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The cut shows the Guernsey cow
MIss Bobolink 2157 A G C C bred
-and owned by Mr N I Bowditch
South Framingham Mass From Oc
tober 1 1S9G lo October 1 1897 she
gave 12437 pounds of milk average
test 48 per cent butter fat This equals
59G9S pounds butter fat or G964G
pounds butter for one year Compar
ing this performance with that of other
MISS BOBOLIXK
animals of the same breed it is seen
that Miss Bobolink has made the sec
ond best milk and butter record of any
Guernsey and has nearly equalled the
best record The best records now
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Only one test
In addition to the above performance
Miss Bobolink was milked three
months longer and gave from October
1 1S97 to January 1 1S9S 24S05
pounds milk which tested 53 per cent
butter far or 15337 pounds butter
making the total record for the fifteen
months 149175 pounds milk S4983
pounds butter The picture from
which the cut was made was taken
January 23 1S9S or after fifteen
monhs Avork yet on that day she gave
twenty one pounds milk -
GroiviiiK Corn After Corn
In all Eastern corn growing the usual
rotation never allows two corn crops to
succeed each other without several
years Intervening The corn is always
planted on clover or grass sod and
-after it some small grain follows for
one or perhaps two years when the
field is again seeded and after two or
more years the corn comes in the rota
tion again So if corn smut appears in
one crop it lias no chance to propagate
except what is blown into adjoining
fields or is carried to the barn and so
disseminated through the manure pile
In the West chu growing of corn after
corn on the same land was continued
so long that the fields were filled with
smut and the land had to be seeded
down so as to allow the smut spores to
die out Growing corn after corn also
developed the burrowing worm which
is hatched in the tips of ears while ten
der and eats its way into the corn while
in its succulent stage This worm has
sometimes appeared in Eastern States
where a great deal of corn is grown It
Is probably true that no crop can be ex
clusively grown in any section without
bometime finding an insect enemy or
some fungous disease to destroy it So
though two crops of corn will not ex
haust the soil more thar would a crop
of small grain after the corn and in
most cases not so much it is not best
to put them together The corn stubble
is necessarily left naked during the fol
lowing winter and is therefore subject
ed to more freezing and thawing and
more washing away on the soil than if
the land were seeded quickly after it
American Cultivator
A Twin Cucumber
Mr Alex Weir Ravensworth P O
Muskoka Ont writes to the Montreal
Herald and Star as follows I have
A TWIX CUCUMBEK
4akeu the liberty of forwarding you a
fvim cucumber which I raised this
year and it is the first I have met with
in all my growing as a gardener
Tlie Great American Hog
An organization of German meat im
porters favorable to the American hog
shows that iu fifteen years there were
3003 cases of illness from trichiuae and
207 deaths Of these 1242 cases and
102 deaths were from the eating of
European pork examined in Germany
Tiieie was not one case against the
American product and a reward of
23S has been offered for a single in
stance of trichiuaed American pork
fSmcliers and Packers Magazine
Harvesting Apples
TMie harvesting of apples is one of the
most important duties connected with
te crop The time has gone by when
apples could be shaken from the trees
or picked up from the ground as wind
falls The best success in keeping
JiUcin over winter is when not a single
XAipple in a barrel is bruised or injured
11 iiuj uuuiuii o uai uu suuu as tlie
tfkints broken the apple begins to de
cayz and for that reason lUey must be
carefully picked by hand and handled
in a manner to prevent the slightest in
jury as the decay of one apple will soon
affect all Apples that are not perfect
ly sound when harvested should not go
into barrels but be made into cider
Geese Must Graze
The goose is as much a grazing anl
male as a sheep or a cow Green stuff
being its natural diet the transition in
winter to grain exclusively is more
violent than in the case of hens which
in a state of nature do not feed prin
cipally upon herbs but upon insects
seeds and a little of everything Of
course geese will not starve in winter
and early spring even if allowed noth
ing but grain but the greediness with
which they will devour such fresh food
as apple parings cabbage potatoes
etc shows the urgency of their need
for it In cider making time a few
bushels of seedling apples that will
keep well should be laid by in the cel
lar for the geese It is worth all the
trouble just to see the evident enjoy
ment with which they eat them to say
nothing of the promotion of their thrift
Let the young goslings out on some
fine grass plot and see them pick At
