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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
When the wheat is thrashed, the screen¬ 
ings are brought to the house. We have 
always had better results from boiling the 
wheat, corn and other grain, for if a fowl 
gets its crop packed with dry grain, and 
fermentation begins, cholera or some other 
disease is apt to ensue. The whole grains 
of sound wheat boiled until they crack 
open, form the most nutritious and whole¬ 
some of all foods. Shelled oats are of course 
fed raw, but only in small quantities. 
A farmer’s daughter. 
Warm Food and Drinks.— Warm food 
for the hens on cold days invigorates them, 
and will greatly tend to induce laying. 
Milk is excellent for laying hens, but cold 
milk will not be as readily relished as fresh 
and warm. To make an excellent mess for 
hens, on a cold morning, put a pan of milk 
on the stove, and while it is warming add 
corn meal until the mess becomes thick, 
when it should be fed warm. If desired, a 
little ground oats and bran may also be 
added, or mashed potatoes may be warmed 
in the milk at the same time. It will not 
be out of place to add a little salt also, as 
it may be essential. If milk is scarce add 
half water. At all events let the hens have 
a warm mess early in the morning, even if 
nothing but water is used with the ground 
grain, as it will strengthen and invigorate 
them.—Mirror and Farmer. 
We could not say it better ourselves. 
An English poultry writer said that In 
comparing the“Rocks” with LlghtBrahmas 
he found that the former would come to 
laying in six months, and the latter at 
eight months, and that the former 
would lay eggs enough to pay the cost of 
their raising before the latter began to lay 
at all. As a rule, however, the Brahmas 
will lay at a time when eggs are worth 
more than their weight in silver. 
Some Sick Hens.— I have lost two fine 
Light Brahma hens, and although I had 
kept hens for 30 years, nothing ever oc¬ 
curred like this. They became sick, one 
after the other, and had been sick at least 
two mouths before they died. Their heads 
were red and they looked healthy, but their 
discharges were brown and soft, and they 
dwindled away like a consumptive person 
till they died. A third has been sick for 
about seven weeks. I feed good, clean 
wheat in the morning, and sometimes some 
soft food and good corn at night. They 
have had free access to fresh water, broken 
bones and oyster shells and run at large. 
They eat well for some time, but take less 
every day, I have put sometimes a little 
copperas and sometimes a little carbolic 
acid in their water without any apparent 
effect. What has been the trouble? 
JACOB STEIGLEDER. 
Ans.—I t is rather difficult to give the 
nature of the disease without an examina¬ 
tion, but the probability is that roup has 
been the disease. Some families of fowls 
are subject to it, the same as some families 
of human beings are subject to consump¬ 
tion, and, in fact, as there are quite a large 
number of diseases under the name of 
roup, the hens may really have had con¬ 
sumption. Unless very valuable, it is 
cheaper to destroy them and procure others; 
but a remedy may be tried. Improve the 
digestion and physical condition by adding 
five drops of tincture of nux vomica to 
each quart of drinking water, allowing no 
other drinking water. It may be that as 
they are Brahmas they are fat and over¬ 
fed, in which case reduce the grain food. 
Give the nux vomica at all events. The 
use of copperas and carbolic acid in the 
drinking water was injurious, and may 
have aggravated the difficulty. 
AN EDUCATED HEN. 
The New York Herald tells a story of a 
remarkable Plymouth Rock hen owned by 
a mill engineer at Ansonia, Connecticut. 
The hen is named “Toby,” and will 
“ shake hands,” swing on a hoop, balance 
a stick on her beak and “ kiss ” her owner 
—when she feels like doing so. She has 
been trained from the time she was a little 
chicken—her owner being a man who loves 
to train animals of all sorts. “ Toby ” is 
18 months old and she has been in the mill 
ever since she was three days of age. She 
knows all the men who work in the mill 
and, true to her sex, has her likes and dis¬ 
likes. She shows her dislike for certain 
people by pecking at them or flying in their 
faces. When asked if she wants her 
dinner “Toby” will “cluck” affirmative¬ 
ly, and point towards her box. Her method 
of “kissing” is to push her bill between 
her owner’s lips “in a most affectionate 
manner.” When a little stick about a foot 
long is balanced on her bill, she will stand 
so carefully that the stick will not fall off 
at all. “Toby ” has a great reputation as a 
layer. On four occasions she has laid two 
eggs a day, there being from five minutes 
to one hour’s time between the operations. 
The success in training this remarkable 
hen ought to encourage more of our 
poultry folks to raise trick poultry. Why 
not ? It should be as great pleasure and 
certainly more of a novelty to exhibit a 
trained hen as to show off an educated cat 
or dog. Hens have “ lots of sense.” We 
know they can be trained and would like 
to hear from any of our hen folks who have 
succeeded as hen trainers. A good friend 
recently wrote us: “Why don’t people 
tell about the fun they have with their 
poultry as well as the money they make or 
lose on them ? ” Why not indeed ? The 
fun we get out of life is worth a good deal 
of money if we would only put a proper 
valuation on it! 
EVERY SIDE. 
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., is in fullest 
sympathy with the farmers’ movement. 
In last week’s sermon he said: “ The eyes 
of the world are now on the weaker classes 
—the masses. The Farmers’ Alliance of 
America is a gigantic wave of this world¬ 
wide movement of the race. It holds in its 
hands not only the possibilities of a higher 
life for this generation, it holds the hopes 
of unnumbered generations yet unborn. 
