Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 July 1900 — Page 3

CONSTRUCTING A SILO, Some of the Things to Be Taken Into Consideration by Those Ahoat to Build One. Let It be air-tight. Yoiir wife would hardly expect fine flavored fruit for her table had notfc the glass jar been hermetically sealed. The staves forming the silo must be beveled, tongued and grooved. Any height desired can be reached if the ends of the staves are properly joined together, the best knovyn plan for doing this being to use a metal spline, which when finished is wholly concealed and makes the-stave from bottom to top as good as if of one solid piece. Use round iron for hoops, extra heavy size at the base, medium in middle of silo, and little lighter at the top. Locate hoops some nearer together for large silos than for small ones, the average distance apart being about two feet.*On 16-Joot diameter silo each hoop needs two dTaw lugs and corresponding nuts. Two lugs answer usually on

ROUND SILO WITH ALL OPEN FRONT. each hoop. They might be of castiron, but malleable are better, safer. The lumber should be thoroughly well seasoned arid of a good grade. Some kinds are more liable than others to shrink and swell. Let this be thought of. Experience has shown that cypress and white hemlock give good results. The willing boy or hired man may be ambitious to handle the brush. Let them occasionally spread a coat oi a suitable wood preservative over the inside surface of the silo, audpaint the exterior. For removing the ensilage from the silo there must be openings in the form of doors, or an open section. - Doors were formerly used until something * more economical and labor-saving was devised. The silage being such a heavy product and so concentrated, it is economy in labor and cost of handling to have the silo that is made with a continuous opening front. This allows the difcharge out of the silo at all points jdoWn the front of the vessel as the feeding season advances. Ensilage originated from the felt need of having a low cost succulent cattle food for winter feeding'. Sowell has it served that purpose that when the midsummer pastures become short the silo is coming to be well regarded also for summer and autumn feeding. This should be remembered when the size of the silo is chosen.—Farm Jour

THE DAIRY TYPE COW, Instructive Figures Taken from the Averages of a Large Herd for a Series of Years. Careful -experiments show that tht dairy type of cow yields; on an average G,5<X> pounds of milk yearly, while the cow' with beef heredity and tendency yields 4.500 pounds under similar conditions, says the Farm. Stock and Home. "When milk brings a dollar a hundred, 'as is now the case, the net income from the butter from the dairy cow, whose milk averages four per cent. fat. is $45. while that from the cow of beef type and whose milk only averages 35 per cent, fat, is only $27. The feeding value of the skim milk giving four per cent, butter is worth one-seventh more per pound than is the milk containing 35 per cent. Adding the actual value of -* the skim milk of each cow to the net returns for butter, we get from the dairy cow $55 and from the other $33. These’ figures are taken from averages of a herd, for a series of years and under the most favorable conditions. Another very important result should be noted in this connection, and that is that the cows having a flesh-forming tendency remain useful in the herd for onlytiali as long as do the dairy type cows, and that the former are more apt to contract disease than is the spare cow. TIMELY DAIRY NOTES. In feeding the ealves there should be no guess work about the quantity or the temperature of the milk. The average price of butter the past year was two'and a half cents a pound higher than the year preceding. 3 he attendance on dairy schools is increasing, and the capacity of all oi them will have to be enlarged before many years. The well-treated cow evinces a disposition to put her owner and her ca|f os the same footing. Tha t is the best sh« can do by he? owner.—Rural World.

. ANIMALS IN TRADE. Some Stagalar Feature* of the TtmSm ttc That la Carried oa ia Utlas Creature*. There is no branch of the animal kingdom, nor any corner of the world, that is not ransacked and explored nowadays for the purpose of collecting natural history curiosities to supply the com mercial demand. Special expeditions ..re sent to remote and almost inaccessible regions to gather strange and rare animals, for which the market is as unfailing as for any staple product of the soil or the factory. Frms dealing in such merchandise in a large way are Ideated in most big cities both in this country and abroad, and, judging : from the comprehensiveness of their ! catalogues, it would seem as if there I was nothing that flies or walks or swims that they are not prepared to furnish on short notice at list prices, says Rene Bache, in the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. One of these catalogues advertises a large assortment'of “live material,” as it is termed. From this document one learns that he can obtain large bullfrogs at three dollars a dozen, alive and kicking; medium-sized bullfrogs are cheaper, costing only $1.75 for 12. Turtles are two dollars a dozen for “adults,-” and small ones for aquaria are offered at 15 cents each. Pond snails, “in assorted lots,” are listed at 25 cents a dozen; crayfish cost one dollar a dlozen, and newts are 15 cents each. In ordering crayfish, it is requested that a few days’ notice be given in which fo secure them in case the stock should be low. No such reservation, however, is made in the case of earthworms, which come at 60 cents a dozen. It is safe to say that any small boy will furnish earthworms under this rate. It will be understood that all the above animals are shipped alive. The catalogue quotes small alligators at 50 to 75 cents apiece. Live rattlesnakes

