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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1898-01-06, Page 3MAJIOLIN 1. .3/1110 Ribbon; Red Poll Bull at British 1;fa1rs This Season. grn Great Britain the most popular general purpose breed at present is the Red Poll. For beef the Shorthorn still excels all others in general favor in the islee, but the British mind seems un- able to get over the notion that aces, is riot worth much except she produce both 1 • FEED BOXES. One Stationary, the Other Tilting Over For Emptying and Gleaning. The North Carolina experiment sta- tion is at Raleigh. Bulletin No. 142 bout this station gives information a CHAMPION RED POLL BULL. milk and calves which will grow into large beeves. The idea is a rain one, for the perfect general purpose cow exists no more than the general purpose horso 9 or hen. Still, perhaps the Red Poll comes as near representing the general purpose breed of cattle as any can do. Tho cows are not so large and heavy as the Shorthorns or Herefords, but on the other hand they give more milk than females of those breeds, and Red Poll steers make excellent boef, though they do not attain the largest size. ' The bull in the picture is the cham- pion at the British shows of 1897. He is 6 years oh] and of the best Red Poll pedigree. Ile is owned in Cheshire, England. Ringing Hogs. Two correspondents of Tho National Stockman give their methods for ring. ing hogs, Both seem very cheap and handy. • The first one descriLed is that of Mr. George W. Pottorf, who says: I have a catcher for use in ringing hogs that works to perfection, as the largest hog can beheld with ono hand and ringed with the other. Take a com- mon broom handle, bore a small hole in one end, take a strong whipcord about 14 inches long and pass through hole and tie. That forms a noose. When you slop yourhogs, take hold of the handle and hook this noose in the mouth, up- per jaw, then twist the handle, form- ing a hitch around the nose. You can hold the handle with one hand and ring with the other. It is the nicest arrange- xnent I ever saw. The second device is described by Mr. E. D. Hale, who sends also a diagram of his convenient arrangement: This is the way we catch hogs for ringing. Take an ordinary shipping crate for hogs, rt) end nail at four at top and bot- tomthcse crosswise two 2 inch by 3 bore one-half Wel/. holeaTledga 2 inches by 8 corners of the 'crate four cleats inch strips. inches. of crate nail Through these Over take off cleats at both ends, on one I ing three inches • • • • • • • • apart. Into this HOG RINGER. space insert two movable levers with holes iu them op- posite those in cleats. When finished, the end of the crate will look like the dia- gram. Levers 1 and 2 are held in place by two bolts without burs. This moues them adjustable to different sized hogs. No. 2 is thrown back ready for the hog to put bis head in. Set the "trap," we call it, at your pen door, with hogs inside, with one man or boy to chase one at a time into it, and as the bog runs his head into the open trap catch bins just behind the ears by moving lever 2 to ea upright position quick- ly. When, you have your hog in the trap, you can ring him at your leisure. We have used this kind of device for ten years. There is no patent on it. To Frievent a Muddy BarnyartL Now I come to the only practical way I know of for making a decent barnyard -that is, to pave it with cob- blestones when they can be had with- out too much tro-uble. The stones should be, wo will say, about six inch- es in thickness. They should be laid with a great deal of care and the inter- stices filled with sand. Tbe stones should be pounded down solid, even and smooth as may be with a heavy Wooden maul. iuch a pavement will cost something, it is true, but if put in right it is there to stay for all time. The manure can be eleaued off, as often, as necessary, any tiuie in the summer, and then there can be no rnrid tramped up. . It will take about five loads of stone and sand for each square rod of surface. A yard, five rods square, will take 125 loade and take a nen two weeks to lay 4t good. In places where stone cannot be had the, next beat thing to do is to make a plank floor over the entire yard. -C. P. Goodrich in Hoard's Dairyman. When a sheep is a year old, two large additional teeth appear in the front part of its lower jaw. According to English law, when these teeth appear the young' animal is no longer a lamb, but a sheep. At 2 years old the sheep gets four large teeth in the middle of its lower