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WINTER. #* MOTHER. CANADA AND THE CHINE8E. mm FATTENING FOWLS FOR MARKET. •Method Described Which Is Economic*!, Simple and Exp'Jitioni. "'Fowls that have "been properly kept will generally be in good condition for tiie table at almost any season and at any age; Bat we may increase the amount of flesh, harden it and "fatten" the birds, so that they-will dress pre- •entably for the batchers' stalls, if we de­ sire, through additional or extra feeding for a few weeks at the close of the sea­ son. It is quite impossible for any breed­ er--no matter how careful, how skillful oar how determined he may be--to breed all his fowls np to wha^, is considered the average best "standard." There most be culls among his flocks, let him t do his best. This is not only our own but it is the frankly admitted experience of all fanciers or poulterers who are dis posed to state the facts. Thus, then-- whatever your strain, breed or cross may be--you will rear many chickens every y$ar that will prove fit only for the spit €» the pot. These should be weeded out. If we are breeders of large flocks, we shall have many such birds to be dis­ posed of for table use. If we breed only a few, the proportion of indifferent speci­ mens is about the same. And all these "culls" must be got rid of to the best ad­ vantage because we do not care to carry them over for future propagation, and it la not profitable to feed them after they have attained their growth. Remove such birds--and especially all the imperfectly feathered or ill shaped cockerels--from among their mates. Place them, 15 or 20 together, in a closed coop that is clean and comfortable, for them to eat and rest in, without crowd­ ing each other. Give them fresh water to drink, with a little cayenne pepper thrown into it, two or three times a week, and feed them all they will eat up clean three times a day, upon boiled corn and wheat meal with potatoes (a little salted), one part of each, into which, while hot, stir a pound of common lard, beef tallow or chandlers' scraps (perfect­ ly sweet, mind) to six or eight quarts of the mash. Feed this oat when warm. Have a basin of coarse gravel handy, which they will eat all they need of to assist diges­ tion. Occasionally mix a little powdered charcoal in this soft food (which lat­ ter is an excellent purifier and guards against the souring of their food in the crop), and in twd or three weeks your birds will be at their best. Kill, dress and market them, and thus make the Wisest disposal you can make of all your Surplus or undesirable fowls. While this process is going on it will be observed that the birds are in close, compact coops, open only in front. These may be placed in the barn or anywhere most convenient for the time being. . They will not suffer, thus in a body, from the cold. The coops should be set <m the ground, with straw or leaves for a flooring. The heat of the fowls' bodies Will serve to keep each other warm enough in the three sided closed coops. They have no exercise, and they have nothing to do but to eat, rest, sleep and grow fat. This method is simple, eco­ nomical and the least troublesome. In 12 to 24 days at the outside fowls thus treated should be in their best condition lor slaughtering. Wintering: Bees on Summer Stands* . A Massachusetts bee man who has wintered bees on the summer stands for iO years, writes to The American Bee Journal that he has not met with 2 per cent of loss. He says: The great and only secret in my own locality, where the temperature ranges from 30 degrees Fahrenheit above to 20 degrees below zero, is ventilation, with ample stores, so placed that the colony can at all times have access to them. Cold of itself doesn't kill bees. Lack of f >res and excess of moisture will kill em every time. If these propositions are true, and I believe them to be so, the Question of safe wintering is only a mat­ ter of such preparation as will insure plenty of stores and lack of moisture. ^ I use a 10 frame Langstroth hive, leav- Ibg but nine frames in the brood chamber jbr winter use, evenly spaced, each frame being at least one-third filled in its upper fart with sealed stores. Over the frames place a Hill's device or its equivalent, , covering the same with a piece of old -Carpet or other porous material, wLh six Or eight inches of forest leaves pressed loosely down upon this covering. For Ventilation I give the whole entrance. By this means I get downward ventilation, Which I claim to be the only true venti­ lation for a beehive. The excess of . moisture imperceptibly passes off through the top of the hive, preventing the formation of frost, which frost I be­ lieve to be the chief cause of loss. The bees can pass over the tops of the frames to any part of the hi\ae, and thus gain access at all times to their food. * I have used double and single walled ptnd chaff hives and find little difference in them as to loss. In fact, I have win­ tered four frame colonies in hives made inch stock with safety. r A Chance For Farmers' Boys. • The Rural New Yorker calls attention • to the fact that a short winter course at Cornell will open Jan. 3, 1894. Persons Of good moral character and 16 years ©Id will be admitted without written ex­ amination. Lack of book learning, there­ fore, need deter no young man from at­ tending this school. At the same time there will open a special course in dairy­ ing, which will continue 11 weeks. No applicants will be admitted to this course unless they have had already one Season's experience in a creamery or cheese