Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 August 1899 — Page 7

WHEN DRESSING FOWpLS. How to Pick tt« Feathers u4 Kee» Them Perfectly Clean In the Lahorloaa Operation. The accompanying illustration shows one oI the cleanest and most convenient ways to pick the feathers from a fowl and keep them clean in the operation. A barrel has a hole made in one side, as shown, and below it is tacked a leather lip or spout. The dotted line •hows the position inside of two sup

HOW TO SAVE THE FEATHERS. ports, between which the fowl is laid while being picked. The head projects from the opening, and all blood drains into the pail outside the barrel. As the feathers are plucked they fall into the bottom of the barrel, and are thus entirely unstained. The picker sits on a box or stool at one side of the barrel. If more room is desired within the barrel, saw off the top down nearly to the middle, thus giving a larger opening. Hen's feathers do not bring a large sum. but they should always be saved, either for home use or for the sum which they will bring, which is really clear gain.—N. Y. Tribune. SORGHUM GOOD FEED. Sonar Cane la Proaoaaeed an Almost Perfect Ratio* for Cow a Sackline Calves. Some are inquiring about sugar cane for feed. We planted about' ten acres last year, writes Tom 1‘onting in Breeders* Gazette, drilling -it in with acorn planter. W’e fixed the plates so it would drop about three seeds in a place and tended-it ns we do corn. W’e cut and bound it with a corn-harvester. You must be very careful in putting it in shock as the tops are so heavy it will fall over. We had no trouble in curin g ours, but we had to let it stand in the field until we were ready to feed it. It has so very much moisture in it that it cannot be piled tol gether until very late in the season. I think it made six tons to the acre after ’ it was cured. I would like to ask some one which has the most feeding quality, sugar cane or Kaffir corn? We bought a\ little Kaffir corn at a sale the other day and our herdsman does not think there is as much feeding quality in the corn as there is in the cane. If there k I would like tc plant about half Kaffir corn instead of so much sugar cane. The trouble with sugar cane in this black soil is that it ge ts so tall that the wind blows it over. Kaffir corn will not do this. I think the sugar cane is grand feed for cows suckling calves; it increases the rich aess and increases the flow of milk. We fed a grade heifer on sugar cane alone to try it and I never nte a better piece of beef than she made.

EXTRACTED HONEY. In Ordinary Clir«asla»ert It Brin** Hare Satisfactory Hetarns Thau Comb Honey., It is no doubt a fact that extracted honey is most profitable for a large majority of the bee-keepers of the country because they ai-e in a measure at the mercy of dealers who will not pay the price that extra fine comb honey is worth, being obliged to pay a nearly let el price for all that comes to them, because they have neither time nor inclination to seek a market for the best, preferring to sell in lump lots. For the * bee-keeper who is near a large town or city there is a place to dispose of extra white comb honey at a price that will make it an object to sell in sections. r The ordinary section contains about * 14 ounces of honey, worth, when extracted, not more than seven cents. If the comb is nice and white and the sections neatly filled they may be sold for anywhere from to 30 cents a section. Wherever there are people who ean afford to indulge their taste for the best and* finest-looking products for their table, there will be found a market for all the first-class comb honey that is offered at a price lihat will make extracting a losing operation. Where comb honey must be isold for ten cents a pound and extracted brings seven or eight cents, the bee-keeper cannot afford to sell the comb, as it eosts too much time to make it, e\Vry pound of comb taking as much time to make as ten pounds of hcnej.—Farmers’. Voice.

Wl»y tke Bm Swarm, Bees swarm because they lack room In the hive. Tine old queen and the workers leave nnd give up the hive to the younger boss. To prevent swarm* ing add more s pace at the top, so that the workers can be provided with storage room. It is better to have one strong colony than two weak ones, as the bees ean then more easily protect themselves against enemies when they are numerous. At this season the bees « can find plenty of honey plants, but later on they are compelled to travel to greater distances, and litany are thus destroyed, for which reason the colony should ha strong.

