Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 October 1900 — Page 7

STRAW ON THE FARM. It Rm Mmt Vmmm and the Mas Wh« Wastes It Dees Net laierstasi His Besleess. One of the greatest wastes about the average farm, especially in the great grain districts of the west, is in the straw. Where headers are used and the straw left to turn under with the plowing, some of the substance taken from the soil by the growing, grain is returned to it, but this is a waste as there is not got out of the straw the best there is in it. This method, however, is far better than another which, strange to say, is quite general. This is piling the straw in some slongh or out 01 the way nook and ledving it to rot down and be carried away by the elements. Probably the most value straw possesses is as a roughness in feeding cattle. If properly put up and fed, oat, wheat and flax straw is a vain-' able addition to the rations of cattle of all kinds. The reason cattle usualI ly refuse to touch straw is because it is spoiled or musty. As much care , should be taken in stacking straw as in stacking hay. Usually the stacking is done with a view of getting the straw out of the way of the machine rather than with any thought as to •its turning the rain. The stack is nothing more than a huge pile of straw thrown together by three or four boys hired to take the dirtiest and most disagreeable job around the threshing machine. The sides and top of such a pile will become soaked with the first rains and before the winter is well on will be unfit for feed. There are other uses than feeding that straw can be put to with profit. It makes the best kind of mulching for strawberry beds, potato fields, etc., adding richness to the soil and preventing the growth of weeds. In putting up hay sheds and windbreaks it is the best of material to use, as it packs elosely, keeping out wind and turning rain. Even wheti rotted in the stack, hauled out and scattered over the fields it still possesses a value as a fertilizer. Do not let the straw go to waste.—Prairie Farmer

SELLING THE OLD HENS Sd4i>| Them to Market tke Snmaer After They Are Two Yean 014 la a Good Role. We are speaking advisedly when wa say too many old hens are^kept on farms. We know of farms where hens are kept to a ripe old age and old hens are scarcely ever sold off. When sell* ing is done, the fittest are gathered in and marketed, and this does not include the old hens. On many farms there is no system of marking, and the old hens are not distinguishable from the young ones except as they become so old as to have large spurs, and then they are considered too old to sell, since no one cares to buy them. The shortest way out of the business is to let them Remain on the farm. It is always a good plan to send hens to the market the summer after they are two years old. Not all hens are unprofitable after that age, but as a rule so many will be found so that it is a good plan tosend them off unless a personal knowledge of their individual value warrants keeping them longer. Occasionally a hen will be. found that will be a steady layer until she is five or six years old, but where one of this character ia found'there will be many that will prove unprofitable. Practical egg farmers know when to sell hehs and when to keep them for egg production. These men are almost a unit that a hen ougfit to go the summer q|ter she is two years old. This will not be so much a matter of importance now as it will be in the winter. In winter too large a share of the profits ts absorbed ts. by the nonproducers. Though the remainder of the flock are good producers they are not good enough, as a rule, to support the companions that are in idleness. If no ot her way of marking them can be devised, sell them now when the pullets can be distinguished from the old hens. If not too large, t hey will sell well at this season of the year. Later on larger hens can be sold.—Homestead. g BOILING WAGON WHEELS. Bot OU Bath Once a Season Will Preserve the Felloe* aa4 Keep the Tire Tight. Nothing will preserve a wheel with ww>den felloes, and keep the tire tight, as will treating them to a hot oil bath once in a season. Get a tin_UIII I

BOW TO BOIL WHEELS. &er to make you a pan about four inches wide and six deep in the middle, with a rounded bottom to correspond to the shape of a wheel, shown in cut. Set it in an improvised fireplace and pour in the oil. When it is hot put in the wheel and turn slowly, holding in position by means of a stick thrust through the hub. A frame can be put up easily, or crotches set, to hold this stick. In this way two men can do the work quickly and well.—J. L. Irwin, in Ohio Farmer

Of INTEREST TO LABOR. Textile workers in the New England states have about perfected the or ganization of all workers in the milk in a federation under one general su per vision. The New Zealand government hat decided to issue workmen’s ticket* from nearly all the prin^pal towns to suburbs up to a 12-mile distance at a uniform charge of two shillings pet week. In Pans, Ilk, the sehool authorities have thrown out the trust and nonunion school books and decided that anti-trust and union label school book* shall be used in the schools. The newest labor-union in Springfield, Mass., is an organization of the fruit-peddlers of the city. They have bar Jed together in order to fight the discrimination at auction sales charged against the wholesale dealers. The Cincinnati coppersmiths announce that four out of the five large manufacturing shops in the trade have agreed to concede the nine-hour day to the men. and negotiations by which the employes will receive the same reduction in hours are well under way | in the fifth establishment. Chinese labor unions not only exist In New York. Chicago and other large cities, but also throughout the Pacific states, and are especially strong in California. The unions are composed of cigar-makers, shoe manufacturers, | clothing makers and laundry men. Most of the jean coats worn west of the Rockies are made by Chinese, The consolidation of the two great sleeping car companies made necessary a vast amount of work. The word “Wagner” had to be painted out of 720 cars of that company. Of the cars operated by the Wagner company, 502 bore the same names aa 502 of those belonging to the Pullman company. A list of these duplicate cars was made out, and the day after the transfer painters went to work changing them

