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Journal.
For Most Profit.
the i mediates you
and sell your product direct to
OEsnmer. if possible. The scale
of profitable t jsition of dairy pro
ducts is as follows, beginning with
the least profitable:
Home-made I >uiter, with skim
milk fed on farm Whole milk sold
to andensery. Whole milk sold to
creamery. The use of hand separa
tor. with cream collected by cream
ery. and fresh, warm skimmilk fed
on the farm. Milk and cream
shipped for city consumption. The
retail milk route, selling the milk
to consumers.—H. A. Bere
man, m the American Cultivator.
Demand For Good Horses.
Farmers must take to breeding
good horses. Such are not only
needed on the fanns, but it is as easy
to raise a good horse which will sell
at a long price as it is to raise a scrub
for which there is no market. The
demand for heavy horses was never
better than at present, and it is likely
to increase rather than to decrease.
The population is centralizing in large
cities. These naturally become the
great distributing centres, and with
increase in distribution comes in¬
crease in the demand for heavy dray
horses so extensively used in such dis¬
tribution. This means, therefore,
tha’ the breeding of such horses is an
entirely safe venture on the part of
those who will take it up on intelli¬
gent lines. Those who engage in it
need not be harassed by fear that
they are putting their money into a
plant that will soon become useless
because of depreciation in the price
of horses. The great mistake in
rearing horses for dray uses lies in
the fact that they are too lacking in
w - eight. Any number of horses can
be bred which weigh betw'een 1300
and 1400 pounds, The number is
not large that weigh more than 1500
pounds, and yet it is the latter class
that is most wanted.—Farmer’s Ad¬
vocate.
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Fertiliser For Corn.
As 1 am a reader of your valuable
paper and seeing an item of great
importance to the farmer in regard
to fertilizing of corn, will say, on ac¬
count of not getting a stand of . lo¬
ver two years ago I purchased an
attachment for my planter for the
purpose of using commercial ferti¬
lizer and applied in the hill about
eighty-five pounds to the acre, and
so well pleased with the result that
I will try it again this season. Mv
farm is of a clay timber land and
considered rather poor land, I have
been raising from forty to fifty bush¬
els per acre for the past six years
on clover sod, but last year with the
addition of fertilizer I raised better
than sixty bushels per acre of good
corn. Now there is a difference in
the quality of fertilizer, I prefer the |
best, as it is the cheapest in the end.
Of course, it costs more per ton, but
we get less ground stone in the bet¬
ter quality. Some will tell you if
you commence using it you have to
keep it up. Now that is all bosh.
Of course, a farmer should raise clo¬
ver by all means. Clover seed will
never be so high but what it will pay
to sow it. I paid $25 per ton for
my fertilizer.—W. II. Wilson, in the
Indiana Farmer.
How to Test the Acidity of Soils.
Supposed corrective treatments
are often given to soils supposed to
be acid, when as a matter of fact
au opposite treatment may be re¬
quired. A recipe given by the De¬
partment of Agriculture for deter¬
mining soil acidity is as follows.
Boil for a half hour a sample of
the soil to be tested in a small quan¬
tity of w-ater, say a quart. Allow
it to settle, and when perfectly clear,
pour off the water into a white dish
and test it with both blue and red
litmus paper. These papers can be
procured from any drug store for a
few cents. If the soil is acid, the
blue litmus paper will turn red. If
it is alkaline, the red litmus paper
will turn blue, Ten minutes should
be allowed in the water fort 1 the lit¬
mus paper to change color. If at
the end of that time there is no
change, then the soil is neutral—
neither acid nor alkaline.
It should be understood that such
a test as this is not a determination
of whether or not a soil needs lime.
The question of liming of soil is still
a mooted subject, Much evidence
has been presented to prove that lim¬
ing of soil has been most beneficial
when the soil was in no sense ur.
If. however, the soil does show strong
acidity by the litmus or other posi¬
tive tests, it is safe to say that liming
will be beneficial.
Saccharine Feeds the Latest.