jaw. At 8 years old it hes six large permanent outtiflg teeth, and at 4 years eight. When it is very old, its teeth begin to drop out, and those that remain are long and round ,like shoe pegs. STATIONARY FEED BOX. much value on the subject of bnilding a cheap barn, as well as some other things. One of the useful chapters of infor- mation in bulletin No. 42 is on the sub- ject of constructing feed boxes. Illus- trative diagrams are printed. The first ono herewith given shows how to mako easily and cheaply a stationary feed box. In the second illustration is a feed box that may be swung this way and TILTING FEED BOX. that and turned quite over to be emptied or cleaned. It is easy to understand tbe construction of the box from the diagram in bulletin No. 142. Raiso the Right kind of Horse. Do not do as many did when all horses ware a fairprice and street cars used up plugs. Then one who had a mare that could travel a little bred at once to the first fast horse, regardless of co/or, form or breeding, intending to raise a "flier." Mares showing some draft were bred to draft stallions. See- ing draft horses were selling for good priges, some bred small, light mares to draft horses, and finding that heavy ani- mals could not stand excessive heat bred their half draft mares back to light horses, thus producing plugs and scrubs. The owners of these aro mostly the ones who complain of horses being low. If a saddler, roadster or draft horse is wanted, ono of merit and worth buy- ing, it is found that good horses aro not so low after all. These are the kind farmers should raise, and if really good ones they will not have to bell at a sac- rifice. It ia not needful that they limit their horses to ono kind, but one or more colts of both carriage and draft breeding could be raised each year, and if size aud style are obtained there is always a buyer ready to pay a good price for a team better than his rival own. -R. A. Hayne in Southern Stock Farm. • -e tivo Stria Points. ir•' There seems to bo a good deal of non- sense in the world still in spite of printers' ink -maybe, indeed, because of it. One proof is the promulgation of the theory that if a dairy bull gets over - fat his offspring will be of the beefy type. If a sire of race horse blood were too fat at the time of breeding, would his colts be Shires or Clydesdales? .Any sire that is too fat will lack vigor and transmit less of it to his descendants, whether he be a pig, horse, sheep or bull. That much troth there is in the doctrine; no more. See that your house and stable drains do not run into or near the wells from which either your family or your live stook drink. Farmers are often crim- inally negligent in this respect, and both themselves and their animals drink disease and death year after year. Then, when one of the family dies of typhoid fever or consumption or the best cow goes off with tuberculosis, the farmer wails out that it Ise "mysterious visita- tion of Providence." It is a visitation of filth pure and simple, and not at all mysterious. Never preserve for stook purposes lambs bred from a sire only a year old. Breeding from lambs and their progeny produces soon a flock of weakly, under- sized sheep. Tuberculosis and many other diseases of animals may often be traced to want of cleanliness and ventilation in stables. Each full grown animal in a stable ought to have 1,000 feet of air space, the entire air of the stable being changed - twice a day. When you build a new barn or stable, study the most approved plans and make ample provision for ventilation. The architects of rural buildings today know how to provide this without chilling the animals. A dark stable will in time make a horse blind. Sunshine and fresh air do more for the health of live stook than all else. The np to date live stock man has win- dows in his barns, through which the light can stream freely, Good breeding ewes and rams are of- ten profitable till they are 10 years old. The easiest way to drive a hog is to put it into a orate, loftd tbe orate upon a "stone boat" or low, fiat wagon bed and hard it away. This is a good way to get a sow to where you are to haye ger bred. FARM HORSE FEED. Rations Best Adapted to the Season of Rest and Idleness. .Probably the farm horse demands mid receives more diversified rations than I horses in any other class of work. Com- mencing, say, in January, when the farm horse has the least work to per- form, we give him a few ears of corn twioe a day, with all the bright hay he will eat up clean. He is already fat as any farm