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Newspaper Page Textmm Ay Ay VOL. XXXII. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1896. NO. 48. TRANSPORTATION. -East and South VIA The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific R'y Co. EXPRESS TRAINS RDN DAILY. 18:80 P u Leave Portland Arrive 8:10 ah 2:10pm I lave Albany Arrive) 4:54 ah 10:46 am I Arrive S. Francisco Leave I 6:00 r H Above trains stop at Etu-t Portland, Oregon City, Wood barn, Salem, Turner, Marion, Jeffer son, AiDany. Albany JHnctiou, laug -ur,aeaas Halser. Harrisbunr. Junction Citv. Irvine. Ea gene, Creawell, Drains, and all stations from nuseoarK to Asniana, inclusive. ROSKBURG MAIL DAILY. 8:30 AH I Leave 12:45 pal ieave 6:20 p M I Arrive fortlunu Air ve 4:40 r H Albany Arrive l.liPH RosburE Leave I 6:00 A M Pullman B iffet sleepers and secoud-class sleeping rare attached to all through trains. SALEM PASSENGER DAILY. 4:00 PM Leave Portland Arrive 1 1):15 a M 6:16 P M Arrive Salem Leave I 8:00 A H WEST SIDE DIVISION. Between Portland and Corvallis daily (except Sunday). Mail train 7 '30 a H Leave 12:15 P H Arrive Portland Corvallis Arrive I 6:20 p M Leave! 1:36 P M At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains ot me Oregon central s eastern Ky. EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except Sunday). 4:45pHLeave Portland Amve 1 8:25 a h 7:25 P M ( Arrive McMinnville Leave 5: CO a m Through tickets to all points in the Eastern states, Canada and Europe can be obtained at lowest rate irom A. K. Miner, agent, corvallis. R. KOEHLER, Manager. E. P. ROGERS, A. O. F. & P. A., Portland, Or. E. McNEIL, Ileceiver. ; TO THE E AS T GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL E,OUT IE S VIA VIA GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS UNION PACIFIC RY. DENVER OMAHA AND AND ST. PAUL KANSAS CITT LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES OCEAN STEAMERS LEAVE PORTLAND EYERY 5 DAYS FOR. SAN FRANCISCO For full details, calL on or address W. H. HURLBURT, Gen'L Pass. Agent, Portland - Orecoi OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERN R.R. CO. Yaquina Bay Route Connecting at Yaqalna Bay with the San Francisco & Yaquina Bay STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Steamship "Farallon " A 1 and first-class In every respect. Sails from Yaquina for San Francisco about every eight d-tys. Passenger acc mmodatinns ansurpassed. Shortest route between the Willamette valley and California. Far From Albany or Points West to San Francisco: Cabin $12 Steerage 8 Cabin Ronnd trip, good for 60 days... 18 For sailing days apply to W. A. CCMWING8, A sent. Corvallis, Oregon. EDWIN STONE, Manager, Corvallis, Oregon. CHA8. CLARK, Sup't, CorvaUis, Oregon. BENTON COUNTY ABSTRACT : COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts of Benton County. Conveyanclngand Perfecting Titles a Specialty. Money to Loan on Improved City and Country Property. V. E. WAITERS, Prop. OtHee at Courthouse, Corvallis, Or. o. Xlo . Jl .o DR. WILSON Office over First National bank. Residence, two bloaks west of courthouse. Office hours, 8 to 10 A. M., 1 to 3 p. M. Sundays and evenings by appointment. DR. L. G. ALTMAN H0M0E0PATHIST Diseases of women and children and general practice. Office over Allen & Woodward's drug store. Office hours 8 to 12 A. M., and 2 to 5 and 7 to S P.M. At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after nours ana on Sundays. G.R.FARRA, M.D. Office in Farra & Allen's brick, on the corner ox aecona ana Aaams. Residence on Third street In front of court house. Office hours 8 to 9 A. M.. and 1 to 2 and 7 to t p.m. au cats attended promptly. BOWEN LESTER DENTIST Office upstairs over First National Bank. Strictly First-Class Work Guaranteed Corvallis, Oregon F. H. JOHNSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Corvallis, Oregon Does a general practice In all the courts. Also agent for all the first-class insurance com panies. NOTARY PCBLIC. JUSTICE PEACE. E. E. WILSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Office in Zeiroff building, opposite postoffice. Joseph H. Wilson. Thomas E. Wilson WILSON & WILSON ATTORNEYS -AT-LAW riffin.'AV.1 Vlrtf V.HAn.l Hank flAwnllla fm Will practice in all the state and federal courts Abstracting, collections. Notary public Con veyancing. E. HOLGATE. H. L. HOLGATE. Justice of the Peace. Notary Public. HOLGATE & SON ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Corvallis - - - Oregon R. Bbyson W. E. Yates J. Fred Yates Bryson, Yates & Yates LAWYERS CORVALLIS OREGON OREGON'S MILITIA, The Annnal Report of Brigadier-Gen eral Beebe. Salem, , Or.. Feb. 