night they will come up with their crop
and neck full up to their mouth Give
them grass Farmers Voice
Begin Right with Turkeys
They are as easy to raise as chickens
if one has the right stock But most
people pick out all the largest birds to
market at Thanksgiving and Christmas
and keep the small ones with the im
pression I suppose that they will grow
if given time This is a great mistake
as in a flock you will always find a few
better developed bigger boned birds
and these invariably have the constitu
tion we need for breeding purposes To
make a success select the best hens in
the flock good deep blocky birds with
big bone and short legs and dispose of
the long legged loose built ones I find
the Bronze the hardiest but a cross
with the wild would perhaps still
further improve them The biggest
drawback with the wild cross is they
are hard to keep near the home and are
easily frightened Having selected your
breeding stock which is best to do in
the fall winter them and let them run
out all the time Alex Johnston
J iOg Cliickcn House
Here is the plan of chicken coop built
of logs First lay the sill logs and toe
nail on the corners making the logs 2
by 4 by S feet and 2 by G by S feet
Spike these two together and brace
rVSsW
SUBSTANTIAL POULTRr HOUSE
from the inside so they will be perfect
ly plumb Now start putting up the
logs one side at a time or build all
sides evenly as you go Drive a spike
into your 2 by 4 and 2 by G in sills and
into your logs as fast as you go so as
to hold them in place You can put a
round log in the corner G inches in di
ameter and S feet long After the
house has been built spike the 2 by 4
onto this and also the plate logs Peel
the logs A L Lord American Agri
culturist
How to Kill lace on Hog3
Hogs will invariably take to the wa
ter when given an opportunity espe
cially when troubled with lice If the
animals have no wallow one should be
provided This is easy to accomplish
Simply dig a hole and fill with water
and the hogs will do the rest When
the wallow is formed pour over its sur
face kerosene oil varying in amount ac
cording to size of wallow The mud
and water thus treated becomes sure
death to the lice on hogs J L Irwin
Farm Talk
Much has been said of late in regard
to the wholesomeness of apples and a
Paris specialist says that women who
Avaut to have clear complexions ought
to eat three or four apples a day They
act on the liver
As an evidence of how rapidly the for
ests of Pennsylvania are being cut
away it is cited that in 1888 Westmore
land County had 153717 acres of tim
ber laud and within the past ten years
there has been a decrease of over 30
000 of this timber area
Clay makes a better stable floor tian
planks for it contains a little dampness
which conduces to good feed and the
horse finds irregularities in its sur
face and by placing the heels on the
higher surface the tendons are relaxed
giving them needed rest while in plank
floors the slant is backward making
the animal stand with the tendons al
ways on a strain Farm Journal
The editor of the Wool aud Cotton
Reporter Mr Bennett of Saugus
Mass says that his farm in Freedom
Me which he purchased and stocked
with sheep a few years ago cut when
he began about forty five tons of hay
of an inferior quality This year it has
cut nearly 200 tons of the highest qual
ity People laughed at him when he
began but now he is doing most of the
laughing
Experiments in feeding and in com
puting the value of eggs show that if
no estimate is made for labor one dozen
eggs can be produced at acost of about
G cents for food or about cent per
egg I all of the food allowed to hens
was converted into eggs the profit on a
dozen eggs would be large even when
prices are very low but much depends
on whether the hens convert the food
into eggs flesh cr support of the bodiss
Corea Is to Have Good Roads
The good roads movement has struck
Corea and the government of that far
away country has put the matter of
making a survey of its territory and of
establishing a system of improved
highways under the control of a new
department In a dispatch to the state
department at Washington Minister
Allen at Seoul says
Corea has never had a proper sur
vey made of its lands The treasury
department knows in a rough manner
the extent of tilled fields as they ex
isted a few hundred years ago but new
land brought under cultivation is apt
to be known only to the country of
ficials who draw much of their consid
erable revenue from the taxes on the
new land
It has now been decided to hare a
complete and proper survey made of
the whole peninsula preliminary to a
just and proper assessment An Amer
ican R Krunim of Columbus Ohio has
been engaged as chief engineer of the
Corean government for the direction
of aH engineering work Mr Kruram
is now engaged with the engineering
force of the Seoul Chemulpo Railway
Bad Roads Are Costliest
When once the fact gets firmly estab
lished in the minds of the farmers of
