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The Brussels Post, 1894-12-7, Page 7DPOPM131i7u 7, t8$4. 4.01.11.0111.100.1101. .1110.40, PRACTICAL FARMING Design For an Ice House, Many small farm leo houses hev° to stand oat by and 1'e ti themeelvee, e i+us 1 r(f a �^n - expceed to the full effect of the oun'e rays. 'These falling directly upon the roof cause good- deal of l�ar� ��.III 1.}f heat to be gen. rP��fi,�ii i T r crated within ,byfa to the oonae pent lose ofioe The illustration shows an ice house with, two toofs, with an air space botween,which will very 'greatly obviate this trouble, Such an extra roof ova easily .bo Vaud upon small building, to the saving of no Mall amount of foo during the heat of summer. Every farm should be equipped with a well-filled foe house, . for ice is a necessity, not a lexary, • Wintering Stock. Tho natural temperature of all farm animal° when in health is a little less than •one hundred degrees. This temperature is maintained at the same point during the heat of midsummer and in the frigid weath- •e ofour cold winters by the vital process •of combustion, but when the temperature of the animal ie raised above the Lorena point by a highly heated atmosphere or by reason of violent exercise, it is at once reduced by perspiration. Food is the fuel which is consumed in the animal to keep it warm in cold weather, and the colder the weather, the more food will be neceaeery, unless other means aro u=.ed to keep the animal heat. A warm barn, a warts stable, a warm chicken house, a warm pig -pen are not only groat savers of food, but make the stook comfortable, and in ease of the cows, they give more and better. milk ;. the pigs grow luster, and the chickens lay more eggs. In building a stable, or if the stable itt al. ready built, it costs but a trifle to make it tight and warm, se ea to give complete pro. Motion to the animals, besides, there is great satisfaction in feeling during asevere storm, that all the farm animals are warm and comfortable. The economy of giving the farm stook warm quarters during the winter is an important footer in the item of expense, .and, atthesame time, the matter of venti- lation should not be neglected, for good air is as important to the wellbeing of stock as shelter and food. Of all the farm ani. mala that aro shabbily treated and abused .during winter, the pigs and young stook fare the worst. They get the poorest feed and the enldest quarters, as a rule. The young stook live under• the lee of a straw stack, and the pigs are served with a cold, wet pan, without abed. Man's inhumanity to man is said to be great, but his inhuman- ity to animate is still greater. Letus urge then, as a saving of money, to keep the animals warm, and to treat them kindly pays big. General Purpose Farming. Have our farmers, as a rule, studied and ,mastered the fundamental principles of stook feeding and hygiene? Have they got beyond the obsolete "general purpose farming" idea? Have they leatned the great economic fact that a man, in any avocation, cannot do his best work by spreading himself too meth ? Have they learned to gauge accurately their own individual capacities and adaptabilities? Do they know the resources of their own particular soils; their strong points and their weak ones ; how to take advantage' of the strong pointe and to remedy and reinforce the weak ones ? • Do they common. trate their chief attention npon the few things they can do well, and make the most of these? Or is the average farmer still open to the accusation of being to- a great degree, "Jack of all trades" upon the farm, "and master of none?" The manufacturer could not now do busi- ness auccesefully on such loose lines. This "general purpose farming" hardly admits at alibi the division of labor upon the farm, which, with the manufacturer, is one of hie strongest points. Specialization in agricultural produotion does admit of some degree at least of increased akill and efficiency, due to practice in the labor employed by the farmer. A manufacturer, under present condi. Mona, conducting his business so carelessly, would better shut up shop at once, for if not, the sheriff will speedily do it for him, There does not seem to be any good reason why farmers• should be exempt from the necessity of carefully considering all the conditions of lameness in the prosecution of their business,andof conforming themselves to those conditions. Men in other lines of occupation are nob exempt. There are,. indeed, many farmers who tore engaged in the cultivation of lands, part, or all of which, are unworthy of cultivation under present conditions. Their labor is names - eerily largely in vain, and the sooner they realize this faotothe better for them and their families. Just so; there are many veins of coal, and of iron and other metals, not profitably workable uow under present. prises, oonditions and methods. Poeaibly they may come to have value some time but they have none now. Sweet or Sour Cream Butter. A great deal is being said in these days as to whether Dream should be churned sweet or sour. At the Vermont experi- ment station the oream in the ordinary routine is all churned sweet. The separating will be completed within 10 minutes after the just Dow ie milked. Twelve minutes more is sufficient to take out the separator bowl, °lean it, wash it,. aoald it, end have it ready for the next run. The cream is rue quite thick so as tobe ie small' bulk, and is submerged in Cooley can ina tank of ice Water. The same is done with the euooeeding three milking& em aeon as the oream from the fourth mithing, which is always the more. fug millting, has gotten thoroughly tended, all four cans of oream are pentad into the churn, tvlthoub having boon tempered" or netted or any fussing whatever having boot done with it shoe, it wan separated. The ohttrh is started at once, no matter what the temperature is, although tinder BB 'SSEI4$ 'O0 .