10. The annual report of Brigadier-General Beebe, submitted to the governor - today through Adjutant-General Tuttle. is an exhibition of considerable work on the part of the officials, and indicates that the details of the military department are being very closely looked after. The report shows that the state now supports 140 officers and 1,554 enlisted men. The examination list of ques tions shows that commissioned officers must not only be able to make out satis factory reports, but shall understand international law, be posted in com pany, regimental and brigade move ments, and prove masters of important questions belonging to the school of the soldier. The report also shows that of a list of eighty-one questions submitted to the captain of each com pany in the state the past year, a large percentage was satisfactorily answered. The summary indicates an improve ment in the conidtion of the companies as to supplies and drilling facilities and the manner and regularity of drills. Affairs Unsettled In Nicaragua. Panama, Feb. 10. Passengers arriv ing here from Central America report an unsettled state of affairs in Nica ragua. It is reported that attempts are being made to overthrow the gov ernment of President Zalaya. Sev eral prominent persons have been ar rested, among them several who are moving to have the capital changed from Managua to Leon. Nebraska's Sugar Beet Growers. Fremont, Neb., Feb. 10. At the state sugar beet convention, resolu tions were adopted which provide for a leigslative commission of three whose duty it shall be to investigate any difficulties which may arise between growers of sugar beets and factories and recommend for passage by the leigslature of a bounty to extend to 1901. Killed His Brother and Himself. Hedrick la., Feb. 10. Joe Merri field, aged 13, quarreled today with his brother Hugh, aged 10. He shot and killed Hugh and then committed sui cide. - TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events ot the Day in a densedForm. Con OF INTEREST TO ALL HEADERS Items of Importance From Domestic and Foreign Sources Cream of the Dispatches. Colonel W. P. Thompson, president of the National Lead Company, died of pneumonia in New York. The Chicago city council has passed an ordinance prohibiting any person from engaging in the traffic of. horse' meat. It is announced in London that Justin McCarthy will resign the lead ership of the Irish parliamentary party at the next meeting of that party. The unprecedented rains in the lower Mississippi valley the past ten days have caused all streams to overflow, and the lowlands of Tennesse, Arkan sas and Mississippi are one vast sea of water. - worn comes Irom Brazil that rain has fallen in such torrents for the last few days that it has caused the falling of many houses in the cities. Yellow fever is increasing and one man on the Italian cruiser Lomardi has died of the disease. The storthing has been opened. In the speech from the throne, King Oscar said he hoped that the meeting of the committee on the condition of the union of Norway and Sweden would tend to an agreement for the happiness of both nations. The United States minister to Tur key, Mr. Terrell, has demanded an in demnity of $100,000 for the burning and pillage of the American mis sions at Marash and Kharpnt He also asked for the immediate granting of firmans for rebuilding' them. The celebrated case of Dr. Arthur Dnestrow, the St. Louis millionaire, who has been on trial during the past month for the cold-blooded murder of his wife and baby boy, two years old, has ended, the jury returning a ver dict of gnilty in the first degree. After a six months' search through anoient and modern history the patent office has issued a patent on bloomers. The man who gets the credit of invent ing this up-to date article is Thomas H. Royce, of Brooklyn. In the future the new woman will have to pay Royce a royalty on her nether garments. Developments show that Lee Sellers, lynched in Enoxville, Tenn., ten years ago for the supposed murder and rob bery of $1,100 from Edward Mainess, was innocent. Lizzie Hickman, on her deathbed, confessed that Ike Wright, a notorious character, was the murderer. He is now being pur sued by the officers. The federal council has authorized the president of the Swiss republic to accept the proposal tendered by the governments of Great Britain and the United States that, in the event of a disagreement as to a choice Of arbitra tor for the Canadian sealers' claim, the president of Switzerland shall desig nate the arbitrator. An agent of the Chinese government has come to the Pacific coast to place an order for 