the United States that it is more ex
pensive to maintain bad roads than to
make and keep in condition good roads
they will take an active interest in the
question and an era of road building
will begin which will add to their
wealth prosperity and comfort and
benefit the country at large as much as
has the laying of the railroad tracks
and the advance of the steam locomo
tive
Let those engaged in agriculture
study such figures as those recently is
sued by the supervisor of roads in
the State of New York wherein he
shows that it costs half as much to haul
produce three miles by Avagon as it
costs to haul it 500 miles on the rail
roads The supervisor figures out that
with a system of good macadam roads
the farmers would save an amount each
year equal to the interest on from 810
to 30 an acre according to the crop
raised and would increase the value
of their land either to sell or hold by
a like amount Philadelphia Inquirer
Need of Trained Road Builders
The present system of road building
in most states Michigan among the
rest is not expensive but absurdly in
efficient Road building is a science
Avhich cannot be successfully applied
by men avIio have not made it a study
The trained road builder says the
New Jersey commissioner is just as
necessary as the trained doctor manu
facturer or educator When this fact
is recognized and a system of scientific
proper legislation ETAOIN N
roadmaking becomes established by
proper legislation the advantages that
are sure to follow will make the rural
population wonder how they could have
been so shortsighted as to have put off
a useful reform so long Detroit Free
Press
NORWAYS QUAINT VEHICLES
Fashioned for One or Two Passen
gers and Very Comfortable
As every tourist is aware a cariole is
a most comfortable little car on two
wheels for one passenger says the
Montreal Star The seat is shaped like
a shell and nicely padded and the trav
eler goes along with his feet resting
in fixed stirrups at the sides unless he
likes to tuck them up in front of him
or dispose of them elseAA here on the
framework of the carriage The driver
sits behind on a box used for stowing
away small packages inside and for
taking quite a lot outside
A stolkjaerre is intended for two per
sons and a driver It is a rough cart
and again the driver sits behind Very
often these drivers are tiny lads You
may get one of about 8 in some places
when the men are busy at the harvest
and it is usual when two conveyances
are required by the same party to ex
pect one of the travelers to drive the
second convejance
As the little yellow ponies know the
routes inch by inch and as it is the
custom Avhen numbers of com eyances
are going the same way for them to
form a very long procession there is
not much need for a crack whip A
trille is rarely seen It carries four per
sons and is more or less like a small
English barouche The way in which
the driver manages to stoAV his person
away in a luggage crowded vehicle is
one of the wonders of Nonvay
The Value of a Trade
I remember years ago when I was
a very young man AATites Foster
Coates meeting John Roach the great
shipbuilder in his shipyard at Ches
ter Pennsylvania I remember too
what hesaid then about the value of a
trade to a boy
Young man he said laying his
great broad hand on my shoulder and
looking at me earnestly with his keen
steel blue Irish eyes next to a clear
conscience a trade is as good a thing
as any young man can have in this
country You can carry it with you
all your life long you have to pay
neither rent nor taxes upon it and it
will help you around a sharp corner
when most other things will fail
I have never forgotten that utterance
from a man Avho started in life after
lauding in New York from Ireland as
helper to a machinist who became the
leading shipbuilder of his time and
Who up to the hour he was stricken
with a fatal illness could take the place
of any of his workmen whether it was
a man driving rivets or an expert put
ting together the most delicate parts of
a steamships machinery
Something very like Avhat John Roach
said I heard another great man Avho is
now dead say This Avas Peter Cooper
a man of Aiiom American boys cannot
knoAv too much and Avhom they cer
tainly cannot too much admire
If I had my Avay said the vener
able philanthropist on the occasion to
which 1 refer I Avould give every boy
a trade Then I would have him stick to
it love it and be good to it If he does
it Avill be good to him
PLATINUM A RARE METAL
Costs Over 100 a Pound and Found
Chiefly in the Ural Mountains
The steady and rapid increase in the
demand for platinum has resulted in a
sharp advance in price and conse
quently in a someAVhat corresponding
increase in production although the
metal is so rare that the production by
no means keeps even pace Avith the
groAving demand At present the
price for crude platinum at the mines
in Russia is 900 marks about 45 or
nearly 225 a kilogram a kilogram be
ing two and two tenths pounds The