SAYINGS OF BISMARCK. “During my diplomatic career I bare always sought after truth.” “The good will of women is not so easily gained as that of men.” “The war of the future is the economic war. the struggle for existence on a. grand scale.”' “Nothing is so stupid that it cannot find supporters, if it is only brought forward with the necessary aplomb.” “Modesty is a very good quality in a statesman. Politicians, most of all, must avoid too great self-confidence.” To His Sovereign: “We all must die some day, and it i» of little importance whether it be a little earlier or later.” On “Blood Is Thicker Than Water:” “In every case blood is a sticky fluid, but I do not remember that blood relationship has ever robbed feuds of their deadliness.” “In estimating future events, we must keep an eye on the United States of America, for they may develop into a danger to Europe in economic affairs, possibly also in others.” “There are certainly some among ue who see in the Chinese a danger to Europe. Such fears appear to me to be unfounded in view of the genius for standing still, displayed by this nation for centuries.” “Diplomacy is no shoemaker's tool, on which one can sit, stretch a knee strap and put a patch on a hole; diplomacy is not a craft which can be learned by years and developed by rote on a roller. Diplomacy is an art.” WRITERS AT THEIR BEST. Swift was 59 when- his brain gave birth to “Gulliver’s Travels.” Thomas Hood's “The Song of the Shirt and “The Bridge of Sighs” were written when he was 46. THE MARKETS. Nftw York (Vt 1 CATTLE—Native Steers... .* 4 45 §* 5 90 COTTON—Middling . @ 10* FLOUR-Winter Wheat.... 2 25 <o 4 00 WHEAT-No. 2 Red. 80%& 82* CORN-No. 2. <& 40* OATS-No. 2.. 25* PORK-Mess New.12 75 ® 14 00 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling . BEEVES-Steers .. Cows and Heifers. : CALVES—(per 100). HOGS—Fair to Choice...... ! SHEEF-Fair to Choice.... FLOUR—Patents (new)...., 8 65 Other Grades...,. 8 10 WHEAT-No. 2 Red.. IS CORN-No. 2.. OATS-No. 2.... 22» RYE-No. t.. HAY—Clear Timothy. 0 00 TOBACCO—Lugs . 2 50 Leaf Burley.... 4 50 BUTTER—Choice Dairy..., 15 BACON—Clair Rib. EGGS—Fresh ................ «... PORK—StandardMess(new) .... LARD—Choice Steam....... .... CHICAGO. CATTLE-Native Steers..,. 4 75 HOGS—Fair to Choice. 4 86 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.... 2 25 FLOUR-Winter Wheat.... 2 00 Spring Patents... 2 60 WHEAT-No. 2 Spring..... 72 No. 2 Red......... 761 CORN-No. 2. 40i OATS-No. 2. 22' PORK-Mess .. 12 20 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE-Native Steers.... 4 75 HOGS-Fair to Choice. 5 00 WHEAT-No. 2 Red. 72 OATS-No. 2 White. CORN-No. 2... NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. 3 60 CORN-No. *. OATS—Western ... HAY—Choice .. It 59 PORK-Standard Mess. BACON-Short Rib Sides. COTTON—Middling . LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No. 2 Red. CORN-No. 2... OATS-No. 2... _ PORK—New Mess.. 12 75 BACON-Short Rib. $*i COTTON—Middling 5 85 5 55 4 15 4 10 4 10

Pwtort Youthful CHtlct. Mias Mary Proctor, the astronomer nod lecturer, takes a deep interest la social settJement work in the big cities, and frequent1/ gives her personal services toward entertaining pe jt children and adults. Generally her lectures are very well received. Many of her audiences often manifest better attention than those drawn from higher eir gas. Now and then there are exertions. On one occasion a bright-eyed little boy who •at m the front row with his eyes fixed upon the shaker was asked how he liked it. “I g«Ms, * he said, “it was pretty good, bnt she ought to talk about lions and tigers. That’s better for everybody.” At another lecture a youngster criticised her as follows: “It’s all very well to talk of weighing and measuring stars There are .“me peopl^bf course, who believe that sort of thing, but if she thinks she can foot us boys with such Try Graia-Ot Try Grata-Ot Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. Children may drink it vrithout injury, as weU as adults. .like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich Allwbotryit H „_ seal brown of Mocha or Java, but is made from puregrains, and the most delicate stomach reeeivesit without distress, f the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package. Alt grocers. The Oaly Consplalat. “What kind of ai climate have you here?” “It’s fine,” answered the resident. “The ably trouble is that the weather gets discouraged and quits too soon. The summers are too short to produce bananas and pineapples. and the winters aren’t long enough to raise polar bears.”—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. A Jell-O, The New Dessert, pleases all the family. Four flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At vour grocers. 10 cts. Try it to-day. Miss Rocksey—“The count says he will die if I don’t marry him. Do you think a broken heart ever results fatally?** DeSin-nick--“No, but starvation does.” — Town Topics. To Cure a Cold ta Oae Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 95c. “This month I celebrate my twentyfourth birthday.” “That’s odd—so do I.” “But I celebrate mine for the first time.”— Heitere Welt. Carter’s Ink Is the best ink that can be made. It costs you so more that* poor stuff not fit to write with. It very often happens that a man’s commanding presence gets him mo greater honors through life than to be marshal of the day at a county fair.—Atchison Globe. The stomach has to work hard, „_ the food we crowd into it. Make its wor easy by chewing Beeman’s Pepsin Gum. A great, big, overgrown book agent always looks as if he ought to be at something else.—Washington Democrat. Fttnam Fadeless Dyes do not stain the hands or spot the kettle. Sold by all druggists. Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.—George Macdonald. Hall’s Catarrh Curb Is a Constitutional Cure. Price, 75c. Wi fool.’ has an up-hill fight against a ~ " Ne’ icago Daily News.

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