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MARKET BUTTER IN ATTRACTIVE PACKAGES ft •r> far 1 I »r -. ■ ■■■ wmm. . I#';,:- ■Jk, :v ! r II fs m W !»«p Ifs# UmL. £ - m •VH-XvlyX*’.-' : m m r m M hi m $ .m i<? 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. (SI Wm™ wife- m * FinesiQual $3 w i i .KRWVWmO PORTION tN 1 tHis PMataon vo nus- i :V 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 CI *. a 11 ' ?’ Farmers in . a community may , tak “ tur,lil ,n haull,lg th * lr cream ’ ^ ell| Pl°y e, l ,0 haul , *'• man n,a> 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. IMJffl UiMniK TftEi 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 I j I % vf Si 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. S’ VY / mo m f I m W 5?. 2 *« fcT \ Any Time % v is}, Post Toasties F * i J These Superior Corn Flakes are no only a delicious breakfast food—they make an appetizing lunch at any hour of the day. M After And play how time—for the kiddies lunch do enjoy them! V & or supper— the crinkly brown flakes just hit the spot % Post Toasties made of choicest & A* are selected Indian corn; steam-cooked, daintily seasoned, rolled and toasted to a delicate golden-brown. m. m o Post Toasties reach you all ready to IP serve—just add cream or milk. Little or no sugar is requires as pure sugar is cooked [ in. Also mighty good with any kind of fruit. Ask Your Grocer, Post Toasties—the Superior Corn Flakesi 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 V attended with I /ft splendid results. ;/*“^When X found the (fine effect of Doan’s [ ta/*chronic TlCidney Pills of In cases # A kidney complaint oth- that had defied 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.” Cat Doan's at Any Store. SOe ■ Box DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS FOSTER-MILBURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. V, 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.