factory. At most other colleges, too, these short courses are being estab­ lished. It is an excellent feature, and tvery farmer boy ought to make up his toind to attend one of them at least. fit Principal Causes of Heavy Xmi feow to Prevent Them. j A goodly number of apiarists expressed themselves concerning the cause and prevention of winter losses of bees in the columns of The American Bee Journal recently. Professor A. J. Cook laid the losses to poor food and severe cold and suggested as a preventive good food and a good cellar or thorough packing. M. Makin believes that the principal cause is dampness and want of ventila­ tion. He says, "Since I have given my bees plenty of ventilation at the bottom of the hive I lose scarcely any bees." G. W. Demaree wrote: "Long, oold winters are the causes of loss. When the winter is open and moderate, I never lose any colonies, but when long, hard winters overtake the bees some colonies perish." His remedy consists in protect­ ing the bees every season as though ev­ ery winter was sejerely cold. Mrs. L. Harrison said: "The cause of so many bees dying last winter was the severe and long continued cold weather. In cleaning out hives where bees have died foul air appears to be one factor. The weather was so severe that bees could not clean house, and the dead ac­ cumulated, closing up the entrance. We hear of bees coming through in good condition in pld hives split from top to bottom. I cleaned out a hive that had contained a very large colony and was well supplied with honey. The hive was a close, well painted one, with new mus­ lin, and the cap filled with dry maple leaves. The entrance was so clogged with dead bees robbers could not enter." J. E. Pond writes: "It is difficult to say generally what the principal reasons for heavy winter losses are. So many factors enter into the problem that each case is an individual reason for winter: losses in my own locality--Massachu­ setts. I can suggest nothing that has not been made public in textbooks and bee journals for years. Study them care­ fully, and you will get about all the light there is on the subject." Mr. Dadant said that the causes of loss are long confinement and unsealed honey. He advised keeping the bees in a well, sheltered place where they can have a flight at every chance. He believes that the colonies that winter best are those that have a flight when it seems sure death for bees to venture out. An apiarist writing from Canada said: "Our losses in Canada during the past winter were light. A light honey flow, or a honey flow which breaks off early, I believe, usually precedes heavy winter losses. I have great faith in the state­ ment that bees will winter with reason­ able certainty if they get sufficient proper stores, have a good queen and are kept in proper condition during winter. The rules of health and life are as fixed With the bee as any other animal." Protecting Trees From Mice. A writer in the Vermont Chronicle protects his fruit trees from mice with strips of lath or old barrel staves tied around the stem. They cost little and last several years. Early in spring he passes around among the trees and cuts the cord used in tying and often finds many insects, which are quickly de­ stroyed by rubbing two pieces together. This contrivance thus answers a double purpose--excludes the mice in winter and becomes a trap for insects after­ ward. The lower ends of the laths are pushed slightly into the ground, and the tying near the top makes them secure. Two smart boys have applied the strips to from 300 to 400 trees in a day. In re­ gions where mice are abundant it is well worth while to protect young orchard trees this way before the advent of win­ ter, or else with the conical mounds of smooth, compact earth a foot high, which the mice will not ascend under snow. Sundries For the Poultry Yard. The following sundries axe named in The Farm and Fireside as desirable to make poultry on the farm pay: Dry dust for bath. Pounded shells, bones, crockery, etc., for the grinding mill (gizzard). Cabbages are the best, onions, tur­ nips, beets or green rye for winter "pas­ ture." Kerosene emulsion or crude petroleum for lice. Roosts on a level and near the floor. Hens never allowed to go out in bad weather. Clover hay for dry fodder. A change of feed occasionally. " No "soft" messes required. Leaning Fruit Trees. Many growers devote time and labor to protecting trees in a leaning position, attaching much advantage to this posi­ tion. Labor is required in providing one or more stakes to each single tree in giving them a firm position and in preventing the chafing of the bark by the wind. All this seems to be neces­ sary when trees with large tops and small roots are planted. Nearly all this is easily prevented by taking up wide- spreading roots and in cutting off por­ tions of tfce head, so as to make them light in weight and symmetrical in form.' Such trees will outgrow the heavy head­ ed and short rooted ones, according to The Country Gentleman. Homemade Potato Planters. The past season developed an aston­ ishing number of homemade potato planters. These are mostly simple con­ trivances--a light frame on wheels, with a man, a boy and a box of potato sets. A piece of Btovepipe or some other tube runs down ^ the ground. In front of it is a plow and behind it a coverer. While the boy drives, the man drops piece after piece in the stovepipe. They fall into the furrow and are covered at once. The Melrose Muskmelon., The Melrose muskmelon, which was introduced the past season, has proved in some sections at