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The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-07
STANDARD CONCERN
FIXES OIL PRICES
According to Testimony Ct Ohio
Operator.

New York, Nov. AT the hearing
of the governments suit against the
Standard Oil company, an indepen-
dent oil producer of Bowling Green,
o., NJ. l.. Case, told of the evolution
Of the oil business in that part of the
country since 1887. At the beginning,
the witness said, Lima oil was used
for fuel only, selling in 1886 and
1888 around Is and II cents a barrel
When the Standard commenced re-
fning in 1889, declared Mr.. Case,
prices teadily advanced until now it
is selling around 81 a barrel.
In cross-examination Mr.. Kellogg
brought out that oil sold for 8 cents
more a gallon in the North Lima
than elsewhere. Mr.. Case admitted
that the Joseph Sepp company, a
Standard concern, fixed the price of
crude oil for the Lima field. He told
of the purchase by one of his COM
panies of the Palmer Oil company for
100000, which they held for over a
year and then sold for $450000. The
witness asserted that the Manhattan
Oil company, supposed for years to
be an Independent company, was now
known to be a Standard concern. To
the opposition of the Paragon, Ma
tiona and the Sun companies, own
ing Independent pipe lines in the
North Lima field, Mr. Kellogg attrib-
utod the increase of prices there.
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ALFALFA MEAL.
1t Is Splendid Feed for Chickens OF
All Ages.

Alfalfa meal is said to be a fine
feed for both growing chicks and lay
ing hens, as good as the growing al
falfa is through the summer. This
will prove boon to the poultry grow
ers in places where alfalfa is grown
so largely.
One lady cures timber neck in fowls
by feeding dry feed only, and asa
foetida. The latter is a fine disinfect-
ant at any rate.
Extra warm houses are not as much
thought of as they were few years
ago. One poultryman in Iowa that ]
know of, writes correspondent Of
the Indiana Farmer, in a climate that
gets 80 degrees below zero, makes a
success by using the open shed hous-
ing, and the following feed with about
one-tenth part of beef meal, and some
clover meal, for the morning feed.
After this is cleaned up some wheat
is thrown in deep litter Hunting for
this grain keeps them busy until noon.
At noon more wheat is raked in the
litter to keep them busy most of the
day; at night a full feed of corn is
given, warming it in the, oven during
coolest weather. Once a week green
cut bone, and hang up cabbage head
for them to pick at and at all times,
fresh water is kept before them.
Curtain front houses are used, the
curtains sewed to rings, top and bot
tom, two wires are stretched, and
these rings slide" back and forth on
these wires. When weather is very in
element these curtains are stretched
snugly, but On nice days they are drawn
back. The top and bottom fastenings
prevent the curtains blowing in the
wind. Grit and oyster shells are al
ways handy and eggs are gathered all
winter. through. sc...
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-07
A CHINESE STORY.
The Way a Mandarin's Wise Wife De-
cided a Baby Case.

Two women came before a mandarin
In China, each Of them protesting that
she was the mother of a little child
they had brought with them. They
were so eager and so positive that the
mandarin was sorely puzzled. He re-
tired to consult with his wife, who
was a wise and clever woman, whose
opinion was held in great repute in
the neighborhood. She requested five
minutes in which to deliberate. At the
end of that time she spoke LET the
servants catch me a large fish in the
river, and let it be brought here alive"
This was done. Bring me now the
infant" she said, ''but leave the two
women in the outer chamber" This
was done too. Then the mandarin's
wife caused the baby to be undressed
and its clothes to be put on the fish.
Garry the creature outside now and
throw it into the river in the sight of
the two women" The servant obeyed
her orders, fiinging the fish into the
water, where it rolled about and strug-
gled, Disguised no doubt by the wrap
pings In which 1t was Swaddled.
Without moments pause one of the
women. threw herself into the river
with shrek. She must save her
drowning child. without doubt she
is the true mother" she declared, and
the mandarin's wife commanded that
she should be rescued and the child
given to her. And the mandarin nod
ded his head and thought his wife the
wisest woman in the FlQwery King
dom. Meanwhile the false woman
crept away. She was found out in her
tmposture, and the mandarian's wife
forgot all about her in the occupation
OF DOMINIC the little baby in the best
silk she could find in her wardrobe
Bystander.
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Where the BiIIowing Golden Waves
Stretch From Sky to Sky.

