NA # A HOG PASTURE. The value of a good hogs cannot be overestimated for fur pasture It to secure which the hog takes early morning constitutiouals, and is made healthy thereby. He eats much of the grass and less of corn, and thereby is expense saved his owner, and he lays on fat faster than if on a full grain ration. Disease does not bother the pasture-fed hog. A healthy hog, well fed, means profits in its owner's pocket. A good pasture insures this. ~Farm Journal. GEESE FOR MARKET pay good pasture Geese best when they and plenty of They prefer bulky - food-—such scalded clover, cabbage, turnips, tatoes—with some ground grain. geese should be retained and young ones marketed. The geese breeding should be kept in flesh. Once started, a Zrass. the for is gosling n is seldom sick. A pair of louse or Embden geese will turn off a considerable quantity of feathers in a vear, which may more than balance their feed. The goose wiil lay from twenty to thirty eggs. The market nrice will usually give a farmer a hand- some profit. A gooze will only sit on a nest is accustomed to ghe lay shape or form She is very faithful, and the gander is ever watchful attack any stranger who iotrudes, and as he has great power and strength in his wings he can do sever? injury ~Farm and Fireside. IT WILL NOT PAY To wait for the we do, we must harder to pay for it It will not pay to try to make a two forty horse of a ten-minute colt It isn't in the blood It will not pay to work day hangs up its lantern vou a hint to do the same It will not pay to keep the boys and girls down between furrows from morning to night. If you try it, you will look up some day and find that you are alone it is not a paying thing ww dollar's worth of life for the saving ten cents’ worth of it will not pay to let boy leave home and keep one on the farm It will not pay to let the good have to hunt around for start the fire If the weeds to grow strike blows all after the and the noses of the lose a sake of money the the other wife all chips to RAISING CALVES INDOORS Calves that are intended { dairy should selected from dams that produce quantity and quality, and having good balanced udders I should from a good milking strain. The calf is allowed to remain with its mother from 24 to hours sr the be Ty ine sire he a6 times each day for a week or ten days, then milk fresh from the separator and increase the quantity gradually but never overfeed When two weeks feeding a small old commence quantity of oatmeal and bran; also a little early cut fine hay. A very young calf will eat hay I never turn calves to pasture the first summer I closely, but keep the stable darkened and it will prevent flies from annoy- ing them. and dry, and allow nothing to accu- mulate in feed pails, boxes or racks. The calves should be dusted occasion- ally with sulphur or insect powder to keep off lice. For scours lessen the laudanum. is helpful. To develop into dairy cow the calf should not be forced or kept too fleshy, but always in Orange Judd Farmer. PROFITS IN SHEEP The question of receiving the high- est profit possible in sheep raising is not always answered alike by prac- tical experience, for while some can and do make wool growing pay, there are others who barely make this pay for the cost of the feed. Of course, if we can raise sheep so that the wool will pay for all the cost of raising the animals to a marketable state, there is actual profit of a high order in selling the mutton. In fact, a good many sheep breeders aim to do this, but the present tendencies in meat consumption hardly make this poasi- ble. The market demand is for young sheep or lambs, and not for old mut. ton. The later does not bring a good price in the market, and the demand is so limited at times that the markets are glutted with old mutton. A good many lambs are held too long before being sold, to make the profits as large as they should be. It should be remembered that the lambs should be sold when weighing be tween sixty and seventy pounds, for after that period they will degenerate in value so far as marketmen are con: cerned, Nearly all the food fed after that period will prove waste. It will be impossible to get it back in mut. ton, for the price of the old lambs will decrease faster than they will gain in weight. By selling the lambs at once and putting some of the ready money immediately into producing ewes, the