POULTRY FATTENING. Experts In Knrope and Canndn Now V'•*» MachincM to Prepare Fowls for City Markets. Poultry fattening experts in Europe and recently in Canada finish off the product with machines, as illustrated. The food consists of ground grain and milk mixed to a thin, pasty dough. It is placed in a cylinder, from which the small pump cylinder operated by foot power forces it into the fowl's FATTENING MACHINE, crop through a rubber tube. The crop is filled twice a day.and the process is so rapid that an expert will feed 200 or more fowls per hour. Operators as sert that the treatment is not at all painful to the birds. After feeding they are at once re placed in the small box coops, as il lustrated, one fowl to a coop. Grit is supplied. If a chicken seems ailing it is placed in a large run for a day with out food. The machine fattening proc ess occupies about three weeks. Considerable differenec is noted in the readiness with which fowls put on flesh, even when of the same breed. Large-boned specimens are preferred. The method is used only for selected birds. During the last week of the FATTENING COOPS. process it is customary to add a small quantity of pure fat to the meal and milk, to improve the delicacy of the flesh, allowing a tablespoonful of the fat per day for each lot of ten fowls, gradually increasing to double that quantity.—Farm and Home. FEEDING MOLDY CORN. A Pernicious Practice Thai May Re sult in Serion* Intestinal and Xervous Disorders. There is a great deal of moldy corn this year, and it revives the discussion that arose two years ago, when there was considerable loss from spinal men ingitis in cattle. The fall was wet that year and much corn molded, and the popular belief was that the moldy corn was responsible for the disease. The Indiana experiment station in vestigated the matter thoroughly, feeding active growths of the bac terium ard mold found in the corn, to two horses, injecting the same un der the skin, etc., without producing the disease, though some disorder of gums and mouth resulted. Finally the horses were fed all the spoiled (moldy) corn they would eat. The first three days they ate of it greed ily, but after that it was with diffi culty that they could be induced to eat any. This produced some disor der, bvit the horses quickly recovered. One horse was killed, but a post mor tem failed to discover any lesions. In none of the tests was cerebro spinal meningitis induced by moldy grain. The report says:"The results of the experiment show that inoculations with cultures of the bacteria and molds were ineffective. Eating of the mashes containing pure cultures showed that only in the case of a growth of a species of fusarium did "any intestinal disturbance follow, and that in one case the feeding of the rotted grain produced considerable in testinal disturbance and some nervous symptoms, but that the disturbance was light in the other." it appears, therefore, that while many of the cases of sickness in stock attributed to eating moldy corn are due to other causes, the continued use of such food may result in intestinal and nervous disorders of a serious nature. —Prai- rie Farmer. American Flour In Europe. Commenting on the status of Amer ican flour in Europe, Charles Taylor Fox, manager of the Pillsbury-Wash burn foreign office in London recent ly said to a correspondent: "The bak ers and bread eaters of Great Britain and Ireland consumed more than 1,500,000 barrels of Minnesota flour during the last year. The progress of the American article here is irradually finding a counterpart on the conti nent. We have broken into France and Germany, despite the supposedly prohibitive tariffs, and we are ship ping goods to such remote corners as {'inland, Egypt and Malta." j DRIED EGGS IN CANS. Che I.alr>l Way In Which Hie \illrrl« can Hen I* DlstributiiiK Her Nutritious Produvl, The portable hen is the latest thing adopted by the commissary depart ment of the army. It lays fresh < every day, is guaranteed to produce eight dozen, just as they are required, and weighs only two pounds. Requir ing neither food nor water, it can be carried conveniently in a soldier's knapsack, and all he has to do when, he wants an omelet or a "scramble" is to unscrew the "critter" and ex tract from it with a spoon. Dried egg in cans is, to speak more exactly, the army food of the immedi ate future. It is put up by a number of manufacturers in various parts of the country, but chiefly in Missouri, under different trade names, such as "evaporated egg," desiccated egg," and "crystallized egg," From two to these firms the war department has purchased large quantities of the stuff, and thousands of cans of It have been shipped to China and to the Philippines for the use of our troops. One pound is equivalent to four dozen fresh eggs, and it affords an admir able substitute, being to all intents and purposes simply hens' eggs with the water extracted, and "keeping" for years, even in a tropical climate. Dried eggs have been utilized large ly in Alaska of late, in the Klondike, and at Cape Nome. They have been furnished to British soldiers in South Africa, in Yankee cans. In this and Dther ways the American hen is dis tributing her product all over the world, and recent arctic expeditions have carried similar supplies with them.