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THE CACKLE OF THE HEN.
As an indication of wealth tlie cackle
of the hen has all other noises beat.
The noise she makes every year
sounds like $300,000,000 which is some
$20,000,000 more than that of any
wealth producer, Kin" Cotton being
second.
Defying drouth or boll weevils the
egg crop comes out every year with
unceasing regularity and without the
aid of government experts or experi
ment farms. The little red or fcrown
or dominecker hen knows her own
business and goes about it without
any outside advice. The annual poul
try crop is more valuable than wheat
or corn or cotton, and surpasses the
revenue derived from the mining of
any mineral.
Some man who had plenty of time
on his hands has figured it all out
and says that if all the hens’ eggs laid
in the United States annually were
crated, allowing SCO to the crate, they
would fill over 43,000,000 crates. A
train of refrigerator cars to accommo
date this vast quantity would be made
up of 107,818 cars and would be nine
miles in length.
Of course part of the praise is due
to the modern incubator which, though
a valuable aid as a hatching appara
tus, will never be of any use from an
egg producing standpoint. At best
the Incubator is but an aid to the hen,
and if our biddies ever go on a strike
this country will suffer more than it
would from an entire failure of the
cotton crop.—Texas Stockman-Journal.
Don’t wait for the fruit tree man
to come around. It is a better plan
to go to the nursery yourself, and ,
then and there pick out. a few more j
trees than you think you have room
for. Then as soon as you can get
them plant them in every nook and
corner. Remember that the land in
the corners costs as much as it does
anywhere else, and you ought to get
the use of it and not turn it over to
noxious weeds and insects. I
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There is no better educational
school in the line of progressive de
velopment than the county fairs. En
courage them; the business men of
the towns where they are held can
well afford to offer prizes for the best
products of the soil, the pasture and
the barnyard. This is the very best I
sort of education; it is teaching by
object lesson. Let every Union man
take hold of his county fair and whoop
It up to the limit.
No man can be a very good man
who lets his stock stand ont in all
sorts of weather without any sort of
protection. Such a man ought to be
fired out of the Union, or else disci
plined into decency by being compel!
ed to be out a night or two in the !
soaking, icy rains of winter.
The farmer—the real thing farmer
—is not concerned about the two-cent
fare movement. He is not a traveler,
and has but litlte interest in the trav
eling question. Now, if you want to
tickle him, talk about cutting the
freight rates about one-third, and he'll
come to the trough quick.
Now that the winter is about upon
11s, it is a better time than ever to
fight the implement and vehicle trusts
by putting away all your tools, imple
ments and vehicles where they will
escape the winter’s ruinous weather.
The people are taking hold of the
idea of consolidation of a schools
slowly, but the idea of better teachers.
nottor houses and a larger curriculum
—that’s the thing that they are wak
ing up to.
Speaking of the mortgage raiser, as
•lie pig is called in Kansas, how is
vonr crop ef mortgage raisers? Farm*
■ r Shaw of Texas had formerly a habit
of starting all his invocations to di
versification with t lie injunction,
“Plant pigs.”
The strength of the movement to
"llmlnate the sale of liquor from our
modern commerce finds its backbone
among the farmers. They will never
lie the constituents of an anti-liquor
j party, but the majority of the mem
iters of that following are opposed to
the trade.
It is the process of elimination that
is used by nature in t he construction
of all her great works. Nature abhors
a vacuum, so before you begin to tear
down any structure be sure that a
better thing is to take its place. Be
a builder.
Labor’s reward depends very much
upon the practical common sense of
the man who is doing the labor. That
is the reason for the first word in
the name of the Farmers’ Union—
educational.
The action of the Galveston bankers
in asking that cotton be sent there
where advances would be made upon
it, when other points had failed to find
money to advance, shows that this
matter of getting money is, after all,
only a matter of intelligent effort.
There is as much money in the coun
try as there lias ever been, and it will
not long lie idle.
You don’t have to stop to remem
er that no man does another an in
ury v-Khout suffering some time and
-here the result of the work of
vrang wrought in his own character.
TETHER FOR HORSE.
Will Not Permit Horse to Get Tangled
in Rope.
