Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1887 — Page 2

INDIANA STATE SKT1KEL. WDN8D AS". SEPTEMBER 14. 1887.

FALL FARM TALKS

tin Steck Eiati far S planbar When Jmla Xilkad lis Caws. Ei ia September D jcriaiaxtioa in Fesdhz Stock Wtatafal KsthodJ ia Facdin. Soma Useful iciiPfiolicil Hints on tas Caltintioa of Sjrjaam. Caring for Pigs Some God BscipesHHome and BooMhold Hiatt, With; a Tarted JLssortmeat .of Farm Kotes. The chinch bug eats tha farmer's grata, Ine be moth spoils his honey. The bed bug fills hin fall ot pun. The humbug scoops hl money. Fl torn. (Taxas) Argus. When Janie Hilked the Co vs. The daisy held her dainty cap To catch the dewdrop bright: The bee had kissed the clover bobs And bade them all good night; The katydid had tuned her songs ' Among the app'e boughs, And farther stretched tae shadows long, When Janie milked the cows. The rwallowt flitted here tad there, The bat had left his bower. The primrose, with a bashful air, Unclosed her pet&Ued now er; The whippoorwlll his plain tire Ule Proclaimed 'neath wooded boughs. And twillg&t dropped her duscy Tell, While Janie mlAed tne cows. And Ben, the plone&bor. stralllnj by, Come through the opea bars. While softly in the western sky Shine out the tranquil stars. And wliiie the corn blades whisper low, Two lovers pledge their tows. Amid the twilight's purple glow, While Janie milked the cows. A little cottage, snng and new, With hop Tines at the door; The sunbeams peeping softly through, Lie dancing on the lloor. And when the first pale evening stars bhine through the forest boughs. Young Farmer Ben, beside the bars, . Helps Janie milk the cows. Hxlbx Whttxit Curse. Lift Stock Notes For September. Rural New Yorker. The practice of turning horsss oat on to a poor, hard pasture, after a hard day's work, to pick up what feed they can, with out rest, is both cruel and injurious. The feed is now poor, and the second growth is productive of a profuse and weakening aalivation. By whatever cause in this second growth this effect isjproduced, it should be avoided, and only good, nutritions food should be given. If for any reason this ealivation occurs, it may ta quickly stopped by feeding a quart of dry bran or ground food. This subject is worthy of investigation, because horses are undoubtedly injured by something in this second growth of meadows. Errors in feeding are prolific sources of trouble with horses. Full feeding after lone fasting or severe work la injurious and productive of indigestion; so is copious watering soon after feeding. All these mistakes are to be especially avoided at this time, when hard work, hot weather and the weariness of the driver all tend to negligence. As the fall plowing is done this month, every wiss attention and precaution for the welfare of the teams should be taken. Keep a sharp shais on the plow and see that the gearing Is such as too lessen the -draft to the lightest point, being neither too short to worry the plowman nor too long to add to the horse's labor. Water the team moderately four times a day, and never within two hours after feeding. Give ample time for feeding and feed a bran mash three times a week. Carefully wash and scrape off every gad fly's egg at noon and evening. Keep a clean stable, well dusted with plaster, and a clean, soft bed for the horses, and do not neglect to rub them down thoroughly before leaying them at night. Colts need good feeding as the milk of the dar falls off. Crushed oats and linseed make an excelleat substitute for milk. Brush and card the colts and begin to baiter-break them now when they caa be separated from the mares at night. It is a good education for the calta to rua with the mare on the road or In the fild while plowing, and get roadwisaaad otherwise. Never me a whip or otier instrument for punishment of a colt. Now is the tim to tf ach it horse-talk and hors8-seas3 by gentle management and words. Anthrax fever is one of the common diseases of cattle at this time of the year when the It ed is becoming dry. hard and dsvjid of nutriment. One is tempted to turn the cows into swamp lota where the growth of weeds is luxuriant; but this is provocative of these common disorders. The prevalent milk sickness is about due now, and extra care should be taken to avoid running cattle in marshes, dried swamps, or upon land where decaying organic matters is abundant. Here aain, errors iu feeding are at the bottom of most of the trouble! of the season. You ask, "What are we to lo when there is no other resource for pasturing cattle?" This shows the very great importance of providing some fcxl.deT corn especially for use at thIssea3on. It is tco late for this year, but the need has been pointed out in good time In these hints, which are iotended as easy lessons for guidance, month by month. Don't let the cows fall off in milk this winter. If no other feeding is at hand, pull suckers out of the corn and oat oat all the stalks which, have no ears and feed them. AH that is sained now in the con- ' dition of cattle will be a gain through the winter. "Stock well summered are halt wintered." Early lambs are now to be provided for by selecting a good ram. Choose the kind suited to the circumstances. The wrong aheen are always unprofitable. Feed the ewes some grain food If they are bred this month. Avoid early lambs, unless the moet Derfect provision is made for caring for them in the cold weather of February or March. Where no adequate provision is made don't breed the ewes until December, and have the lambs in May, separate the wethers and lambs from the ewes and keep only the breediDg sheep together. Where the flock is over thirty in number keep the ram from the ewes in the day and turn them together at night only. Smear the ram's bristet with a mixture of Venetian red and oil when he is put with the flock each time, and he will mark the ewes served. Careful shephards who knotv their