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DAKOTA CITY, NEB.
JOHN H. REAM,
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Publisher.
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8TEEL TRUST AS CAT BUYER.
A rat got tangled up in one of the
flynamos which supply power for the
great blast furnace mill of the United
State Steel corporation at Gary, Ind.,
tays Louisville Courier-Journal. It re
ulred several hours to separate the
rat's remains from the dynamo and In
(he meantime tho corporation was loa
ns money .at the rate of a thousand
flollars a minute. Now the steel trust
)s advertising for cats. Advertisement
Jiave been Inserted In the Gary news
papers, offering; 60 cents apiece, with
bo limitations as to ape, sax, size,
pexllgree or character. Fifty cents a
ihead Is a good price for cats and the
officials of the steel trust are likely to
Jbave to contend with an embarrass
ment of offerings. When the news per
jcolales to all the cities and small
Jtowns of Indiana there will be a rush
cf feline shipments to Gary and the
steel trust will find Itself with a sur
plus of cats scarcely less troublesome
than the overplus of rats with which It
baa been contending heretofore. Hun
dreds of Indiana families will willingly
part with all their feline possessions
at a compensation of GO cents per cat.
fome thousands of small boys will ex
plqre the alleys and woodsheds until
th'e last backyard fenco Is denuded.
The report from I'lsa that royal en
gineers state that the Inclination of
Ihe leaning tower at that place has In
creased eight Inches and that the
structure Is likely to collapse will tend
to further Incrense the number of
those who believe that the tower was
never Intended to be a freak of ma
sonry, but that It became a wonder by
the yielding of Its foundation on one
aide. As a "drawing card" for tour
ists the famous leaning tower has had
value In addition to the historic con
siderations, and if It should fall there
would doubtless be a demand for lta
reconstruction. A modern builder
could give Pisa a leaning tower of
greater inclination by using an an
chored steel skeleton and clothing It
with well fastened veneer.
A speaker at a meeting of a medical
society in New Jersey declared that
some of the greatest surgeons living
had loft sponges, forceps and other In
struments in the abdominal cavities
pf persons operated upon, and that the I
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practise was "inexcusable." This
xnakea cheerful reading for the lay
Rubllc, especially that portion of It that
as hospital experience In prospect;
but the statement of the existence of
Juls practise Is also puzzling from the I
fact that It must be a more or less ex
pensive practise to the surgeons them-
selves to be so careless about losing
oo4 Instruments.
A New York woman was fined Ave
dollars for getting drunk in public
and using the large "D" to a police
man. New York seems to be doing
something to keep the cost of the
necessaries of life on the Great White
Way within reason.
An Englishman has paid $700 for a
600-year-old alphabet He could have
got a new one for nothing, but these
Britons are so conservative!
St Louis is howling for a barrel of
free ice water at each corner. Will
Ice cool that concrete composition
fondly thought to be water In St
Louis T
Doctor Wiley says that there's noth
ing especially dangerous In kissing
sxcept the prospect of marriage, we
presume.
Some one has discovered 61,000,000
germs In a malaga grape. Still, for all
that, malaga grapes are pretty good
eating.
An elghty-thrwe-year-old Pennsylva
nia dame takes her first ride on a
train. She couldn't learn any younger.
Even In hot weather some self-sacrificing,
hard-working correspondent
manages to sweat out a war scare.
Staten Island has seen the first sea
serpent, and now the lid ought ot be
'put on S. 1.
Two Dreadnaughts will cost $23,000,
000, but that can't scare a dread
naught Forty-four scrubwomen have been
laid off by the city of New York. New
York's economy fad knows no bounds.
Down in Pittsburg the overcoat ma
kers have gone on a strike. This may
be the psychological moment for an
overcoat strike, but who'd have
thought it?
Aviating and ballooning kill a man
every day or two Just to prove that the
air la a long way from being conquered
vet
Excellent hot weather
watching a tennis uiaicb.
exercise Is
Texans are carrying Uiotguus these
days. The mosquito btuson has ar
rived. If Texas doesn't fctop raising tc
much cwa she will get herself dis
liked by Kantas.