come higher—espeeiaity the diamond rattlesnake, which costs from five tc twelve dollars. Economical persons however, may prefer a ground rattlesnake at one dollar. The copperhead is supposed to be about as deadly as the rattlesnake, and may be obtained foi two dollars, while chicken snakes, king snakes and garter snakes sell as low as 50 ednts each. Crabs are not offered alive, blit in alcohol, and in this shape one can buy sand crabs, blue crabs, spider crabs, fiddler crabs, mud crabs and hermit crabs at prices running from ten to seventy-jfive cents apiece, spider crabs being the deaWst, Insects, similarly preserved, are so cheap as to tempt purchase. Squash-bugs cost only 50 cents a dozen, while giant water bugs come at only half that price. Earwigs are quoted at 50 cents a dozen, antlions at ten cents each, crickets at 50 cents a dozen, 17-year locusts at ten cents apiece and June bugs at Sffcents a dozen. Horseflies invite the buyer at only ten cents the flv. “true wasps” may be obtained for the same priee, and bumblebees foot the list at six cents. In London, which is the great bug market of the world,' auctions of insects are held every year, and startling prices are paid sometimes for rare specimens! As much as $S00 has been brought by a single butterfly, while an out-of-the-way beetle may be valued at many times its weight in gold. Hamburg is a great market for wild animals, largely from Africa, that city having an important trade with the Hark Continent. To London comes much material of the same sort from Australia and New Zealand, anti! many rare creatures are obtained from sailors who fetch them from various parts of the world. An American tHealer,not very long ago. made a special trip to White bay, New Zealand, for the pur* pose of procuring a kind of lizard called the “sphenodon,” which is regarded- by scientists as a Awonderful curiosjty, inasmuch as it i% the only survivor of an entire order of reptiles, all the other genera and specieshaving long since become extinct. This lizard, which is known to the native Maoris as the “tuatera,” is about a foot and a half long and, oddly enough, seems to have affinities with the crocodile. Of course, all the kangaroos, wombats and flightless birds come from Australia or New Zealand. Awhile ago the American dealer above referred to made a special trip to South America for the purpose of obtaining guanaco skeletons and steamer ducks. The guanaco is chiefly.interesting because, like the llama, it is a representative oi the camel tribe on this continent. The steamer duck is particularly odd, inasmuch as it fli^s when it is young, but cannot do so after it has matured. The adult bird beats the water with its wings as it swims, and this suggested the name given to the species at a period when all steamers were sidewheelers. It cannot rise in flight, for the reason that, as it gets odder, its wings do not develop in proportion ti I its increase in weight. Printing Preue* from Germany. It may surprise some of our iron manufacturers, says Consul B. H. Warner, Jr., to learn that, among other articles. printing presses and machinery have been exported from Germany tc the island of Forto Rico during the past year. Printing presses and machinery of American manufacture are conceded to be the best in the world, and yet. through the agency of efficient and wideawake salesmen, machinery manufactured in Germany has beef sold in quantities in the above-men tioned island.

NOTES FROM ENGLAND. Card-playing in England is an alitnost forgotten pastime. Ladies seldom play add gentlemen engage in it rarely but to gamble. The English peerage is di7lded Into dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons, and the spiritual peerage into archbishops and bishops. Parts of the side of a sheep seized In a London slaughter-house some time ago presented the first authenticated case of tuberculosis in that animal recorded in England. It is interesting to note that one man makes all the burglars* “jemmies'* in London. The police know the man well, and are fully aware of his peculiar trade; but there is no law by which he can be arrested ©*; stopped. Journeyman bakers at Deptford, England, threatened to strike because their employers made it a -custom to hold prayere on Sunday night before preparing the dough for Monday s bread and refused to pay for the tirtie thus spent. A new kind of map for railway stations is being introduced in England by the Northeastern Railway company. The map is made up of white tiles and is about six feet square, and each tile is eight inches square. The lines are marked in black and burnt Sienna. Returns have just been laid before parliament showing that during 1898 the British empire as a whole yielded about one-third of the world’s output of gold, more than one-quarter of the salt, one-ninth of the silver, and sev-en-elevenths of the tin. Of coal the yield was 220,000,000 metric tons, only about one-fifteenth of which was contributed by mines outside the United Kingdom. It is not everyone who is aware that a Bank of England vote is not of the same thickness all through. The paper is thicker in the left-hand corner, to enable it to retain a keener impression of the vignette there; and it is also considerably thicker in the dark letters and beneath the figures at the ends. Counterfeit notes are invariably of ane thickness only throughout. POPULAR SCIENCE