Tbe history of the manufactured
balanced saccharine feed is a
sho»’; one. The man who left the
farm ten years ago and plunged into
other lines, forgetting his former oc
cupalion, smiles with incredulity
when he picks up a farm or feed
journal and sees “Molasses T
advertised and discussed. v ■,
| op-to-date farmer. .airytnan and
j feeder already understand the value
if lasses or saccharine feeds. The
crwhelming demand for such feeds
But the very fact that this demand
is so great has produced conditions
in the manufacture of saccharine
feeds of which feeders should be in¬
formed and of which they should
j make a note.
Demand will induce a supply of
some kind, and where the demand in¬
j creases rapidly, the supply is very
j liable to be inferior to what it would
i be were the demand limited to sell
t strictly on superior merit.
t This rapidly growing demand for
saccharine feeds has induced scores
j of manufacturers to place such feeds
on the market under various names.
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and with almost as various ingre
dients. Analyses of many of these
feeds reveal the fact that they eon
tain a large amount of indigestible
matter that is not evnn legitimate or
healthy roughage; in fact, much of
it is absolutely injurious to the stock.
Oat hulls, rice hulls, w T eed seeds and
other matter of neutral or harmful
character have been found in large
proportions by the experimental de¬
partments of animal industry in tha
various States.—Epitomist.
Money in Horses.
Nor were the Morgan horses the
only noted horses in New England.
The farmers of Maine w’ere sufficient¬
ly adventurous and enterprising to
secure in earliest times a son of the
renowned imported Messenger, who
elevated the horse stock of the State
to a higher level, and left his mark
that is clearly in evidence to-day, al¬
though sadly lowered by indifference
and neglect. General Knox was an¬
other New England horse that left
his mark and made a fortune for his
owner; the first horse in the country
for which the then fabulous amount
of $25,000 was offered and refused.
Since his time $125,000 lias been
paid for a single liorse by a resident
of New' England to a more enter¬
prising farmer and breeder in a West¬
ern State.
A few years back the sale cata¬
logues of an auction firm announcing
a sale of valuable blooded stock, con¬
tained a map showing Boston as a
central point, and including the
country within a radius of five hun¬
dred miles. From their many pre¬
vious sales and tabulations they
learned, and so published in this cata¬
logue, that seventy-five per cent, of
all the fine horses bought, and the
long prices paid for them—the kind
that sold for one, twm, five, ten and
fifty thousand and upwards — were
bought and paid for by residents
within the territory shown. And vet
with this great market at their very
doors it is unnecessary to ask how
much all this profited the New Eng¬
land farmer. And yet w'e are told
by them that horses cannot be profit
ably raised in New' England. Save
the mark!—American Cultivator,
PeacL Hot.
The peach or plum rot has done a
great deal of damage to the fruit
crop in Oklahoma. In the summer
of 1900 il was vei ‘y bad 011 th e en¬
tire crop. In the summer of 1907
it did a great deal of damage to the
early peaches and plums but was not
so noticeable on fruit ripening later
in the season. This disease is wide
spread and very well known. It is
known by several names as: ripe rot
of stone fruits, brown rot of peach
and plum, fruit rot, and twig blight.
The disease attacks the twigs early
in the growing season and causes
them to turn dark and shrivel. The
leaves also turn dark and wilt. Later
in the season, the fungus attacks the
fruit. The twigs have not suffered
to any considerable extent in Okla¬
homa from the presence of this dis¬
ease. It appears shortly before the
fruit is ripe and attacks the fruit
at this time. The spores of the dis¬
ease find lodgment on the surface
and during moist, warm weather the
spores germinate rapidly and the fun¬
gus then makes its entrance into tha.
fruit and develops rapidly, Soon
after the lungus makes its entrance
into the fruit small, brown circular
spots appear on the surface. These
brown spots go deep into the flesh
of the fruit and spread very rapidly
over the surface. If the weather is
favorable, the entire fruit will be
discolored in one or two days, the
skin ruptured by many small pim¬
ples that throw out large quantities
of an ashy gray of dove-colored now
der that entirely covers the surface.
