Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1887 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE SBNTINEE. WJäDNJSti.DA, JT-i NO V EMBER 23 18Ö7.

TIMELY FARM TOPICS.

Dalerioration of Small Fraita lspirigu Cnltxira Orciirl Work, eta. Autumn Poultry Yard The Farm Horse rTha ;rrmer as a Wool;rower Home and Farm Motes. Th Farmet's Seventy Tears. Hertford Time, Ah! there be is, lad, at the plow; He beats the boys for work, Aad whatsoe'er the task might be, None ever saw him shirk. And he can laugh, too, till his eyes Kan o'er with mirthful tears, And ting full many aa old-time 0112, la spite of sereuty years. "Good morning, friends? 'tis 12 o'clock; Time for a half-hour's rest." And Farmer John took oat his lunch And ate it with a zest. "A harder task it is." said he, 'Than following np these steers, Or mending fenoea far, for me, xw iwi my sere my years. Yon ask rae why I feel so young; i m sure, inenas, i oan t tell Bu t think it is my good wife's fault, Who kept me up so well; For women Bach as sbe are scarce la this poor vale of tears. She's given me love.and hope and itrength, For more than lorty years, 'And then my boys hare all done well, As far as they hare gone. And that thing warms an old man's blood, And helps him np and on; My girls hare never caused a pang. Or raised np anxious fears; Then wonder not that I feel youn? And hale at seventy years. 'Why don't my good boys do my work And let me sit and reu? Ah: friends, that wouldn't do for me; I like my own way best. They have their duty, I have mine, And till the end appears, I mean to smell the 6oll, my friends," Said the man of seventy years. Deterioration in Small Fruits. J. M. Smith, in his paper on this subject before the American Pomolcgical Society, dispues the necessity of deterioration. The w Ad strawberry of the wood is probably no better nor worse) than it was two thousand years ago. Will fruits do not deteriorate or become extinct. The tendency ot an improved strawberry is to revert to its original type; this can be prevented, however, by holding up its character by highest cultivation, etc. The fancy berries, petted under highest culture, give good resalts, but fail in the hands of the common ultmtor. The Wilson used to be the jueen of strawberries. Now it is failing in .many sections. Why? All improved varieties, in order to succeed, should have the same conditions under which they -originated. The Wilson needs good soil and frequent renewal. Change of soil may be needed also. These conditions are absolutely necessary. Plants have to be sold to 1 cheap; hence are often poorly grown and poorly I tacked. Poor plants set in poor and poory -cared for soil, unprotected, struggle along for a few years, but finally result in almost utter failure. The runners of these poor, sickly starved plants are planted again. This has been going on for about thirty years, and everybody cries: "The Wilson is no longer a success!" Under the circumstances it is a wonder only that it has stood so long. Our ignorance, our carelessness, our stupidity, and neglect have caused its deterioration. Now let us try another treatment. Take young, vigorous runners frosa healthy El ant s, pick off the first blossoms, give Ighest cultivation, gather one crop and replant on some other place. Under this treatment the Wilson does not "runout," but seems to improve. Give each variety of small fruits such soil, food, care, and protect on as it requires, or suffer the con sequences. Asparagus Culture. JL market gardener writes: The stems having died off naturally, all have been cleared away, and after hand weeding the entire plantation a good dressing will be wheeled on some hard, frosty morning, and by and by, before renewed growth commences in spring, we shall hope to give a supplementary dressing of any kind of manure tbat is available. Salt is an excellent fertilizer for asparagus, but it is a mistake to suppose tbat the plants can not be produced as well without it. I use Bait for this crop, more especially for ths prevention and destruction of weeds, which by reason of the thicket formed by the asparagus stems are apt to overrun the ground, and being out of i?ht, are liable to escape destruction. The raisedbed fashion of growing asparagus seems to me so unnatural that one wonders why the practice come3 into vogue. A plant that above every thine delights in a deep, rich soil and an abundance of moisture, so long as such moisture is not of the nature of a stagnant pool, is surely cruelly treated when elevated a foot, and sometimes more, above the ordinary ground level, with a good part of the rco'.s protruding from the sides of the teds, owing to the shoveliDg out of the orthodox allejs between every two rows of plants. I plant in fairy daep trenches a'yard apart, aad cover the crowns to a depth ot six inches, and as the plants get older, the early top-dressing of fresh manur j and soil keeps the crowns well under the sjil, and there being no alleys, the roots ha7e full run of the land without liability to injury from exposure, as is the casa when the rowa are dressed with the soil taken from between the lines of plants. The foregoing remarks, so far aa concerns topdressing, are only applicable to young ana permanent plots. To any that are to be used tor forcing during the forthcoming season such top-dressing is, of course, uq nccesary. Tield of Silk and Butter. An English paper says: In the milking trials at the dairy show the greatest weight of milk produced in twenty-four Hours was 57 5 pounds yielded by May Duchess XVIII., the property of Mr. Edwards, of 6t. Albans, Mr. Hornby's cow, Milk Pail, being close with 57 3 pounds. These records do not come up to those credited to Holstein cows at the New York dairy show where the prize winners gave