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President Benjamin Hnrrisnn
Viee-Preai'dont Levi P. Morion
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POULTRY WEIGHTS. ,
American Poultry AsBoelatiou'. KtandHrd
of Weights for Each lireed.
The American Poultry association,
which is composed of breeders from
nearly every state in the Union, and
which in its annual conventions legis
lates for the interetfN of its members,
has not only fixed a scale of points
which describes all the breeds, but also
attaches to each bead a certain mini
mum weight. Thtr "weight may be ex
ceeded, but any bird not reaching the
weight fixed for the breed Is severely
cut off for the defect. It may be Inter
esting to come of oar readers to know
how much each cock, hen, cockerel and
pullet should weigh. A cock and hen
are birds over one year old, A cockerel
and pullet are birds under that age.
Bronze and Narragansett turkeys
should weigh as follows: Cock, S3
pounds; hen, 23 pounds; cockerel, 23
pounds; pullet, 14 pounds. Buff, slate
and black turkeys cock, 87 pounds;
cockerel, 18; hen, 18; pullet, 12. White
turkeys cock, 20 pounds; hen, 10; cock
erel, 10; pullet, 10.
Of geese there art seven varieties.
The Toulouse and iSmbden weigh as
follows: Gander, 25 pounds; goose, 23;
young gander, 20; young goose, 18. The
African gander weighs 20 pounds; the
goose, 18; young gander, 10, and j-oung
goose, 14. The brown and white China
and the Canada goose are about four
pounds less than the African, and the
Egyptian about four pounds less than
the Canada.
The largest ducks are the colored and
white Muscovys. The drake weighs 10
pounds, the duck 8, young drake 0 and
young duck 7. Next como the Rouen
and Aylesbury ducks, the dialte weigh
ing 9 pounds, the duck 8, the young
drake 8 and young duck 7. The Pekin
and Cayuga breeds are a pound less,
and the white crested ducks are a pound
less than the Pekins.
Among chickens the Light Brahma
comes first, the cock weighing 12 pounds;
hen, 9; cockerel, 10, and pullet, 8. All
the Cochins and the dark Brahmas
weigh alike, the cock being 11 pounds;
hen, 8); cockerel, 9, and pullet, 7. The
Plymouth Rock cqcfc weighs 9 pounds;
cockerel, 8; hen, iyit tand pullet, 0J.
Wyandotte cocks Kvtiih V pounds;
cockerel, 1; hens, 0;, and pullet,
5.. Minorca cocks weigh 8 pounds;
cockerel, 6; hens, 6 J.J, and pullets,
5?2. Java cocks weit:h 10 pounds;
cockerels, 8; hens, 8, and pullets, 0J.
Langshan cocks weigh 9 pounds;
cockerels, 8; hens, 7, and pullets, 0. A
colored Dorking cock weighsOJj pounds:
cockerel, 8; hen, 7), and pullet, 6. The
silver gray Dorking is about st pound
less, and the white Dorking about half
a pound less than the silver gray.
Leghorns, Hamburgs, Black Spanish
and the ornamental breeds have no
weight fixed. A Rod Cap cock weighs
1 pounds and a hen a pound less. The
French breeds weigh as follows: La
Fleche cock, 8 pounds; Crevecceur
cock, 8 pounds; Houdan cock, 7 pounds,
the hens weighing about a pound less.
Bantams are the opposite in weights,
the smaller the bird the more valuable.
There are also disqualifying weights,
which are much lower for all the breeds,
and whigji are intended to prevent very
small specimens from being exhibited
at the shows at any time. New Hamp
shire Mirror.
Fowls in and Thieves Out
This little building was made strong
and fitted to keep fowls in and thieves
or marauders out. It is 12 feet long, 0
feet wide, 7 feet high on the front and
S) on the rear. It has two sashes swung
on the inside and five iron rods sunk two
inches in oak and fastened on the out-
POULTRY UOLSE.
side of the windows with wire 8-inch
screws. The roof is of planed boards,
with a groove worked on both sides of
the joint and a strip nailed on the top of
the joint, also grooved, which makes it
perfectly dry.
