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fr& r ' v 4 v? i "T7 I A- THE FARMING WORLD. FATTENING HOGS. I'a II Jn tlu Time Allow All Other to 1'iimIi llir 1'orUors. The corn Hold mid the hog arc coni ,ng closer and closer together. Just as soon iih the grain begins to dent, we bo jlu to cut up the corn and feed It to the li'jgs that are to be fattened. How they ,vill pick up on it. The longer the hog .s kept after cold weather sets in, the more expensive the animal is. We like to fatten quickly and send to market, and we can feed all the corn the hog will at from the stage above described until the animal is ready to market. We rcod nothing but corn during the fat tening season. If the animal has been an good pasture and fed a lot of mill stull's during the summer, it needs noth ing of this kind, if it is fattened quick ly. Of course the laying on of fat must be considered as a diseased condition. During the fattening process the hog is hot, feverish, and as the fat aceumu lates the organs are oppressed, and if fed notliing but fattening food the bones and muscles get very little nour ishment, but that will do no particular liuim unless the process is continued tci a long time. If it is the animal ought to be fed some millst nil's or some thing like them. All the time the hog is being fattened it should have plenty of good pure water. Swill will not answer. If you ever had a fever you wanted wa ter, not milk, not tea or colYce, just wa ter. The fat hog feels exactly like that. As to keeping swine for a better mar ket, everyone must be his own judge. 1 think it is best to get them oil' as soon as possible. It is all expense to keep hogs after they arc fat enough to kill, and the question is simply this: Can you atVord to be at the outlay of keeping hogs a month or two for what additional price you may get. As a rule, no. The fall is the time to push the swine. The tem perature is just right for the profitable laying on of fat. It is not too hot and it is not cold enough to use up the fat. II. O. Dixon, in Western LMowman. DURABLE HOG TROUGH. Its DcNlK'ut Hum CmiNU to SiiimiIc Very Well of It. I send a drawing of a hog-trough which I find to be the best 1 have ever us-ed. The wire is not in the way of throwing in the feed, as is the case where strips are nailed across the TROUGH FOR HOGS. trough. The wire prevents ,the hogs from getting in the trough aiul keeps the trough from spreading. Use one piece two by six, and one two by eight inches, nailed together, with ends nailed on in the usual way. Take No. I) or 12 wire and begin four inches from the end, one side, and staple securely; then rttaw the wire across angling to eight inches from the head of the trough on Hit other side, and so on. This gives I'iieli hog a space of eight inches. 1). II. West, in Farm and Fireside. LIVE STOCK The fall pig should be kept by itself during the winter, fed well and kept warm. If food for stock is cooked at all, it should be cooked and not simply warmed. If your hog is sick, a vermifuge, such us worm seed, will very likely reach die case. If you have a halter puller, arrange the halter so that it will choke. That will cure. Smoking and salting the meat will not kill trichinae in center of pork. Cooking alone can do that. .My hogs that died with cholera were nearly fat enough for the pork barrel, says a breeder. Fat all their lives, we suppose, that Is in a diseased condition from the 'beginning. We never did approve of following cattle with swine, if it can be avoided. With large herds it is best, but with small herds grind the corn and mix the meal with cut fodder and feed indoors. It will save 25 per cent. When a horse begins to cough, run at the nose and have sores on him, it is probably farcy, and should be separated from the well horses. Wash sores with a