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A Load of Cream at a Southern Creamery.
(Prepared by the United States Depart*
mem of Agriculture.)
Most of the surplus butter from the
farm cow in the South is exchanged
for groceries at the country store. On
account of poor quality, unattractive
packages, and irregular supply, the
prices received lor this butter are very
low. Bulletins explaining how the
housewife can make good butter and
how to put it into attractive packages
may be obtained without cost by up-
Plying to the department of agricul-
lure, Washington, I). <’.
Purchasers of butter like to buy
from persons who can furnish it the
year round. Usually the market for
farm butter is oversupplied during the
cummer season. This is because cows
generally freshen in the spring and
thus furnisii a greater supply of butter
throughout the summer, when grass
and green feed are abundant, than at
any other time of the year. For this
reason the price of butter is lowest in
summer and highest iu winter. To
take advantage of these conditions
farmers should have their cows fresh¬
en in the fall; this would tend to
equalize the supply of butter through¬
out the year.
In many cases no great effort is
made to find a good market for the
farm butter. Too often nearby gro¬
cery stores are regarded as the only
market possibility. Hoarding houses,
women’s clubs, hotels and restau¬
rants, and private families, not only
in the home towns but in surrounding
towns, should be canvassed and a sam¬
ple of the butter exhibited. In this
way a good market for farm butter
may be secured if the butter is of
good quality and can be supplied reg¬
ularly.
The frequency of delivery will de¬
pend upon the demand of the trade.
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A Fancy Container for a High Grade Product.
Often the farmer or some member of
his family can without inconvenience
deliver the butter to the purchasers.
When those who have butter to sell
can not deliver It to distant purchas¬
ers they should investigate the oppor¬
tunities offered by the parcel post
service.
Cream obtained by running the
warm whole milk through a cream
separator is a very convenient form
in which to market the product of
cows. Less equipment and labor are
required for this method than if but¬
ter is made.
For handling cream it is necessary
io have a separator, shipping cans,
some appliances for heating water to
wash utensils, and some means for
cooling the cream.
Cream if not properly taken care of
Is easily spoiled. Directions for tak¬
ing the proper care of milk and cream
are described in a circular which is
sent free by the department of agri¬
culture.
Since the fat is the most valuable
part, cream is usually sold according
to the pounds of fat it contains. For
determining the percentage of fat in
cream the Babcock test, which is a
simple process, is used. Small sam¬
ples of cream are tested aud the per¬
centage of fat shown is multiplied by
the weight of the cream from which
the sample is taken. For example, if
a sample of cream from a can con¬
taining 40 pounds is found to test 25
per cent, the pounds of butterfat are
found by multiplying 40 by 0.25,
which is ten pounds. The persons
buying the cream generally do the
sampling and testing.
Hotels, restaurants, railroad eating
houses, soda fountains, and ice cream
manufactories offer markets for fresh
sweet cream. Such markets require
a high class product of uniform qual¬
ity and a dependable supply delivered
at regular intervals. This makes it
necessary for farmers who supply
such markets to have good transporta¬
tion facilities.
The market for cream within reach
of the largest number of fanners is
the creamery. This furnishes a con-
stant demand for cream, whether in
large or small quantities. There are
three ways of .getting cream to the
creamery or shipping point:
^ Each farmer may Uaul his 0 wn
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?’ Farmers in . a community may
, tak “ tur,lil ,n haull,lg th * lr cream ’
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aI1 th « cr< ' am regularly and each farm-
er ma Y hay Tor this service according
to the amount of cream he sells.
The third method is on the same
principle as the rural free delivery of
mail matter. Under this system the
hauler at regular intervals conies to
the farmer’s door, gets the cream, and
takes it to the creamery or shipping
point. The cream is weighed, sam¬
pled, and poured into a carrying can
in the wagon. The samples and rec¬
ords of weights are sent to the cream¬
ery. Routes may be established close
to the creamery, and the cream deliv¬
ered direct, or they may be estab¬
lished at distant points and the cream
delivered to a central station for ship¬
ping to the creamery. Subroutes may
radiate from points on the main route
and thus cream can be collected from
a wide area.
in communities in which interest in
selling cream is just being aroused
and where there is not cream enough
produced to pay for having it collected
each day, the cream can be kept from
day to day and collected twice a week
in winter and three times in summer.
