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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, QA.
THE GUERNSEY POPULAR.
Breed Has Won Public Favor by Higa
Class of Product.
The foundation of tlie Guernsey
breed of dairy cattle was laid amid
the surroundings of the economical
dul^.v conditions prevalent on the Is
land of Guernsey. The Introduction
of the Guernsey Into this country was
Induced by a realization of the high
class of her dairy products, writes W.
M. Caldwell In the llreeder’s Gazette.
First she came Into the hands of the
private estate owners, who were de
sirous of the rich and highly natural
colored products for their own use.
Gradually as this desirable character
istic of the Guernsey was better
known she was more sought for.
The first real public introduction of
the Guernsey was at the World's fair
The Guernsey cow Dairymaid of
Plnehurst holds the world's thren-
year-old record. She produced In ono
year 14,502 pounds of milk and HIM
pounds of butter fat, making 1.003
pounds of butter. Tills cow Is own
ed by W. W. Marsh. Waterloo, la.
in 1803. This uud the Pnn-Amerlcnn
model breed test ut Buffalo In 1001 are
possibly the best instances of public
rating which the products of the dairy
breeds have ever had. In the Buffalo
tests the Guernsey cows were awarded
the prize for net protits In butter fat
and the prize for net profit in churned
butter. They not only showed the
greatest profit, but also made butter
at the least cost per pound and return
ed the greatest profit for every dollar
invested in feed.
To the American Guernsey Cattlo
club belongs the credit of establishing
the llrst measure of utility of the
breed of entile upon the basis of ac
tual production of butter fat and that
for one year’s time or a period that
shall test I lie true worth of a dairy
cow. During the last six years 1.113
records have been made. These show
an average of 8,031.21) pounds of milk,
400.73 pounds of butter fat and 5.121
per cent of butter fat.
Besides the dairy breed tost, which
has been referred to, the latest one In
which the public 1ms been interested
is that of the great Iowa state dairy
cow contest. In lids the Guernseys
have led. The three cows producing
the greatest amount of butler fat dur
ing the year were Guernseys. This Is
/but. another corroboration of the ster
ling finalities of the breed.
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VALUE OF COW TESTING. ->
One dairyman produced $2,000
worth of milk from twenty cows,
or $100 per cow, while a neigh
bor bestowed twice ns much la
bor on forty cows nml sold only
T $1,800 worth of ml.'k, or $45 per
cow, barely paying expenses,
while the first man made a profit
•• of over $1,000. Vet the second
mail said he had no time to
•• spend a few minutes each day
weighing and testing the milk
from each cow. Instead he spent
4* four long, weary years In ruising
anil harvesting the crops on a
KM) acre farm and feeding nnd
milking forty cows to mnke ns
much profit ns his neighbor did
In one year with half the cows,
half the land nnd half the labor.
—Professor W. .1. Fraser. Univer-
* slty of Illinois.
PROFIT IN BREEDING
GOOD BIG HORSES.
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Cabbage For Cows.
Cabbage Is an excellent cow feed
nnd if properly handled will not taint
tilt 1 milk or butter, says the Kansas
Farmer. Fed on pasture or Immediate
ly after milking It gives no flavor or
taint. It can be fed several hours be
fore milking with no hml results. It
should not ho stored in the barn or
milking quarters and should not be
fed until .after the milk 1ms been re
moved from the barn. It tins a pro
tein value above most vegetables and
1s a profitable dairy feed v'heu rightly
handled.
Technical Feed Terms.
The term corn fodder applies to for
age when the seed lias been sown so
thickly that but small or no ears of
corn develop on the stalks. Corn sto
ver Is the stalk and leaves of ripened
field corn after the ear lias been re
moved. Corn chop is ground corn. It
differs from cornmenl in that It con
tains the bran of the corn.
In breeding horses sound parents are
necessary for the production of sound
offspring. Soundness In one parent
should hot lie trusted to eliminate 1111-
sounduess in the other, says the Kan
sas Farmer. One or both may have
beauty of form, and I he resultant prog
eny may likewise be beautiful, hut
mere beauty is of little value unless
associated with soundness nnd goad
wearing qualities. That “like pro
duces like” Is tlie well known law In [_
breeding. The use of unsound stal
lions and mares in breeding opera
tions, whether for the market or for
farm stock, will produce unsound
horses to offer on the market for the
small, discriminating prices paid for
such animals or with tho equally un
satisfactory result of raising horses
that arc hardly worth their keep.