three per cent, solution of carbolic ucid, feed generously but not on fat forming foods and give a strong blood purifier. Western IMowman. The Practice of Soiling. There is no question in the minds of those who have tried it, of the great saving made by the practice of soiling. Fxperinients recently made at the Michigan experimental station show that about four times as much food Is obtained from a meadow allowed to ma ture liny, as from a field pastured. In soiling, the difference would probably not be so great, owing to the fact that the grass of peas, or alfalfa, or w hatever is grown for the purpose, Is cut before it fully matures, but eten then from two to three times the number tif tint mnls can be supported by s.ii'.ii.g. as on pasture. PLAN FOR HENHOUSE. A Structure Which Will Acfinnmo. ilutc li Hundred IIIimIn. The henhouse portrayed herewith lm" a root collar with cement floor 1!J by 28 feet and six feet deep. A half-pitch g'ible roof gives a loft 10 by 32 feet for st.aw and dry feed. Cellar and loft should each have a window at each end. The house should be six feet high, warmly built of planed lumber and whitewashed inside and have heavy close lifted board floors above and be low. All windows and doors should bs provided with small mesh wire screens for summer nights and with close board Hliutters for winter nights. .Doors, win dows, screens and shutters rhould all bo snugly fitted, hung on strong hlngea ith good fastenings both for fastening them shut and holding them open. a ETHa w y A f h b , L Gia zk zh PLAN FOR HENHOUSE. Doors should all have glass windows. Three small mesh wire (chickens some times get their heads fast in the largu mesh wire) partitions divide into four rooms S by 1G feet. Perches are shown at a in room e, space being 3 by 8 feet, perches being lya above the floor. Dust boxes at b are II by 2 by 1 feet. Itaoni d shows two tiers of three nests each under platform, each nest 1 foot high, 1 foot broad, 10 inches deep, with II inch board across lower front of nests. Kooni e shows perches on platform, three perches 7 feet long made of 2 by ! inch studding planed and laid loosely on two carpenter's horses 1 foot high. There should be a small window both above and below platform made perfect ly snug in winter. Wire yards, sanded, nired overhead, should be provided. Shovel the snow out for them to exor cise in winter. Rooms e, d and e will each accommodate three dozen hens and one rooster. Koom f is provided with stairway into loft and cellar, and should be kept for emergencies such as for sitting hens, sick fowls, young or old roosters, etc. It will never come amiss and rarely ever will be vacant. You wil find granite and iron kettles, most convenient, cleanly and econom ical for milk, water ami food of all kinds. Lillie E. Herrington, in Farm and Home. WHAT THE EGGS COST. The IM'oilt DeitfiidN I2iitlrly 4111 t lie Cowt of the Food. If a farmer has a flock tiiat must lie confined in yards, and fed twice a day, it is doubtful if the eggs received will more than pay for the food consumed. The estimate of the cost of eggs is based on the fact that the amount necessary to be expended on a laying hen for one year, provided all food must be allowed her from the storehouse of the owner, is one dollar, while the average number of i'gg: laid by each hen during one year is estimated at 100. This makes every egg cost one cent. Hut it does not cost one dollar a year for each hen except where they must be kept under adverse conditions. Hens on farms ( ost the fanners not over 2.i cents a hen a year because the hens are self-supporting during a portion of the time, and also because they consume an 1 util ize a great many substances that possess no value to the farmer. It is true that the hens occupy land that i? usually devoted to some