SELECTION OF SEED. B«w IaproT .’d Varied** at WfcwU Are Belas Bred by the Kaa*as Asrlealtaral Cell***. It ia common among1 com raisers to maintain or improve a given variety by selection ol the seed. Ears showing desirable characters are set aside and furnish seed for the succeeding crop. Though not so convenient, this method can be applied with equal success to the selection of seed wheat. The experiment station of the Kansas state agri- | cultural college is endeavoring to breed | up improved varieties of wheat. There I is no reason why the simple method ol : selection should not be applied by Um j individual wheat raiser. We would ad- j vise the following procedure: Before j harvesting, the grower should go into i the wheat field and select a number of j the most desirable heads. The basis of selection depends upon the wishes ol the individual, but is carried on as in the case of com. Usually it wiU be upon | the basis of yield and quality. In this case the heads selected should be large, well-formed and with plump uniform grains. The grain derived from these heads should be grown upon a plot ol ground under the most favorable conditions. The grain gathered from this plat furnishes the seed for the third year. But before harvesting a selection of suitable heads should be made from this for the next seed plot. In this way the seed is each year imprived or at least maintained at its present standard. The size of the seed plot depends upon the Total area of wheat to be grown. | Furthermore the seed plot may be given i much more careful treatment than ia j applicable to the field. It is best to have ( the seed plot within the main field so as to be entirely surrounded by wheat. This lessens the loss from grasshoppers and other insects, and gives the plants better protection.—Farmers’ Beview.

CORN FOR FODDER. It SkraM Be Cat at the Proper Tin If Really Profitable Results Are to Be Secured. When corn is at its best, the glazing stage, it has a value of say 100 per cent. —15 per cent, of this will be in the ear and 55 per cent, will be in the stock and leaves. Of the 55 percent, in the stalk and leaves, 60 per cent will be in the stalk below the ear, which will be 33 per cent, of the whole value. The feeding value of the ear is mostly in starch, in the stalk it is in the form of sugar. From the glazing stage to full curing the changes in the stalk are all against the feeder, for while the sugar is all digestible, in the ripening and curing process it gradually changes to starch and woody fiber, and becomes less and J less digestible, and thus loses much of j its feeding value. While the stalk at its best was filled with sweet juice, that j fully cured, found in the rick or shock, ! has not a trace of sweetness left, but ! has changed to wood or been washed I out; hence we see how important it is that corn fodder be cut at the proper time and handled in the proper way to secure the very best returns. Upon this i ''point experiments conducted at the Oklahoma station showed that corn fodder left in the fields until required for ! feeding purposes loses much of its feed- ! ing value, but how large a proportion is not often considered by a large number j of farmers. The results of these tests j showed a considerable reduction in the | feeding value of the corn stover, equal ! in the opinion of those who conducted the tests to fully one-fourth of itsoriginal worth, with a corresponding increase in the crude fiber which is the least valuable part of the corn.—Prai* i rie Farmer.

HANDY FARM GRANARY. It Will Cast Not More Thao $73, and I Cam Be ConstracteU toy Aay Intelligent Farmer. I send you a brief sketch and descrip* tion of a granary I recently constructed* While it is not original with me, yet it may be new in some localities. The frame requires about 1,500 feet oi rough lumber and jaboxit 1,200 to 1,40C

fe«t of sidiig, flooring, etc. A fraction less than f our squares of roof is required. If anyone may desire it, I can give exact t ills of lumber and method of constructs n, etc. It will cost about $60 to $73, and can be constructed by anyone of ordinary ability, as I built my own. Size, 12x24, height, eight feet to square. The foundation is building block pillar >,eight in number, with floor of granary ab^ut on level with ordinary height wa§on bed bottom, making it easy to load and unload. All siding, flooring, et;., is good quality southern pine, whici is said to be mouse and rat proof. Koof, galvanized steel.—C. It Wagner, in Ohio Farmer.

AH ISztra Work Conti. It is always the extra work required to produce the best that pays on the farm. In this, however, it is only the rule which holds good everywhere else. The world is full of slipshod, lazy work* ersr—men vho really do not want to do any work, but who under compulsion do just as little as they can and still pass. Thousands of farmers object to certain erqps, because to work on them is very disagreeable. What, they want i s the crop that is moat easily grown. Si ch crops are always low in price, precisely because of this habit of human nature to seek the easiest jobs, forgetting that precisely because they are easy jobs they are always overcrowded with applicants.— Americas Cultivator.

