VOL. LIV.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., DEO. 9. 1899.
NO. 49
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With  Whtt and   Hew tio You  Bed  Live
Stack?
let Premium.—The only bedding ueed on
my farm It wheat etraw, and we coneider lt aa
good ae can be found. Besides thie le the
beet way to dispose of th? etraw accumulation
on a general farm. My horeee are kept ln
stables nearly every night in the year and
cattle are Btabled during the feeding eeaeon.
In a few feet of the barn I hare a etraw lot, in
thie ie thrown each year a good big etraw
etack. The ground ie kept covered all over
with etraw all the time, ae faet ae it becomes
well tramped down a eectlon of stack ie cut
off and scattered. My cattle are kept on thie
moet daye when not in etable, and nighte when
not on paeture. In a corner of lot ie a etraw
etack 24x24 feet, under which cattle shelter
during rain. Thie lot is cleaned out once
each year, juet before threehlng time, in order
to be ready for the next year's eupply of etraw.
My stables are kept littered with dry etraw at
all timee, both horee and cattle stables, and
the accumulation ia allowed ta remain eome
time, thie hauled directly to field and scattered from wagon. Thie works Tery well except in excessive wet spells when lt eometlmee
haa to remain too long, aB I will not haul
oyer cultivated land when wet. The etraw
absorbs all liquid manure and I coneider thie
a practical way, unless we were able to have
the manure ehed and empty manure in that,
ae Mr. Terry doee. The practice of cleaning
and rebeddlng every day ia the thing for the
dairy, but lt la more every day work than the
average farmer finds time to do, and I would
not allow manure to le thrown utder eavte
to leach away, if a man would do the work
for nothing. Some recommend an application of land plaster or phosphate accaelonally
to absorb the ammonia, if plenty of etraw le
ueed the loee ie very email. Some farmere
ueed to haul eawduet for bidding where they
could get lt for the hauling, but I do not con-
alder there la any fertilizer in sawdust, and
the etraw la much more convenient to handle.
Leaves make good bedding but are too tedious
to gather. There ie nothing better to bed
hoga on tban clean, bright etraw, ae lt le a
warm bedding and ae free from duet and ae
eaelly removed aa anything.     Guy Oabkxb,
Olark Oo.
2d Premium.—-The object of bedding live
etock ia to keep them clean and comfortable'
and to abeorb the liquid manure, eo aa to prevent Ite being loet. For thie purpoee nothing
ie better than good wheat etraw, with a few
ehovele of dry eawduet each morning after
the aoiled portion haa been removed. For
cleanliness I uee etraw liberally, but do not
like to depend upon it entirely. A little dry
eawduet each morning plaoed where lt will receive and abeorb the urine lea great saving to
the etraw bedding, and aleo prevents waete of
fertility ln the common etable. I like to have
my eawdvet hauled ln quantity and bulked up
in a bin, where lt can heat and thoroughly
dry out before I need lt, thue making lt go
about twice ae far In abeorblcg liquid manure ae It would do were lt ueed in Ite green
state. The duet in thla limited quantity mingled with the etraw and excrement, doee not
injure the quality of the manure. I alwaye
uee whatever clover caaff I may have for bedding. It abeorba moisture more readily than
doee wheat etraw, and therefore doee not las-
*o well, but it neede no eawduet in connection
and makee an excellent quality of manure,
and lg in much better shape to plow under
than when it ie dry, scattered at once from
the huller. With does attention to removing
all soiled bedding and excrement carefully
each day, the etable can be kept clean and
nice and all fertility eaved for the coming
crop, Fabmbb Johx.
31 Premium.—Our custom letouso wheat or
oate etraw for bedding etock. The oat etraw
being moet desirable. We have a place in
each etable that holda a wagon load or more,
and ae lt la used out more ie hauled from the
etack, which ie near. The etraw Ie spread in
the stalls each evening. The manure ie hauled
out about once a week and spread. Formerly
we used about all the etraw, but since fodder
shredding came in vogue, there le more or
less rejected by the etock, which we think
makee the beet bedding we have ueed. When
feeding stover, without cutting or ehredding,
we kept the etalke from under the etock, as it
wae not only unfit for animals to lay on, but
a nuisance when it came to moving the manure. In bedding' etock we aim to keep them
clean and comfortable, abeorb the liquids and
convert ae much refuse into manure ae possible. The droppings from our dairy catt e are
thrown back each morning. We consider
propper bedding and tight stables ae Important ae balance rations. We change the hoge'
bedding about once a week. I 0.
Washington Oj.