An unsound stallion, no matter how
handsome in conformation, how well
he may he bred or how many prizes
he may have won, should be overlook
ed positively by the owner of a good
mare. Transmissible diseases in a stai-
lion will develop in the offspring. The
stud requisites in the main arc sound
eyes, hearing and wind. Spavins,
sldebones, ringbones, strlnghnlt, St.
Vitus dance (chorea) and contagious
diseases must he religiously guarded
against. A certificate of soundness
signed by a qualified and reputable
veterinarian would not be more than
a ronsonnble demand from t lie breeder.
This, however, Is but one side of
the matter. The mare must also he
Dr. Hamrick Gives the Free Press Readers Some
VALUABLE EYE SUGGESTIONS.
It will be worth vour time to read this article.
Eye Dont’s
Don’t buy glasses over a counter
and select them yourself. You
might chance to get a pair that
helped your vision for the time be
ing, buy that may prove most in-
juriour.
How to Feed Oilmeal.
Ollmeal may be fed to all classes
of farm stock. Fattening steers will
use to great advantage from two to
three pounds of ollmeal daily In con
nection with other feeds. Feeding oil-
meal In the form of nut sized cakes Is
considered [/referable to the loose menl
by most of our steer feeders. Dairy
cows will consume one or two pounds
of oilmeal dally with their grain ra
tions, and during the winter feeding
period more or less oilmeal is almost
Indispensable In order to keep the
cows in the best condition for produc
ing milk nnd butler fat. For growing
calves, sheep and hogs ollmeal can
constitute about one-tenth of tin- grain
ration fed and prove very beneficial.
Horses may bo fed small quantities,
although its general use for horses
Is not recoin mended Professor Hum
phreys In Wisconsin Bulletin.
Keep Cattlo Comfortable.
There are ninny farmers who always
shelter their cattlo from storm, but
there lire raw, cold, windy days which
harm them ns much as storms. Don’t
let them cringe in pasture corners,
clustered together for warmth on such
days. But them in the shed or barn.
Moldy Corn Produces Staggers.
The Kansas experiment station has
Just issued n bulletin giving results
of experiments to determine the cause
of blind staggers in horses. It is not
certain which micro-organism present
In moldy corn produces the trouble,
but it comes from that kind of corn.
No matter which one is responsible,
we can avoid it by feeding only sound
grain to horses and using moldy stuff
for less sensitive animals if it is used
at ail.
Don’t buy glasses because they
are cheap. Such glasses have ini
perfectly ground lenses, and do not
fit the face properly. Ycu only
have one pair of eyes, so don’t cheat
them with cheap glasses.
Don’t read in bed cr on train.
Many eye troubles are caused this
way.
Don’t read without your glasses’
if you wear them. Never attempt
to read with anothers glasses.
Don’t continue to wear old glass
es when they do not give you satis
faction. It is easy to have them
right by getting them from me. My
work is guaranteed.
Eye Symptoms
Many people have EYE Defects
of which they are unconcious.
Sometimes I find those that have
been neglected so long that a treat
ment is necessary. If your eyes
give you the the least trouble now,
wear glasses for k the sake of your
future eyesight.
DR. J. D. HAMRICK
One Eyesight Specialist who knows
If you have headaches.
If your eyes water.
If they ache.
If print runs together.
If things appear double
If things become dim or swim.
If your eyes are inflamed.
If they tire after reading.
If a bright light pains them.
If you nave any of these symp-
h| s business Take advantage of toms ; a conseltation with me NOW
his FREE OFFER and see him to- ( w hich is free) might save you
dfl y- countless years of misery and pain.
OFFICE IN STORE S. W. CORNER SQUARE, CARROLLTON, GA.
use of lurin' marcs that arc [rood milk
ers. In no other way can colts ho yro-
dneed with sufficient hone nnd feeding
quality lo attain the size nml finish
demanded by the markets. Even then,
as before stated, the youngsters must
EVE HAD AN EASY TIME.
Tho Percheron stallion Fanfaran,
herewith illustrated. Is said to bo
the only champion stallion ever Im
ported from Franco, llo Is said by
excellent judges to rank among the
greatest living draft stallions, lie
won first prize and championship at
tho Minnesota fair and was also a
' winner at Wisconsin state fair.
Neither Fashions Nor Nerves Bothered
the First Woman.
French fashions being yet in the
be supplied with the best of feed la future, dress patterns and Mrs.
Jones’ new bonnet did not worry
Mother Eve. Her first efforts at
costuming were n little crude, but
i later site wore coats of fur or sheep
skin, the forerunners of the l’ari-
| sienne’s I'ersiaan lamb wrap of to
day.
THE PICAYUNE.
