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-- TH1 COU CAMPAIGN. PNEUMATIC SULKY. INJURY BY RABBITS AND MICE. J PURE WATER FOR CREAMERIE8. H-- AS«»d to tl>« Speed ^ ilf. Jfosfc '9Smmmis« ta«tiin§?and framing i end of the nineteenth cen- _ will occupy a more promi- if pace than the pneumatic sulky, ich has knocked an appreciable time tew to Prevent These Pest* From Fruit iwd Ornamental Trees. Every winter northern states lie rained by rabbits and some preventives which, Pickett in a manual on ;:?»«•. are. Claimed by and other " 1WBUKAT1C RACING SCLEYg^ f .-J I the mile record. The new trotting arses are not BO much faster than the !$$&'Onm>as they seem to be, for the pneu- [ matic sulky helps them to get over the %0Sd faster. Another help is the kite irack, not yet so well established in pop* t&r favor as the pneumatic sulky. Once this sulky was invented, the won- ' d«r was that nobody had ever thought of libefore. The frame of the sulky is made SULKY FRAME. » •s light & possible and to *b!« sre fitted tile bicycle wheels. Usually the frame is made by one firm of manufacturers, the set of wheels by another, and the two -jure afterward put together. The frame Without its wheels looks as follows: "The wheels are elaborate affairs. They have ball bearings and are made of the best steel, the rims being cold rolled steel. The axles are lengthened oat so as to receive the supports of the f r a m e a b o v e them. These sup- ports are so long that the driver is perched high up over his wheels. Like the bicycle wheels, the best pneumatic sulky wheels have steel ball bearings in­ closed in spaces that are as near as possible dost proof. The wheels are finished in nickel and enam­ el and as polished and shining as the steel work on the finest sewing ma­ chine or typewrit­ er. The spokes PNEUMATIC TIRED/ are of fine, strong WHEEL. # steel wire, while the steel rims are fitted with the strong, noiseless rubber tires that make the sulky glide along as if it had no weight at all. The manufactur­ ers of the rubber tires sell with each eet a ptunp for inflating them. - - Bow Horses Are Spoiled* It is a singular fact that the more the horse is hurt by the pressure of any part of his tackling the greater will be his resistance to it. A horse with a sore mouth wilKpull harder on the bit. If a young horse is tied with a broad leather strap around his neck, so that when he pulls violently back it will restrain him effectually without hurting him, he will then not pull a second time, but if he is tied with a chain that cuts into his neck he will generally pull at it again and again and not infrequently Until he hills himself. A horse will stead in the stall end batter his legs all to pieces by kicking, and the more it bnrts the more he will kick. 'v> If a horse takes to kicking in the shafts and cuts his legs at each kick with the splinters or iron of the carriage, he will kick as long as there is a splinter left. He will not, however, kick long at a bundle of straw swinging behind him. If the bridle is taken off a young horse quietly, so that the bit comes out of his mouth easily, it will not be long before be will assist hi taking it off; but if he is hurt by the operation he will throw his head toone side or jerk back every time the bridle is removed. There should not be the slightest hitch about taking the bit from the mouth of a colt. By the many a colt has been ruined.-- The most absorbing and exciting races ||t 1893 will undoubtedly be those be­ tween pacers and trotters if the pro- miune is carried out as designed. There has been a tradition during years that the trotter was necessarily faster titan the pacer, and that as a time gait th»fc of the pacer was not worth wasting money on. The pacer therefore dropped oat, except as the most agreeable riding borse that- could be backed. There are signs now, however, that this is to be Sjhiuaged, and that the pacer is at last go- ipg to get Ids due. ; - Even the old tradition that the trot­ ting gait is speedier than the pace is shattered. This year among the pacers )f ascot and Flying Jib have each done a ifcile in 2:04, thus hitting Nancy Hanks' >• great trotting record. Robert J has also paosd a mile in2:05i. With that record flie psoer bids fair to become fashion­ able, and it will pay breeders to rear and train this class of animals once more. Pacing matches will shortly be among |fae first contestants for popularity. The trotter will always be preferable for har- aess, but the revival of the pacer will bring that good steed into high favor face more for riding. * Is Ttua* Wen Near Tour Batter llstw} Contaminated? Who shall say that the season so feur has not been a prosperous one for dairy­ men? They have not had to assign any­ way, and it doesn't look as if they