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Liniment For Stock.
A good liniment for all kinds of
swellings on dairy cows, as well as
on all other kinds of farm animals,
is made by mixing equal parts of
turpentine, sweet oil and spirits of
camphor. Apply liberally and fre
quently to the swollen parts.—Amer
ican Cultivator.
Farm Alcohol Outfit.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
having built at Washington, D. C.,
a model denatured alcohol plant,
which will be sent to fairs and con
ventions all over the country in an
effort to educate the farmers in the
processes of making denatured alco
hol by utilizing water products. —
American Cultivator.
Tlie Shape of the Silo.
When silos first came into use in
this country they were invariably
built rectangular or square and shal
low. Then it was necessary to weight
the silage down to keep it from spoil
ing. Later it was learned that great
er depth would remove the necessity
of weighting, but still the silage in
the corners would spoil because it
could not be packed tight enough to
exclude the air. The next improve
ment was that of boarding across the
corners, making an octagonal in
terior. This was better, but not yet
successful, and the idea of the round
siio was gained, thus eliminating all
corners or air space for silage to
spoil, and the losses incurred by the
air coming in contact with the con
tents of the silo were reduced to a
minimum.
Less lumber is required to build a
circular silo of like capacity than a
square one, and the material need
not be so strong, to prevent bulging
and spreading apart, so that the cir
cular silo is not only the more ef
ficient type, but should be a great
deal cheaper. For these reasons the
circular silo has become more popu
lar, until at the present time we sel
dom see any other form being con
structed. —Hugh G. Van Pelt, in
Kimball’s Dairy Farmer.
Cooling the Milk.
An experienced dairyman who has
handled a great deal of milk says his
experience is that the bacteria rapidly
increase when warm wearier over
takes it, and that from May 1 to cold
weather it becomes necessary to arti
ficially lower the temperature in mill:
and thereby prevent the dreaded mul
tiplying of a small number of bacteria
into hundreds of thousands or mil
lions. The remedy consists in pro
viding for cooling or refrigeration de
vices on the farm and at the railroad
stations and for refrigeration cars on
the milk trains.
Farmers who bring their milk into
the city by wagon should be required
to carry at least crude boxes into
which the milk cans or bottles are
placed and packed with crushed ice.
As for milk hauled to the railroad
station, the distances are rarely great
enough to warm the milk seriously
in transit, provided it has been well
chilled at the farm. Milk inspectors
may be relied upon to call attention
to any serious evading of the spirit
of the law. Milk known as certified
must, of course, be rightly kept down
to standard temperature in all kinds
of weather, and no latitude is per
missible. —Indiana Farmer.
Making Good Butter.
The washing of butter, says Pro
fessor McKay, of the dairy depart
ment of the lowa Agricultural Col
lege, is a more important factor in
butter making than is generally sup
posed, and adds:
The keeping qualities as well as
the flavor can be seriously affected
by undesirable bacteria being trans
mitted through the wash water. 1
believe the time is not far distant
when all wash water will be pasteur
ized or sterilized. Take the question
of color or mottles —thousands of dol
lars are lost annually by butter be
ing mottled. This defect is caused by
an uneven distribution of salt. Take
three lots of butter from the same
churning, even where no artificial
coloring has been added, salt one lot
at the rate of a half ounce per pound,
the second lot at an ounce and the
third lot at one and one-half ounces,
And the color will be so strikingly
high in the last lot that it could not
be mixed with the other lots without
showing streaks. This is no doubt
due to the fact that salt has an affin
ity for waiter. The tendency is for
them to run together and form a solu
tion. When salt is used the water
collects in large beads, thus giving
the butter a darker shade of color
Whenever you find light streaks’in
butter you will invariably find no
salt; therefore, the first considera
tion in salting butter is to get good
salt that will dissolve readily. The
butter should not be drained very
dry. It is better to use a little more
salt if it is inclined to wash off some.
Salt should always be put on the but
ter in the churn and the churn re
volved a few times tc thoroughly in
corporate salt and butter before put
ting rollers in gear, thus retaining as
much moisture in the butter as pos
sible. Allow butter to stand from
fifteen to twenty minutes before
working in this condition, and then
work until butter has become waxy
in appearance and salt ceases to be
gritty. If these precautions are ob
served there will be no danger of
mottles.
Proper Care of the ITorse.
