PUZZLE PICTURE. \^, 1IM) I'll I M'lo IfK.MtY. AMERICAN SPONGE CULTURE. IntereMttnK Vceoun( of the I.nliorx of the I nlted SlnlcH Kixli Com xii iMM ton in That Direct 1011. During the pa.st winter the United States fish commission continued in Florida waters certain experiments which were begun last year in the propagation of sponges. Though it is as yet too early to be confident of re sults, the success thus far obtained lias been very gratifying. That sponges of commercial varieties can be planted and grown by artificial means seems to be proved, and it only remains to ascertain whether the work can be made profitable on a large scale. Reckless fishing has seriously di minished the supply of sponges along the shores of Florida, and it is of urg ent importance that something be done to increase the crop, says the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. The process of artificial culture is simple enough, pieces about the size of fine's thumb being cut from living sponges and attached with wires to boards, poles or pieces of rock in wa ter only a few feet deep. The cutting is done on a wet board with a knife or a fine saw, care being taken to re tain the outer skin as far as possible and to avoid injury to the animal So rapidly do t he cut t ings grow t hat with in from two to five years they are large enough for market. The fish commission steamer Fish Ilawk has been ordered south to con tinue the experiments which are be ing conducted in Biscayne bay and on the shores of Sngarloaf Key. Or dinarily the cuttings are made from de formed sponges that have little mar ket value, but they assume symmet rical shape during growth Quiet wa ter. a firm bottom, and the absence of muddy sediment are essential condi tions. Enemies there are few to guard against, though some hermit crabs are said) to eat sponges. Of course, the sponge commerce is in reality only the skeleton of the sponge animal The living creature is covered with a thin, slimy skin, per forated by numerous canals which run through it. Through these canals cur rents of water are constantly kept flowing by means of little hairlike ap pendapes which line them, and in this way the minute organisms on which the sponge feeds are supplied. A sponge combines both sexes, and the young are simply thrown out into the water. They swim about for awhile, and after a few hours settle down, at taching themselves to some suitable surface and beginning to grow. Tt is a notable fact that the fishery for sponges is confined to a single state of the union, Florida, though the prod uct is more generally employed and has a wider range of usefulness than any other commercial article yielded by American waters. There is scarce ly a civilized habitation in the coun try in which the sponge is not in daily use. It is a curious fact that the three most important American species— "sheepswool," "yellow" and "glove" THE EVOLUTION OF AN ORATOR. 3 U ~ —seem to be pretty much the same as the leading Mediterranean sponges, which po under the names of "horse," "bath" and "ziinocca." Though for general purposes there is no better sponge than the Florida sheepswool, some of the foreign sponges, such as those used in sur gical practice, are more delicate and bring much higher prices—occasion ally as much as s">» a pound. The possibility of transplanting to our own waters some of the best of the foreign sponges lias been seri ously suggested. It is thought that a small colony of them, properly cared for and used for propagation, might form a beginning from which a valuable industry could be devel oped. One dilliculty in the way of this kind of submarine agriculture, if such a term may be applied to the planting and reaping of an animal crop, is that the sponge fishermen in Florida are mcuh opposed to it. They fear the absorption of the business by en pit alist s. Meanwhile, the Florida sponge fish ery is being rapidly destroyed by overfishing and lack of protection. An incidental cause of trouble is the | so-called "black water," which comes about once in a decade and destroys | the sponges, causing immense num | hers of them to float up to the sur face of the sea. Some think that this poisonous water is due to submarine volcanic disturbance, but the ques • lion 4s in dispute. In 187S there was j a plague of this kind so disastrous j that all the sponging grounds from 'Cedar Keys southward to 40 miles ! north of Key West were ruined. The Florida sponge fishery yields • about 300,000 pounds of sponges every year. More than seven-eighths of the j business is carried on at Key West, | where the sponges are prepared for - market by permitting them to rot in I the sun; then, after being washed j clean, they are sold at auction. The | sheepswool sponge, for most pur- I poses, lias no superior anywhere, be ing more durable than the best Medi j terranean sponges, though somewhat coarser. It grows to good commer cial size in one year. Mlilte Mice for Submarine*. Gasoline is. it appears, the fuel most suitable for submarines; but human sensations give no more warning when its collected fumes are becoming dan gerous. White mice, however, are said to be extremely sensitive to this poi son. and perish incontinently before human beings begin to suffer the slightest ill effects. So in all subma rines of the future cages full of white mice are to be kept on the floor, whence the heavy emanations gradually rise, and it will always be some one's duty togo around and see how the mice are getting on.