jjjjjjS DEHORNING CATTLE. A Rack ENpecSniiy Constructed for tlie I'lirpoae of Secure)}' tloldini; Mature Cattle. In the work of dehorning mature cattle, it is essential that they be se curely held. The best jj'sn I know of is by means of a rack, as illustrated, and which I have used with hun dreds of head of stock. For its con struction, take two scantlings, a a, 2x6 inches by 6 feet. Pore three 1%- ineli holes through each piece, one in middle and one at each end. Put in three rounds, each 3 feet long, which makes the main frame. Bolt on six upright pieces, b, 2x4 inches and 5 feet high, one at middle, the other two at ends, on each side. -Mor- La : I ; A " 5 -.j" — DEHORNING RACK. tise or bolt on three crosspieees, c. at the top of uprights, each 3 feet long, to keep sides from spreading. Then nail on two oak planks, h, 2 feet 10 inches above the main frame floor, Ixl2 inches by 7y g feet; allow IS inches to extend in front to tie the animal's head to. Then board up the sides nearly solid, except for two slats, the lower one, to put a board, j, l foot wide, through, to prevent falling down while dehorning; the slot, i, be ing used to put a windlass, k, through, to draw the animal to the front of the 112 stock. Nail two strips on each side to top of uprights, each Ix 4 inch and G feet long. Then spike on two 2xt-inch pieces 5 feet long, d, across each end of the frame at the ends and on the bottom. Let them extend out 1 foot on each side. Brace them firmly as shown at e. The head of the an imal is fastened with a rope through the holes shown at protruding end of board, h. A peg is inserted under the animal's neck at g. The windlass is attached to the rope about the an imal's head and the head is drawn down close and tight against the board, h..—J. M. Tanner, in Farm and Home. HOW TO PREVENT FLJES. Flr»t Essential In the Removal of l''llth mid Trnxli, Their Natural Breeding Ci round. One of the greatest nuisances about a farm is the pest of flies in the sum mer and fall. It would be hard to estimate the loss occasioned by them every year about the barns, dairy and feed-lots. No cow can do herself jus tice where she is foreed to keep up a continued battle with a swarm of flies from daylight until dark. Wor rying at the flies is more wearing on a team than hard labor. The cause of pastured and fattening stock los ing flesh in the summer is the flies. As with most evils, the best cure is prevention. To prevent the pest one must remove their breeding-ground, which is the filth and trash about the premises. It is the case on most farms that the manure-heaps are al lowed to accumulate during the sum mer and the yards togo uncleaned. These furnish the best of breeding places for the flies. Swill barrels and buckets, too, are never washed out, but are allowed to sour and become incrusted with dirt, another source of flies. In feeding the hogs and calves milk and slop are spilled about the troughs and barrels day after day. The grouitd thus treated soon becomes a hotbed for the eggs, which will hatch and feed there. Open closets and uncovered drains are an other source, as is any place where there is decayed matter or filth for the maggots to thrive upon after latching. Flies are far more of a ocal pest than most people imagine. A farm-house whose grounds are kept clean and whose back yard is free from refuse, slops, etc., will be little troubled with flies. Stock kept in a clean stable or lot will be less troubled than the animals of the untidy, shift ' 'ss farmer. Cleanliness and flies do jt thrive together.—J. L. Irwin, in arm and Fireside. Cow with Queer Appetite. Occasionally we hear of cattle that develop an abnormal appetite for wood, eating rotten pieces of boards, *;tc. A contributor to National Stock nan states that at one Crawford county institute a gentleman com plained that one of his cows had eaten a pig-pen, a string of fence and other lumber on the premises, and he ad been compelled to fence her away •om the barn to save it. He has fed .er many and various feeding stuffs, jesides bonemeal, sawdust and other side-dishes. With lumber at present prices, the cow has expensive tastes. He wishes to know what produced the appetite, and what will cure it. He thinks he has provided foods that fur nish all the mineral elements needed, and the inclination to chew sticks and feoards seems now to be only a vicious habit. MARKED BY PROGRESS. Office of l*u lille Itonii Inquiries I n.lCf Direction of Ui-u, Stone, Hn» Hone Gooil Work. The work of the office of public road inquiries, under the direction of Gen. Koy Stone, has been marked during (he past year by steady progress along its well-established lines. A great deal of work is accomplished by correspond ence and by the gathering and dissem inating of important information re lating to various phases of the road subject. Many thousandcopiesof "good roads" literature have been distrib uted among farmers and other persons interested, and important