flock will be Increased in a short time, It is by tiois system of constant breeding and quick turning over the money that the sheepman must expect The his iB profits, wool after all importance, ex Western ranges purely nom be : cf more difficult) large only of secondary cept on tha Li great where cost of food is inal, and a thousand sheep Kept with only than is required for a cultivated farm 8S. T Mal Amerh Cultivator An a little an in NDWairiag, EGG PRODUCTION. The agricultural reports of some of eastern recently published by the government « mtain interestl. g gratistics anent for the production ol eggs and poultry These, while they cannot taken as indicative of the conditions in other states or the coun try, as a whole, are not lacking in significance and will repay careful! reading Concerning Reporter says In the states value of the poultry and eggs | duced in 1899 was from about twelfth to one-sixth of the total value all farm products, ranging from 8.1 per cent in Maine to 16.7 per cent | in Rhode Island. Of the total value | of all animal products, it formed from about one-fifth to one-third, ranging | from 18.9 per cent li. New Hampshire to 37.2 cant in Delaware, ratio between the the states be these reports the Crop reported upon, the pro one { of per The value of the { poultry and that of the eggs produced | during the year {s worthy of note The | CBE production was worth 68.1 per cent of value of both eggs and poultry produced in Maine, more than 60 per cent in other New England states, 46.1 per cent in New J i and 45 per cent in Delaware. | A comparison may be made between the increase in the production of eggs during the ten years from 1880 to 1830 and the increase in the following ten | years——1890 to 1900 The Increase | during the former decade in Maine ! was 33 cent; in the latter 42 | cent New Hampshire 51 latter 39 per « Massachusetts Former, 36 pe latter, 45 per cent. In Rhode Former, 29 per cent; latter, cent In New Jersey: Former, 20 per cent: latter, 49 per cent. and in Del aware during the former aecade, 56 per cent, and in the latter, 61 per cent It therefore, that the in { crease In egg production in | East has been much greater than that | of population, and an accelerating one In the States mentioned, it is now sufficient to double taronty swently the i rsey per In ent; per Former nt n cent; ar Island per 59 per APPears, the thea is itself io Years YARDING POULTRY While it is desirable to keep young chicks in free range as long as as pos gible, owing to the fact that they are | healthier and grow Detter from the exercise they take, as well as from the greater variety of food, in bugs and in thus yet there growth when it will advantageous 10 place sects, obtained, comes their a time in { be found more i them in yards When manifest arated and females placed in one yard and the males in another. They will then be found to grow much more rap idly until t} comes make a final them for market, the of stock to the ensuing Year If they confined yards | for a few days until become a« customed to suroundings, they can be given free range alternately, one yard one day and the other the next, and will then rcturn i their own and house at night If this plan is followed found to avoid the trouble caused by the chickens selecting poor roosting | places, such as those in trees, under | sheds and on wagons. If left to them | selves they become attached to these | places and will return to them in all | kinds of weather, thus making them selves liable to disease, through expo sure, as well as causing inconvenience in some places by the littel they leave After having become attached | these roosts it is hard to get them to stay in a house, and a good deal of trouble to their owner is the result If a little care is taken of their man | agement in this regard in the begin | ning. it usually saves a good deal of trouble in thé end, unless the method is followed of letting the shift almost entirely for themselves, in which case they deteriorate into veritable jungle fowls, with more ten dency to disease than to the laying of eggs. —H. BE. Haydock, in New York Tribune Farmer the matin instincts begins to itself the sexes should be sep tine of or for 38 to disposition either the table selection ve Kept are thus in they their they yard to it will be DAIRY NOTES. Sait should always be accessibls. Do not change the feed suddenly Clean and thoroughly air stable be fore milking. Do not allow dogs, cats or loafers to be around at milking time. Never mix fresh warm milk with that which has been cooled. All persons who milk the should have the finger nails closely. Keep the stable and dairy room in good condition, fresh air and clean, Milk with dry hands. Never allow the hands to come in contact with the milk, Use no dry, dusty feed just previous to milking; If fodder is dusty sprinkle it before it is fed. Whitewash the stable once or twice a year. Use land plaster in the man ure gutters daily. 