A BIG BARBER BILL. ..—— Clleasoau F»jr Oat Mttllaaa A»aaallr to Keep TfceLr . Faces Cleaa. How much does it cost the male population of Chicago in a year to keep well shaven aud shorn? This Question was asked in a down-town hotel barber * shop a few days ago, and the answers given brought out some astonishing figures. Before anyone took time to make any computation a few guesses were given, but all fell short of the mark. The highest guess was $1,500, 000, and everyone else in the shop said the man who gave it mast be mentally unbalanced to place the figures so high. But the man with a lead pencil and a taste for figures, who is to be found in every crowd, was there, and it was not king before he had shown to the satisfaction of ail present that the yearly barber's bill of the Chicago men • is not less than $3,500,000. This is the ! way he did it: “How much, on an average, does a 1 barber take in a day?*’ The question was addressed to the proprietor of the shop “All the way from $3 to $4 on a dull , Wednesday to $12 or $13 on a busy Sat- , urday.” “No, that won’t do. What is the av- , erage daily amount, for six days in the j week, taken in by each working barber, ! on an average?” j Then the proprietor did a little fig- j urjng. The wages of the barbers, he I said, ranged from $10 to $1$ a week, when they, worked for boss barbers. The bosses, besides wages, had to pay rent and all bills of expense for run- j niug their shops, and figureon a margin of profit besides for themselves. It was J agreed that $25 a week was a fair basis for computation as the amount taken in in a week by each barber. * Then the men in the crowd thought i the man with a genius for statistics was up a stump. How was he to find out how many barbers there are in a big city like Chicago? But the figurer was right at'home with the problem. He knew just how to go at it. He got a city directory and turned over to the back, where he found a list of barbers filling several pages— three columns of names to a page. He counted a column. It contained 129 names. There were nearly 16 columns, giving a total of 2.053 barbers. Inquiry showed that many barbers who were residents of the city when the list was compiled had escaped classification, and it was agreed that 2,500 was a fair estimate of the total number in the city. Several demurred at the imroensitynf" the figures thus produced—$3,500/00— but the proprietor, flattered at the important showing made for his craft, insisted that the estimate was too low. “A barber takes in,” said he, “more than $25 a week on an average. I’d think he was a poor man in my shop that didn’t take in more than $35.” - But his was a 15-cent shop and the man with the lead pencil—also by this time with the triumphant smile—was ready to admit that, $3,500,000 was enough.—Chicago Tribune.

A REMARKABLE TRIP. Thm Extraordinary Voyage of aa Oeeai User ta Trying a Sew Route. The steamer Gaspesia, "which was the first to attempt to reach London by the new route via the Gulf of-St. Lawrence and Milford Haven, Wales, had three months of such experience as happily but seldom falls to the lot of an ocean liner. The dream of a certain group of capitalists is over, for although the distance is appreciably less by the way proposed, the fate of the ship which came limping back into port ten week s after every one had given her up, will cast a damper upon all future efforts. The Gaspesia left Milford Haven on January 11; she made the south coasit of Newfoundland on the 19th, and entered the gulf on the 20th. She should have reached PaSpebiac in one day. The trip actually took six. It was February 7 when she started out, wiih her return cargo and three passengers, in the very worst weather of an Utt- ,

usually bitter winter. She was caught by the ice floes and held helpless. Keen I winds raged about her and the rigging J froze. The fires were put out to husband coal, and every one on board suf- j fered from cold. Her 75 sailors were | clothed only for an ordinary winter passage in the North Atlantic. They | did not know when they would be released or whether they might not be driven from a ship crushed like an ! eggshell to wander over the shifting floe to their death. There are 50*000 square miles of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Gaspesia saw a good deal of drifting to and fro I with the wind and current. Deliverance came when the famous settling steamer Kite signaled the Gaspesia and went to her assistance. The Kite likes lee; she was built to resist it, and carries dynamite to blast her way through it. By several days* hard work her crew opened a way for the Gaspesia, and she reached St, John's nearly three months out. She was almost a wreck* and the crew and passengers were quite exhausted. It may be shorter by the new route, but the chances are that ordinary travelers will prefer the oM, although Nansen might enjoy the trip as practice.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