from four pounds three and one-half ounces to sixty-five pounds fourteen and one-half ounces of milk: but then the largest quantity of milk produced only eleven pounds ten and one half ounces of butter, and though the smallest of the three, tbat yielded by the famous cow Clothilda, gave two pounds seven and one-half ounces. It contains over 21 percent of water and 1.39 per cent of curd. Shorthorns were not tested for butter at the London dairy show, and if they had been a comparison of gross weight would not have been fair, seeing that American judges tolerate butter containing such larse proportions of water and curd. In the butter test for Jerseys at Islington the largest quantity produced in a day was 1 ?ound 15 ounces, in which there was proably nearly as much pure butter as in the mixture of butter, water and curd above referred to, although the little Jersey would consume a great deal less food than the big Uulch cow. Moreover, the largest yields of butter yet recorded at a public trial in America or Canada were those 0 two Jersey cows at Ouelph show in I960 namely, 3.7 pounds and 3 4 pounds in one day, the highest being nearly a pound greater than the produet of Clothilde, the champion butter making cow of all the Holsteins in the world. Not to be beaten, however, the owner of Clothilde declares that since the Jew York show the cow has given 23 pounds 2Vt ounces of butter In a week, or Qrer 4 poinds per day, as compared with

2 pounds Vt ounces In the public trial. This is only one out of many instances of firivate records being double those derived rom public tests. It is possible to work very large proportions of curd and water into butter, and no practical dairyman will believe In 4 pounds of better per day being produced without some device of the kind indicated. Ai to milk, Clothilde's private record at the age of six years was 26,021 pounds, or 2.533 gallons, in twelve months; but she has never approached that quantity in proportion in a public trial. According to Professor Long, the highest authenticated record la 13,000 gallons In twelve months. Orchard Work. Much orchard work may be done this month. The trees which have not yeilded a bountiful supply of fruit this year have probably formed a supply of blossom buds for next years crop, and manuring the trees will not ba apt to increase the number of apples next season, but it may assist In making the fruit much larger. When manuring fruit trees remember that the feeding roots are cot at or near the trunk of the tree, but at the extremity of the larger roots, therefore nearly under the extremity of the branches aad often beyond them. In an old orchard the entire surface of the ground should be well covered with manure. It will be much to the advantage of the trees and fruit if it is plowed or spaded in and the ground kept clean, but for many reasons most farmers prefer to keep the ground among the trees in grass. The bay crop may be more profitable than an increased amount of fruit would be. The fruit that falls is kept clean and is not much bruised, often fit to sell at nearly as high prices as that which is picked from the tree, and labor required to keep the land free from weeds would be expensive. Others compromise by growing hoed crops a few years, then growing grass as long as the crop is a profitable one, and breaking np again. Of the two plans, that of keeping constantly in grass is be3t, when sufficient manure is used as a top dressing to furnish food for both grass roots and trees. The frequent plowing breaks many of the smaller roots of the trees, and has a tendency to shorten their lives, and but few cultivated crops can be grown at a profit in an orchard, as the shade injures them, while the labor of cultivating such land is greater than that of working fields free from trees. Boot Harvesting-. If carrots, beets, mangolds or English turnips have been left until this time, thinks the American Cultivator. they should be neglected no longer, as a sudden change in the weather, even for one cold night, may be sufficient to spoil them. They should be topped with care, not too closely, but not allowing much of leaf or leaf Btalk to remain, as this decays rapidly, and they communicate its decay to the root itself if in sufficient quantity. All of these roots keep better when put in tight barrels or piled directly upon the bottom of a cool damp cellar. If in addition to this they are covered with sand, dry loam, salt, hay or straw, to retain the moisture in them, they may be kept until spring, or late in the winter, as fresh as when put in. The material for covering is valuable about in the order named. If the pile is not more than two feet deep, it wil be only Becessary to cover it, but if larger it should be covered when at that depth or a little less, before more are put 01. Kveryone knows how much better these roots are for table use when fresh than when wilted or "corky,'- but not everyone knows that they are also more valuable for feeding purposes. Whether the loss in value when wilted arises from a chemical change in the root or from becoming less easily digested does not matter. Probably it arises from both causes. It amounts to at least about 25 per cent, and an experienced feeder, who has used many roots, says he would not give half price for wilted roots. There is also a shrinkage of Weight which is important when they are to be sold. Very few realize how much roots shrink in keeping a few weeks. A market gardener who has just barreled up his. onions 3ays they have shrunk 10 per rent in measure since he put them in the shed about a month ago. As they were

