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ipsiPis Hhve h Vnrlf4ir of Cows will fall off in yielc! of milk If flie food is suddenly changed, or if forced to drink veay cold water. .In the grazing season they will some times fait off in milk if changed from one pasture to another. The appe tltes of cows differ, nml they will trav el over a large area in order to secure some favorite grass. The pasture should consequently contain a variety of grasses, in oraer that each animal , na y more easily select its food. WrrtU " Highway*. It is the duty of every farmer to exterminate the weeds on the roads along his farm. Some of the most troublesome weeds nave traveled from one end of the country to the other along highways. Every farmer should make it his business to see that no weeds go to seed on the highway ad joining his farm. The Canada thistle is traveling all over the country, at no mean rate of speed, and as long as farmers will not keep it down along the highways there is no use of doing so on other parts of the farmt and the same may be said of many other ot the vegetable pests. Market >qnal> Bsisiwc f*r Women. There is no good reason why women should not engage in raising squabs for market They succeed with poul try and the work is not -near .as hard producing squabs as chickens, or broilers. The most objectionable part of the business would be .killing the squabs and cleaning out the pens. This, however, is not as hard as the same work in the poultry business. Besides feeding her stock she has one day in the week for killing .day. which is Tuesday. It is not a hard task to kill six dozen and hang them iu the cellar to cool until the next day, when they are ready to shTp. A woman can easily care for tOO pairs of pigeons and the net Income should be at least S4OO. If they were kept in well arranged buildings it would require not more than one hour morning and evening to feed and water the flock. If the building used for the purpose was heated above the freezing point in winter and water piped to each pen a great many more birds could he cared for in the same time f and with 'less labor. A continuous building with an aisle or walk at tbe back of tbe pens is the best style so that it would not be necessary to go through the pens in feeding and caring for the birds. —E. F. Barry, in Grange Judd Farmer. Cooking I'eed vfor Cows and Hogs. Seven years ago I bought a feed cooker that I have used ever since for cooking feed for hogs and scalding feed for cows. For the hogs I take six bushels small potatoes, apples or pumpkins, run them through a root cutter so they will eook quickly and when they are done mix one bushel eornmeal and one bushel bran. This makes 100 gallons of feed. When it is all mixed well together I take the feed out of the cooker and put it in barrels tilt t are packed in sawdust, which keeps the feed warm until it is fed up. I feed the hogs all they will eat of this three times a day. Having never weighed the hogs for a test. I cannot tell exactly how much gain there is from cooking the feed over feeding it uncooked, but should think about one fourth. One bushel cobs and an armful of old rails split up for wood will cool: the 100 gallons feed. For cows I put one peck barley sprouts in a galvan ized bushed basket, heat water in the cooker to the scalding point, fill up the basket with water at night, and in the morning I have a basketful of nice, thick, lukewarm feed. I give four quarts to each cow in milk, which I think increases the flow of milk at the least one-quarter. Another ad vantage in cooked feed is that all the foul seeds are destroyed so that none goes back on the land to sprout and ffrow weeds.—E. M. Van Dyne, New England Uomestead. Long. Lived Troes Are Ilelnsj FUitieil. ![ The division of forestry, through its taction of tree planting, has succeeded ln arousing widespread interest in the Bul) ject of tree growing on the plains of the upper Mississippi valley. An agent of the division has recently re turned from that region, and reports that the farmers in the territory west the Mississippi and north of the th parallel of latitude are awaking 0 importance of planting trees, especially for economic purposes. The 3 uuVrs of this section are anxious to iVoul the mistakes made during the operation of the timber claim act. The t<Th eS n ° W keing planned are designed e permanent features on the home steads. that end the farmers will use a . 1 Proportion of long-lived, slow *™w,n? secies than formerly. The j and for such hardy, drouth-resist ? as the hackberry. green „ w hite elm, bur oak, red elm, red . ar an< * western yellow pine (bud ’ m ) promises to be greatly increased y ng the next few years. The th! ateßt pre . sent difficulty with which tenr] P^? S + Pec *' 1 ve Planter has to con erc. . s tae fact thrtt commercial grow witWk? UrSery sto< \ k are not supplied n this kind of r naterial. The nur ebnr?i Still Carry lar Be quantities of the Cot ' lVed hinds, such as boxelder, 8 h' IW00( l- maple i fcd willow, but are Th ° n the Inost Valuable species. p r . e p!an ting 0 f conifers on the ha?”' 5 ° f the *’er t during the past eu c !* ee n attei ide<l with general This is o', ring to the use of eastern and Introduced kinds that nr* not adapted to the country. There is abundant evidence, however, that the red cedar and western yellow pin 3 (bull pine) will thrive throughout this section. The desirability of ever | greens for wind-breaks on a bleak i prairie should lead owners to turn their attention to these hardy native | species.