would be forced to the wall in that respect, i not: only effective, but easily not while their cows give milk, at least. Out in Illinois I was pained to find the lame old custom in vogue that is preva­ lent. in the dairy region of New York--i. e., that of pasturing the cows in the aft­ ermath of the meadows. Some day I hope to see dairymen come to their senses in this respect and have due regard for the sacredness of meadows, but I fear that they will not change their ways un­ til they have been made to suffer more financially than now by letting the cows have the run of the farm. e The big fodder corn that they raise out west they feed in abundance to cattle at this season, and it has its usual effect in booming the milk yield. There is none of this pale, spindling corn either, re­ sulting from its being sown thickly to­ gether, but it is dark green, rank and stocky of growth, every cane fully de­ veloped. That is the kind that yields milk when it passes through the digest­ ive system of the cow. As I stood in a model batter factory yesterday and saw the ripening cream in a vat in which floated pieces of ice, I thought that there was some difference between the quality of this fcream and that taken from loppered milk in the home dairy. No v* oudcr that there is s, difference in the price of batter between the two. I thought again that this cream in the vat at the butter factory was the mix­ ture of the yield of several hundred cows, while in the home dairy the yield of not over a dozen ot fifteen cows would be represented. The chances were that the original purity of the cream from 15 cows was greater than that from 300, Ordinarily a few traps skillfully man- j as no doubt a great many diseased ones • ^Tthe San Juan aged will settle the business for them, j existed in such an aggregation. What a pity then that the nice mode of manu- pest»; A** applied. For preventing injury by rabbits take a hog's liver and rub the tree with it from the ground op about two feet, or kill a rabbit, split it open and apply tc the tree in the same mer. The ap­ plication must be repeated after every bard rain. The above have proved ef­ fectual where rabbits are not more than ordinarily numerous. Another method is to mix a taolespoonful o£ pine tar in a pailful of warm water an# paint the tree with it. Some orchardists saw common lath in halves, paint them with cheap kerosene or crude petroleum, and with fine wire weave them closely together, like woven picket fences. Short sections of these are fastened loosely around the trees and prove a protection against the attacks of rabbits, even where they are plentiful. Where rabbits are very numerous and seem bent on destroying everything in sight, poison thop. To accomplish this make a sweet solution or strychnine by mixing sugar afcd strychnine together in the proportion of 10 of the former to 1 of the latter in warm water. With this wet a quantity of cracked or coarse­ ly ground corn and place it in lots of oiie teaspoonful in their paths and where they mostly congregate. Do this late in the evening, and early the following morning take a shovel and pan and care­ fully gather up all that is left. This method of decreasing their numbers is brief and effective, but it is also a little risky and should not be resorted to ex­ cept when other measures prove futile. Tho best way to prevent mice from nibbling the bark off trees is to poison them. It can be done easily enough. Place pieces of board close by each tree, testing one end of them on blocks or stones so as to raise it about two inches high. Under these boards place a small quantity of corn or wheat prepared as for rabbits. Sweet corn is the best ar­ ticle in the world for this purpose. In a short time afterward there won't be a live mouse in the orchard. If the trees are near the house, it is a good plan to cover the poisoned corn with a forkful of coarte hay or small brush to prevent the poultry from sampling it and retiring fiim life. • _ • Kalnlt In Place of Plaster. There are thousands of farmers who use plaster in the stable and on the ma­ nure. Science has convinced them that this practice pays because they thus pre­ vent the escape of ammonia. Nitrogen costs a good deal of money, and the thoughtful man is always on the lookout for means of saving it. But what else does the plaster do besides getting the ammonia into a fix? It supplies nothing but lime, a substance that your soil may not need at all. The potash and phos­ phoric acid must be supplied in addition. You can hardly supply phosphoric acid in such form that you will not also sup­ ply lime enough for ordinary soils. Now, if a substance can be found that will do all that plaster does in the way of fixing the ammonia and also supply potash, why not use that? asks The Rural New Yorker, which says that such a substance is kainit. Kainit not only acts like a policeman to arrest ammonia, but it contributes a partner to work with him. Of course such a worker costs more than plaster, but when one does the workof two are not its services mors valuable? » HoM Vor the PMltrjr Tar*. 