A SUDDEN COLD. Both Guilty. VALUE OF WHEAT. worms, etc., and there will usually be I skim-milk or buttermilk. There need Good Profit May Be Made by Feeding ' therefore be no cost for animal food, resulting in a saving of 8 to 10 cents to Poultry at High Prices. per fowl. The clover or grass they eat By James Dryden. Poultryman. Oregon Agricul­ will have little marketable value. The tural College. Corvallis. ' destruction of grasshoppers in the The prices of poultry and eggs fol­ clover and grain fields aud of bugs in low closely the trend of wheat prices the orchards will, where these insects : and of corn prices, the two staple poul- are Lad, offset a large part of the an­ I try’ foods in the United States. The nual cost of food for the fowls ill tendency is for poultry keepers to cur- ! better crops. | tail the flock of poultry’ when prices In experiments with I of food are high, and to increase the the cost of feeding was flock when the prices of food are low. cost of feeding Plymouth Kocks aver­ When the grain ¡»rices rise more poul­ aged $1.15 per fowl and of Wyandottes try are sent to market, and later on $1.UU. This extra cost is largely offset there is a scarcity of both poultry and when the fowls are marketed, the eggs. i larger breeds bringing mure than tiro No Rltfht to Kick. The question for the poultryman and small breeds. Customer—It seems to me that's an aw­ ful price to have to pay for a pound of the farmer to consider in this tjonnec- liver. I tion is, at what ¡»rices of grain does In answer to an inquiry relative to Butcher—You must remember, ma’am, ! it ¡»av the farmer to market the grain the way in which to tell the difference that the liver iS a choice part. Thia : rather than feed it to the poultry, for between the edible mushroom and the steer weighed nearly a ion, and he had the business of the farmer is to get the poisonous variety, the station replied: most out of the soil, whether it be in “ There are so many different species only one small liver. raw or concentrated products. It is a of mushrooms, and they are so nearly Too IlazHrdou«. fine point to determine just where the like the poisonous varieties, that it is “Yessir," udiultted u waiter, “I «hall profit in feeding poultry’ as well as impossible for an inexperienced person lie coinpidled to throw up tuy sltuatlou other livestock disappears in the up­ to detect the difference. Botanists do ward tendency of the price of grain; nor usually recognize any difference be­ here." in other words, at what point is there tween mushrooms and toadstools. The "Indeed! What Is the matter?" a parting of the ways between a profit , best way is t > learn to recognize cer- “More than I can-put up with. Tho and a loss? i tain species edible mushrooms, even governor Insists on my eating mush­ The general tendency among farmers ' though the number be few’. A common rooms in the presence of cusl oners to is to sell the grain, rather than feed I variety, known botanically as ‘ Agaricus Miss Helen Sauerbier, of 815 Main St., St. Joseph, Mich., writesan interesting letter prove they are edible fungi."—Loudon it, long before the parting of the ways | campestrias L.,’ is uot poisonous, and on tho subject of catching cold, which Tit-Bits. has been reached, and it is a knowledge by the following description you may cannot fail to be of value to all women who of this fact that assures the skillful be able to recognize it: catch cold easily. Only a few years ago the only article and persistent feeder of a profit. The “The item is cylindrical, or tapers a tasting of maple was maple sugar. parting of the ways comes very soon i little toward the lower end. Near its There is now an article on the market to the majority of feeders, One man | upper end is a sort of collar, usually i* I y j i r I that is so like the real maple sugar may be telling the exact truth when termed a ‘ring,’ which encircles it. that even old Vermonters are unable he says that he can make no profit in This is very’ delicate, white like tho to tell the difference. In fact, on ac­ feeding seventy-five-cent wheat, and stem, and of very thin, satiny texture. count of its healthful qualities, being another may be equally truthful when The circular, expanded disk into which a purely vegetable product, neither says he can make a profit in feed- the stem fits is called the ‘cap.’ The It Should be Taken Acording to Di­ sticky nor sickly, it is preferred by he ing one-dollar wheat, The difference surface is sometimes white, although many people who formerly used only in the two mon is a difference in skill , sometimes brownish, and usually cov­ rections an the Bottle, at the the regulation maple sugar. in feeding. With good stock and good ered by a thin layer of delicate threads. First Appearance of the Co!d. This new extract is called Mapleine. care the skillful feeder will make a The flesh or inner portion is more com­ St. Joseph, Mich., Sept., 1901.—Last It is a Seattle product and can be used profit in feeding high-priced grain, but pact, and is white also. Numerous thin winter I caught a sudden cold, which to advantage by the housewife in a no one can make a profit with poor plates, or ‘gills,’ are on the under side developed into an unpleasant catarrh variety of ways. For instance, a syrup stock and poor care at any price for of the cap, which radiate from near the of the head and throat, depriving me of like maple can be made by simply dis­ grain. stem to the margin of the cap. When my appetite and usual good spirits. A solving granulated sugar in water and The price of wheat is higher now the plant is very young the gills are friend who had been cured by l’eruna adding a few drops of Mapleine. than it has been for probably ten or | first white, but soon become a dark, advised me to try it, and I sent for a The Crescent Manufacturing Com fifteen years, and it is frequently said pink color, and in age changes to dark bottle at once, and I am glad to say that pany who make Mapleine have pub­ that it is too high to feed to chickens, brown. The substance of the stem is in three days the phlegm had loosened, lished a booklet called Mapleine Dain­ Two or three things should be con­ less compact at the center, but the stem and I felt better, my appetite returned ties. This will be sent free on request sidered in this connection. First, the is not really hollow, though in some in­ and within nine days I was in my usual to anyone who asks for it. It is full prices of poultry and eggs will rise if stances there are slight indications of good health. of wholesome recipes. many’ chickens are marketed, and the it. This mushroom wiTl be found in —Miss Helen Sauerbier. farmer who keeps his chickens will sod, where shade is plentiful. Rprognlzing Ills Id in I tn tlons. l’eruna is an old and well tried rem make as much profit as he did when “It is ¡»robable that the mushroom* Cholly—Let me see—what’s tfliat quo­ the price of wheat was low. That is, responsible for ,a majority of the deaths edv for colds. No woman should be tation about a nod being as good as a the price of poultry products will ad­ from eating this plant is the Amanita without it. wink, and so forth? just itself to the prices of grain. Sec­ phalloides. By a novjee, it might eas­ Fweddy—Why—er—I can’t think------ ond, how much does it really cost to ily be taken for the Agaricus campes- Cholly—O, I know that. I’m asking feed a hen for a year? Does any one tris. However, tho former usually oc­ Tl.is Sterling household remedy is most you to try te remember.—Chicago Trib­ know? curs in the woods, while the edible va­ successfully prescribed for a "world of une. In experiments made by the writer, riety just described occurs in open troubles.” For derangements of the di­ covering several years, in which every places. Professor G. F. Atkinson, of the You Can Get Allen’s Foot-Ease FREE. gestive organs it is a natural corrective, ounce of food was weighed, six pens botany division of the Cornell univer­ Write Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a operating directly upon the liver and ali­ free sample of Alien’s Foot-Ease. It cures of Loghorn hens consumed during the sity’ agricultural experiment station, de­ mentary canal, gently but persistently sweating, hot swollen, aching feet. It makes year 564 pounds wheat, 296 pounds scribes the Amanita phalloides as fol­ stimulating a healthful activity. Its new or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for corn, 203 pounds oats, 112 pounds bran lows: beneficial influence extends, however, to corns, ingrowing nails and bunions. All drug­ and shorts and 235 pounds skim milk, “It is pure white, and possesses an every portion of the system, aiding in tile gists sell it. 25c. Don’t accept any substitute in addition to some animal food. The annulus or collar, but what is most processes of digestion and assimilation of New IiKlnntry. cost of the total food per fowl for the important the base of the stem rests in food, promoting a wholesome, natural “Who is that striking looking man year varied in different