measured in and measured out, he knows the actual loss. This is one reason why it is better for the farmer to sell his produce early in the reason if he can obtain a fair price for it than to keep it longer in the hope of obtaining higher prices. The Autumn X'oultry Yard. American Cultivator. The poultry are no longer able to find inseets in the fields, and as they need some Balneal food as well as grain they should have beef scraps, or fish scraps, nearly ev ery cay. If possible, stimulate the early pullets and the old fowl, which have shed their feathers, to commence laying betöre Thanksgiving time. If they do it will not be difficult, with good food and a warm hen house, to keep them in laying condition most of the winter. There is no better method for this than to give warm food in the morning, which may consist of boiled Iotatocs, or other roots, with wheat bran stirred into it while hot. The meat or fish scraps may be put into this. Sjme bury oats, wheat or barley in a pile of straw, so that they may keep busy most of the day scratching it out. At night, just before they go to roost, give as much whole grain as they will eat. If they are laying well, or if not very fat, this may be of corn, but old fowl should not have much corn when they are laying, smaller grains being lest fattening and more stimulating to the eggproducing organs. Cracked oyster shells or bone should be furnished two or three times a week, and so should cabbage leaves, or raw roots of some kind, to supply their need oi vetetabio food. They should have pure water by them all the time, or at least furnished them two c? three times a day. lhe morning feed should be given as soon as they come off the rcojt. Many fowl fail to be profitable because they are allowed to go hungry for two or three hours in the morning. 1 hose wno cannot feed their fowl early should place the food at sight where they can find It in the morning. The young cockerels should be separated 'row old fowl, and given all the corn meal acd whole corn that they can eat, that they no ay be ready to serve up at Thanksgiving "r Christmas. The turkeys also should be ;iven all they will eat, but it is better not to confine them, ai they lose flesh when confined, but liberal feeding soon cures them of their disposition to roam far. Before cold weather, make a final ins pec tion of the poultry house, clearing up the accumulation under the roots, furnishing a supply of clean gravel in one corner for tne fowl to pick at, and a heap of dry loam or ashes in another place for them to wallow in. Use kerosene and whitewash freely wherever the presence of vermin is detected, and take all old straw out of the nests and bury it in the manure heap. putting a clean supply in its place. Then make everything snug and warm for the winter, and put rood locks on the doors. and the fowl will prove profitable, The Pear to Plant. German town Independent. The pear is perhaps the most useful of all fruits to the one who has but a small garden, as well as a valuable one to he who has his acres of trees. It takes but little room, bears early, and in succession from July until November, and it is a fruit that most persons like. While there are sorts which ripen in July, but few persons plant them, as raspberries and blackberries are in season then, and varieties to be ripe to eat in early August are considered early enough. There are sorts peculiar to certain localities, doing bettsr in them than any others, and but little known elsewhere. The Jones, for instance, so justly valued in West Philadelphia and here by those who have grown it, is on-

Known In some parts of New York, an order recently sent to a firm in that State bringing back the reply that It was the first inquiry they had ever received for the tear. A Philadelphia well acquainted with the subject, says if the popularity of kinds can be judged ot by what are planted it runs about aa follows, for they are bought in about the order named: Bartlett, Seckel, Sheldon, Howell, Clapps, An j on, Flemish, Boussoek, Lucrative, Lawrence, Kiefler aid Superfine. After these there is not much choice, sorts being ordered to come in between others with out regard to whit they are. Treatment of Colts. Farmers who raise their own colts are advised by the Kural New Yorker to tak? their best mares and serve them to good stallions about the first of April or May. In this way the colt will be three or four weeks old before the time comes for heavy work. Put the colt in a box stall, give him a little sweet hay and oats, and feed the mare plenty of oats and sweet hay; no other grain, but about every other day about six quarts of potatoes or carrots, with a little salt npon them. Be careful cot to give too many, as they would have a tendency to scour the colt. When the mare comes in the stable do not let the colt seek: until she has been watsred and fed. Let him stay by her until yea want to go to work. There is now In the city of Schenectady a pair of black horses that were raised in this way. It is claimed that they make the finest team in the city. They are coal blacks and are worth about $3U0. The man who raised them worked the mares all the time, and he is a first clars farmer. You would think so if you could see his cows and sheep, hogs and poultry and farm. He makes a great deal of manure, and that is our be3t bank. I find it so. The more manure, the more grain and hay, and then the more colts to sell to one's neighbors. -"TH There Is a very mistaken idea among the farmers. They want to wear a mare out end then put her to a stallion a'r-d raise colts. Tbat does not pay; she has cot life enough to raise a good colt, no matter how good the stallion is, and then people will lay all the fault to the sire. A stallion should be worked while he Is serving mares so that his muscles may be strong; he will be surer and his colts will be strong when they come. I work my stallions all the time they are serving mares.

