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• i iV ■ % Positive, Quiet Speech. Some things have to be done by main strength, but talking to horses and cows is not one of them. Speak in a positive yet quiet tone. The stock will know what you mean and will obey better than if you yell and tear around. Don’t do it.—Farmers’ Home Journal. To Get Kid of Groundhogs. The groundhog, or woodchuck, can be easily trapped at the mouth of his burrow, or he can be easily killed by using bisulfide of carbon, liquid being poured on a handful of any ab sorbent material and pushed down the burrow, closing all openings. They usually have I<wo or more open ings to the burrows. The vapor that comes from the bisulfide of carbon is heavier than air and will settle to the bottom, killing all that are present. —Mrs. A. C. Palmer, in the Indiana Farmer.- Vermin Remedy. The following recipe for carbo lated kerosene emulsion, it is said, is not only a vermin killer, but also im parts an odor to the hen house that is effective in the cure of cases of bad cold and discharges of mucuous sub stance from the nostrils: Half pound ordinary laundry soap, one gallon water, one quart kerosene oil, four ounces crude carbolic acid; cut the soap in small pieces and drop into, the water and boil. When it comes to a boil remove front- the fire and add the kerosene. Shake or stir the mixture until nearly cool. Put away in a well covered vessel until wanted, at which time add about twelve to fourteen quarts of hot water and the carbolic acid and mix well. Use a spray once a week. —Correspondence I Farm Maea7’”° Buttermilk From Skim Milk. The best and most palatable kind of buttermilk can be made from skim milk in the following way, writes Prof. O. F. Hunziker, of Purdue Uni versity, Ind.: ; Allow the skim milk to sour and yjurdle, either by adding good starter /or by letting it sour naturally, at a ’ temperature of about seventy degrees -F. When the curdling has reached the stage wimaa* the milk begins to ■•■--ni it into a churn (any T.rrra of ehurn will do for this) and ( ftdd about one-fourth to one-third of its bulk of buttermilk to it. Even smaller amounts of buttermilk will answer the purpose. Now churn the mixture until the curd in the skim milk is completely broken up. The churning should be continued until all the lumps have entirely disappeared and the mixture lias become homogenous. This is usually accomplished in from ten to fifteen minutes. The contents of the churn are now ready for consumption. This preparation is by far superior to buttermiik made in the ordinary way. It has more body, is smooth and velvety, and has a mild, rich and agreeable buttermilk flavor, which is highly relished by the consumer. Upon standing, the curd does not separate out and whey off as readily as is the case with the ordinary but termilk. Fall Figs For Spring Market. The subject of feeding fall pigs though the winter is an important one. Of course, to begin with, one wants a good, dry, warm place well ventilated for the pigs to lie in, and then see that they are well fed. I fed two last winter. I butchered them the last day of February, and as dressed hogs were $7.25 per hundred weight, they brought me $2 4.3 6, weighing 172 and 17 6 pounds dressed. The butcher I sold them to said they would have weighed about 220 pounds on foot, but I think about 200 pounds would have been about tight. They were six months and lour days old when butchered, and I consider 200 pounds for summer pigs at six months old pretty good. Of course, there are lots of winters more severe and harder on stock than last winter was, but I believe it was as cold as sixteen degrees below zero. When I begin feeding pigs I like to give them all they will eat of dif ferent kinds of feed from the time they are taken from the sow. To feed pigs on corn alone they will not thrive as well. I like to have ground cornmeal mixed with wheat bran cooked in a mash, occasionally, for them. Ground wheat would be bet ter for them, I think, and I also have found ground oats a splendid feed for pigs, as it is a bone and a muscle pro ducer. I also like to give them bran slops quite often with the feeds most ly warm, as they will relish it much better. I also like to feed them shelled corn in their trough, as it is a much better way to feed it than to throw ear corn on the ground or even on a board floor made for that pur pose, as they will wallow it around in the dirt and waste some of it, and of course what dirt they eat does not help them along any faster. I always aim to feed my pigs and also give them drink three times a day. lam feeding four for the spring market, for which I am expecting a good little profit unless the price goes below the average to what it has been in the 'spring for the past few years.