“.— _—-.\._~ . -__._.—_—.~a__~_¢- ~_—_ HINTS TO SHEARERS. ‘ How to Perform the ’Work Without Injuring or Everlastingly, Frightening the Sheep. I will offer the following suggestion for the guidance of amateur shearers: ‘(Professionals may smile, but this is not intended for them), writes W. B. fVestal in an exchange. First you want a. smooth table about four feet wide and three feet high. The planks must be planed so that the wool will not cling to them. Lay the sheep up with .belly to the front strap, head down with bell collar, then with “jocky stick" about four and a half feet long, with soft lraee leather strings at each end; tie the hind feet to one end and the lower front to the other; commence shearing at the fore arm; cut a line from the front flank to the rear flank and down the ham. Keep the fleece roll- ing back until you are past the line of the backbone; by pulling the front pleg backward you will have smooth sailing over the shoulder and half way 'up the neck. Shear the belly to a point opposite the place of beginning. This can be done by raising the stick and ‘gently leaning against it to keep the .feet up. Now release the head and shear downward, dividing. the fleece at the throat so the fleece when off will be all in one piece like a pelt. By lean- ing against the table, with the head under your left arm, you will shear the neck, breast and most of the shoulder before turning over. To turn pull well forward, tuck fleece close to back, then steady the head with left hand and with .the right grasp the stick midway and ‘gently raise the feet and roll him over fthe fleece (a good soft bed), strap down :head, turn the fleece back and you will have clear sailing to the finish, with fleece unbroken, sheep unhurt fiflm struggling and the boy having a good time fishing at the brook. And now let me say a word to you about that boy of yours. If you wish him to be a good shepherd, if you wish him to love sheep, and love the farm, then don’t compel ‘him to “hold sheep” while you sjnear them. I have some “fond recollections" 'of holding sheep some 40 years since which are still fresh and green. A MOVABLE PIGPEN. It In Built Like a Sled and Is Easily; Hauled from One Field to Another. The accompanying illustration needs but little explanation. When pigs are turned out to pasture in the spring or fall, they should have some protection from bad weather. A pen like this is easily made and is very inexpensive. A bundle of straw placed inside will keep them comfortable, and they amply ‘l— ' . A DESIRABLE PIGPEN. repay the care required to keep them warm and dry. Being built like a sled, it is easily taken from place to place by hitching a horse to the iron round in front, with a chain. A similar ar- rangement could be used for chickens if they are kept in a number of yards. It can be made as large and as long as desired, and all in all is very conven— lent for such use—Orange Judd Farmer. NOTES FOR SHEPHERDS. Gentleness always rules, and will ac- complish more than force with these seemingly obstinate creatures. A few dollars more on the price of the buck will generally mean many dollars more in the value of the lamb crop. ' The quality and quantity of wool de-- pends on the‘condition of the sheep, the well fed sheep producing the best and the heaviest fleece. Don’t begin breeding too young. Let the ewes have their first lambs when about two years old. Earlier mother- hood brings a heavy tax on the ewe before its own- development has been attained. Young rams, now out of condition, should be well fed. If well fed now it will be a great help for them when next season arrives. The rams have much 'used vigor to make up, and it cannot be done ina day. Lambs from immature ewes will have less vigor and strength of constitution than those from ewes that are mature. and though they will live they will never, under the same conditions, be- come as good as the latter. If a ewe will not own her lamb put her in a pen alone with her lamb. If this does not prove sufficient, she must be put in a rack or crate arranged so that the ewe must stand in one posi- tion, and so that the lamb can reach the udder and draw his flll.——-Western Plowman. Bran with Cornmeal. Where cut feed is fed to horses, a mixture of corn and oats ground to- gether makes the best meal to put on the cut and moistened hay. If the oats are not to be had, grind the corn and mix the meal with twice its bulk of wheat bran. Corn meal alone is too heavy a feed to put on cut boy, but mixed with bran and the whole chewed, as cut feed is sure to be, the saliva from the horse’s mouth will be mixed with it and enable it to digest without ferment- ing in the stomach. When we fed corn and oatmeal on cut hay to horses, we usually put in some bran also. and think the horse's liked it better, as the com- bination of the three feeds gave the whole a very appetizing flavor. especial— l‘y as hot- water was used to moisten the , hay—American Cultivator. ”an,“ ACTING COMMANDER. Capt. Johnson, of Cincinnati, ‘Wlll Be a the Head of the Grand Army ., Until September. The executive committee of the na- tional council of administration of the Grand Arl‘ny of the Republic has failed to elect a successor to the late James A. Sexton, command’er-in-chief of the grand army. There was’a deadlock on the names of Col. W. C. Johnson, of Cincinnati, and Gen. John C. Black, of Illinois. Col. Johnson will continue to act as acting‘commander-imchief until ' the encampment in September, when a commander will‘ be chosen. _ William Christie Johnson entered the army at the aged 19 by enlisting as a :4?