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paid averaged about $1.50 each, the deal 
thus amounting to $4,800. Not less than $20,- 
000 worth of turkeys will have been shipped 
from Tulare County to San Francisco this 
week, and there will still be on hand a 
reserve for Christmas and New Year’s. The 
raising of turkeys is no small part of the 
business of many of the ranchers on the 
dry plains, and goes a long way in tiding 
them over a dry season .—California local 
paver. 
Every housewife knows that there is a 
vast difference in the color of the yolks of 
eggs, and often wonders what makes the 
difference. Merchants who deal in eggs, 
are at a loss to know why some are pale 
and some are rich yellow, the pale ones 
predominating in the winter. The cause 
is largely, if not wholly, due to the food 
consumed by the hens .—Maine Farmer. 
We do not believe this at all. Why ? 
Because we have always fed our hens on 
the same food, taking care that each one 
gets a full share, yet there is a great differ¬ 
ence in the color of the yolks. Take two 
cows in the same pasture : one will make 
butter of a rich dark yellow color, while 
the other will make a light colored mass- 
more like lard. It seems to us that color 
in the yolk of the egg is determined 
more by the hen than by the food, much 
the same as in the case of the cow. The 
shells of Brahma eggs are dark brown, 
while those of Leghorn eggs are snow white. 
We have in our own flock one hen that is a 
remarkably good layer—the best we have 
ever seen. The yolks of her eggs are always 
pale, “tasteless” and “weak.” Eggsof hens 
that are less industrious are darker and of 
far better flavor. In fact, we have noticed 
in our own flock, that the eggs from the 
best layers are the poorest in quality. There 
is a difference in eggs. 
“A Cargo of Melody.”— The steamer 
Trave recently sailed into New York from 
Germany with 8.000 canaries on board. 
They came from Harzburg, Germany— 
noted for “canary farming.” Each oc¬ 
cupied a little house of its own and the 
houses were arranged in tiers and rows 
close up to the boiler rooms so that the 
birds were kept warm, while they had 
plenty of light and pure air through the 
ventilators. The little yellow fellows were 
not sick at all, but ate heartily and kept 
up a continual chirping and singing all 
day long. About 40 of them died—some 
were sick before they started. Every 
morning six men supplied them with pure 
water and seeds. In the 10 days’ passage 
nearly 8,000 quarts of seeds were eaten. 
The little songsters will be scattered all 
over the country and will fill many a house 
with song. Many a farmer will doubtless 
say with James Whitcomb Riley : 
*• Folks have been to town and Sairey 
Went and bought a bright canary.” 
Lazy hens.— Will the “hen man” of 
The Rural please tell me whether his hens 
lay “lots” of eggs now, and, if so, what 
special feed or care does he give them ? My 
flock of 45 are, according to the books, 
most comfortably and happily situated, 
still they refuse to show their gratitude by 
furnishing eggs when the market price is 
high. J. B. 
R. N.-Y.—Our hens are now “resting.” 
Most of them are young pullets just “get¬ 
ting ready” to lay. It is quite surprising 
how much preparation they need. The old 
hens have done bravely all the fall, but 
now most of them want to sit 1 
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE THOUGHTS. 
The following short extracts are made 
from the speeches and resolutions at the 
late meeting at Ocala. They give a fair 
idea of the way the delegates talked and a 
better idea of the views of the people than 
the final compromise platform : 
“ The Sub Treasury Bill is enough to 
chew on for the next two years. It is 
worthy of study. A great many have in¬ 
dorsed without understanding it, and have 
made weak arguments in favor of it that 
have done it more harm than anything 
else. You can’t expect to present a bill 
that Congress won’t change.” 
“ The great absorbing question before 
the American people is not whether the 
Democratic or the Republican party, with 
their evident subserviency to the will of 
corporate and money power, shall be in the 
ascendency, but the question is, whether 
under our Republican form of government, 
the citizen or the dollar shall be the sov¬ 
ereign.” 
“Study the principles of the Sub-Treas¬ 
ury Bill. It is the greatest principle that 
has been discovered since the time of Adam 
Smith.” 
“ No patriot can view but with feelings 
of gravest apprehension and alarm, the 
growing tendency, under the fostering care 
of our politico economic systems, to the 
centralization of the money power and the 
upbuilding of monopolies.” 
“ Education in the mutual relations and 
reciprocal duties toward each other as 
brethren, as neighbors, as members of so¬ 
ciety, in the responsible duties of citizen¬ 
ship, in the science of economical govern¬ 
ment — for higher aspiration, higher 
thought, and higher manhood among the 
masses—education in a broad patriotism 
which should bind the great conservative 
masses of the country in the strongest ties 
of fraternity and union.” 