It is a fact that a good many work
horses are actually hurt for want of
exercise and proper care and feeding
when they a,re idle. The Daily
Drovers’ Journal, calling attention to
these things, says that such horses
when not used daily should have
plenty of exercise in the pasture or
some other place when the weather
will permit, and as to care, that if
the attendant spends all his time in
rubbing the body or smoothing the
mane or tail of the animal and neg
lects his feet and legs, it is a mis
take. If one watches a good horse
judge at work in the show ring he
will be impressed with the fact that
more time is spent in the inspection
of the animal’s feet and legs than
any other part of its conformation.
If the horse has good legs he is gen
erally a high-class animal in all his
proportions. A horse is not properly
groomed unless his feet and legs have
had special attention.
The proper management of the
horse to maintain soundness and ef
ficiency is to feed him a variety of
rations. Animals do better when
their feed is varied occasionally.
Many horses are fed for long intervals
on ears of corn, and the process of
shelling and grinding their rations
often makes their teeth sore and they
lose condition. If the feed were
varied with alternate rations of corn
meal the condition of the animal
would improve immensely. The horse
will gain rapidly in weight and ap
pearance when his grain ration is al
ternated with a feed cf cornmeal.
Owners of horses should personally
look after their stables and see that
the animals have the necessary vari
ety of rations to maintain good ap
pearance and efficiency as workers.—
Indiana Farmer.
Calves For Good Cows.
It has long been a problem how to
increase the quality of the dairy herd
by selecting and growing the most
promising calves. It is the surest
way to secure and keep up a first
class dairy herd. Good breeding, care
in selection, raising and feeding is
the road to a solution of this whole
matter. A dairyman in the Minne
sota Farm Review offers some good
suggestions on some of these point*
in the following:
A problem which troubles many
farmers and dairymen is that of rais
ing their calves successfully. There
is more than one way. They may be
raised on whole milk, on the cow. on
skim milk, and with no milk at all.
The most practical and the cheapest
way is to raise them on skim milk.
Of course, skim milk must be supple
mented by other feeds to replace in
a measure the fat removed by skim
ming. Good feeds are oil meal, oats,
corn, bran, gluten or wheat. A more
desirable feed is a mixture of all or
some of these to form meal with a
nutritive ratio of 1:5. A liberaTsup
ply of good hay should be kept be
fore the calves. This is the first thing
they learn to eat. Perhaps the best
is early cut or second crop clover
hay. Alfalfa, bromus and upland
prairie hay are good. All hay should
be fine. Some bone meal should be
supplied to furnish mineral matter.
Bone meal is indispensable to cattle
in the barn all winter. The calves
should also have salt at all times.-
Salting at intervals sometimes causes
overdrinking and consequent scours.
Calves over a week old should have
all the pure water they want after
they have had their milk.
When the change is complete the
calf may get twelve pounds of skim
milk and two pounds of grain, also
all the hay it will eat. Increase the
milk about two pounds a week until
the calf gets about eighteen to twenty
pounds. Do not feed more than this.
It will make a scrawny pot-belly with
no lung capacity. When a calf gets
large enough to use more than twenty
pounds of milk it will be too large
to make the most profit out of it.
At six months the calf may get less
milk, say. two pounds a week, until
it gets none. Give plenty of good
hay and grain, and a little silage may
be fed. Do not get it fat and thus
give a tendency to lay on flesh. Be
sure to give the calf plenty of those
two great necessities of life —salt and
water.
Early learned habits are remem
bered, and if you spoil your heifer,
you will have a spoiled cow. Never
abuse calves, but make pets of them;
let them have confidence in you.
Train the little calves properly and
you will have a herd that will be a
source of satisfaction and revenue to
you.
It is estimated that there are 180,-
000,000 Protestants in the world, as
compared with 250,000,000 Gatno
lics and 110,000,000 adherents of the
Greek and Oriental churches.
England loses 60,000 persons ev
evy year by emigration.
PLEASURE BOAT THAT DOES NOT SAL
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THE DOWAGER EMPRESS OF CHINA’S MARBLE SHIP.
In a lake in the Summer Palace at Pekin is a garden house in the
form of a ship. The vessel is built of marble and resembles an elaborate
pleasure junk. It belongs to the Dowager Empress.
HARNESSES THE WiNDS.
The utilization of the wind for do
ing a portion of man’s work is as
old, figuratively, as the hills. At
least, the ancient Dutch windmill,
with its four great sweeps, carries
one back as far as it is necessary to
go. Windmills were used in France
and Italy in the twelfth century for
grinding corn and in Holland in the
fifteenth century for pumping water
over the dykes into the sea.