Stretch From Sky to Sky.
Take look at the wheatfield that
has been brought up to perfection, as
1t stands, yellow as gold, with the
sheen Of the sea, billowing from sky
line to sky line like an ocean of gold,
where the wind touches the ripping
wave crests with the tread of invisi-
BILE feet. In California, in Oregon, in
Washington. in Dakota, in the Cana
dian northwest. you may ride all day
on horseback through the wheatfields
without break in the flow of yellow
heavy headed grain-no fence lines,
no meadow lands, no shade trees,
no knobs and knobs and hills and hol-
lows of grass or black earth through.
From dawn till dark, from sunrise, in
a burst of fiery splendor over the
prairie horizon, to shutdown. when the
crimson thing hangs like a huge shield
of blood in the haze of a heat twi-
light. you may ride with naught to
break the view between you and the
horizon but wheat-wheat. 1t is like
the gold fields. 1t goes to your head.
You grow dizzy looking at 1t. You rub
your eyes. Is it mirage? The bill
lowing yellow waves seem to be
breasting the very sky You look up.
The sky is there all right with the
black mote Of meadow lark sailing
the azure sea. He drops liquid notes
OF sheer mellow music down on your
head, does that meadow lark, and that
gives you back your perspective, your
sense Of amazing reality. You are
literally, absolutely, really, In the
midst Of sea Of living gold. 1t is you
and not the lark that is the mote.
You begin to feel as if your special
mote might be beam that would get
lost in infinity IL you stayed there long,
and so you ride on and on. and some
more on, and by and by come out of
the league long, fenceless fields with
an OdOr in your nostrils that isn't ex-
actly like incense-it's too fugitive, too
fine, too sublimal of earth. 1t is aro-
matte. sort of altar of roses, the i'm
prisoned fragrance Of the billions upon
billions Of wheat flowers shut up in
the glumes Of the heavy headed grain
there. And that's the odor Of the
wheat.-Agnss c. Laut in Outing Mag
aZine.
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SCIENTIFIC FEEDING
OF SWINE

Feeding hogs is a subject in which
every farmer and breeder is or should
be deeply interested 1t is of univer-
sal importance; and l only wish l
could go into it deeply and in a
way that would interest you men
here
Starting with the newborn pig, it
requires practice and skill to feed the
mother SO that she will bring her litter
out without securing them. When this
is done the first great danger is over.
To do this she should be fed lightly
and Systematically. The same man
should feed and care for her that fed
her previous to narrowing. he should
have his work we'll planned, and good
ments. Many writer's advocate the
use of a strictly milk-producing ra-
ton, but experience has shown that
this is wrong. The flow of milk at
this time is naturally greater than the
pigs will take in the majority of cases.
For this reason a light feed of corn
and oats is better for the SOW and pigs
both. In the course of a week the
ration should be gradually changed to
slop of shorts; anG this increased
until the ration consists of one-half of
such feeds.
AT the age of three weeks the pigs
will commence eating and they should
be encouraged by the use of a creep.
The feed should consist of a slop of
some good mill feeds. From the time
the pigs commence eating the expense
OF feeding gradually increases, and
with it the value of the pig increases
if he is doing well and is properly fed.
1t is not my purpose to PROFOUND
the balanced ration, fact or theory.
However, the purpose or final end
of the feeding operation is to
produce a hog with strong bony
framework and development Of mus
Gle of such an extent that all the vital
organs such as the lungs, heart, di-
gestive and reproductive organs will
be as perfect as possible when the hog
is matured. To do this, the scientific,
or, as / would rather call it, the sys-
tematic way of feeding must come into
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bedding and moving pigs from pen to
pen. A study Of this floor plan will
show that this important feature is
not neglected.
The building may, of course, be Of
any length to accommodate from 20
to 100 pigs or more. Two rows Of
pens flank the passage, one on either
side. Doors, two feet wide, open off
the passage into each pen. The feed
ing is done from the passage. The
pens are 10 feet front and IL feet
deep. being large enough for four to
eight animals. according to size. In
the plan FL. FL. FL. are feeding
floors 6x10. L. l.. L. are low partitions
separating the beds from feeding
floors. d. d. D., large swinging doors
or rather partitions. 6 feet long and 4
feet high, serve as partitions between
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-07
AUTOPROOF ROADWAY
Coal Tar and Pitch Used to
Finish 1t.
ALL DIRT MUST BE REMOVED
Before Laying Surfacing Materials
Roads Ought to Be Perfectly Dry,
Says Connecticut Highway Commits
sioner-Resist Autos Bad Effects.