Where this is practiced the farmers
must use ice to keep the cream as cold
as possible, or place the cans in spring
or well water. Unless extra care Is
taken to produce the cream in the
most cleanly manner, and unless It is
kept thoroughly cold at all times, this
method is not advisable.
The shipping of cream compels the
farmer to have a separator. The cost
of the separator is often discouraging
to the man who has only two or three
cows, and who, but for this expense,
could sell a small amount of cream.
This, however, need not prevent the
purchase of a separator, as some com-
panies sell their machines for a small
cash payment, the remainder to be
paid In monthly or bimonthly install-
ments. This enables the fanner to let
the cows pay for the separator.
Again, in the ease of several farm-
ers living near one another, one sepa-
rator, centrally located, can be used
by all. The central separator offers
a splendid opportunity for land-
owners to encourage their tenants
to keep cows. Even if the tenants
have only small quantities of milk, it
will bring more money in the form of
cream than if the milk were churned
and the butter sold. Carrying the
milk to the separator is also less trou-
ble than making the butter.
In sections where cream can be mar
keted, routes operated iu some such
way as described are to be commend
ed, provided the cream is produced
ami handled properly, as they enable
the farmer to procure a steady cash
income from his cows by providing a
market at his door.
Early Start for Strawberries.
Strawberry plants, like fruit trees,
should be set at the earliest possible
moment in spring. The variety select-
ed should be one that has proved good
in your locality: If you experiment
with new varieties let it be on a small
scale. Remember, too, that the vari-
ety recommended as a good shipper la
not the best for home use. Some of
the most delicious berries are too soft
to stand shipping, but cannot he ex¬
celled for home consumption.
Incubators Always Ready.
Incubators can be kept always in
hatching order, but not the hen.
THE CARNESVII.LE ADVANCE, CARNESVILI.E. GEORGIA.
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EXCELLENT RATION FOR COW
If Farmers Would Depend More on
Silage and Less on Pasture Herds
Could Be Doubled.
A good ration for cows giving milk
is silage twice a day, corn fodder once
a day and all the bean forage they will
clean up, with about one pound grain
or concentrate to every three pounds
milk the cow gives. If the beans were
pulled before becoming too ripe and
secured without much rain falling on
them, the forage makes good feed.
Roots are valuable to increase the
tlow of milk.
,lf we would depend more on silage
and less on pasture, our dairy herds
might easily be doubled and the farm
enriched accordingly. Many farmers
have been slow to awaken to the fact
that dairying brings excellent returns.
Many unprofitable crops are still
raised where the laud might better be
growing feed for live stock.
Permanent pasture is a waste un¬
less the land cannot he plowed. Every
acre should be made to raise feed for
stock to the limit of its capacity, and
this should be fed right on the farm,
returning the fertility to the soil.
PAIL OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
Where Clean Milk Is Produced Small-
Top Receptacle Is Necessary
to Exclude Bacteria.
The United States department of
agriculture has this to say about
milking:
“In modern dairies where clean
milk is produced the small-top milk
pail is a necessity, as such a pail pre¬
sents only a small opening into which
dust and dirt may fail from the air
or from the cow’s body. It has been
found by experience that the use of
the small-top pail greatly reduces the
number of bucteria in milk from aver¬
age dairies. Many types or milk palls
are for sale, but auy tinner can con¬
vert an ordinary pail Into a small-top
pall by the addition ol’ a hood, as
shown herewith.
Milkers should be allowed to milk
only with dry hands. The practice
of wetting the hands with milk is a
filthy habit and is liable to cause the
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Open and Small-Top Pails.
cow’s teats to chap in the winter
time. Milking should be done quick¬
ly and thoroughly, with no violent
jerking of the teats. After each cow
is milked the pail of milk should be
removed immediately to the milk
house.
The milker should remember al¬
ways that he is handling a human
food which is very easily contami¬
nated. Soap, clean water and towels
must be readily accessible. The hands
should be washed after milking each
cow.
COTTONSEED MEAL FOR COWS
No Harmful Effects If Fed in Moder¬
ate Amounts Along With Variety
of Other Feeds.
(By E G woodward. Nebraska Ex¬
perlment Station.)
A Nebraska subscriber writes: “Is
the feeding of cottonseed meal harm-
ful to dairy cows if fed right along?”
jf cottonseed meal Is fed in moder-
a te amounts along with a variety of
other feeds, there are no harmful ef-
f e cts.