road conven tions have been attended by repre sentatives of the office, and many state legislatures have asked for,and received assistance in framing new road legisla tion. Examples of steel road tracks have been completed in a number of different localities, and these experi mental sections of steel road clearly demonstrated their usefulness for the western states and for other places which are but sparingly supplied with good stone and gravel. When steel be comes cheap once more, the manufac turers can take the matter up and make a series of special shapes. The object lessons furnished by sample roads have been extensive, and sections | have been built in several parts of the country. As a result of the investiga tions, the office considers that for local needs as well as for our material devel opment and prosperity a well-regulated system of public roads through the whole country is, day by day. becoming more necessary. While we have the most perfect railway system in the world, our public highways are and al ways have been inferior to those of any other country in the civilized old world. As our public roads are the veins and arteries of our agricultural, commercial and social life, they are not yet receiving the consideration that their great importance deserves. Much has been done in the United States to ward road building during the last few years, but much more needs to be dene. —Scientific American. STRONG RAIL FENCE. Tlie Picture Here Given Shown One Tlmt Is Convenient anil \ot Hi pcnuive to I'ut Ip. When a farmer has a lot of old rail fences going to rack he will find the fence shown in the illustration thn cheapest one he can build. Set posts six inches closer together than the rails are long; take two pieces of or dinary fencing-wire, each about sic feet long, and place on sides of first two posts, having wire on second post on opposite side to wire on first post; fasten these wires to the post at or near the ground. Now place a rail be tween the wires and posts, drawing wire up tightly over rail and stapling '''''"' L: CONVENIENT RAIT, FENCE. just above rail with long staple, doing same at both ends; put on another rail as before, and continue till top of posts is reached, which completes the first panel. The other panels are made in the same way. taking care not to have both ends of the panel on the same side of posts, but run alternately as started. The illustration shows the way rails are stapled to posts and the manner of running panels. As the rails when put on posts in this way do not touch each other they will last longer than when put on any other way; and I like this method of making use of old rails very well, for by setting posts and using a little wire a good fence can be made from a very poor one. Build six to eight rails high. Should a post rot off any time set another near it and fasten rails as before. J. G. Allshouse, in Farm and Fireside. WANT GOOD ROADS. The Farmers of I*eni»M> Ivnnin Are I)c --i; i lining to I*lls' Attention to the CoMt of 11 ii ii 1 ivi 4^. The subject of good roads is begin ning to occupy the attention of tlie farmers of Pennsylvania, and prom ises to become, before long, a prom inent factor instate and county elec tions. In a recent address at Doylestown Edmund (j. Harrison, chief engineer of the United States department of road inquiry, said the average cost of transporting products in the United States over common roads is 25 cents per mile, an aggregate of $900,000,- (KIO. With good roads, such as they have in many parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, Massachu setts and Kentucky, he said, the cost is reduced to eight cents per mile. The average of building good roads is about $3,000 per mile. According to these figures, it is much cheaper to maintain good roads than it is to allow the poor ones to re main. Good roads practically effect a saving of two-thirds in transportation. The residents of cities have learned to realize the benefits of improved highways. it is safe to assert that Philadelphia would not go back to the old era of cobblestone paving and reeking gutters if they had to sell tHe public buildings and the ground on which they are situated.—Philadelphia (tern. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1900. A SENATORS LETTER. Peruna as a Nerve and Ca tarrh Tonic the Talk of tlie World. Hon. AV. V. Sullivan. TT. from Allssisslppl. lion. \Y. A'. Sullivan, L'nitcd States Sen ator from Mississippi, in a letter recently written to Dr. 11 artman from Oxford, Miss., says the following: "For some time I have been a sufferer from catarrh in its most incipient stage, so much so that I became alarmed as to my general health. But, hearing of l'e-ru-na as a good remedy, I gave it a fair trial and soon began to improve. Its effects were dis tinctly beneficial, removing the annoying symptoms, and was particularly good as a tonic. "1 take pleasure in recommending your great national catarrh cure, l'e-ru-na, as the best I have ever tried." "\Y. V. Sullivan." Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Peruna has no substitutes no rivals. Insist upon having Peruna. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, 0., for a free book on catarrh. GAVE SOME POKER ADVICE. (low Comedian Duly "Laid Down" to 111* Tailor by Tele phone. There probably have been times when Dan Daly was a few cents ahead in a quiet game of draw, but nobody in the alley seems to be able to locate them, llis hands never yet have become calloused dragging celluloid buttons across a green cloth. He has got so used to quietly "laying down" that any other turn of affairs, his friends are afraid, would bring about heart failure. The other day his tailor called him up by telephone, says the Chicago Chronicle. "Ilello," says the tailor. "llello," says the telephone girl, soft and mellow. "Number, please." "Umpteen hundred and 'steen," says the tailor. "Well, hello," says Daly. "Is Mr. Daly there?" asks the tailor. "Yes. This is he?" "Oh, is that you, Mr. Daly? 1 didn't rec ognize vour voice." • Yes, Yes." "Keep away there, central! Hello there! Hello, there! llello, Mr. Daly!" "Well, well, what is it ?" says Daly. "This is Mr. Taylor," says the tailor. "Well, what do you want?" "Hello! Is that .\lr. Daly?" shrieks the tailor. "Yes, yes, yes. What are you trying to do?" "I've got two pairs of trousers here—"be gins the tailor. ; "Speak louder," says Daly. "I ve got—" begins the tailor again. "V ou're too near the 'phone," says Daly. TLen the tailor roars: "I've pcot two pairs—" "They're good," says Daly, and he rings off. Particular About Ills Shoes. A western couple who were on a visit to New York for the iirst time put up at the Waldorf-Astoria during their stay in this city, and what was left oi their" iVst day in New York they largely devoted to view nig the decorations of the hotel. The myrtle room, the Astor gallery and the great ball room were viewed by them, a.ul the mag nificence of the appointments and oppulent decorations left them breathless. They said little, however, in comment, but that awe was one of the feelings that what they had witnessed gave rise to was evidenced by the husband, who, upon retiring for the night, when he was asked by his faithful spmise, if, according to his usual custom, he was not going to put his shoes outside to be blackened, emphatically replied: "Not much. If I did they'd gild them." —N. Y. Tribune. A falling glass in the kitchen usually in dicates a domestic storm. —Chicago Daily News. The illiteracy of the people of our new dependencies is particularly shocking, in that an illiterate population requires com paratively few postmasters of the fourth class.—Detroit Journal. It is not enough for your true poet that the vulgar herd does not know what he meane in his poetry; he will not be content until he -himself does not know what he means. —Detroit Journal. An Atchison cirl had been told that to preserve domestic harmony she should never get mad at. the same time as her husband, #ut should wait her turn. She has been married ten years, and finds that in acting upon this advice she hasn't had a turn yet. —Atchison Globe. Old Gentleman (rigid teetotaler) —"I thought I told you to write to Mr. Brown and tell hiin I was laid up with rheuma tism?" Factotum- "Yes, sir." Old Gentle man —"Then what d'vou mean by telling him I was laid up witn gout?" Factotum— "Well, sir, to tell the truth, sir, it was a more convenient word, sir!" —Punch. Caller—"lsn't vour mother in, Ethel?" Ethel —"No, ma am. She's down town." Caller "Shopping?" Ethel "Oh, no, ma'am. I don t think she lutd time for that. She said she was just going to run down ar.d get some things she needed."— Philadelphia Press. "What is your greatest household ex pense?" asked the lirst deaf and dumb man. Matches," wiggled the fingers of the sec ond. "Matches.'" came the surprised in- ; qtiiry from the astonished hand of the lirst man. "Yes; 1 talk in my sleep, and my j wife always lights a match to see what I | am saying."—Baltimore American. "There is no clew," said the police, and I went their way. Next there came a re porter, or commissioner, who examined the murdered man more.carefully. "11a!" he exclaimed, at last. "The left sleeve of his overcoat shows signs of having been recent ly laughed in!" Then he hurried cut, and presently the newsboys could be heard cry- j ing extra editions of the Evening Convul *ton. —Detroit Journal. *)L |__ - _ 1"J " _| "__ "jf" T V „ N |_ Wc-rc. i lvi il the foilowinßt iPcram frc.ni our buyer whielii'XKlainnltiii'lf; "Pm.'iised Mini-hundred a:id r.ovrnty IIT> New Binding Twine, 9&c 111 IIIOI inn.' <»i t his kind thm \vi- would by iharjfintf them the regular market value. Consequently w<- divide this profit «it h v«»v; ind w ill Mtnplv av t hut « ln-ti t his twine is out you can rest assuw« d th.it we wnl tr\ to male y< ii - <» \v prices us possible, but. nevertheless, wo would suKtfest that yon