The Wingham Times, 1885-09-25, Page 6THE FARM.
Dairy and Farm Topics.
Cattle g nerally are bringing better prices
this year than last. s
, Hogs that have plenty of grass are rarely
troubled with cholera.
The bogus butter business is becoming
the boss fraud in this. country.
Clover pasture increases the milk yield of
cows and makes yellow butter.
Fatten and sell every sheep that will not
yield a fleece up to tee average weight. "
Reduce the number of sheep to a point
where they are secure from the privations
of shortened crops and excessively severe
weather—hot or cold, wet or dry.
Horses should have water often if they
are working in the field. They doubtless
suffer much from thirst, for they are never
watered except at mbruing, noon and night.
Persian insect powder will kill flies and
ensure comfort and rest to cattle and horees,
if dusted upon the stanchions and stalls and
around the windows of the barn or stable.
A flock of sheep should double themselves
each year, and the early lambs will sell for
quite as much as the sheep cost in the first
place, thus leaving the parent stook and
wool to the good,
Farmers shou'd not bo so ready to lay the
blame upon the farrier when their horses'
feet are in bad condition. Much of the
trouble frequently comes from the bad roads
and from the farmers' own neglect to ex-
amine and clean out the feet of their horses
at intervals.
The worst kind of a cribber can be dis-
tended from indulgence in his vice by the
following means : Nail a piece of sheep skin
about eight inches in width the entire length
of the crib; select a skin with long wool,
and sprinkle it freely with cayenne pepper, i
The cure will be speedy and permanent.
Lack of water will make fowls light, how-
ever liberally they may be fed. In an or-
periment where some fowls were killed- !
twelve houre after feeding, but without
`water, the undigested corn was found nearly
whole in their crops. Where they had ac -
seen to water the crops were empty, showing
that the digestion had been rapid.
When a farmer becomes burdened with a
big lot of poor stock, etc„ he is then in a
lair way to lose money, and to bec me dis-
eouraged and ready to declare that farming
don't pay. Poor stock will burden any
farmer, and the wise elan who owns any of
this clas t of animals will make every en-
deavor to get rid of them as soon as he can
Mock up judiciously with better ones.
There are cows which can never be kept
clean, and which seem to delight in fouling
their udders and hind quarters, and plaster-
ing their sides with filth by dipping their
tails in the gutter and lashing their flanks
with them. This all comes from education.
A well-trained cow has no such unclean
habits, and, once brought up in a cleanly
manner, :-ill preserve the habit, and save a
great amount of labor and worry thereafter,
Nearly half a century ago, Joshua Van
Cott, a great horse authority, used the fol-
lowing recipe for curing heaves in horses.
It has been regarded as a precious secret un-
til quite recently : Take forty sumach buds,
one pound resin, one pint ginger, half pound
mustard, one pint unelaoked lime, six ounces
cream tartar, four ounces gum guacum, one
pound epsom salts ; mix together, divide in-
to thirty powders and give one every morn-
ing in horse's feed before watering him.
In keeping a ho se fat there is as much in
the driver as in the feed. A horse well
curried attd rubbed with a wollen rag after-
ward is sure to make a sleek -coated horse,
and when well groomed is, we may say, half
fed A cross and nervous driver will fill the
horse with fer and dread, and will rapidly
run his horse down. Use any animal kind-
ly. Always be firm and make it mind, bat
never get excited: zA cool-headed driver
makes a long-headed horse.
Sheep on the farm are almost a necessity
in these times of advancein nt in farming.
The highest authorities on agricultural econ-
omy claim that their must be a variety in
stock as well as in crops to attain the great-
est success on the farm, and sheep are ad-
mitted to be the heat adapted to foul lands.
Their size makes them very convenient to
furnish meat for the farmer's family. Their
products are marketable when there is little
else on the farm to bring in ready cash.
They fit well to the large gap between hogs
and cattle.
The Poultry Yard.