—Country Life. Knew Whiit Work \Ya H . The Tramp—Could you tell me, sir, how 1 can find work? Bilyuns—Sure; buy an automobile and try to keep it in running order! Baltimore Herald. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1902. PORTABLE HOG CHUTE. It Cnn IleC'nrrled Around Eimlly mid AiljiiNtH IlKclf ltciidily to Any Height of WfIKOD. To make cliute to lond hops into farm wagon, make bottom out of one inch oak plank, 32 inches wide; eight feet long, with two cross pieces marked a at each end, ten inches from the end of 2x4; one cross piece 2x4 in middle marked b three inches wider than bottom, with hole two inches from edge of bottom, with two iron dogs at one end to rest on bottom of wagon box marked c. The sides should be made same length, .'lO inches high with three battens of Ix 4or Ix 6 inch plank, batten of same dimensions with a wagon body strap rivited on middle batten, with thumb nut on the end. Set on side of bottom and screw up nut, and you have a truss that will hold any weight. An eye bolt marked d through bottom at d and then a hook (e) with eye on - F] E] r."'.".' *":'Zhv.'.'P >.V:J b 0 * =© SIMPLE HOG CIIUTE. one-half inch rod connected to eye on one side, and hook on the other to hook in an eye-bolt on the other side, keeps the sides from being pressed apart. If desired the bot tom can be made the same width anil length of wagon-box, which when taken down makes a good cover for box or rack for hauling hogs. I consider a hog chute an in dispensable device on a well ar ranged farm, and this one is su perior to any I have seen, the ma jority being so clumsy and heavy that it takes two or three men to move them. But this one can lie taken on the wagon where needed; then it adjusts itself to any height of wagon or any place.—W. 15. Os born.in Agricultural Epitomist. IDEAL FEED FOR HOGS. Skim Milk, Mlxeil with 112« roil ml or Whole Oraln, Produce* Moat hat isfiietory IteHiiltx. T regard skim milk as a valuable part of the hog ration, worth at least 30 cents per hundred pounds, when mixed with grain either whole or ground, writes J. 11. Crowley in the Kansas Farmer. That is, if a,dollar's worth of feed be used for hogs, 30 cents' worth, or 100 pounds of skim milk, would make the ration more valuable than if the whole dollar was used for grain with only water instead of skim milk. This skim milk keeps hog healthy, and, therefore, thrifty, preventing consti pation and its attending evils, especial ly swine plague or hog cholera, the dread of all farmers raising hogs. In fact, I cannot recall a case of hog cholera or other disease among hogs where skim milk formed a good part of the hog ration. 1 have in mind nota bly the case of one of our station patrons who recently sold a nice, thrifty hog on this market weighing some 400 pounds, fed and raised wholly on skim milk from this station, which shows that wc can make porkers equal to the best grain-fed and more healthy than those fed on grain alone. If this result of feeding skim milk can be ob tained in one instance why can it not be obtained in many and by any farmer. (ireen Cut Ilone for Ileim. For laying liens there is nothing equal to green cut bone. My Bull Rocks are wonderful egg machines. 1 have not yet seen their equal. I feed cut bone every day (if I ha>e it) right from the cutter, for old and young fowls. In winter mix it with out clover soaked over nighty and for grain feed wheat.or oats with occasionally a lit tle corn. In summer the fowls have free range and can get plenty of grass and in winter get all the cut clover they will eat. The wheat is fed in scratching shed a foot deep with leaves. At this season farmers and poultrymen have pullets which they wish to lay. A bone cutter would be a profitable investment. The cut bone is just wlia/, the poultry need. It is cheap and saves feeding so much grain. —Commercial Poultry. How to ItinK Ilnotiiiic HOK". The fr.rmer should ring the hogs' noses when he finds them rooting where he does not want them to root. Then his temper is about right to do the work promptly and well. We have a light rack, just large enough to hold common-sized hogs. The top is open and the sides and ends are