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The Wingham Times, 1885-08-21, Page 2FOR TEE FARMER. Dairy and Stook Topics. Salt for stook is not a neoessity. Here may be a saving.—Col. F, D. Curtis, A New York dairyman says he is convinc- ed that evety buphel of ..windfall apple* fed. to his cows was worth a pound of cheese. Cows should pot be heated up by being hurried, excited by bad usage, etc., and should have a shade from the extreme hest of the sun. A beef animal is like an apple—first the green stage ; second the ripe stage, and third the overripe stage—when it begins to de- teriorate, Good pigs never come from poor Dare and poor feed. Good care does not, however, necessarly imply gorging a growing shote with rich food until it is a mase of diseased fat. Give to the cows none but the best and purest food. With no other stock is this so essential, for the reason that ithas been fully demonateated by competent authority that milk is a very prolific source of transmitting disease germs from impure food, and especial- ly from impure waters. In selecting, a dairy cow see that she has a good bag. This is where she parries her milk, and if small, she can not carry much, Never buy a cow with teats an inch long; let some one else have her, and get one with teats that the hand can grasp. This is a very important point in the make-up of a dairy cow. To make a gentle milker, a calf should be trained from the time it is two months old, It should be rubbed and stroked and petted. Its teats and udder should be handled fre quently from the beginning. Thus, when the animal is ready to become a cow, it will be familiar with the motions of milking. A correspondent of the London Zaire Stock Journal has been looking up ancient milk records, andfinds amoog the laws of a Welsh king, Howel Dd•, made as early as the tenth century, that prices were fixed for the cur- rent value of certain animals. For any de- fect or blemish of any animal at the time of sale, reparation and restitution must be made by the seller. No wooden utensil should be used in milk. ing or in setting milk. Wood absorbs the milk into its pores, and when the pail is scalded, this milk becomes coagulated, fer- ments and decomposes, and will surely in- jure the milk, by infecting it with leaven of putridity. Tin pails and pane should first be washed with cold water, then with hot water and soap to remove the grease, then rinsed, and finally scalded with boiling hot water, wiped with clean dry towels, and afterwards placed out of doors to air in sun- shine. The straw from beans is a natural food for sheep, and they are the only stock which are fond of it. It is a healthy'food for them. Oat straw isbetter for sheep than any un- palatable hay. They will pick out all of the leaves and heads of all kinds of straw, but they do not like the coarse straws, and will not eat them unless forced to by hunger. Straw, to be poi for sheep, should not be over -ripe, musty, or full of ergot. On this account rye is the poorest, and wheat next. To give sheep a keen appetite, no more should be given them than they will eat up clean. They come to a sweet smelling and fresh rack of food with a relish. A flock of sheep, says the Rural Canadian, "should double themselves each year, and early lambs will sell for quite as much as the sheep cost in the first place, thus leaving the parent stock and wool to the good. In fact, sheep breeding is one of the best pay- ing branches of mixed farming, especially in this country, with its dry climate and rich pastures. There is no country in the world where sheep thrive so well, are so free from disease, and attain such perfection, as in Ca- nada. Those farmers who are neglecting this important industry are standing in their own light, and those who have kept their flocks by careful breeding have never done so well as during the past few years." Shying or dodging horses are made so generally by impaired eyesight which gives them an imperfect view of objects, and they do not recognize ordinary things and are frightened by them ; whereas, if they could Bee well they would not shy. Poor eyesight may be caused by over -heating, over -draw- ing and by wolf.teeth. For the first there should be pooling diet, such as grass, carrots, and bran mashes, together with laxative medicine, glauber salts being the beat, fed daily with the mashes, one-fourth pound, un- til the animal gives evidence, by the bright. nests of its coat and general appearance that its blood has become purified and the fever is out of it. When this condition is reached the eyesight will be improved and perhaps restored. Over -loading horsesieboth stupid and winked, and strains the nerves of the eyea, for which the only remedy in to wash the eyes two or three times daily with a mild extract of witch hazel, or some good eye -water. When this straining is severe nothing will cure it, and the horse usually becomes blind. *bough to see, Or leave the food where they oan get 11; theatselves IA the •mgraing, Never Wait\fee settee in the prion of young chicks. It never comae. As Moon as wpar- ague appears in the market, he the time when they may be