60,000,000 feet of lumber. Most of the timber is intended for the construction and repair of government buildings. The agent says the indica tions are good for a healthy revival of the lumber trade throuhgout China and Japan this and next year. The Mexican International Exposi tion Company expects this week to con clude arrangements with the govern ment for a national exhibit, and a na tional committee to co-operate with the exposition managers will be ap pointed. The land on which the expo sition will be held has been formally conveyed to the New York syndicate organized to carry out the project. Andrew H. Davidson, of New York, who is greatly interested in securing the release of Mrs. Maybriok, confined in an English prison on a charge of murdering her husband, says the next attempt to secure her release will be made by the Masons and Roman Cath olics, and that the effort will be made on the same lines as those in the past The congressional delegates from the Pacific coast are making quite a push in the matter of the additional revenue cutters for the coast. If Squire's bill should go through, the possibilities are that one will be sta tioned at Puget sound and the other in the Columbia and adjacent watera They will no doubt be built on the coast. It is expected that the battleship Oregon will have her official trial some time in the latter part of April or early in May, and immediately after that she will be ready to be commissioned as a first-class battleship of the United States. All that remains to be done is to plaoe the armor plate of the after turret and mount the two 13 -inch breech-loading gons it is to shelter. The New York Herald's correspond ent in Rio de Janerio telegraphs that the British minister has received a dis patch from England ordering him to recognize the sovereignty of Brazil in the island of Trinidade. It is now probable that Brazil will permit Great Britan to establish a big coaling sta tion on the island for her South Atlan tic squadron, and that she will grant the'right to lay a cable on its shores. The biggest trust ever formed on the Pacific coast, and representing a capital of over 170,000,000, has been consum mated. It is the Central Lumber Com pany, of Caliornia. Its membership includes every lumber mill, all ship owners, and the wholesale and retail dealers of the Western coast of the United States and British Columbia. All charters of vessels and sales of lam ber must be effected through this com pany, which regulates freight and fixes the buying and selling price on all lumber, regulating the product of each mill and the amount of lumber each vessel shall carry each year. . The lum ber shipments to foreign countries are also placed under restriction. Four thousand six hundred and forty bids for f558,269,856 worth of bonds, is the tremendous total of the subscrip tions opened at the treasury department. in accordance - with the terms of the oall issued a month ago inviting pro posals for 1100,000,000 of United States 4 per cent bonds, to run for thirty years, from February 1, 1895. These figures do not inolude about $120,000, 000 of "crank bids" rejected as bogus. The immense offerings astounded the experts. The bids literally swamped the treasury department. Although no action has been taken yet, the bid of the Belmont syndicate, 110,6877, will probably be accepted for at least $50,000,000. The syndicate bid cov ered the entire amount. John Hays Hammond, charged with the leadership of the late uprising in Johannesburg, has been , liberated on bail. A windstorm in New York which blew 62 miles an hour, did muoh damage to property. Three people were killed. ." 1 The cases of Americans arrested at Johannesburg are now under prelimi nary examination, and a formal trial will take plaoe April 21. A bridge in the New England rail road over the Peqnonnook river, near Bristol, Conn. , collapsed, carrying with it twenty workmen; thirteen were drowned. Notwithstanding the success of the new loan, fears are entertained that a considerable share of the gold offered in payment will have been with drawn from the treasury for that pur pose. It is reported in Havana that Gen eral Gomez is going to establish a seat of government at Siguana, province of Santa Clara. He is announced to be on the move between Batabano, San Felipe, Salud and Mariet John Lee and James Bostic, rivals for the affections of a young woman of Adams, Ind. , attempted to settle the matter .with pistols, and both were badly wounded, while a bystander also received a stray bullet The Red Lake and White Earth In dian reservation, comprising'.' jibout 1,000,000 acres, part of the