Cameron County press. (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, April 26, 1900, Page 7, Image 7
LANTERN IN THE BARN. Dangrer from Fire In Minimised by Suapeudinit It front a Stout Overhead Wire. In a recent issue Air. Knapp right fully calls attention to the necessity for the practice of some system in lighting the barn winter evenings and mornings, and guarding against lire by having some safe, arrangement for handling lanterns, rather than set ting the lantern down here and there, sometimes on uneven surfaces, and al ways with the danger of having it tipped or kicked over; or, worse yet, WIRE FOB LANTERN, allowing the striking of a match oc casionally to find some particular ar ticle in a hurry. The idea of hang ing the bale of the lantern in the snap of a buckle is good, for then, no mat ter how much the lantern is swayed it cannot fall. To avoid changingthe location of the. lantern from hook tc hook, an excellent device is to run an overhead wire along the space de sired to be lighted in one or two places in the barn or stable. To this wire can be attached a snap-buckle with a ring, so as to allow of its being slid along from one end to the other, and thus the lantern can be moved along at will to any point under the wire. Another point about the. lantern in the barn is to keep the chimney clean. A lantern never gives too much light, anyway, but a dirty, smoky chimney, besmeared with greasy finger-marks, will shed just about half as much light as a clean glass.—(iuy E. Mitchell, in Farm and Fireside. THE VALUE OF WEEDS. They Keep the fertility of Soil from Leucliini; Out mid Are of Yuluc In Other Wu>«. Weeds have a value. The writer once heard I'rol. Bailey say that the weed is the friend of the farmer, and no man should want to get rid of a farm because it is weedy. He him self had purchased a good farm at a low price, because it had all run to weeds and the former owner believed that they were so numerous as 1u greatly reduce the value of the land. But these same weeds had been keep ing the fertility of the soil from leacn ing out, and had kept the ground in a condition where it would not bake, but would readily yield to the plow. He simply turned all the weeds under and got back the fertility they had taken from the ground. Then lie planted to other crops and had a re gained farm. Were it not for weeds, say after a clover crop, the nitrogen in the soil in readiness for plant use would disap pear. As it is, the weeds take it up and hold it for subsequent crops. The cultivation that is necessary to keep down weeds is not time and effort lost. The benefit to the crop culti vated is more than enough to pay for the outlay. The additional effect of conservation of moisture is not to be forgotten. Weeds are also valuable for the work they do in keeping the land in the hands of the many. Were there no weeds the cultivation of the land could be undertaken on an immense scale by men of wealth and a mo nopoly in land would be possible. If such a monopoly were attempted at t this time, the cost of Keeping the land l ( clean would make it impossible tn keep it under control.—Farmers' lie. view. Mixed Ration* for l.nmhM. Prof. 1. I*. Roberts gives us a formula for mixing grain ration for fattening lambs, corn meal and wheat bran lu<J pounds each, oil meal 20, pounds; peas, 30 pounds, oats, 50 pounds. Alix and feed from one-half to one pound a day per head. 11' clover hay is fed wholly or in pari, there should be more corn given, and less peas and outs, but tli« above is about right when shredded corn fodder or dry hay is used. lie gives no directions for a ration of roots togo with this, but we would add some every day when not feeding clover hay •r ensilage, if we could have thein.— American Cultivator. Dipping I» u Uooil Practice. The practice of dipping sheep is a rery commendable one. In fact, it is tonsidered absolutely necessary for the preservation of the flock. Alanyon the western range think that sheep are i-ee from all diseases, but the fact re nains that, while sheep may run a year »r two and show no signs of being af <ected in any way, there may be a ew sheep that are affected and eonse |uentlv the whole Hock must be dipped io reach the few, as well as to prevent die growth of the disease until it tffccts the whole llock.