Getting back from a picnic la the
real tetit ot the kind of timo you bud.
Aviators are faille? 11'u.o the leavei
ut the lorett.
CITY ROUTS MOTHS
Chicago Forester Urges Citizens
to Act Individually.
frees and Foliage In Many Parts of
City May Be Destroyed Unless Im
mediate Steps Taken to
Destroy Insects,
Chicago. Trees aiid foliage In many
parts of Chicago urny bo destroyed by
the tussock moth unkss citizens them
selves, take steps to exterminate the
pest This situation became clear tho
ather day when Milton J. Foreman,
member of the finance commit teo of
the city council, said that, although he
was willing to urge an appropriation
U the special council meeting to nFulHt
CItr Forester Prost In his fight against
the pest, he doubted whether such an
appropriation could bo mado legally.
Meanwhile, tb.j moths are busily at
tacking tho trees. The hot, dry weath
er this year has developed a second
"brood" of them. The most effective
time for destroying these Is when the
larvae are on the foliage, which will
be In two week or two weeks and a
half. Then spraying with arsenate of
lead will kill 90 per cent, of the sec
ond brood. Spraying before or after
that time would !' of little UHe, com
paratively, according to City Forester
Pro st.
"I should be willing to urge an ap
propriation for t xt( rmlnatlng tho
moths," said Mr. Foreman, "but I
think such an appropriation would be
Illegal.
"You soe, as I recill It, the statute
provides no appropriations must be
made by the city council except in the
caso of an emergency. This ennnot be
called an emergency legally because
tho trees do not belong to the city.
If a man appeared to spray a clti
ren's trees, tho latter might well aHk
him by what right he did it. If he
has the right to spray a tree, why
might he not have the right to walk
Into tho back yard of your bouse and
spray your carrots?"
In pointing out the depredations of
tho tussock moth Mr. Prost Indicated
that the city might have the right to
spray the trees on tho ground that tho
moths had become a nuisanco and
threatened publlar health.
"In north state near Delaware
place," said he, "the moths are so
thick that (hey are getting Into the
houses. Such a condition cannot be
healthful.
"The moths especially attack the
high grade trees the lindens, the wil
lows and the Carolina poplars. The
time to do the spraying la when It will
00 tn0 most good. This will bo whon
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the larvae of the second brood will
be caught on the foliage.
"This department has had but a
small appropriation, and that has
been for trimming the trees. Even
then we have no wagon to carry lud-
ders and necessary tools to tho place
wnere me worK is to do carried: on
We have no means of getting around
xcopt on the street enrs. I have
asked for nn auto truck to carry our
ladders and pruning tools.
"We nave accomplished a great
deal, but we have very little money
for our work. I have received hun
dreds of letters In regard to the moths,
but I am practically helpless. It
would take a great deal of money
$5,000 at the outside to do the work
effectively.
"A spraying outfit costs about $400.
The material for spraying would cost
$200 or $400 more for each outfit
"In Boston they have twelve spray
ing outfits throughout the city. In
other cities In the east the work Is
carried on -effectively. There the
gypsy moth, or some other variety, Is
producing the same havoc- among the
trees that the tussock moth is in this
city,
WIDE SHOULDERS ARE TO GO
Wrestler's Chest on Hlp-Cllnglng Coat
and Pefl-Top Trousers Are
Among Latest Styles.
Chicago. Well tailored men of the
coming fall will be narrow of shoulder
and broad of chest, and the present
typo of wide shouldered but anaemic
"clothing store athlete" will have van
ished from the realm of the elite.
Exhibits at the fashion show, which
was held recently at the Coliseum In
this city, presaged the passing of the
artificial wide shoulder and bore evi
dence that superfluous cloth In future
will be lavished on the chest.
There were all sorts of natty novel
ties at the fashion show, novelties In
tended to becomo staples by men who
are afraid the average citizen will
cling too long to his old clothes.
