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THE NEW RURAL. Poisoned Meats. Established 1881. The New Rural. another.

It has always been customary with us to round-up and drive home all cattle at least once a year. It is of course impossible to drive cows with calves, or in fact any cattle, in the early spring before the grass comes, but there is no excuse for allowing stock to remain on the ranges of others after the midsummer round-up. Some persons may urge that the drift is the same in all parts of this country and consequently makes no difference" to any one. This cannot be true, as the drift depends upon the character of the country and is not the same in all sections. The only fair and just way to do is to continue the old custom of returning stock to its proper range at least once a year.

It is not right for stock to range all over the country and trespass upon the ranges of others. This question of range rights is now having a prominent place in the thoughts of thinking stockmen, and is one that can be readily ad Summary of the Report of the State Board of Agriculture. The following is a general summary of the report of Major William Sims, secretary of the state board of agriculture, for the month ending July 31: State Board of Agriculture, Tope-ka, August 10, 1885. This being the year for taking the semi-decennial census, more time has necessarily been required by assessors and county clerks than is ordinarily consumed in the collection and return to this office of the regular annual statistics. Returns are yet due from twenty-six counties.

Tables showing the area of the several crops by counties, cannot therefore be prepared at this, the usual date for publishing such information. Winter wheat At the date of mailing to this office, according to the reports of correspondents upon which the following estimates are based, but little had been done, hence but few reports from threshers. The limited number received, however, clearly indicate that in quantity generally, and quality in many localities the crop will not come up to the estimate placed upon it by the best judges before the threshing had been done. Assessors' returns from eleven counties since the date of our last report show an increase in the area harvested over the estimate for June for the counties reporting of about 100,000 acres. This increase in acreage will not, however, compensate for the shortage resulting from the decrease in the estimated average yield per acre, which is now placed at a very small fraction less than ten bushels, a decrease as compared with the report of the board for the month ending June 30 of about one bushel per acre.

From the latest and best information At Porter Station, a village of 300 inhabitants, twelve miles from this city, in the extreme northwestern part of the epidemic is raging, which has carried off five persons, leaving fifteen dangerously ill, and about twenty-five others of whose condition the doctors can not speak with any degree of cer tainty. The people of the village are mostly Swedes, of cleanly, thrifty habits, and until the present epidemic broke out amonst them, they have been very healthy. About ten days ago the first symptoms of the scourge made its appearance and manifested itself in vomiting and diarrhetic discharges. The doctors were at a loss as to the cause and were unable to ascribe any remedies to alleviate the sufferings of the patients. The afflicted said they felt a sort of leaden weight in the stomach and bowels, which quickly changed to the vomiting and discharge.

A remarkable peculiarity observed in those who have already succumbed, is that, while they retain clear consciousness to the last, yet the eyes gave forth a wild expression, and the general appearance of countenance conveys the idea of insanity. The most power-fnl drugs have failed to give temporary check to the disease- Porter is supplied with its meats by butchers of Chester-town, one mile east investigation has revealed that one meat shop there has not been kept in a healthy condition the night watch having stated that on a few occasions he could hardly pass the door of the market from the uupleasant odors emitted, and a doctor of the town, who a few days ago entered the cooling room, asserts that never did he experience a worse odor in a college dissecting room. Uufortunately for the people of "Porter, it is said, it is the proprietor of this market who supplies them with the bulk of their meats. The poison which has caused the deaths so far is of an alkaloid nature. The i "i i 1 1 i case appears to De similar to mat which occurred recently at Momence, HI.

Ex. A Madstone in St. Louis. Mr. W.

F. Cozzens, President of the Hull Cozzens' Manufacturing Com pany of this city, is the owner of a mad-stone, which has been in the possession of his family for over a century. The stone exactly corresponds with the one described by Dr. D. C.