In the United States the windmill
has had several seasons or spells of
prosperity, when it looked as though
everybody was getting a windmill,
and likewise several periods of de
pression when it seemed as though
everybody was down on and discard
ing the windmill. Americans are
apt to go to extremes. When a thing
becomes popular, it becomes awfully
popular. It is in clanger of being
looked upon as an actual revolu
tionizer. Asa matter of fact, the
windmill has a great deal of worth
in many locations and its use is con
stantly increasing. If the old Dutch
mill was, and for that matter is to
day, effective, certainly the high type
Homemade Windmill.
of American article is a power gen
erator on the farm of great value, if
the conditions are right for its use.
It is foolish, yet it has been done in
countless cases, to order an expensive
windmill plant for pumping, before
finding out that the water supply is
a good one.
The difference between supplying a
house and farm stock with water,
nowadays, to say nothing of watering
the grounds on the garden, and that
of carrying water from the “big
spring” in buckets, as in the old days,
is as great as is the difference be
tween the civilization of to-day and
that of one hundred years ago. The
“big spring” undoubtedly did have a
country-wide reputation for never go
ing dry—in fact, in several years of
great drought, when all the other
wells and springs dried up, all the
neighbors got their water from the
blue depths of the fine„ # old “big
spring.” Nevertheless, the “big
spring” would likely last about sixty
minutes if its waters were pumped
to supply a good-sized tank. So that
the first thing in considering a wind
mill for pumping is, have you a good
water supply to pump? A fine water
supply should certainly be recognized
as a most valuable asset, and the
question then arises as to its fullest
utilization. In many cases nothing
more economical than a windmill can
be found for getting the water to the
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OPPORTUN3TY.
surface and forcing it into a tank
high above the surroundings. Of
course, there are power windmills for
grinding, etc., as well as those rigged
for pumping, and an immense amount
of hard work can be accomplished by
these former.
It is an inspiring sight to travel
through portions of Kansas and Ne
braska, and see the thousands of
windmills, all spinning merrily in the
crisp western wind. Many a farmer
in the western part of these States,
through his few acres irrigated by
wind pumped water, has bridged over
periods of drought on his new farm
and been able to stick it out until he
could get more thoroughly estab
lished. Some of the mills improvised
by the early settlers are crude enough
but picturesque, nevertheless service
able under the strong prairie winds.
They may have been constructed en
tirely of dry goods boxes, resembling
the paddle wheels of old stern wheeler
river steamers. Others look like big
pin wheels, and some have sails of old
kerosene cans hammered out flat. In
the Arkansas Valley in Kansas, one
private pumping plant erected about
five years ago at a cost of SBOOO, sup
plied water from the overflow of the
Arkansas River for one thousand
acres, and paid for itself the first
year.
The writer has a small, eight-foot
windmill on his Virginia place, and
this, under a good head of wind, fills
a nine hundred gallon tank in the
attic of the house in from two to three
hours. Continuous pumping does not
lower the water in the well, and with
the average run of wind this tank
could be pumped full daily. With a
clay or other retaining reservoir of
sufficient size to take all the water
from the windmill, enough storage
could be provided by this small plant
for the irrigation of from three to
four acres.—Guy Elliott Mitchell, in
the American Cultivator.
“Mr.” and “M.”
that postmen are
not to be written
to or of as Vrecalls the attempts
that have been^rto show that
few of us are to that
prefix. “Master,” it mtended,
was originally a form of >• re
stricted to people of a
ing, and has been cheapened c Y.;
as ‘Esquire.” But the case is ncrS
as “Esquire.” It is only clear that
“Master” was once markedly respect
ful, and in the form of “Mister” has
become common property, while
“Master” itself, curiously, has be
come confined to boys. At any rate,
the fall has not been so great as in
the case of the French “Monsieur.”
At one time even a saint was spoken
of as “Monsieur St. Jean;” under
the early Valois the king was “Mon
sieur” in public documents, and later
it became the title of the king’s
younger brother. Nowadays “M.” is
merely on a level with “Mr.”—Lon
don Chronicle.
Churches of the Christian denom
ination throughout the country are
making unusual efforts to liquidate
all their indebtedness before next
year, which will be the centennial of
the church.
WOULDN’T INTERFERE.
“As a matter of fact,” said the man
who was lookfaig for an argument.,
‘‘every man’s life is his own. Now,
if I took a notion to commit suicide,
what right would you have to pre
vent me?”
‘‘Don’t you think for a minute that
I wouid,” answered the cool natured
party as he meandered on his way.—
Boston Post.