—Thos. A. Davis, in The Epitomist. Number of Eggs in Year. Prof. Graham, of the Ontario Ag ricultural College at Guelph, says: “I find it a very difficult matter to get an accurate idea of the number of eggs that the average hen in the province of Ontario produces in a year. lam very much inclined to be lieve that the average hen does not produce eighty eggs in twelve months. I believe the average hen at the av erage experiment station does not produce 110 eggs per year. One would expect that at the various ex periment stations and colleges which are scattered over the United States and Canada they would get probably as good an average production as on the poultry farm. They have many conditions present which are not pres ent on the average farm, and they have other conditionsNthat are prob ably more favorable. Considering all things, we should get somewhere near the average production at the experi ment station. “I have come to the conclusion that the average production is somewhere about 100 eggs. At the Maine station they had a production of 120 eggs per hen on an average. They have been working on the trap nest sys tem for a number of years, and as far as I know, their record last year was 13 4 eggs per hen which means that they had a gain of about fourteen eggs per hen over earlier records. I think that you produce a wonderful improvement by selection in the first one or two years, and after that prog ress becomes slow. You must have a great many conditions favorable to make advancement. From what Prof. Gowell has told me, they had not used any males in their breeding pens that have not been produced from hens that produce 200 eggs per hen per year. All the hens, in their breeding pens have been bred from hens that laid 160 eggs per year, so they might be termed strong pro ducers. No hen is used for breeding purposes until after her egg record has been known for twelve months.” Market Demand For Hogs. Before the annual meeting of the National Association of Expert Swine Judges J. J. Ferguson, of Chicago, gave an illustrated lecture on the market demands for swine. In part he said: “Of necessity packers can have no choice as to breed or color, since there is a place and use for every grade of hog coming to rhe Stock Yards. The market almost any day will show a range from the heavy sow or stag weighing 700 to 800 pounds down to the light shipper pig of forty to fifty pounds weight. The demand for hogs of various weights and the prices paid depend upon the market for lard and pro visions. When the supply of lard is short the price of lard advances and consequently heavy lard v hogs are in demand, with prices correspondingly advanced. If at any time the market for lard is slow and the supply ample the light-weight hog suitable for pro ducing high-class hams and bacon will bring top prices. “Under average conditions the hog worth the most money in the open market will weigh from 200 to 25 0 pounds. He should be smooth and evenly covered, without any excess of fat over the shoulders, along the back or on the hams. Good length and depth of side is desirable since the side mat is cured into bacon, w r hick sells for more money than any other part of the hog carcass. “Those qualities most desirable in pure-bred hogs for breeding purposes are also in demand by the packer, viz., smooth, even quality, with even fleshing, and an absence of coarse ness of any part or surplus develop ment of bone. “The tendency of the time is stead ily toward lighter and leaner cuts of meat. Farmers will find it much more profitable to produce the early maturing middle-weight packer hog above mentioned. “In this connection it is interesting to note the leading experimental sta tions have clearly demonstrated that the gains made by hogs up to this weight—2 00 or 250 pounds—are made much more economically than those put on after the hogs have passed this weight.” To Increase the Yield. Here are some suggestions from Hoard’s Dairying to the farmer hinting at the course that he must follow if he is to improve his dairy herd and derive greater profit. The farmer must make up his mind to read more and know more than he has known about the true meaning of his business. He must breed better, stop buying poor, cheap bulls and the production of poor cows. The fountain head of better quality in the cow is the char acter of the sire. Create better conditions in the stable. Give the cow better air to breathe, better food to eat, good wa- to drink and cleaner conditions to live in. Weed out the cows vigorously. Don’t be slow about it. Dry them off and sell them to the butcher. Buy the best heifers of the best cows you can find and start the making of a good cow on your farm. Don’t think fifty or sixty dollars is too much to pay for a first-class cow, provided you are sure she is healthy. The men who come around to buy your good cows pay these prices, and ten to one if they don’t get them away from you. A cow that will earn in gross fifty dollars a year pays big interest on her cost above the cost of keep. It amounts to thirty-three per cent, if you pay sixty dollars, as suming she costs thirty dollars to keep her, and it can be done for that easily if you have a silo and will grow alfalfa. STRANGEST CHAPEL IN THE WORLD In the very heart of London, Eng land, not far distant from the Marble Arch, there stands one of the strang est temples of worship in the whole