Ordinarily a cow should not be fed
m0 re than two pounds daily of cotton-
see< i mea i. As a usual thing it will
not ta h e this amount to properly bal-
ance a ra ti 0 u made up of common
j a j ry f eeds
A t present prices cottonseed meal
is a verv cheap source of protein and
should undoubtedly be used much
more extensively by Nebraska dairy-
men than it now is.
MUD HOLES IN COW PASTURE
Clean Shore Is Blessing to Fly-Pes-
tered Animals—Many Annoyances
Are Avoided.
A cow pasture mud hole is a ver-
itable nuisance. To get away from
the flies the cows will wade in the mud
until their legs and even their udders
become completely plastered. Then
added to the annoyance of stamping
and kicking at flies at milking time we
have the added anuoyauce of being
obliged to milk cows with chapped
teats,
A clean lake shore or river or brook
In the pasture is a blessing indeed to
the fly-pestered cows, but the mud hole
should either be drained or fenced out
of the pasture. Foul in the foot with
cattle, and grease heel with horses, is
the result of tramping back and forth
from mud holes to dusty grounds.
GEORGIANS TESTIFY
TO MAYR’S REMEDY
Live* Redeemed and Fortunes In
Health Are Recovered.
Most of the problems of health
originate in the stomach. Most of
these ailments can be cured. Thou¬
sands of people right in the State of
Georgia are needlessly suffering front
stomach troubles, while thousands of
others have found health by the use
of Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy. The
first dose of this remarkable remedy
is proof. Here are the words of two
Georgians who have used it:
B DUNCAN. 136 \V. Peachtree St„
Atlanta, Ga.—“I took one bottle of
Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy and it did
me so much good I must continue the
treatment.”
SALISTA THOMAS, 55 La France
St., Atlanta, Ga.—‘‘I have taken your
remedy for five weeks. I feel like I
hardly known my strength—my appe¬
tite is fine.”
Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy gives per-
manent results for stomach, liver and
intestinal ailments. Eat as much and
whatever you like. No more distress
after eating, pressure of gas In the
stomach and around the heart. Get one
bottle of your druggist now and try it
on an absolute guarantee—if not satis-
factory money will be returned.—Adv.
Marital Diplomacy.
Plunger—I felt awfully sorry for a
poor guy down at the exchange today.
He lost five thousand on cotton and
all the hoys were guying him, and as
he started off home they taunted him
with the prediction that his wife
would land on him roughly. The poor
chap acted as though he felt pretty
bad about it.
Mrs. Plunger (sympathetically)—
Poor fellow! No doubt he used his
best judgment, and if his wife turns
on him because of his reverses she
is not worthy to be called wife. But,
who was the man?
Plunger—Why—er—it was me.—
Woman's Home Companion.
This Happened in Boston.
“Cynthia, will you recite, 'Mary Had
a Little Lamb’ for us?” asked the
kind old gentleman.
“I do not care to, much as I should
like to oblige you,” replied the little
girl.with the hornrimmed eyeglasses.
“As a matter of fact, the poem has lit¬
tle, if any, literary value, and in addi¬
tion is not true to life as it exists to¬
day. Under the constriction in thrade,
due to the meat trust, Mary could not
own an entire lamb. She might have
had a chop, but beVond that the poet's
imagination must he blamed.”—Phil¬
adelphia Public Ledger.
The Polite French.
Bacon—You know the French are
very polite people.
Egbert—I have always heard so.
“Why, even when they take a Ger¬
man trench it is said they apologize.”
The Bill Climbed.
“I suppose you climbed the Alps
when you were abroad?”
“No, just ran up a bill, that was
all."
Some kings and all babies are born
rulers.
The fortune hunter must act as his
own guide.
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TORPEDOII NOVELTY
Deadly Weapon May Be Adopted
by Uncle Sam.
Has Mechanism Which Enables It to
Be Directed With Certainty at
Any Ship It Is Desired
to Destroy.
A new torpedo, which can be made
to perform any desired evolution or
combination of evolutious by properly
setting its steering gear before the in¬
strument of destruction is launched,
will probably be adopted by the United
States navy as a result of successful
tests recently made at Newport.
By setting the mechanism for a pre¬
arranged course, the torpedo can be
made to travel in a straight line for a
definite distance, when it will turn In
any angle or curve for which it is set,
continuing its progress in straight
lines, curves and zigzags along the ex-
act course which has been laid out for
!t beforehand. It can even be made to
describe a complete circle at any
point or distance within its range.