M. Campbell, of Harmootown, in the Liouisville Courier -Journal, which account was printed in last Sunday's Globe-Democrat. It is like his, "about the size of a guinea egg, very porous, and resemb- ing bone externally." A Globe-Demo crat reporter who called upon Mr. Coz zens was permitted to see the stone, which is claimed to have been found by an Indian in the body of a deer. Whether it is really a stone of a growth similar to that of gravel in human beings, or merely an ordinary bezoar, such as is frequently found in the ponch of animals, is a question.

It has never been applied to a wound made by the bite of a mad dog while Mr. Cozzens has had it although it has a long record of cures in other hands. When placed in warm water the stone" becomes soft, and even sticky. Mr. Cozzens is willing to give -the public the use of it whenever it is needed, He lives at No.

3,112 St. Louis avenue. -St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Texas Wheat and Cotton, A special to the Globe-Democrat from Waco, Texas, August 8, says: Total wheat receipts to date 225,000 bushels, oats 94,250.

The wheat all goes to St. Louis, the oats to South Atlantic States markets. The severe drouth now prevailing will have a bad in fluence on the growing cotton crop. Eastern Prejudice Against Cattlemen. During the three or four days they were in Washington, the cattlemen took up paper after paper, only to tind the editorial expressions, with now and then an exception, against them.

With such conditions borne in mind, it is not difficult to understand how this administration easily reaches a conclusion to sweep the territory of the lessees and herds, or how snub direct came to be administered in such a crushing manner to the representatives of 825,000,000 invested capital at the White House August 5th. The cattlemen when they left were not happy; but they had learned a great deal about their relations to the administration, which they did not comprehend before. They are'in a position to impart valuable impressions to their partners, chief of which will be that there is only the most vigorous treatment to be expected from this administration. Ex. Let Justice be Done.

The country is fulled with cattle, and as the erowding'still continues the question of ranges and range rights is now one of vital importance. Xot only is all available grazing utilized, but in many cases trespassing on the rights of others is largely practiced. It has always been the custom of cattlemen in the great range of the west, to gather their cattle at least once a year and return them to their own range. Many letters are now reaching us from different parts of the country complaining that the ranges are filled with drift cattle to the detriment of located owners. A ranchman writes: "On the last roundup I requested the cattle company men to cut their cattle off my ranch.

They refused, saying they had been instructed by the "managers not to move the cattle. It is, in my opinion, a simple courtesy for owners of drift cattle to cut them, when requested, from the range of never been settled and possibly never will, but we will give you in this article only a part of what we know about the hog. First. "We know the hog is an animal of quick growth and outside from cholera is not subject to the many ills that are common to other animals, and in consequence you can with him make quick returns and sometimes large profits and never have much loss if you raise your own hogs and the food to feed them with. Second.

That the hog is prolific and if you can raise or purchase a good motherly sow you can in a short time stock a large farm and have as many hog mouths as you can raise corn to feed. Third. That to make a profit you must not have more hogs than you can raise corn to feed. When we speak of feed we mean as much as the hog can eat. Fourth.

"We are now making progress, and say we know that it will never pay to feed a poor hog as well as it does a good one, and our advice is to look well to the breed. Profit never comes from feeding a scrub hog and the expense of keeping your hogs to a good standard of breed is but little. We will in our next tell you some more of what we know about the hog, our idea as to best breeds, but we will say once for all that you can't raise a hog without feed; you can't raise him without care. The cprn crop of Kansas, says our Secretary Sims, that with the increased area planted, we can consider ourselves as sure of making 190,000,000 bushels. Kansas at one time was not thought to be a corn state, but she has outgrown that idea.

Gen. Sherman once said Kansas was the best advertised state in the Union. The general was correct, but how and who done the advertising. Let us see, one of the first posters put up by Kansas was at Philadelphia in 1870. Her exhibition at the centennial was astonishing and and many who saw it were compelled to eome here in order to convince themselves.

The secretary of- war of some of the tropical countries was there and said he must see the country that produced the articles on exhibition. He did come. Kansas has not been idle, but at the World's Fair at New Orleans, she made her grandest effort. Somehow our legislators were attacked with a severe fit of economy and only appropriated the small sum of $7,000, while several states furnished $30,000 and $50,000. Hon.