sold to good advantage. When once the, Prices begin to deoliae, they go down until the "old hen " standard is reached. Lova for the business and faithful atten- tion to it puts the poultry raiser a long way on the road to euooees.The difference be- tween a basket of eggs and no eggs at all lies in that, and in the result of the fidelity with which a person will attend to the bud - nese. Keep the old hen cooped, but let the coop be so located that the chicks can have a long run on grass or in a garden. They will kill myriads of small insects, to their own and the farmer's good, and do no harm. Young, chickens should be petted a little, by feed- 1 ing them from the hand and otherwise, so they will remain tame. This will ease the work and add to the pleasure of caring for them very much. Want of cleanliness is ono of the most .corn, mon causes of failure in poultry keeping. The house ;should be cleaned daily, or semi- weekly at the longest. Sweep, whitewash and use carbolic acid often enongh to keep floor clean, and the roosts and nests free from lice, Nest eggs made of calcliued plan • ter, wet up with water in which are a few drops of carbolic acid, are excellent for keep- ing lice away from the nests. Keep the chickens growing now, and feed as if they were laying fowl. Now is the time to force them along if it is desired to have them lay early. A little extra fend and care during the first three months will do more good to make them good winter layers than any patent poultry food can do after Thanks giving. If breeding thoroughbred fowl, they ehouldbe separated fromother;breeds at three menthe aid, and better lit Hix weeks if Leg - horns or game are with them, Early maturity is an important factor in a pullet, and hence it is now too late to secure them early. The beat course to pursue is to make up the time by crossing with cocks from the early maturing breeds The best cock for this purpose is a Leghorn. Pullets from a Leghorn cock and ordinary common hens will lay when six months old, and con- sequently if the pullets are hatched in June they will lay in December if the winter does not come in too soon. Geese should not be plucked until the goslings are all hatched and able to take care of themselves. The geese may be pluck- ed twice—once in July and once in Novem- ber, as they will have nothing to do after this month in the way of laying or sitting. It should be remembered that the renewal of the feathers is a great drain on the system, and the geese should be well fed, and given a warm, dry place at night until they are fully feathered again. Eggs may be packedin salt for winter use. Coal ashes, plaster, well -dried oats or corn, and even duat may be used, but salt is the best. Dry processes are more convenient than liquid methods, and the later they are preserved the better. The chief point to be observed, however, is to frequently turn the eggs, and keep the boxes in a cool place. Under domestication fowls require nutri- tious food, with a little seasoning. once in a while, to give relish. Any simple condiment like ginger, or popper, is stimulating and helps to make them thrifty, but they should not be fed on such quantity as would cause undue action in the system, but merely to "tone up." If fowls are fed in this way there is no reason to expect they will keep in good oondition and make themselves val- uable to their keepers. Poultry Points. Sell alliproduete of the poultry yard as soon as they are ready foes market. Feed the poultry just before it goes to roost, and again,' just as Soon as it is light • Are the Indient Dying; Oj><t ? There are really noafaots• to., justify' tits'• conclusion that the red races of America are destined to meet the extermination that is befalling the Polynesian tribes of the Pacific Ocean. Those Indians who are living under favorable condititn s are nor lily' holdeng there own buten growing In number, TN, Chcrokeos of the Indian territory, who in 1809 numbered 12,395 souls, have already doubled. Many other Indians who have abandoned migratory life, quit the war path, and exist by agriculture instead of by the chase are eitherstationery or are increasing. There are some circumstances that en- courage incorrect notions with regard to the diminution of certiap tribes. The thou- sand or so Indiana in New York, for in- stance, are but a sorry remnant of the great Iroquois confederation which two hundred years ago is .believed tc have numbered 25,000 souls., It mast be remembered, how- - ever, that when the, compact between the Six Netiepa wee broken after the Revolu- tionary war, many hundreds of them- emi- grated north.' Seven thousand of the Oneid- as, Cayugas, nd Mohawks, whose ancestors lived in the beautiful Mohawk valley and around the lakes of western N w York, now dwell in Canada,, and are 'slowly in- creasing in number. ' Many other depend- ants of the broken Iroquois tribes are tillers of the soil in Wisconsin. This dispersion of Indian tribes among the whites or into new territories'eceeunte for a part of . the de- crease in numbers that has often been at- tributed to mortality. " Our etatiet,ics,",.said the Canadian In - dian