horse should be, and this will keep him so. As spring approaches with Warmer weather his graiu ration should be changed to oats, which we consider the best element that enters his ration at any time. Oats make the muscles strong and solid, and with gradual in- crease of work he can be fitted to endure the heavy spring plowing much better than when corn is the only grain he eats. Wo always like to hove a quanti- ty of thrashed oats, also enough chopped oats to feed through the summer. By running sheaf oats through the cutting box in the early fall they can be kept until the next summer, and the mice and rats cannot work on and ruin them as they will in the sheaf. The ration that we like best fas, hot weather is chopped oats, slightly moistened with water, with about three pounds of bran and shorts mixed thoroughly with the oats; this for breakfast. At noon ho has not the time to oat such a feed, so the thrashed oats come handy and welcome to him for a quick lunch, giving him time to munch a good bite of hay with- in the hour. At night oats chopped are repeated, with occasionally cornmeal in place of shorts, or two or three ears of corn as a cha»go rutty be added. We ways keep our ground feed in bins, ru_cl it is well salted as put in; so the salt is never forgotten. Soda and sulphur, equal parts well mixed, wo consider about as good con- dition powder as any. A box is kept handy, and hbout twice a week a table- speoaful is given to each horse, Finely cut cern fodder makes a fairly good roughness for the horses a part of Cie time iu early winter, but they sem to tiro of it and care little for it toward spring. We anclertoolt ono winter to carry through some young horses on fodder alone, but had to commmice feed- ing corn iu February to keep them in flesh. Nice, bright timothy hay, run through a cntting box, and a chop made with ground oats make a very good feed. For a ration for a 1,400 pound Norman mare (such a one as more farm- ers should own) wo would say give her four quarts of thrashed oats mixed with three pints of shelled corn and ten pounds of early cut timothy hay for supper after a hard day's plowing. -G. E. H. in Salem (Ind.) Far?.ner. Hams of Smithfleld. Below is the Method employed in curing the celebrated Smithfield hams: 'The hams aro placed in a largo tray of fine Liverpool salt. Then the flesh surface is sprinkled with finely ground crude saltpeter until the hams are as white as though covered by a moderato frost; or, say, use 3 to 4 pounds of the powdered saltpeter to 1,000 pounds of hams. After applying the saltpeter imme- diately salt with the Liverpool fine salt, covering Well the entire surface. Now pack the hams in bulk, but not on piles more than 8 feet high. In ordinary weather the hams should remain thus for three days. Then break bulk and rosalt with the fine salt. The hams thus salted and re - salted should now reniain in salt in bulk one day for each and every pound each ham weighs -that is, a two pound ham should remain two days, and in such proportion of time for larger and smaller sizes. Next you wash with tepid water un- til the hams aro thoroughly cleaned, and after partially drying rub the en - tiro surface with finely ground black pepper. Now the hams should be hung up in the smokehouse, and this important op- eration be begun. The smoking should be ver Y gradually and slowly done, last- ing 30 or 40 days, most packers using green hickory or red oak to smoke with. After the hams are cured and smoked they should be repeppered to guard against vermin and then bagged. These hams improve with ago and may be con- sidered perfect at about a year old. The conclusion naturally to be drawn from these facts is that any ham treated as these packers treat theirs would he better than the average. The Smithfield ham, however, owes its popularity to its peculiar flavor, and this flavor is not due to the manner in which it is cured, else any barn cured in the mane manner would rival it. It does not owe its fla- vor to the manner of feeding altogether, else hogs from other parts of the coun- try could be brought here and perfected. Tim uecessary things, iu the opinion of the producers, may then be summed up as follows: A slow growing, peculiar shaped hog. Peculiar game flavor produced by the wild life in the woods and the nuts, berries, etc., upon which it lives. Rapid production of flesh when tho fattening process begins. The fat formed of corn and pure water. The methods of curing and smoking. —.National Provisioner. It has been. found that if a little part- ly