—Rural World, SKIM MILK FOR HOGS. It Mnbn (hp Ordinary (.ruin Kecdl More IliKotlblr and In a liuuJ t'le*h Producer. Skim milk should always be used when it is available. It is not only a good flesh producer in itself, but i* also makes the ordinary grain feeds more digestible and so adds greatly to their value. While skim milk alone is rarely profitable, from 20 to 40 pounds being required to make a pound of meat, when mixed with grain in tlia proportion of 3 pounds or less of milk to eaeli pound of grain its value is greatly increased. In a test reported by C. P. Goodrich 1 bushel of corn produced 10 pounds of pork, and 100 pounds of skim milk produced 5 pounds of pork, when fed separately. When fed together, however, the mix ture produced 18 pounds of meat, an increase of 3 pounds due to the mix ing. In this case 100 pounds of skim milk took the place of 44.8 pounds of corn. If the corn was worth 25 cents per bushel, the milk was worth 10.fi cents per 100 pounds; if the corn was worth 40 cents, the milk was worth 31.4 cents. Extended tests in the feed ing of skim milk have been made at the Utah station, and among the facts brought out by the work are these: "The hogs fed on the milk-and grain ration made much more rap'd gains than either those fed on milk alone or on grain alone. The time re quired to make 100 pounds of gain was 7!) days for the hogs fed on milk and grain, 116 days for those fed on grain alone, and 147 days when tiie feed was milk alone. The milk-and grain-fed lots required 2.58 pounds of digestible matter, the milk-fed lots 2.85 pounds, and the grain-fed lots 3.19 pounds to make 1 pound of gain in live weight." In this case 100 pounds of skim milk took the place of 23.2 pounds of grain in the mix ture. Work at other stations has given very similar results and has demonstrated that when not more than 4 pounds of skim milk is used with each pound of grain the milk is worth from 15 to 30 cents per 100 pounds. The younger and smaller the hogs the higher is the value of the milk. For fullgrown and aged an imals it is of less value. It may l;o taken as a safe rule that it is profit able to pay at least 15 cents per 100 pounds for all the skim milk needed to make four times the weight of the grain fed, and where it is hnpossiblo to secure enough for all the hogs the available supply should be given to those pigs nearest the weaning age and to sows suckling pigs.—Farmers' Review. GOOD CHEAP HALTER. How to Mnke One of n slntlc Piece of Hope, at an Kzpenjie of About Fifteen Cents. Take a piece of one-half-inch rope 12 feet long. Untwist 18 inches of one end, and secure it from untwist ing any further by tying a strong string around it at that point. At a point 10 inches from this tie open the strands of the rope and pass the untwisted strands through, drawing \ GOOD ROPE HALTER. up tight, thus forming a loop of rope five inches long. Now braid the three loose strands tightly to within three or four inches of the ends. The braid ed piece goes over the animal's nose. Next measure off about three feet from the loop, open the strands at that point, and work in the loose ends of the braid well so as to give strength at that point. The three foot piece goes over the top of the animal's head. Now puss the end of the rope through the loop, and a strong halter of one piece of rope, costing possibly 15 cents and 20 min utes' work, .s complete. By using cat tle tie-iroiw it would be an improve ment. —C. E. Shell, in Farm and Fire side. AMONG THE POULTRY. As soon as the brood is taken from the nest remove all the old straw and burn it. After a hen is three years old she be comes unprofitable as an egg-pro ducer, and is rather tough for table use. In marketing, the eggs should be clean and attractive and the fowls well fattened and well dressed. There ia considerable in appearance. Do not, put over ten or eleven eggs under the sitf ing hen at this season, as she will hatch more chicks from that number than she will from fifteen. Warm, dry shelter should be provid ed for the young chicks, so that they may not be forced to remain out during cold and disagreeable weather. —Farm- ers? lteview. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1900. SHOCKING A LANDLORD. The Client" Wanted Cheap Game lu ll tin 11 of lIlKh-I'rleed Store Aleut. We had been at a Rocky Mountain hotel for a week, and beefsteak and mutton chops had been on the bill of fare at every meal to the exclusion of all other meats. It , w s finally decided to send the colonel to toe landlord to protest, and having gained the ear of mine host, he said: , "1 want to speak to you in a good natured way about your meats." "My meats?" echoed the landlord. \\ hy. is there anything wrong about my meats? I'm get ting the very best." "It's beefsteak and mutton, you know. "Yes, I know, and they cost me a heap of money to get 'em here, ves. sir. almost worth their weight in silver, but I must have the best. What is it you complain ofr "We don't complain. What 1 wanted to ask you was about game. There must be game around here." "Of course. Do you mean to say that vour crowd wants venison, bear meat, ante lope, prairie chicken, turkey and so on. "Kxactly. Yes, that's what we want. "li[ place of beef and mutton?" "Well, I'll be hanged. Here, .Tim. tell the bovs togo out after a cartload of game and to keep it up for three or four days! Here's a crowd kicking about steaks at .15 cents per pound and chops at RO and ready to fill up on game at two dollars a ton. \\ ell, you eastern folks beat the band in y°'ir queer tastes about eating! Next thing you 11 be telling me you jirefer wild goose to a Chi cago sugar cured ham!"