least to be worthy of the claims made for it. It is a rigorous grower and produces melons of good form, with flesh very thick and solid. It also produces melons that bear more rough handling than do many other kinds. . , . ... , IN Dominion Government Refoset to Change the Immigration Act. Several attempts have been made by I labor organizations of the Dominion to induce the government to impose further restrictions on Chinese immigration. The government has just passed an order in council which practically settles its policy in that regard. The order, after reciting the circumstances which called it forth, says: "Whatever sympathies may exist and whatever views may be held on the sub­ ject generally--or more particularly with reference to Chinese exclusion, or to such restrictions as are demanded by the peti­ tioners--they must, in so far at least as exclusion is concerned, be held to be sub­ ordinate to the obligations solemnly en­ tered into between two great and friend­ ly nations, and no action should betaken which could l)e construed by the imperial government as inimical or as infring­ ing upon treaty rights. ' "In view of the commercial relations of Canada with China, it is not expedient to change the provisions of the Chinese immigration act nor to take any action that might be considered by the Chinese government us an invasion of the spirit of treaty obligations or as an unfriendly act. "It is deemed impolitic and unneces­ sary to recommend the alternative ex­ pedient of raising the capitation tax to $500. The suggestion that 'every China­ man or woman in Canada be taxed to the amount of $200 each year, and that said tax be paid into the treasury of the municipality or City in which they may be found,' is a question for the consider- tion of others than the government of the Dominion."--Ottawa Special. WILL BE A BRITON BOLD. Mr. Astor la Ambitious and Will Swear Allegiance to the British Queen. It is now understood that Mr. W. W. Astor intends to apply for naturalization papers and become a British subject. He cannpt indeed, under the new property laws, hold freehold real estate without so doing. His ambition, so says rumor, runs' to political life in the commons, with a possible baronetcy and subse­ quent peerage in the futare, which might land him in the house of lords. He is not the first American who has abandoned his native land for the moth­ er country and been rewarded with a title. The late Sir Curtis Lampson of Bos­ ton was a case in point. His son suc­ ceeded to the baronetcy, and his very clever daughter became the wife of Frederick Locker, the poet. Mr. As- tor's political aspirations, by the way. will not be forwarded by his recent move of closing to the public the ter­ races at Cliveden, which were formerly much enjoyed by frequenters of the River Thames, and it is rumored that he will soon withdraw also the privilege of picnicking in Cliveden woods.--San Francisco Argonaut. • Story of the Cherokee Strip Opening. "We were all waiting to hear that starting gun go off, and though there was a lot of cussing goin^ on it was done under the breath, and things were quiet­ like and hushed," said a returned Cher­ okee boomer. "I was standing on the platform and wondering how it would all end when I saw a man shake his partner's hand and start to run into the open space. Somebody yelled, and a soldier who was standing near me looked up and saw the sooner running. He called on him to halt, but that sooner was in a hurry and didn't stop. Then I saw the soldier pull up his gun and take aim. Just then the sooner's partner rushed up to the bluecoat and shouted: 'Don't you fire at him. He's my brother, and if you hurt him Til fill you full of lead.' "The soldier never as much as winked, but just pulled the trigger of his gun. I saw the flash, and I knew the sooner was hit because he tumbled on his face. The smoke had hardly cleared away when there came another crack of a rifle, and the soldier dropped with blood pouring out of a hole in his head. The sooner's brother had kept his word. The train started then, and I don't know whether they caught the murderer or not."--Kan­ sas City Times. 'Meet Their Doom Coolly. ST. PAUL, Oct. 23 --At Desrnet, S. D.f Nathaniel Thompson was banged for the murder of Mrs. Electa J. Bliton, on July 4, 1892. He met his doom without a quiver and his other wish than to hasten the exe­ cution was for a final prayer for his soul. This was South Dakota's first hanging. ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 21.--Will Dutton, white, who murdered Sallie Mobbs, was hanged at Cartersville. Dutton walked on the gallows smoking a cigar and lighted a fresh one standing on the trap and was perfectly cool and uelfpossessed. Had Been Missiug Since September. NEWTON, L. I., Oct. 24.--Mrs. Mary Lemken, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has certified that the remains louud in Cyprus Hill cemetery; on Saturday night are those of her husband, who bad been missiug since September last. Miss Wiliard Again Elected. CHICAGO, Oct. 21.