Comtrrfssioners in 1855, " militate strongly against the theory of a steady de- cline in the number of Indians." A report upon the education of the Indians published in this' city in 1577 remarked : " The In- dians in general are not dimiuiehing in number. They are, in all probability, des- tined to form a durable element of Our popu. talion." Another muse that has led to exaggerated notions of. the rapid dying out of Indian tribes is the fact that if an Indian woman becomes the wife of a white man,, the chances are that she and her descendants are never included in the unsatisfactory statis- tics of our Indian population. Half breeds figure to a large extent in the census returns as white people. In classing them with the imported rate the census pollector preeg- urea the fate that is overtaking many of the red tribes of America. It is not that they are becoming wiped ofethe face of the earth, but that, hemmed in on all sides by Euro- peans, with no chance to recruit their num- bers from without, they are gradually being absorbed by the white race around them. Tnirty years ago there were more Indians than white people within twenty miler. of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Many Indian agents, trappers, soldiers, and some farm- ers had Indian women for wives. Among the half breeds and quarter breeds of Min- esota to -day are many well educated and highly respected people, graduates of the beat aohools in. the West, a few of those fathers gave their names to counties in the States, were its Territ.rial Governors, or helped form its State Constitution. They. are not classed as Dakotas, but as white people, and each succeeding generation ex- hibits fewer indications of Indian origin. There is abundant proof that the intermix- ture of the races, from the St, Lawrence to the Rocky Mountains, has not entailed upon the redmen any physical or intellect- ual deterioration. The handful of Onondagas living near Syracuse have doubtless deteriorated In - mental and physical stamina, owing chiefly to their frequent intermarriages, Their cousins, however,the Mohawks and Oneidas of western Canada, among whom there re- mains hardly an Indian of unmixed blood, are increasing in numbers and advancing In civilization. Nearly half of the Cherokees, the chief nation of the Indian Territory, are half breeds. Prof. Daniel Wilson, of To- ronto, who has collected a great deal of in- formation about the Indian races, says that in some of the Canadian bands not a single pure blood Indian remains The wild In- dians, who longest roamed our western plains and maintained their tribal organiza- tions intact, have by no moans maintained the racial purity of their fathers. Mr, Lew- is IL Morgan, who has devoted much study to the Indians, estimates that the Dakotas, Chippewas, and Potowetomies have taken up enough white blood in the last two con- turies to lighten the oolor of their entire tribeb from one-s:xth to one -forth. To the ethnologist the most interesting produotbf this intermixture of races thus far has been the 12,000 half breeds of the Red River Settlements in Manitoba, who to a large extent have kept themselves distinct in their habits and s9cia1 relations both from Indians and whritely, The sons of French and Scotch' fathers, they surpass in physique and endurance any of the native raced, and present the phenomenon nowhere else seen of a distinct half breed tribe, the tendency among other Anglo-American hy- bride being, as time goes on, to draw nearer in blood and allegiance to the whites. The main facts with regard to the Indian, then, appear to be that, under eircumstaneee which the hardiest white races could hardly survive, he is rapidly dying out; that under The Sea Captain 'and the "Fiery Untamed." A good story is told of an old sea captain who keeps a little hotel in a northern village on the sea shore celebrated for its sands. His wife was very anxious to have a horse, an animal in which the old man took but lit- tle interest, but the old lady finally won her point, and got her horse. The steedwas of a playful disposition, and used, on the least provocation, to tear madly along the shore, and suoceeded in " spilling "'the old lady several times, At last the captain, who had never driven the animal, volueteered to break him off his vicious habit ; so, getting another old " salt " to aid him, he procured a kedge anchor with a stout line attached. Fasten- ing the end of the line around the axle, and putting the anchor into the phaeton, the " fiery untamed " was harnessed, and the two m'n started for a drive along the shore. Soon the vicious animal spied aomething which gave him an excuse to run away, and immediately dashed off with frightful viva- city. The captain dropped the reins, and summoned all hands to let go the " anchor.'' The anchor was let go, and naught firmly in the sand, The unsnspcoting quadruped pranced jeyouely along until he got to the end of the rope, and than he pnoaed—paused so suddenly that the phaeton was demolished and the two men shot up into the air like a couple of eky-rockete, coming down in a fearfully dilapidet:d condition. Let him who