— Boston. Globe. BELIEVES IN HORSE SENSE. Veterinarian Converted by » SieU Steed That Soujcht a Doctor. "Experience has convinced me that there is such a thing as horse sense," said a veter inary surgeon who has a shop on the South side. "A friend of mine had a beautiful chestnut driving mure that was subject to severe spells of colic. About a year ago she got very sick and Jones, the owner, brought her over here for treatment. I cared for her, and she seemed as grateful as a human being might, rubbing her nose against my coat sleeve, and showing her affection in her dumb way. "One day about six months ago up she came to the door of the shop, moaning and evidently suffering acutely. 1 treated her again and she got better. I found out aft erward that there was no one at her home stable that day and that she had worked the halter off and had set out to find the doctor." "Curious circumstance," said the man who had heard the story. "liut that's not all of it," said the doctor. "Three days ago I came down to my office in the morning about nine o'clock. There lay the chestnut mare in front of the door — dead. She had been taken sick, had made her way as before to the shop in the night, and found nobody there to give her medi cines, and she had died. Now, if this story isn't proof that a horse can reason I would like to hear something to beat it."—Chicago Inter Occam ■ A Filipino Tartar. Lieut. Col, If. H. Sargcant, U. S. A., tell.-! many en joyalble a r stories. Once when instructing 1 sonic new men lie asked: "Wlhen you are 011 the f-kinmi.-h line, and suddenly encounter the eneitny, what would you do?" "Foil flat." "And what next?" "Stay there." On another occasion lie was ques tioning a man respecting' his absence for six hours. "I wis chasing a Filipino for an hour, sir." "How about rthe other five hmtrs?" " The Filipino and his 'friends were chasing me, siir."—Philadelphia Satur day Evening Post. A K esrn In r Riril. The burglar sometimes becomes a jail bird, because he's a robin.—Philadelphia Record. Try Gruin-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as'well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomachs receive it without distress. 1-4 the price of coffee. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per package. Sold by all grocers. Artillery. Artillery is becoming all the time a more important branch of the military service. In a sense war is already almost as much of a shell game as is diplomacy.—Detroit Jour nal. CouKliing; Lead* to Conniimptlon. Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at once. Goto your druggist to-day and get a sample hottle free. Large bottles 25 and 50 cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous. The advice of some people should be ac companied with printed directions for tak ing.—Chicago Daily News. Carter'* Ink. Good ink is a necessity for good writing. Carter's is the best. Costs no more than poor ink. Fortune sometimes favors the brave and sometimes she leads thc-m into a trap.— Puck. KLONDIKE S^NE^ NOTE— H v ery Druggist from Klondike to Cuba sells Laxative Bromo-Quini ne Tablets for Colds and Grip. In fact it is the only Cold and Grip prescription sold throughout this vast territory which is striking evidence of its virtue and popularity. This signature a PP cars on every box of the genuine article. No Cure, No Pay. Price 25c. FAIR WOMEN SPEAK. Pe=ru=na Works Wonders for the Gentler Sex in Catarrhal Ailments. 1 MRS. COLONEL HAMILTON, j_ That Pe-ru-na has become a house hold remedy in the home of Mrs. Colonel Hamilton is well attested by a letter from her, which says:"l can give my testimony as to the mer its of your remedy, I'e-ru-na. I have been taking 1 the same for some time, and am enjoying better health now than I have for some years. I attrib ute the change to Pe-ru-na, and rec ommend Pe-ru-na to every woman, believing it to be especially beneficial to them." Mrs. Hamilton's residence is 259 Goodale street, Columbus, Ohio. to me. I feel healthy and well, but if I should be sick I would know what to take. I have taken sev eral bottles for female complaint. I am in the change of life and it does me good." Have you catarrh of the head, throat, lungs, stomach or any other organ of the body? 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