--The principal event of the session of the National W. C. T. U. was the election Again as president of Miss Frances Wiliard by a vote of 35S out of 371. The fact was cabled to Miss Wiliard. To Suppress Peculiar Industries. The French government has deter­ mined to suppress two new and peculiar industries. One is a process for turning old playing cards into new in order to escape the heavy tax. The authorities have seized three such factories. The treasury has already lost $600,000 through their operations. The other trade is in renovated secondhand grave­ yard ornaments, which the French use extensively. The object of the latter re­ form is to stop the wholesale despoiling of cemeteries. A duke during the middle ages was an independent sovereign. The first rulers of Austria were dukes. The title lost its idea of independence during the reign of Louis XIII of France. Could I but have my baby back again From the dim vastness of the great # known. Bow would it eace my poor heart's silent pallk As I sit here In shadow and alone! That heaven is vast but makes me man afraid, Who shall its hesitating footsteps guide? Far cozier the nest my love had made, P Or so my heart feels, since my baby died. Cold *vas the night it left my bosom warm-- ^ A night of wintry tempest harsh and wild!' | Into that world of darkness and of storm Went forth alono my little toddling child. I say alone, for who hears angels' feet Pause at the threshold, though we dream they come? ^4 We hear not even death, the robber fltfetl { We only know a void is in our home*. Mother! the very name is sorrow's own. A synonym for heartache and for trial; Tis she must tread the wine press all alone. And when the tears would start must wear a smile. What is the faith of priest, of Christian broth­ er. Of mitered bishop, though they kiss the rodt Weak seems their worship when a trusting • mother •' . - . < • fields up her pretty, smiling babe to God. V --Arkansaw Traveler; 5s® * * Your next weeks washing v ' '•'S In a Hurry to Get There. / "I fear we will never get down t#wn at this slow gait," said a restless, pale faced woman rfs she handed her fare to a Third avenue surface conductor the other night. For a time the conductor was silent. Then, turning, he whispered: "Do you see the glitter in her eyes?* "Yes, very plainly," ; "In another hoar die will be crazy." As the car rolled down the Bowery the woman looked through the window, and the light fell full in her face. Her eyes gleamed red and bright. Then the conductor leaned in at the door and said: o "It isnt far now--only a few blocks more." "You fool," she replied, "how dare yon drive so slowly! Had I known this I should have come another way," and half rising from her seat she glared through the door. The conductor smiled sadly. "If ever there was a hopeless case," he mattered, "hers is one." "Have yon known her long?" was asked. "Yes, a yoar or more. She often comes down on my late run. At first she was quiet enough, but now she grows worse and worse." "What caused her insanity?" "Insanity?" and he turned as though in astonishment. "Why, she is not in­ sane. . She hits the pipe. Wait till we get to the Chinese district and yon will see." His words were true. She left the car at Mott street.--New York Herald. Women and Actors. Capoul, the French tenor, was the re­ cipient of volumes of letters from lady admirers both here and in Paris. On the English stage, besides Mr. Irving, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Hare and Mr. Bancroft have been overwhelmed with a goodly number. But I am told by one who knows that no actor living ever received such a number of admiring epistles from the fairer sex as the late John Clayton. Among actresses Mrs. Bancroft has perhaps been treated to the kindliest at­ tentions. Mrs. John Wood, too, on the first or last night of her play had always her dressing room converted into a per­ fect bower of flowers, and little gifts of jewelry literally poured in upon her. There was one bangle with the inscrip­ tion "Bless your art." Whether it was Mrs. Woods' heart or art that was blessed remains a riddle to this day.--London Gentlewoman. The Mexican Boundary LiMr The international boundary line be­ tween the United States and the repub­ lic of Mexico is marked by pyramids of stones placed at irregular distances along the line all the way from the Rio Grande to the Pacific ocean. Wherever it was found practicable to do so these pyra­ mids were built on prominent peaks at road crossings, fords, etc. The line was not surveyed, as is the usual custom, the location of the monuments being based on astronomical calculations and obser­ vations.--St. Louis Republic. • Farslghted Man. Fogg--Munniworth was always a far- sighted man, and his ventures were almost invariably successful. Figg--But what good is he to society? He will give money for the heathen, thousands of miles away, but he never can see the suffering right at home. Fogg--I said he was a farsighted man. --Boston Transcript. All Is Grist to the Grinder. Flossie (little daughter of a newspaper woman)--Oh, mamma, Mabel and I have a lovely secret about our dolls. I'd like to tell you, only Her Mother--Only what, Flossie? , Flossie--Only I'm afraid yon'd write it up.--New York Times. Iron visiting cards are among the lat­ est novelties in Germany. Forty placed one on the other are said to be only one- tenth of an inch in thickness. The cards or plates are black, and the names, being printed on them in silver, show np very clearly. An authority on weather declares that tornadoes are most frequent between noon and 6 o'clock, and that the rainiest hour of the day is 4 o'clock in the after­ noon. This is the report of a meteor­ ological expert, not a weather prophet. The Eskimo Bulletin is the only jour­ nal published within the arctic circle. It is printed at Cape Prince of Wales, Alas­ ka, and is issued only once a year. Two tons of dynamite exploded under a sunken vessel in New York harbor to get it out of the way lifted the water for about two acres fully 200 feet. 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