What the Coin Uied to Buy When It
Was In Circulation.
lnrgo amounts from the very first
Only the best blood must be used, and
then every effort must he made to
keep the horse gaining from the first
if lie is to top the market.
Origin of Polled Jerseys.
It Is suitl Mint the first Polled Jer
sey, Daisy I., was taken as a calf from
Lebanon, N. II.. to Newark, O. She
was the granddaughter of n polled
cow. snld to have been imported from
Ihe island of Jersey by Professor Had
dock. United with a horned bull, tills
cow produced a daughter named Jose,
an animal with small horns, which.
Slip never suffered from nerves;
her children did not catch the
measles at school nor worry her
playing hookey. The furnace did
not go out nor Uic iceman forget
her. Monthly hills, water rates and
taxes were things unknown. Soap
from a horned Jersey bull, brought not yet having arrived anil Adam
sound. Among other tilings, a worn-
out, mnluied, blind, halt or otherwise
unsound mare, 110 matter how good
she has been, is not tit for breeding
purposes, on the basis that ’’she Is
good for nothing else.” This policy is
not only absurd, but costly.
Tho draft horse is par excellence the
horse for the farmer to raise. Oniy
the blood of the best draft breeds nml
the heaviest and best boned stallions
are suitable. Even then the demand
for extreme weights necessitates the
forth Daisy. 'Fills variety first attract
ed attention in 11)01. when a Polled
Jersey. Nubbin Ridge Queen XXXVII.
proved at the l’an-Anierlean to be the
richest milker of tho fifty cows of the
ten breeds represented.—Country Gen
tleman.
Sore Mouth of Cow.
Swab the sore mouth and tongue
otieo or twice daily with a soluliou of
half an ounce eneli of powdered alum
and borax in a quart of water. If tiie
tongue is enlarged, hard nnd showing
denuded or stripped places it is neti- J centuries, i
nomyeosis of the tongue (wooden I bright anil
tongue), and tills is best treated lt»y I of her time „
painting sores witli^ tincture of iodine j se ]f to tempt her, anti then neither
" wealth nor power, hut the desire
preferring negligees to boiled
shirts, she had little laundry work
to do. lie did not stay out late at
the lodge, and she belonged to no
literary clubs. Altogether what a
restful lot was hers compared to
these strenuous days!
In the scheme of creation the
lower animals appeared first. Be
sides being the newest thing, conse
quently the highest type, and tho
onlv woman whose name is told for
0 must have been
■ogress ive, in advance
11 took the devil him-
overy other day nml giving a dram of
iodide of potash In water night and
morning for periods of ten days with
two weeks’ Intermission.
Her Straight Tip.
Mr. Blank, who mnkes many nft-
for knowledge, appealed to her.
The masculine element, apparently
not alert enough to seek it himself,
meekly and quilo willingly followed
his wife’s lead, and some of him
er dinner speeches, was called to dear brethren, are doing that yet.
tho telephone and found himself j Adam’s endeavor to dodge the
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
talking to the young woman secre
tary of a very good friend, the sec
retary being a quick wilted Irish
lass.
“Mr. Blank,” • he said, “Mr. Jones
wants me to tell you that a mooting
of the chib and a dinner are to oe-
TO ALL
cur tonk
peeled I 1
“Is th
an) 1 t 1 1
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Gaelic e
what so :
last spec:
arc
• and that
lake a talk.”
■ ;said Blank. “What
1: about ?”
responded she of the
ruction, “if you heard
of them said about your
to the club you’d talk
blame and Gain’s characteristic
query fiboiit his brother’s keeper
showed that in those days hoys took
after their father. The girls prob
ably resembled their mother. Sho
wished to he wise, with the knowl
edge of good and evil, and to know
all about Ihe neighbors, and her
daughters have been just like her
ever since.—Life.
about two minutes
We take this method of thanking our custom
ers for their kind and liberal patronage during the
past seven monthe, and solicit a continuance of
your valued favors through 1911. Promising the
same fair dealing and most earnest effort to please
you. May the New Year bring many joys and
much prosperity to our friends is our sincere wish.
Jackson & Smith
Whittier and His Admirers.
Few poets had more admirers
amoug women than Whittier had,
and this admiration frequently took
personal form. One day his sister,
in her slow Quaker fashion, was de
scribing these eruptions. “Thee
hast no idea,” she said, “of the time
Greenloaf spends in trying to lose
these people on the streets. Some
times he comes home and says,
‘Well, sister, 1 had hard work to
lose him, but I have lost him.’” To
this Whittier pathetically added,
“But I can never lose a her.”
According to Rule.