Corn ie net a good food for the fowls in
warm weather as it is too heating in its na-
ture. Oats are much better at this time of
the year and if the fowls are confined
especial attention should be given to furnish-
ing them with a variety of food.
Sunflower send is an excellent egg pro-
ducing feed and as it is so easy to raise it
should be fed liberally to the fowls. The
seed should be planted about corn plant-
ing time and the crop will furnish a large
bulk of excellent food with very little
trouble or expense as they can be grown
in odd corners where nothing else could
be raised.
Charcoal is an excellent purifier and the
fowls are very fond of it, if fresh. If
they have free access to it they will eat
it quite eagerly and seem to be very fond
of it. It is especially valuable in summer,
as it serves to keep the blood pure and fres
from disease which is so common during
the hot summer months.
A dust bath is as necessary for fowls as
a water bath is for man. It cleanses the
feathers and rids the skin from vermin
and impurities of all kinds. A little sul-
phur dust mixed with the' aslfes would'
make it even more beneficial in its results
as sulphur in any form ie very obnoxious
to insects and vermin of all kinds.
If there are any rats about or near your
poultry houses they should be destroyed at
once, as they are a very trouble -some pest
and destroy a great number of young
chickens, frequently kill ng whole broods
in a few days or nights. They do most
of their work at night and in many eases
the lees would not be near. as great if rat -
proof coops were used whioh could be
shut up securely at night and thus shut
out enemies of all kinds, Tho poultry
quarters are not complete if they do not
contain shade trues or a contrivance of
some kind to prpteot the fowls from the
hot summer ern. I£ trees cannot be had
plant some rapid growing foliage plant for
the purpose of supplying shade and do
not forget to have fresh water before the
fowls every day, as it is a very important
p rt of their requisites durirgthe hot weather,
It is now, during the summer months,
perhaps, that the breeder is moat ashamed
of hie fowls that have frost bitten combs,
for it detracts materially from their beauty
and looks especially bad during the warm
pleasant weather of spring and summer. It
is a constantly ocen-ringgri vancet tree len
and owners of the large -combed breeds, for
the large tender combs will most surely be
frosted unless par ioular pains are taken to
save them. Even after they are frosted
the combs can he saved from presenting an
unsightly appearance by a little attention
and care on the pert of the keeper, The
following treatment has been recom-
mended and is a good one : In the morn-
ing rub the afflicted parts witha preparation
consisting of two parts of distilled giy serine
and one part of turpentine. At noon apply
sweet oil and rose water (three Farts of the
former and one of the latter) and in the
evening glycerine end turpentine again,
This is a very simple and cheap remedy and
will many times save the fowls from becom-
ing disfigured by the lose of part of their
comb whioh males them look all the worse
after the warm weather comes and the dan-
ger is past. So it would be a good idea for
the breeder of large combed fowls to cut
out this remedy and practice it on the young
chickens he is raising this year and see if he
cannot bring them out in better condition
another spring.
The Editor Held the Fort.
A few years ago a large number of rail-
way passenger agents were congregated
at Jacksonville, endeavoring to secure busi-
ness for their respective roads, as the trav-
el of Northern tourists happened to be very
large that Winter While the passenger
agents were infesting the hotels and mak-
ing things lively and having a jolly time
among themselves, the editor of one of the
Jacksonville papers came out in an editori-
al and called the passenger agents body -
snatchers, and declared that they were a
nuisance, and stated in positive terms that
they should be kept away from the depots
by the police. The article aroused the ire
of the passenger men, and they held a meet-
ing in a hotel to devise ways and means to be
aveng'd.
Beau Campbell offered a motion, which
was adopted, to appoint a committee to be
called the retraction committeeewho should
call on the editor and compel him to apolo-
gize. Mr. Campbell, so the joke goes, was
made chairman of the committee. and in
company with several others started in
search of the office of the abusive paper.
After some difficulty the office was found,
and, ascending a couple of flights of dark,
rickety stairs, Mr. Campbell and his com-
mittee entered a room and discovered a thin,
consumptive -looking little man seated at a
pine table, writing by the light of a dirty
tallow Dandle.