SHOP — TALK.1 ■ V ▲ recently built organ, run by dee*, tricity contains 64,500 miles of wir*. The majority of motor cal's are no* driven by petroleum, but a French engineer recommends the use of alcohol instead of it, and motors are being altered so as to consume it. There is no fear of explosion with alcohol and it is said to be less costly than petroleum. We might, therefore, paraphrase the national poet and say: “I’ut it in your cars to save your legs.” Four dollars* worth of Amer* — bicycles were sold (to European ican countries during the last fiscal year, and more than twice as many were shipped to France, despite her skilled workmen and ingenuity, as were exported to that country during the preceding year. Two-thirds ©J our bicycles are sent to countries which make a specialty of manufacturing, says Leslie's Weekly. Henry Lyon, s Scotch electrical engineer, has completed an electrical refrigerator. The current is used inside the machine for driving off the ammonia, and owing to the fact that there are no moving parts, and t hat no skilled labor is required for attendance, the new machine, it is said, can be put on the market at a moderate price, and it in calculated that it will prove a cheaper method of cooling than the indirect method of cooling by ice. Machines are under construction for the production of 100 pounds of ice per day. HOMS HELPS AND HINTS If your hands are stained with berries or from jelly making, or from preparing vegetables, rub them with ripe tomatoes before using soap on them. Soap sets the color. To bathe an overheated head in camphorated water affords relief at once. A teaspoonful of spirits of camphor in two ounces oi water is theright proportion, and applied when there are symptoms of sunstroke, such as vertigo, flushed* face, etc., will help avert it. The best way to get cold water to drink is to put bottles of j boiled water into the refrigerator aujd let them stand a number of hours, taste of boiled water is can be remedied by pou: from one dish to another The tomato is now defi a place as a tonic among fj If the “flat” istasteful It g the water veral t^mes. itely assigned s. APhiladelphia physician has made extensiva experiments with the juice* as a med ieine and during the war with Spain tht juieeiof the tomato was utilized extensive^* as a health preservative among 'certain troops with eminently satisfactory results. So when the uomato qpmes In season use it every day-—and three times a day if you can—for health’s if not for appetite’s sake.

CURIOUS WORD SirUDIES. Meat was applied to any kind cl food. Preface was formerly the word of welcome to a meal. Voyages were formerly made over land as well as water. To starve originally mjeant to work one’s self to death—a significant footnote to the history of peasant risi^s in the early days. Acre once meant a field of any size. The Germans still use the word in this sense. God’s aere, meaning a cemetery. Is an instance of the old jmeaning. Jeremy Taylor refers tjo “the beautiful imps that sang hosajonas in the temple.’’ Imp once meant only a Kttk child, and not a child of the devil as it does now. Libel ence had no reference to anything offensive, but simply meant a smail book or pamphlet. But pamphlet wars, which often were nothing but printed Billingsgate, changed its mean* Ing.

THE MARKETS. Sew CATTLE—Native Steers . COTTON-Middliug . FLOUR—Winter Wheat .. WHEAT-No. 2 Red CORN—No. 2 OATS—No. 2, FORK—New Mess ST. L6UIS+ COTTON—Middling .... BEEVES—Steers . Cows and Heif' York. Aug. 7. .* 4 75 @ 5 60 .... O (fti 3 25 <0 3 75 ;4%» a 3 50 27 10 00 4 00 2 50 CALVES—(per TOO) . 5 00 HOGS—Fair to Choice.... SHEEP'—Fair to Choice FLOUR—Patents (new).. Clear and Straight WHEAT—No. 2 Red Wint CORN—No. 2 OATS-No. 2. RYE—No. 2-TOBACCO-Lugs - Leal Burley HAV—Clear Timothy (ne-EUTTER-7»Choice Pairy FORK—Standard Mess(ne BACON-Zetear Rib . LARD-Prime Steam. CHICA' CATTLE—Native Steers. HOGS-Fair to Choice.... SHEEP—Fair to Choice FLOUR—Winter Patents Spring Patents “''’''-No. 2 «• No. 2 CORN—No. 2 OATS-No. 2. PORK-Mess (new) KANSAS CllTY. CATTLE—Native Steers. HOGS-AU Grades....... WHEAT-No. 2 Red. OATS-No. 2 White. CORN—No. 2 .. NEW ORLEANS I & § WHEAT -No. 2 Spring... FLOUR-High Grade I-Ne. 2 . CORN OATS—Western KAY-Choice PORK—Standard Mess BACON-Sides COTTON—MiddltnjM LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No. 2 Red CORN-No. 2 Mixed OATS—No. 2 Mixed PORK-New Mess . BACON—Clear Ribs COTTON- -Middling TO .. Si