world. It is called the Chapel of the Ascension, and it contains no pul pit, no altar, no font, no band of choristers. No services are held in it and no priest or minister crosses its threshold except as a visitor. The chapel is a place not of Christian rou tine and service, but simply where a man or woman may “rest a while and commune with his own soul amid pictured walls,” as the notice which hangs over the door says. The chapel is the idea of Mrs. Rus sell Gurney, who, during her life time, was a member of one of the best known families in London. She received her inspiration from a small chapel in Florence and conceived the idea of building a place of commu nion in the heart cf London, set apart for rest and filled with conse crated art. But while the purpose of the chap el itself is unique, more remarkable still are the religious paintings that cover its walls from floor to ceiling. For fourteen years Frederic Shields, the famous English painter and friend and contemporary of Ruskin, Dante, Rosetti and Ford Madox Brown, has devoted his whole time and thought to their execution. Although the task is not yet complete, there are but few vacant spaces on the walls of the little building. Very nearly two hundred paintings, illustrating the Scriptures, nave emanated from the fertile brain and gifted brush of this artist. The chapel was finished in 1 894, after considerable difficulty had been j' WORLDS ODDEST CHAPEL. experienced by Mrs. Gurney in find ing a site that suited her. In that year Mr. Shields began work on his paintings. The little building has been open for a few' weeks now to the general public. As one enters and looks around one may see the ■whole story of the Bible told by the pictures on the four walls. The scheme begins over the gallery arch with the creation of man, followed by the union of man and woman. On the south wall is pictured “The Good ly Fellowship of the Prophets,’’ be ginning with Enoch, caught up and delivered from a violent world flow ing with rivers of blood, ending with Malachi, who looks back on his pre decessors and points across -the space of the channel to the north wall to John the Baptist and his successors, “The Glorious of the Apostles.” Some are preaching, others praying, prophesying, confess ing sins, beholding the beatific vis ions, or standing triumphant as mar tyrs. Below the Prophets and the Apostles are small subject pictures; above, in intimate relation with these figures, are angels performing mis sions of mercy and judgment; while alternating the figures are large paintings, giving spiritual renderings of the familiar stories of the Gospels and of the incidents of the Acts of the Apostles. But it is to the east wall where eyes are first directed and are held by the pictures which give the key note to the whole of the designs— the conceptions of the Crucifixion and of the Ascension. Subject paintings surround them, and many figures, such as those of Faith, Hope, Love and Patience —the final virtue. Mr. Shields began his career as an apprentice to a firm of lithographers, and went through a long period of the direst poverty. Finally one day while in the deeps of despair, he wan dered into an exhibition of paintings in Manchester and decided to become “SPORT ROYAL.” I| IB |-1- " , i— ■■■■ Machine Gun Used for Duck Shootin g by the Prince of Monaco, and the Blind Through Which it is Discharged.—Sketch. an artist. He immediately went home and made a water color sketch which not oniy sold for $45, but brought another commission to the needy youth. A fey* years of this work brought him an order to illustrate “The Pil grim’s Progress.” He took the con tract at so low a figure that he soon found that he was reduced to a bread and water Tliet. A little later he exe cuted some designs for an edition of “Vanity Fair,” which so pleased Rus kin that he said to him: “I do not know of any artist in England who could have done these pictures but qourself. You may become more celebrated than any painter of the day.” From this time on the path of the young artist toward success and fame was a smooth one. He to London in 1874, when his reproduc tions of his drawings of town and rustic children were very popular. In 188 G, when Mrs. Russell Gurney was looking for an artist capable of carry ing out her ideas for the decoration of the chapel which she was to build, it was to Mr. Shields that she turned. Five years later, when the little house of rest and communion was complet ed, he set to work on his fourteen year task.—New York Press. Wealth and Marbles. “Why get together any more money?” asked a friend of the late Russell Sage. “You can’t eat it. You can’t drink it. What good will it do you?” “Ever play marbles?” “Yes, when I was a boy.” “Couldn’t eat ’em, could you? Couldn’t drink ’em, could you? No use to you, were they? What did you play marbles for?”