neglects to raise the faiien fear lest when ho falls, ne one 'will etreteh out his hand to Save him, gonditions which enable the *hetes to thri ileIa.inereasing-and proeperkeg in k'lessen degree; and that in the coarse of time he is destined to disappearas the native race of America, not through extermination, but by absorption into the overwhelming mass, MEOtANI9AL ITEMS. A good. sized whale will produce two tone of whalebone .lf'treeted,Uke.a gentleman. A machine has been invented wbioh wraps up oranges in tissue paper more neatly and rapidly than it can be done by hated. Hard maple placed on end is from four to five times as durable as maple, and equal- ly as durable as the hardest baked tile, End -wood flooring oan bo produced with aa finely finished surface as that made on the side of the grain. An ordinary loolting cane of very peculiar construction has boon invented by a Madrid. man. It contelus a complete set of topo- graphical and telegraphic instruments, a heli- ograph and a lantern. It is intended for the - use of engineers lathe army service, Impermeable floors are now regarded as indispensable in houses constructed on hy- gienic principles., They must be so treated that ,the wood cannot absorb moisture; rough places must be made smooth, and such cranks or depressions as give rise to the smallest aooureultetions of dust are not per missible, 'A vegetable • leather, meld to be fully equal to the animal';preduot,,isemade in Paris from gutta percha„ sulphur, raw cotton, zinc white, kolkothar, and pxide of antimony, The fleet two ingredients are necessary, while the other parts may be replaced by chemicals of similar character. The propor- tions are varied withethe purposes. An English paper suggests that "if a man wants a carriage or implement photo. graphed so as to make a working copy to scale, all that is necessary is, when the photo is being taken, that *'clear and distinct three foot rule be placed on the carriage ; this is photographed along with the carriage, and no matter what the size of the print or neg- ative, will always be a true scale. It en- larges and diminishes in exactly the same proportion as the carriage. . In certain French steel works a workman in cutting fifteen -inch files uses a hammer weighing seven and seven -tenths pounds and wears out a handle of holly wood in about one year, after having struck about 11,250, 000 blows with the hammer. In cutting triangular files about five inches long, and in metal somewhat softer than the above, the hammer used weighs two and tavo-tenths pounds and the holly handle lasts about two years, and. has been used in striking 25,440, 000 blows. This is another instance of the constant, but long continued, drooping that is said to wear away stones, A correspondent of a mechanical - paper says: "I have had great trouble in procur- ing a small loose pulley that would stand ,`running at a high rate of speed with a very tight belt. After trying a large number of different kinds of wood and iron, with long and short bearings, bushings of babbitt, copper, etc„ none of which would stand more than two months, I at last procured some sole -leather; I put the flat surfaces to- gether, and bolted through with four bolts; after boring and turning, I soaked it well in oil and put in place. It has now been running about one year, and is still apparent- ly as good as new, It requires very little oil. An iron ore boulder that had been on ex- hibition for some time in the Louielena De- peartment of the Exposition"at New Orleans, was smelted the other day at a foundry in that city after being broken up. The lump, which weighed about 350 lbs., was picked up on the mirfaoe of the ground in Clair - borne Parish ire the northwestern seetion,of the State, and in e. county thatappears to have been upheaved by volcanic action. Upon being reduced the speoimen referred to yielded about 50 per cent, of pure metal- lic iron, report say, free from sulphur. As the supply of the ore Is practically inex- haustible, Louisiana, it some, will soon be ranked among the iron producing States. A Qaestion of Time. The little woman was at the seaside and would have enjoyed herself but for the heartrending tettersehe received each morn- ing from her husband. " My darling," was the burden of his cry, "I am miserable without you, and, the house is so wretched acrd lonely." And she belieted these letters, and after a more than usually Miserable one, peeked tip and came back to town without a word. i?ull%of pleastjre at the joyful slur - /Asa .she was going to give her sorrowing spouse, she 'drove up to the house and enter, ed the door, She fatted the disooneolete one at the head of a big table, surrounded by the nrixedost ;party that had ever set foot in that establishment, and Pinging outfit the top of his veice. She sought herbed *weary and tearfully. And then her husband stood beside her, "You brutc,'l she Maned, .'"to say you are miserable," "M'dear," he re- marked, as he swayed to and fro, "you for- get. I alweyeh write to you in the morning when I am mie'able. To -morrow, when all thislh died out, I shall be so mis'able that, that that you'll be