In the firet place ouretablea all have ground
floors, made of red clay, and therefore we
muet uee eome material that will abeorb as
much liquid manure as possible; and we can
find nothing cheaper and better than wheat
etraw. Some people burn their etraw etacke
to get rid of them, while wo uee the etraw
from 500 or 1,000 buehele of wheat for bad-
ding our etock during the year. Ia the fall,
while the weather ie yet pretty, we turn our
cattle out on paeture and bed the stables with
etraw every morning, eo when night com;s we
can turn the etock in and do the feeding, and
the stock le not in the way. When the weather
gets bad, we do the beddlrg at noon while
they are at the tank getting water, Inetead of
cleaning stables every morning, ae eome do,
we bed every day and clean the etalle every 10
or 15 daye When the etalle are cleaned, the
firet bedding muet be very heavy; after thie
we uee juet enough straw to keep the etock
dry and clean. We aim to haul the manure
from tbe etable to the field and scatter on
clover to be plowed under for corn the next
spring. B  W.
BBVIBW.
The Dutch are proverbial for being good
feedera. The eeoret Ilea partly in their nice
barns and general comfort Straw ie wortho< er
$2 a ton ae a fertilizer, but Ub ability to hold
up c'ay land and to abeorb liquids makee it
worth more than thte. Oae ton of dry straw
will abeorb over two tone of water. Garden-
era who uee commercial fertilizers are
obliged to uee eome woody manure occasionally to furuleh humui to hold up the soil.
Olover hulls are excellent, but if the clover ie
not too much rotted before hulling lt ie pretty
good feed too,
A manure shed with a good loft, If it can be
afforded, Is a fine place to store straw at
threshing time. I do not uee much eawduet
If I have plenty of straw. I try to uee all
the etraw I can. All klnde of etock not ueed
for milking I like ae much ae practicable, to
put ln box etalle and let the manure get deep
and hard. I combine the ehed and stable,
and avoid one handling. E H. 0.
No. 197, Dec. 16 -Name falee ideaa of econ
omy held and followed by farmera.
No. 198, Dec. 23—Will a number of grown
persons help ua out with the Ohrletmaa issue
by sending in eeveral cute, sweet thlnga said
and done by children under six yeara old?
will be brief and we want to print a large
number of them. Give name, nick-name and
age of each child.
No. 199, Dec. 30—What thinge have added
happiness, eweetnees and success to the paet
year of your life?
Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 60 centa will
be given  to let, 2d  and 3d beet artle.ee each
week,   Let copy be as practical ae  poeelble
and forwarded   10 daye before publication to
Oarmel, Ind. E H. Collins
POSTAL CARD CORRESPONDENCE.
Mokqan Oo , Dacember 2—Flue weather,
corn moetly cribbed and yield good, Many
farmere have ehredded their fodder; wheat
moetly looks well; stock are doing well; apples are rotting bidly, and prices are higher.
Butter, egga and poultry are low, A. H.
Putnam Oo , December 4 —Oorn ie about
all cribbed; the quality was very good but the
yield fell about 15 buehels per acre ehort of a
good crop for this county. The early sown
wheat ie badly damaged by the fly; eome fielde
will be entirely deetroyed. Grass very ehort
and farmere are feeding their etock. There
ls an abundance of good hay in this county
and farmere are ln very fair ehape for winter.
J. A. G.
Mntz Ipttrs.
pioneer farmer of Lawrence
Bedford, waa  killed  byafall-
Lapobtk Co , Dec. 1 —We have had a nice
warm time thie fall, all of November beautiful weather; corn husking and shredding all
done; fly working bad in our wheat, except a
few fialde; eome fielde are nearly ruined now;
very few apples put away for winter and they
are not keeping. Mas B. A. Davis.
Wayhb Oo., Dec. 28.—Weather very flne for
time of year; corn nearly all ln; wheat does
not look very well, the fly la working lt; graee
ls greener than for three months; cattle of ail
klnde are in excellent demand; hoge are not
so plenty as last yeare; no swine dieeiee.
J G. W. BaABn.
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A jackrabbit etnsage factory ia to be started In
Kanaaa.
The deadly corn-shredder has robbed Frank Fin-
sy, a laborer, of Fulton, of his rignt arm.
In Norway, the averagt lengh of life ls eaid to
be greater than in any other conntry on the globe.
The largett flock of eheep ever fed by one individnal ia owned bv a breeder at Ft. Collins, Col.,
and numbe. a 15 COO.
The Chinete honor their guests by placing before
them the oldest eggs obtainable, which are coneidered their greatest delicacy.
During the last thirty yeara England has bought
of Canada wool to the value of 1259,0.0,000.
Japanese consider salted whale a de icacy. The
whales are caught off the coast of Korea, the flsh
and blubber cut up and aent to Japan for tale as
food.
The healthiest spot in the world seems to be a little hamlet in France named Aumone. There are
only 40 inbabitanta, twenty-flveof whom are eighty
years of age, and one is over loo.