aheen will want to make a note of the time they are due. A good feed for ewes at this time is rye. cora meal and buckwheat, in equal parts, fed in troughs diTided by partitions into spaces of a foot. Remember the gad fly is around this month, and smear tar on the inside of the feed trough ta nrotect the sheep's noses. Look out for lame sheen, and when found pare the soft torn around the hoof and shorten the trten. Water, pure and freah, is indispensable for the welfare of hogs. The common, but mistaken, belief that swine are filthy an imals operates greatly to their disadvantage by eicusicg the filthy ways in which they ' ere kept ahd fed, and the worst of it all is the unwholesome water provided if any nro-rision at all is made lor them. Yourjg pigs full fed up U this time may wake too pounds more growth by contin ued foil feeding. The next three months is the most profitable period of their lives, if it is made the most of and they are the xfzht kind. In choosing boars for breed ing, the fact that great 'at is no longer desirable, .but .meat is required, should -be

noted. The articles en feeding should be well studied in this regard. Breeders to be kept over winter should be provided with comfortable pens. Lay in a supply of litter on the first opportunity. Dried swamp muck is the most valuable and useful, and the present month is a good time to dig it. For early spring pigs to be made Into pork next fall couple the sows this month. Sows farrowing this month should be mated again the ninth day after.

Wasteful Methods in Feeding. Correspondence Country Gentleman, It seems as though "waste" was the motto of many farmers. They literally throw away their capital. Fodder is capital, and it is flung about the barnyard as if it was a worthless commodity: and it is trodden under foot, scattered around and wasted on every side. This is not the way other business men handle their assets; they save them, and try to turn them into the most money. It seems to be the rule to feed animals at a loss. Nothing should ever be fed in a barnyard. The stable is the place, and in a tight manger, where nothing can be wasted. Too much fodder is piled up In front of animals for them to breathe upon. When this is the case they will not eat it until they are very hungry. They should have just what they will eat up clean. If given more than this they will pick it over and eat the best parts, and the rest will go to waste. We were feeding some (bright clover and timothy and hay to a lot of calves and yearlings, and when given a manger full more man naif was lets in the manger and went to waste; when given half as much they ate it all. The sterna were coarse but good, and too valuable to go directly to the manure pile. On some farms enough straw is wasted to make a handsome Income. All straw is poor food, as it lacks in both the elements of growth and fat The proportions are so small that animals cannot eat enough to make much gain. They will live on it, but the farmer wants more. By the addition of a little meal the straw can be said in a good merket on the farm and be had for manure at the same time. This is just what the farmer wants, to convert into a fertilizer all the fodder and grain he can which has paid a good profit upon Itself in other ways, as meat, butter or cheese. When this is done the farm will always ba profitable. I have orten asid I would be willine to buy tons of food for animals if it paid for itself in the meat it would make, and leave me the manure clear for the labor. I have paid out thousands of dollars on this basis. It works well when meats are as high com paratively as grain, but does not leave much margin. Unless under verv favora ble circumstances the rule is the other wav. The fresh meat shipments have upset the pronis ox sucn a system at present In the East. With ox beef worth no more than 4Kc a pound live weicht, one can not now buy feed and make beef and keeD even. The farmer who has the fodder can winter cattle and feed them on grass and make a gain. Another common mistake with many is to try to winter too many animals on the amount of fodder in store. The result is they all come ont poor, and it takes half of the summer's feed to get them back to the condition they were in when the winter began. Here is a loss of the winter's keep and half of the summer's, and the only profit there is during the year is that had during the last part of the grass feeding. I insist that ii my animals, except the old ones, do not grow ail winter, I am losing money. What am I feeding for if they do not gain in size and weight? Older cattle should not lose in condition, and If they fchould chance to be cow3, they snouia return milk lor their rood during the greater part of the foddering season. This is not the case with the majority of native cows, and right here is one of the principal benefits of thoroughbred cows, and most decidedly of Jerseys, that they will give milk nearly the year round, and this big lack of Income for four or five months does not occur. A ow well fed does not need to eo dry more than a month and a half to two months. A starved cow should go dry all of the time. The time'was when the Eastern farmer conid feed cattle in the winter with a rising market, and there was a double margin a gain in weight and a gtin in price. This Is not so now, and I would not advise an attempt at fattening beeves in winter, but a thrifty wintering for a summer topping oft. Beef can be made on grass for two or three cents a pound, bat not less than lor fire or six cents, live weight, In winter, on the market value of hay or grain. Such is my experience. I thought that if other farmers could alnrd to feed rattle and sheep for slaughter on their hay and grain, I could buy the feed and make something too, and get the manure. I have this winter given it np. A farmer can afford to feed his own, when another, to buy, can not do it. The