—Dem. Tele gram. Got Back. Esmeraldo—“What play do you enjoy most?” Gwendolen—“Oh, there’s nothing that compares with a good squeeze Play!” m “Esmeraldo—“A ‘squeeze’ play! And you are not ashamed to confess it, you giddy ” Gwendolen —“Ashamed? I was speaking of a trick in baseball, What did you think I meant, you insolent creature?” - Uncle Home Magazine. For Treating Animals. A novel apparatus for treating ani mals has been invented by a North Dakota man. It consists of a cabinet having open ends and gates to permit an animal to be driven in at one end and out at the other. In the bottom, top and sides of the cabinet is a se- ■— l ) X. ries of pipes. Each pipe contains per forations through which a liquid so lution can be projected in a small jet or stream against the animal in the cabinet. ohoß .in if - ■ - ' • Economy of Good Roads. In a recent publication by the De partment of Commerce and Labor, dealing with the cost of hauling farm produce from the farm to the nearest shipping point, it was shown that on account of bad roadways the cos- was often greater than would have e-eii the freight by railroad across the con tinent. The great railroad systems of the country in normal times spend mill ions annually and in the aggregate hundreds of millions in improving their roadbeds and equipment, in straightening out tracks, lessening grades and otherwise reducing the cost of hauling. The amount thus spent in improve ments is largely in excess in some in stances of the total net earnings for a decade. The necessity for the im p: Wements are recognized, however, and they are made. The more progressive States of the Union follow the same course in re gard to the public highways. They are the highways of the people. Every dollar of improvement and every day of work put upon them increases the value of all the property along such highways. Good roads add to the comfort and well-being of all the people, whether they live in town or country. A sys tematic and extensive program of road improvement is the sure index of a progressive and prosperous com munity. It is estimated that ninety per cent, of the farm crops of the United States are hauled by wagon. The av erage haul of all farm crops is twen ty-five miles and the average cost twenty-five cents a ton mile. It is estimated that good roads through out the country would reduce the cost to teij cents per ton mile. In other words, the saving in the wear and tear on vehicles and farm stock, saving in time of the farmer and the increased weight of each load, would reduce the expense of transportation by wagon sixty per cent. On cotton alone the saving would be $5,000,- 000, on wheat 510,250,000. In view of the tremendous cost of highway improvement, it is natural that the individual States have in clined to look to the Federal Govern ment for aid. There are 2,000,000 miles of roadway in the United States, of which less than two per cent, are improved. One means by which the aid of the Government is sought to be secured is by having Uncle Sam improve the roads over which the mail is carried. There are 925,000 miles of dirt roads now traversed by the rural routes. In some instances routes have been entirely abandoned on account of the impassability of the roads. The power of Congress to “estab lish postoffices and postroads” has been held to include dirt roads, and thus the way is open for tlie Federal Government to engage in highway construction. During the last session of Congress thirty bills were introduced seeking Government money for road improve ments. Mr. Bell, of Georgia, favored the establishment of a good roads bureau in the Agricultural Depart ment and the appropriation of $lO,- 000,000 annually for highway im provement. Mr. Bourke Cockran, of New York, presented a bill providing for the construction of a national boulevard from ocean to ocean along the line of the thirty-fourth parallel of latitude. Other members had oth er plans, but none of them received a favorable report. They were pigeon holed in committee. The United States is w'aking up to the loss caused by bad roads. The farmers are taking hold of the mat ter, and that means an era of road way development and improvement is at hand.—Atlanta Constitution. Roadless America. From the maledictions scattered broadcast in the mire of roadless America by despairing bicyclists fifteen years ago hopes of better things have taken root. No gift of prophecy is now required to foresee a time when these hopes will have so far materialized that a team, if it is a good one, will be able to haul an empty "wagon over the gumbo roads of the Mississippi Valley in spring, ■and the public highways of the South will be so w'ell buoyed that light draught automobiles may navigate them in comparative safety. From every part of the country comes the same encouraging news. Sixteen States now have highway commissions that are trying in va rious ways to supply the greatest need of nation, which is good roads. At one extreme is New York, which, in 19 05, voted to expend $50,- 000,000 in building roads. Under the plan adopted the State will build and maintain 3332 miles connecting the principal cities, and pay one-half the cost of 4700 miles of local reads to be built by the counties. At the other extreme is Iov T a, the third State in the Union in extent of road mileage, where the use of the public highways is so vast that if teams enough could be assembled to do in one day all the traveling done in the State in a year the line w T ould reach once and a half around the earth, which doles out an annual ap propriation of SSOOO to defray the expenses of the State college faculty while acting in the capacity of high way commission. Technical World Magazine. K!