Crowds of men, anxious to keep In
touch with the "proper thing," wan
dered through the Coliseum and decid
ed that more changes In male attire
have been planned for the coming
Bcason than have been offered In
many years.
The overcoat of "tho man who
knows" will be loose and baggy. The
CANARY BIRD HANGS ITSELF
Little Songster Tires of Life When Its
Mate Dies and Deliberately
Commits Suicide.
S-'aford. Del. Orlevlng over tho
ii t.th i;f another bird, which had been
its tinting mate for over two years, a
iMiiary owned by Mrs. Murtlu llaiu-ii-.u'-il.
who lives near hero, commuted
si". ule uy uaning ut'iscu in mo tup
( r l:'.s c:i:;e.
The little bird had made eovcral at
tempts u end Hs life, but was always
ilihi ciwred In tinia. Its method was
tn tly to the top of the cage ond push
lui l.i -a I between the metal burs and
tin ii li up Its feet.
Tl'tnl.ins ll.e little songster had
grown ti.-ed ot confinement, the cago
.;ri;r was opened, but the bird refused
id 'oi:io nut utid afterward would not
r:it.
i last iitt' i'n t to mil all was not
,!l . eovorad in. Ill (no late to save its
i:o Thu cuuarv was u beautiful
I.I.Ut! uter.
WILL NOT REMARRY
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EW YORK. Mrs. Ava Astor has
from England, and has put a quietus on the rumors that had been
current to the effect that she and her divorced husband. Col. John Ja
cob Astor, intended to marry each other again. Mrs. Astor declares
that there Is no foundation for the story, as neither she nor Col. Astor
wishes to re-wed. She will go at once to Newport, whe-e the home of her
brother. Barton Willing, has been reopened for her, and in October she
will return to England and will go to
playing golf.
EA TING CATS MEA T
London Officers Say Sales Not
for Human Consumption.
Purveyors Uphold Them and Trades
men Aver Purchasers Among
Poorer Classes Are for Animals
Sold In Poor Sections.
London. Toward the end of the
year 1907 the medical officer of health
to the London county council reported
that "there can, of course, be no doubt
that much cat's meat Is still eaten by
human beings In London. It Is large
ly sold In extremely poor neighbor
hoods, and the women seen buying a
fourpennyworth or a flvepenny worth
are clearly not buying meat for cats
Tariff reformers Jumped at this
statement, out of which they have
made a great deal of capital, both In
the house of commons and in their
campaigns in the country. It is
not refuted by a detailed report from
Dr. D. L. Thomas, tho medical officer
of health for Stepney, wno has had 24
years experience of the East end of
London. He deals with the subject
in his annual report this year.
In the borough of Stepney there
are 25 purveyors of cat's meat, each
of whom w'as Interviewed by Doctor
Thomas, and "each ono was emphatic
In his statement that none of his cus
tomers bought horseflesh for human
tood. Even the very poorest had It
wrapped In paper, and then they carry
it home In a gingerly fashion, as if It
latest thing In keep-warm clothing Is
called a "greatcoat." Any size will
fit any one fairly well, but Is guaran
teed not to fit any Individual perfectly.
The "straight front" close fitting
collar has been placed on the black
list and Its most favored successor Is
one that looks somewhat like the Eliz
abethan ruff and appears to be a lit
tle rough on the neck.
Flowing ties, long decried as evi
dence of Elbert Hubburdlsm, have
come Into thoir own. Their only rival
for popular favor Is a varl-colored tie,
which displays an amazing set of con
trasts when knotted four-in-hand.
Black waistcoats must be worn with
dress suits; a riding habit must be of
a solid color, and the dressing gown
must be of Chantlcler pattern. These
are other edicts of the powers that be
In clothesdom as laid down at the
fashion show.
The narrow-shouldered business suit,
In addition to Its burly chest, will be
remarkablo for the exceeding close
ness of Its fit around the hips. Peg
top trousers, gripping the shoe tops
tightly, will be worn as the accom
panying nether garments.
BLUE JAY ROBS
Another Steals Pis Off Table, While
Others Take Nuts Away From
Squirrels.