mar gins are againat the man who buys. After an ot tne care ana business sense which, a man may practice, if he is neglectful of roPdlroDP, he will fail, lae animals must be kept warm, and all the other sanitary conditions must be of the best to insure sneers?, successful farming is lar irora a fool s business. Sorghum. I Corres ondecce Practical Farmer. The farmer who litres molasses and wants what Le knows to be pure, should undoubtedly raise a patch of sorghnai, but in raising it pains should be taken to se cure the best results possible. Tnia can not be done if some preparation is not made ahead. One trouble heretofore, or reason why so many have failed to secure profitable crops, is because it is left until the other crops are in, and then, if there is a vacant place left, it is planted to sor ghum. l und each year that it pays, and pays well, to take considerable pains to prepare the land well before sowing the seed, bor ghum is naturally alow in starting to grow at first, and to Increase the growth and give as good a start as possible, the cultivation must be commenced early and kept up. The plants being small ana growing alow, if the seed is planted where the soil is trashy or cloddy the cultivation is much more difficult, and often consid erable work must be done with the hoe. I find it also preferable to plant in drills, letting the plants stand reasonably close to gether, rather than in hills, so as to have six or eight stalks crowded together. Having the soil well prepared aids consider ably in sowing the seed and covering more evenly, thereby insuring quicker and bet ter germination of the ceed. A consider able part of the work ot cleaning up the land can be done ahead, so that at the proper time to plow the land and prepare for planting no Urne need be lost in clean ing up. I prefer to rake up and burn all the trash possible. By this plan often a considerable number of weed seeds is diatroyed, and stalks of weeds that would In terfere more or less with the cultivation entirely destroyed. There is very little danger of bavin? the land too clean. Plow thoroughly. You want a mellow soil that the roots can penetrate readily, and that is the more easily cultivated, and this can not be secured un less the land is well plowed. Harrowing, rolling or dragging should not be given until the land is in a first-class condition. If a light, los my Boil is selected and is thoroughly cleaned np and well plowed, it requires but little work to fine eo as to be in good condition. In selection the soil 'do cot take the poorest on the farm, but give the sorghum good land. Mark oil the rowa as shallow as possible, and about 3 or 4 feet apart. Plant the seed as evenly as possible and in as straight a line as can be dene. A seed drill is, ot course, the best, as it will distribute the seed B.n.ch more evenly and In a straight line than could pos sibly be done by hand. lr3e only the beet seed 1 rem selected stock if yon want the best yield. Caue is a crop that dete riorates very rapidly. uaUss considerable

pains Is taken in the selection of the seed, bo that it pays to take some pains to procure seed of good quality. Cover as lightly as possible. The seed needs to be covered, but must not be covered too deep, as it will rot in the ground instead of germinating. Do not plant too early. Wait until the soil becomes sufficiently warmed up to inBure a quick germination of seed. Sor

ghum thrives better after the soil is rather dry and warm. Making, as it doe3, a very Blow giowth, it needs all the encouragement necessary; and there is nothing gained in planting the seed until the soil is thoroughly warmed up. Bees in September, American Agriculturist Successful wintering of bees depends, to a great extent, on their management this month. Later, unsealed honey is poor rood for winter, and should never be used for feeding purposes. If extracting ba continued late, there is more or less danger, unless full sealed combs have been set aside for this purpose; otherwise the late un sealed honey may be extracted and good sugar syrup substituted. There are many localities where fall flowers abound and where -the principal surplus of the year is gathered this month. In harvesting fall honey the extractor is invaluable, for the bees will not store the honey la boxes when combs must be built nearly so fast as in the brood chamber, where instinct teaches them it must he filled, for winter. - This is als 3 a gcod month to introduce new otood iqio tue apiary, .rxeep no j a 3 inlets stocks this month, unless it is Intended to introduce queens, in which case one or two combs of hatching brood, from stocks that caa best spare them, should be inserted, in order to secure young bees for winter. If there are still snrplus boxes on, it is quite necessary to keep the cap of the hive warm at nigbt by artificial means, as the bees are very apt to leave tne boxes when tne nights are cool, and thus retard their work to such an extent that we have many unfinished bjxeg, where with the necessary warmth, they would have been completed. here the honey harvest ceased last month, the bees may now be divided. giving them young queens. The honey flow of this month will enable them to get In good condition by the time they go into winter quarters. Where any stocks have old queens, these should ba destroyed, and young queens introduced. With little care, the supply of queens can be kept on hand. At this time of the year, should feeding be necessary for this purpose, feed as fast as possible, anless it is desired to stimulate brood rearing, when the entrance feeder may be used with good effect. Keep the queens laying as long as possible, to have a populous stock. Discrimination lu Feeding Stock. Philadelphia Record. Where stocks of all kinds is kept nuder one shelter and fed at the barn, some dis tinction should be made between the ani mals required for production