The door is in the front between the
windows. The outlets for the chickens
are in the ends and have a slide door to
close them up.' I have my henhouse
divided into two parts by a lath parti
tion. The door works from right to left,
so that when 1 go into one part the door
closes up the other half. The strips over
the joints on the outside are two inches
wide and beveled off on the edges, and
fit into the piece at the top of the coop
and the bottom, forming panels. II. C.
Schenck in Poultry World.
Good HorKes.
We have had much to say about the
value of good coach horses, but we have
never said all that the facts would justi
fy. There are today hundreds of people
in any of our large cities searching for
safe and stylish carriage horses. Such
animals are as hard to get. for anything
like a fair price, as good Shetland ponies.
In fact these two classes of horses just
now seem worth more per pound than
any others. The cost of raising a pound
of horse is not much more than that
of raising a pound of steer, and there is
little difference between the cost of a
pound of car horse and a pound of car
riage horse. One may sell at fourteen
cents a pound and the other at thirty
five cents. A difference of twenty-one
cents a ponnd is worth considering.
We understand that some parties are
trying to sell grade horses with more
or less Percheron blood in thern for full
blood French coachers. Don't patronize
neb a house if you can help it. The
mares found in any ordinary neighbor
hood are of all "sorts and eolors." To
Lave any approach to uniformity in
colta the stallion must be as well bred
as possible. Rural New Yorker.
HINTS FOR SHEEP BREEDERS.
Food and Treatment That Will Urlii); in
the Heaviest lletnriia.
Old, experienced flockmasters are usu
ally guided by certain golden maxims,
one being that variety in the feeding of
i sheep is indispensably necessary. .Many
of our most successful sheep raisers are
those who adopt the largest series of
fodder crops, not because seasons cause
one kind to answer when another fails,
but owing to sheep having their likes
and dislikes no less than human beings.
Instead of depending wholly on hay.
turnip or silage, as some do. the saga
cious and experienced ilocUmnsters add
to that cabbage, kohl-rabi, thousand
headed kale, rape, vetches or whatever
is suited to the climate and location.
There are many sheep growing districts
in America where one and all of these
fodder plants can be grown to the
greatest advantage, but farmers are
slow in leaving the old ruts. Rape can
be cultivated ajjuost anywhere, and I
wonder flockniusters can resist the
temptation of giving it a trial.
Hurry up, shepherds, and keep pace
with the times, and provido for those
charming Downs that you are iinporti.i;:
and lavishing so much money on. Your
Btubbles will soon be bare, so in with
the plows and on with the rape seed,
a-id you will reap a golden harvest
through your sheep that you never
dreamed of. The sheep mid hogs I kept
per acre on rape in Oregon seem some
times to me incredible. What wool the
sheep produced, and what lambs were
to be found in that forest of foliage!
Close folding is now very commonly
practiced among the leading tlockmas
ters in Britain. The advant ages of close
folding when judiciously practiced arc
very great. It is most commonly prac
ticed in those districts where Down
sheep are kept, and where the nrable
land is adapted to the growth of fodder
or catch crops. I mean by catch crops,
rape seed, mustard, winter vetches,
winter barley, rye, etc. Grow these in
stead of fallowing or allowing the
ground to lie idle. Immediately after
the crop is removed plow your hind anil
sow one or all of these seeds and you
will not only have abundant feed for all
varieties of stock as well as for sheep,
but you will at the same time be greatly
enriching your land. The system is ex
tensively followed out in England; why
not in America?
Change of feed is one of tha great
secrets of successful sheep fanning.
When in Britain last fall 1 observed that
among the celebrated Firoodcrs sheep
were being constantly, almost daily, re
moved from pasture to pasture, always
getting fresh keep and never allowed to
remain in one iuclosure till they had to
be removed, which is the worst of all
management. Others, again, were al
lowed only as much space on grass or
rape, etc., as they could eat oil clean,
being given a freeh patch daily, simply
by advancing the hurdles or wire net
ting. In this manner the land behind
them is manured and nothing wasted.