pens from 61 a cup-like envelope called the volva. appetite, correcting sour stomach, bad near the head of the table? ’ ’ asked one cents to 78 cents, and averaged 66 . . . The pileus in this form is breath, irregularities of the bowels, con­ cents. The wheat was charged at 1 smooth, viscid to the touch, and pure stipation and the long list of troubles of the guests. “ That ’ s Mr. Jypes, ” answered the oth- cent a pound, corn at 1% cents, oats white, as is also the annulus, stem and directly traceable to those unwholesome at a cent, skim milk at a fifth of a volva, though the latter is soiled by conditions. Kasparilla dispels drowsi­ er. “lle’s a blood boiler.” “What! A workman at the stock cent and bran and shorts at three- particles of earth. Tho stem is nearly ness, headache, backache and despond­ fifths of a cent. The animal food cost cylindrical, tapering slightly from the ency due to inactivity of the liver, yards?” “No, no; don’t you understand? He from 5 to 6 cents per fowl. The wheat bulbous base. It is hollow, or stuffed kidneys and digestive tract. It is a The strengthening tonic of the highest value. writes these shocking stories of corpora­ constituted nearly a half of the total with cottony, mycelial threads. gills are usually pure white, even in If it fails to satisfy we authorize all tion cruelty to children and ignorant em- cost. The hens laid an average of 144 eggs ago, and are nearly free from the stem. dealers to refund the purchase price. ployes that you read in the Magazines.”— per fowl, valued at $1.68 at local p’ices When decaying the plant emits a very H oyt C hemical C o . Portland, Oregon Chicago Tribune. for eggs. The prices were from 10 disagreeable odor.”—From Washington cents to 25 cents per dozen, much State college, Pullman. lower than the prices arc in Oregon at the present time. If wheat had been An inquiry which will be of interest worth, say, 90 cents and Lad been to fruit growers of southwestern Wash­ charged for at that rate, and bran at ington and northwestern Oregon was 1 cent a pound, the cost per forzi referred to the department of horticul­ would have been about 16 cents more, ture. It follows: or 80 cents instead of 66 cents. But “Kindly give me some advice con When bad blood is caused from an infection of the circulation by the eggs are also higher in price than they corning the growing of raspberries and virus of Contagious Blood Poison, it usually shows in the form of ulcerated were then. blackberries under the conditions found mouth and throat, copper-colored splotches on the body, swollen glands in Taking the monthly egg yield of the in southwestern Washington. I would the groin, falling hair, sores and ulcers, etc. These general symptoms, six pens of Leghorns and computing be obliged to you for information con­ affecting all parts of the body, show how deeply poisoned the blood the value of the eggs laid each month cerning the growing of plums, cherries becomes, and emphasizes the dangerous character of the trouble. If allowed at the average wholesale prices of eggs and apples in this region.” to remain in the system the disease will finally wreck the health and break in Portland during «the past two years, Professor W. S. Thornber replied: down the strongest constitution. No medicine can cure Contagious Blood the results Would be as folk “You will have no difficulty in Price Poison which does not rid the circulation of every particle of the virus. growing raspberries and blackberries in Eß«» laid. per dcz. Value. your part of the country, providing you S. S. S. is the one real and certain cure; it goes down to the very bottom of 35c $ 1.17 use good judgment in selecting your va­ the trouble, and by removing every trace of the poison, and adding rich, November ...40 122 35c 3.00 rieties and in planting. If the low land healthful qualities to the blood, forever cures this powerful disorder. S. S. S. December January .. .. .243 26c 4.40 is well drained you had better plant is the most reliable of all blood purifiers, and its concentrated ingredients of February . .. 238 25c 4.90 blackberries, but if the land is not well healthful vegetable extracts and juices especially adapt it to curing this March ... ...336 5.60 drained you will have difficulty in 20c insidious trouble. Write for our home treatment book, which is a valuable April .... . .499 8.30 growing any form of small fruit there. 20c aid in the treatment of the different stages of the disease, and ask for any May ......... ...428 6.33 However, the blackberry will come 18c Special medical advice you wish. No charge for either. 