The mosquitoes in the Roman Cam* pagna bite only from about an hour before sunset to an hour after sunrise. Scientists say frogs do not need brains. Experiments show that when deprived of them” the frog still exists, and is able to attend to its usual functions in an automatic way. A sturgeon was recently caught in the North sea weighing over 500 pounds. The fish was a warrior of the first water, and destroyed $750 worth of nets before he surrendered to hiis captors. • ‘ Bavaria boasts that it has the longest lightning conductor in the world. It rises some yajrds above the top, of the meterological station on the Zugspitze, the highest point in the German empire, and runs down the side of the mountain to the bottom of the Hollenthal, where there is running water all the year round. The length of the rod is 5ys kilometers, nearly three miles and a half. A crystal of beryl has been found at Grafton, N.H., which weighs 2,900 opnds and another from the same locality measuring 45 by 24 inches weighed) by calculation about 2ys tons. In Utah crystals of gypsum over four feet long have been found. A crystal of spodumene—lithium, aluminium silicate—ItO feet long has been discovered in South Dakota. A falling meteor gives out great heat, just as a bullet is heated when it strikes the target. Some have conjectured that a vast stream of these little hailstones raining upon the sun supplies its fuel. But if the whole mass of the moon were put into a stone crusher, broken up, and thrown against the sun, it would barely furnish heat for a single year. And no such weight could possibly approach the sun without our knowledge. V

TOLD IN FIGURES, There are to-day, in all countries, more than 3,000,000 Italian emigrants. The debts of the Buddhist temple at Kyotto, Japan, amount to over $1,006,ooo. At the summer'and winter races in Moscow and St. Petersburg 866,000 rubles are offered in prizes. In the nine months ended March 1, 1900, 39,625 horses were exported, at an average price of $120. The state of New York has expended in the last 20 years $953,520 for investigating committees of various kinds. Twelve dollars and 30 cents is the annual allowance of 7,051 pensioners of the state of South Carolina. The population of Italy has increased in the course of 22 years from 28,000,000 in 187S to more than 32,000,000in 1900. France has 3S,500,000 inhabitants, of whom about 14,500,000 live by mining, manufactures, transportation and general commerce.

Pill* ®t the Small Bird. Once upon a time there was a bantam so-.-siet with an Intense opinion oi himself, and as he stood in the barnyard he said: * “I will make a stir in the world. I will attract attention.” Wherefore he began to crew lustily*although he had nothing much to crow about. c . Xcwdt happened that far above the bantam a hawk was wheeling in the errcumambieut air. The hawk had not seen the bantam, owing to the latter’s diminutive proportions, but when the bantam crowed the hawk heard and in about 43 seconds had his claws full and was contentedly winging his flight homeward, while all was still below. Moral: It is not a profitable thing to try to make & noise in the'world without a reasonable excuse.—Chicago Times-Uerald. very LOW RATES TO TEXAS, Vir. M., K. A T. It)., from Kansan City. Low rate excursion tickets and one wavtickets will be sold by the M., K. & T. from Kansas City, July 7th, 8th and 9th, to Texas. The excursion rates to the more imEortant points will be: >enison, Sherman, Gainesville, Wichita Falls, Hound Trip.......$10.00 Dallas, Ft Worth, Hound Trip. 12.00 Waco, Round Trip... 13.00 Temple, Helton, Taylor, Round Trip.. 14.00 Houston. Galveston. Roupd Trip...... 15.00 Tickets good until July 30th returning. Good for ten days going and stopover in Texas. One-way tickets will be sold same dates at $2.00 less than the above. This opportunity does not come often.