The Farmer as a Wool-Grower. I do not wonder, says a correspondent of Farm and Home, at the farmer's failure as a wool-grower. The real trouble is few men know how to manage their Mocks, or knowing, put their knowledge into practice. It you will observe the treatment of flocks in most cases you will think that sheep, like weeds, will grow without care of cultivation ; and bo they will and be about as valuable as weeds. 8heep will live on veiy rough food and endure a great deal of exposure, and certainly they get about all they can stand of both at the hands of the common farmer. Upon the other hand no animal will respond more freely to kind treatment and good food than sheep. But neglect seems to be the great drawback to the farmer as a woolgrower; and because sheep fail to give returns under such treatment, they are pornounced unworthy. The average fleece of wool does not weigh over four pounds and the average sheep does not yield more than fifty pounds of mutton, and that of an inferior quality. What, it by improvement, these fleeces should be raised to ten or even eight pounds and the growth of mutton to seventy-five pounds? The difference in dollars and cents in the farmer's pecket would make him look with some degree of favor upon his flocks, besides the pleasure in knowing that he had done something in the way of progression. Improvement is the one thing necessary in our flocks. Not that every farmer should have all thoroughbreds. That would not be profitable to all. but grade up the flock by the selection of the best common ewes and the purchase of thoroughbred bucks. A few extra dollars ced tly in a good buck will be returned pvTi e multiplied In the enhanced value jgjo thlambs. No man can afford to disregard the quality of the buck he uses. My expeience with sheeD has taught ame that ethcy are profiablet. Wherefarmers size their flocks according to their farms and facilities for caring for them they can't fail to reap reasonable rewards. Corn nnd Skim Milk for Pigs. Prairie Farmer. It is teedless to tell most Western farm ers that rood pigs can be raised on skim milk and corn, properly fed. The corn furnishes plenty of the heat and fat-pro-docirg toed, and supplies it cheap, while tbetkim.milk furnishes muscle-forming food in aii easily digestible form, and fairly cheap. In the absence of green clovar, or other tuen green pasturage, we have no other twofootls that will produce pork more economically or more rapidly than milk and corn. These foods, or any others for that matter, unless grass be excepted, -must be fed rationally. Skim milk and corn, dry or soaked, giva ad libitum, would cot produce the best results; indeed, would probablv cot prove profitable. When fed only in such quantities as will produce thrifty growth of bone and muscle, the increase will be gained at less cost per pound than if overfed or underfed. Some shorts added to the ration would be an improvement; also vegetables, or any other suitable foods, should be given occasionally, to furnish variety, if convenient. Poor Keep is Dear Keep. Farm and Fireside. No more sorry-looking Sock can be imagined tnan a hall-starved, stunted, thin-neeced, bare-headed, bare-bellied, thin necked nock ot merinos, that is, "run out," as tbey say, being starved out in f act, 60 it is with any breed 01 sheep or catt'.e, or twine, or any other species, including humanity. There is no economy in poor keep. It is not cheap; it is dear, for it brings small returns. All this "running out" means starring out of the type .line entirely. Shorthorns on thin pastures and poor water soon become the poorest kind of scrubs. A man may use a short-horn cross on cows for years and years, and unless he gives those short-horns care and feed, winter and summer, he will have scrubs. Let a man give scrubs short horn care and feed, winter and summer, from generation to generation, and he will be suspected of breeding better than such a neighbor as given above. This is so of sheep. The man who complains of his cotswolds running out, and has to send to Canada every time he wants a ram, only tells us he is giving poor care, 'on which the neb'e cotswold cannot keep up its most excellent characteristics. The Farm Hort et EW oks. Occasionally we meet a horse said to ba good on the road, at the plough or in any plsce. Tbat is what we want to raise, and this must be a horse of good size and proPortion?. A short body, broad, deep chest, lth loin and hips in proportion; legs medium length, full and tapering down to the knee gambrel joints, and short, flat and strong below these i jtnts, making the legs perfect levers; feet strong and sound, (cot too large), and well under the legs. Many a horse of fine body is of little value because his legs are not equal to his body. The ceck shouid be set on so astocury the head high, the head fine, broad between the eyes, showing intelligence, with a full nostril. Such a horae, from the cature of his construction, his good action and the powers of endurance. Such a horee will sell readily for his fill value, while another horse must bs shown repeatedly, and the desirable quali