Russian ministry of finances has re
cently issued a report ou the produc
tion of platinum in Russia It has long
been knoAvn that Russia led all other
countries in the production of this
metal although it Avas first discovered
in America and the report shoAVS that
Russia at present furnishes forty times
that produced in all other countries
taken together It is not a vast amount
either In the year 1880 the quantity
produced in Russia amounted to 294G
kilograms in 1S95 it reached 4413 kilo
grams This rare metal is found in
Russia only in the southern Ural
where in mining for the metal the s til
rarer metal iridium is found but only
in small quantities Last year the quan
tity of iridium obtained did not amount
to more than four and one tenth kilo
grams or about nine pounds Platinum
is a refractory metal and the methods
of working it are not known in Russia
so that the ore is exported to Germany
and to England and Russia reimports
so much of the worked up platinum as
it requires Manchester N H Union
The Philippine Character
After years of study of the native
character I have come to the conclu
sion that the Philippine islander is very
matter-of-fact He is not unwilling but
unable conscientiously to accept an ab
stract theory Christianity with its
mysteries has therefore no effect on his
character but he becomes accustomed
to do that which his forefathers were
coerced to do namely to accept the
outward and visible signs without be
ing imbued by the inward and spiritual
grace The mere discipline the fact
that nolens volens they must at a
given hour on a given day appear
dressed in their best and to attend the
church and in the case of headmen go
to the monks residence to kiss hands
has certainly had the effect of taming
the masses into orderly beings Yet re
straint of any kind is repugnant to him
He likes to be as free as a bird but he
is of a pliant nature and easily man
aged with just treatment He is ex
tremely sensitiAe to injustice If he
knows in his own mind that he has
done wrong he will submit to a thrash
ing AAithout any thought of talcing re
venge If he were punished out of mere
caprice or with palpable injustice he
would always have a lurking desire to
give quid pro quo He has an innate
contempt for cowards hence his dis
dain for Chinese but will follow a
brave leader anywhere and will never
be the first to yield to hunger fatigue
or possible chances of death He takes
every trouble with profound resigna
tion he promises everything and per
forms little his word is not Avorth a
straAv and he does not feel that lying
is a sin He is inconstant in the ex
treme and loyal so long as it suits him
but as a subject he can be easily mold
ed into any fashion which a just hon
est ana mercittu government aaouu
wish
Jio as You Like
Perhaps the poorest opinion of music
as a vocation is attributed to a buildci
in GlasgoAA The man had sent his son
to college where the young fellow ex
celled in musical accomplishments In
course of time he announced to his
father his firm intention to become a
musician The father objected vehe
mently The son urged and was at
last affected to tears declaring that ho
would never be happy- in any other call
ing This melted the fathers heart
and he exclaimed
All right do as you like but dont
ever come round grinding your organ vj
front of my house
Teeth Made of Paper
The paper teeth made in Germany
that is artificial teeth for human use
manufactured from paper pulp instead
of porcelain and other materials that
are usually selected for making our imi
tation masticators are said to be very
unsatisfactory It is distinctly dura
ble and not being brittle does not chip
off The moisture of the mouth has no
effect upon it it retains its color per
fectly and is lighter in Aveight than
porcelain and cheaper of course to
make
Not Siamese Twins
Are you a single man asked the
police magistrate of the German pris
oner
Now you look here Avas the indig
nant reply dont you try to make no
shoke wit me joost because I vas Dutch
and green Do I look like I vas a dou
ble man Do I look like I vas Simese
dwin Huh I vas no fool if I vas
not long in this guntry
Poets are born therefore their ances
tors should be held responsible
TEE FARM AND HOME
MATTERS OF INTERESTTO FARPI
ER AND HOUSEWIFE
Tow to Raise Chickens Successfully
The Packing of Fruit for Market
When to Cut Corn Fodder General
Notes About the Farm
Mrs W S Sherd in Practical Farm
er tells how she manages chickens to
make them profitable She says Be
fore setting my hens I cleared the nest
of the old filling threw in two or three
handfuls of fresh slacked llse put in
fresh straw and sprinkled more lime
all through the straw I dusted each
hen well with lime before placing her
on the nest again in about two Aveeks
I dusted both nest and hen and at
hatching time not a louse was to be
seen Kept hen cooped for a week
feeding chicks table crumbs scraps of
bread soaked in milk curd and occa