and those that are Bimply retained for a future purpose. The cow that is in fall flow of milk requires food different in character from the cow that has been dried off, while the steer mr.y need only enough to repair waste of tissue until the period arrives for being fatted for the butcher. Yet, as a rule, the cattle are fed indiscriminately, in a routine wsy.and while they may have been allowed all that is required, it becomes a wasteful practice to teed that which may be dispensed with under certain circum stances. Without a liberal supply of food the cows can not produce large quantities of milk, and the most economical system of feeding a cow is to use her for converting the cheaper hay and grain into the higherpriced mux or butter, it will not pay to feed inferior food, or that which ii lacking in the elements necessary for milk pro duction, laß cow that has been dried ou and is waiting to come in fresh must also be fed intelligently, not only to provide food for herself and embryo calf, but to bring her into good condition when-ohe is ready for milk; but she will not have that heavy drain on her system which pertains to the cow In full flow. The steer. II fully rxatured, and if the season be not advanced in order to more easily fatten him for market, is content with very ordinary rations until the time arrives for filling his fame with choice beef. If the wants of each animal be noticed, and the food be given in a manner so as best to promote the objects sought, there will be quits a saving in the course of a season if the he ird is a Urge one. The eame is true of hogs. V bile the barrows should be kept ii a rapidly growing condition, so ss to mike as large a frame as pos-ible before toe time arrives lor feeding C3rn, the cow must be fed with a view to having her in a healthy condition, with a proportion of fat stored up. Yet corn is made the etnple grain food by farmers when it Is not needed, thus l tailing loss by not using discrimination in feediug. Caring for Pigs. An Illinois correspondent of The Hog says that on account ot tne large number of hogs lost by disease during the pass year, and the comparatively small number of pigs being raised this year, breeding stock is very sure to be in good demand, 8nd at better prices than for Borne time. Sows, especially, should find quick sales at rood prices, as large numbers of breeders :ave lost nearly ail, sud sometimes all. ot their breeding stock. He a ids: "It will certainly pay us to give our pigs extra care in order to secure the best health and growth, thereby realizing better prices for them at the end of the eeason. In regard to feeding: We feed shelled corn and oats (whole), three parts oats and one part corn. and for slop, corn, oats, rye and bran, the smountof the richer grain depending on the amount of fat we wish to make. If you have a litter that you want to make extra nice, give them plenty of sweet milk as soon as they will commence drinking, being carefol to not give them too much on the start, for fear ot scouring them. At about five weeks old, commenoe mixing in a little ground oats and rye in the nitik When there is a considerable amount of slop to be fed, and it is not convenient to mix It at the feeding place, there should be a slop barrel on wheels. It your bogs are lousy, now is the time to get rid of them (the lice). Take four parts kr rotene to onn part lard, ana ruo taem thoroughly with it- It will be easier to get rid of the lice now than to wait until the pigs grow up." Recepes. Roasted Eggs, Prick a hole in each egg shell with a pin. Wrap the esg in wet reper and pat It Into not ashes to cooc. Fifteen minutes should cook them. Berve as boiled ergs. Tomato Pie The remains of cold park or mutton, few slices ot potatoes and onions, cover with sliced tomatoes and a little stock, or, if this be Bot at band, a littls water; make a short crust and bake. Bpiced Currants. Five pounds currants, four pounds brown sugar, two tablespoons ground cloves, two tablespoons cinnamon, one pint vinegar. Boil two hours or more, till quite thick, to be eaten with meat. Tickled Crab Apples. To one quart of fruit add one quart of sugar, and vinegar enough just to cover, 8plce with ground cloves to your taste. Put your fruit into the vinegar, and stir them until they are i oft; or, better, steam them first and pour the vinegar and sugar on them when hot. Fgg TJant, Fried. Cat the v?eetab!e into slices ore quarter of an inch thick, without remov'ng tne skin. Sorinkle salt ovc-reich s'ice end retain the slices to their original shape; pressgent'y to extract the jiice, then djaln and peel, dip them in egg, roll them in bread ciuiab3 and fry in plenty of hot fat. Pesch Cake Bake three sheets of sponge cake as for jelly cake; cut nice ripe peaotes

in thin slices; prepare cream by whipping, sweetening and adding flavor of vanilla, if desired ; put layers cfpsachea between the sheets of cake; pour cream over each layer and over the top. To be eaten soon after It is prepared. Pulled Bread. Take a loaf of freshly made breaa, and while it is still warm pull the inside out of it, in pieces the aizs of your hand. Put these in the oven and bake them a delicate brown. When cold they are crisp, and as full of flavor as a cut. Eat pulled bread once with your cheese, and you will want it often. Brick of Potted Beef. Three and a half pounds lean beef, chopFed- naei 'ur crackers, rolled, three eggs, well beaten,