must be made so prominent that objectionable points will be overlooked. Household Hints. Hickory nut cakeOne cup of sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup milk, two cups flour, one cup nuts broken up andtwoeggp. Ginger snaps One cup of molasses, one cup of white sugar, one egg, one tablespoonful ot vinegar, one each of ginger and soda. Mix hard. Cream pie One cup sugar, one egg beaten well, two cups thick, sweet cream, one teaspoonful cornstarch, flavor with vanilla. Bake in one crust. Cup cake Two eggs, two cuds flour, one

cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half Cup sweet milk, two tablespoonfuls of baling powder, one teaspoonful vanilla. Wa3les-A half cupful of rendered auet mixed with a pint of sweet milk, a yeast cake, one egg, ono-half nutmeg and flour to make a batter. Bake la waffle irons. Brown bread One cup of soar milk, one cup of molasses, one and a half caps of flour and cornmeal, a little salt, teaspoonful of sugar, teaspoonful of soda. Steam three hour?. Lady cake A pound of sugar, one of flour, a half pound of butter, the whites of sixteen eggs. Hub the butter and sugar to a cream, and a little of each of the eggs and flour alternately. Fruit cake Two pounds of raisins, three cups of molasses, three eggs, two-thirds of a cup of butter, seven cups of flour, one tablespoonful of soda, spices to taste, citron and currants if desired. Egg pudding Half a pound f bread crumbs, half a pounu of raisins, pound of chopped apples, four eggs, a cup of sugar, piece of butter the size of aw egg, spice. Boil in a mould. Serve with hard sauce, Bifcuits Ote quart of flour with two large teaspoon fuls of baking towder rntxtd into it, add a teaspoonful of lard or butter, a little ealt, and water enough to make tbe dough. Bake In a hot oven twenty minutes. Gingerbread One-half cup of sujar. oe cup of molasses, one cup of butter, one egg, two-thirds of a cup of hot water, two cups of flour, two-thirds of a teaspoonful each of ginger and cinnamon, one teaspoonful of soda. Cocoanut pudding Grate the meat of a large cocoanut. Koll fine five Boston crackers and mix with the oocoanut, add milk enough to beat, and a teaspoonful of bntter. Beat five ezgs, add a cup of tugar, mix, and bake like a custard. Farm Korea. Give the cattle, sheep and hogs a mess of sliced pumpkins once a day, aa pumpkins serve as an agreeable variety with the usual dry food. A Vermont dairyman credits his thirty cows with 9,000 pounds or butter, and es timates that the skim milk is worth, for calves and pigs, $300. Do cot be economical with the bedding material. There should- be enough to completely absorb all the liouids, as they are worth more than the bedding material. It requires about one-elrteenth less food to put an animal in condition in warm than cold weather. If the dairyman expects his cows to be profitable he must look after their comfort, both as to food and shelter. It is reported that over 10.000 head of na tive and Texas beef steers were shipped from Lamar, Colorado, recently, This gives one an idea of the way range men are crowding the market with grass cattle this fall. By dint of bribery, bulldozing and gen eral skullduggery, the slaughter of cattle in Texas may be delayed, but there is not money enough in Chicago or meanness enough in Texas to deprive us much longer of a home market. lexas Stockman. Save all the small sweet potatoes for the pigs, isotmng win ratten a pig so quickly as sweet potatoes, and they are very cheap when only the culls are used. They should not be fed to laying hens, but ara excellent for poultry Intended for market. Skim milk thickened with shorts and corn meal makes almost a perfect food for growing pigs, and II given three times a day it will cause them to grow rapidly. If a mess ot chopped clover nay (scalded) be also given once a day the pigs will need nothing eise Boiled corn is said to produce more pork than the raw klrd, and of as good quality. The question to be considered, however, is cot which is the more nutricious, bat wkich is the cheaper, as the fuel and labor required to cook the corn must be deducted aseipenses. There Is one advantage possessed by wool aod butter, which is that both articles can be shipped at a lower cost, in proportion to value, than most farm products. As wool is not perishable it can bs shipped to tbe most distsnt points, while butter keeps a long time !n winter. The great rush of cattle to market still continues, and the run at the stockyards still keeps up big. The vast amount of stock on the market keeps prices down In fact, it is a wonder that so much baf can be consumed. Things cannot keep up this way after the present year. Do not value a hog because it does not eat much. A good hog nas aa excallent appetite always, and eating a large quantity of food means rapid growth. Increase of weight cannot be secured except by the use of plenty of food, or "raw material," with which to manufacture the product doeired. Prof. Slorer eajs a ratio of thirty pounds of pumpkin per cow daily will Increase the flow and improve the quality of milk. More than this quantity should not be given. Pumpkins are very cheap food, as a couple of tons can be grown to the acre with the corn crop. The seeds of the pumpkin ought to be removed before feeding. Most farmers are not familiar with the pedigrees of the best trotting families of horses, atd may not succeed in breeding trotters, but'every farmer should aim to use