F. Bacon took the matter in hand and under his direction the exhibit was made. The agricultural exhibit of Kansas was the wonder of the world and everybody who visited the fair grounds was advised by their friends not to fail to see it. She received the first premium on white and yellow corn, with a gold medal for the best corn in the world; the first premium on red winter wheat. In her -exhibition of corals she was in competition with the middle and northwestern states.

She next comes in with first premium on the best one hundred varieties of apples. In this connection you must remember that California was in the list. On short-horn cattle she carried off ten first and second premiums and led the world in Polled Angus; the first premium on flour by granulated process and first by old process, and first on sorghum sugar. Kansas makes no exhibitions on paper, but exhibits her goods and wins the prize. We raise the goods ourselves, and this year wo excel previous seasons.

We have not the means at hand to show how much soil we have that has never been cultivated, but the amount is large and is just as good as that already cultivated. There is but a small amount of land in Southwest Kansas but can be plowed to an advantage, and we can sav without exacreratimr that at least two thirds of the Southwest has never been plowed. What would we do with the corn if our entire area was planted? With all our achievements Kansas is but an infant among other states as to age and developement. The number of recruits to be called out for the Russian army and naw this year is 230,000. B.

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Among Prison Birds. "I never told you my experience in tak ing the census in the Massachusetts State Prison, did I inquired a gentleman last evening. "No, Sir" was the answer; "but I should be pleased to have you relate the same." my district was located the State Prison, and as I received orders from my superiors to take the census of the institution, I proceeded to do so. After cer tain preliminaries had been arranged I was readilv admitted into the wings, and duringthe performance of my dutiesj I conversed with every convict in the insti-tution-475 men, I think." "Were your questions answered read ily?" es, alter 1 had explained the object of my visit. At first the men looked upon me with distrust, but when found out that I was acting under author ity from the state they answered my questions politely and for the most part intelligently.

The convict who most im pressed me was esse ie was verv angry when- I saw. him, and com plained becaused he had been temporarily transferred from his large apartment in the upper arch to one of the close cells in the first tier of the north wring. Jesse is a good 'kicker wrhen he is inclined to be. When I approached Langdon W. Moore, the bank breaker, he eyed me suspiciously and when I began to ply him with questions, he 'look here, now, what is this, a police racket If it is, I'm I explained what I was after, and he said, 'That all right go feeatea an easy chair in his cell was Dunlap, the Northampton bank robber, when I called upon him.

Scott, Ins partner that job is dead, and Dunlap seems to feel bably, although he bears his pnmshment like a man. He is a gentleman. Homer Wellington, of Cambridge, was rather puzzled when I told him my business. 'What census are vou he asked. 'The state I replied.

'How often is the census taken he inquired. The Unit ed States census is taken every ten years, and the state census every hve years. The law must have been changed then, for five years ago I was in jail, and I didn't see a census-taker After this con versation he gave me such facts as I de sired. I found Antonio Arditi, one of the Frye murderers, in one of the rooms on the upper arch, was roia lie was a dansrerous fellow. He is an Italian, and after he had 'talked' with his hands, I managed to get what I wanted from him.

In the library I met Dr. Allen, who got four years, I think, for killing a man in a Howard street (JJoston) saloon. Me wanted to know if the information I deiired was to be made pnblic. 'If it said he, 'I will not answer the question; otherwise I I ex plained and he answered. Alien is as sistant librarian.

Richard Curry, who shot his wife in a tenement house on Tre- mont street, Boston, and who wras sen tenced to imprisonment for life, was the most particular man I met in the institu tion, lie put on more trills than any man I ever saw. To hear him talk about giving information concerning himself, one would have thought he had -the brightest future imaginable. 1 couldn help feeling badly when I saw Chase and Stickney, of Fall River notoriety. They occupy cells in which there is only the ordinary furniture. Some of the cells in the prison are finely furnished.