I.a Fayette, Ind. An unusual theft
was committed at the picnic ground
at Tecumseh Trail, near this city.
Mrs. Frank Morris and Mrs. John
Thompson of Lebanon, with Mrs. Mor
ris' two sons, aged 8 and 11, were
seuated at a table ou a bluff overlook
ing tho Wabash river eating luncheon.
when a large bluejuy darted down
from a sycamore treo and seizing a
Htruw hat from the ohler boy's head
flew away with It.
Tho members of the party were so
bewildered they scarcely knew what
had happened. Tho boy cried bitterly
wheu ho saw the bird flying away with
hi headgear.
A few minutes before tho hat was
taken a bluejuy had swooped down
from a treo and stolen a pit to of pie
off the tublo.
Thu lud's hat was a large one, and
COLONEL ASTOR
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0 MMMtavts mm
Just . returned to this country
North Berwick for the purpose of
were something unclean and revolt
ing."
"Tho usual amount," said Doctor
Thomas, "expended by each customer
for cat's meat in this borough Is
farthing to a halfpenny. Only ten pur
veyors had sold a pound of cat's meat
(which costs four or five cents) at
time, and then It was to neighboring
tradesmen, who were known to keep
dogs. Three purveyors only sold four-
penny-worth at a time, and the buyers
were well known to them, and kept
big dogs."
If there were any foundation for the
statement that poor people eat horse
flesh, the Bale of cat's meat would have
Increased with the Increase of unem
ployment and poverty, but It 1b not
so. In every part of the borough there
has been a decrease, but the decrease
has been most marked In that part in
which unemployment mostly prevails.
It was stated In a newspaper that In
Whltechapel, within a Bhort distance
of Aldgate station, there are several
shops whero horseflesh is sold for hu
man food. Doctor Thomas states that
there are only three cat's meat shops
in the whole of the Whltechapel dis
trict, and there is less cat's meat sold
In this district than In any other part
of tho borough.
At two shops" near the docks Doctor
Thomas was told that sometimes for
eign sailors asked to be served with
cat's meat, stating that they know It
is horseflesh, and that they have been
accustomed to eat it abroad. They
are never served.
Aeroplane for Freight.
Douglass, Ariz. Dr. J. J. P, Arm
strong has contracted with A. M.
Williams, an aviator of this city, to
convey placer mining machinery from
Douglass to a property in the Chi
liuahua mountains, Mexico. The dis
tance is about three hundred miles.
The machinery 1b such that It can be
carried only In one hundred pound
lots. Williams owns and operates a
monoplane. This Is probably the
first contract made calling for the
commercial use of a heavler-than-alr
machine.
Phonograph Wills Valid.
St. Petersburg. Russian Jurists are
favorable to the validity of wills made
by phonograph. Experts In hand writ
ing practically declare that the skill
of forgers renders tho discovery al
most Impossible, and the Jurists be
lieve that a will registered by phono
graph will prove a method of avoid
ing fraud.
Mosquitoes Turn on Poet.
Orange, Tex. Oil drilling operations
and other outdoor work In localities
along this section of tho gulf coast
have been suspended temporarily on
account of tho voracious swarms of
mosquitoes which prey upon the men,
The pest Is tho worst ever known In
the lowlands.
BOY OF HAT
weighed almost as much as the bird
that carried it away.
The bluejnys at the Trail and at
tho Soldiers' home at the top of the
hill are unusually bold this year. The
r.gcd soldiers and widows feed peanuts
to thu pet squirrels about tho grounds,
and tho bluejays, fioiu their lofty
perches In tho oak trees dart to tho
ground and take the nuts away from
tho squlrrelH.
Sometimes the squirrels, when they
have eaten all tho peanuts they desire
bury them In the ground. The blue-
ays carefully watch the operation and
then fly down, scratch up thu earth
and carry away the peanuts.
Tho picnic party watched the blue-
Jay fly away with tho hat, and as It
toured aloft another bird, evidently
an accomplice, met It aud they nuw
away together. Persona who doubt
tho truth of the story may obtain
uillda vita from those wuo buw the
luddents.