Chippewa reservation, in Minnesota, will ' be opened for settlement May 1, by. proc lamation to be issued shortly. Governor Rickards, of Montana, de manded of Secretary Olney that "he forthwith rid Montana of the Cree In diana ' The demand was made after the receipt of a letter from Secretary Olney referring to the Cree contro versy. The rebellion in Formosa ' is un checked. One army of rebels has taken up its position at Ton Wei, and another has assembled at Camphor Mount The Japanese troops are confident of defeating the rebels, but cannot attack them in their mountain retreats. The safecrackers who have been ter rorizing the people oi ua&iana, Ala meda and Berkley, for the past three months have been captured by the po lice. They are mere boys, aged 16 and 17. They confessed to thirty-seven burglaries of residences and stores. They said they had realized only $100 from the burglaries. Dr. Zelle, a practicing physician of Brandenburg, Germany, has contrived a photographic instrument which will, in minute details, reproduce the vari ous colors of objects, persons and land scapes brought within a specified range of the camera. What is most surpris ing in this experience is that in the photographs the oolors lose none of their original brilliant shades. Mrs. Jennie Baxter was murdered by her husband in East Portland. She returned home in a drunken condition and Baxter, becoming enraged, drew a razor across her throat, nearly sever ing the head from the body. He then attempted suicide in the same manner, but was stopped by an officer before he had completed his work. Their 4-year-old child was the only witness. Of the many changes introduced in quick succession in Corea, the reeont adoption of the Western method of hairdressing has attracted most atten tion. The king recently issued a proc lamation urging the sacrifice of the queues, and set the example by hav ing his own hair cut, the prince royal following suit Many lesser govern ment officers have resigned rather than sacrifice their locks. The reorganization committee of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Com pany announces that the plan of or ganization is now operative. Deposits of consolidated mortgage and collateral trust bonds will continue to be received up to February 29 without penalty. After that- date a payment of $50 per bond will be required. Deposits of stock will be received up to the same date, upon payment of $6 per share. In sporting circles there has been considerable attention aroused abroad by the cable dispatches announcing Yale's intention to send a crew across the Atlantic to compete at the Henly regatta. The news met with a kindly reception among the amateur oarsmen, and it is felt that the appearance of a sportsmanlike crew, such as. Yale is sure to sendt will do muoh to efface the bitterness resulting from the Dunraven incident and the unfortunate experi ence of the Cornell crew in England last year. EFFECT OF THE LOAN General Trade Improved by the Recent Bond Issue. THE TREASURY ON A SAFE BASIS Its Influence Felt in All Manufacturing ' and Trad ins; Industries The Week's Failures. New York, Feb. 10. R. G. Dun & Company's weekly review of trade says: The wondefrul success of the popular loan alters the face of events. The in fiuence of this event upon all manufao turing and trading industries cannot be lightly estimated. It puts the treasury on a safe basis for a time, whether con gress does anything useful or not It notifies foreign nations that the United States has power as well as purpose. It unlocks millions of gold which have been gathered in preparation, brings directly several millions in gold from Europe and stimulates the anxiety of foreign investors to obtain American securities. With suoh a revolution in business suddenly effected, the custom ary records of the past week and month are of less value than usual. But there have been signs of im provement in the iron manufacture, although the average of prices is nearly 1 per cent lower this .week, for orders have been booked for nearly 300,000 tons of rails this year, against total de liveries in 1895 of 1,000,000 tons, and orders for wire nails are stimulated by a decision to advance the price again on March 1. Speculation has raised copper to 10M cents, with sales of 6,000,000 pounds, and tin to 13 cents, and lead to $3.10, with large exports of Mexican. Speculation in wheat has again lift ed prices, although Western receipts have been 2,800,907 for the week, against 792,971 last year, and for the year thus far, 15,067,695 bushels, against 6,039,933 last year. Atlantic exports have been inoreasng, though not in