|!rt Sweats i Cm E. W. Walton, Condr. a p ' Van Nes3 St., San An o %•. 7l] writes: “During the snmm” ’ K ct 1902, my annoyance ZV'* h reached tW stage where it misery and developed alar min aCtUaI toms, such as a very deep-seat, i Ryn > night sweats, and painsin th oh “°Bk, chest. I experimented with * called remedies before I to tako a thorough course of p, ' !(lec ' “Twoo, my Mends had to inform me that the thin-f,. . rn ff a was to resign my position and , *' b higher, more congenial climate v a one thought I had was not expected to live very 1 • “Having procured somePerr-‘ cided to give it a thorough te! U! de * plied myself assiduousl vto th* ♦ , p ' taking it, as per meantime. “Tho effects wore soon apparent all alarming symptoms disappeared * my general health became lull, 2 , as it had ever been in my life/ 8 °“ “I have resorted to the use of p ermi on two or three occasions since ' time to euro myself of bad colds,” ,S o f the of Illinois are going to fight are t ! cigarette habit, the cocaine habit th 5-cent theatre and unlicensed hotels* ***<*?’ Cnpudine Cures Nervousness \Y hether tired out, worried, overworl what not. It refreshes the bn in °I nerves. It’s Liquid and 10c., 25c., and 50c„ at druj ° UU The product of the British shin, yards amounts to 20 or 25 per cent of the world’s output. THE SAFE WAY ToluY PAINT, Property owners will save a deal of trouble and expense in keeping their buildings properly painted, if they know how to protect themselves against misrepresentation and adul teration in paint materials. There’s one sure and safe guide to a pure and thoroughly dependable White Lead that’s the “Dutch Boy Painter” trade mark which the National Lead Com pany, the largest makers of genuine White Lead, place on every package of their product. This company sends a simple and sure little outfit for test ing white lead, and a valuable paint book, free, to all who write for it. Their address is Woodbridge Bldg., New York City. Trained to See a Joke. Can the sense of humor be cultivat ed?, I think of a boy with the literal directness of a small Briton, the im pair of his humorous father. A sys tematic course was begun, in tne hope that the child’s life might be broaden ed and brighter eq. Bach week one or two evenings were devoted to a careful explanation of the jokes a3 they appeared in three of the hum orous weeklies of the better class. Puns were avoided, as they were more easily detected and often en joyed, while the father had no desin for a punster son. At first the even ings were strenuous, disliked by both; to the humorous side, so potent to the onlooker, father and son alike were oblivious. But at twenty-five wnile he is not an original joker, none can excel this young man in the ease and quickness with which he de tects a hidden meaning. The initia tive seems not to be granted him, but a fund of enjoyment is his which un doubtedly would have been lost but for his consistent training.—From Good Housekeeping. SAME ODD GAME. “That young man stays until an unearthly hour every night, DorD said an irate father to his youngest daughter. “What does your mother say about it?". “Well, dad,” replied Boris as she turned to go upstairs, “she says men haven’t altered a bit.” —Lite. “THE PALE GIRL” Did Not Know Coffee Was the Cause. In cold weather some people think a cup of hot coffee good to help keep warm. So it is—for a short time but the drug—caffeine—acts on the heart to weaken the circulation and the in action is to cause more chilliness. There is a hot wholesome drink which a Dak. girl found after a time, makes the blood warm and the heat strong. She says: “Having lived for five years in * • Dak., I have used considerable Cou - 9 owing to the cold climate. Asa re suit I had a dull headache regular./, suffered from indigestion, and i ‘life’ in me. _ , “I was known as the ‘pale £ !!i people thought I w r as just lK ‘ j After a time I had heart troth became very nervous, never n what,it was to be real we;! ' . medicine but it never seemed any good. , . OTW * “Since being married my husband and I both have thought coffee harming us and we would quit, to begin again, although v-e was the same as poison to us. “Then we got some Post urn the effect was really wonder u • * complexion is clear now, gone, and I have a great deni ■ ergy I had never known while ing coffee. ... ..ji. . “I haven’t been troubled , gestion since using Postuni, nr nervous, and need no medicine, have a little girl and boy 10 ‘ love Postum and thrive on Grape-Nuts.” “There’s a Reason.” Name given by Postum Cos., Ll Creek, Mich. Read ‘‘The R°a Wellville,” in pkgs. Ever read the above letter. • one appears from time to are genuine, true, and lull o Interest.