Wherever this pursuit is carried out at
least ono change is made in tlie sheep
pasturage every day by taking them
from their ordinary pastures to rape or
vetches, then again returning tin in to
the permanent pasture for the night.
We all know that careful shepherd
ing, plenty of change, liberal allowance
of concentrated foods and a good breed
to work upon are the chief points re
quired in order to secure success. I am
a great advocate for feeding young
sheep on concentrated foods. When
oilcakes with a good percentage of oil
are used in conjunction with some kind
of meal there is room both for profit in
the animal's feed and also the improve
ment of the land upon which the cake
and corn is consumed. So important is
this subject of improvement of land by
means of Bheep feeding that it occupies
a very prominent place in sheep man
agement. You must feed your sheep from the
day the lambs can crunch cake and corn,
and never forget "it is what goes in at
the mouth that makes them." The old
theory that prime mutton can only be
had from 3 and 4-year-old wethers has
been exploded. Indeed 2-year-old weth
ers are now becoming rare. Nothing is
more certain than that the age at which
sheepean be fattened is being constantly
lessened. It is thoroughly ascertained
that a sheep from its birth till 1 year
old makes as much flesh as one double
that age. provided the sheep lie fed
carefully, plentifully and methodically,
and that there shall bo no short com
mons in their rations.
Remember the ewe as well as the
lamb requires to have abundant feed
and fresh pasture all through the nurs
ing season. The maternal strains are
very heavy, especially where the ewe is
nursing doubles. The drain of a healthy
and rapidly growing lamb upon the ewe
is so great that in many cases it entirely
checkB the growth of the wool. Wil
liam Watson in Breeder's Uazette.
Liv. Htnck Points.
Common horses will become mote
and more a drug on the murket as fast
as the cities begin to use electricity and
cables instead of horse traction for
street cars. This they are doing rapidly
Within a few months 7,000 borsi s will
be for sale from the street car stables of
New York city alone.
Mr. Beale. American minister to Per
sia, haa sent to the agricultural depart
ment at Washington sixteen valuable
Astrakhan sheep. It will bo worth
while to see how they thrive in this
country. Perhaps we may at length
beat the world iu the production of tine
wool.
The poultry and dairy shows that
have been held in connection with the
fat stock and horse shows ut Chicago
will be omitted this year. It is aptly.
There ought to be a dairy show, and a
great one, in every state In the Union
each year.
Bo sure and have green stuff tor Ihe
poultry all the summer through, if yon
have them yarded. Hither rye. oats or
grass will make a good Iced. mid caret il
poulterers will plant one or all of the e
in plenty in good season to tome iu ut
the right time.
PAirur
A farmer who thinks that in this coun
try a permanent pasture cannot be sns
tained except in certain favored locali
ties, expresses himself as foil ..in The
Farm and Fireside:
There are natural pasture lands where
the grass never runs out, and in such
places fields may be set apart and
used for pasturing indefinitely. But
most of us cannot depend upon the nil
ti itious grasses retaining tlie mastery in
the fight against those plants we call
weeds, and so wo must adapt our sys
tem of fanning to bring the pasture
into the crop rotation"; either this or to
seed down aliehl for pasture and then
plow and reseed whim it fails to bo
proiitablo for that purpose.
The number of grasses that we can
depend upon for pasture are few, but
two or three of them are very gobd.
namely, Kentucky blue grass, redtop
and orchard grass. These three may lie
sown and timothy and red clover at the
same time, the two latter disappearing
in a few years. The ground should lie
heavily seeded, so as to give a good
stand ut once, and if it be seeded early
in the fall it can be pastured the nest
spring, but if seeded in the spring it
could not be used for heavy stock until
late in the seasou. When pastures are
made from meadows the kinds of 'seed
we can sow will be reduced in number.
beeauso the kinds named do not ripen
together, and while that is all right for
a pasture it is all wrong lor a meadow.