The racking of brains to find road
surfacing which will withstand the
wear and tear of automobile traffic
that has been going on among road
makers in the United States and Eu-
rope of late is resulting in a return to
coal tar. which thirty years ago was
thought to be worthless for any pur-
pose and today furnishes mankind so
many different products and byprod-
ucts. some of them far removed from
the building of stone roads. Highway
Commissioner Macdonald of Connect
cut. ever among the leaders in these
matters. has worked out specifica-
ton which has already been adopted
by state highway commissioners who
have heard of it and have obtained q
copy. says a Hartford (Conn) dispatch.
1t calls for Il com bination of coal tar
and pitch, and fully as much Of the
success with which the road laid by
means Of it resists the action of auto
tires is due to the manner In which il
Is put down as to the medium which
binds the road surface into solid.
perfectly cohesive waterproof whole
Something over year ago Commits
sioner Macdonald chose very hot day
and Ibid his specification on most of
the roads In Bushnell park. about the
Connecticut state capitol in Hartford.
and the present condition OF these
roads. which is as good as the day the
coal tar combination was put down, tes-
tiles to the excellence OF the specifica-
ton. Not only that. but these roads
are unusually good ones on which to
try but the coal tar, for the reason
that they are used by autos far more
than by any other vehicles.
1t happens that before he became
state highway commissioner a dozen
years ago Mr.. Macdonald had been for
years at the head of a New Haven
firm which laid and still lays tar and
asphalt pavements. and he was pecul-
iarly fitted to grapple with the destruc-
tiveness of auto tires on macadam
roads wheE ii became a question Of
seeing the fine system of roads in Con-
necticut which he is building disinte-
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-07
BRYAN THANKFUL
To Millions of Democrats Who Have
Been Faithful to His Cause.


Lincoln Neb., Nov. In a state
ment issued from Fairview, William
]. Bryan admits that the election has
gone against the Democrats, but says
that in the absence of complete re-
turns it is impossible to say what
causes contributed most to the Re-
publican victory. He says that the
Democrats made their fight upon a
Platform which embodied what they
thought would be best for the Ameri-
can people, but that it is for the peo-
pie to decide what laws they desire
and what methods of government
they desire. However, he is con-
fident that in time the masses will
fall into line with the Democratic
views on all important matters of
governmental reform.
He has words of praise for Chair
man Mack and the national commit
tee, and says he does not see that
they could have done more than they
did. He also expresses his gratitude
to the millions of Democrats who
have stood by him during the past. IL
years and says he will serve the in
terests of the people as willingly and
faithfully.in a private capacity as in
a public one.
He is glad that with a Democratic
administration in Nebraska, his party
can put into practice the principles of
the Denver DlatfOrm that relate to
state legislation.
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LAYING COAL TAR AND PITCH ON A RoA1

