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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 • , v-•’*'*• 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 • : v . '- ' " ' - 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 * 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,