sorry you came back,' BUI'FALO OR BE4B. ,t stemarkgble Hu antle Endiandngig"(wep g[e itemark- "Speaking of buffalo," said Mr. B, Gilpin, well•kownn Celoxado, ceetee man, " the last herd+I ever saw was a small one, consisting of less than twenty head, which my brother France and I encountered near Powder River, W. T., in the Fall of 1883. We were out prospecting for a good cattle range, and came upon the bison near a wooded bluff, close to river. Leaving our buckboard and four horses tied to a tree, we started after the noble game, quickly aeleot- ing a fine-looking bull, which we out out of the herd and chased on foot as well as we could. Owing to the rough character of the ground, my brother and I soon became separated. Frank going on one side of a hill and 1 on the other, losing sight of each other for a few minutes. When I emerged on the other side I witnessed a strange transformation. The pursued had become the pursuer. My brother was running like a quarter hone, while the bull, with lower- ed horns, was rapidly closing up the gap be. twsen them. The situation looked critical, and I made the most haste possible to render what assietancel could to my fleeing brother. Before I could, approach neer enough to get a shot at the shaggy pursuer, Frank sudden ly disappeared in the mouth of a large cave, with the buffalo following a good second. Their disappearance lasted but for a few minutes, Just as I got opposite the cave the frightened beast emerged, and with a Ioud bellow plunged for the creek beyond, ,and, what, was the most wonderful, Frank was seated on the back of the buffalo, with both hands enmeshed in his shaggy hair, holding on as for dear life, with blanched face and eyes starting from their acekets. The mad plunges of the beast, accompanied by its terrific roars, were perfectly frightful. Passing down the bank, it plunged into the stream, partly waded and partly swam across, then, rushing up the tank on the opposite aide, through a clump of scrub Dake and willows, succeeded in dislodging and landing him, bruised and bleeding, in the underbrush. Making my way to him as soon as porsiblo, I relieved him of his awk- ward predicament and assisted him to rise. "As soon as he recovered himself suffioi- ently to speak he askedme for some brandy. Having a flask with me, I gave him some, and he revived considerably. ' That was a close shave,' he gasped as he renewed his attentions to the flask. ' What was it?' I asked. ' Well, you see after I got separ- ated from you at the hill I took a short cut through a ravine, thinking to head off the buffalo and got a good shot. I succeeded in heading him off, bat instead of getting a shot at him he turned upon, me suddenly, and, fearing his horns, I ran along the edge of the batik, and seeing the .mouth of the cave, dashed in, with the bull close behind me, I had proceeded but a few yards, how- ever, before I saw before me what seemed to beetwo balls of fire, and was greeted with a horrible sound, ;which was a cross be tween a growl and a roar. I became sue; denly aware that I was facing a huge cinna- mon bear, which, to my excited imagination was a thousand times more terrible than 'the pursuing buffalo. Turning to go back, I found my recent enemy blocking my way of egress, and in the agony of the moment I *hose the desperate alternative of mounting upon his back, my only thought being to escape from the bear. No sooner bad I alight- ed on the beast than he turned swiftly and rushed out of the cave frightened, • if any thing, more than I was myself. You know the rest. I don't want another each ex perienoe, I can tell you.' " We went back to our wagon and camp- ed for the night, returning next morning to the cave, where we concealed ourselves and waited some hours, until • finally the bear came out of his hiding place. Seeing us, he made a desperate plunge toward the spot where we stood. I fired itt him from my W incheater, wounding him in the breast. The shot seemed to anger him more, and it was not until I had nearly emptied the magazine of my rifle that he finally fell. Several shots from my brother's rifle soon finished him. We drove the wagon as close to the carcase as possible,' loaded it on the vehicle with some difficulty, and took it to the nearest town« Tho bear weighed 575 pounds and was one of the largest that has been killed in that portion of the country," Ingrafting Negro Skin. Dr Bryant in his work on surgery tells of a ease where he ingrafted negro skin on a white man, and the grafts grew with such Woes that the man's leg, when cured, was half white and half black. It is not stated whether the bleakskia hod any effect in sub- sequently changing the white skin on other portions of the patient's body, but such a result cannot be oonaidered an impossibility because the black pigment Enigrum pig - mentum} of the negro's skin mutt have been injected into the patient's body. If ladies can change the colour of their hair and sub- due warts, pimples, and muddy complexions by the simple remedies of the modern toilet it would be highly derogatory to the science of surgery to deny its power to change White to a black skin,