—National Stockman. ON A SOUND BASIS. From n Mere Paatlme I'onllri Keep- Ins Has Developed Into a Sound and Safe Business. Half a century ago poultry keeping was simply a fashionable amusement and pastime. The beginning may be said to be about 1847 to 1850, at the time of the introduction of the Shang hais. Those who have some knowledge of the history of the past have a fair idea of what poultry has accomplished. The* casual observer of years-ago» saw only enough of it to disgust him with the whole business. Men who were engaged in it saw enough money in it, and as many as had judgment enough to curtail expenses and reduce stock at the right time came out with a little money and more or less experience, the latter worth perhaps as much in the long run as the money. A great many so-called fanciers, however, went into the business merely for the sake of the speculation and excitement it afforded, and went out of it without knowing or caring anything about the ultimate results, of the« poultry interest at large. Fanciers of this type (and it is possible that there are a few of them in the business yet) were interested only in the proceeds, with no thought of what poultry breeding has done for the im provement of the general stock of the country and the increase of the prod ucts of the poultry yards of the nation. There have always been some fanciers who were true fanciers not specu lators—who worked for nobler ends than merely to make money. The money end, of course, was not lost sight of, but it was not the governing pur pose.—Farm and Fireside. LABOR-SAVING IDEA. How Dressed Chickens Can lie Kept In an Kxcelient Condition All Throuifli the Winter. Instead of feeding all winter the chickens that are kept for occasional eating, have a lot dressed up when freezing weather comes and pack tlu-m in a box. Set this box into a larger BOX FOR PACKING CHICKENS. box and fill the space between with now, well packed. * Fit a cover to the inner box and cover the whole top with snow, well packed. Fit a cover to the frozen there will be little danger from any "January thaw" and a pair can be taken out, thawed, cooked and eaten whenever desired, without any fear that the remainder will not keep well. —X. Y. Tribune. AMONG THE POULTRY. Athih turkey sells hard aVid at a low price. Wood ashes should not be used in the poultry house. A leafless tree or the top rail of a fence is very poor protection from storm or cold. A little thought, a little time and a very little money will add much to the comfort and health of the hens and to the profit of their owner. A few bushels of garden soil put in to the hen house now will come handy before next April. Try it and see if we are right in the statement. If soft food is fed it is an excellent plan to have a cover of slats over the trough which will permit the fowls to eat and yet keep them from getting into their feed. Keep the old turkeys for breeding purposes. Select a few of the best young ones to take the places of those that have fallen by the way during the year, or that are too old.—Nation al itural. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1901 WHEELER WAS TOO POLITE. RmbarrauinK Dilemma In AVhicli "FightliiK Joe" I.ately Found Himself. At Washington the other day it was rain ing hard, and the street care were crowded with passengers more or less bedraggled. Among them was Gen. Joe Wheeler. Next to him was a woman wearing a mackintosh, who rose to get off at Fourteenth atid F streets. Gen. Wheeler noticed an umbrel la leaning against the ear seat. _ He grabbed the umbrella, ran after the woman, caught her at the door and said: ( "Pardon me, madam, but you left your um brella." The woman looked puzzled, but took the umbrella. Gen. Wheeler resumed his soat. Then a woman on the other side of him gave a little scream and said: "Why, you nasty little m;in, you gave that woman my umbrella." Then'she appealed to the con ductor. Gen. Wheeler apologized, hut the woman said: "Now you just get right off the car and get it for me or I'll notify the police." Meekly the veteran of three wars tumbled off into the rain and ran after the woman with the mackintosh. He made a hurried explanation, got the umbrella and rushed hack to the waiting car. As he handed it back to its owner he said: "I trust you wll pardon me, madam. I as sure you it was a.l a mistake." The woman glared at him. "I don't know about that," she spiffed. "I don't be lieve you are any better than you ought to be." A Crista at the Dinner. Mr. Gooph (to guest)— Which do you prefer, dark or white meat? Eight Guests (in chorus) —White. "Sorry, but our cook prefers the white meat. Can't you change your minds?" — Baltimore American. Loclc. Bystander—Poor fellow! One of his wounds is fatal, I believe. Policeman—So it is; but the other wan ain't, so he has an even chance.—Philadel phia Press. He Waa Kmpliatlc. "I am informed that your husband is a professor of languages, and I called to find out what his terms are." "Well, when he's excited they are unfit for publication."—Richmond Dispatch. A man is never very busy around a house unless he is doing something that requires five women to wait on him. Atchison Globe. Father—"Where did you learn that new piece?" Daughter—"lt isn't a new piece The piano has been tuned."—lndianapolis News. There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. -J. G. Holland. A bad conscience burns.—Ram's Horn. The young man who thinks that he is having a game with a girl U like many an other gambler, and loses all he has before lie has properly learned the game.—Ally Sioper. An Exception.—He—"Some men can't keep their eyes off the ladies." She—"Un less those men happen! to be sitting in a street car. while the ladies are standing."— Philadelphia Press. Easy.—"Jinks has no faculty for keeping money!" "Lets it go to whoever asks him for it. I believe!" "Why, I'm told that even his wife can g'et money from him, if he has it!"— Detroit Journal. "I understand she loved him at first." "Yes, that was before." "Before what?" "Before she had found out that she had mistaken him for his rich cousin."—Cleve land Plain Dealer. Bent— "l have no use. for a girl who is a jilt." Kent —"I have—for one. She jilted the other fellow after* L met her, and mar ried me." —Sommerville Journal. "I see so much in the newspapers about subsidies. What does a subsidy mean, John?" "A subsidy, Mary, is where I give you S2O forgoing to see your mother instead of having her come to see you."—Denver News. He (feeling his way)—" What do you think of a man who leaves his friends and goes off to the north pole?" She (artless ly)—"lt depends upon the kind of man you mean, you know. You don't mean to suy that you think of going, Mr. Bluffer? Well, I hope you will have an enjoyable trip."— Boston Transcript. 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