the same proportion, amounting for the week, flour included as wheat, to 1,965,956 bushels, against 1,458,255 last year. The speculative market has been largely influenced by rumors of injury to the coming crop, and by for eign advices, and prices advanced 3c for cash and 2 5-8 for May. Failrues for the week have been 823 in the United States, against 281 last year, and ba in Canada against 58 last year. MUST APPLY TO THE POWERS The Sultan's Reply to Terrell's Request Regarding the Dardanelles. Constantinople, Feb. 10. Regard ing the request of. Minister Terrell, that the United States legation be al lowed a dispatch boat for its service, the Turkish cabinet contends as the passage of the straits of Dardanelles was regulated by an agreement be tween the six powers, the United States must apply to them for the necessary permission, as she is not a party to the treaty of Paris. On be half of the United States, it is under stood, the contention is made that the regulations do not apply to the United States, and she considers the straits of Dardanelles to be open water. It is stated in well-informed circles that the reason for the porte's hesitation to grant the request is the opposition of Russia. The sultan has replied to the auto graph letter from Queen Victoria, which it had been understood was a personal appeal to the better nature of the sultan against the condition of Asia Minor, sympathizing with her in the humane sentiments expressed and de claring the reports of the massacres were spread by evil-disposed persona The sultan adds that, contrary to allega tions, the Turks were first attacked while praying in a mosque.. The sul tan assured the queen that the meas ures taken had succeeed in restoring order, and .except in Zeitoun, quiet prevails everywhere, and negotiations going on with the insurgents at Zeitoun will undoubtedly lead to quiet COMPUTATION COMPLETED. Morgan Syndicate Will Secure ne"L Third of the Bond Issue. Washington, Feb. 10. Late thii afternoon the - treasury officials com pleted the computation of bids offered for the new bond issue, from which it appears that the amount of the bids above that of J. P. Morgan and his associates ($110.6877) was $66,788, 650,- and that the amount which will be awarded to the syndicate, there fore, will be $33,211,850, or approxi mately one-third of the whole issue. The number of successful bidders is 781. ' In arriving at this conclusion the officials have thrown out very few bids, which were obviously fictitious, and a larger, number which were ir regular in important particluars. Some of these bore no signature, and others did not contain the amount in tended to be bid for, while still others omitted the rate. These last, however, are not supposed to aggregate any con siderable sum. The fact that two thirds of the entire issue are found to have been at rates ranging above 110, 6877 is something of a surprise to all who heard the bids announced, but there is no question of the accuracy of the statements, for all of the bids have been gone over again and all errors made in the hurry of the day of open ing have been corrected. Zeitounlia Ready to Surrender. New York, Feb. 10. A dispatoh from Constantinople, says the Zeitounlia are willing to surrender their weapons of war, while retaining the hunting weapons they usually carry. They de maud a Christian governor. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condensed Record of the Doings of the Nation's Lawmakers Senate. Washington, Feb. 8. Today the senate passed a resolution calling for detailed statements oonoeraing the bond bills. Another resolution was agreed to, directing the secretary of state to send to the senate copies of all laws, regulations and decrees of Ger many, France, Belgium and Denmark, which discriminate against the iiitro duotion of American cattle. Quay brought up the resolution to recommit the tariff silver bilL He offered an amendment modifying his original res olution, that, instead of instructing the committee to report back separate bills, the measure be referred back "for further consideration." The resolu tion went over. Turpie then addressed the senate in favor of the election of United States senators by popular vote. Shortly before 2 o'clock the house bill prohibiting prizefights in the territories was brought over from the house, and was at once taken up. Hoar stated briefly the need of speedy action. The prizefighters, he said, had been driven from Texas to Mexico, and now to New Mexico, where they hoped to fight, be cause there was no restraining law, ine Din was read. No objection was made, and, within three minutes of the