cured sorghum is given to cattle after they have bad their other feed at every meal for a few days, thus gradually ad- customing them to it, they can safely be allowed to pasture on Sorghum or to eat all they want of it, but Way should never have access to it green when their stomachs are entirely empty. All live stock May safely eat Well cured aergbura foddor as much as they Went With War food. - • • - • LEAD SOLD AS GOLD. ARgUMENTS ON BOTH SIDES OF A PRACTICE OF WATCH CASE MAKERS. Receiving 011.50 a round For isu Article That Geste fi cents --Tho system of Sell- ing by Gross Weight Responsible—Some Good suints Claimed. "The practice of Balling watch eases by gross weight puts a premium on dishon- esty and ultimately forces even the most scrupulous manufacturers to adopt meth- ods that they would repudiate under any other oircumstances," a dealer said, de- scribing some of the peculiarities of the trade. "If competitors offer 14 carat gold eases, stanaped214 k.,' or warranted '14-k. U. S. Assay,' weighing 60 pennyweight, for $25 or less, others must either meet those prices or lose trade. To avoid this alternative an effort is made to hold the warket by meeting the unscrupulous deal - di% on his own ground. Thus prices and standards of workmanship are lowered, conildenee is destroyed and the trade brings upon itself a certain amount of discredit that eventually redounds' to the injury of all concerned. "To clearly understand this examine the workings of a 'gross weight' sake. ascertain the value of a case weighing 48 pennyweights the gross weight is multi- plied by the price of the gold it contains, which, for the sake of illustration, say, is for 14 carat, 64 cents a pennyweight. This gives •an actual cost of $30.72. Add to this interest and cost of labor, and the total is the price of tho-case. As the chief factor in determining this is the gold used, it is necessary to find out how much this case contains. "Tho crown weighs 8Y., pennyweights and is made of baso metal plated, with a socket of load for tho winding stem, and is probably worth 26 conts. To the back of tho springs aro attached solid pieces of lead, iron or copper composition, which are cemented In the center, when the springs are in position, and weighing 1634 pennyweights, the value of which is prob- ably about the same as the crown. The three mako a total of 25 pennyweights, worth about 50 cents, but which is charged as gold at the rate of $10. " It will bo seen by this that the dealer pays for $10 worth of gold that he does not receive. Had the case been sold by net weight there would have boon no in- centive or inducement for the SO Called gold case manufacturer to use a plated crown and ,lead or baso filling. Conse- quently the crown and other parts of the case would be solid gold, whereas now they only look like gold. Assuming that the dealer kl1OWS Or this deception and re- fuses to accept tho ease markings and weight, as indicated on the manufacturer's invoice and tag-tho basis on which to estimate value -how is he to ascertain the real worth of the cases he may purchase? He cannot do it. If ho discards tho usage of tho trade, there is no. legal standard by which ho could determine it, and conse- quently this practice is carried on with- out violating any law except a general olio, under which it would bo very hard to secure a conviction. " That those praetices have attained their Present magnitude by ono bound is not to bo suliposed. The present system has been evolved from small beginnings. Tho evo- lutions con be observed by examining three crowns. Ono is a gold crown, weigh- ing 2 pennyweights. In it is no pillar for the winding stein, and the shell is hollow.' Another is a plated crown, filled with brass or some weighty composition, and it bus a largo pillar, in which the winding stem is set. It weighs 43.,;; pennyweights. Tho third has a plated erown, filled with lead, and the winding stein is screwed into a lead collar. It weighs 8) pennyweights and is ill general uso. "Tho same increase in weight is notice- able in the spring. Not only the size, but also the weight of material used, has been increased. The first filling and backing was of comparatively light metal. It was then found that copper was heavier, and now lead is the popular metal. "Tho purpose of this is too evident not to bo understood, and -as long as the gross weight system prevails this kind of thing will bo continued. The temptation is too great to resist. Tho system that enables a manufacturer to secure $150 to $200 a pound for an