• those oonditions bhe totrperaturo will always bo under 50 ° and will asuallty be from 43 0 to .460 , 'fills butter comes isthe best of granular from after about 45 minutes (burins, during which time the °ream has warmed up to about 32° to 54 a ,, By this method all ripening of the Dream 10 saved with its great liabilities of injury and expeeee of a oream-riponing vat moved, and the great diflleelty of keeping the °ream at the prepay ripening tempera- ture is ovoreomg, There are probably but few buttes kid- ges export enough to teflon a given sample of butter, 10 days old, ,whether is was made from sweet cream or sour oream, The swept Dream butter in tho tub undergoes bhe same ohangea that ohesnur.oredm butter did in the ripening vat, and at the end of a few days bag become, to all intents and purposes, sour-oream butter. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Flying frogs are numerous in Borneo. A good bioyole oan be bought in Paris for $15, An elephant's skin, when tanned, is over an inah think, Cheap woolen stockings are adulterated by the addition of the fiber of wood pulp How much ceder it ie to teach other people how they ought to walk than it is to show thein how to do it. The Rev. 1'. A, Miller, of Farley, Iowa., while witnessing a horse•racs at Cascade, became so excited that his mind gave way. A toadstool, three foot in circumference, and weighioig six pounds, grew last month on the farm of John Durham, at Hunting- ton. L.1. A little bit of cheese and an clootria wire form the latest rat -trap. The cheese is fixed to the wire, and the instant the rat touches the cheese he is shocked to death. Mushrooms, when once (looked, should never bo rewarmed, to serve a second time at the table. After becoming cold,they are apt to develop injurious properties. The nine sons of Kirk Hackman, of Stur• gun, Mo., have formed a base -ball club. They challenge any family utne. in .the country. Their ages range from twenty- two to eight years. Apriest of Buda,Hungary,recently marri- ed a very young couple, and, instead of the usual benediction, amazed principles and witnesses by exclaiming, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." A genius in Ashtabula, Ohio, has invent. ed what he calla "indestructible wedding. sake." It looks tempting to the palate, but is not intended to be eaten. It will keep for years,and ie so heavy that a wise moose would shun it. A mean man dwells in Oakland, Cal. A boy was caught between the wheel and body of a watering cart, and a plank from the sidewalk was broken in prying him out. The mean man, whose house faced the sidewalk that had furnished the plank, demanded fifty ciente for the use of the board! Some jolly f: flows in Bath, hie., engaged in an eating contest, for a wager. After most of thee, hadgorged themselves, Squire T ----topped off his feast with two slices of bread and butter, with a one -hundred - dollar bill spread between. He deliberately ate the costly eandwioh,and won the wager. . A hardware drummer In Detroit learned, while he was in a hardware store, that hie rival in love was at that moment at his girl's house, having a good time. He at once called her up at the telephone, propos- ed,audwas auoepted. The rival was promptly informed of the state of affairs, and left the house, cursing the telephone. A VALUABLE EXERCISE. Walking Can Be Enjoyed By tke Poor as Well as the Rich. It is strange that in the rage for athletic exercise which prevails atpresent, the good old one of walking seems to be falling into disuse. We all practice ib to some extent, but very few to a really practical or profit. able degree. The very foot of its being a common thing of our everyday life has made people overlook its value. Unlike most other exeroisee, it can be enjoyed by the poor as well as the ricti, and if practised in moderation, by the weak aa well as the strong. It ie not every young lady or wo- man that oan play tennis, ride a horse or a b,oycle or attend a gymnasium, but any one, old or young, male or female, that is not a cripple and is in fairly good health, oan walk. Regular, brisk walking in the open air would be the best medicine in the world for many ills, imaginary and other- wise, to which women, for the most part, aro subject. In foot, physicians proscribe systematic walks of reasonable length as a part t their treatment in many oases, and it is generally the hardest part to make the patient obey. City and •country women alike neglect to walk, though for somewhat different reasons. Indeed, on the whole, those in the cities deserve less to be accused, although it was a pity girl that said recent- ly that she