This powder is the spores of the dis¬
ease and is easily spread by the wind
to neighboring fruit, and there finds
lodgment and in a very few days
repeats the entire process of destruc¬
tion. Warm weather is especially
favorable to the development of the
disease and the early soft-fleshed va¬
rieties that mature and ripen during
moist warm weather are especially
subject to the attacks and are some
times very difficult to protect from
the disease.
Spraying the trees with Bordeaux
mixture has been found in several
States to be entirely effective in pro
tecting the plants from the disease.
The trees that have been attacked by
the disease should be sprayed before
the growth starts in the spring. AU
the old mummied and rotted fruit
t is on the ground under the trees
should be gathered and burned.—
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can be made from bordered material
is one in great demand just now; for
bordered fabrics are many and
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the borders are joined beneath one of
the tucks at the back to give the
requisite effect. Ther<« also are shoul¬
der straps cut from the border which
add largely to the effect, while cuffs
and collar are made to match, The
waist is finished with hems in place
of the usual box pleat, and there are
spaces between these hems and the
tucks which render it peculiarily well
adapted to the bordered materials.
The waist is made with fronts and
back. It is tucked on exceptionally
becoming lines and the strays over
the shoulders are smart in the ex
treme. The long sleeves a/e tucked
to fit the arms snugly at the lower
portion and are finished v/ith straight
cuffs and there is the f/vorite turn¬
over collar at the neck.
i be quantity of material required
for the medium size is three and
three-eighth yards of bordered mate
lial twenty-seven or four yards of
plain materials twenty-four, three
and three-eighth yards twenty-seven
or two yards forty-four inches wide.
Cross-Matched Suit.
Black and whit is still immensely
popular, but if one wishes to be "in
grand chic" one must get the white
and chaudron copper plaid skirt,
with the c Empire jacket of
solid chaud on.
- lodificd Empire- Goivns.
Strictly Empire coats and ostumes
are not w the modified Em
pires are ex i§ly pretty and be
cominz.
Sloping Shoulders.
Shoulders slope as obstinately as
those of the early Victorian heroine,
Over Waists Bordered Material.
Here are two attractive yet abso¬
lutely simple over waists which can
be made either from bordered mate¬
rial or from banding, or from the
beautiful ribbons that are treated in
much the same way. The upper de
sign includes narrow sleeves that are
cut in one with it, and as shown is
made front bordered foulard, but very
wide ribbons are treated in this way,
while bordered materials are many
and each and every one suits the de¬
sign. The lower waist is a little sim¬
pler in effect and sleeveless, conse¬
quently showing more of the guimpe
worn beneath. As illustrated the ma¬
terial is cretonne trimmed with little
gold buttons. The waists are joined
to foundation girdles, and over these
girdles the full ones are arranged.
The upper over waist is made with
centre front and centre back por¬
tions, which are joined to the main
ones, and is closed invisibly at the
back. * The lower over waist is made
with bretelles and with a single con¬
necting strip at the front and at the
back. The closing is made at the
back, where one side of the strip is
hooked into place and the girdle is
hooked together invisibly.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is for the up¬
per over waist three and one-quarter
yards of bordered material twelve
inches wide; for the lower three and
one-quarter yards nine inches wide;
or if plain material is used either
over waist will require one and seven-
eighth yards of material twenty-one
or twenty-four, one and three-quar¬
ter yards thirty-two or one yard for¬
ty-four inches wide.
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The Grandfather Frill.
Much as has been said against the
frill down front going out of fashion,
it holds its own. There are extremists
who wear an immense jabot of net
or fine muslin edged with colored rib¬
bon and reaching from brooch to belt.
The usual frill, however, is about two
or,three inches wide and edged with
colored muslin, or ribbon if one pre¬
fers. The colored selvedge is pret¬
tier than the all-white.
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Care of Earth Roads.
While American road builders are
as capable of constructing good roads
as those of any country of the Old
World, they have not been as loyally
supported as the men of those coun¬
tries in maintaining the highways af¬
ter completion, and the deplorable
state of many hundred thousand
miles of road is thus accounted for.