heavy draught stallions with the ordinary farmlnares when desiring to raise colts. It costs no more to raise a good grade colt than to raise a mongrel, bat there is a great difference in the value at maturity. Montana and that latitude is no breeding ground for cattle or horses. There killing winters come and all is lost except a few of the strongest It may do to ripen steers on when two years old and over, but at best females are shy breeders and there is no profit in the business. Sheep do tolerably well where the rams are separated from the flocks and the lambs mala to come after the grass Is well up. A Western dairyman has hit upon a very simple plan of warming water for his stock to drink in winter, sajs the vJ.iian Farmer. He put an iron plate, Bay eighn Lnctf square, on the bottom of his water tank, cnttinj away the wood of course, where the irJ3 was. Under this plate he used an oil store? say: JO cents' worth of oil a day would Warm the water for sixty cows up to seventy degrees or more. The shipment of rass yearlings Is played out. The accidental sale of a few out of a very large herd, ot which most were very pretty long ones, were all that have paid so far. A long yearling roughed or fed over for the May market will do very well as a two-jcar old, but the way Texas yearling heifers went to market for a week or two was demorai'zing. The market overstocked ith trash and abort of beef, was the report 'hat came from Chicago. Texas Live Stock Journal. The following treatment for the retention of afterbirth in oows is recommended tj a Dakota veterinarian : When the afterbirth Is retained longer than two days,

give In one dose, one pound of epsom salts dissolved in a pint oi hot water, and add to the solution a pint of molasssa and one ounce of ground ginger. If the relaxation thereby produced does not have the effect of causing a discharge of the afterbirth In the course of twenty-four hours, introduce the previously oiled hand and arm, and carefully loosen it from its attachments in the womb, but without using too much force. If any foetid discharge exists from the womb, make injections into the same of a solution of half an ounce of chloride of lime in a quart of cold water. Tnts quantity may be injected at one time, and be repeated twice or thrice daily. Give loosening food, steamed, cooked or ground, among which may be mixed two teaspoon fuls of powdered saltpetre or carbonate potash, morning and night, for a few days. Most of our ranchmen and stock farmers have provided a good lot of feed for the coming winter, and are better prepared than at any time before for the successful and profitable care and handling of stock: throughout the season when the losses are apt to pile up. The Panhandle is rapidly advancing to smaller holdings and better quality of cattle; and even on the greater ranches very few of "thoroughbred scrubs" are to be found among tbe bulls. We believe that the demand in these parts for bulls will be greater next sesoon than ever before, and in view of the facts-of provided feed, sheds and other facilities, we would suggest the buying of bulls during the fall or early winter. All animals ara in their bts! fltsh and condition at this ceason oi tbe year, and can better bear the hardship ot ruovitg and transportation than at any otbf r; end tbe immense advantage of-put-tirg tLf is up to feed for a few months at the 8ieri over turning them out to a range s'reree to them and at the season when it ustlt? worst, will need no argument. Tbe Panhsiidle will want a few hundred bnl:s 1 t ewn, and they should be pro' vided this f51 and wintered here, whers they reuM be t-trned out in the spring ac--rlima'td ftr.d im i.iimo condition. Texas ranhnndie.

PRAYER PROPHECY? A Remarkable vevversation With Llncolu By an Kx-Catholic Priest. By Judge Stephen FW Moore, Kankankee, 111. The conservtive and well-trimmed article concerning Presidential candidates by the Key. Dr. 11. M. Hatfield, in a recent i3sue of the Journal, calls to my mind a most remarkable passage found In a book lately published by lather Lhinnuy, an expriest of Rome, but a Presbyterian minister since 1SG0. Father Churquy was an intimate friend of President Lincoln, who was his lawyer, and he has spent twelve years of his life investigating the mysterious and secret circumstances connected with the horrible crime which deprived the country of her greatest hero, and changed our joys of our national triumph in war into unspeakable- desolation the 14th day of April, 1865."And what is the result of that investigation? Every American citizen should read the facts collated by Father Chiniquy aad judge for himself. He has collected a remarkable array of facts on the assassination of the President and his Cabinet. He follows Booth and Surratt. 