—l nited States Department of Agriculture. Tarming That trends to 1 jilnvp. Although we can earn a livelihood with less hard manual labor than our fathers of 30 or 40 years ago could, if we keep up with the manner of living I tceay, wc must manage more methodi cally and skillfully than was required by their simple and less luxurious man ner of living. They had broad acres of rich, virgin soil, from which they skimmed their crops much to the im poverishment of their descendants, wa think. But now we must contract, con centrate and intensify our labor, .to in crease the productiveness of our fields, to do which successfully, requires knowledge of the supplying needed elements of productiveness. Success ful farmers are those who understand these principles and practice them. Those who do not know, or regard them are more or iess failures. There are many ways of mismanagement, which cause the rapid exhaustion cf the fertility of the farm. To manage in such a way as to produce paying crops, and not unduly exhaust the? soil, requires judicious management. Not everyone who says he is a farmer is one. He may pursue the business after a manner, but in point of knowl edge and skill, he is wanting, and, at best, he is merely an imitator. There are many of this class of farmers. Most of them fail because they do not understand or properly adopt the best means of maintaining the fertility of their land. They also often cultivate more land than their force warrants, giving only indifferent cultivation; and as the drain upon the farm goes on about the same whether large or small crops are grown, and as poor crops usually follow poor cultivation, such farming makes a sterile farm. Then there is the widely practiced method of raising grass and stock to be sold off the farm. This when rightly conducted is very profitable, but the practice of sowing the farm to grass, clover and other forage crops and stock raising, neglecting cultivation and manuring, is anything but profit able. The crops are harvested and either sold or fed to stock, and the stack sold off the farm; and as the prevailing idea about this sort of farm ing is that grass and stock raising keep up the land, little if an\ r thing is returned to the soil to replace the heavy annual drain upon it, required to produce crops and build up the ex pensive animal frame. Innumerable farms are run down under this ill managed system of farming.—J. I. 8., in Agricultural Epitomist, A Hood Compost Ilea/. On my seed farm I make a great deal of waste vegetable matter,, inch as buck wheat straw, rye straw toe much brok en up in threshing by machinery to be marketable for bedding, and a large quantity of the mixture of forest leaves and meadow hay that after two seasons of use as covering for 30,000 or 40,000 seed cabbages has become too fine and broken for future use. These, if left in heaps, in the course of a few years, become, at the bottom, the blackest of humus, the rye straw being by far the slowest to decompose. At the close of the planting season of 1899, having two or three carloads of stable manure and about half a ton of ground bone, nitrate of soda and muriate of pot ash to spare, I concluded to utilize more or less of the waste by making a compost heap in the cellar of one of the stables. It was made with manure as a foundation, then a layer of the half-rotten, strawy ma terial, over which we scattered one of the fertilizing elements, care being taken to place the most strawy ma terial nearest the bottom of the heap. About half way up I dumped in and spread evenly some four cords of hall rotten corn cobs. With alternating layers we built up the heap to the depth of about five feet. This was in early summer. It was left untouched until planting time next spring, when on testing it I found that every substance had fully rotted, and the whole mass was in a fine state of comminution; ever the corn cobs had entirely disappeared, and thus added their 25 percent of potash to the heap. I used this compost on freshly broken up sod. giving it a fair dressing for a corn crop. I planted it with Longfellow, and had the most wonder ful results in growth of stalk ever known in my experience as a corn grower; by actual measurement many of these were nine and one-half feet in height, with the ears so high up that a man of average height could walk under many of them without touching them with his hat. The crop contained a larger proportion of long, well-filled ears than any I can recall in a long life devoted to farming oper ations. The compost utilized not only muen waste vegetable matter, but the nitrate of soda and muriate of potash, fer tilizers which all who have kept them over a season are aware, dampen and waste more or less in the process of keeping.