time it was presented in the senate, it was passed. Washington, Feb. 10. Upon the opening of the senate, the acting chap lain, the Rev. Hugh Johnson, in the course of an eloquent prayer, referred to the recent popular expression of the financial strenght and confidence of the nation. Frye, Rep. , was unanimously chosen president pro tern of the senate, and in brief remarks, promised to jus tify the confidence reposed in him by strict impartiality. The Republican senators in caucus nominated A. J, snaw, oi Spokane, wash. . for secre tary of the senate; H. L. Grant, of Notrh Carolina, for sergeant-at-arms, and Alonzo Stewart, of Iowa, to suc ceed the late Captain Bassett as assist ant doorkeeper. It was decided -to make no change in the offieo of chap lain. Bouse. Washington, Feb. 7. .The debate on the senate free-coinage substitute for the house bond bill was soheduled to commence today, and there was a good attendance in consequence. The session opened with an attempt to pass a bill to stop the pugilistic carnival " billed to take plaoe "near El Paso, Tex.," February 14. Catron asked unanimous consent for consideration of the bill. He explained that it was no torious that the preparations were now going on at El Paso, Tex., for a series of prizefights, which could not take place there, but were to occur in the territory of New Mexioo, which was within a few miles of El Paso. The governor of New Mexico had publicly stated, Carton said, that he knew of no law to prevent fights. In view of the shortness of the time remaining (one week) he warned the house that if ob jection were made, and the bill was sent to a committee, it could not pass both houses and be signed in time to prevent the "mill." Knox objected, and the bill went to committee. At 3 o'clock, the house went into committee of the whole, Payne in the chair, and took up consideration of the free-coinage substitute for the house bond bill. The afternoon and evening sessions were consumed in discussion of the bill, the house adjourning at 10:85. Wabington, Feb. 8. The senate free-coinage substitute ' for the house bond bill was debated five hours in the house this afternoon and five hours at the night session. The speeches so far have been tame and dry. There were two notable exceptions, however, to day. Johnson of North Dakota, and Johnson of California, both Republic ans, but on different sides of the sil ver question, afforded entertainment and perhaps instruction. The former was once a schoolteacher, and he brought the method of the schoolroom into the house. He placed some charts in front of the speaker's desk, illustrat ing graphically the rise and fall of prices in this country, the production of silver, and, pointer in hand, like a professor to his pupils, explained con verging and diverging lines. Johnson of California on the other hand, whose fierv, nrntfls-.s asrainsV' the. passage of - '!"",VbiU attracted general atten- won the applause of the silver an eloquent speech urged tfiSpl: inblicans not to ignore silver, and warned them of the dire conse quences which might follow if they did. His wit was so trenchant and his blade so keen that he was fre quently applauded by those who were not in sympathy with him. Washington, Feb. 10. Debate on the free-silver substitute for the bond bill proceeded steadily in the house to day. The house met at 10:80 A. M., with less than thirty members present Newlands awoke the empty echoes of the vast hall with a vigorous argument in favor of the free and independent coinage of silver. He asserted not a single debtor nation of the world main tained the gold standard except the United Statse, and we dids so as the price of the continued bond issues. Hartman and Eem followed in favor of concurrence, and Tucker in favor of non-concurrence. . To Exclude the Socialists. New York, Feb. 10. A Berlin dis patch says the government of Saxony has prepared a bill changing the elec tion system, and virtually disfranchis ing the working classes, the avowed object being to exclude socialists from the diet - - ., The relatives of the late Mra Anna R. Aspinwall of Pittsburg, who left $3,000,000 to the Episcopal hospi tal of Philadelphia, have withdrawn their opposition, te its prebate. ORCHARD AND FARM Budget ot General News for Progressive Farmers. THE HEAVY SEEDING OF OATS A Cheap Way to Begin Farming Rapid Decline in Breeding Mares Successful Tenant Farmer. Lodging of oats is due to the imper fect development of the tissues of the stem, and this is the result of an in sufficient exposure to sunlight in con sequence of the plants being too close together. The greatest exposure will