1 *" Groan bone, fresh from the marfel", Is a valuable food. Dry bone, m found at poultry supply stores, contains little nu­ tritive food, says Farm Poultry, which explains that the former is not bone alone, but contains a large per cent of meat and gristle, and by a little selection of these bones they often contain 75 per cent of nutrient material. The dry bone is invariably produced by prolonged boiling or steaming, and often potash and naphtha are used in the process to extract the last particles of fat in them for soap making purposes. 'Green bones and dry bones, as the terms are used, are practically different things. The price of dry bones per pound should have no bearing upon the price of green bones, and vice versa. They are obtained at dif­ ferent places in a different way. One can be stored and sold by the bag; the other cannot. One can be ground and prepared facture in vogue in the creamery did not obtain in every individual dairy! Buttermilk is becoming a favorite drink with people living near creameries. When fresh, it is both refreshing and healthful. Dairymen find the skimn>ed milk as it comes from the separator an invaluable food for swine. Although m a n y c o u l d g e t m o r e f o r t h e i r m i l k & t the shipping stations, they prefer to patronize a butter factory and get the skimmed milk back tc put into pork de­ velopment, beidjg assured that the latter pays better. j I have often heard of> sand in sugar, but never heard of it in butter until the other day. A new well had been put down at a creamery, and the water used therefrom to wash the butter was full of quicksand. The quicksand remained with the butter, and the loss to the pa­ trons was $40, for which they were in no wise to blame this time. By the way, I had rather have butter washed with pure water charged witb clean quicksand than to have it washed with water into which had drained dele­ terious substances. This subject of pure water for creameries is of deep im­ portance, for the butter itself is washed with it in an unsterilized state. At half of the creameries the wants of the plant are supplied from wells con­ tiguous to the buildings, from which there arises a suspicion that filthy drain­ age contaminates them. Where there is the least suspicion of impurity the water should first be sterilized and then reduced to the proper temperature by ice for Washing butter.--George £. Newell in American Cultivator. ,• •• .;;vJ --I Dairy and Creamery. , ,, A Vermont lady says that in her bat­ ter making days there was no trouble with wooden dairy implements--batter molds, bowls, etc.--cracking when dried in the sun. But she thinks possibly they are made nowadays of wood less well seasoned than they were in her time- There may be something in that. Speaking of Shorthorns, the milk and butter record of the registered Short­ horn cow Sue Gady should not be for­ gotten. In a private test of 80 days, from June 4 to July 4, 1885, Sue pro­ duced 1,332 pounds of milk, from which 56± pounds of butter were made. So says J. W. Ganes, manager of Mssdow Springs farm, in Wisconsin. Mr. Zook, a Pennsylvania butter mak­ er, tested his cows separately as to the time required to churn the milk of each . into butter. He found that in case of certain cows the butter was from 20 to 25 minutes longer in coming than in case of the other cows. After that he sold the cows whose milk was longest in churn­ ing and made his herd of animals that nlUiilOM of Greatest Vlet^saWs* for ffwiB SnSfrmge. ' Tbe greatest victory yet won by wom-v sn saifrage, because, won by popular been achieved in Colorado, from Denver dated Nov. ^ announce that the constitutional amend* ment has carried in that state by a .ma­ jority of 5,000. The leading mining towns, except Lmdville, supported tits cause by a generous vote. Denver gate a small adverse majority. Bat the plain people were with us, and Colorado worn' en are enfranchised by the votes of the* men of Colorado. xne credit of this great victurjr be?" longs exclusively to no individual of party. But it is largely due to the un­ selfish energy, eloquence and organizing ability of Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman. This brave and earnest worker, without salary or compensation, for six weela^ made a continuous series of addresses, not only in the cities, but in the mining towns of the Rocky mountains. Her­ self a western woman, fully compre­ hending the character of western men, young, beautiful