“ Any man who opposes the Sub-Treasury 
Bill is either ignorant or has some sinister 
motive behind his opposition.” 
“I am uncompromisingly opposed to 
the Sub-Treasury scheme and for the fol¬ 
lowing reasons : First, it is in violation 
of the Constitution; second, it is directly 
opposed to the condition, principles and 
demands of our own order; third, it is un¬ 
just and inequitable; fourth, it is very ex¬ 
travagant; fifth, it would bring financial 
ruin to the farmers of our entire country 
and to all other classes of business; sixth, 
it will have, and is now having, the effect 
of drawing the minds of farmers and other 
laborers of our country from the greatest 
curse of the ago, class legislation, and, if 
adopted, will commit ns to that principle 
which will fasten these curses upon us for 
all time.” 
“The issue of certificates makes no per¬ 
manent addition to the currency. It is an 
alternate expansion and contraction. We 
want something like the issuanceof money 
on homesteads. We do not mean to give 
an opportunity for holders of land to raise 
money, but design this as a relief for actual 
settlers. To this end the government 
should issue money on homesteads at suffi¬ 
cient interest—say one per cent—the same 
as national b^nks pay.” 
“MARCHING TO ATLANTA.” 
Meeting of the National Grange. 
MRS W. C. GIFFORD. 
( Concluded .) 
From Chattanooga to Atlanta our route is 
over the Atlantic and Western—the old 
“Georgia State Railroad” in the time of 
the war, and every mile of the distance is 
full of historic interest. Past the battle 
field of Chicamauga, in full sight of Mis¬ 
sionary Ridge, we are following the line of 
march on which Sherman led his victorious 
soldiers to the sea; through Ringgold 
Pass, where the Confederates contested 
every inch of ground, past Dalton, where 
they were so strongly entrenched that 
Sherman, unable to dislodge them, was 
obliged to make a detour to escape the de¬ 
structive fire of their batteries (the Con¬ 
federate breastworks upon the hill are 
plainly visible as we pass), past Resaca, 
one of the hardest fought fields of the 
campaign, on through the famous Al¬ 
toona Pass, through which Sherman’s 
army were obliged to cut their way 
through opposing hosts of Confederates, 
past Kenesaw Mountain, we come to At¬ 
lanta. It was on this road that one of the 
most daring episodes of the war took place, 
and which, had it been successful, would 
have materially shortened the struggle, if 
it not ended it. I refer to the capture of 
an engine by some brave Ohio soldiers de¬ 
tailed for that purpose, with the intention 
of burning the bridges between Atlanta 
and Chattanooga; but which, on account of 
unforeseen circumstances failed of success. 
The story is told by one of their number, 
Wm. Pittinger, in a book entitled “Daring 
and Suffering, or the Great Railroad Ad¬ 
venture.” 
The soil of Georgia as far south as 
Atlanta, is for the most part nearly as red 
as brick, and filled with little glistening 
particles of mica. Some portions, how¬ 
ever, through which we passed showed a 
white earth, the roads and fields were bare, 
looking almost like dirty snow. Theee, we 
were told, were worn-out cotton lands. A 
Northern gentleman resident in Atlanta, 
claimed that with the labor which a North¬ 
ern farmer bestows on his land, the soil of 
Georgia would give double the returns of 
a farm in New York. But to us, whose eyes 
were accustomed to the blessed sight of 
green fields, the country looked very brown 
and bare. I inquired the price of land, and 
was told by a young planter, that the 
people would almost give a Northern man 
a farm to come there and teach them how 
to farm. 
“We have,” said he, “such lazy ways 
that we are all poor from the lack of enter¬ 
prise. I know how your country looks, for 
I have been to Chicago, and have seen the 
beautiful farm buildings which dot the 
country, such an impressive contrast with 
ours. But I am trying to run my farm so 
as not to impoverish it, and I am trying, 
as do Northern farmers, to return as much 
to the soil as I take from it. I ‘ made ’ 
1,500 bushels of corn this year, and had a 
field of clover as high as a man’s shoulder.” 