But in seeding down for a meadow to be
used eventually for a pasture, we can
add Kentucky blue grass and redtop to
the generally sown timothy and red
clover; these two grasses will nAt make
much :how in the meadow for two
years, and so will not interfere with the
quality of the hay if it is to be sold, and
after the meadow has been cut the sec
ond J-ear it should then be piustured, and
will answer for that purpase for a
longer or shorter time, aeeordins to the
fertility of the soil and the climate in
which it is located.
There is this to bo said in favor of
keeping a field long in pasture, that the
fencing bills are reduced as compared
with those farms where the pasture field
is changed every few yeurs, but a good
wire fence can be taken down and lie
put up again without much cost of time
ami labor. In favor of the meadow sys
tem of supplying pasture, it may besaid
that fewer acres will be required than
where a permanent pasture is had. for
the -gi"s wrrr'grow ir(Hlter"ulif nuke
l'niicli more feed to the acre: grass in old
pastures is much liner and shorter than
that in new meadows, the soil becoming
mure compact and the grass not so thrifty
U is claimed that this line grass is more
nutritions than that of ranker growth in
the meadow, but I have never noticed
that thu cows did any better, if so well,
on old seeded fields as on new,
Utilizing Corncobs.
S. J. II. Gregory, the well known
Massachusetts seednian. in a letter to
Country Gentleman, writes that he ntil
izes his corncobs in three ways-by
grinding with the grain, by using as ab
sorbers of urine and by kindling lires.
The experiment stations - have shown
that cobineal, when fed to cattle, is
fully as valuable, measure for measure,
as clear meal, owing, it is presumed, to
the fact that ihe cob so separates the
parli'.dos of grain Unit the digestive
secretions of the animal can more thor
oughly act on Ihem. Mr. Gregory says:
To use cobs as an absorbent 1 drop
them into an excavation which receives
the liquid from thu barnyard. Here
they roi in a few muuths and are shov
eled out and used us manure. 1 also
kindle my coal fires with them, liy
dropping in a few chips or pajr and then
filling up tlie stove with cobs, and when
the:," aio well on fire uildiug a few more,
and on these immediately pouring the
hod of coal. 1 have no trouble in kin
dling thu hardest of hard coal. 1 use
more or less also iu my open fireplace,
where they make a heat more intense
than any hard wood lire. I have on hand
some cords of cobs, left from the shell
ing of my seed sweet corn; these I pro
pose to have ground up with the com
mon yellow corn of the market, and so
practically change ft into meal value,
bulk for bulk. Corncobs are enormous
ly rich in potash, their usbes containing
over v';i per cent., but it takes a vast pile
of cobs to mako a very small pile of
ashes.
Cultural Notes for tlie Gurilen.
As soon as the early crops onions,
radishes, lettuce, etc. are harvested,
clear the soil and prepare it for second
crops. Keep the celery plants growing
by frequent cultivation, and bo sure and
thin tho plants aa needed. On the thin
ning of the plants depends much of the
future successof thiscrop. Celery plants
are by no means the only ones that re
quire thinning. Thin carrots, beeto,
onions from seed, parsnips und salHlfy.
Slir the surface of the soil as frequent
ly as possiblo among all the garder.
crops. This cultivation keeps down the
weeds and conserves tho moisture. Bf
ready with your spraying apparatus foi
the potato beetles anil slugs. Don't for
get to plant some cucumbers, ct'peciall)
for pickles, and also set some celer
plants for an early crop.
Thorough cultivation and frequent
hoeing will make the young bean plants
grow vigorously. Remember that tho
limas call for high cultivation.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
ABSOLUTELY PURE
NEW.-iPAPER OPINION.
Pendleton Wonld R joloe.
Pendleton Tribnne: If the surveyors
now in the mouutaitiB of the John day
are in reality making a preliminary sur
vey for the extension of the Washington
& Colnmhia river railway as the Hunt
lystem will hereafter be known through
Camas prairie. Grant county and South,
ern Oregon to California, Pendleton can
well aft rd to flii g her bat high in the
air. Such a railway connectiou would
mean much for this city, to say nothing
of the wealth of minerals, timber, range
nid farm lands in Greenhorn, John Day
and Southern Oregon it would plaoe
within easy aooess of tbe San Franoiseo
market. The rapid development of the
country sonlh of ue, under the impetus
of railway conueetioD with the outer
world, would be something marvelous.