If the tests, when completed, satisfy
the navy department, the United
States will come into the possession of
a terribly efficient weapon for attacks
upon shipping in the rivers and har¬
bors of an enemy. The brilliant suc¬
cess achieved by the aeroplane in
scouting and surveying in the Euro¬
pean war makes apparent the possi¬
bilities of destructive work which may
be accomplished by this new torpedo.
Let U3 suppose that the United
States is blockading a harbor or river
of the enemy, in which his fleet has
taken refuge and from which it re¬
fuses to come forth to combat.. Strate¬
gical reasons demand the crippling of
this fieet in order that the American
ships may be released for work else¬
where.
An aeroplane is launched from one
of the fleet, and, sailing high above the
fortifications of the enemy, well out of
reach of his guns, makes au accurate
record of the bends and obstructions
in the channel, as well as the exact po¬
sitions of the hostile warships. The
results of these observations are sig¬
naled to the fleet lying off the mouth
of the harbor. A sudden dash of the
torpedo-boat flotilla, or the silent ap¬
proach of submarines to the mouth of
the river or harbor—a few coughs
from the torpedo tubes and dozens of
these new messengers of death start
their swift, silent journey, twisting and
turning through the channels and pas¬
sages toward their appointed goal. No
boom or torpedo net would serve to
wajrd them off if launched in succes¬
sion, for the least pressure on the
firing pin in the nose causes an explo¬
sion. The first torpedo to strike a
barrier would blow it out of the water,
leaving a clear passage for those fol¬
lowing it.
With instruments capable of such
accurate control as these, the only dif¬
ficulty would be in approaching suffi¬
ciently close to launch them from effi¬
cient range. For the rest it would only
be necessary to launch a large enough
number of them in order to destroy
barricades and bombs, cutting a clear
passage through to the enemy’s ships.
Have You a Bad Back?
Does your back ache night aud day, mak¬
ing work a burden and rest impossible!
Do you suffer stabbing, dartlug pains when
stooping or lifting! Most bad backs are
due to hidden trouble in the kldueys and
if the kidney secretions are scant or too
frequent of passage, proof of kidney trou¬
ble Is complete. Delay may pave the way
to serious kidney ills. For bad backs and
weak kidneys, use Doan’s Kidney Pills—
recommended the world over.
A Georgia Cage
Dr J. B. Dillard,
Hamilton St., Spar¬
ta. Ga., says: “The
use of Doan’s Kid¬
ney Pills in my
Mil practice has been
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;/*“^When X found the
(fine effect of Doan’s
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cases
# A kidney complaint oth-
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JFM r ” er was convinced treatment, that I
I could well afford
to recommend them and prescribe
them. I have taken Doan 3 Kidney
Pills myself and have had relief from
pains in my back.”
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American Milk Bottles to Britain.
in reference to our recent paragraph
on the shortage in milk bottles due to
the supply having in the past been
drawn from Austria, we are informed
by a firm in the trade that this diffi¬
culty is now being overcome. It is
possible to secure bottles from Amer¬
ica, of equal quality and at the same
price as the Austrian product. We are
glad to hear that the Austrian source
of supply can be dispensed with with¬
out inconvenience, but we should be
still more glad to hear that the de¬
mand could be met by British makers.
In this connection we are informed
that English bottles are to be obtained,
‘ but at a rise of 20 per cent and of an
inferior quality.”—London Globe.
Martial Perplexities.
“Our position is rather precarious,”
said the leader of a small band. “Gen¬
eral Bananio is likely to march against
us at any time.”
“Why don’t you retreat?”
“That’s the difficulty. There are so
many generals about that an effort to
get away from one may look like a
precipitate attack on another.”
Alaska’s White Population.
Governor Strong of Alaska reports
that the white population of the ter¬
ritory is estimated at 39,000, an in¬
crease of 3,000 over last year’s esti¬
mate. The area is 590,884 square
miles, and the density of the total
population per square mile at the
last federal census was one inhabit¬
ant to ten square miles of area.
Competition Resented.
“How did you come out in that
poker game?” asked Bronch Bob.
“I won seventy dollars,” replied the
traveling man.
“An’ the last time you was here you
won twice as much.”
“Yes. Why do you ask?”
“Purely fur patriotic reasons. Us
Crimson Gulchers has about decided
it’s time to git together an’ pass some
anti-immigration laws fur local use.”
A man’s favorite way of saying noth¬
ing is to write a long letter to a friend.