., 1907-04-19

of friends here, who are sorry to lose them from the village. They will be greatly missed in the church work here and in all our social circles, but have the best wishes of all for success
 Edward Sanford and family of New York are expected to arrive at their home here for the season, some time next week.
 Edward P. Warehouse sold nice pair of young steers to Harry Hill of Cross Highway.
 MT and Mrs Albert M. Bulkley and family, who have been living in the Miss Della Hubbell place, have moved to Southport into the Octagon house on the Westport road. Arthur Hub bell, a brother of the late Miss Adelia Hubbell, has purchased the place and has taken possession and is to make number of repairs and Improvements on the house. 0. H. Godfrey of South
 Samuel K. Bulkley has sold his milk route to Walter s. Merwin. MT Bulk ley will devote his time to farming. There was an auction, last Wednes- day, at Commissioner Simeon Pease, when he sold lot of household furni- ture and farming tools.
 Mrs N. w. Ogden, who has been spending four weeks with her daugh- | ter, Mrs Walter s. Merwin, on Mer- | win avenue, has returned to her home on Congress street.
 George Lover is improving his house | by building a wide veranda across the l front and south sides.
 It is pleasure to stop at the home | of Mrs Lewis Burr on Burr street and see her bay window full of healthy | vigorous plants. She has fine collec tion of foliage plants and her windows | are now full of begoniaS, geraniums and petunia blossoms and are pretty sight.
 MT and Mrs Robert Baramore o
 Bridgeport were guests, Saturday ant Sunday, of MT and Mrs N. w. Ogder on Congress street.
 Miss Grace Gould, who has been wis iting friends in New York for tw,
 weeks, returned to Greenfield Hill
 this week.
 Mrs Charles Waldman, who lost he
 husband on the steamer Larchmont
 out of Boston, which went to the bot : tom of the ocean in a collision abeu four weeks ago, is spending few day at Horace Burr's on Burr street.
 A forest fire, last Monday and Tues day, burned over quite tract of woo land, north of Samp Mortar rock, dt
 ing considerable damage.
The Newtown bee., 1907-04-19
..PNEUnONIA'S DEADLY WORK

had so seriously affected my right lung," writes Mrs Fannie Connor, of Rural Route l, Georgetown, Tenn, "that I coughed continuously night and day and the neighbors' prediction sumption-seemed inevitable, un- til my husband brought home bottle of pr Kings New Discovery, which in my case proved to be the only real cough cure and restorer of weak, sore lungs" When all other remedies fail. you may still win in the battle against lung and throat troubles with New Discovery, the real cure Guaran- teed by R. H. Beers & O., New town; Betts & Betts, Sandy Hook; P. J. Garvin, Bethel; w N- Noble New Milford; E. J. Buckingham, Hunt ington; Allen Joyce, Roxbury Station; G. w. Hurlburt X O.. Roxbury;J. J. NJ Sullivan, Bedding Ridge; Connery Bros, Georgetown; w. B. Hawley
 Sherman; Honan & Soule, Gaylords
 vile; Smith Bros, Cornwall Bridge
 Edwin RI. Beardsley, New Preston
 George E. Frink, Falls Village: E. S Fairchild & Son, Nichols, drug
 gists. soc and s1. Trial bottle free
The Newtown bee., 1907-04-19
FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
GREENFIELD HILL
THE COUNTRY CLUB FAIR

The Greenfield Country Club have selected September 10, II and 12, as the dates for their annual fair, and the following committees have been appointed: Ladies' industrial, Mrs S. o. Bradley; fine arts, Miss Laura Qowd; chiluren's exhibits, Mrs Emma Hull; canned fruit, Mrs Anna l.. Bulk ley; pie, cake and pastry, Mrs William H. Wilson; fruit, B. l.. BuIkley; veg etables, Fred R. J Jennings; field crops, Bradley Jennings; agricultural and manufacturing implements, Dwight Adams; pet stock, w. Burr Hill; poul- try, w. O. Burr; sheep, swine, etc, Eli Wakeman; working oxen; G. F. Sherwood; dogs, o. Fl. Bradley; dec orated carts, F. B. Lally, Jr.; miscel- laneous, Miss Emma Jennings; horses, $. 0. Bradley; restaurant, A. c. Acker
 amusements, Howard Gray; music, w. Fl. Fallon; children's amusements
 Miss c. F. Sherwood; sales table, Miss Georgia Banks; decorations, Mrs Mel. lis H. Sherwood; candy, Mrs Dwight Adams; transportation, Levi Cobb
 superintendent of grounds, A. O.
 Acker; gate committee, J. M. Wilson
 building committee, Charles Gray
 flag committee, Clarence Thorpe
The Newtown bee., 1907-04-19

Our overcoats and our suits fit you styllshly. keep their shape and wear you durably, because the men who made them use only pure tested wool ems, high-grade workmanship, and the clothes wisdom that has been hoarded up in 52 years of Knowing How. No clothes are made ready to wear that can equal them. In our store you see on your back in three-ply mirror the They have got to fit you and look right in your eyes and in ours too, or you don't take them. If you buy them, they've got the Stein Bloch la bel under the flap behind the collar to tell you they are made right, of pure wool, and will wear. A pretty fair proposition from start to finish, don't t you think? For prices see our adv. in this issue of the paper.|[DaviS& & Sa- yard, Main and Fairfield avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1907-04-19
TOWN TOPICS.
A CLARIFYING EVENT.
RECEPTION GIVEN BY MISS TENDERS
 DANCING CLASS.


 The plain and ugly interior of our Town hall, which by the way is not credit to the town or the board of SelecJmen, was transformed into buwer of beauty. last Saturday evening, at the reception given by Mss Helen Tenders dancing class. The colors were red and white, the de- sign of the decorations being festoons from the chandeliers, windows and balconies combined with evergreens. Miss Tenders and the Misses Jessie and Mabel Taylor deserve credit for the decorations. White was the pre- vailing tone among the gowns with just enough of those of delicate colors to give pleasing variety. After the initial rece ption the interval was filled with friends while the young people made out their dancing, lists upon which there were 16 numbers. These waltz, schottische, Virginia reel, Ian ciers and German four hundred. The pupils, many of whom were but begin ners at the act this year, did their parts we'll and reflected great credit on the methods and ability of their teacher. The music, furnished by Mrs John R. Peck, who has been the pia- the sort to inspire the dancers to their best efforts and kept them going at a lively pace from the start to nearly | midnight. The selection of partners 1 for the Virginia Reel was made by lot each gentleman being provided with card upon which was printed the name of state and he found his partner ir the lady whose card bore the name O. it's capital The ladies doing the hon ors as patronesses were Mrs s. F. H Hewitt, Mrs w. J. Beecher, Mrs l.. o Morris and Mrs John R. Peck. Puncf and waters were served during tha evening, Miss Viola Clark presiding a the refreshment table. It was al event long to be remembered by thu young people and their friends.