LAYING COAL TAR AND PITCH ON ROAD.
crate before his eyes unless he could
find protection for them. There were
two things to be done. find a road sur
facing material which is finished when
laid and solid, so that it makes no dust
and needs no dust to maintain its in
tegrity, or find method of laying the
dust. Some roadmakers have not given
over trying to find the latter yet. but
after various and varied experiments
Commissioner Macdonald finds that a
mere dust layer. which means oil. is of
little value. 1t must be frequently re-
newed and cannot be repaired.
Commissioner Macdonald's specifica-
ton lays great stress on the necessity
for having all parts of the road per-
fectly dry when the coal tar and pitch
surfacing is laid. After the shoulders
and cutters have been formed and
shaped the contractor must clean off
all dirt or accumulations with split
rattan brOOmS or horse sweeper until
the No. 2 stone is entirely bare. clean
and free from all material except such
as is found in the No. 2 course, so that
there is no interruption between the
tar and the No. course of stone. This
No. 2 course is to be evened up to
grade also.
Then comes the coal tar application.
About Is per cent Of pitch is to be
melted into the tar and thoroughly
mixed with it, the whole to be heated
to a temperature of 225 degrees. At
this temperature the mixture is flood
ed on to the road and broomed in with
split rattan brooms. When this first
application has become entirely alb
sorbed a second application Of exactly
the same thing is to be applied in just
the same way, the two making a per-
fectly solid surface on top in combina-
ton with the No. 2 course Of stone,
which is about one inch, longest diane
ter, In size.
While the second application is still
hot and sticky the top dressing Of trap
rock splinters from one-half to three
quarters OF an inch, longest diameter,
is put on to uniform depth Of not
less than an inch. Two inches will be
even better. At once steam road
roller of not less than ten tons weight
is to be run over the surface Of this
and to be kept running over it until the
top dressing is thoroughly imbedded
in the tar and pitch composition. Then
the road must cool thoroughly before
any use whatever.
There are several important condi-
tons which must be observed, too,
chief among them perhaps being the re-
quirement that the day must be hot.
mo water gas tar will be allowed to
be. used nor any adulteration of the
.oal tar. Nothing but pure coal tar
shall be used In the work"
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A Comfortable Poultry House.

scratching floor, with nests for laying
arranged along the sides and in the
corners. A small door should open
favorable weather need the fowls have
access to this, and then not until it
has been well carpeted with straw OF
hay, for to let hens onto the bare
ground in cold weather will CHECK
their laying at once. Such a house
says Farm and Home, Should have
either a good board floor or one made
of cement, and be constructed through
out of first-class lumber Kept well
painted, it will then last almost q
lifetime.
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D. close. F. F. are narrowing pens
properly fitted with a board about 8
inches wide placed fat horizontally
about s inches from the floor along
the wall to which it should be firmly
attached. In the feed room c. is the
feed cooker. B. B. B. are bins for feed.
P. root pulper; T. trap door to root
cellar; p. Z. P. are doors from pens
to passage. The yards extend out
on either side. The manner of ar.
ranging the pens on one side of the
passage shows how the other side may
be laid out. At the end are large,
roomy, winter quarters for sows II is
a great mistake to house sows in the
small ordinary pen.
Sows need roomy quarters and this
building provides that.-Hoard's Dairy.
man.
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pens when at right angles to the pas
sage and serve to confine pigs in the
bed space when parallel to the pas
sage.
When d. ID. d. are all parallel to
the passage, truck or barrow may be
run along FL. and the pens easily
cleaned. TT. Tr. TT. are troughs made
of cement or good hard wood. DR.. DR..
DR.. are doors opening into the yards.
K. K. K. are posts against which d. d.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-07
PRACTICAL POULTRY HOUSE.
One That Will Comfortably Accommo
date About Fifty Hens.

A good, comfortable house for the
hens is shown in the illustration. 1t
can be built, up to certain extent,
any size desired, or TO accommodate ;
comfortably from 25 to so hens. AS
suggested by the sketch, it should
face the south or southeast, and,
preferably, occupy warm, sunny To-
cation. The front part should be five
feet high, the center eight feet and
the rear four and one-half feet above
ground. The roosts should be in tn,
back part, leaving the front TO
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operation. Feeds high in protein and
ash must be used or the development
will not be so complete as it otherwise
would. Any of the following feeds
may be used: Wheat, wheat sorts.
middlings, oil meal, oat shorts, pack
ing house by-proGucts, alfalfa and
clover pastures. The ration should
consist for the most part of one or
combination of these feeds. Every
man has an idea of what combination
he thinks best.
The feeding of correctives, tonics,
and worm powders is at present adj
vocated by a great many men, and it
is all right, but these are found on all
farms, with the exception Of the
worm exterminator, in the form of
corn cob charcoal and grass. AS
worm eXterminatOr | have found five
grains of santonin and three grains
OF calomel to each 80 pounds of hog
to be the cheapest and most eff
fective. However, considerable care
is needed to feed such a powder, as
only ten head should be treated at
time and the powder thoroughly mixed
through the slop.
No feeder, be he ever so careful and
patient, can be successful in his oper.
ations if the conditions surrounding
his hogs are not sanitary and clean.
Stacked lime and coal tar dip and
crude oil should be used freely, but
not extravagantly, by every hog man.
Lime and dip are good disinfectants.
and will keep down disease, while the
crude oil is the cheapest and most eff
fective louise killer l have ever tried.
J. II. ASHBY, Iowa.
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White and Red Wines.