did not ge out to walk for two or three weeks unless obliged to in order to do some errand.. In these days, when oar limes run to every parb of the large oitiee and will take ue eo quickly and easily whenever we wish LO go, it is a great temptation to most people to ride. The unfortunate habit of hurrying is often responsible for it, for we look at our watches, think how much time we should lose by walking and decide that we cannot afford it, In most eases it would be not a loom but a gain. But in the country, where in pleasant weather it is a positive .delight simply to be out of doors, the small amountof walking done by the women is almost incredible. The family keep, at least one horse and, if they live on alarge farm, probably several. It does not take five minutes to hitch up, and wherever they are going, bo it only half a tnile, they invariably drive. Or if they aro living in a village they may not own a horse. Then when the morning house work is finished, the girls sib down to sew or read or perhaps run to see a neighbor a few doors o0. All this is pleas- adt and well enough, but it should not prevent their taking a good walk every afternoon, of they would only be convinced of the benefit to be derived from it. The argument that housework furnishes suffloi• nt exercise will net hold good. 'ib is valuable in its place, but work performed inside the house, often over a hot fire and in close rooms, is a very different thing from walking in the fresh air, and cannot be trade to do instead of it, Eislebon, the birthplace of Martie Lath. or, is Sinking into the moor upon which it is built. Measures havo been taken In recent years to drain the bog,without avail, and the inhabitants aro seriously thinking of abandoning the town, ABol PANABIA1141(8.' MOST OF THEr, ARE liEN1iFICIAL TO THE FARMER, Who Ghost. Hawk Mays 'IVlttt Its. the )War' breatmb and 10 0 Brave, Oaring ttfrtl,'s4ut( Was Much Stilted In Olden Tinges. The hawk family in Canada, called in aelentifo language the faloonidae,inuludos s large number of species; leaving out, however, several that only visit the country oaeaet0nelly, or just cress the southern border, there are fifteen that regularly reside fn, or visit the eastern half of Canada—that is, from the Atlantic to Lake Superior. The farmer and the sportsman often consider that all hawks are injurious to their chickens or their ganle, and shoot them whenever they have a °hence. The United Stator De.. pertinent of Agriculture have oollocted and examined, for sevetal years, an im- mense number of stomachs of the birds of prey, in order to determine the enact food of the different species. The Department Netted, last year, a report on the eubjeot, by Dr. A. K. fisher, which states that many of the hawks feed so extensively on field mine, ground squirrels, grasshoppers, and other largo insects, that they are 00 whole, a pooitive nENE01T TO THE PARbTER, and should be protected rather than de etroyed. Even the eagles; -though very injurious in sheep distriete, are highly beneficial in those parts of the country Il lti se A %t? tt�� ill di)] • TYPE OF RAPTORIAL. P00T. where rabbits, prairie doge, or gophers abound. The gyr-faloone and the dunk hawk doindeed feed mainly on game, but they are northern birds, and rarely frequent the settled districts. The three hawks most injurious to the Canadian farmer are, probably, the sharp, shinned, which is very fond of young grouse and chickens; Cooper's hawk, which makes a specialty of pigeons; and the gos hawk, the size of which enables it to parry off full-grown game and poultry, on which it almost exclusively feeds. Toa GOSHAWK (aocipiter atricapilltts) is one of the largest and handsomest of its tribe. Many of them remain in Canada throughout the year. Adults vary in size from twenty to twenty our inches in length. Above they ere bluish slate color, turning to black on the bead ; below is white thickly barred across with zigzag lines of grey, and a few dark streaks along the centre of the feathers; This combination of fine dark and gray lines produces a most beautifully delicate elect. • Audubon gives the following graphic account of this bird's flight. "The flight of the goshawk is extremely rapid and pro- traoted. }Te sweeps along the margins of the fields, through the woods, and by the edges of ponds and rivers, with such speed as to enable him to seize hie prey by merely deviating a few yards from his course, assisting himself on such occasions by his long tail, which like a rudder, he throws to right or left, upwards or downwards to oheoa hie progress; or enables him sudden- ly to alter his course. At times he passes like a meteor through the underwood, where he secures squirrels and hares with ease. When travelling he flies high, with a con. OO5NAWK. stout beat of the wings, seldom moving in large circles like other hawks, and when be does this, it is only a few times in a hurried manner, after which ho continues hisjourney." Like Cooper's hawk, it is veear- BRAVE AND DARING, and one writer gives the following instance of its boldness. " A farmer who resides a fow miles from my office, wishing to per- petuate the old New England custom of having to chicken -pie' for Thanksgiving dinner, naught some fowls, took them to a log, severed tee neck of