tfet your ordrr in at once for any part that yon may want ol this lot. Wo will be able to ship b> May JUth, an the tw lie reaches us by fust freight. Fhc above tflegraiu wu received May 22. Send for agricultural implement catalogue. T. M. ROBERTS' SUPPLY HOUSE, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. ! IT MADE A DIFFERENCE. [ Om 1 Inntanro In U hlcli Society and ' Dramatic I'rilic-m liid Xot Agrr*. ; ( Frf m the Daily Grind, May 8, 180JJ, re la tod liv the I mlianapolit l'ress: "Aliss / \ iolet Horida Waters, in the amateur per formance by the llistrion dub of 'Cainille' „ last night displayed an ability and a marvel- j ous command of stage technique that many a professional might envy. It is.safe to pre ? diet for this gifted lady that if she I ever choose to adopt tne ctage as u career { hi# name will become one of the famous i ones in dramatic history." [ s From the Daily Grind, May 12, 1900: : "'1 he l'lugalong repci'toirc company opened I at the i.jiera house la*t night in 'Cainille.' | Seldom has the dear old chcstnuit been so : badly done—the worst offender being Violet : Florida Waters, v.'ho punched holes iti the j title role and frazzled its edges in a manner that plainly showed her to need years and i, years of training before she will be lit to be anything better than « back row ornament in an amateur show—let alone scale the • proud heights of the drama at ten-Iwent- ' thirt. Jliss Waters is a frost." 1 i <3 Many I'eoplc ("iiiinol Drink: ; - coffee at night. It spoils their sleep. You 1 can drink (j!rain-(I when you please and sleep j like a top. Fur Grain-O does not stimulate; I it nourishes, cheers and feeds. Vet it looks | and tastes like the- best eoliee. For nervous persons, young people and children (!rain-0 is the perfect drink. Made from pure grains. Get :i package from your grocer to-day. Try it in plac of coffee. 15 and 23c. She Sever Ilenrd of (lie Hrimi River. ! Mrs. Grogin Pat's got a job in the tubc-woiks up on the Urorix. Mrs. Dugan—Arrah! Oi'vc afteu rid i.v thim bronchial tubes. —Judge. niiiiler Tnlne «t low Prleei. If you want a special ir.snle price on bind er twine, cither Sisal. Standard or Manila, cut this notice out and mail it to Sears. Roe- J buck& Co. i Hinder Twine Department I, Chi- I cago, stating about how much twine yxrj will require «nd how soon ><>u will want it.and they will save you money by quoting you a | price that will either secure your order or i compel the party who supplier you to sell to j you at a lower price than he otherwise I would. Fay—"l accepted Mr. lioxley laft night." 1 May—"Good gracious! Weren't you nervous | about it?'' Fay— "So. Why? ' May—"Oh, ! I would have been. I should think the sus pense would be awful while you wire wait- j ing lor his answer."—Philadelphia i'rtss. Lime') I'umlly Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head ache. Price 25 and 50c. A child sometimes gets on the wronp track because, of a misplaced twitch. Chicago Daily News. Do Your Feet Ache and Bnrnf Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease, I a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes Feel Easy. Cures Corns, Itching, Swollen, Hot, Callous, Smarting, Sore and Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad dress, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. V. Mrs. Snaggs—"l read to-day that a pot of tea exploded in "uck- M stomach feels sore, | j Wjgjy by spells get short g Wffl of breath anil am 0 , JJ . V very nervous. Men if/ i * struation is very ir- I \ln It regular with severe I \ bearing down pains, \ \ \ cramps and back ( V ache. I hope to hear 7 from you at once."— " CLARA KOPP, Rockport, Ind., Sept. 27, IS'JB. "I think it is my duty to write a letter to you in regard to what Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound did for me. 1 wrote you some time ajfo, describing my symptoms and asking your advice, which you very kindly j gave. lam nov; healthy anil cannot } begin to praise vour remedy enough. \ I would say to nil suffering women, 4 4 Take Mrs. Pinkliam's advice, for a wo- 1 I man best understands a woman's suf- } ferings, and Mrs. Pinkham, from her \ vast experience in treating female ills, 1 t can give you advice that you can get 1 from no other source.' " —CLARA KOPP, . r Rockport, Ind., April 14, 1899. n< qtlOO Hrvrnril fIOO. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of ihe system, thereby destroying the foundation oi 'ie disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its cura tive powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Tlie Man Ileiter Reform. To a man who never can make his salary stretch from one payday to the next a learned financial article on"The Elasticity of Our Currency" must seem bitter sarcasm. —N. Y. Press. ' To Cure a Colli In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money it'it fails tocure- 25e. jSrlJlXF'®; Ij For Infanta and Children. 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