1f cover 1s left off the can a plece of cloth or mosquito netting should be used to keep out insects. Do not move cows faster chan a com. fortable walk while on the way to a place of milking or feeding. The milker should wear a clean outer garment, used only whem milk. ing, and kept in a clean place at other times. COWS cut A —— SA S—————— ES SO ST a A Wn TE By Ralph M. M’Kenzie, definitions since in HE term gentleman has had many and varied the time of the Admirable Crichton, necessitated by a change popular opinion as to what donstituted the flower of manly qual- fries, Chevalier gentleman either in polite society or amid the “maddening throng.” He might caper well enough in the bachelor’s cotillion, ing when he strayed into the tennis court of the golf links whether he would give a lady his seat or refrain from holding in a street car. There are occasions when it might reasonably whether he would always pay his laundry bill, The modern gentleman is supposed to have begun with Chesterfield, that beau ideal of seeming courtesy and correct form, who built a upon the outward show while he scoffed at those who were accept the seeming for the reality. He rated the fair sex as children, the most successful ladies’ man of his time The world's judgment of men he summed up in a few words: talents, such as honor, virtue and learning, and parts are above the generality be doubted weak cnough lo “Great others: but all people are judges of the lesser talents, such as civility, affability and an obliging, agreeable address and manner: because they feel the good effects of them, as making soclety easy and pleasing.” It is safe to say that he will scarcely serve as a model for the gentleman of to-day. The Christian, if asked for a definition, would doubtless cite the golden for a real Sir Galahad of our time But it one which will materially rule as the only safe guide seems there is a new note introduced into every day life it is the militant disposition in the per and obedience of change the conduct of a gentieman formance of common duties which it to enforce the respect others It is only one of the many manifestations sf the strenuous life. Where official position might be utilized to browbeat, cow and abuse subordinates and to elevate the fawning and sycophantic, will be seen a new Cross of Constan tine adorning the heavens or a bow of promise, as it were, ovel the entrance of every building sheltering Government employes On it will be inscribed this definition: “A gentleman is a man who treats his inferior in station with the greatest courtesy, justice and consideration, and who exacts the same treatment from his superiors.” In time this definition will be inscribed in golden letters after the enacting clause of the civil service law and be enforced in all departments of the Govern ment as weil as throughout civil life Aw) The Truth About My New Battery. Jars ars AAS) By Thomas A. Edison. anid and the old, is the new ballery that and the latter of lead. In batteries the lead is acted upon by sulphuric Neces- the acid the battery, the metals are HE main difference between the former is made of nickel and steel acid cals away the old sarily, chemical action takes place, and lead and the battery deteriorates rapidly in the new tonlly ind gration takes it is practically inde upon by potash, snd no jeterd place tibie The principal constituents of the new cakes, of briquettes, that resemble stove polish in outward appearance. Each cake is three inches long and half an inch wide. One cake is composed of nic kel and graphite, the other of graphite. The graphite both cakes chemical change itself, but is only placed in the brinquette to stimulate chemi cal action. The nickal brigus positive pole of the battery. the iron at the negative pole The Each frame holds