—J. J. H. Gregory, in The Country Gentleman. Kockefeller’s Daily T.if>. John D. Rockefeller goes through the same routine every day at noon in re gard to his lunch. He enters the little restaurant absent-mindedly, -wakes with a start when the waiter approach es him, hesitates over his order and then always calls for a ham sandwich and a glass of milk. THE WEEKLY NEWS, CAIITERSYILLE, GA. Ft'areumrnßtS, Forearmed. The liability to disease is greatly lerse.rcd when the blood is iu good con dition, and the circulation healthy and vigorous. For then all refuse matter is promptly carried out cf the system ; otherwise it would rapidly accumulate —fermentation would take place, the blood become polluted and the consti tution so weakened that a simple malady might result seriously. A healthy, active circulation means good digestion and strong, healthy nerves. Asa blood, purifier and tonic S. S. S. has no equal. It is the safest and best remedy for old people and children because it contains no minerals, but is made exclusively of roots and herbs. No other remedy so thoroughly and effectually cleanses the blood of im purit ie s. At the fgjgir va t eS the entire sys tem. It cures permanently all manner of blood and skin troubles. Mr. E. E. Kelly, of TJrbana, 0., writes: “ I bad Eczema on my hands and face for five years, it would break out in little white pustules, crusts would form and drop off, leaving the skin rod and inflam ed. Tlie doctors did me no good. I used all the medicated soaps and salves without benefit. S. S. 8. cured me, and my skin ia as clear and smooth as any one’s.” Mrs. Henry Siegfried, of Capo May, M. J., says that twenty-one bottles of S. 8. S. cured her of Cancer of the breast. Doc tors and friends thought her case hope less. Richard T. Gardner, Florence, S. C., Buffered for years with Boils. Two bot tles of 8. 8. 8. put his blood in good con dition and the Boils disappeared. Send for our free book, and write our physicians about j’our case. Medical advice free. CHE SMdFT SPECIFIC C 0„ ATLmNTA, GA. LABOR WORLD. Strike disturbances have occurred at AznalcoUar, in the province of Se ville, Spain. There are 310 vessels and over 2000 men engaged in the sponge fisheries In Florida. The machinists’ demand for a nine hour day, at Watertown, N. Y., has been refused. All the employes of the omnibus and street car lines In Barcelona, Spain, went on strike. Tug firemen and Ihiemen at Cleve land, Ohio, who have been on strike, have returned to work. Substitute mail carriers are to dis place hoys in the handling df special delivery letters in Boston. Girls who struck for more wages at West's knitting mill, at Ashley, Penn., have been granted their demands. So many negroes have left for the West Virginia coal mines that farm labor is scarce about Greensboro, N. C. The Ohio Rolling Mill Company, at Findlay, Ohio, has granted an increase of ten per cent, in wages to 400 em ployes. Ten thousand additional hands will be needed in June to harvest the crops in Southwestern Kansas and Oklahoma. Reports from Upper Silesia show that fifty per eeut. of the persons who have been out of work are now em ployed and prices are improving all around. The letter carriers of Philadelphia are not to be permitted to wear shirt waists this summer, but their uniform suits will be made of much lighter material than has been custonmrj r in hot weather heretofore. Manchester, N. H., is to have what it is claimed will be the largest sin gle mill building ever erected. It is nearly completed, and is 770 feet long, with two wings of 330 feet, all of an average width of 100 feet, and live stories in height, including basement. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough) trie NA MuRAI. UAilflc. Garrick is pitching fine ball for the Washingtons. Norton, the Hoboken pitcher, is re garded as a wonder. Hans Wagner is still tearing off safe drives for the Pittsburg Club. Crolius, the Bostons’ new right field er. has conic up to all expectations. .vinos Rush 1 , of Cincinnati, lias been sent to \\ cst Baden Springs to get in playing form. Mctiraw's latest recruit for his Bal timore team is Charles Jackson, of Philadelphia, an outfielder. Heidrick, of St. Louis, has simply been “killing - ’ the ball since tlie sea son opened. So lias Jack Doyle. Manager Selec, of Boston, made a trip to Princeton hopeful of signing Hillebrand, (lie crack college pitcher. He learned that Hillebrand lias signed to coach the Tigers until June L The cadets of the West Point Mili tary Academy are taking more than usual interest in baseball this year. They have been practicing hard for months and expect to have an excep tionally strong team. “I have got a strong team,” says Frank Selee, the Boston manager. “Barry in left field is faster than any body I have had there in a long time, and DeMontrcvillo at third suits me. He is a better base runner and hustler than Collins.” Raw son, prospective shortstop of the New Haven team, wears glasses and says they do not handicap bis playing. Not counting smoked spectacles for sun fields, ball players who have worn glasses on the field have been few and far between. It’s notable that the American League did more damage to the Na- i tlonal’s third bases than any other position. Cross from Brooklyn, Mc- Gray from St. Louis, Collins from Bos ton, Bradley from Chicago and Wil liams from Pittsburg are the last corner men who have “jumped.” Start The New Century Right! Don’t try to get along with those old fashioned, out of date farm .mplements. What’s the use, when our prices on up-to-date implements are so low ? EVERY Ti:BT-v^ for quality and durability, has been given the machinery which we sell and recommend, “Tried and true” makes are the only fines good enough for our customer s. WE ABE PR® of our new spring line of stylish RIGS Quality UANTITY. That is the problem which has long confronted us. You see there are so many goods which may look all right but which are really inferior Wo Have Solved It. We never sacrifice qualily but buy in such large lots that we can affojd to sell at very low prices. PgWTICAL is the one who is sure to make a success of his season’s labor. Our customers cannot but do so, for feed saving Crop Making Farm Machinery is the only kind we sell. THE HOUSE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY. kihghthardwaßkEd~~ OKI __JT.PAYS