County and township officials may at
the outset stand the expense of hav¬
ing a road built, but they strenuously
object when asked to provide funds
to rebuild the road that has been al¬
lowed to go to ruin.
It is important that farmers learn
of the benefits to be derived from
good earth roads; that county boards
be impressed with the need of a pro¬
per maintenance of the same, and
that road builders and overseers
learn how best to care for the roads
in their charge.
The persistent and powerful ene¬
mies of earth roads are water and
narrow tires, and the constant effort
of the men in charge of the roads
should be to guard against their de¬
structive effects and remedy all dam¬
age as quickly as possible. The sim¬
ple implements which have been found
to be of greatest assistance in this
work are the plow, the drag-scraper,
the wheel-scraper, the road-grader
and the split-log drag.
With a sandy soil and a subsoil of
clay, or clay and gravel, deep plow¬
ing so as to raise and ; . mix the clay
with the surface soil and sand will
prove beneficial. The combination
forms a sand-clay road at a trifling
expense.
On the other hand, if the road be
entirely of sand a mistake will be
made if it is plowed unless clay can
be added. Such i Ing would mere
ly deepen the san>-, and at the same
time break up the small amount of
hard surface material which may
have formed. If the subsoil is cla v
and the surface scant in sand or gra¬
vel, plowing should not be resorted
to, as It would result in a clay sur¬
face rather than one of sand or gra¬
vel.
A road foreman must know it
only what to plow and what not to
plow, but how and when to plow. If
the road is of the kind which accord¬
ing to the above instructions should
be plowed over its entire width the
best method is to run the first furrow
in the middle of the road and work
out to the sides, thus forming a
crown. Results from such plowing
are greatest in the spring or early
summer.
In ditches a plow can be used to
good advantage, but should be fol¬
lowed by a scraper or grader. To
make wide, deep ditches nothing bet¬
ter than the ordinary drag-scraper
has yet been devised. For hauls un¬
der 100 feet, or in making “fills” it
is especially serviceable. It is a mis¬
take, however, to attempt to handle
long-haul material with this scraper,
as the wheel scraper is better adapted
to such work. For hauls of more
than 800 feet a wagon should be
used.
The machine most generally used
in road wGrk is the grader or road
machine. This machine is especially
useful in smoothing and crowning
the road and in opening ditches. A
clay subsoil under a thin coating of
soil should not be disturbed with a
grader. It is also a mistake to use a
grader indiscriminately and to pull
material from ditches upon a sand
clay road.
Not infrequently turf, soil and slit
from ditch bottoms are piled in the
middle of the road in a ridge, making
mudhole3 a certainty. It is impor¬
tant in using a grader to avoid build¬
ing up the road too much at one
time. A road gradually built up by
frequent use of the grader will last
better than if completed at one oper¬
ation.
The split log drag should be used
to fill in ruts and smooth the road
when not too badly washed.—From
United States Bureau of Public
Roads.
Road Building in the Country.
“Don’t you people ever work tha
roads in this section?” asked the au
tomobilist, as he pried the rear wheel
of his machine out of a rut with a
fence rail.
“Work ’em? Wall, I should say
we do,” answered Uncle Charlie Sea
ver from the top rail of the fence.
“Why, we work these roads on the
assessment plan; none of thet money
system for us fellers. Every farm is
assessed so many days’ work on th’
highway, an’ after the farm work is
all done an’ we ain’t nuthin’ else ter
do we all turn out, thirty or forty o’
us, with plows, horses, picks, shovel 3
an’ hoes to work th’ roads. I tell
you It’s a picnic. Work? Why, they
make the dirt fly until they get tired.
Then we find some shady spot to rest,
eat our lunch, drink some cider’
smoke an’ maby play a game or two
of seven up. An’ we call it a day.”*
New York Press.
A Red-Eyed Chicken.
Mr. George Ladenburger has a
sure-enough curiosity in the posses¬
sion of a red-eyed chicken.
It is not the eyelids that are red,
as might be inferred, but the eyes
themselves. The eyeballs are not
bloodshot or inflamed, but are of a
brilliant crystal red, while the sights
are also red, but of a darker hue. So
transparent are the eyes that when
the head of the chicken is held be¬
tween your vision and the sun it ap
pears as if the sun were shining
through from one eye to the other
and the head lighted up mside.—
Dover (Ivy.) News.