R0FITABLE DAIRYING
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Bjr HUGH
Dairy Expert Iowa
Weigh and Test the Milk
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In the foregoing articles the writer
has discussed the feeding, breeding
and testing of the dairy. When a
herd of cows Is given the proper care
and feed during a year's time, each
cow in the herd has had an oppor
tunity to produce largely and profit
ably. As a matter of fact, however,
there are few herds in the United
States today every Individual of which
is a profit-producing animal and as
has before been stated the only meth
od of determining which of the ani
mals It Is that 1b lacking In butter
making ability la to weigh and test
the milk continuously through the
year. This having been done, It is
enly a course of time until the dairy
farmer Is well acquainted with ea-h
Individual cow and It is time now for
him to be disposing of Ithe inferior
cows and taking better care of the
good cows and replacing the poor
cows with those that have merit.
Only Pure-Bred 8lres Should Be Used.
As has been pointed out before, the
calf may have a good sire and a good
mother but still, owing to the fact that
some place back In his pedigree three
to five generations there may be a
very poor Individual whose character
istics he Is almost as liable to repro
duce as he Is those characteristics of
Making
his sire and dam, it is always better
to fit grade male calves for veal and
sell them to the butcher as soon as
possible. Furthermore, as a rule the
greatest profit to be gained from
calves of such breeding Is at this
time. There are many systems ' of
feeding calves for veal which will re
sult In a profit To demand the
largest price the calves should be fat
and In good condition. The best
grade of veal is produced from the
feeding of whole milk nursed direct
from the cow, but because the calf
should be four weeks old before being
vealed, It Is rather an 'expensive
process to permit It to nurse for four
weeks' time. It Is possible to feed
them other foods rather than whole
milk but to the experienced buyer of
veal, unless care Is taken In the feed
ing, the coarser feed will be detected.
The feeder should watch the calf and
sell it as soon as the white of the eye
begins to take on a yellow tint The
color of the white of the eye Is Indi
cative of the character of the veal.
Making Veal.
In Scotland and Holland where the
making of veal Is carried on for profit
largely, they have systems of feeding
characteristic ot the cows. In Scot
land the younger calves are permitted
to nurse the first milk from the cow,
taking as much as they care for; the
older calves are given that which re
mains the last milk or the milk
-Yearling Holsteln Heifers, Well
which Is always the richest. In Hol
land the calves as soon as born a9
placed In very narrow Btalls where
they cannot turn around although
they can lie and stand comfortably.
Three times a day the calves are given
all the milk they can drink. During
the period of eight to ten weeks of
fattening, these calves drink on an
average of about thirty-four pounds
of milk a day, but where fed so large
ly It Is necessary to give them finely
ground shells and sand to prevent
scours. In both ot these countries the
calves are kept la a warm, dry barn
In stalls that are well bedded and kept
dark. It Is believed that in feeding
for veal calves will do better and
produco a better quality of veal where
they are conlined in darkened quar
ters rather than permitting them to
be fed In a light place. In this coun
try, however, It Is doubtful If the
tlm has been reached when the
butcher will appreciate the difference
between extra good veal and veal of a
medium class to such a great extent
that he will pay the difference In
price, and It Is doubtful If the Amer
ican feeder can afford to feed calves
In this manner.
Feeding Calves.
More care must be used in feeding
tho calves that are to become the fu
ture producing herd. Many great mis
takes are made from the time the calf
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G. VAN PELT
State Dairy Association
Is born until cowhood and these mis
takes undoubtedly account largely for
the fact that we have as many poor
cows as we do. It matters little how
well bred a calf Is at time of birth, un
less It Is raised and cared for prop
erly it will very likely be a disappoint
ment when the time comes that It
should produce largely. When the
heifer calf that Is to be saved Is
born, It should remain the first two
or three days with Its mother or un
til such tlmo as the Inflammation has
left Cio udder of the dam. This Is
for two reasons: In the first place,
the calf Is not exceedingly strong and
it would gain strength much more
quickly where It Is allowed to remain
with the mother and under her care
than where It Is subjected to tho care
of the feeder at once and taught to
drink milk from a pail. In the second
place, common dairy cows usually
have a considerable amount of Inflam
mation in the udder at freshening
time and there is no way in which
this inflammation may be relieved so
quickly or efficiently as by the process
of nursing which the calf only knows.