" Are you the editor and responsible man
of this paper ?" said Campbell, becoming
very bold as he noted the fact that the edi-
tor was a very diminutive man.
" Yes, air, I am the editor and responsi-
ble man."
' Well, sir, did you write this outrageous
article ?" thundered Campbell, as he put on
e look of terrible rage.
" Yes, I wrote that article," oamly re-
plied the small editor.
" Then, sir, we demand that you apolo-
gize and retract w,lat you have said, instant-
ly," said Campbell, in a thundering manner.
" I never apologize," replied the editor
" and I want you to get out of here in very
quick style ;" and he pulled out of a draws r in
the table before him a six-shooter as lorg as
a cornstalk and covered the crowd with it,
Col. Bob Garrett, who was tbere to render
moral support to the committee, says he
reached the bottom of the stairs first, with
the rest of the committee galloping close at
his heels.
When the committee reached the hotel
the other peesenger agents were anxious to
know what success they had met with. Mr.
Campbell, after calming himself, explained
' that the intention was laudable, bat owing
to circumstances the execution was faulty.
He also remarked that his friends would
have to wait until the Gulf was frozen over
before he wou'd consent to serve on a re-
traction committee again.
Col. Garrett says the next morning the
editor came out in his paper and ripped the
boys up the back, hut no one cared to call
his attention to the matter.
Event Names for Children.
A correspondent sends the following in-
teresting clipping from an old country
paper :—
In the quarter following the battle of the
"Alma," five hundred and nineteen children,
males as well as females, received "Alma."
as a Christian name. Balaklava, Inkerman
and Sebastopol also speedily gave their
names to English infants, and one " Siege
Sebastopol " was registered. The acquisition
of the Island in the Mediterranean during
the year 1878 was the means of introducing
Cyprus into English personal nomenclature;
and to pass to a later date still, a laborer's
boy, bora at Sawstone, Cambridgeshire, in
September, 1882, was named "Tel -el -Kabir.'
Political events as well as military, find their
refleotion in names. " Charter " is a record-
ed appellation recalling the popular move-
ment of 1848, and 'r Reform" is also an ex-
isting denomination. In a birth register of
1882 appears as the personal designation of
a certain Mre. Thorpe, who became a mother
at that time, the startling name"Leviathan."
The good lady, it is stated, was born or
named at the time of the launching of Brun.
el's monster steamship, which was at first
so called, though it has since been known as
the Great Eastern, A little girl, daughter
of a hoop -maker, born early in the last nam.
ed year at Rye, in Sussex, received the name
"Jumbo," presumably in commemoration of
the regretted departure of the Zoological
favorite from Regent Park to America.
Tho correspondent adds t Whilst on the
subject of names, what do you think of the
following, which I well remember appeared
for a considerable time in the monthly Army
Het, some years sinoo, " William Wellington
Waterloo Humbly?"
Num1 er Thirty-nine.
Tho main point in Russia's judicial pro-
oeedinge is frequently not to weigh a
prisoner's gpilt, and fix llpon the consequent
penalty, but merely to keep him in durance
'vile. If he is safely in custody, the law
allows no further interest as to his ease, It,
can wait, and he, unfortunately, must.
The case of "Thirty nine," a woman who
lead fallen under the suepicion of the Govern -
'tient, is cited in "Russia Under the Tzars,"
in illustration of this state of affairs : .
She was accused of being in communication
with conspirators, and of having been a
member of a secret neciety hostile to the
existing Government. Those oharges she at
once denied. She was then accused of other
offences, and many searching questions were
put touching her supposed connection with
the revolutionary movement. All were an-
swered in the negat ve,
"Very well," said the procurator, at
length, "you will have to reflect, Take
number Thirty -Niue back to her colt
warder."
She went baok to her cell, rejoicing at
having come so well out of the ordeal, and
that the police had so little against her,
She was full of hope as to the future.