'Harold and Payne from the formation of lhe conspiracy to the last act in the tragedy. He publishes many facts cevsr before given to the public. He shows by evidence which cannot be controverted, by affidavits of living witnesoes, that the very day of the assassination, in St. Joseph, Minn., at 6 o'clock in the evening, it was publicly talked of that Secretary of State Seward and Lincoln had been assassinated. At that time there were no railroad lines nearer than forty msles, nor- any telegraph offices nearer than eighty miles from St. Joseph. It would make th s article too long to follow the evidence which Father Chiniquy gathered and lately published concerning the awful crime of Booth, showing how 11 was known and publicly talked of in a remote village in Minnesota three and one-half hours before it occurred in Washington r lhe last meeting Father Chiniquy had with President Lincoin was Jane 8. lSOt. He told Father Chiniquy that he would not live "to eat the fruits cl that peace for which I am longing with, such an unspeakable desire." ''There- is a still, but solemn voice," said the President, "which tells me that I will see those things only from a long distance, and that I will be among tbe lead when the cation, which God granted me to lead through those awful trials, will cress the Jordan and dwell in that land of promise, where paace, industry, happiness and liberty will make eveiy ose happy." At the close of this, interview President Lincoln uttered this remariabla prophecy cr prayer, which can be placed among the moot nMime words ever fallen from a man's lips: "hut just as the Lord heard no murmur from the lips of Moses when He told him that he!had to die before crossinethe 'Jordan, for the sins of his people, so I hope and pray that he will hear no murmur from me when I fall for my nation's sake. The only two favors I ask of the Lord are : First, tbat 1 may die for the sacred cause in wbich I am engaged, and while I am the standard-bearer of the rights and liberties of my country. The second favor that I ask from God is, that my dear eon Robert, when I am gone, will be one of those who shall lift up that Rt of liberty which thall cover my tomb, and carry it with honor and fidelity to the end of his life, as his father did, surrounded by the millions who will be called with him to fight and die for tbe defense and honor of his country." Twice a Widow ard Once a Grandmother at Thirty -Three. Philadelphia Pres: Only thirty-three, a grandmother and IwiVo a widnw. ia not found everv dav in the week, but there was a pretty little ji 1 a a. r a a woman on vnestnuf street, oaiuraay atierccon, who enjoys that rather remarkable Hia4ir).M!nn. Htr name is Mrs. Gertrude Gadder, the widow ot John P. Gadden, of San Francisco. At tne age 01 nueen ane married a gentleman named Herbert, and m i, liur hAcame the mother of a elrl baby. At the age of twenty Mrs. Herbert lost her husband and aonnea wiaow s weeds, which she wore for twelve years. 17a Hunohter rather nrecocious. mentally and phyaically, followed her mother's ...mni, nn thn rlav Mrs. Herbert becime Mrs. Gadden. A year later a child was born to the daughter. Six months before it.i.Mr Haririon u killed bv beinz thrown f i om a horse In Los Angeles. Mrs. G ad ie'j is a rosy pheeked, pretty little woman, and looks very little older than her daughter. Au fnterpiislng Editor, Pubuque Times, ..ere is an enterpitaiug newspaper mau in Southern California who should ba transferred to a larger influence. His latest utterance in his own paper, the Howler, is as follows: "Attention is called to . ths fact that in the news columns of this morning's Howler 'ere appears the first and only account of the aJement of our wife with 'Thumbless Billy the rn Jnte "bark, which occurred yesterday. Thus If t score another on our contemporary across the jeet. Look for some spicy Inside developments be publislitd exclusively in this paper to-morrow morning." Force of Habit. New Orleans Ticayune. One of a couple of rather bold girls in Atlanta allowed that she would wink at tbe first man she met on the street. She winked, and the young man winked and said : "Certainly," and nulled out a pocket plMol loaded with whlaky. He had been clerk in a drugstore, and the force of habit cu him was strong.

THE CZAR IN BERLIN.

Ths LoBgExpsctei Visit of ths Raier of ths RiHiiiTikeiPiiss. Tbe White F&laer Received with all ths Csro . mony Dae En High Rink. Empire r Willitn Gjü ta Kt&t Him tt tis Russian Embassy Building. The Visit. Exchanged A Banquet to the Czar ill the Evening Military Ceremonies of the Day Derart are. Bebliu, November 13. The Czir of Russia arrived In Berlin this morning. Ths preparations to receive him were in keeping with his rank. At 1 o'clock the Alexander regiment, in parade uniform, took ?osition in the Alsenstrosse esplanade, bey were to act as a guard of honor at the depot. A company of tbe Second regiment of the Guard, with a band and colors, and one company of the Alexander regiment, with colors, were stationed in front of the Kassian embassy. Prince William of Trussia went to Wittel, tux early this morning to join the train bearing the Russian Imperial family. At the Berlin depot were gathered the Royal rruss!an Princes, the fceieditaty Prince fof SaxemeiniDgen, Dcke John, of Mecklenburg-8chwerin, General Von Moltke and ail the generals of the. Berlin and Potsdam garrisons. On the arrival of the Imperial train at 10:40 a. m. the Czar passed in front of the Guard of Honor at the depot, being accompanied by Prince William and other Prussian Princes and General Von Moltke. Enpsror William started for the Russiou embassy at 11 o'clock. The Czar and Czarina were driven to the embassy. The Czar, with Princ9 William of Prussia, occupied an open carriage drawn by four horses. Both