When the youngster is taken from
its mother it will not drink milk for
the first 12 or 15 hours as a rule, and
It Is better to allow It to become
v-1
Silage.
hungry and to an extent drink of Its
own free will rather than to try to
force it to learn to drink when it is
not hungry. Oftentimes one becomes
fearful that the calf will die because
It will not take nourishment from the
pall, but this Is useless. Calves at
this age can get along well without
milk for 24 hours and by that time
they are always willing to take milk
from the pall with a little coaxing.
For the first two weeks especially of
the calf's life It should receive warm,
new milk from its mother as soon as
drawn. It should always be borne In
mind that young calves should never
receive cold milk and If for some
cause or other the milk becomes cold
It should be heated up to a tempera
ture of 90 degrees before being fed.
Much of the calf colic and scours,
from the effects of which many calves
die, is caused by feeding milk that Is
cold.
Warm Milk Essential.
During the first two weeks there
should be nothing added but the milk
given warm direct from the mother.
During this time care should be taken
not to overfeed the calf. A good rule
to follow Is to feed five pounds of
the warm milk night and morning If
the cow Is being milked only twice a
day, but this Is not the best plan be
cause when the calf Is permitted to
remain with the mother it will be no
ticed tbat it takes nourishment very
Bred, Well Fed and Well Raited.
often and many times during the day.
In this way It receives only a small
amount at a time and the liability of
sickening Is much less. Calves will
do much better where they are fed
at least three times a day, of course,
In order to do this the cow must bo
milked that many times. In dairy dis
tricts dairy cows have been bred up
to the point where it Is absolutely
necessary to milk them when fresh
three times a day because of the large
amount of milk which they produce.
Feeding of Skim Milk.
In this way by the time the ralf Is
40 days old he is taking all skimmed
milk and his ration Is very Inexpens
ive. At tho time when the sklmm.-il
milk begins to be added to the ra
tion, calf scours and colic are very
liable to occur. To eliminate this
danger It Is advisable to feed blood
flour with the milk. There are two
advantages In feeding this flour. The
first which has beeu suggested is to
eliminate the danger of scours and it
Is doubtful whether or not there Is
anything that Is more efficient for this
purpose. In the second plare, the
blood flour adds a great deal of pro-
tola and bone phosphate which is lit il-
Ized for the purpose of growing bone
and muscle and giving size to the calf,
To keep the youngster in good rondl-
Hon a gruel made of oil meal or flax-
seed cooked with hot water and r
In small amounts with the milk Is
valuable in that it contains a great
deal ot fat to replace tha'. which has
been removed by the separator. When
the cnlf Is between four and six weeks
old It will begin to take feed of a
solid nature, the first evidences of;
which will be that the calf will nibble
at clover hay If the opportunity is af
forded. At this time such feeds should
be supplied.
Never Overfeed the Calf. V(
When the calf has reached tho sg
of two months the milk ration can hi
slightly Increased, l-'p to this time 1(
should never exceed ten or twelv
pounds dally. Mistakes are more often
made In feeding the calf too much
milk than In feeding It not enough.
Any changes that are made should be
gradual. Radical changes always re
sult in throwing the calf off feed by
sickening it either with scours, caU
colic or some other of tho diseases tc
which young calves are susceptible),
The milk should never be Increased
more than by a pound a day and It
should be borne In mind that the call
should never receive more than twen
ty pounds of milk In a day at any age,
Too many feeders believe that the
quality that Is lost by removing the
fat can be replaced by greatenlng the
quantity. This Is a mistake for even
though the calf had the power of
drinking 100 pounds of skimmed milk
It would not receive as much fat as It
would from one pound of whole rich
milk.