crop, such as grass, fruit, etc., and which may also be occupied by the fowls entirely. The profit from eggs must depend on the cost of the food and the prices ob tained. There is a wide dill'erencc be tween 12 cents and 20 cents a dozen for eggs, and if we estimate the cost of an vix at one cent, the diii'erenoe of one cent a dozen in the price obtained may change a profit to a loss or nothing' at all. There are hundreds of farmers who soil eggs at only eight cents a dozen, owing to distance and lack of transpor tation facilities to market, but the cost of the eggs is correspondingly as low; hence, the actual cost of an egg depends not only on the cost of the food, but the conditions affecting Hie keeping of poultry. Hast of the Mississippi river farmers should have no difficulty in securing good prices compared with the cost. It is not the winter eggs that pay best, for they may bring high prices and be scarce. The eggs which give the most profit are produced by hens that forage and secure their food without being dependent upon their owners. Farm and Fireside. Tiie Ulan Who KiicccimIn. The man who succeeds with any kind of lio stock is the one who is interested, t tint is in the business w ith head, hands and heart, and that spares neither time i-r.r espouse in order to secure all the. possible information pertaining to l)i reds and management, and to hae the best Individuals of the best breeds I fot his purpose. Then, too, his flocks jti'.'d herd, unariably look upon him 11s .1 ' frit ml. ai.d not as an enemy. Agricul , l. nil Lpilr.nUi. HD LIFE ON THE KLONDIKE. Little llniiiictitiiKM to tlu Cu run no Told Ity the Local .louritnl. Our esteemed townsman, Hud Gravel, placed upon our desk yesterday a hand somely shaped nugget. It weighed 27 pounds. We have credited him with three months' subscription to the Lyre. We are pleased to see that Mr. (travel, who is one of our best citizens, is do ing well. He is one of a syndicate which expects to buy a quart of whisky Sat urday night. , The high wind yesterday raised con siderable dust. ,Iuko Luckenbill, who was out on the HI Dorado road with his team, says he was nearly blinded by it. When lie came home lie coughed up S7.1.SI). One of our greatest needs is street sprinkling. Dawson I'eltibane has finished hisnew well in the icar of his kitchen. It now has 11 feet of ice water in it, and he has washed over $85,000 in dust from the dirt taken out. The Widow Larkln yesterday met with a misfortune which will, we are rure, call forth the sympathy of he public. During the heavy rainstorm in the afternoon a regular torrent rushed down the gully back of her house and washed so much gold dust into her pig sty that the pig was smoth ered. A subscription has been started for her benefit. While Ike Sigtnan, the esteemed pro prietor of the Hig Strike saloon, was fishing in the river yesterday his boat struck a snag; it proved to be a G00 pouitd nugget. He will have it taken out and will use it as a horse block in front of his place. Ike is always bound to have the best that is going. Large numbers of dead catfish are seen floating in the river every day. When examined it is found that every one of them lias from six to eight ounces of gold dust in its stomach. The carelessness in allowing loose gold to escape into the river will ruin the fishing unless stopped. Hill .Tneobs made a pretty good strike on the Little .Juniper this week. He struck plenty of gold at a depth of three feet, but as the lumps were too big to carry he closed up the hole and lias staked another claim farther up the creek. Aleck Cameron put a new fireplace in his eat) in this week', but he will now have to build another one. After he had completed it he built a roaring fire, but there was so much metal in t he stone that it melted and ran all over the