“Where’s your watch?” asked the
observant man.
“Whv, here it is,” replied the
man whose prosperity had slipped a
cog or two recently.
Wanted It Dramatic.
A French soldier sat on the sum
mit of a hill overlooking a garrison
town; his horse was picketed close
by. The man was smoking leisure
ly, and from time to time he glanced
from the esplanade to a big official
envelope he held in his hand. A
comrade passed by and asked,
“What are you doing here?” “I am
bearing the president’s pardon for
our friend Flichmann, who is to bo
shot this morning,” replied the
smoker calmly, without changing
his comfortable attitude. “Well,
then, von should hurry along with
your pardon,” admonished his com
rade. “Ah, no!” exclaimed tho oth
er, in some indignation. “See, there
is hardly a soul yet on the espla
nade, and tho firing platoon has not
even been formed. You surely
would not have me rob my appear
ance of all dramatic effect, my
friend 1”
Tho first time I ever saw a penny
was at school in Yanlccoland in
1847. It was given me to pay the
man for bringing me a letter from
the postofficc—10 cents postage, 1
cent delivery in those davs. Peo
ple had to got their mail at the of
fice. There was no free deliv
ery. Certain neighborhoods of
spinsters, however—t ho college
town was full of such—-secured the
services of a lame, halt or blind
man to bring their letters from the
office to their door once a day for
the stipend of a penny each.
There was no coin in circulation
of less value than a picayune where
was my home. A picayune repre
sented so little value that a miser
was called picayunish. At the same
time it represented such a big value
that wo children felt rich when we
had one tied in the corner of our
handkerchief. Old Manctte, who
Bet up her table and urn for an hour
or so every morning at the corner
of Camp and Canal streets, served
delicious hot coffee—a big cupful,
too—for a picayune, hut when I
was out of tied early enough for that
it was to go to market with .Joint.
Then we took our coffee at Pal-
myre’s stand, for sho supplemented
a greasy cake the size <>L’ a cracker
as lagniappe with the coffee. At
the corner of Chartres and Canal
streets was a tiny soda fountain
where one could get a glass of soda
for a picayune—or mead. We chil
dren liked mead. I never see it
now, but as I recall it was a thick,
honey, creamy drink. We must have
preferred it because it seemed so
much more for a picayune than the
frothy, effervescent, palish soda
water. It was a great lark to go
with pa and take my glass of mead
while he ordered ginger sirup (of
all things!) with his soda. Tn the
changes years bring, a penny now
buys about what a picayune did in
my day. One pays a penny for
ever so big a newspaper today. A
picayune was the price of a small
sheet in my time.—Mrs. 12. Ripley
in Xew Orleans Tiines-Deinocrat.
Th» Ironclad Vestal.
The famous naval battle in
“But that s a silver one. The one Hampton Roads was the first real
you used to carry had a handsome test of tho ironclad vessel. Before
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gold case.’ 1
“Well—er — circumstances alter
cases, you know.”
that memorable affair there had
been one or two armored craft, but
they had not been tried in battle.
The Hampton Ronds fight sounded
the doom of the wooden warship.
It was seen at once that such ves-
Two Kinds.
Little Willie—Say, pa, what is
the difference between a close Be ) s were useless against craft like
friend and a dear friend ? . the Monitor or Merrimac, and the
Pa A close friend, my son, ia navies of the world were instanta-
one who will not lend jpu any neously revolutionized. Since 18G2
money, .while a dear friend is one no na tion has hnd other than ar-
who borrows all you will stand for. j mored warships.—New York Arner-
—Chicago News.
A Pardonable Pun.
Most if not all of the deep sea
sounding now done is done wit!
steel wire. Professor Silvanus P
Thompson in his recent “Life o
William Thomson,” better known
as Lord Kelvin, says that that sci
entist was one of the First to recom
mend the abandonment of tho old
hemp rope system.
In connection with this use of
steel wire the story is told that
Joule, visiting White’s shop, found
Sir William surrounded by coils of
wire which he was inspecting and
on inquiring their use was told that
they were pianoforte wire for
sounding.
“For sounding what note?” in
quired Joule.
“The deep C,” was Sir William’s
re Pty-
xcan ’
Casey decided to go into business,
so he bought out a small livery
stable and had a painter make a
sign for him showing him astride a
mule. He had this sign placed in
front of the stable and was quite
proud of it. His friend Finnigan
happened along and stood gazing al
the sign.
“That’s a good picture of me
ain’t it?” asked Casey.
“Sure: it looks something lik'
you,” said Finnigan, “hut who th
devil is tho man on your back?”