one, and threw it down beside him. In an instant a goshawk seized the struggling fowl, and flying off some ten rods, alighted and commenced devouring his prey. • The boldness of the attack so astonished the farmer that he looked on with black amazement. Recover- ing his surprise, he hastened into the house, and brought out his gnn, which secured him bath hawk and fowl." The goshawk was much prized in olden days, when hawk. ing was an almost universal sport. Though not belonging to the true falcons, which were noble hdwke,' it was still a favorite bird with which to take hares and rabbits. In the noble hawks the second wing feather is the largest, and they have dark hazel eyes ; while the ignoble ones, euoh as the goshawk, Have the fourth feather, longest, and their oyes aro yellow or orange. In England differenb birds aro allotted to different persona, according to their rank ,end station. Thus royalty might use a gyrfalcon ; an earl a peregrine ; o yeoman a goshawk ; a priest a sparrow hawk ; and a knave or servant a kestrel. James Peek, who committed suicide in Chioago,lefta will in lead:peueil, disposing of hie property. Among other diroetions, he wrote: "I want my grave decorated with Mutates and candles. 1 want little girls to Dome and dance and sing on top of R. Lot there be a baud of music and beer." CowSultillg Tile Fates, There are few nations, and fow indlvid- outhe ts oven, that would now look to overt° of change for Ray knowledge of the future, A tato instance of what used to be a melon boron of divinatfga was ra- ported in one of the Lrondan newspapers at the time when there was war betweou England and Aehauteo. Tho Kong of Aahantee consulted his fetish men in order to find out from them what hie future fate was to be and the result of his opposition to the English, Ile there; fele, after ' having resorted to various means, without suooeos, ordered two he. tgoats im ane entirely selected the brought and the before ra spotted white color. Tine was done, and after due fetish ooremoaies had been performed over the two goats, they were set at .each other. The white goat easily overcame and killed his opponent. Koffee Caloalli, after this test, Was satisfied that he was (teemed to defeat at the hands of the white man. lie immed- iately sent an embassy to Sir Garnet Wolsley to sue for peace British and Foreign. The Salvation Army 15 being boycotted in Finland. So strictly is this being carried out that any mention of the army in print, or any advertisement bearing on the move- ment, is sufficient to cause an entire issue of a newspaper to be cancelled. The- 100th anniversary of the death of Edward Gibbon, the historian, occurs next month, and the event will be observed by the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. At the same time there will be an exhibition of manuscripts, portraits, and relics of the historian. Chateau Neuf du Pape, the famous vine- yard of the Popes during their exile at Avignon, which was devastated by the phylloxera, so that hardly a bottle of the wine could be had in France, has been entirely redeemed and is now in full bear- ing again. The wine is celebrated by Mis- tral, the provencal poet, and by Alphonse Daudet in hie tales of Provence. Waverly parish, in Surrey, objects to being swallowed up by the parish of Faro- ham,which surrounds it almost completely. It has only eleven householders and fifty. one inhabitants, but Walter Scott took the name of his first navel from it ; it still hes in Waverley Abbey the mina of a (Neter- elan monastry, and it (deime to have been an independent parish from time imtnemor• fol, At the Paris Mout de Piste, the official pawnbroking establishment, a wedding ring pawned in 1857 has just been redeem- ed. Only seventeen Manes was lent upon it originally, but the ticket was renewed thirty six times, and the owner paid fifty franott in interest. Tickets are still re• newed every year for a pair of cotton our - tains pledged for four francs twenty-two years ago, and for an umbrella pawned in 1849. Mrs. Humphrey Ward lives in Russell square, London, in an old-fashioned house that seems dark and stuffy to the visitor. The rooms are of great size, the furniture massive, and mirrors, curtains, cornices, and all the furnishings have a gloomy 50- pitality that is oppressive. Biot the hos- pitality dispensed there is gracious, and the house is an attractive place of resort for literary people. The number of deaths caused by wild animals is increasing greatly in India,enake bites headfog the lisp last year with 21,000 victims. Of 2,S00 persons who were killed by animals, tigers killed nearly a thousand; leopards, 291 ; wolves, 175; boars, 121 ; and elephants 08. Ninety thousand head of cattle were destroyed, an increase of 9,000 over the year before. On the other hand,, 15,000 wild beasts were killed, including nearly 1,300 tigers and over 4,0001eoparde, besides almost 120,000 deadly snakes. The English gravediggers are the latest trade to claim an eight-hour day. They complain that the hours of work at Willes- den are no less than thirteen. We do not know how long it takes to dig a grave, but thirteen houre a day seems to point to an alarming mortality. In this case at all events the public will desire to see the hours of labor shortened