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laxative is the well-known Syr,,
effects and Elixir always of Senna. Togo ^ 2° F
buy the
factured Vily, and by for the sale California by Fi^vn"!
all leading
Says the Atlant a Constitution
as . now so high that even a rest! J
aires appetite hesitates to
from .firMsspsv* whatever cause ph t '
The Washington Herald mi,
of man his who fist. felled But a he horse with one hi
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ECZEMA cured.
J. R. Maxwell, Atlanta Ga says:
suffered agony with a severe ewite
ma. Tried six different remedies
in , despair, , when a neighbor
Shuptrine’s told me „
tettirine. After aj i»
worth of your tettebixe and soant,
completely in cured. I cannot atdrur4 say too »
its praise.” Tettebine sS
by mail 50c. Soap 25c. J. T.
Dept. A, Savannah, <ia.
OLDEST CHURCH ORGAN,
Found on Island of Gothland andi
Excellent State of Preservation,
In the Baltic Sea, forty miles k
the mainland, lies the Swedish is!*
Gothland, a Mecca for students j
early Gothic architecture. In |
by alone, the chief town oftheisla
with its population of 8,000 soil
may be studied what remains oil
less than ten churches, some of ait
date from the eleventh and tw«(
centuries. The oldest of them is]
Church of the Holy Ghost, compldj
about 1046.
Prof. Hennerberg, director in ad
man music school, and especially I
derested in the study of m&iiaet
organs, ^Gothland, visited fifty-nine villageca^ churches]
and in a little
Sundre came upon the remnant!
what is unquestionably the ol|
known organ in existence. The a
talone has survived the fret of sen
■centuries, the holes for pedals a
manuals are placed a3 in modern!
■struments, and inside one cans
the chamber for the bellows andjsij isadori
of their action; the exterior
■ed with paintings dating from aba
1240.
When this ancient instrument
no longer serve its original purfd
,it was used as a sacristy and for!)
Safeguard of holy vessels and vs
kept in careful rep 1
rments was
hence its excellent preservation!
our day,—Youth’s Companion,
DROPPED COFFEE.
Doctor Gains 20 Pounds on I'ostM
A physician'of Wash., D. C.,sayai
his coffee experience:
“For years I suffered with pw*
ical headaches which grew morel*
quent until they became almosteffl
stant. So severe were they that!®
times I was almost frantic. I*
sallow, constipated, irritable, iW
less; my memory was poor.Itre®* conk
and my thoughts were often
“My wife, in her wisdom, helM
coffee was responsible for these “
and urged me to drop it. I t! *
many times to do so, but « s
slave.
“Finally wife bought a pacha?* 1
Postum and persuaded me to tr!
but she made it same as ordii*
coffee and I was disgusted with
taste. (I make this emphatic had tl
cause I fear many others have
same experience.) She was dis/
at her failure and we carefully
the directions, made it right, W
full 15 minutes after boiling
menced, and with good crea ®
sugar, I liked it—it invigorates
seemed to nourish me. ^
“That was about a year a ? 0, '
I have headaches, am not sail"'
no g® 5
sleeplessness and irritability .... are
my brain clear and my hand 3te^
I have gained 20 lbs. and fee
new man. Pf
“I do not hesitate to S ire a
due credit. Of course dropp' 112
was the main thing,but I had dr *
It before, using chocolate, co
other things to no p ur P° se - ,|
“Postum not only seemed t®^,
an nourishment, Invigorant, giving but as me an^ ^
albumens. ^
phosphates and be su ^
imaginary tale. It can SI '
ed by my wife and her - j
both changed to Postum
hearty women of about ■ ^
“I write this for the In s»
and encouragement of 0 the®
with a feeling of gratitude
▼entor of Postum." gjrf
Name given by Postum ’ js
Creek, Mich. Read ^W ,
Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’
son. ”
Ever read the above Mb*
one appears
are genuine, true, and
interest.