doubtless be secured by moderately thin sowing. It is usually considered that the quantity of seed per acre should vary with the condition of the land and the time of sowing, a great quantity being sown when the land is in poor condition, and when the season is late. A greater quantity of seed is required on poor land, as the oats do not "stool out" so well, and in a late season it is necessary to increase the amount in order to hasten the har vest, as, where the land is thinly sown, the "stooling" process is liabile to be carried on for too long a time, making tne harvest late. In England, as high as eight bushels per acre of oats are often sown, in other year-tests that quantity of seed yielding an average of forty-three bushels per acre; six bushels, fifty-three; and four bushels seed yielding an average of forty-three bushels per acre; other things being equal. In America, four bushels per acre is usually considered heavy seed ing for oats, and one and one-half to two bushels is the amount usually sown. Cheap Way to Begin. Let one purchase hens of the com mon mongrel stock whioh can always be got quite cheaply and with these hens mate a purely-bred male of the variety desired to breed into. In the autumn carefully select the strongest and best-developed pullets, still re taining the former male bird. Select only those pullets whioh are robust and perfectly healthy in every respect, and stongly marked in form, color and general characteristics of the breed represented by their sire. Mate this second crop of pullets to an unrelated sire and the resulting generation will be equal to thoroughbred stock of that breed for all practical purposes in lay ing and marketing qualitiea A .Rapid Decline. The failure of owners to breed mares during the past two years is empha sized by a decline of 3 per cent in to tal numbers on the farm. This decline would be still greater but for the fail ure of the ordinary demand for low grade animals for city work, so that an urban census would disclose a de crease in numbers in addition to the farm decrease measured here. The most striking feature regarding horses, however, which is brought- out by this investigation is the decline in the aver age value per head,, amounting to $7.50, or nearly 18 per cent in a year. A Successful Tenant Farmer. I began on a run-down Vermont farm of 165 acres with thirteen cows, two yearlings, two ahoats, ten hens, and now have fifteen cows, three springers, six yearlings, fourteen hogs, eighty hens, and plenty of rough fod der to keep them. This year I sowed five acres of fodder oorn, planted eight acres of flint corn, began feeding green fodder August 10 and roots later on, and am now feeding cured fodder and about seven pounds of grain (composed of equal parts oob meal, wheat bran and gluten meal) three times a day to each cow. Am milking thirteen cows, six of them farrow, and carry the milk to the Marshall creamery. Last year the hens brought in about $60. . Next year I shall sow ten aores of Sanford corn, having raised my own seed, and am working to keep forty cows on this place. I am in favor of the silo but cannot afford one on a rented farm, so will run my fodder through a shredder. I think soiling is the only way to bring up a farm. 1 shall try sowing about four aores of oats to cut green and make hay of, and shall experiment with mnok, as we have a large amount of it and land adapted to its use. The great trouble with farmers here is, they are apt to sell their stock if short of fodder. Now I am in favor of buying grain sad keeping the stock, as more stock means more bay, and more hay means better farms. L. S. Glynn, Rutland County, Vt Motes. It is said that only 84 per cent of last week's Boston sales were of Ameri can wool. J. D. Woodruff of Wyoming, one of the largest wool-growers in the coun try, thinks the best cross for the range is the Shropshire ram on the large Cal ifornia Merino ewe. It is said that shipments of cattle and horses are being made from Aus tralia to South Africa, ffhe voyage from Viotoria to Cape Colony requires about three weeka Minister Buchanan of Argentine cables in reply to an inquiry about the wheat condition that it is unfavorable owing to excessive rains, and estimates the exportable surplus at 30,000,000 bushela The National Provisioner, of New York says that within the past month a new industry has been established between this country and Cuba. On . each outgoing steamer to the islands large quantities of live poultry have been shipped from that city, the war there having engaged the attention of the people so that they neglected att tenaiug t poultry-raising. :