I tablespoon ful salt, teaspoonful pepper, t Use thvme or other herb. Mix well and mold into a brick. Cover with bits of salt pork and bread crumbs. Put a coffee cup of water in the pan and baste often. Bake one hour. Pickled Cucumbers. Make choice of those which are small and not too old; put them into jars and pour over them a brine made of two-thirds of water and one of vinegar, with salt in proportion of a pound to three pints of liquid. Pat the brine on the fire till the salt is melted, let It stand to settle, and before using pour it off clear. When it is wished to use .the cucumbers take off the rinds and dress them like fresh cucumbers. Apple Marmalade. Take nice, sound russet apples, pare and core, cat in small pieces, and to every pound 01 fruit add one pound of sugar; put the sugar to boil, with just enough 6ugar to dissolve it, into preserving kettle, add one lemon to every four pounds of fruit, boil all together until the syrup gets thick, then add the apples and boil until it looks clear. This is well made with half quince and half apple. String Beans. Gather the beans while they are young, and place them in a strong brine of salt and water. In a day or two they will turn yellow, when they must be removed and wiptd dry. Boil the requisite quantity of vinegar, with the usual spices, and when boiling pour It over the beans. A small piece ot alum, or a teaspoonful of potash, will speedily bring back the color of the beans. Cover the vessels containing the pickles in order to retain the steam, and the next day reboil the vinegar and again pour it over the beans. Put them into bottles, but do not tie down until quite cold. Household Hints. Salt and water cleans willow furniture. For diarrhon use boiled milk and castor Oil; also brandy and raw eggs. Butter and lard should be kept in earthen or stone ware and kept in a cool place. Charcoal ground to powder will be found to be a very good thing for polishing knives. A bonnet and trimming may be worn a much longer time if the dust be brushed well off after walking. Claret stains should, while wet, have dry salt spread upon them, and afterwards dipped into boiling water. New tins should be set over the fire with boiling water In them for several hoars be fore food is pat Into them. Spots may be taken from gilding by imersing the article in a solution of alum in pure soft water. Dry with sawdust. A little borax added to the water In which scarlet napkins and red-bordered towels are washed will prevent them from fading. Plaster busts may be cleaned by dipping them into thick liquid cold starch clear starch mixed with cold water and brush ing them when dry. A piece of zine placed on the live coals In a not stove wui enectuaiiy clean out a sroTe-pipe, the vapors produced carrying on soot by chemical decomposition. To test jelly drop a little into cold water or on a cold plate, stirring it for a few seconds. If it coagulates It is done. The best jelly requires only five minutes' boiling. In ironing, have a piece of sandpaper. such as carpenters use, lying on the table handy; it removes the stickiness of starch from the iron perfectly with one rub or two across it. Potaah water is the quickest cure for wasp or bee stings. A small quantity fthould be kept in a glajs-stopped bottle. Open the sting with a needle and put on one crop of potash water. Tea stains are very difficult to eret out if neglected. They should be soaked in either milk or warm water as soon as pjssiiie. and then soaped and robbed oat. The next wsBhing will efface them wholly. Salt is preservative in its nature. If too much of it is used in cooking food it wat against the juices of the stomach and t&us retards digesttoD, and will, in time, derange the digestive organs. It is best to use it in small quantities. To take creasss out of drawing pauer or engravings, lay the paper or engraving face downward on a sheet of smooth, unsized white paper, cover it with another sheet of the same very ilihtly damp, and iron with a moderately warm nttiron. Indian hemp In doses night and morn ing of one-half grain, and increased, if need be, to a grain, and continued for some time, is spoken of by Dr. Stepben McKen zie, lecturer oa medicine at the London Hospital, as the most valaable remedy he has met with ia the treatment ot persistent headache. Farm Notes. Potato growers in California are el ted over the eueoe of the plan of shlppin potatoes to Chicago. Raw onions, chopped fine and mixed with the food twice a week, are said to be a preventive of chicken cholera. A crop of turnips is excellent for the eheep. In England the sheep and the turnip are considered the rent payers. The freshest eggs are heaviest Placed ma pan of water they sink; older eggs partly sink and stale ones float on the top. Ground oats make excellent food for all kinds of young stock. If scalded, each food is also excellent for sows with litters of pigs. Pjrethrum is not poisonous to vertebrate animals, but a little of the dust blown upon an insect of almost any kind is eure and speedy death. A Michigan bee-keeper reports to the American Bee Journal, of Chicago, that hs expects to get about one ton of honey from four acres of aiaiae ciever. Although the crops of fruit have not been large this season the prices obtained have allowed of a fair profit to those who produced two-thirds of an average crop. A force pump throwing a spray is used by some poultrymen in throwing whiteWBfh and ctli?r lice kllling liquid into the erfeks and crevices of the poultry quarters. The email potatoes may be cooked and fed to the pigs and poultry. Always sort out the potatoes and have them as uniform in size as possible oeiore marketing them. The terms "Durham" and 'Alderney," are no longer applied to cattle. The Dar ham Is now known as the shorthorn, and the Alderney is now the Jersey and Guern sy. A cow In milk should never bs driven farter than a walk Oovd cowi havs large and well -filled uddere, w lieh cans pam to tbein if they are hurrlei or drireu on a TUT). The weeds must be killed, and the least l4bt-ri'.us Ld sarest way of killing tuem U to hit thfiu with a sharp hoe tns very mcmcnt they put their heads above the ground. ' Fine manure for crops is more valuable than cearte. Hens cau break up manure better, rerhspv, than anyone of the ma chines luvtnted for the purpose. Scatter J

some wheat over the pile, and turn them on.