The authorities in Algeria gave |40 0 0 toward
fighting the grasshoppers. In one section 1,800
camela were employed to carry the material for
burning over the places where egga had been deposited,
A French scientist has fonnd that some kinds of
mushroom afford a vaccine against the venom of
anakea. The juice of the mushroom renders a person immune against the poison for a month or two.
In China, when an honor is conferred on a family, it is the ancestors and not the descendants who
ehare the glory. If a Chinaman, for hia merits, receives a title of nobility, his son can never inherit
it or have the right to me any but an inferior title.
Thus the nobi ity in the family goee on diminishing from generation to generation till it finally becomes extinct.
A quart of milk contains the same nourishment
as three-quarters of a ponnd of beef.
A vanilla bean kept ln the sngar box impartB a
delicious flavor to the sugar. The French know
this.
Egg-plants, with the Imide scooped out and filled
with bread crumbs and bntter, are favorite veg
etablet for the table.
From one end of Japan to the other a child ia
treated aa a aacred thing, be it one'a own or a
atranger'a. Each one carriet its name and addrett
on a ticket'ronnd ita neck; but should it indeed
ttray from home, fool and shelter and kindness
would meet It anywhere.
David Whittfd.
county, living near
ing tree.
_\A second growth of ' Johuny-jump-ups" and dan-
deliona has appeared on the lawn of Charles Williams, of Qreemburg. T..e blooms are bright
and hardy.
Charles Cockeriel, of Jasper, killed an American
eagle which measured five feet and one inch from
tip to tip. The bird waa battling with a dog and
about to be the victor.
Oeorge A. McCaslin, of Trafalger, lata week sold
the fine roan Shorthorn cow "Seventeenth MisB
Wiley, of Hoie," forf 500
Farm lands in the vicinity of Greenfield are rapidly increasing in price,'and there are numerous
offers to purchase, with but few accepted.
While a corn shredder was operating on John
W. Harvey's fa*m near Fairmount, the governor
slipped off and the engine was broken. A frag'
ment struck Harvey's leg breaking it in two
places. Other bystanders narrowly escaped injury.
aB the air was filled with flying missiles
A Bewing nredle.two Inchet long, haa been removed frum the breast of the two-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mra. WiU Warren, at a point one
half inch below ths heart. It is supposed that the
child swallowed the needle at aome previoua time.
Workmen while excavating for a foundation for
the new railway depot at Elnora, dug up a cartload of Indian bones and arrow h-ads. Not knowing thsir archaeological value, they were dumped
into a fill. Some of the arrow pointe have been recovered.   They are of.the triangular pattern.
C.J. Smiley, of IndianapoliB, ki, lad a flnt ant-
lered buck in the woods six milea from Washington It is the only deer which has been killed in
this section for SO yeara, and ia supposed to have
been an animal whichescaped from Lafayette Crosby's farm two years ago.
CO. Panders, of Washington county, took hit
pocket-book Irom ite accustomed hiding-place, extracted $10 and then tossed the book and remaining money «90) into his wife's lap. She was seated
near-by, extracting kernels from cracked nuts,
Mrs. Sanders forgot about the pocket-book, and
tossed the contents of her apr.-n into a coal bncket.
The money was burned.
Food Adulterations.
The need of more etringent laws agalnet the
adulteration of foods and condiments ie made
plain by the report of the United States senate committee on food adulterations.
One witness testified that cocoa shells,
prune stonee and the like were sold as apices.
None of these adulterants, except the one
color, wae hurtful to health, but all were
frauds on the consumer. More than half the
jellies examined were made of glucose and
etarch paste colored with artificial flavoring,
and preserved with salicylic acid. The
cheaper gradea of coffee were found to contain a lBrge proportion ofOanadian peas,
pea pellets, wheat middlings and chicory.
Tomato catsup, hs said, le made from the
cores of tomato s artificially colored and
preserved with ealyclltc acid. Of 30 samples
of olive oil, 26 were adulterated with cottonseed oil,
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I received the Bewing machine all O. E, It
gives perfect satisfaction, and would be glad
to have another one If I could get lt on the
eame condition.   Let me know at once.
Sandusky. Hknby L. Sbfton.
The sewing machine received eome time
ago, and after a thorough trial we believe lt
to be as good as the beBt. My wife is well
pleased with lt.
Santa Fe.  W. D. BmroLDs.
We like our Ihdiaha Fabmib sewing machine the beat in the world.   Are not Bony we
*»* f or "• H. F. Malijbt.
Hamilton Oo.
After a fair trial of sewing machine lately
received I find it all it Is represented to be
Fifteen or $20 saved in the price of a machine
is a nice saving. Hbhby Bahb.
Greene Oo.