sionally corn meal moistened but not
sloppy When a week old I let them
out on pleasant days after the deAV was
off and fed on wheat screenings most
ly though I fed some curd and corn
meal keeping milk or water near the
coops at all times I neAer had chick
ens thrive and do so well and I think
two Aery important things in giving
them a start were their freedom from
lice and the feeding of proper food
First get rid of the lice then give
proper food and you Avill have no trou
ble raising chickens For winter feed
raise plenty of beets carrots turnips
cabbage squashes and potatoes and
depend less upon grain as the roots
are so much cheaper and relished so
much by the fowls You will get more
eggs by this plan of feeding If you
feed oats for a change cook them I
cook -the roots chop them up fine then
stir bran into the water they Avere
cooked in salting and peppering well
This they enjoy and pay me Avell in
eggs for my trouble
Shipping Fruit
Those who ship fruit to market may
not be familiar with the methods of
handling fruit by the carriers and mer
chants Fruit started from the farm
may be apparently Avell and properly
packed and yet arrive in the market in
poor condition The packing of fruit
for market requires judgment and ex
perience There is something to learn
and every grower should give some at
tention to securing information in that
direction One of the most important
points is to haAre the fruit uniform
and of the same quality at the bottom
af the basket or box as at the top buy
ers always making close examination
Cutting Down Corn Ftalks
When cutting down com fodder one
point to observe is to cut when the
corn is bright Do not delay until the
fodder begins to turn yellow but cut
when the blades are green The ears
will be dry and be as valuable when
fodder is cut at the green stage as to
leave the corn standing until the blades
begin to change It is sometimes in
convenient to get into the field to cut
the corn when it is ready which causes
a delay of a day or two If the Aveath
er is dry and warm the delay may
greatly affect the Aalua of the corn fod
der The stalks should be shocked in
a manner to prevent being thrown
down by the wind as dirt is not con
ducive to its appearance or quality
The fodder should be removed to an
open shed as soon as it can be done so
as to protect it against rain and damp
ness If fodder is carefully preserved
it will be more readily accepted by
stock
The Asparagus Bed
The soil for an asparagus bed should
be made rich before planting it In the
first place the bed should haAe good
drainage and then it should have dug
into it a heavy dressing of old mature
Do not use fresh manure as this will be
filled with weed seeds and besides it
is not so Avell adapted to plant nutri
ment as old rotted manure Having
the soil properly prepared trenches
should be opened about six inches in
opth and the plants set in these
ii enches spreading out the roots on the
ttom of the trench in
n This done commence to fill in the
t il which must be fine and capable
f sifting down closely among the
roots After filling in tAAro or
three inches of soil tread it down
firmly on the roots and then fin
ish filling it in Never allOAv any Aveeds
to grow among the plants To main
tain the fertility supply a coating of
old manure tAAo or three inches in
thickness over the whole bed every
fall letting it lie on the surface where
the rain can soak it and Avash it into
the soil In the spring Avhat is left can
be lightly pointed in so as not to dis
turb the roots
Range Cattle for Feeders
We have referred to the determina
tion of cattle feeders to either buy their
feeding stock at lower figures than
last year or restrict their feeding op
erations which suggests a loAver scale
of prices than a year ago for thin cat
tle There is another feature of the
trade however that is likely to modi
fy this tendency to some extent and i
that is the condition of the range cat
tle Last year the average condition
of the cattle from the northern ranges
was far from good and a great many
of them AA ent to Ihe feed lots of the
corn belt to again appear on the mar
kets during the AAinter months Unless
all signs fail there will be quite a dif
ferent state of affairs this year The
ranges are unusually good and have
been all along and the cattle promise
to come to market in excellent condi
tion for the slaughterer Moreover the
market promises to require them as
the supply of corn fed natives is appar
ently running low The feeders who
bought cattle from the northern ranges
last season will ha e lo look else-
where for their stock this year and
the problem before them is to get
enough cattle at a reasonable figure
i National Stockman
Care of Raspberries
Raspberry bushes should not be neg
lected at this season The canes that
bore a crop this year should be cut off
and removed to be burned If left
standing they will require as much sap
as ever and thus lessen the amount