The original stock ot the ' beet occurs wild on the shores of the Mediterranean sea, in Greece, and grows wild in some of the islands of the Atlantic ocean. This Is the common mangold, of which there are two sub-epeciea. A Saratoga, N. Y..farmer reports that he keeps crows from pulling the corn by scat tering a lew juarta over the held for them to pickup, and repeating it it necessary. The'crows eat enough grubs and cut worms to pay for the corn. New England farmers attribute the dis ease known as weak loins in hogs to lying in hot-house manure, it is a rheumatic trouble, which may be cured by active and continued rubbing. It may also be cured by exercise and fresh air. Bun green clover, rye, wheat, oats or corn through the feed-cutter, set to cut in half-inch lengths, and feed to fowls confined in yards. This is the soiling system applied to poultry-keeping, and works admirably, as those known who have tried it. The people of Siberia - buy their milk frozen, and for convenience it is allowed w ireeze aoout a sucx. wmcn comes as a handle to carry it by. The milkman leaves one chunk or two chunks, as the case may be, at the house of his customers. Neglect to spread ditch-banks often gives trouble at mowing time, and makes un sightly places. A sharp spade to outline and to cut into blocks, a potato drag to ban! out and a long-handed shovel and corn hoe to finish up with are the needed tools. A practical farmer says that in settinz posts where great solidity is required he uses gravel sud small stones to fill around the posts atd tben runs in thin water-lime mortar, thus virtually imbedding the post in rock, preventing decay and insuring soaaity. The blsck fop Spanish merino is now being brd xtt sivelT in Wst Virginia and PcDnsyIvr.i. 'ihey yield delaine wool, and weighs about 150 poucds. Breef"r? who have stuck to the Spanish merin- 'or years are now going peu-meii into Pj - ding Diact tops. The value of hen manure from a sin gle bird for one , ear has been estimated at fifteen cents. At this rate the total value of the manure from all the poultry in the country in 1880 would be $19,000,0rK). The total value of the fertilizers manufactured during the same year was $23,650,795. THE PENN BANK MUDDLE. The Court's Master Finds That Money Used in Speculation Can 1 Recoreretl. Fitt&bcbg, September 10 Master Wil liam B. Bogers, in the suit of Henry v arner, assignee or tne ceiunct renn bank. against William N. Kiddle, president of the bank and M. . K. McMuliin and J. P. Beal, oil operators, entered in July, 18S6, for the purpose of charging the defend ants with certain monies of the bank, lost in oil tranBacttons during the years 1833 and 1834, has just completed his report. The assignee charged that the defendants unlawfully and repeatedly withdrew from the bank sums of money, aggregating nearly $1,000,000, for the purpose ot making a corner in oil, which was illegal. The Master finds that Kiddle, Beal and McMul iin were all parties to the conspiracy, and that the bank itself not being a party, its assignee may recover the loss from the con spirators. He concludes the report by recommendiog that a decree be made against the defendants for $323,091 33. less ;2,000 on deposit to the credit of McMuliin at the time of the bank's susDension. The defendants filed separate answers to the suit. President Kiddle deneis that he had control of the officers and employes of the bank, or its money, or its assets, but that the directors had such control and that assets of the bank were under the con trol of F. B. Laughlin, a member of the Board and treasurer; that he (Riddle) in 18S3 and 1331 was absent from the bank by reason of illness. He also denies any im proper or illegal withdrawal or use of the funds of the bank, or any combination with the other defendants in relation to anything connected with the bank. He further claims that the bank has no right to maintain the suit because the court in a suit at law in 1834 for the same cause brought suit and abandoned the same, paving costs. McMuliin and Beal also deny that they were in any combination or unlawfully withdrew money from the bank. The Haddock Murder T 11. Sioux City, Iowa. September 10. Nine witnesses were examined in behalf of the State in the Münchrath case to-day. Tao two most important witnesses were United States District-Attorney T. P. Murotay and II. L. Leavitt. The latter testified that Münchrath was one of the most active members among the saloon keepers who planned the assault and beat l)r. Haddock because of hu conduct in the liquor prosecutions. He testified further that Münchrath was watching for the return of Dr. Had dock to the livery stable, and that he him self and Münchrath stood within an arm a length of each other, while John Arensdorf walked out from the crowd. lyiag In wait for Dr. Haddock and shot him. Hon. T. P. Murphy testified that he