made of round, upright sticks, the size of fork handles. Both ends open by sliding up. We place this rack in a narrow doorway at the stable and let a hog in. Then we pull his nose up with a slip noose rope and put a ring in the nose. We let the hog pass out at the other end of the rack. It is narrow, so the j hog cannot turn in it. Have a small ring at the end of the rope making the j slip noose to make it close and ope# ' easily. —Farmers' Voice. CORN DIET FOR HENS. M«ny I'liiillrynifn Advocate It. Al« though Grain IN Not hy Any lleana an litrul ltution. One reason why farmers do not re alize more from their poultry, 1 believe, is because they make corn the main diet. Corn is considered by them to be the cheapest feed and the handiest to feed, for, by throwing it out on the ear, the hens are given more or less exefcise in picking it off, hence the owner is saved the labor of scattering the grain in the litter for the fowl* to scratch out. But I have little faith in this plan of exercising and feeding fowls, says V. M. Couch in the Poultry Monthly. With a good many farm ers corn is probably a cheap food, but evtn this depends somewhat upon the season of the year, the climate and wlether the hens have 'free range or not. In cold weather corn may be fed quite liberally to laying stock without in.ury, and also to fowls having farm ra ige, but when given in the way that many feed it, by spreading it on the gnund before the hens three times a Cay, all they will eat. I believe that it is "xpensive hen feed. Very many at tribute the increase of eggs to corn, when, in fact, the corn has produced eg,'s more by keeping the hens warm thin through the supply of egg ele ments afforded. Kggs cannot be made to any great extent by corn alone, or for a long time, for the reason that a hen fed nothing but corn will be unable to supply the mineral elements of the eggs, and while she may by eating largely of corn find sufficient nitrogen fcr an egg, she will sooner or later be ciine excessively fat from too much carbon. A very economical and good feed for winter egg production is a mixture of clover, cut in half-inch lengths and scalded, with corn meal aid bran. This is a very complete ra tion on all Ihe elements necessary for egys. It supplies bulky food, promotes digestion, affords a variety and costs loss than any other food that I have been able to get. When a hen leaves corn for other feed, it means that she wants something not fully supplied by corn. Without except ion, the best results may be had from a varied diet, aii'l while a hen may do very well on corn, she will do belter on a variety. It is not an easy matter to make up a perfectly balanced ration for a lay ingl hen. While she is producing eggs she will use a vast amount of raw ma terial, but if she stops laying a corn diet will soon ruin her. A concentrat ed food for hens should be avoided. Milk added daily to other food assists largely in supplying many needed ele ments not easily obtained from other sources. Clover, vegetables, milk, meat and corn fir wheat are better than any single article. LARGE POULTRY PLANT. I)onhle 11 olive Knpine South, with Two llown of It<lolll y I'eiiN fur III RI]N of All AKI-H. The plan portrayed is shown in re sponse to a request from 11. T. I'., of Salford, Out., who wishes to build a house 25 by 70 feet with two rows of pens facing the south. The house is MODEL, POULTRY PLANT, in successful use by a Del poultryman. It is 27 feet wide, including three-foot passageway, and 70 feet long, divided into six pens with corresponding yards. The windows in the slanting fronts ad mit the winter sun to all the pons. The cost is less than for the same number of pens in a single row, while the care iifj INSIDE OF POULTRY HOUSE. of the poultry is simplified. The plan shows the important dimensions. The roots, r, are separated from the nests, n, by the droppings board, d. The food and water dishes, ff. open into the pas sageway.—G. B. Fiske, in Farm and Home. IleforcNthiK Wnnle K«'u io VIM. There is much land that will not be again valuable for generations except to the state. In the refor esting of lands the adjacent prop erty is often as greatly benefited as the area in forest. The state can thus derive a larger revenue from the work than can any private indi vidual. The state can afford to re forest land even if the annual direct income from the reforested area be only one per cent., for the people of the state reap other benefits from it. No private individual can afford to invest money with so slight annual returns. —Farmers' Review. Frenh Vi'Bftalilei for Ilenn. liens deprived of green foods will not lay as well as when their needs in this direction are attended to. All the turnips, beets, carrots and roots, of all kinds, large and small, should be saved anil given them. These veg etables and herbs are good for poultry, cows and hogs. They are a good sub stitute for green food for hens. Peel ings of potatoes, turnips and veg etables of all kinds, including apple peelings, should lie saved for the poul try. Cut up fine and boiled and mixed with mash feed for the fowls, this furnishes them a splendid food. Such savings w ill be worth a dollar a bushel in winter and will do the hens more good t ban t hey could do the hogs if fed to them.