twenty-four briquettes of about one hundred tons, acted slrud battery two little are iron and in undergoes no «tte is placed at the are held in The boxes in which the bri briquettes are placed in perforated steel boxes, which frames quettes are held are submitted to a pressure brings the briquette material through the perforations, and io close contact with the potash solution The new battery will do two and one-hal in recent tests made at Gien Ridge. New Jersey, f times more work, weight for weight. than the old battery a battery weighing three hundred and thirty-two pounds has propelled a vehicle weighing one thousand and seventy-five pounds, sixty-two miles without recharg ing. The speed at the end of the run was eighty-three per cent of the starting speed. Another test was made in which an automobile was sent eighty-five miles on a level road with a three hundred and thirty-1wo pound battery without re charging. The battery is not affected by jarring or joiting on the roads in fact, that seems to improve its work by stimulating chemical action. At the factory, { have had one of thease batteries on a sort of “bumping” or jolting machine for weeks at a time, so that it would be subjected to the severest tests. the new battery. Five automobiles will run five thousand miles each, their bat teries being recharged at the end of every hundred -mile run. The main points about the new battery are its cheapness, lightness, indestructibilicy, rapidity of charging and recharging, and its capacity for withstanding rough usage. Before long, storage batteries will be used for driving trains, steamships, street cars, wagons and all conveyances. steam, and will be employed in every place other forms of power are used. — 094 PHPPSPPPIPPPIPIIIPIIID PEPPIPVPPIVIFEPPIPIPOPIIPP Training Backward Children. —= By Fiske Bryson, M. D. HE development of the senses In the young is the basis of all their future mentality. There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses, Sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell are roads that lead to intellect; and mental superiority consists at the bot. superior senses. Think of the wonderful development of sight, muscular sense, manifested by baby Mozart, who used his little nose for a sixth finger, striking it violently against the keyboard when five little fingers were not sufficient to bring out the harmony he strived to express! Genius, during the developing-period of childhood, can see, hear, touch, taste, smell: for superiority of mind always means superior senses. There is no excep Light, color, form, odors, flavors and sound call into activity seusory perve-centers that result in consciousness. This process is exactly the same whether the consciousness is that of a man waking from sliimber, or of a child awakening out of infancy, In the first instance, a sound, an odor, a touch, may insure complete consciousness. Unless all the same organs are fed, the process is incomplete . Backward children are in their unnatural state of retarded de. velopment because they have feeble and inferior senses. And in sensetrain- ing, therefore, is foun their chiel means of education and uplifting. Ideas come first from outside. Do not forget this, dear Anxious Mother. From contact with things is gathered the seed that, nourished in the region of sensation, will later blossom as thought. Wisdom of Today. The house of the wicked shall be destreyed-—but ten to one it will turn out to be heavily insured. Fhe wise shall possess glory-—but it's money the rest of us are after. A mild answer breaketh wrath--a rough one sometimes breaks noses. A fool uttereth all his mind--but it doesn’t take him long. Drink water out of thy own cistern you'll want the neighbors for laun- dry purposes. ' A fool Immediately showeth his anger--a wise man waits till he goes home to his wife. The Mart of fools publisheth folly —and the rest of us buy it up into the HVadred thousands. ~New York Her News Happenings of Interest Gathered From All Sources. Samuel Cat OTE, MeKee port $12; Amos yt ]. Pitts- sburg, Pension granted Apollo, 5, John | Dell, p12: Nicholas Grow Dubois, Albert Hays, Washington 8 Rupley, West Fairview $8: Elli Hays, Titusville, $8 David Phillips, surg. $8: John WwW. Haffly, Reber $12: Danel D. Young. New Buena Vista $12: Sella Frame, Five Points, $12 ‘harlotte Carr, Meadville, $12 Amanda I. Patterson, Butler, $8: Mary ( Stew art, Rural Valley, $8; Josephine Christo Monongaheia, $8: William Crag Pittsburg, $6; Benjamin F. Hamilton Waynesburg, $6; Forest E Andrews, Canton, $6: Edwin 1. Sturtevant, Sil vara, $72: William Simms, Cambridge Springs. $10: Amanual (Gearhart, Yeager town. $12: Vernon Kelley, Waynesburg, Mary pher fio; AM. Nell, Mercer, $8 Sarah Baird, Woodbury, $8 Davis and Milton hunting in the woods near accidentally discharged Roc her Siaron, Lrorge were whon the latter Is gun I'he load struck avis mn the He was meds side. making a terrible wot house, where His condition taken a nearby cal attention was given crions Mabel Wr jealousy, breast tO 14 Suyder., 20 years oid despair bullets driven to two and now linger sin a cr in the Ho the hospital myself and am kill me” J Rook Pittsburg, either 11 ightsville, sent nto dition Columbia authorities she an Station . ned was poisoneaq {11s avenue SKK ide 1 agony at boarding Liberty Fuller and famaly 1Q wife a long drive sausage as a eriously il ed their lives Ki¥own ang Rachel Robert *1 ncipas oO 1 3 a TOxGS G54 ross 1000 of 1.005043 pre steel rolled into fis Der cent over 186 tire production of {he value 1001 lied iron and production rks. was $208 Ri 259. The nu workmen employed was B6086 a 3 wages aggresating $31 134 "Rr The average vearly earnings, skilled and unskilled. was $610.55, and the average daily wage was $2.21. Allegheny county production with 5008008 tons, E a3 ¥ the gross tons including w of r the of were paid f the entire production of the State. Mrs fames Prouwty., of Avetin, was ing by rymg her little daughter choking and She found the room flled with leave the building they found escape by the stairway shut off by the flames. Mr Prouty carried his wife and child down a ladder, the flames almost enveloping them An investigation revealed that the building had been fired in three places, the incendiary using kerosene, 1srael Dougherty. colored a former | slave, in court at Pittsburg, produced | notched sticks as his account books. He sued Robert Riter, a farmer. for $85, which he claimed as wages. Dougherty | explained his inability to read or write | snd from a pocketbook produced his ace They were kept on two flat | pieces of wood six inches square, Ore was notched for dollars, the other for valf-doilars and quarters | x hole through the wood for every dol | case and awarded him $33. Two young women employed by the Armstrong Cork Company Lancaster, were passing under a net work of wires wite broke. John P. Colin, a lineman, of the women. One end of the wire just on them and Collin grasped the sther end. He was stunned and hurled several feet, still clinging to the wire which was slowly burning into his flesh, The wire was finally knocked from his hands and he was picked up unconscious At the Pennsylvania railroad station, Altoona, twn Italians, emoloved in re paving and laying track, found a quan tity of American silver coin dated 6o ot 70 years ago. There is a tradition that a man who went to the Mexican wat and died in Mexico, buried the money in this vicinity before he left. Reuben Teel, alderman of the Third ward, Easton, who ‘was arrested for for- gery and confessed, was sent to prison jor one year and ten months by Judge Scott. A new hall of the Patriotic Order Sons of America has been completed at Chester Springs. - The Middle States Furniture Manu- {acturers’ Association met in Williams- port and discussed matters relative to the trade. : The Monroe County Ministerial Union, at a recent meeting, ado -esolutions condemning church 10d festivals A COMMERCIAL REVIEW, General Trade Conditions, RG Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review (1 avs : than at date Many rlories ydded to the pro- luctive capacity, faciitie e being in idle shops nent ia ity greater recent y y and mills ficw have been al reased at ol plants and resumed through tie setfie bor G: controversies A coke , the rail handle the output, which 1s ve all records and im ur gent Despite the rapid devel epment facilities the grown stil faster stressing for ship blo kade till exist ways | s 10 re Guest of transportation needs have and the stuation 15 di pers and consumers Retail trade outlaok fer the wholeszle business the cancellations so pation’ s with a bright jobbing and fhere are few of numerous at this while collections are 1m is large future proving. Although