was riding home m a hack a few min utes before the murder and when within one-half a block from where the murder occurred the hack was hailed by Münchrath wboeaid to Murphy: "This is not the hack I am locking for," Several other witnesses testified that Münchrath was with the crowd who are alleged to have been present at the murder and that just five minute before the murder he was at Junk's saloon, from which the cowd left immediately on ;notice that Dr. Haddock's buggy had returned to the livery stable. STxpelletl From thtMsioui. Chicago, September 10. A special meet ing of Lincoln Park Lodge, jno. oil, was held last night for the purpose of taking action on the charges of uumasonic con duct preferred against William J. M Garlgle, a member of that lodge. Eyery precaution was taken to prevent the de cision arrived at being aaade public, even visiting brethren being informed that only members of the lodge could be admitted.' The lodge unanimously voted to expel the accused member. Tha decision arrived at will be communicated under the seal of the lodge to the chapter of Royal Arch Masons, the commandery of Knights Tem plar, and the Nobles of the.Mystio Shrine, of which he was a member, and they, at their next meeting, will proceed to remove McGarigle s name from the roil oi mem bership. Having been expelled by the Blue Lodge, he bv that action ceases to be a member of all other bodies, but each body will proceed to expel him formally to prevent the possibility or his viautnz any other chapter, commandery or other body.connected with the Scottish rites. A Boodler's Ft lends in the Toils. Chicago. September 13. Nine indict ments were returned bv the grand lurv to day against four persons alleged to have been abbettora in the McGarlgle escape. Dr. Leonard SL JohD, of the college of physicians and surgeons; Levi Dell, jani tor of the eame college: Capt. John Irving, cjrt'mabder of the schooner Edward Blake, ad CapL John Freer, commander of the G. A. Marsh. There were two Indictments brought against each for conspiracy to effee: the escai of a prisoner alter convic tion. The ninth charges St. John with nrfriurv and doubtless refers to his testi mony before tae Jaly grand jury where he is lepresented as denying any connection with the escape. Assistant State Attorney Loncneckersivs a verv atronz circumstan tial case has been made against the four wen.

THE, CROP REPORT.

A Heavy Decline in the Condition of Cotton, Cora and Potatoes, Washikgtoit, September 10. The statis tical report of the Department of Agricul ture for September presents a heavy reduction in condition of cotton, corn, and potatoes, with little change in the status of wheat and other small grains. The high promise of the cotton crop has been reduced over ten points, from 93.3 to 82 8, theeuect of excessive rains on the Atlantic coast and drought in the Gulf States. Serious shedding ot bolls has resulted from both causes. The boll worm ana cater pillar have a wide distribution, doing seme damage already, and threatening still heavier loss. The State averages are: Virginia. ?S; North Carolina, 80; 8outh Carolina, 89; Georgia, 81; Florida, 83; Alabama, 81; Mississippi, 84; Louisiana, 8G; Texas, 77; Arkansas, S3; Tennessee, 78, There is a further loss in condition of maize, from 80.5 "to 72.3 per cent, four points lower than last year's crop in September. The memorable crop failure of 1SS1 was indicated by GO percent, in September, and CG per cent, in October, some improvement having resulted from more favorable conditions. The depreciation is nearly all In the west. The states of the Atlantic coast, and those of the gulf, report larger crops than those ot last year, already be yond the reach of disaster. In the seven corn surplus States, the average of last month was 74; now G4. The figures are: Ohio, U8: inaiAua, til ; Illinois, 57; low, 78; Missouri CT; Kansas, 42; Nebraska, 72. The averaze of Nsw Yo-k and Pjnnsylvniais9, of Georg a 04. o Texas Si of Tennessee 80, and of Kentucky 6). Ihe average condition of winter and spring wheat when harveetei is 82: last year, hi S; in ls6o, i Z. in the spring wieat region, Dakota returns 80, a sm til gtir; Minnesota and Wiscon&io, 72; Iowa 71 and Nebraska 76, a slight redaction from last month. The increase of acreage will make the difference still Ws between tte prcent crop end that of 185. The average for rye is 82.2. That of oats 83.4, against 85 6 laBt month, showing a slight decline. The average for barley is 83, against 62 2 last moath. A reduction in buckwheat has occurred from 03 last month to 89. The average condition for potatoes is very much reduced. from SO. 3 last month to G7 3. This is four points lower than in 1831, and the lowest record for September that the department has ever recorded. The redaction is mainly in the West. The Maine average is 78, that of New York 81, and of Pennsylvania 