—Eastern Shore Farmer. » Mrs. Francis Podmore, President W. C. T. U., Saranac Lake, New York, Owes Her Health to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound. Read Her Letter. "DEAR MRS. PINKIIAM : —For several years after my last child was born I felt a peculiar weakness, such as I never had experienced before, with severe pains in the ovaries and frequent headaches. " I tried the doctor's medicines and found it money worse than. wasted. A friend who had been cured through the use of Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound advised me to try it. I did so, also your Sanative Wash, and I must say I never experienced such relief before. Within six weeks I was like another woman. I felt young and strong and happy once more. " This is several years ago, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is my only medicine. If I ever feel bad or tired a few doses brings instant relief."— MßS. FRANCIS PODMORE. SSOOO FORFEIT IF Till] ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE.. Whon women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhoea, displacement or ulceration of the wnnb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous pros tration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all gone" and " want-to-be-left-alone" feelings, blues and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. l'inkliani's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. ALABASTINEI 5 THE ONLY DURABLE WALL COATING 112 Kalsomines arc temporary, & ? / rot> SCa ' £ and other disease germs are nurtured and diseases dissem- j ilutcJl>ywa " paper " $ t ''aWitpS ALA BAST INF. * v . ■—?** Vy should be used in renovating 5 X°Tiand disinfecting all walls. ~ canuot thrive." 0 A J ALABASTINE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. J Hull t'niiie'n (ireetliiK. "When Hall C'aine. whose resemblance to Shakespeare is well known, landed in New York on a trip to Amei c i.he was accosted by the late Ignatius Donnelly, a stranger to hiiv■ w itli the words: "Lord Bacon, I presume."—"Lives of the 'Lustrious." $33.00 to California, Orearon and WuMlilnifton. Chicago & Northwestern Ky. from Chicago daily, March and April, only sti.oo for berth in tourist car. Personally conducted excur sions Tuesdays and Thursdays from Chicago and Wednesdays from New England. Illus trated pamphlet sent on receipt of two cent stamp by S. A. Hutchison, Manager, 2\2 Clark street, Chicago. Check Cold and Bronchitis with Halo's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Man's greatest encrr.y is man. —Puck. Recompense injury with justice, and un- Kindness with kindness.—Confucius. Gossip uncovers a multitude of sins.—Chi cago Daily News. The careless man tries to win: the careful man tries not to lose. —Chicago Journal. A fair-weather friend is one who refuses to lend you his umbrella. Philadelphia Rec ord. The man who is satisfied with himself is not very well acquainted with—himself. — Puck. ♦ History will show that the worst quarrels are between former friends and former lov ers.— Atchison Globe. Men who accomplish most never seem in a hurry, no matter how much they may | have to do. —Chicago Daily News. A dangerous sort of man is the kind who stands a great deal, and then explodes for all of his insults at once.- Atchison Globe. New to Her.—'"Do you play ping-pong, Miss Doodle?" "No, but 1 can give you 'The Maiden's Prayer.' Philadelphia Bulletin. All Close.—Mrs. Townc —"Have you any' close neighbors, dear?" Mrs. Subbubs — "Yes; they are close. So close that you couldn't borrow a tlatiron or a cup of sugar to save your life."- Philadelphia Press. Mi-s. Styles—"Oh, Henry! I saw a beau tiful thing at the milliner s this afternoon. It was a perfect dream." Mr. Styles- "Well, dear, you just dream that you bought it."— Boston Transcript. A Laugh All 'Round. —"1 suppose it would be laughable if we could 'see ourselves as others see us.' " "Yes, and it would lie .-till more laughable to the others if they could see us as we see ourselves." —Philadelphia Prega. 1,213 BUS. ONIONS PER ACRE. Salzer's New Method of onion culture maic<*9 It possible to crow 1,200 and more bus. perui-re. • j seHlng same at Quo! \RajfcV,.'. j-if Hay For 1«C. and thl* Snlzer Seed Win mull pou their mammoth catalog, together With 1!i0 kinds of flower and vegetable seeds. 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