20c June ........ . .397 6.62 nearer to grow ing in poorly drained land . .384 6.44) 20o than the raspberries will. In choosing THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. July ........ . .393 25c August ... 8.20 varieties of blackberries, use the Mam­ September . .221 4 60 25c moth for extra early, the Snyder for October .. .. 97 2.40 middle early and the Evergreen for 30c late. Raspberries require a dryer and, $61.92 especially, well drained soil, and with Tn place of eRRS worth $1.68 per | such conditions in your part of the fowl, if their value be computed at state you should bo able to grow re­ present prices in Portland they would markable crops of them. The Cuthbert WILL DO ALL be worth $2.58 per fowl. In other is the standard for commercial work on TIIA1 AM words, on the basis of present prices, the west side; also the Antwerp, *h? HIGH PRICED food costing 80 cents when fed to hens i Superlative and the Marlboro are excel- rowM " ill produces eggs worth $2.58. This is a , lent berries for growth there. Get it from DO A5D A FULL POUND 25c. your Grocer pretty good margin of profit in feed­ “Plums will do well upon a verj DO IT RETITR ing 90-cent wheat. moist soil, and will stand a poorly It may be said that the average drained soil bettor than the majority of e: flock of hens docs not lay 144 eggs per I other fruits. The Poach, the Yellow fowl. That is true. It is also true | Egg. the Tragedy, tho Willard, the Lorn that 144 eggs per fowl is not phenom­ bard and other varieties almost without enal. The right kind of hens properly I number will do well in the region you attended should average 150 and well- refer to. Almost any cherry will sue bred hens considerably more. The av­ ceed there. The Royal Anns, the Bings, erage farm flock will not average 125, the Lamberts and the May Dukes would probably not 100. i ^t»e good varieties to plant. The varie­ In these experiments all the food ties of apples that will do especially eaten was paid for at market prices 1 well there are more or less limited. and the cost averaged only 66 cents 1 The Yellow Transparent, the Duchess, per hen. The cost would have been i the Oldenberg and the Gravenstein for only 80 cents if the wheat had cost 90 early apples, and the Northern Spy, cents per bushel. The farmer, how­ I Olympia, Baldwin, Grimes Golden and ever, who keeps fifty or a hundred | possibly a few’ Rhode Island Greenings hens can do better than that, for on for later varieties will do quite well. the average farm that number of hens Other varieties, such as Ben Davis. may be kept largely on the waste pro­ Gano and the Jonathan, do not seem to ducts or by products of the farm. They be entirely adapted to your part of will find the animal food in the fields Washington.** From ” Washington Stata in the shape of bugs, grasshoppers, college. Pullman. pm The man who prided himself on ms keen ¡H'rceptions watched the witness on the stand with lntcuslty. and nodded his head vigorously at the closing words of the bewildered witness. “That man’s concerned in It.” said the keen observer to his friend. “Didn’t you notice how bis eyes shifted around?’’ “IIow about this next one?" inquired the friend. “He’s guilty of something,** asserted the keen observer. “No man stares at people in that bold, defiant way if he has a clear conscience.” «»FURStHIDES vAwL for ar>ot morn ♦ > shin . ». :.. Raw T? V. . an.l ,.,.i m — to «pot ca«h. oanh. IO tn to more n-.vn.w money for von you to Fur« Hi! i .. , . to . ....i ««than home. VA rite f r Pri. o List. Market Report, bhipj.ing I . •-. hh f h -i into ■anti il H b.>s. Our Magnetic Bait and Decoy attract« ar n. i'»t traps f 00 ' •• 'I p vur Klei aud Furs to u» ai. 1 got hutLubi prices. Audurach Bros.. AlepU 1?1 JAhiuvapulln. Yliun. Probably from Boston. “But, surely,” protested the lately de­ parted girl, “you’re not going to take m<* to the—er—infernal regions?” “Only for a few seconds,” replied the attendant spirit. “We must thaw you out a little.”—Catholic Standard and Times. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the b. s’ remedy to use ioT their ch. Ldx’ll luring the teething period. I ii nocent. “Edith, I was ashamed of you when you called Mr. Midiage an old man to his face.” “Why, mamma, I did nothing of the kind. I wouldn't be as im{»olite as that for the world. I called him an old gen­ tleman.” FITK Vitus’ Dance and orvous DlBeases perms- ■ 113 neatly cured by Dr. A •ino’s Great Nurxe Re­ storer. Sen