She was then allowed to reflect at her
ease ; she could not complain that the even
tenor of her thoughts was disturbed by too
many distractions, A whole week passed ;
a second and third, An entire month
elapsed, and still nothing was said about
another examination, The month multi-
plied by three, by four, by six.
Finally when, at the end of the seventh
month' she had almost abandoned hope, she
was called before the procurator to undergo
still another questioning, The examination
was sharp and brief.
"Have you reflected ?"
"Yes, 1 have reflected."
"Have you anything to add to your pre-
vious depositions ?"
"Nothing. "
"Indeed ! Go back to your cell, then."
This time she does not return to her cell
with a light heart and beaming countenance
She feels crushed and confused, weighed
down by a strange, almost agonizing sense
of apprehension knit despair.
A maniaoin nunibet Thirty-eight is knocking
furiously st the wall.
"Wretches traitress that you have been
to denounce me. Here is a man with a sack
of rats that he is bringing to devour me.
Coward, coward that you are 1"
The poor lunatic is in one of her par
oxysms,
A horrible fear takes poesessien of the
prisoner's mind.
"Dreadful ! dreadful !" she cries. Shall I
one day become like her ?"
The months come and go ; they multiply
themselves into years. The captive is
undergoing a terrible 2risis. Her yearning
for air. movement, liberty, has -grown in-
tense, becoming almost mania. She has en-
treated the officials to send her to exile, to
Siberian mines, to sentence her to pena
the servitude.
The procurator has several times visited
her cell.
Have you anything to add to your dispos-
ition ?" has be n his invariable question.
"No."
"Very well ; I must still leave you to your
reflections."
In the meantime the bloom of health has
quite vanished from the prisoner's cheeks.
Her complexion has assumed that yellow -
green tint peculiar to the young who linger
long in captivity. Her movements are slow,
indolent automatic. She can rem+in htlf an
hour in the same position with her eyes
flexed on the same object, as if she were
buried in deep thought. Her brain has
become torpid ; she passes the greater part of
her time in heavy drowsiness, mental and
physical.
What will become of poor Thirty-nine ?
There are many alternatives for her., I
by some shook, her vital energy should be
awakened, she may strangle herself with a
p- cket•handkerchief, or poison herself.
She may go mad, or die of phthisis con-
tracted in prison.
If, however, by reason of abnormal
strength of character, and vigor of constitu-
tion, she survive until the day of trial, her
judges, out of consideration for her tender
age and long imprisonment, may let her
end her days in Siberia.
Turning Points in Life.
Every now and then, in history, or in the
history of literature and science, we find
some striking instance of turning -points in
life. On such ground we see how a scandal
about a bracelet, or the prohibition of a,ban-
quet, wrought a revolution, and precipitated
a dynasty. Look at literary or scientific
biography. Think of Crabbo's timourously
calling on Edmund Burke, and inducing him
to look at his poetry. I have no doubt but
Burke was very busy. But with lightning
glance he looked over the lines and satisfied
himself that real genius was there. When
Crabbe left the statesman he was a made
man, Burke, ever generous and enlightened,
had made up his mind to take caro of him.
Or look at Faraday. He was only a poor
bookseller's poor boy, working hard and hon-
estly, but disliking his employment, and in-
spired with a pure thirst for knowledge, He
had managed somehow or other to hear the
great chemist, Humphry Davy, at the Royal
institution ; and with trembling solicitude
he sends hien a fair copy of the notes which
he has made of his lectures. The result is
that Michael Faraday receives an appoint-
ment at the Royal institution, and lays the
foundation of his splendid and beneficent
career. Looking back to the past, that was
a groat moment in the life of Columbus, when,
resting on a sultry day beneath the fierce
Spanish sun, he asked for a drink of cold
water at a convent door. The prior entered
into conversation with him, and—struck by
his appearance, and afterwards by the mag-
nificent simplicity of his ideas—gave him tho
introductions he so sorely n-eded ; and thus
Columbus gave to Castile and Arragon a new
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