floor. He now has a gold-plated floor, but. no fireplace. There was a bull movement in dog meat yesterday, the price closing at 08 cents above the opening figure. It is supposed to be due entirely to pro fessional speculation. Pittsburgh Times. AVliut u Woman AUvii.vh Siij-n. "When a woman tells you a trunk is light look out for it." These are the words of a baggageman, and he ought to know. He had gone to a house in the suburbs in response to a hurry call and found the house in a great bustle. The lady was going to leae town in an hour and her trunk- was upstairs and had to be brought down and loaded into the wagon. "It's not very heavy," she said to the man, whereat he spat on his hands and called in his helper. He had all he could do to lift one end. 'Tve found it always the case," said ho, "that when a woman says a trunk is light it's dead sure to be heavy, and when she says it's heavy 1 can usually handle it with one, hand. I don't know why a. woman is tJiis way, unless she thinks I charge her more for a heavy trunk and will never find out how much it weights unless she tells me. Hut if that is so, why does she tell me that a light trunk is heavy? I'll give it up." Nebraska State Journal. THE GENERAL MARKET. KANSAS Cl'l Y. Mo . Sept. 28. CATTLK Rest beeves I 1 X 2 T -0 Stoclter-N a ir (2, J 40 Native cows 1 75 !I r0 HOGS-Cholco to heavy 3 !() t. J 03 SHHHP 2 8.1 3 70 WHUAT No. 2 red W (& 01 No. 2 laird 81 tlvi COUN-No. 2 mixed " & 2ft, OATS-No. 2 mixed 18 19 KYB-No.2 13 (ft i'M FLOim-l'atunt, pur barrel.... ! 70 (To ! H) Fancy 4 (VJ 170 HAY Choice timothy 7 00 & 7 M) Kancypruiriu 0 00 & tw,) 1JHAN (sucked) 40 Q. 41 HUTTKU-Cholou creamery.... ltli 20 CHKHSH-KuU cream l W, KUGS choico 10'i7 UH l'OTATOKS 05 75 ST. LOUIS. CATTLK-Natlvo und shipping ! 2S 5 lift Tuxmm. 2 M) 12.') IIOGS-Heiivy 3 Ml 125 SIIKUP Kuirto choice 3 10 4 (,0 FI.OUK-Cholco 4 05 175 WHHAT-No. 2 red 1'7 W COKN-No. 2 mixed 2-iJiQi 27!4 OATS-No. 2 mixed i:0 20' KYK-No. 2 40 17 HUTTKU-Creumery W 22 LAUn-Western moss 125 I 3J, l'OKIC 835 8 50 CHICAGO. CATTLK Common to priino... 175 (7ft 5 40 HOGS-i'aclini,'audHhipp!iu,'.. 3 75 1 40 SHKKI'-Falr to choico 3 W) I 25 FLOUK -Winter v.-huuu "170 1 do WHKAT-No. 2 red f!l I'l CO UN No. S 8 SHV, OATS-No. 'J to 20', KYK -18 W, IIUTTKU-Croamury II 2)'4 LAUD 18) 5 15 l'OUK b 15 8 20 NKW YOJUC. f'ATTLK Nativo steers 3 80 f 20 HOGS-Good to choice, ! .V) WJIIJAT -No. 2 red to WVS f'OUN -No. 2 35 nil OATS No. 2 21 li H!'TTi:u Creamery 13 0'. 20', 1'OUK-Mess U VT'tO 05 Popular lowl'rlrn Ciillriiritln Kxcurnloim. Tho Snnta Fo Honto dally oxcurslonn to California in tourist sleeping ears aro do porvedly popular. Cars aro of newest pat tern and very comfortable, having every necessary convenience. Theso excursions nro accompanied by Pullman conductors ami patronis-ed by tunny of porters, and nro the best pcoplo. iiinv nonet rates. Tho Santa Fo'h California lino is remark ably picturesque. Its mlddlo course across the coutiuont avoids extremes of heat or cold. For descriptive literature, address Oko. W. HAor.Nin-cii, P. &'l A., A.,T. & S. P. Ity., lCmiMiH City, Mo. A Thorough CnuviiM. lleturiifd Westerner Yes, sir, those cy clones oat west usually make a clean sweep. I lost everything I hail in one. It emtio aloim about noon, anil took house, furniture ami everything in siplit. And then, I'll ho blamed it the villainous thing didn't come buck in half an hour. Hustorn .Mini Why, how docs that conic? "Way, you see, there wna a ehnttel nwrttmKC in the house on wnne cnltle be longing to a neighbor 1 laid lent some money to, and, you niiiy not believe it, hut that cussed, grasping cyclone came hack mid took every head of those cattle." Puck. A II. te O. Novelty. t Among tho ninny advertising novelties be ing itmicd by the 15. & O. is one which is sure to attract a