that should be available for the new
canes that are coming on to produce
the crop of next jear
The new canes should be pinched off
as soon as they get three feet high to
induce them to uend out lateral branch
es on which the fruit clusters of the
next crop are to grow
If proper care is taken of the rasp
berries there Avill be no need of stakes
to keep them standing as they may be
so encouraged that the canes will be
strong enongh to stand AAithout help
and bear any load of fruit that may
grow on them Farmers Voice
Late Pullets
Those hatched since June will not lay
until next spring but they will bo
among the first to begin laying in the
spring and Avill not moult until the
fall of next year Such breeds as Leg
horns and Hamburgs however mature
very quickly and pullets of those
breeds sometimes lay when only four
months old The early pullets those
hatched before April should begin to
lay before winter begins and lay
through the winter If the flock is
large it Avill pay to get rid of the cock
erels so as to afford more room for
the pullets and hens Where the birds
are crowded lice multiply rapidly and
interfere with the growth of the young
stock Very little grain should be given
poultry during the prevalence of warm
weather
Grow iiig Alfalfa
In growing alfalfa the land must hi
plowed deep and harrowed fine Ma
nure and fertilizer should be applied
liberally and lime applied on the land
in the fall Sow the seed in the spring
using from 10 to 20 pounds of seed ac
cording to circumstances sowing
broadcast ff the land is clear of grasi
and Aveeds If not it will be an ad
Aantage to drill the seed in rows close
together and cultivate the first yeat
Avith wheel hoes Once established an
alfalfa plot will last for years as the
roots go down to great depths and
cure moisture In this section farmers
should sow a few rows by way of ex
periment in the spring and keep the
plants free of grass and Areeds
An Every Scason Crop
Eggs are the all-year-around crop
Other crops have their harvest when
they must be sold at once or stored a
an expense With proper care hens are
like money on interest work Siindajs
holidays and rainy days A basket of
eggs carried in one hand Avill often
bring as much money as a load o
straAA A neighbor hauled a cord of
wood to market for 2 his Avife car
ried ten dozen eggs the same day
which brought S250 A crate of eggs
Avhich can be taken to market in a
light vehicle will fetch as much as a
load of produce The cost of produc
ing eggs is nothing compared to the
hard work and expense of producing
the other
Combination Mixture for Sprayiuc
Arsenic and soda solution or arsen
ite of soda is more safely used in com
bination Avith Bordeaux mixture than
alone When in combination it will not
injure the foliage but alone it is liable
to burn the leaAres The same Objection
holds good however Avith reference to
Paris green and London purple It is
better however in almost every case
to use the combination mixture as
fungi are nearly always present and
unless they are kept in check there is
but little use of fighting insects Ohio
Station Bulletin
Irrisating Gardens
Ten years ago the cost of a windmill
was more than the owner of a small
farm could afford but windmills are
better more efficient and cheaper now
being within the reach of all For ir
rigating gardens or small fruit farms
they have been found very serviceable
and are more satisfactory in this sec
tion than in the West as they are not
essential except when there is a dry
spell When rain is abundant the wind
mill stores water for use when the
moisture is lacking and the cost is but
little compared with the advantages
gained
The Pasture in Winter
Keep the stock off the pasture and
spread manure over the surface so as
to protect during the winter and give
the grass a good start early in the
spring Those who manage to have good
pastures allow the grass to groAv late in
the year and broadcast Avith manure
after the frost appears In the spring
the land is harrowed so as to fine up
the manure and Avood ashes applied
In this manner a good sward is main
tained for many years Some p ture
are cropped too close
The Best Cantaloupe
Cantaloupes have been plentiful this
year and were very fine but consumer
do not get those of the best quality
The Emerald Gem a dark Aariety and
of unsightly appearance would be re
jected in market yet it is far ahead of
all others in If some enter
prising grower would give away sam
ples with a circular calling attention
to the variety he would be unable to
supply the demand the next season antf
could get his oavu prices for them
Karly Onions
To have early onions before the
spring varieties are ready sow the seek
of the Egyptian tree onion and leav
the plants in the ground all winter
They are hardy and if covered with
straAv and the covering removed Co
March they will start off early in the
spring and give the first crops to Ts
obtained
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