“ If (3,} l , I , zflwl‘l QM COL. W. C. JOHNSON. (Acting Commander in Chief of the Grand . ' Army.) private in the Eighty-ninth Ohio vol- unteer infantry, the regiment in which Senator J. B. Foraker served. Mr. Johnson was born in Clermont county, 0., March 19, 1843. He served as a private with his regiment in Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee, and in 1864 took part with itin the march from Atlanta to the sea. and from Savannah back toward Washington as far as Goldsboro, N. C., where in March, 1865, he was ordered to report to Lieut. Col. Putnam, commanding the Forty-sec- ond regiment, United States colored troops, for assignment as second lieu- tenant. His commission as such was out, January 31, 1866. Mr. Johnson has , long been identified with G. A. R. work andhasbeen commander of his post, be- sides holding stafi positions in the state department. During the national en- campment held in Cincinnati last year Capt. Johnson, as he is generally styled, earned the thanks of thousands of comrades by his intelligent thought- : fulness in providing for the comfort of visitors. He served as Chairman of the committee on public comforts. At that encampment he was unanimousely elected vice commander in chief. in business he is a hardware merchant. He holds a. membership in the com- 1 IMMENSE ELEVATOR ‘lo Be Erected at West Superior at 3 Cost Estimated at Two Mll- lion Dollar-I. . A good way to get an idea of the size of the enormous grain elevator, con- tracts for-which Were let at West Su- . perior, is to compare it with the Ma: Isonic temple at Chicago. The dimen- sions of the two buildings are as fol- lows: ' Masonic - New ’ Temple. elevator. Hei ht. ...... ...............-302 feet 230 feet Widgth ................ .- ...... 170 feet. 370 feet Depth ......... ~. ............. 113 feet 128 feet thile the temple is 72 feet higher, the elevator is more. than twice as wide an” o 1-" can. J‘s .— uuuro .oo- .._..-.- .-.-.- ....-....'.5-_ \ . IMMEINSE STRUCTURE. (Chicago Masonic Temple Dwarfed by 8 Grain Elevator.) and is also somewhat deeper. If it was cut down to the same ground dimen- sions as the Masonic temple and raised corresponding in. height it would tower up 175 feet further into the air. Nor does even this comparison do the new structure justice, for about the central elevator, the dimensions of which are here given, are to be grouped connecting 30 steel storage tanks, each of which will be 50 feet in diameter and .65 feet in height. Each of them will have a storagecapacity of over 1,000,000 bushels of wheat. The total capacity of the elevator will be 6,500,000 bushels, which is 2,500,000 greater than that of the largest elevator now in existence. The central structure will be a clear- , - ing elevator, with a capacity pf 3,000,000 dated May 10, 1865, and he served in ‘ that capacity until he was mustered 3 mandery .of the state of Ohio military § order of the Loyal League of the United States. AN EXPENSIVE BLUNDER. Kansas City Railroad Away :1 Car Load of “Sand” Full of Gold Ore. Several months ago a Kansas City (Mo) company bought a car load of crushed ore in Mexico. Advices were duly received that the ore had‘ been shipped—20 tons of it. The smelting company politely asked the local agent of the railroad company when the ore would arrive. The local agent said he had never heard of it. The smelting bushels, and will be the firét cleaning elevator built of Steel, over 2,000,000 pounds being used in its construction. The total cost is estimated at $2,000,- ,000, the contract for the foundation, just let, amounting to $85,000. It is an enterprise .9f the Great Northern rail- road‘and its president, James J. Hill. Mr. Hill, says the Chicago Tribune, would only have to build 65 elevators of the same size to handle, at the same time, the total grain crop of the United States. - ’ JUDGE BARTLETT TRIPP. Representative of the United States on the New Tripartite Snnioan , Conunission. The president has selected Bartlett Tripp, of South Dakota, formerly min- - ister to Austria, as the United States § representative on the Man Threw Samoan joint commission. Mr. Tripp is a leading law— ? yer of Yankton, S. D. He was one of the company then appealed to the general agent of the road. The general agent gave it up. Along the line the question was passed until it reached an official A COSTLY MISTAKE. (Gold Ore Dumped to Fill Up a Railroad Right of Way.) ‘who started out'a tracer for the car load of ore. A tracer is a document on which every agent, train conductor and every other person who has had any- thing to do with the shipment must say whence he took it and where he laid it down. From the mine in Mexico the car of ore was traced from junction point to junction point until it was well within the railroad company’s local yards at Kansas City, and thence to a side track by the roundhouse and into the possession of the master me- chanic. . ' A car load oi crushed gold ore looks like a lot of course yellow sand, and this particular car load has been knocked about and disrespected as a car of com- mon sand should be. When the officials were notified that the tracer had chased the car into the master mechanic’s track they Sent him a note asking him about the disposition of the car, giving its number. The master mechanic turned the note over and indorsed it on the back: “The car contained'a bad quality of sand. Some of it I used in the sand boxes of the engines. but it was not serviceable, so I had it scattered along the right of way.” The railroad com- pany paid the smelting company $180 I ton for