and intellectual, she has completed the work of conversion initiated in 1875 and 1876 by the heroic labors of Margaret W. Campbell and her husband, John B. Campbell, and second­ ed in 1877 by Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony. The Colorado campaign far woman suffrage began in 1875. The American Woman Suffrage association, appreciat­ ing the fact that Colorado would come inAo the Union ir* 1876 as the Centennial State, appointed Margaret W Campbell its agent and representative. Mrs. Camp­ bell jiossesses in an unusual degree the apostolic fervor and self devotion which characterized Lucy Stone. Her husband gave tip h^s artist work, and together they set out. with a horse and light car­ riage, in t uair apparently hopeless mis­ sion. In aiivAiceof the constitutional con­ vention tuese moral pioneers, making their headquarters in Denver, spent months in visiting the secluded mining camps of the territory, penetrating evan to Gunnison and Silverton, climbing tho snowy ranges and descending the almost inaccessible gulches of Uncompahgre Then, when it met, they attended the constitutional conven­ tion and secured three important conces­ sions: 1. School suffrage for women. 3. A provision that the first legislature should submit woman suffrage to the voters. o. That any future legislature ssigki eztend m>ffr*ge to women, subject to popular ratification or rejection. It is under this last named provision that the vote has just been taken. Years ago Henry W&tterson said tq me in Louisville; "Woman suffrage will come, if ever, on a wave of popular dis­ content. With 50,000 Democratic 'ma­ jority in Kentucky and 50,000 Republic­ an majority in Massachusetts, you can­ not hope to succeed, because people are satisfied with the status quo." In Colo­ rado man's extremity has been woman's opportunity. The Populist uprising has broken the party machines, and ideal justice has come to the front.--<p» B. in Boston Woman's Journal. ... <• K tsJust as cjood rfoe Groctr said* Profffrintf odBtber brand. "SANTO CLAUSSOAP iswtat wcwanL have youarnj now or? band W certain fake noolber, we use none bub tbebesc,, ,, AhdaQ sbrtwd dkakrs k«epit,are you behind fchercstf* Do you need a hosting or cook stop? If so, now Is the time to buy. We have a large stock of therolebrated - » fp, ACORN & OAKLAND STOVE9, As well as other makes. Oar stoves give universal satisfaction and are worthy of inspection. T'ttWgt.tltock of SMywloihaOcuitty. We have on hand Anti-Rusting Tinware, Table Cutlery, and everything found in a hardware store. First class new work and Kepaira in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Iron. ~ ^ 'fj : " .Sv J J Tour trade is respectfully solicited. JACOB BONSLEffT by steam power at large factories and ; averaged about the same length of time. sold at wholesale; the other cannot, un­ less it be to a very limited extent. Dry I bones can be ground or crushed. Green | bones must be cut. The grinding at crushing of them is impracticable. Agricultural Colleges ud Stations. Statistics furnished by the depart­ ment of agriculture at Washington make it appear that in 1893 there were 62 schools where agriculture was taught more or less. There were 1,159 instruct­ ors and 11,358 students, of whom only 3,460 were studying agriculture. Last year 3,811 students graduated from these schools. Since the Maryland college started in 1856,3,333 students in all have graduated. The revenue for conducting these colleges in 1892 was $3,482,908. As to experiment stations, there were 64, with a total revenue of $997,244. The station with the largest income was the New York state, at Geneva, which re­ ceived $68,500. The Ohio station re­ ceived the most for farm products sold-- $6,019--with Missouri next--$4,057. The total number of persons employed at these stations was 491. He noticed that this increased the quan­ tity and improved the quality of the butter. He believes that mixing all kinds and churning them together is one reason why it takes so much milk to make a pound of butter at creameries. By the way, does it take more milk to make a pound of butter at the creamer­ ies than in private dairies? Mr. Zook says that with his present herd 6^ quarts of milk make a pound of butter. The milk of some of these cows on being an­ alyzed shows 6} per cent butter fat. If you want the very best dairy cows, raise them yourself, to order. Every dairyman who attends to his business has his milk cans covered with blankets or sacking or awning goods in the hot weather. It keeps the milk cool and sweet hours longer. Fairly good aerating machines are now on the market, but there will be better ones in time. Meantime a large dipper with holes in the bottom like a watering pot will answer the purpose of an aera­ tor