vei v coiiiilcrnblo amount of at tention. It is known as "The Hook of The lloyal ltluo" and is ismied monthly by Col. H. H. Martin, Manager of Passenger Trallie. Of magazine size and filled with attractive half-tone illustrations and good rending mat. ter, "The Hook of The Uoyal Mine" is hound 0 make a hit. One splendid feature is a list of natiies and address of every passenger iuiu ucigui agcui. He Didn't "Tnke." "I went in for aumtcur photography during my vacation," Miid the hiiiii uier num. "There was no end of girls for subjects." "Hut how did you make out nnioag the girls V" "Oli, I got a lot of negatives." Philadel phia North American. - 'W -'' Fits slopped free and pcininnonlly cured. No fits after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Hestorer. l'reeU trial bottle & treatise. Dr. Kline, KY. Arch fit., l'liila., Ha. Wo often wonder why so many people tell the same story so many times. Wash ington Democrat. When a man is ahvnys prepared to prove everything lie says, it may be because his statements need it. Washington Democrat. The woman pinned down Ji j to one or two uses of Pcarlinc(o" wVj,") W'U have to be1 talked to. Why and help that ' iafest way, and sec. Into every drop of anything, put some Pearhnc '' AVA v. r mffi?? JiSYl irr- -J 3 clcaninir $-$ WW-tf'S'',,W GET TII15 OliNUINIi AHTICLK! Walter Baker &. Co.'s i q Breakfast COCOA Pure, Deucious, Nutritious. Dnula T.naii Hutu If it 1 UtIfrU "WJ-J - Ml i i v a Buro rfil ; "a ; ! V Walter (Established 1780.) tmi 1 1 45mZ Trailp.Mark. toMfoirfy&'0m& 2 $ m li CATHARTIC a mv hug vrw . 1 JwCURE CONSTIPATION t 10 v I 25 SO J li ami liimkk't free. tai.iit.iMg i'rd &s?m7mvirW3Sfmii impr- x3kASj$Js sgffi B M jsaSafc SnlftULUliiLK UUA1 AimSKU vDDDOi5'3DODSD9.3;50DOD!&.9000&2)SGt399D&D9l9DCODad9 TO LOOSC ON THE BR.CHT SG02F. OF THINGS. USE a C3(2GGeCCGOGeOGCCGCGGCCGeCCGOeOOfJOCCOCGCeeCGCCCCQCCC hi:i: that THIS NAME IBHTAMI'i;i)ON Every Pair OF SHOES YOU BUY. it ih a iminitivi: ir.icA.vrr.K or Nrii:itioiciTY. Ask Your Dealer for Them. Sfiln $S!?5 CunlHJiiiiuloworkliiK IT.1C WI'lTilK. tlin IiiiiIih s.k. Hiiiio Imiira. tliuimli iimy tin Molitnlily ciiip'tiyiil. (Inml opriuiiKs toi' tiiun ami city .il m wnll m oonii t r nUli li'tn i. i: lilKl'UUI). lltli aiul Main Hllteti. l(l( llMO.NI. Vu, "2?2!3?1 r.vf(l UUIILS WHtllt ALL LLbL IAILS. PI Host I'dukIi Syrup. To'tt'B (i(H)d, Ueo feSKMlMrMMlSSS 111 timo. Mini tiv iiruui.'iKis. E RQVE S wfess TASTELESS IS JUST AS COOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 50cts. OAl.ATIA, 1 1.1.8. , Nor. 10, 1893. Paris Mcdtolno Co., ft. IamiIn.Mo. (Ji'iitlnini'iii Wo nold Inst yonr, 000 bottlon of nilOVK'S TASTKIiKSS Cllllil, TON 10 nail Iihto txniulitOirro mws nlrumly this your. In nil our ox purlonco of It ypnrn. In tho Ornu iMiHltimii. Imr novomoM 1111 nrtlrlu thulKivvo ntu-li iiiilvcmnl entl. tucUou us your T011I0. Yourn truly, AiiNr.v, (Una ACO. SELF-ACIlNtfV. SHADEROLLERS NOTICE NAMIC TIICH ON LABEL iNtlllKT THEGEINUINE HARTSHORH) Weeks Seale Works, BT00K. COAL. HAY, OHAIN.niieCAl fl N Y AND COTTON 6CALEC. UUrrWLU ft. I 11 nil AVhl.Ucy Ilitlilt enroll ut Iioiiki without tmlii. Hook 01 iirUMiliirnMiut!''ltr.i:. II. M. VOOIil,i:V,.M.l)., Atlanta, (in. is she throwing away all the pain she can get from it in other ways ? If mh jssaLsS ILl 0 I En Eh TONIC I if nZir jm you have proved to yoursell that Pcarlmc washes clothes, for instance, in the easiest, quickest. you ought to be ready to believe that Pcarlinc (",) is the. best for washing and. everything. That s the truth, anyway. Try it water that's to be used for cleansing, nWI?. TATT n mtrt. I i aT..A Jfc. V(l'f 'ia t'10 package hears our Trade-Mark. Baker & Co. Limited, Dorchester, MoSS. LMINUT 4 ALL TrMnr.c.TtL toctironnyrnsoorcmistlntlon. 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