HIS SKIN TROUBLES CURED.
First Had Itching Rash—Threatened
Later With Blood-Poison in Leg—
Relied on Caticura Remedies.
“About twelve or fifteen years ago I had
a breaking-out, and it itched, and stung so
badly that I could not have any peace be
cause of it. Three doctors did not he!n me.
Then I used some Cuticima Soap. Cuticnra
Ointment, and Cutirura Resolvent and be
gan to get better right away. They cured
me and I have not been bothered with the
itching since, to amount to anything.
About two years ago I had la grippe and
pneumonia which left;, me with a pain in
rny side. Treatment ran it into mv leg,
which then swelled and began io break out.
The doctor was afraid it would turn 1o
blood-poison. I used his medicine but it
did no good, then I used the Cuticura
Remedies three times and cured the brealc
ing-out on rnv leg. J. F. Ilcnnen, Milan,
Mo., May 13, 1907/’
WHAT HE WANTED.
Nurse —It’s time for you to take
your nourishment now, Mr. Grovvells.
Growells (who is convalescent)
Hang the nourishment! Gimme some
thing to eat. —Boston Post.
HAD ECZEMA 15 YEARS.
Mrs. Thomas Thompson, of Clarksville,
Ga., writes, under date of April 23, 1907: “I
suffered x 5 yea-s with tormenting eczema;
had the best doctors to prescribe; but noth
ing did me any good until I got tetterine.
It cured me. I am so thankful.”
Thousands of others can testify to similar
cures. Tetterine is sold by druggists or
sent by mail for 50c. by J. T. Shcptbine,
Dept. A, Savannah, Ga.
TWO KINDS.
Trouble makes a lot of noise;
Hardly ever hears our joys;
Trouble is a rampant fellow;
Joy is gentle, joy :'s mellow;
Trouble talks with roar and thunder,
Joy is soft as wihispered wonder;
Trouble makes a lot of fuss;
Joy does quiet good to us!
—Baltimore Sun.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion. allays Dain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle
THE FIRST STEP.
‘‘So you have a plan for making
diamonds?”
‘‘l have,” answered the man from
Paris.
“And what is the first step in yorur
process?”
‘‘To find some one who has foolish
money to invest.” —Washington Star.
Hicks’ Capudine Cures Women’s
Monthly Pains, Backache, Nervousness,
and Headache. It’s Liquid. Effects imme
diately. Prescribed by physicians with best
results. 10c.. 25c.. anci 50c.. at drug store*.
PUT TO BASE USES.
‘‘Mr. Grumbley writes, ‘I don’t see
how you can have nerve to sell your
worthless remedy for fifty cents a
bottle.”
‘‘Oh, indeed! Well, strike out
‘have nerve to,’ and ‘worthless,’ and
put the letter in our testimonials.”
j*o Drive Out MuJana ami Build U|
the System
Take the Old Staudard Grove's Tastr
less Chill Tonic. Yo t know what you
are taking. The formula is plainly printed
pu every oottie, showing it is si-uply Qui
and Iron in a tasteless form, and the
A* effectual form, for grown people
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wS^ sou ROK FUL ■
“You said tb° admirin'?
friend have ideas which
words cannot iSl&mss.”
‘‘Yes,” musical com
edy poet; “R happens.”
“What do you do tht^’
“I let the chorus say ”
Washington Star.
CONSTIPATION AND BILIOUSNESS.
Constipation sends poisonous matter
bounding through the body. Dull headache,
•our Stomach, Feted Breath, Bleared Eyes,
Loss of Energy and Vppeflte are the surest;
signs of the affliction. Young's Liver Pines
positively cure constipation. They awaken
the sluggish liver to better action, cleanse
the bowels, strengthen the weakeued parts,
induce appetite and aid digestion. Price
25 cents from your dealer or direct from
the laboratory. Free sample by mail to any
address. J. \I. Young, Jr., Waycross, Ga.
Kiss That Was Not Paid.
The importance of the moustache
question in Germany will shortly be
manifested in a trial in the Rhine
province, in which a wealthy silk
manufacturer is suing an actress for
damages in connection with the less
of his luxuriant facial adornment.
The manufacturer made the acquaint
ance of the actress, a young and
beautiful comedy artist socially.