White and red wines owe their diff
ference to the fact that, while the for
the grape skirts, these are allowed to
remain in the case of the latter. The
color of the grapes makes no difference
whatever to the color of the wine
which they produce, for the juice of
all grapes is as nearly as possible col
Orless. For instance, the grape which
yields champagne is almost black in
outward appearance.
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chanIer's Application Refused.

New York, Nov. THE applica-
ton of John Armstrong Chanler Cor
Chaloner, as he recently called him
aside the finding Of jury which adj
judged him insane, was denied by
Justice Truax. The petitioner was
declared insane IL years ago and
committed to Bloomingdale asylum,
from which he escaped. He is now
living in Virginia. Chanler was at
one time the husband Of Amelie
Rives, the writer, from whom he was
divorced
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BIames Drink For DOWNFALL.

Cleveland, o., Nov. ARRESTED on
a charge of highway robbery, DR..
George A. Wright, once prominent as
a surgeon in this city, told the police
that whisky was responsible for his
troubles. 81 was once a professor in
a Columbus college," he said, "but
drink lost me my place. Then 1 was
compelled to eat from lunches in sa-
looms to keep alive. 1 am charged
with robbiEg man. / met him in a
saloon and warned him to leave with
large sum he had. Later he was
robbed; l didn't take it."
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SUGGESTIONS FOR
PIGGERY FOR FARM
BY a Canadian Expert.

The plan herewith illustrates a good
idea for hog building about 50x16
feet. 1t is not given as being ideal,
since no plan could possibly be the
best for every feeder. 1t includes
several ideas which could be incorpor-
ated into almost any plan of a pig
gerry.
frequently neglected feature in
building piggeries is the providing
of convenient passages for cleaning,
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DtBS EXPLAINS
Apparent Falling eff of Vote Cast by
Socialist Party.

Terre Haute, Ind, Nov. Eugene
V. Debs, defeated candidate for the
presidency on the Socialist ticket,
made the following statement con-
corning the Socialist vote:
The so-called falling off was not a
falling off. l attribute the votes fall
ing short of the expected mark to the
fact that an unusually large vote was
cast for the Socialist candidate lin
1904 Then there were a great many
disgruntled Democrats who were
chagrined because Parker was nomi-
mated and they voted with the So
cialists. This year they went back
to the Democratic party and voted for
Mr.. Bryan. l count that we have
made a gain in the actual Socialist
VOte''
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Rise bv poino the Rioht,

Great men of al time and In all
lands owe their rise and usefulness to
All unconquerable determination To dc
the right under all circumstances,
though the heavens should fall. 1t is
.truthfulness that makes their char
acters shine clear and brilliantly
through the night of time as guides
Tor those who follow after.
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Good Care Pays.-It will pay the
farmer to give his hens little extra
attention at this season Of the year.
1t is not profitable to let them shift
for themselves when changing plu-
mage.
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The Only Way-The only way to
feel sure that your ducks will come
back at night when given the liberty
of running steam of water is to
fence off the water and keep them in
side of the fence.
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His Mentor.

From, the time boy sits under a
street corner electric light playing
with toads until he is blind and tooth
less he has to account to some woman
why he didn't come home earlier
Atchison Globe.
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Not Like His Parent

''Do you think Mr. Skinnum's baby
will take after its father?'
Not at all. The other day they per-
suaded it to cough up nickel it had
wed.""-Exchange
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poina Good Service.

BILLS that watch your father gave
you ten years ago still doing good serv-
ice? Jill-Yes. pawned it again today
for the twentieth time.-London Opin-
ion crs~F - 49, .-s., a
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Hay and Grass.-Hay sustains
working horse better, but a little grass
now and then is an excellent regulator.