Stamped the Sekee! Visitor. A visitor at a Columbia, Mo., school the other day asked one of the lower grade class this question: “What is the axis of the earth? “An imaginary line passing from one pole to the other, on which the earth>(revoIves,“ proudly answered a pupil. “Yes,” said the examiner, well pleased, “and could you hang a bonnet on it ?r’ “Yes, sir.” “Indeed! And what kind of a bonnet?” “An imaginary bonnet, sir.” The visitor asked no more questions.—Chicago Chronicle. Sot hy the Piece. Merchant—No, I tell you, 1 have absolutely nothing for vou to do. Applican—Well, Td be willing to do that, on salary.—Philadelphia Press. THE MARKETS. New York. July CATTLE—-Native Steers—$ 4 50 fat 5 COTTON—Middling . .... fa FLOUR—Winter Wheat.... 3 <o fa 4 WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 87%fa CORN-No 2. Si OATS—No. 2. fa PORK—Mess New... 13 00* fa 12 st. Louis. COTTON-Middling ........ 9%fa BEEVES—Steers .. 4 25 fa 3 Cows and Heifers. 2 €5 fa ■* CALVES—(per lOU>. 4 50 fa 7 HOGS—Fair to Choice. 4 90 fa 5 2. 70 10 (3 8S% 49% 9% 3 50 fa 4 10 fa 3 50 fa 79%fa fa SHEEP—Fair to Choice Fl-OUR—Patents (new). Other Grades. WHEAT—No 2 Red. CORN—No. 2. OATS-No. 2... fa RYE—No. 2... TOBACCO—Lugs .. 3 50 Leaf Burley_ 4 50 HAY—Clear Timothy (new) 10?50 BUTTER—Choice Dairy,,... 13 BACON—Clear Rib_;... EGGS-—Fresh .. .... PORK—StandaruMesstnew) .... IiARD—Prime Steam...... CHICAGO. CATTLE—Native Steers.. fa S fa 12 fa 13 . fa .fa 13 10 52 43 25% 00 50 00 50 15 8 9s 00 0% 4 50 HOGS— Fair to Choice__ 5 Oo FLOUR4 20 3 00 Fair to Choice.. >\V inter Patents... Spring Patents... WHEAT—No. 3 Spring_ No. 2 Red. CORN—No. 2. PORK-Mess' "1 H 75 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Nat ice Steers 4 25 HOGS—Fair to Choice...... a 00 WHEAT—No. 2 Red 77 fa 81’sfa 42 fa 24%fa ‘ © 12 50 27% 00 40 20 77C. 83% 42% 25 85 - 5 25 26% ti OATS—No. CORN-No. 2.. NEW ORLEANS. * FLOUR—High Grade.w 4 00 CORN-No. 2..... ■{ 51 OATS—Western . 31 HAY—Choice ..tt> PORK—Standard Mess.S3 25 BACON—Short Rib Sides... COTTON—Middling . LOUISVILLE WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 82%fa CORN-No. 2. 44 fa OATS-No. 2 Mixed... 30 PORK—New Mess.13 25 BACON—Short Rib... .... COTTON—Middling .. fa 4 fa fa fa 17 fa 13 8%fa .. fa 50 52 31% 50 50 8% *% fa 13 fa fa 83% 45% 31 50 81* 9m»

Do Tour Feet Ache aad Bant Shake into your shoes, Allen’s Foot-E **, a powder for the feet. It makes tight ©rite* f®0** Feel Easy. Cures Corns, Itch;ii(,n bwotlen, Hot, Callous, Smarting, Sore ..no Sweating Feet. All Druggists and S. ice Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Adi* dress, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, h. Y. “Fine show,” remarked the hrst-nigh :er at the close of the new comic opera. “The comic fisherman was a realistic character, don't you think?” “No, 1 don't,” repi el the amateur angler, “his lines were too catchy.”—Philadelphia Press. Tasteleea Ton lea Are Unreliable.. Try \ucatan Chill Tonic (improved). Each dose contains the same proportion of medicine. No shaking required. Price, <50 cents. In spite of the fact that the varieties of stamps now current in the world number *3,811, every now and then another small hoy starts in to make a complete coltetii n. —Somerville Journal. Try Yneatan Chill Toale <Improve,!). Superior to all the so-called tasteless toni s. Acceptable to the most delicate stomaih. The onlv people that know that love d es only with the soul are those who can’t m< rry each other.—N. Y. Press. To Care a Cold la Oae Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. . vll druggists refund money if it fails to cure. & >c. P^oteet us from our friends; our. enem es let us drink cwr tea or coffee the way we like it.—Indianapolis Journal.

Beat toe the Bo%ek. ° ' No matter what ails you, headache tc a cancer, you wiH never get vreU until vour bowel# are put right. Cascaret* help nature, curie you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents-sto start getting vour health back. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped cn it. Beware of imitations. Time Watted. It is said of a certain learned man that he spent half hi9 lifetime acquiring fluency m ten different languages, and then went and married a wife who never gives him a chance to get a word in edgeways.—Tit-Bits. “Pleatut Wan For Sommer Dayt.” Is the title of the Grand Trunk- Railway System s new Summer Tourist Folder which together with other descriptive literature can be had on application to J. H. Bursts, City Passenger and Ticket Agent. 249 Clark ot., corner Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. Men don’t always have to climb to fame— the bridge jumper, for instance.—Chicago Democrat^._? _ v • Goldthwaite A Son, Troy, Aia., wrote; Teethina’s speedy'cure of s-ores and eruptions upon the skin have* been remarkable. Our best society might be even better if money would talk less and think more.— Detroit Journal. , Hall’s Catarrh Care Is taken Internally. Price 75c. All is not gold that glitters. Sometimes it is a diamond.—Chicago Daily News.

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