But, this seemed an exceptional case, 
and whether a Northern man could make a 
satisfactory experiment of farming in 
Georgia can be determined only by actual 
test. Certain it is that the climate was 
delightful, the weather like June, win¬ 
dows open night and day, ladies with¬ 
out wraps, etc. But we were told that 
the weather was very exceptional for the 
time of year, and on the morning of our 
return a cold north wind was sweeping 
down on the city, although the sun shone 
brightly. Our visit was too late in the 
season to see any crops in the fields, except 
cotton which had been picked over several 
times, aud a few stunted corn fields, and 
we were told that these were the principal 
crops. We asked for sweet potatoes at the 
hotel several times, but got nothing except 
yams, which tasted to us very much like 
stewed pumpkin. The vegetables on the 
table were mostly canned, and fresh ones 
were not abundant in the market, as in 
Northern cities. But, all things considered, 
a home in Georgia seemed to me much 
preferable to braving the cold of a Dakota 
winter. The people are exceedingly kind 
and hospitable, and very desirous that 
Northern people should settle among them. 
There seemed to be as much loyalty as 
among our own people, and although their 
pride will not allow them to forget the 
past, yet the issues for which the war 
was fought, seem to be by them considered 
forever settled. 
The Annual Convention of the W. C. T.U. 
was in session at the same time with that 
of the National Grange, and every courtesy 
was shown to both organizations. A pub¬ 
lic reception in the fine new Capitol was 
given the Grange, at which Gov. Nortben, 
who is a farmer and Granger as well as an 
Alliance man, Gov. Gordon, who was 
elected U. S. Senator while we were there, 
and several other distinguished men spoke. 
At Trinity M. E. Church, where the con¬ 
vention was held, the same honor was con¬ 
ferred on the white ribbon women, of whom 
there were more than 1,000 guests in the 
city. A reception at the Executive Man¬ 
sion was also given both bodies by the Gov¬ 
ernor and his family. At the close of the 
W. C. T. U. Convention a free excursion to 
Indian Springs was tendered to all the wo 
men, and a dinner was furnished after the 
most approved Southern fashion. Thirty- 
two States were represented in the Na¬ 
tional Grange, and a good amount of im¬ 
portant business was transacted. The ses¬ 
sion was honored by the presence of two 
distinguished gentlemen, Wm. Saunders, 
of Washington, D. C., one of the founders 
of the Grange, and Prof. J. A. Wright, 
First Master of the California State Grange, 
and now president of a university in Mis¬ 
sissippi, author of the “Declaration of 
Purposes ” of the Grange. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the Florida Farmer 
writes the following: “Our merchant had a 
supply of seed cow-peas left after the season 
for planting was over, and I bought them 
for my fowls. At first they did not take to 
them kindly, but soon learned to like them 
and will pick them up first if other grain 
is thrown to them at the same time. I have 
never raised cow-peas to be gathered and 
shelled for feed, but if the yield is anything 
like what it seems to be, I think they 
would be a profitable crop to raise for 
poul'ry.” 
A Good Reputation. 
“ Brown’s Bronchial Troches ” have 
been before the public many years, and are 
everywhere acknowledged to be the best 
remedy for all throat troubles. They 
quickly relieve Coughs, Sore Throat, and 
Bronchial Affections. • Price, 25 cents. For 
sale everywhere, and only in boxes.— Adv. 
COMMENTS. 
Butter is booming away up into fabulous 
figures. Had the ranchers only kept their 
pickled stock until this fall, they would 
have occasion to remember this year with 
pleasurable emotions. The difference in 
price between what the majority sold for 
and what could be realized now for pickled 
roll would ju->t about pay the usual rent of 
a dairy ranch. As it is, the commission 
men will make this enormous profit.— 
Marin County. California. 
These “commission men” are the same 
the world over. Do they know more about 
supply and demand than farmers do ? 
There never was any just reason why the 
white men and black men of South Caro¬ 
lina should not live together in peace and 
harmony. Our interests are the same and 
our future, whether for weal or woe, cannot 
be divorced. The negro was a staunch 
friend and faithful servant duriDg the war, 
when there was every opportunity to glut 
upon our wives and children any hatred or 
desire for revenge. He had none. There 
is not a single instance on record of any 
disloyalty to his master’s family during 
that trying and bloody period.—Governor 
Tillman’s Inaugural Address. 
Now let the white man set a “white” 
example for the black man. 
It is a fact that in Massachiftetts a man 
makes a bucket for 12 cent 0 , and pays five 
cents for an orange. It is a fact that in 
Florida a roan pays 25 cents for a bucket 
and sells an orange for three-quarters of a 
cent. In Massachusetts a bucket will buy 
three oranges. In Florida it takes 33 
oranges to buy a bucket. What is the mat¬ 
ter ? Why doesn’t a bucket buy 33 oranges 
In Massachusetts ? Why don’t three 
oranges buy a bucket in Florida.—Florida 
Farmer. 
The Massachusetts man in towns where 
buckets are made gets fine oranges at 
30 cents per dozen and under. The vast 
majority of the people who use buckets are 
within cheaper shipping distance of Massa¬ 
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