wore Russian uniforms. The Czarina and Princess William followed in a close carriage. Dense crowds of people were ccllect9 J In Unter-Den-Linden, from the Branden burg gate to theLehrte depot, andiene imperial party were greeted most enthusiastically as they passed along the thoroughfare. Arriving at the embassy, the Czar received three flags as Colonel of the Alexander reglment.and a general officer, a non-commissioned officer and a private reported themselves to act as orderlies. All the Princes, the Czar's suite, the members of tbe Russian Enbassey- end their wives and Prince Bismarck and all the Prussian ministers and Generals will attend the banquet at the palace this erenmer. The leading Berlin papers Bay the- ere convinced tbat the populace will receive the Czar with the respect due to the Ea fieror s guest and the ruler of an empire iving at peace with Germany, irrespective of the reasons dictating the visit They will consider the visit an act of courtesy, to which they could hardly attach a political meaning. The papers say they believe the Czar will be able to convince himself, when he meets tbe Emperor, of the pacific bent of the German policy. The North German Gazette (Prince Bismarck s organ) does cot refer to the Czar's visit. The Czar and Prince William aJchted in front of the embassy at 11 :10 and passed aloBg in front of the Guard of Honor which was drawn up there, lhe rrmcess and the Czarina remained in their carriage. " The Czar had intended to .nrot visit Emperor William, but he was anticipated by the latter, who went to the embassy and awaited the arrival of the C:r. The Emperor was- dressed in a uniform and wore his Russian orders. He received the Czar on his entering the emassy in a m)3t cordial manner. All tbe Princes who were at the depot followed the Car to the embaesy. After the three- flags of the Alexander Regiment were delivered to the Czar, the Guard of Honor at the embassy marched past the building: before both Emperors, who stood tccetherat a window. The Emperor remained, at the embassy three-quarters of an hour and then returcea to tbe palace. Ho was warmly cheered by the paople. At half past 11 the"1 Czar, accom panied by General Yon.Warder, returned the Emperor's vi&it. lhe t zar'B visit to. the palace lasted a half hour. He re-, turned to the embassy and afterward paida visit to the Princes slay leg in Berlin. After the .Emperor had entered the pal&ce on his returnf?om the embasey ha ap?f ared at ais favcrite window and was sgain wildly cheered by the crowds.. Tbe Oar's children remained on ths- train which bi ought the family from Copenhagen. The Czarina and her five thildren visited Smperor William this aftarnoon. As the Czar acd Prince Wilrlaax were driving through Kconigs Platz a. man threw a paper into the carriage in which they wese riding. Tbe occurrence, fox a moment, cansed intense excitement among the on-lociers. The Czar took the paper and, without opening it, placed it under bis cloak. The man who threw it is a stranger in Berlin. lie was immediately seized by the police. Later, whi'e ths Imperial party were passing through Unter-Den-Linden, a youns man tried to throw a petition into the Czar's carriage.Ue was arrested. At the state banquet this'evening ninetyeight covers were laid. Prince.Bismarck and his wife and Ccunt Herbert Bismarck were pieeentat the banquet, The Czar and his party left Bcilin for St Petersburg at 9:30 o clock this evening. Thereere also preEent at the banquet ths staff of the Russian embassy, the f Danish Minister, the Minister of Mecklen'uurg-Schwerin and all the Ministers of State. The Czar and Cziric a sat on either sidelof Emperor William, while Prince Bismarck wa3 placed first below the Royalties. During the dinner Emperor William rose and lifting his glass proposed in a few words the health of the Czar, the whole company standing. The band of the Alexander regiment, stationed in the bacaet ball, played the Russian Na tional fcvmn. Shortly after coffee had her served, the imperial visitors jeit the palace. Prince Bismarck visited the Czar at the enbtssy at 4 o'clock, and afterward received General icnerein, me vzar a aide-de camp. Prince Bismarck's visit to tbe Czar lasted an hour. Thj visit was made at the request of 12 Czjr, Losdon, November 13. The Times' correspondent at Berlin says the enthusiasm displayed by the people to day was oniv moderate, asd it wag lfflcuj j to decide whether their cheers Were i3r the Czar or for Prince William. The Cz iris looking very sad and careworn. The Czar and Prince William drove to the embassy in great state. They occupied a victoria, drawn by four black horses, and were accompanied by two out-riders and the Master of the Horse. The Czarina and the Princess William were more heartily cheered thaft Wefl their husbands. The spectators displayed more curiosity than enthusiasm. Tte Czar and family were accompmiei to tbe Potsdam railway station by Piince William and Prince Henry. At the station there was a Drilliaat githerinr of officer-, including the chief aides of Emperor William. Knew All About It. New York 8un. Lawyer (in courn-Littl boy, do you kDOW the nature of an oath? Little Boy Yes sir. It's something my pa uses to pot up stovepipes with.

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