75. The Michigan average is 39, that of Illinois 40, Indiana 43. Ohio 52. Iowa 57, Missouri 77, Kansas G2, Nebraska G3. The condition of cigar tobacco is high in e w l ork and Pennsylvania, bat depressed sliehtly in Connecticut and Wisconsin. There is a alight improvement in Eutern shipping tobacco, and farther depression in western, condition in Virginia s, North Carolina 89. Tennessee GO, Kentucky 55, Ohio 55, Indiana 55, Illinois 52, Missouri 59. BALD KNOBBERS GUILTY, A Larte ffumber at Jefferson City. Mo., Will Not Fight Their Cases. Jeffebson Crrr, Mo.. September 10. The trial of the Bald Knobbera came to a sud den termination yesterday afternoon by the defendants in a body entering a plea of milt)-. In the morning CoL Boyd showei ight and the case of Geo. Deaton was calie i. He was charged with bulldozing Homesteader Bidouhone. John Deny and Geo. Silvey were arraigned for whipping Caleb Atwood and entered a plea of not guuty. Col. Boyd asked for a severance of the two cases, which was denied. He then objected to the jury on the ground that it was prejudiced from hearing other cases. The court ordered the trial to proceed. When the court adjourned at noon the government had made the best case up to date. The direct and circumstantial evidence waa very strong, and when the afternoon session opened CoL Boyd said: "All you Bald Knobbers who have not been tried come forward." John Wright, wiuiam Silvey, George Silvey, John Denny, E B. Denny, and w. F. Wright responded. Col. Benton stated to the court that an agreement had been reached with CoL Boyd that the prisoners that had not yet been arraigned, together with the prisoners on . . , . . . a i . ; a i trial, Buouia suomit iueir cases joinuy io the jury and agree to a verdict ot guilty on all the indictments; also that the prisoners convicted, and under a second indictment for beating Hugh For.clifi, had agreed to the sam e process. The lory returned a verdict of guilty in each case. CoL Boyd then withdrew all motions for now trials and aauouuoed thit the prisoners awaited sen'.easa. Jade Kreckel taid he would not pasi seatence before next week. The men are all young. of good characters, none of them being over twent;-one years of age. There is no blood-thirsty demand for vengeance and t is generally believed that the sentence will be mil a. Snicitle of a Married La!y. Gossxx, Sepiember 8. SpeclaL Mrs. George McFahn, of this city, has been temporarily Insane for some time past, but her friends, fearing that she would attempt to commit suicide, have been keeping a close watch upon her movements for some time past. Her husband usually staid awake during the night, leaving the care of her to his friends during the day time. Last night aoout 12 o'clock he saw that she was sleeping soundly and concluded to take a short nap. When he awoke she was nowhere to be found. He immediately began a search for her, ac companied by his friends, fearing the worst This morning about 10 o clock she was found in the canal near Davis' eaw-mill where she had undoubtedly )uropcd from the bridge to a watery grave. She was in her nightclothes, and it is thought she feigned sleep so as to el ode ter watchful husband, iier married uie had always been of the happiest, and no reason but that of insanity can bs assigned her rash act. The Folding Sawiug Machine, is highly recommended to us as tr&ly a triumph of mechanical genius, ard for rapid and satisfactory work, easy adjust ment and rapid portability, its equal appears never to have been invented. A man can carrv it to the wood3 under his arm in the morning, saw down and trim treas, cut up the logs, and cut seven or more cords of wood before night. The firm, Folding SawlDg Machine Co.. S03 to 311 South Csnal street, Chicago,, liL, offer them at reason able rates, and ay lumberman or farmer with a few acres of timber can make one save its first cost in a short time. Sand for their circular. See their advertisement in another column. At The Club-Boom. Texas Siftlngs.I First Reveler I say, Tom, it's 2 o'clock. Let's go home. Second Keveier let i wait nan an nour. You see. after I go to bed I can't sleep for half an hour so we might as well stay here and enjoy ourselves. "All right, it takes my wite naif an hour after I get home to get through giving me a piece of her mind, so we might as we'.l enjoy ourselves. Waiver, another small bottle. The discovery of the Moxie Nerva Fool has settled tbe sum laut question. Tats little p'ant mpposed to bs wcrih notbia? except for foader, hxs turned out to be, iu all iti i liurileuy, tne nnest nerve looa ever focnJ, and tin 8uc;e.ful eaemy of tbe rem fiend. It recovers nervani erbauMicn at ooce. givivg vigorous, durable It al'b, whi'e tbt? f tisiu'ant gives only fenripra'v r-.te. leaving the irritated neiyjus syttem worse tban befcre.

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