article that costs him from 6 0,20 cents is too valuable to be discarded lightly. To believe that the beneficiaries of the system will voluntarily abandon it would bo expecting too vouch from human nature. Tho system will be continued un- til it is not profitable or until some one stops in and wipes it out by the introdue- • tion of the 'net weight system of selling watch cases.' Then the public can hope to obtain what they pay for, but not till tbenhile acknowledging that the system of sellingWwatch cases by gross weight has its evils, another dealer in Maiden lane said that it has its good points also. "For example," ho added,, "watch cases are cheaper today than ever they were, solely on account,of the practice in the trade of selling them by gross weight in- stead of by not weight. Under the latter system you had to pay for labor,which amounted to anywhere from $5 to $10 per case. Under the system in vogue at pres- ent you get a case which contains just as much gold, but you do not have to pay separately for the labor of making it, Tho springs, etc., are, of course, sold as gold, and it is from tho profit derived In this way that the manufacturer reimburses himself for the cost of labor. Any one, however, who desires to purchase a watch case under the net weight system can do so, but the ease has to bo torn to pieces bo - fore it can bo weighed, and the cost of making it is added to the cost of the gold. In the long run it is better to purchase lead, steel and gold together, as gold, and get the labor thrown in than to have your gold weighed by itself and the cost of manufacturing it added to the cost of the gold." -New °York Commercial. Sleep as an Ald to Digestion. There is a time honored notion that a nap after meals promotes digestion, and, filled with this belief, a large number of persons habitually take a nap after dinner and think they are doing precisely the best thing for their health. There are other good authorities, too, who claim that sleep during digestion clouds the mind and predisposes those who indulge in it to apoplexy and stupidity. A French scientist has made this subject a study and , by ex- haustive experiments bas discovered that sloop does not hid digestion, but rest and a horizontal position are of great addan. tago In promoting the proper condition for perfect digestion and assimilation oil food.-Ndw York Ledger. Through With a Whirl. "So he married in haste? Did he re - pen at at leisure?" "No. He wont to North Dakota"— Cleveland Leader. • • 1111M111.111111•1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.1 Row to Riijn t Town. A. very peinted and practical article appears, in the Orangeville, Ont.,. itch vertiaer on the possible results of townspeople doing all their buying in the city. We quote it fqr the merchant to show it to intelligent customers who are reasonable enough tc.see that city - buying, if carried out to it extreme limit, can empty a town of both people and prosperity: "Let us assume that a town which lacks local pride and epirit and whose inhabitants send much of their cash to departmental stores, carries the thing to its logical conclusion and buys. everything away from borne' and what follows? The merchant puts up his shutters and quits. The main street has gone out of business. The post office and express office are the local branches of the departmental store and are busy sending off orders and handlibg parcels. The merchants with their families, and their clerks, scatter' to the four corners of the earth. There are, perhaps, two banks in town and one closes at once, but the other waits to see how business will be, The editor of the local paper looks over his. lield and peers into the future, and then removes his plant to some place far from an overshadowing city.' Those who own property along the main street find it almost valueless. One of the local lawyers moves away. One of the doctors sells out to the other. The farmers of the surrounding country rise at 3 a. m. and drive on through the village to the city to sell their produce and mako their purchases. Their farms once worth $101' an acre because adjacent to a living town, decline in value until they are worth only 830 or 840 au acre, because no living town and market are near. 