IsJjjJJSjk* *Mtl# tratak TTie Veterans of sixiH-^ne and fir# wd weir mends, who are g otcg to attend the SSrd G. \ R. Annual En .wmpment at Philadelphia in September, e»; i!d not select a better nor more historic route than the Bis Four, Chesapeake A Ohio, with splendid aervice from Chicago, JVoria and St. Louis on the Big Four, ail cor nectiug at Indiawapolis or Cincinnati an, I thence over the Picturesque Chesapeake S Ohio alone the Ohio river to Huntington, West Va., thence through the foot-hills si ' the Alleghanies, over the Mountains, tlvough the famous Springs Region of Vir# oia to Staunton, v a, between which pou t and Washington are many of the most prominent Battlefields: >V aynesboroXJ?r.nionsville, Cedar Mountain, Kappahanr.. k, Kettle Run. Manawas, Btil! Run, Mrfiii, and a score or others nearly as promine it. Washington is hext, and thence via the Pennsylvania I-in* direet to Philadelphia. Tiere will be three rates in effect for this bum ness: 1st. Costin' with no stofrovur privilege; 2nd. Going and coming s;i me route with one stop-over in each direction; 3d. Circuitous route, going one way and Jack another with one stop-over in each direction. For fill information as to Route s Bates, etc., addreaa J. C. Tucker, Q. K. A., 234 Clark Sit,

tent. A $h«ppT Abkh neei A Kansas printer in..making up the foims one day in a hurry got a i# apnage and a jtro. eer'a notice nixed up to hey read as follows: “John Smith ana Ida Quay were united in the bonds of holy sauerkraut which will be sold by the quart or barrel. Mr. Smith is an esteemed cod: ish at ten cents; while the bride has nice rigs’ feet to display."—Michigan LyreTakes at Ber DTort. "Mrs. F. J. Gillingtoa-Giggs is awfully mad at the newspapers; she says they treated her so shabbier. “Did they? Such a prominent society woman, too.” “Yes; she told them til ey must not say anything about her reception, and they1 didn’t.”—Philadelphia Bui: etin. lathi Cun Wemr tfcm One aim smaller after using ABen*s FootEase, a powder for the fee:. It makes tight or-new shoes easy. Curts swollen, hot, •treating, aching feet, fagro wing nails, corns and bunions. At all druggists and shoe stores. 25c. Trial package TREE by mail. Address Alien S. Olmsted., Le Roy, K. Y. Oat, j- Caller—I hare here several bills which are long overdue and— Harduppe (desperately)--I am sorry to »*▼ that our cashier is out t o-day. “Oh, well, it doesn’t make much difference; I’ll call and pay them at some £uRecoriL**' ®ood $*** sur"—Philadelphia Appreciated. Wife—John, let me tell you that as surely as you keep on in your present career, just so surely will you pay for yotr indulgences. Husband (with air of iride)—Thanks, dear, for that tender tribute to my financial probity.—Boston Courier.

Work far All. Thousands of men are zn;i ;ing good wages in the harvest fields of Minnesota, North and South0l>akota. There is room for thousands more.\ Half rates via tie Great Northern Railway %,>m St. Paul Write Max Baas, 230 SouthClark Street, Chicago, 111. Why They Are Nerroai. A correspondent says that those who dine with the queen are usually pa nfully nervous. Perhaps they are tortured with doubt of the propriety of praising the pie, not know* ing whether her majesty or: the cook made it.—Denver Post. j. Lane’s r*n»Aly Mulleins. jdo|es the bowels each dar. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cir-ea sick head* ache. Price 23 and 50c. We have often wondered hat women do not have their kitchen dress*-s made as lownecked as their party ’resses It would certainly be cooler m working i/ er a hot stove. —Atchison Globe. Tke Best Prescr ipt loti, for ChUIs and Fever is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. Itis simply iro i and quinine in a tasteless form. Nocure—no pay. Price,50c. Williams—“I understand you moved your family last week.” Jackson—“Yes; our servant girl didn't Kke t he location we were in.”—Columbus Journirl. ToCnro n CsM hn (It* Bap Take Laxative Bromo Quinir. e Tablets. AH druggists refund money if it fiuls to cure. 25c. High ideals are perhaps re s ponsible for as much pessimism as are tor pi i livers, on the whole.—Detroit Journal.

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