Summing up, then, the proper way
to raise the calves Is to feed them
from ten to not exceeding twenty
pounds of milk daily and replace the
nutrients which havo been removed
by the separator with a grain ration1
which Is palatable and acceptable tc
the calf, and then allow the youngstei
to derive the remainder of nutrients
from alfalfa or clover hay.
Keep Calves In Good Quarters.
The management of the calf has as
much to do with its welfare as does
the feeding. As a rule, calves in
dairy districts are born In the fall be
cause the cows can be milked and the
calves raised during the wlntei
months when the farmer has more
times and also because he realizes
that the cow which freshens in the
fall will produce 20 per cent, more
milk and butter-fat than tho cow
which freshens In the spring. Owing
to this the calf 13 kept In the barn
during the first six months of his life.
It should be kept In a stall which is
roomy, dry, well-bedded, well-ventilated,
with plenty of light. Under
these conditions, he receives sufficient
exercise and keeps In a healthy,
thrifty condition so as to grow well.
On the other hand, If the calf is kept
In a stall that is dark or damp or ill
ventilated, he la very liable to be
come affected with one of the two
dozen Ills to which the calf is sus
ceptible and will die. On bright days
after the calf has reached the ago ot
four weeks he should be turned out
to play even though the weather Is
cold, because the exercise and the
fresh air and sunshine he receives Is
greatly beneficial to him. An hour
of such treatment dally Is excellent,
but the calf should not be allowed to
remain out long enough to become
cold and chilled, for herein agalu lies
another danger. After the winter has
passed and springtime comes the calf
will give little more trouble, for It has
reached the size and age when It can
get a large portion of its subsistence
from the grasses of the pasture, but
for the first year It should not be com
pelled to live entirely on grass. The
digestive apparatus of the calf has not
yet become sufficiently developed to
permit of the consumption of enough
nutrients from feed containing so
much water as does grass. For this
reason Is should be given a ration of
corn, oats, bran, and oil meal twice
daily for the first year at least and
then, of course, during the second
winter it should be carried through
on a ration composed largely of rough
age, such as clover hay, alfalfa hay,
corn silage, etc., with a slight amount
of concentrated feeds. In order to de
velop to the greatest degree the di
gestive apparatus. Calves raised un
der these conditions will make largo
growth and by the time they have
reached the age of two years they will
have the size, stamina, reserve force
and power to freshen; and with the
good breeding and productive powers
of their ancestors they should producer
profitably even the first year, and if
the owner continues with his good
care and feeding he has reason to be
disappointed If they do not produce
for him at least 250 pounds of butter
In their two-year-old form. Likewise)
Is he In a position to compliment him
self If these results are attained.
HE GOT THE EXACT TRUTH
Truthful Man Asked for It and It Must
' Be Allowed It Was Handed
Him.
In hla anxiety to learn what the
congregation really thought of him
and his sermons the sensltl young
minister picked out a man who he
believed could be depended upon to
miiigle with the home-going church
crowd and report their remarks with
out giving them a fictitious compli
mentary tinge. The amateur detective
was summoned to the ministerial
presence.
"Roger," said the pastor, "are you
a truthful man?"
"I am, please heaven," said Ruger,
piously.
"If put to the test would you have
the courage to repeat personal critl
eliitu accurately no matter whether It
gave pain or pleasure?"
"I would, please heaven," said Roger.
"What prflof can you give that you
are sufficiently trustworthy?" the min
ister persisted.
"I you mean what proof can I give
that I Mand In fear or favor of no
man," sal.l Roger. "I will Just repeat s
few of the things I heard said lakt
Sunday about you nnd your work. It
you don't mind. They said If pa. tor
wa-,n't quite so long winded, ond
didn't saw the air bo much and chaw
his words so, and would just tend to
Ids own business and glvo them more
real, old-fashioned ri!l;:,lnti an I not so
;n.K'h literary cliafT lie wouldn't b.s a
i tail sort of a 1 re;i''hf r."
"Thank you," taid the minister
j humbly. "That Is all, It'ijjer."