It is to be hoped, uot fomurselves alone,
but for our people in Camas, and our
oeople farther aontn, na well, that thig
possibility may speedily materinlizn,
when we cau all hold a joint jubilee
Correct.
Yamhill Ledger: A mun who gets
mad at what newspapers nsy about him
should return thank's three times daily
for what they kao about him but, dou't
! tell.
! Orient the Cine.
Newberg Graphic : Whiskey cuts more
of a liure than principle in some places
up iu Washington. A wonld-bu-consta-ble
was burned iu eflL'y beoaiiso he
wouldn't set up the drinks, while bis op
ponent, with morn whiskey but probably
less manhood, received round after round
if hearty cheers.
The Aiubitma Klrotinn.
Baltimore Americiu: As the details
f the Cleveland victory' in Alubama lu
irease, the reason for deinooratic rej do
ing becomes more apparent. The publio
was not "in it," as the saying ijoes, wh. a
'he election occurred, and could n-it un
derstand why the immense reduction ni
the deuincratio majority from uinety-sev-en
tbousiiod to a pitiful ten thousand
should cause such delirious happiness
iu the ..(Hevland fold, 'out- ii ttr -error -videht
that Jones did not get any m.
iority at all, and is indebted for his
'iiccess to the skillful manipulation
if Ihe ballols afttr they were polled,
"he boxes were overhauled in the
jouulies where Ivdb rati ahead of his
rival, and a sufficient number thrown
j it to count bis rival in. This niuct have,
oer-u ihe cause of Ihe extravagant glori
loaliou in the Cleveland organs, as there
is nothing else to neonnnt for it.
Personal lahcrty.
Boston Herald: There are certain
things that the labor organizations must
earn; the first is that they cannot buo
eed iu the absence of the support of
public opinion. With this support they
nay not always succeed, but without it
victory is utterly impossible. The next
:act to be borua in mind is that pub i i
opinion in the United States will never
'iiuntenaune the evasion of persona! lib
rty. With us each individual who has
lot by his orimes against socii-ty brought
ibuul Iub imprisonment is a freeman, and
is snob is not only entitled to the pro
tection of the law, but also has the right,
) long lis he breaks no legal statute or
irditiimoe, to employ bis time and ener
gy in such manner and under such eou-
Itious as he may see lit. Of the 18,0(10,.
.)()() or 20,01)0,000 of workers iu the United
Sales, probably nt .000,001) are dcfl
nitely alliliated with labor ornauizntion,
and even if iiility-nino out ot a hundred
f our citizens were so nlliliated, th,.y
vould bavw no riiilit to lawlessly impose
i heir will upou the hundredth man.
Kin. II we keep tliein?
Ainerioiin Kcoiioinisi : Suid a large
manufacturer of tbreads, who employs
Hundreds of hands, to a representative
ot the Economist recent!) : "We have
besides our plant bore, another large -establishment
abroad. If the duty on
our if nods is abolished, we shall say to
our men Hist, although our buildings
onl machinery hole cost nearly double
what was pal I for the erection and equip
ment of our plant abroad, through the
higher wages paid in this omntry, and,
therefore, wages of operatives in this
Country should be h-sii than we pay
abroad iu order to enable us to make as
good a profit on our investment, yet we
Htuill waive that point mi l ive them the
same rates as we pay to our foreign
I breadmaliers. If they refuse to submit
to the reduction wo shall simply transfer
all onr business to the other sidn, mid
make our entire product there. Wehsve
less at stake than our employes in this
I'linl! issue."
Miss M'iy ll iiley left yesterday morn
Inv for Hi,od River for a short v-ieation
mill her sister, Mrs. K. Ii . Bishop, who
is spending the h-ated season Ihere.
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