THE HOPE OF THE CONTINENT. n'mltrn Canada the "Bread-liaaket oi the Empire." Tiie attention directed to the wheat fielusof vv estern Canada during the jvifit jear has caused thousands of settlers from different, parts of tlie United States to make their homes there dur ing the past few months. They report that their experience corroborates what bad been told them of that wonderful country, and they are sending-back to their friends most favorable reports. During the past summer a number of Wisconsin and Michigan and editors visited western Canada, and the following extracts are from a very flat tering letter written to the Germania of Milwaukee by its able contributor. Prof. Sheridan. "The numerous elevators along the line, towering so far above :he sur rounding country that they may be seen for many miles distant, suflicient ly indicate that the chief industry is the growing of wheat. At the village of Indian Head, more than 1,000.000 bush els of wheat were marketed last year. This was but a fraction of the amount of the same product marketed at the larger cities of Brandon and Kegina. At Indian Head the representative of the cannot lie may as weJl be out of tl>. wcikl.—Spanish Proverb. With a rib or two lumbago is often cured By St. Jacobs Oil. Small cost, big profits. He who wants a mule without fault rcvit WAik on foot. —Spanish Proverb. To Cure il Cold In One liny Take 112. >,:ative Bromo Quinine Tablets.. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. 'he baby's little game Bawl. Golden Days. Sudden cold brings soreness and stiffness St. Jacobs Oil brings a cure. A h\poerite makes more trouble in th world than a fool. Atchison Globe. Ihe proof of it is thousands say St. Ja cobs Oil cured me of neuralgia. He is a fool who thinks that another doe» not think Spanish Proverb. At once use St. Jacobs Oil for sprain* At once it will cure. Athletes know tbi*. I THEY EAT TO ORDER. How Fowl* Are Fattened by Machin ery on Scores of I'oultry Farms In ICnitland. There are many poultry farms in England, for fresh fowl is considered u great and staple table delicacy. They have many schemes for fattening the birds. One is to confine them in small pens, where they can have no exercise and are fed a mixture of ground oats, milk and fat. They put on flesh at a rapid rate subjected to this treatment, FATTENING A FOWL BY MACHINERY. The birds are not allowed to pick up their food in the natural manner, but have it pumped or crammed into their crops by a simple machine, consisting of a large funnel, into which the food is placed, falling into a cylinder, from which it is pumped by a piston worked by a treadle through a flexible tube some seven inches long direct into the fowl's crop. The birds are fed this way twice a day. The dexterity with which hundreds of protesting birds are thus fed is remarkable. POULTRY DOES PAY. Onr of the Mont Profitable, If Mot the Mont Profitable, Dranvhe* of r'uruil ii|t. Those who say prfultry does not pay do so because in the first place they do not expend the proportionate time and brain in caring for their fowls that they do with their other stock, says the Western liural. In the second place tuey do not keep an account, hence the many little sums are overlooked when compared with those derived from the cows, for instance, where mai y time? the capital is invested. Take care of your hens for one season, credit then: with all the eggs and chickens used al home us well as those sold, of course charging the feed and time to tlitm, and tee if they do not yield a greater profil proportionately than the average prod ucts at your disposal. Those who have thoroughly tried it, either as a business in itself or as a side issue, are almost unanimous in declaring that it is ont oi the most profitable, if not 'he mos: profitable, branches of farming. One must not expect to do well at it untesi he is willing to devote time and talents to it, and even then there are a few who, despite their best efforts, will fail; the same is true in every business and pro fession. To such I would say, try some thing else, but to the average man 1 would recommend keeping a few fowls if situated so that it is at all practicable to do so. NOTES FOR BEEKEEPERS. Too much stimulative feeding often tends to induce robbing. Colonies having defective queens are always the foundation of trouble. The strength of the colony deter mines the amount of brood therein. A board covering should never be placed over and directly on the frames. The ground in front of each hive should be banked up level witli the en trance. The first thing after hiving a swarm of bees in a frame hive is to adjust the frames. The best material in the smoker i? dry, rotten wood that has become light and spongy. When robbing once gets started in the apiary it is very troublesome and hard to check. A gargle made of sage tea and sweet ened with honey is one of the best reme dies for colds or hoarsness. When the queen goes up into the sur plus boxes she selects drone comb li possible in which to deposit her eggs. Except during the winter the in trance should be large enough to admit of the bees passing in and out readily. Combs that are new and bright are rot near so liable to become infested with worms as those of a dark color.— St. Louis Republic. Sun flit tli N for Fowln. It is not alone the cold weather in winter, but even more the lack of sun light Juring the short days, that re stricts egg production at this season. Plenty of sunlight is as essential as warmth to make the hens lively and healthful. But the single glass narrow windows, often only a single pane, and that covered with dust and cobwebs at nil seasons, and with ice in winter do little good. What are needed in all henhouses are large windows with an extra frame and glass with a space of inclosed air large enough to fill most of the south side of the building. Keep the place where the sunlight falls tree from manure and fill this with sand or coal ashes. Fowls will dust themse ves here, and basking in the sunlight tiiey will boon begin to la/. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1898. COTTON SEED MEALS. Practical Vredera Differ Ureatljr la tli« Eillmiilc of Their Value «m a Stoflc food. Much has been said and written rela tive to the use of cotton seed meal as a cattle food. Nearly all investigator* agree in giving it a liigh value and urge dairymen to use this material not only because it is a cheap source of protein but because it also has a high manurial value. Practical farmers differ greatly in their estimates of cotton seed meal. Some wem to use it very satisfactorily for awhile and later conclude that tho feed is not well adapted for their pur poses. Occasionally a feeder observes that the health of the animals is af fected by the feeding of cotton seer] too freely, and it sometimes happens that even after animals have been fed for months with apparent success that they ■re injured by its continued use. It has also happened that cows fed upon cotton seed meal do well for a time and that later the milk flow is diminished without apparent cause. There are at present no other concentrated feeding stuffs which vary so much in composi tion as cotton seed meals from different sources and different mills. Within three weeks the station has examined samples varj-ing from 22 per cent, to over 53 per cent, of protein. This greater variation in different lots of cotton seed meal may explain the different estimates of different practical feeders and of the same feed ers at different times. If a cow is fed a cotton seed meal containing EK per cent, protein and is then fed an equal weight of meal containing 52 percent, it is evident that the amount of pro tein which she receives will have been doubled by the change. If she has been fed up to her full capacity in the first instance such an increase must result disastrously. On the ther hand, chang ing from a cotton seed of high protein content would diminish the milk fow unless the amount of meal feed is cor respondingly increased.-—Bulletin of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. FOR CUTTING WOOD. SRVT PO wer Which (nn lOfiMlly !)• Conatructed n( Home by Any Kir IK lit Farmer, Sawing the year's supply of wood is * long, hard and laborious job. Many forms of power are now available, such as gas engines, windmills, water wheels, etc., which do the work qu!ck ly and easily. Where such cannot be afforded a natural mechanic can make a horse power cutter as illustrated herewith. First make a shaft (a), on which place a wheel(b) for the horse to woi kin. Make it 16 to 20 feet in diameter A heavy balance wheel (e) is then mads : r~ ■ I | HOMEMADE SAW P9WER. and a pulley (c) fastened to it and the horse power wheel. A driving pulley (d) connects the balance wheel with the saw shaft. The saw frame (112) should be made strong and durable. The wood to be sawed is laid on the iron hooks (g), which are stapled so rs to swing in and out by the saw. They hang from a heavy durable frame. A connecting bar (h) holds the hooks (g) in a uniform position. Hollers may be put on hooks (g) so the sticks to be cut will roll to the upright frame, the dis tance to be cut. One-fourth of wheel (b) is hinged into take the horse in and out.—W. A. Sharp, in Farm and Home. KrrdliiK Salt with Fodder. It is difficult to feed cut cornfodder so as to have it all eaten, and the diffi culty is increased if there are nubbins of corn in the cut fodder to scatter grains through it. Cattle and horses will nose this over to get the grains of corn, and when the fodder has been thus nosed over only the simall, fine pieces will be eaten. The better way is to grind the nubbins, corn and cob together, and apply this to the fodder after it has been moistened by steam. In this way most of the cut fodder will be eaten, and what is left can be made j more palatable by sprinkling more meal ' on it and adding some salt. By feed- j ing salt with unpalatable fodder a great deal of nutrition may be secured from i what would otherwise be wasted.— American Cultivator. Tlie llen'H l'-ittl and Se*. Periodically and frequently goes around the report that eggs wrinkled at the narrow ends produce cockerels, says the Country World. To the stu dent of embryology this fallacy is at i once apparent. For the first few days j the chicken is sexual, and then to about j the seventh day it is distinctly herma phrodite and contains within itself the j element of both sexes. After this stage j it verges in one direction, one set of j organs developing and the other dimin- j ishing, according as to whether the j gefm is going to produce a male cr a female. So that if the germ had a liv ing conscience, it would not know at the sixth day which sex it would ulti mately be. FuNt-Wnlklittf I'n nn llornen. There is a large I'ifference in the amount of work done in a year by a fast wa'king horse and one that is slow. If a team travels 20 miles a day, and an other team goes 25 miles in the .-ame time. It makes a difference of 1,500 miles for 300 working days in a year. When plowing or cultivating a large field a team will travel from 15 to 20 miles a day, and the difference of a mile or two is an important item during the busy season. There is room for a fast- walk ing bleed of horse*. California. Should you desire information repirdinß rates and through sleeping car routes, first class and tourist, to California address the undersigned. The Southern Pacific Com pany's famous Sunset Limited leaves New Orleans every Monday and Thursday arid traverses a country where the ngors'of our Winter and Spring are unknown. W. J. Berg, T. ]'. A., S. I'. Co., 220 Kllirott Sq., Buffalo, N. Y., or W. 11. Connor, C. A., S. P. Co., Chamber Commerce Bldg., Cincin nati, Ohio. Extremely "Klf." A gallant named Cobb met a maiden named Webb, And straightway he sat down beside her, And quickly proposed in a manner so glib, That he won her as soon as he spider. —Tit-Bits. Ilow'a TblaT We offer One Hund-ed Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured dv Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business tiansactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. VV est & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. 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