James Itilev, alias Tony who made an un successful escape from the prison in com pany with welch, Ureen and Martin, acted about as funny as he could. He tried to 'guy' me, and wanted to know if I was a dude. 1 round Jidwards, who lost one ot his legs trying to escape by way of the telegraph wires, very disconsolate. I could tell you of others, but then it is the same old story of punishment for crime committed. I rather enjoyed tak ing the census in the prison." Boston Globe.

Birds and Insects Knowing How to Live the Moment They are Born. Chickens, two minutes after they have left the egg, will follow with their eyes the movements of crawling insects and pick at them, judging distance and direction withy.almost infallible accuracy. They will instinctively appreciate sounds, readily running toward an invisible hen hidden in a box when they hear her "call." Some young birds also have an innate, instinctive horror of the sight of a hawk or the sound of his voice. Swallows, titmice, tomtits and wrens, after having been confined from birth, are capable of flying successfully at once when liberated, on their wings having attained the neces-sary growth to render flight possible. The Duke of Argyll relates some very interesting particulars about the instincts of birds, especially of tha water ousel, the merganser and the wild duck.

Even as to the class of beasts I find recorded: "'Five young polecats were found comfortably imbededi dry, withered grass, and in a side hole of proper dimensions for such a larder were forty frogs and two toads, all alive, but merely capable of sprawling a little, having been bitten through the brain by the parent polecat. Ex. Reports from Tallulah, say there are no worms in that neighborhood, and the yield of cotton will be larger than it has been for many years. received I estimate the area of winter wheat harvested in this state to be 964,864 acres, and place the average yield per acre in round numbers at ten bushels; probably a total product of 9,648,640 bushels Spring wheat Reports just received indicate no material change either in area or condition since the date of our last report. Probable product, bushels.

Corn This great, and, to the people of Kansas, the most important cereal, is reported to be in fine condition. The backward and unfavorable conditions of April and May have been fully compensated for by the very propitious weather of the last thirty days. I can call to mind no period in the history of the state when a more marked improvement has been made in the progress of any crop that has been witnessed in the growth and development of corn within the month covered by this report. One month ago the general condition of the crop as compared with last year was found to be 82," while the report for July, from which the report is compiled, shows a condition of 98, an improvement of 16 points during the month. Official returns and reliable estimates from counties not yet reported by assessors, place the area of corn at about acres.

Probable product, should favorable conditions continue, Oats Estimated are the same as reported last month. Condition not so good. Probable product, 29,000,000 bushels, a shortage as compared with last year of 87,000 bushels. Rye But little threshing has been done. Reports generally indicate a short crop and estimates as to the yield differ so widely as to preclude the possibility of any satisfactory estimate as to product at this time.

Condition as compared with last year of broom-corn, 90 per cent. flax, 89 sorghum, 93; potatoes, 100 and millet and hungarian 100. Fruit From the report of G. C. Brackett, secretary of the Kansas State Horticultural society dated July 1, 1885.

I take the following state per cent: Apples 55, cherries 59, peaches 10, pears 53, plums 40, quinces 20, blackberries 49, currants 46, gooseberries 53, raspberries 65, strawberries 68, grapes o3. Capt. Ericsson at 32. Capt. Ericsson, who designed the Monitor, enjoyed his 82d birthday yesterday.

He is still strong in body and mind, and follows that rigid system of work that has enabled him to accomplish so much in the world of science and mechanism. He still lives at No. 36 Beach street, in a staid old house surrounded by squalling children, and opposite to an immense storage warehouse but none of these sounds intrudes upon the quiet of his roomy apartments, and his disinclination to noise and desire for solitude makes him unmindful of the changes that have taken place since he came there twenty-five years ago, when along one side of the. street were dwellings of well-to-do citizens, and on the other side was a beautiful park. Capt.

Ericsson takes little stock in anniversaries, and lets his birthday mail lie over a day or two so as to avoid answering any letters of congratulations that may be received. He is a firm believer in the saying that "hard work never killed any one, but that worry and excesses are what make men grow old." New York Tribune..