Meeting her at a dinner party a few'
weeks later, he extracted from her
a promise to give him a kiss. She
said she would if he promised to
shave off his moustache. That was
a heavy forfeit, as his moustache was
locally famous, and gave its posses
sor a reputation for masculine beau
ty, of which he was exceedingly
proud. Eventually he brought him
self, however, to visit the barber, and
had his moustache shaved off. He
Informed the actress that her con
dition had been fulfilled and that he
was ready for the kiss; but to his
consternation hd was notified that
the lady had mean! ime. become en
gaged and eoulrl not, therefore, keep
the bargain. The disappointed cava
lier took his case to court, and, de
manded that the actress either be
compelled to kiss him or be ordered
to pay $375 for breach of contract.
—Berlin Correspondence Washington
Star. .
“Oh, Charlie,” she burst out, sob
bmg, hiding her face against his
whitey shoulder, “how dt' you know?
—Somerville Joirmtil
woMjurs
backache
.„• i .1..
woman s organism. It qu i. W\?
attention to trouble tv a mV?
tells, with other symptoms, such?
nervousness, headache, paiusin t f
loins, weight in the lower vJ! t
the body, that a woman’s femim‘
organism needs immediateattS
In such cases the one sure rein, ?
which speedily removes the eau?!
and restores the feminine oWni?
to a healthy, normal condition [s
LYDIA L PINKHAM’S
VEGETABLE OOITOSD
Mrs. Will Young, of C Columbia
Ave., Rockland, Ale., says:
“ I was troubled for a long time with
dreadful backaches and a pain in re
side, and was miserable in every wj
I doctored until I was discouraged and
thought I would never get well. I re?
what Lydia E. Piukhanrs Vegetable
Compound had done for others and
decided to try it; after taking three
bottles I can truly say that I never felt
so well in my life.”
Mrs. Augustus Lyon, of East Earl
Pa., writes to Mrs. Phikham;
“I had very severe backaches,and
pressing-down pains. I could not sleep,
and had no appetite. Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound cured me
and made me feel like anew woman.”
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN,
thirty years Lydia E. Pink,
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been fe
standard remedy for female ilk
and has positively cured thousandsoi
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges
tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration.
The Housekeeper’s Error.
A young married woman waited
into a grocery store the other day
angry to the roots of her hair. Throw
ing a piece of yellow substance on
the counter she shrieked forth to the
grocer’s clerk who had taken refuge
behind the counter:
“Here, you swindler, is the soap
that does the washing alone; the
soap that makes wash day a thin?
of joy, when the housewife may sit
in her easy chair and receive callers;
the soap that makes a lather fine
enough for a man to shave with, b?
which takes out every stain — no ma:
ter of what nature — from the lines
Here is the soap—”
“I beg your pardon, ma’am,” be
gan the clerk.
“Never mind, sir; don’t interrupt
me.” broke in the irate bride.
“But, ma’am,” insisted the clerk,
•ricking up the piece of yellow stu!
he woman had thrown upon the ecu?
°r, “this isn’t soap, this is
“Oheese!” exclaimed the astonishes
*oman. “Cheese?”
“Y r es, ma’am, your husband bcug
•ree pounds of soap yesterday,
' ’so three pounds of cheese. Tb’a
w the cheese, ma’am.”
“Well, that accounts for the oh
r thing also,” said the young h
eeper, becoming milder in temP e -
That’s why I couldn’t get a
today, and why— the welsh rats
tasted so queerly lat night.
Only 6 per cent of amputation
result fatally, at present, owing to -
improvement in antiseptic surgery
NO GUSHER
Bu\> Tells Facts About Postum
s. /
‘‘We have used Postum for tW
past eight years,” writes a Vis.
“and drink it three times a day
never tire of it.
“For several years I could sca ' C _'_j
eat anything on account of dysP
bloating after meals, palpitation. •-
headache —in fact was in such ni
and distress I tried living on hot "
er and toast for nearly a year.
“T had quit coffee, the cause o - j
trouble, and was using hot water,
this was not nourishing. , . j.
• “Hearing of Postum I began or -
it-and my ailments disapP
and now I can eat anything
without trouble.
“My parents and husbas
about the same experience :
would often suffer after eating.
yet drinking coffee. M> busbar.-*
a great coffee drinker and su
from indigestion and headacF
“After he stopped coffee and
Postum both ailments h-‘- f ?
will not drink anything eb iio
we have it three times ad c
write more, but am no gus
statd' plain facts.” p a ttl f
Name given by Postin' ( , t(
Creek, Mich. Read 1 o e j-
Wellvllle,” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter- T j,d
one appears from time to
are genuine, true, and
Interest,