'Me owner of the big mill or factory, which wn bonused years ago, will now harken to the offers he gets to locate in other places, and the town having no future, no prospects of better shipping faciltiies, the factory will pack up and go away. In short, the town . will have no excuse for ex- isting. The surrounding country does not Deed it; it doesn't need itself; its people might as Well move away and get into the city to which they really belong. Logically, this is the outcome -a whole province with no industry or trade in it but places of tinkering and repairing in a small say; a whole province in which only rich cities and rich men can thrive at all, all re ailing passing into the hands of millionaire men and companies strong enough to practice any trick or resort to any tyranny, and none being strong enough to resist them." Merchants cannot aflord to drift in this matter. They must act promptly, appealing to the common sense of property owners in a town not to set the example of buying outside. If the owners of property will not themselves buy in the place which returns them interest on their investlnent, of' course the case is pretty hopeless. But try what can be done by some vigorous pro- tests, and your local editors are the men to help you. ES THE WORLD Rheumatism anish- ed Like agic. A Marvellous Statement -Re- lief from One Dose. Mr. E.. W. Sherman, proprietor of the Sherman House, Morrisburg, Ont.. is known by thousands of Canadians, hence the fol- lowing statement from Mr.. Sherman will be read with" great interest and pleasure, "I,have been cured of rheumatism 0,1 ten years' standing in three days. One bottle of sot:TIT. AMERICAN RHEUMATIC CURE performed this most remarkable cure. The effects of the first dose of South Ameri- can Rheumatic. Cure WOIe truly wonderful. I have only taken one bottle of the rem. ecly, and now haven't any sign of rheuma- tism in my system. It did Inc more good than all the doctoring I ever ,more in my life." -20. Sold ,,by Watts & Co. Thq likelon Mutual Fire Insurance Company. •••••••••••••• ram and, Isolated Town Proper- ty only Insured. OPPIOURS.° George Watt, Proident, Barlook P. 0.; James Broadfoot, Viso.Pres., Sleaftrth 0.; W. 3. Shan, non, 200Y. TIQUIL, Seaferth P. 0.; Michael hurdle inspector of losses, Seaford? P. 0. butfirrroas, James Broadtoot, Seaforth; Michael Murdle.Sna, forth.; George Dale, Seaforth; George Watt, Blalock Thomaa E. Hays,Seaforth; Alex Gard1ner,LeadlmH7 Thomas Garbutt, 011uton; John McLean, Elpren, &GMT'S. Thomas Notions, Harlock; Robert Mcifillan,Ses, forth and James Cummings, Egmondville. Parties desirous to effect insurance or trans- . act other business will be promptly attend- ed to on application to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post aliens, Important Notice. ;Qui undersigned, having disposed of Tint • NEws-Itacoun plant and business to Mr, W. J. Mirclicht., it is portal Ve that all accounts he settled promptly. All Subscriptions up to July 1897, and al/ Ad vortising and Job Printing up to October 21st, 1897, must be paid to A., M. Todcl. Subscriptions from July, 1897, forward must bc paid to Mr. Mitchell. A. M. TODD. Clinton, October 2Ist, 1897, Apples Wanted, 1 ward all the Marketab'e Apples I can buy and will pay the highest Twice commensuratv with foreign quotations. Bold your apples :un- til you ha ve ascertained from 1110 what I can pay 1..r them. Donot nialre any mistake. 978 L-1 D. CANT ELON, Clinton. Poultry For Sale, • BARREL) PLYMUl"I'll 1(001(8. 1 have for sale about fifty Barred Plyrnou Bock chickens, all bred from superior the oughbred stock. The price will be reasonable LOICs: t: ('. Toni), ciiiiton. THE "ACME." The Greatest Healing DIR BEST ON EARTH. Patented in United States, August 18, 1801.1 Patented in Canada, October 16, 1801. GUARANTEED. County and State Rightafor Sale by BROCK & SHEPHERD Alma, Mich. The AaIE HEATER may he seen in use at . TIIE NEWS -RECORD Office, Clinton., Dr. Turnbull's Office, Clinton.' Corn be's Drug Store, Clinton. Hotel Clarendon, Clinton. W. WEBB, CLINTON, Stile Owner of Right for the County of Huron., ••••••••11W•••••10.1•MOCIMMOINF, UNIIIM•••11 Why They Had Non-e—Jimmy— Didn't yer have turkey fer dinner Chrip•mus day? Mamie (crying)—, Naw; paw went ter a turkey raffle Chris'mus eve.—Puck. • ONE GIVES RELIEF. Don't Spend a tollar for Medicine until you have tried You can buy them in the paper 5 -cent cartons Ten Tabules for Five Cents. This sort is put up cheaply to aratity tho universal present dernsud for a low Wee. If you don't find this sort of Rjpans Tabules At the Druggist's titan 0. Send Five Cents to THE Roans CHEMICAL COMPANY, 110. 20 Spruce St., New York, and they will be sent to you by mail; or 12 cartons will he mailed for 48 cents. The chances aro ten to one that Ripans Tabules are the very medicine you need. NA** 0