the pig ber the capacity of the iron furnaces in blast on Septem i was reported as 335,189 tons by “Iron Age,” it has since beeu ap ably curtailed by the inadequate supply of fuel, on which account num erous furnaces were blown out or at east banked. As consumptive reguire ments are increasing, it is necessary to place orders abroad more extensively, Weekly and in some cases the entire output of foreign 1 3 secured. Not onl) and even t in other markets, Ger l 3 s been raw mi al, but rails, are man billets 11 3 mils Dest offering the t terms in most cases New: England producers of boots and hoes are insisting « full prices, and some grades that were slow tg respond ire now sharing the improvement. No sgn weakness is seen in leather, some selecons rising mere, par icularly the better grades of sole and belting butts. Slight reactions have o rurred seme packer and comptry hides, but most lines still firmiy seld. laberal receipts not de oressed foreign dry hic Low O31 HH #1 sii in are have 1 : socks ol Ng Ol receipts 8 In COrn sel with of tons, sustained quota when a bave been x went i full confidence were placed n official returns of condiaon Failmres for the week n the United States, against Year, i ane 33 in (amads year fears line would numbered 193 22 againg ARO LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour—S8pring clear, $3 1043.50; bost Patent, $4.60; choice Family, $3.75 Wheat--New York No. 2. T7%c; Philadelphia No 2, 73a73%e¢; Baltimore No 2, T¥e. Corn —New York No. 2, T2c; Phila delphia No. 2. 69a69% ; Baltimore No. 2, LY Oats— New Yerk No. 2. delphia No. 2, 36Xe¢, Re. Hay-—Np. 1 timothy, $16.50al7 No. 2 timothy, $15.50a16.00; No. 3 othy $14.00a15.00 sreen Fruits and Vegetables — Apples per brl, fancy Too@$1 00; fair to good wo bri, HOe@6hc; Beets, native, per uneh 13%o@2c; Cabbages, native, flat dutch, per 100, $1 Wa$2 00; Canta 874¢c; Phila. Jaltimore No 2 00; tim | i tips, #a@dlc; Celery, New York, per doz. 200@40e; Eggplants, native, per 100, 30c@bbe; Grapes. Rappabannock, ver 10.1 basket, S0@10c, do, Western aryland, per 5.1 basket, Yom 10c ; Lettuce, native, per bu box, 200@3De. Lima beans, native, per bu bex, H0e@ #0c; Onions, Maryland and Pennsylva nia yellow, per bu, Tec@%0e; Pumpkins, native, each, 4c@bc; Squash, Anne Arundel, per basket, 100@1ic; String beans, native, per bu, green, 250@30c; Tomatoes, Potomac, per peach basket, be@20c. Rappabannock, ber bu box, e@Slc: Watermelors, Selects, per 100, $12 oco@l4 00; primes, per L #6 00@8° 00; seconds, per 100 $4 Obe $5 00; culls, per 100, $2 00a%3 00. Potatoes, Primes, per bri, Ne 1, $1 00al 10; do, seconds, 75a80c; do, pulls, 50af00; do, Eastern Shore, per bel, No 1, $1 00al 20. Butter, Separator, 2la22e; Gatbered sream, 20a2lc; prints, 1.1b 26a262; Rolls, 2.1b, 26826; Dairy pts. Md, Pa., Va, Wade. Eggs. Fresh-laid eggs, alc Cheese, Large, 60.1b, 10Xalle; me- dium, 36-1b, 1lyalli; picnics, 22.1b 11xalisge. Live Poultry, Hons, 1221240; old roosters, each 25a30c; spring chickens, L3al3¥c, young stags, 12a12'50. Ducks 10alle. Hides, Meary steers, association and salters, late kill, 60-1bs and up, close se- lection, 12%al13%c; cows and fight wtoery 9%al0¥c. Provisions and Hog Products. Bulk per dozen, 113¢c; bulk bellies, 13¢; bulk ham butts, 103¢c; bacon clear rib sides, 120; bacon 14%e; sugar.cured shoulders, 103§e; sugar o California hams, 10Xe; bams canvased or uncanvased, 12 Ibs { second-hand tubs, 1l'se; refined lard Live Stock. Chicago, Cattle, Mostly 10a150 lower, to prime steers §7 7548 50; medium a7 25; stockers and feeders $2 50 ub 40; cows, $1 50a5 35; heifers $2 50a 6 25; Texas-fed steers §3 00ad 2. Hogs, Mixed and butchers $7 30a7 76; good choice, heavy $7 60a7 85; Sheep, sheop and lambs slow to lower; to choice whethers $3 25a3 85; estern sheep $2 5003 25. East Liberty, Cattle ; choice $1 10a7 25; prime $6 20u6 75. toms, me heavy $7 90a7 95, medioms §7 75; vy Yorkers §7 80a7 85. Sheep steady, Beat wothers $3 80a4 00 culls and com mon $1 50a2 00; choice lambs §0 60-5 90 LABOR AND INDUSTRY returned 0 work have been granted a shorter work da Steelworkers at Eston, England, the number ai 1,100, have been granted Wn increase io Jar. as Knoxville, (Teun) United Mera Workers have been ted a concre sion of a nine-hour . . of Atlanta, Ga will organize and affiliate with the Fed rT eada /
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