very well if the quantity of milk is not too great. Hold the dipper up in the sir and pour the milk through it. k • AB All Around Woman'* Club. The Des Moines Woman's dab ex­ hibited at Chicago in the section set apart for the federated women's clubs numerously handsomely bound volumes, containing club history and memora­ bilia; the photograph of each president, with the corresponding year book set into the page opposite; the club station­ ery and last, but not least, a certificate of the club stock. The third volume was of folio type and contained 27 of the papers read before the society. Each had been prepared in permanent form, under the author's direction, and the artistic decorations carried out the theme and treatment with the rarest originality. These addresses ranged over a field of inquiry that swept from old pottery and violins to the silver ques­ tion and schools of philosophy. A Sympathetic ICnglish . Mrs. Bsssett of Tehidy, ijoKiwaft, whose sympathetic consideration for the sick and needy in that English county is well known, has just presented to the Miners' and Women's hospitals in the district a number of comfortable lied ta­ bles for the use of such patients as might be able to sit up in bed for their food or to play a game. Mrs. Bassett has or­ dered a supply of these tables for the Redruth workhouse anion. \ A W«miui Enui|*lM. 1^ . *'"' ' Miss Harriett® J. Cooke, who bss been studying methods of city evangelization tn England, will spend » year in the Ep- worth League house in Boston, in the employ of the Boston Missionary and Church Extension society. Miss Cooke was last year superintendent of the 'Vic­ toria Park mission, an important branch of the Mildmay work, of which her "re­ cent work, "Mildmay," is an account. « , - V.* «. i i 7 " V", rf," 5 The alwve iaa cnt of ibir sew Folding Kaohin now bo soon at work in tho Plaindealer Offioo. A Difference of Opinion. A large number of women offered their ballots for school commissioners at the recent elections in New .York. In some cases their votes were accepted, in oth­ ers refused. Different judges have given the most contradictory opinions as to the constitutionality of the new law, and pending a decision of the question by the supreme court Migs Anthony p^pfed the #omen to swear in their volp. A . . . t J f . '.irVK 'Lfc. *„.• Competent to Tote. The work of women, as demonstrated by their exhibit at the World's fair, not alone in the artistic and fancy work, but in the architecture and everything per­ taining to the building and its contents, is convincing enough to show that they are sufficiently intelligent and competent to stand by the side of the men and vote for American institutions.--Bristol (Ind.) Bonner. MM. NMh's Motto. Mrs. Anna E. Nash is editor and pro­ prietor of the Gordon (Ark.) Cannon Ball, and this is the frank motto that stands at the head of her paper, "Not for love nor fame nor favor, bat for cash." Oar patrons, and those needing such jt machine are inrited to call and see ir at work. It is simple, easily haudled, and takes such little power that you cannot nofice it. The machine was put; in by the Bascom Folder f!o., of Sidney, O., who have been build­ ing and selling them for the past eight years, and every machine is fully warranted for five years. If you need such a machine please write the abeve company for prices, discounts and terms, as they •ell the machine on^he most favorable terms. Or write their Agents Ghicago Hrwspapar Union, Chicago; J. & F, @arret, Syracuse, H/ Mather Manfg. Co., Philadelphia, fSL ; M&rder L'ase & Co.. Chicago; Benton, Waldo A Co.. Milwaukee; Wright, Barret A 8 till well, St. Fanl; (Jeoctain & fikm, Toronto. Canada. OF IJFE. BEST TECOSOMT IS IvtaLdCH1 Jbies laugh® because tbetre^ord hns beew broken, said Sold ID M'flmry since the 1st day OF JEAA&ry, IMS, to the L<it d»y of Oct, 18S3, fumtfi Car Loads of Pillsburj'e fleet Flour. V" AND IT STILL STANDS AT THE TOP. Ffr lale by all the Leading Merchants, and at the Rol We have a good TiiiilijpsMln of Floor at ft per each, and for the price ws chaltaia* Also aWPstent Flour at $1.05, and we do not exonerate when we comparison guarantee it equal to other grades that cost more money Try it and b ̂convinced. To the rumen of VeHenry and vicinity would uv that we aMag*lM iMr«|>ar»l no a© year feed and Wo eet Grinding promptly. On wheat we wtli guaranteegood** retqa* ud quantity ae any ouetom mill in the State of Illinois, and would rt fof anything ta t*le line to give ne a trial on the above guarantee la quality and would reipeetfally aak waea ja When la sees Bran and Middlings for Sale. nnMrieeve yoar order at the Boiler Miiis sod we wiU do he real _ i ' ' 8 ' .j r * " h: , t'- < McHENRY ROLLER Ml L* ' "5 | '4 ^ v. 3 '̂,, * X* v » ' 1 AM. i: -