the “bad sand." \ "" - " ’ - um. " pioneer settlers of the territory of Da— kota, and has been intimately associ- ated with its progress and of the states, which succeeded it. His chief inter; ests now, however, lie with the state of South Dakota. During Mr. Cleve: land’s first term he appointed Mr. Tripp chief justice of the supreme court of Dakota. Mr. Tripp was conspicuous as a demo- crat imthe movement for the division of the territory when statehood was to be JUDGE BARTLETT TRIPP. (American Representative on the Samoan . Commission.) , given to it, and his earnest support of the movement took away its partisan character and made the consummation of the plan possible. When Mr. Cleve- land was elected to a second term Mr. Tripp‘s name was prominently men- tioned when the cabinet was being made up, but later he was sent as min- ister to Austria-Hungary, a position he filled with honor. Mr. Tripp lately attracted the atten- tion of the public by his open letter to the leaders of the democratic party in ‘his state renouncing silver and declar- ing himself a firm believer in the gold standard. ‘ No Longer Fashionable. Chrysanthemums fire going out of fashion in England. One society for raising the flowers, .after having had ten prosperous years, has bEeu obliged to wind up its affairs owing to the bad business ofthe last two years. Peruvian Quicksilve‘r Mine. There is a quicksilver mine in Peru 170 fathoms .in circumference and 480 feet deep. In.this profound abyss are streets, squares and a chapel, where re- ligious worship is held. : I E E E E v- Emu E E EEE TEE ;5 ' ; COLOR m Pout'rRY. it Requires But a. Few Years to Enn' tirely Change the Colors of Any Particular Breed. The Madison square poultry show held frecently in New York was a most interesting exhibition of the different breeds, and the New York Post, dis» cussing the exhibition, has this to say as to the production of the colors to which most fanciers attach so much importance: One interesting feature" of the poultry show which closed red, cently in the Madison square garden was the exquisite coloring of the birds. The show of buff and white Plymouth Rocks was a particularly good one, and when it is considered that but a short time ago there were only one or two on exhibition, the increase to 60 this year is remarkable. This is due ” to fashion more than anything else, as the few shown were so much liked that the breeders went to work at once to develop those colors. That it can be’ done is evident from the number shown this year. They are all high‘ class birds, and are the culling from many more than 'were entered. The method of producing the colors wanted is simple. The cock is the one which is most important, and when one of the right color is secured-no matter what his breed is so lOng as~it is good ——he is bred to pullets as near as pos- sible to the right color. In the case of the Plymouth Rocks, the Cochin cock was used to develop the buflf from the old barred variety, and the Wy- andotte to get the white from the buff. The first batch of eggs from the breed: ing was hatched, and those pullets which come nearest to the buff were allowed to grow up; they were bred again to the Cochin, and their eggs hatched again, the process being er- peated until pullets and cocks of the right color were obtained. Then to get the white Plymouth Rocks the same methods were used with a Wy- andotte cock. No matter how close the inbreeding .is, the quality of the birds or the eggs is not affected. With other breeds, the" colors wanted are produced in the same way, and it re- quires but a few years to entirely change the colors of any breed. FANCY EGG TRADE. ' Poultrymen Should Aim to Sell Di- rectly to Consumers Able to Pay Fair Prices. Do not sell to local store-keepers if you can do better at a distance. If pos- sible, secure customers among clubs, fashionable hotels, and high-class pri- vate trade. Make egg production a. study. Man- age so as to have an abundance of eggs when prices are at their best. In re- gard to the color of the shell, it pays to cater to the wishes of your trade. The Leghorns, Spanish and Minorcas are all producers of white eggs. Brahmas. Langshans, Cochins and Wyandotts lay brown eggs. The flavor of eggs' is af- fected by the food. To produce fine fla— SIELLING EGGJS IN BASKETS. vored eggs, the hens should be fed‘on clean food. The feed trough, drinking vessels and the litter in which the grain is scattered should be clean. Keep your hens out of the barnyard and hog lots. The unpleasant odor and flavor of some eggs are caused more by the putrid meat and decaying vegetables that the hens have eaten than by age. Egg cases are cheap, and you should have your own. Keep them clean, and when the fillers become soiled replace them with clean ones. Gather the eggs every evening and put them in the cases as you collect them; this plan will save- handling them again. A strictly fresh egg has an attractive “bloom” that dis- appears with age and is rubbed off by handling. Keep all the small eggs and those that are soiled for home use. —\I. B. Keech, in Farm and Home. Dinner Service'fiorfiuleigh. WILMINGTON, N. 0., May 6.—Two elaborate receptions we're tendered to Captain Coghlan and Mrs. Coghlan and the officers of the cruiser Raleigh in this city last night. The first was at the res- idence of Mrs. James Sprunt at 6:30 o'clock, when a handsome silver dinner, service was presented to the cruiser. One of the pieces bears the folldwing inscription: “Presented by a few friends in W'ilmington, N. 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