Their organization is superb. It is the 
strongest social and political machine built 
in America in the last 20 years. They are 
determined to lift up the toiling hosts and 
make their life worth the living. They are 
teaching, and will teach more emphatically 
than ever, that it is just as honorable to 
hew wood and draw water and plow 
with a mule, as to make laws, practice 
medicine, run a bank or a railroad.” 
Instead of coining bullion for private 
corporations the government should pur¬ 
chase all the gold and silver bullion that it 
can without entailing loss on the gov¬ 
ernment. All money coined, stamped, 
printed and issued should be done by the 
national government direct to the people, 
in sufficient quantities to meet the demands 
of the legitimate enterprise of the entire 
country; and on no pretext whatever be¬ 
come subservient to private corporations 
whose object is to control the finances of 
the nation.—Correspondent Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer. 
We hear much of the prosperity of the 
French people; some persons think it large¬ 
ly due to the fact of their having a greater 
volume of monetary circulation, etc., but 
let me give a reason that is a thousand 
times better than this—it is because of 
their unflagging industry and economic 
habits of living. With their agricultural 
lands cut up in small holdings, and on 
which the men, the women and the child¬ 
ren all labor cheerfully, the result is an 
unusual degree of real prosperity. The 
day that brings to us such a measure of 
gold and silver as to cause us to withold 
one iota from hard labor will be a day of 
calamity rather than of good for us. Do 
not let us put our trust in gold or silver, 
but in that which is more conducive to 
manliness, to honor, truth, justice and the 
right.—Florida Dispatch. 
The House Committee on Invalid Pen¬ 
sions reported favorably the bill limiting 
to $2 the fee allowed agents in prosecuting 
applications for an increase in pension on 
account of an increase of disability. The 
maximum fee now allowed is $10. A bill 
more in accord with popular sentiment 
would be one to exile all these pension 
agents.—Sacramento Bee. 
“I picked up a piece of newspaper the 
other day in which appeared a statement 
and a comment. The statement was that 
the present Legislature of the State of 
Kansas was composed of 115 farmers and 
three lawyers, and the comment was that 
the whole thing would go to the devil now, 
sure. To this I make this simple and sin¬ 
gle reply for the encouragement of that 
Legislature: In article 2 of their platform 
of principles, the farmers say, ‘We believe 
the Bible to be the book of truth, and ac¬ 
cept it as our way-bill through life.’ The 
people of Kansas and the Kansas Legisla¬ 
ture will not go to the devil while they 
stand upon that plank.”—Rev. J. B. Dey 
of Ocala, Fia. 
Sensible Taxation.— There can be no 
tax more sensible than a graduated tax 
upon large incomes. This is a just tax, 
and the farmers and Farmers’ Alliances 
seem to be a unit in favor of exactly this 
principle of taxation. The people, it seems, 
will not stand a higher tariff than we now 
have. If the deficiency is “a condition and 
not a theory,” the graduated income tax 
offers about the only way out of the diffi¬ 
culty which will not be offensive to the 
masses.—Practical Farmer. 
Should Try His Own Medicine.— Sen¬ 
ator Stanford renews his request that the 
government shall loan $100,000,000 to the 
farmers at two per cent interest. Senator 
Stanford is said to be worth $80,000,000. 
Why doesn’t he try the experiment him¬ 
self instead of calling upon the poor tax 
payers to do it?—Boston Herald (Ind). 
A Pity ’Tis True.—F ifty men in these 
United States have it in their power, by 
reason of the wealth they control, to come 
together within 24 hours, and arrive at an 
understanding by which every wheel of 
trade and commerce may be stopped from 
revolving, every avenue of trade blocked, 
and every electric key struck dumb.— 
ChaunceyM. Depew. 
Monopolies Threaten Public Insti¬ 
tutions. —Critics of corporate abuses have 
been charged with demagogic appeals to 
prejudice in asserting that we are under 
the rule of the money-kings; but Mr. 
Depew’s assertion in connection with the 
rise of the Gould-Rockafeller commercial 
empire is an outwitting statement to the 
same effect, that lends a new force to the 
inquiry whether the creation of such cor¬ 
porate monarchies can be permitted with 
any respect for the preservation of Repub¬ 
lican institutions. — Pittsburg Dispatch 
(Rep.) 
The Alliance Opposes Monopolies.— 
The essence of the Alliance movement is 
opposed to monopolies, combinations and 
trusts. — Charleston News and Courrier 
(Dem.) 
A $13,000,000 Protection.— It is under¬ 
stood that the recent financial flurry had 
no effect upon the condition of our mam¬ 
moth tin-plate industry. That trade is ab 
solutely secure from the assaults of com¬ 
mercial storms and panics. Not a single 
failure has been reported.—Chicago News 
(Ind) 
More Money Wanted.— The New York 
clearing house has a way of providing 
money for the banks whenever distress 
comes and the United States Treasury fails 
to respond. It issues certificates that pass 
like money. These certificates are put out 
in violation of the national bank act which 
gives a monopoly of the business of issuing 
paper money to the banks, but rich men are 
a law unto themselves and do just as they 
please under pressure. The banks are 
using this illegal money.—The Iowa 
Tribune. 
Easy, brother. This “ illegal ” money 
probably saved the country from one of the 
biggest panics ever known, from which 
every honest citizen of the United States 
would have suffered seriously. Lack of 
the “ medium of exchange,” called money, 
is the chief cause of the present stringency. 
It is for the Alliance statesmen to help pro - 
vide sufficient currency for the needs of the 
country, so that the banks may not be forced 
to take such arbitrary steps to tide over any 
period of stringency. 
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