The form of tether illustrated here
does away with the danger of entan
glement. Take a piece of timber, a,
b, 3% feet long; fasten a ring at a
and one at c six inches from the lower
end. Take a pole c, d, making it long
enough to extend back of the animal’s
heels three or four feet, and fasten
a ring to each end. An iron spike f
with a ring e in the end is driven in
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Tether for Horse.
the ground. The irregular line repre
sents a cord or wire of any desired
length. Fasten the rod a, b, to the
halter at a, with a leather strap, also
c. d, to a, b, in the same way at c;
tie one end of the cord in the ring
at d, and the other in the ring in the
end of the iron spike. The ring at c,
six inches from the lower end, pre
vents taking up the cord and thus
entangling the animal. The end b
will slide over it as the animal grazes.
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We have decided to leave Newark in a short time, and we
have a nice, new stock of Men’s, Boys’ and Chi rens
Clothing, Suits, Pants and a nice line of fine Rain Coats
and Overcoats; also a complete stock of Shoes for all c asses
of trade; a nice, new stock of hats, and, in fact, a .
A Complete Stock of
General Herchandise, Which
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not want to have any of these goods moved. Come in and see us, and if price
is any inducement to you, we can certainly do business with you. W e are
offering some great bargain in Men’s Overcoats and Pants. Come in and look
over our stock.
We thank the many good people of Newark and surrounding country who
have given us their trade for the past six years, and while we have many good
friends and customers whom we hate to leave, yet, under the circumstances,we
feel that it is to our best interest to do as we are doing.
Again thanking you, we are Your Friends,
GRIFFITH & MORROW
All parties who are indebted to us by note or account will please come in
and settle, as we want to wind up our business at once.
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NEWARK, ARKANSAS
FEEDING AT A PROFIT.
How It Was Done at Washington State
Agricultural College.
Feeding of beef steers on corn fod
der at a profit in the Palouse country,
south of Spokane, Wash., has been ful
ly demonstrated by the Washington
state college experiment farm at Pull
man, which sold 18 steers fed as an
experiment. These steers were
bought at random throughout the Pa
louse country at $25 to $30 a head.
They were cut into three lots and fed
under slightly different methods. The
total cost of 14 steers was $520 and
they were fed eight tons of oat hay
worth $7.50 a ton, 17,855 pounds of
fodder corn at $4.50 a ton; two and a
quarter tons of wheat at $17.50 a ton;
making the total cost of the steers
and the feed $059.55. They were sold
for $811.75, leaving a net profit of
$151.20.
The steers were fed two months, all
being fed alike for the first month,
during which time they were given
three pounds of wheat daily. After
the first month lots of two and three
were fed six pounds of wheat daily,
while lot No. 1 continued at three
pounds each. During the month in
which the twm lots were fed six
pounds each daily, lot two gained 490
pounds, while lot three gained 455
pounds. Dot No. 1 only gained 270
pounds during this period. The net
cash gain per head of lot No. 2 over
lot No. 1 in this period was $3.50, with
but three pounds more of wheat daily.
This is an increase of more than ten
cents a day, or ten cents for three
pounds of wheat, which is at the rate
of $2 a bushel for wheat fed to steers
in this way.
The experiment, explains the Draft
Horse Journal, was carried on under
(lie direction of E. E. Elliot, profes
sor of agriculture in Washington state
college, but was under the great su
pervision of Professor W. A. Link
slatter, head of the department of an
imal husbandry, and W. D. Foster, su
perintendent of the college farm.
Snakes with Toothache.
The snake tore about its cage in a
frenzy. It lashed the glass viciously
with its tail.
“That's Joe's way o’ swearin’,” said
the keeper. "He’s got toothache.”
“Toothache?”
“Sure. Snakes suffer turrible from
toothache. They’re so reckless, ye see.
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with their fangs. They jab 'em into >
anything—shoe leather, wood, iron
bars. They take no care of their
fangs at all. In fact, there had oughter
be a snake dentist to give his mates
lectures on fang hygiene.
“Monkeys suffer from consumption.
Consumption, too, carries off lots of
our deer and antelope.
“Camejs in captivity are subject
to the asthma, elephants to rheuma
tism, tigers to indigestion and eagles
and vultures to melancholia.”
Is Still a Hero to Women.
Notwithstanding the fact that Kube
lik, the violinist, is married and is the
father of twins he attracts a great
deal of feminine interest wherever he
goes. Once he was asked by a re
porter if he was mobbed by females
wherever he went. With a sigh of
resignation the violinist confessed
that this was so. “And what country
have you found the worst?” Kubelik
merely smiled. “Well, tell me where
the women are most attentive.” “The
most courageous women I have ever
met with were in America,” was his
diplomatic reply. "But since you have
married—?” “It has made no differ
ence,” answered Kubelik, with another
sigh.
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