as much as pos- sible—preferably by the diminution in the demand for, graves rather than by the in- erease in the supply of gravediggers. The ships of the first division of the Eng. lieh naval reserve are supposed to be ready to go to sea within forty-eight hours after receiving orders. The Gibraltar, which wee ordered to China three weeks ago, is not yet ready, and may not start for three weeks more ; and other vessels of the divi- sion are no better off. Prince Louie of Bat tenberg was to have joined the Mediterran- ean squadron with the Astriea, but the re- pairs she needed took so long a time that he was ordered to take the Cambrian instead. The unprepared condition of the ship! it exciting much comment in England. Two weeks before the sickness of the Czar of Russia took a turn for the worse, Miss Strutton, his former governess, died in the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg. Miss Struttol, who was au Englishwoman, lovtd Alexander Rotnanoff as dearly as though he had been her son. The Emperor and his two brothers attended the funeral, following the hearse on foot from the palace to the English cemetery, almost two miles apart, His Majesty and the two grand. dukes had parried the coffin from the death - room to the hearse. When the body was lowered into the grave, the Czar, it is said, wept like a child. Bfr, A—"Jusb look at that dolt of aman. What a charming wife he has. How true it it that the biggest fools always inarry the prettiest girls.° Mrs: A.—" 0, you Hat. toren" _... 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He, with his most estimable wife, believe in looking after tho temporal as well as the spiritual welfare of mankind, hence the following statement for publication: "I have much pleasure in re- ;ommending the Great Swath Ameri- un Nervine Tonic to all who are filleted as I have been with nervous prostration and indigestion. Ifound very great relief from the very first bottle, which Was strongly recom- mended to me by my druggist. I also induced my wife to use it. who, I must say, was completely run down and was suffering very much from general debility. She found great relief from South American Nervine and also cheerfully recommends it to her fellow -sufferers. "Il;sr•. IV. S. BARKER." It is now a scientific fact that cer- tain nerve centres located near the base of the brain have entire control over the stomach, liver, heart, lungs and indeed alt internal organs; that is, they furnish these organs with the uecoisary nerve force to enable them to perform their respective work. When the nerve centres are weakened or deranged the nerve force is diminished, and as a resnlil the stomach will not digest the food, the liver becomes torpid, the kidneys will not act properly, the heart and lungs suffer, and in fact the whole system becomes weakened and sinks on account of the lack of nerve force. South American Nervine is based on the foregoing scientific discovery, and is so prepared that it acts directly on the nerve centres. It immediately increases the nervous energy of the whole system, thereby enabling the different organs of the body to perform their work perfectly, when ri;ease a- once disappears. It greatly benefits in one day. Mr. Solomon Bond, a member of the Society of Friends, of Darlington, Ind., writes: "I have used six bottles of South American Nervine and I consider that every bottle did for me one hundred dollars worth of good, because I have not had a good night's sleep for twenty years an account of irritation, pain, horrible dreams, and general nervous pros. tratiou, which has been caused by chronic indigestion and dyspepsia of the stomach, and by a broken down condition of my nervous system. But now 1 can lie down and sleep all night as sweetly as a baby, and I. feel like a sound man. I do not think there has ever been a medicine introduced into this country, which will at all compare with this as a ours for the stomach and nerves." , A• »EAD111;4 Wholesale and Retail Agent for Rrotssels Bodily Proportions. In tho man of average stature the height of the body is ten trines the length of the face; the face from the dhin to the hair is as long as the hand; the aria is four times the length of the face; the sole of the foot is one -six times the length of the body, and sixth times the thickness of bio hand in the thiokest place equals the thickness of the body, A Vital Difference. Mrs, Secondwed.—You aro so unlike my drat husband, /sir, 3— I hope tho difference is in my favor,my dear, Mrs, 3.— Oh, itis ; very much. Mr. S. —Thanks ; what is it? Mrs, 8. -You're olive, Sober Enough to See That. It was a convivial party, and it had reached that stooge where the "invisible spirit of wine" makes itself decidedly vie. ible. One of tloe party wag one of the kind Mutt carry well a heavy load and even when folly eargoed present bet few evidences to the eye of such a condition. Another was of exactly the opposite nature, one of triose individuals who when in their eupolook it smell of et, and are alternately •laughing and crying, aggressive and alfeetiouate. The quieter looked the noisier over while the latter was making an enpletssat ee• hibition of himself and remarked to a neighbor : Row—hie—how much a clrnnitou drunkard disgusts a sober drunk trat"