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- -v-wvritrt,tfvrtp,i.rW4 WTTvJJ '- f i : i ll r IA iin gNKi' BARK FOR TWENTY COWS. fcw York Editor Aannrni Q,vetlaa T. of a Farmer Who "Waata t lluUd One for $800, The specifications la this question are somewhat meager, and in .an swering It 1 urn forced to take some things for granted. There mny be storage room for hay, straw, etc., already on the farm, and only n "barn, one story high, or a stable, is "needed; Ibut I have supposed the idea is to hnwe a barn floor pvurhend, with mows an each side of It. With this in view, 1 submit the accompanying crude sketch, trusting that our cor respondent may get some helpful suggestions from it, if he docs not care to follow my plan closely. If a driveway, or, as we call it here, a barn-"bridge, is to lead to a floor over the 'cows, if the building can be placed on eowewhat sloping ground and an WALK PlATFOfiM FM 0 COnO VIA GH lPl rccoiNC hucy f two d )ahCM Platform h 10 Ccj 34 'Mi ? fnanur lnnf - 1 !- WALK 3 7 C ' V t(otDiTwr. A. YVNDOW D Doom 7 fifiSSAOE AN IDEAL DAIRY BARN. excavation of two or three feet be made at that side, it will make the bridge less steep. This would neces sitate building a wall to come above the ground; but for the sake of the stable, it should be no higher. Let none of the other foundation walls be higher than necessary to jusH keep out surface water and protect sills from decay. Woodwork is less expensive than masonry, and will be lrycr nd more healthful for the cows. The stable should be at least eight feet to ceiling, and the stor age part of the barn above the stable 10 feet to square. If built with a Ji:p roof, more storage room above will be had than under a common pitch roof. .A hay hole directly over the feeding alley, and a similar hole behind each row of cows, for put ting down hay and straw, will serve the additional purpose of ventilation. At least four ventilating flues, of capacity equal to about six inches in diameter, should start about a foot from the floor, two back of each row of cows, and against the outside of the stable, made preferabty of galvan ized sheet ir.on and end in one or more discharges, well above comb of roof. I have made provision for a number of windows in the cow sta ble, where there should be all the good sunshine and light possible to secure. There are two box stalls for cows to freshen in, or. in case of sickness; also, two calf stalls and two silos, as calves from good cows should be raised and they and their dams fed good corn silage the year around. The framework of this barn should lie of plank designs, saving for the builder, in comparison with the old heavy framed structure, time, money and timber. The cost of the build ing will depend, of course, upon the cost of material and labor; but by using the plank frame and as much ordinary labor as possiblo in nailing up frame, T should expect to build Buch a barn as I have suggested, and nt lenst one of the silos, for the $800. The mangers, or troughs, should be built low, so the cow, when standing or lying, would have her head over the trough. It is quite a labor for a cow lying on a platform short enough to keep her clean to get up if the trough is so high that her head goes under it. I prefer the bot tom of the trough two inches from the floor, so air may circulate under it. The side of trough next the cow, if ten inches high, will not interfere with her lying, and will be fllgh enough to hold her feed of silage and meal or fodder and hay. From the feeding alley to the side of the ma nure gutter should be seven feet at one end of the stable and six and a half at the other, for medium cows; the longest cows being put at th" seven-foot end and the shorter grad uated to the other. The manure gut ter should be ten inches deep next the cow and six inches next the walk; 14 inches wide and cemented to save all manure. I cement two feet from gutter under the cows, allowing their front feet to be on clay. This allows me also to build stall partitions by putting posts firmly In the ground to save an objectionable wilderness of posts and braces running to ceiling, where they obstruct the view, the sun light and the freest, circulation 0f air. N. Y. Tribune-Fanner. SILy ti THE BROWNLOW BILL. State I.cKlRlntora Like the Menattre and Think It Will Solve the Iload QaeHtloa. Congressman llrownlow, of Tennes see, says that his good roads bill is the most popular measure introduced in congress since the civil war. He snya that even the democratic legislature of his own state has indorsed it, and that the legislatures of Minnesota, Missouri, Alabama and New Mexico have taken similar action; and that he believes the bill will be indorsed by the legisla ture of every state in the union, if that is necessary, in order to press upon congress the importance of (he meas ure. The following is a copy of the resolution as adopted by the legisla ture of Minnesota: "Whereas, the burden of improving and maintaining our highways accord ing to the general prevailing system in this country rests entirely upon the agricultural lands and people living in the rural districts, and "Whereas, the state-aid plan for constructing highways, as practiced in the states of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, has proven satisfactory in its operation, and has offered a partial solution of the road question in that it distrib utes this burden of cost so that one half is paid out of a general fund sup plied by the state, and "Whereas, It is desirable to extend this principle of cooperation and dis tribution of the burden of cost to a still greater extent, so that the govern ment of the United States shall bear a share of he cost of construction to be paid out of the general revenues of the United States, and "Whereas, one-half of said rev enues, aggregating during the last two years $1,000,000 per annum, is derived from the agricultural states and rural districts, while only ten per cent, of the total amount is ap propriated by congress for the use of said agricultural states and dis tricts, while 00 per cent, is appropri ated for public buildings and other uses pertaining to great cities, and "Whereas, Hon. Walter P. Brown low, member of congress from Ten nessee, has introduced a bill in the United States house of representa tives, providing for a system of na tional, state and local cooperation in the permanent improvement of the public highways, according to the provisions of which the sum of $20,000,000 is appropriated, and the United States government is to pay one-half of the cost of improving anj public highway when requested so to do by, and in cooperation with, any state or civil subdivision there of; therefore, be it "Resolved by the general assem bly of the state of Minnesota, that we hereby heart ilj- indorse said llrown low bill, and recommend its passage by congress, nnd that we request the representatives from the state of Minnesota in congress, and instruct the United States senators from this state, to vote and support said bill." BRACING CORNER POSTS. The Device Here Described I I)cIk miteil by Iln Inventor nn Supe rior In Every Wny. 1 have used several methods, but have discarded all o them for the one illustrated herewith. I regard it as being superior in every way. It is thoroughly effective, is easily made, is neat and wholly devoid of danger- KI3EPS POSTS FROM SAGGING. ous features. It is made as follows: Drive or set the corner post and four to eight feet from it on each side put an additional post. Put on stay wires first from bottom of corner post to top of brace posts and after drawing them tight, staple securely in posi tion. Next nail on six-inch fence boards or poles at top so as to leave the stay wires perfectly tight. It is then ready for the wires and if it has been well made the corner post will never pull up. Z. T. Russell, in Or ange Judd Farmer. Ileat la None Too Good. It pays to have a good dairy barn. Money is well invested in such an im provement. We have known farmers that were well-to-do and yet all their lives never owned a decent barn for the housing of their dairy cows. Barns dark in summer and cold in winter are not places in which the cows can be comfortable or their keepers hap py while they are working around them. Farmers' Review. Gooseberry bushes should be pretty severely trimmed. It is the only way for growing large berries in sufficient jEunl'ght to produce a good iluvor. B JVLauiuacjes That flte Criminal By DR. JOHN S. SCUDDER, Pastor Ftrat Congregational Church, Jcrnoy City, N. J. Hal ence respecting the welfare of coming generations! In the absence of suitable conscientiousness on the part of par ents, the State should intervene and rigidly make an examination of all couples tending to marry, and give licenses only to those who arc healthy and fit to be fathers and mothers. Thctatc has a right to place restrictions on marriage. Drunkards, incorrigible criminals, insane and idiotic people, and such as are afflicted with consumption, scrofula nnd other diseases likely to injure the next generation, should be denied the privilege of wedlock, or certainty of reproducing their kind. A BIRTH FORBIDDEN BY LAW SHOULD BE CONSID ERED AS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE, AND THE PARENTS SHOULD BE PUNISHED BY FINE OR IMPRISONMENT. Science, not caprice, should be the arbiter of life, and domestic sentiment in some casos must be sacrificed in behalf of the general good. The limitation of offspring when parents arc competent o marry is as yet a question for bhe parents to determine themselves. Poor people in our overcrowded cities, who allow themselves the luxury of six or eight children when they know their income is not sufficient to properly feed, clothe and shelter them, nre positively cruel. The ambition of a man of small means should be to rear two children, in stead, of ten as heretofore, and give his children an opportunity to taste a few of the good things of life. Let the rich have large fam ilies'! They ought to have them, vide for them. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. North Carolina and Mississippi have state schools" for the study of textile, fabrics. Poor students at the University of Fez, Morocco, make their living by making copies of the Koran, reading aloud from ifcin public places, and writ ing letters for the illiterate. On the subject of his preaching the lale Dean Farrar used' to quote with much amusement the judgment of one of ttis critics that he was "a poor mix ture of Spurgeon and Dr. Gumming, without, the robustious humor of -the one and without the Scotch accent of the other." A Presbyterian minister in London, the Rev. R. Westrope, proposes-to es tablish a new "third order" of the "Brothers and Sisters of the Common. Life," who arc 'to be in the twentieth century what the Franciscans were to Europe in the. thirteenth. His motive is to convert England to Christianity. The twentieth centurj- crusade of the Methodises was to achieve a double ob ject 4he collection of $20,000,000 and the conversion of 2,000,000 souls. The dollars have been secured, but not the conversions. From this fact it would seem that it is easier to save ten dol lars than one soul. One of themoht elaborate education al systems in the couivtry is that. of the Young Men's Christian association, which embraces the following lines of study: Association libraries, reading roomsv practical talks, educational lec tures, study clubs and evening insti tutes. The system embraces classwork of the public schools and the lecture and library -work of technical schools'. Dr. Patton was delivering a lecture recently in his course on ethics at the Princeton Theological seminary and experienced much annoyance because some of the students ate peanuts in stead of attending to him. Finally, he adminU-tcred this, rebuke: "Gentle men, I have delayed starting this most important part of to-day's lecture hop ing that the stock of peanuts would be consumed and a restful quiet be re stored. As the quantity seems ample to meet the demands and 'the supply appears inexhaustible, I feel const rain ed to request thnt your appetites be restrained until the conclusion of t,he lecture. I would be greatly pleased if in the future anyone wishing to con duct n 5 o'clock lea in the class-room would confine the refreshments to tponge cake." Coffcc-Drlnkcra nnd Alcohol. A traveler has made the observation that coffee-drinking people are very seldom given to drunkenness. In Bra zil, for instance, where coffee is grown extensively and all the inhabitants drink it many times a day, intoxication is rarely seen. The effect is not only noticeable among the natives, but the foreigner who seltk'H there, though possessed of ever such a passion for strong drink, gradually loses his liking for alcohol as he acquires the colTee drinking habit of the .Brazilian. De troit Free Press. What They Indicate. A phrenologist says that the bumps on a married mini's head frequently indicate the possession of a strenuouu wife. Chicago Daily Ncwh. The rights of unborn generations is a branch of ethics which has been largely ignored, but which ought to form a part of our moral philosophy. If a man has no right to poison his child with arsenic or strychnine, he certainly has no right to bring a child into the worldwith the poison of hereditary disease in his blood. In cither case he is equally re sponsible and reprehensible. We call ourselves a civilized people, and yet what monumental ignor ance exists in regard to life, what criminal indiffer for they have the means to pro ctthM Clex.MgA HUMOROUS. Lou "Which would you rather be rich or handsome?" She "Well, I'd like to be rich also." Loudon An swers. Finds a Lack. "The great poets are born," remarked the sententious per son. "Yes; and they are also dead," replied the editor, wearily. Philadel phia Record. Fell Away. "I understand his friends have all deserted hifti." "Yes; you see, they discovered that he was actually going to need their assist ance." Colorado Springs GazeMe. Undoubtedly True. Askitt "1 won der why ministers never strike for higher salaries?" Knoitt "Probably because it keeps them busy trying to get what has already been promised them." Chicago Daily News. Inconsistent. "Here, you!"ericd big Mrs. Cassidy, "sthrolke or no sthroike, Ol'll not hov ye standin' 'round doin' nothln'." "Well, oh, well," meekly pro tested little Cass-idy, " 'lis the most on r'asonin' woman ye are. Last wake ye told me if Oi didn't behave mesel' yeVl make me ttand 'round, an' now that Ol'm doin' it ye're kickin'." Philadel phia Press. PRINTING OFFICE PRECAUTION. Every I, lite of Proof iiihI Every I'litfe of Copy In Kept for lti-f- rr twice. "It will not be possible," said an employe of the government printing olllee, according to the Washington Star, "for any one to place errorn on this oflice, for every line of proof and every page of copy is carefully pre served. This is done in order to pro tect the olllee. It is not an uncom mon thing for errors to be charged to stenographers, proofreaders and printers, and every precaution lii taken to guard against .such. "The universal ijse of the type writer has robbed the labor of the printer and proofreader of much of its humor and nearly all of Its mis ery. Time was, and that not many, years ago, when all the copy for the Congressional Record came to tlie printing oflice in the ehlrography of the author. Those were days of pro fanity and drink, and no end of print ers' yarns are yet extant among the old ones of the place in regard to tho awful 'list' written by some of the men whose names are immortal in history, and that without, the assist ance of the Record. The. list of these poor penmen is legion, but it is pret ty generally conceded that the name of Reverdy Johnson should be at the head of the roster, though Pratt, of Indiana, is said by some to be deserv ing of that honor. One excellent, coihposltor of that old regime, some what addicted to rum, was said to be the only printer who could read Pratt, and he could do so only when he was drunk. Now It Is the correc tions alone that bother the printer, and all of these are obscure enough to show what the work would be if in the written hand of the speaker. Even with the utmost care grave er rors will at times intrude, but copy and proofs are kept to be on the safe nide in case of trouble coming up." JAPAN OF MODERN TIMES Campnrlinu with the United Kins doin In Sire, I'nimlnllon nml Other Particulars. Concerning thq United Kingdom the: following points of resemblance be tween it nnd Japan are remarked by tho Anglo-Japanese Gazette: Japatv consists of a group of islands lying to the east of the continent of Asia, asthc United Kingdom consists of a group ly ing to the west of the continent of Eu rope. Both groups extend from north to south; the main Islands of the Japani group are about the same length as tho United Kingdomviz., about 700 miles;, both groups have a similar population: Japan 44,000,000 and the United King dom 42,000,000; both groups have a. similar area Japan 147,000 and tho United Kingdom 120,000 (English), square miles; both groups arc washed and their climates modified by impor tant ocean currents the British isles by the gulf stream and Japan by the Japan current. The resemblance ceases, however,, when the two are contrasted as em pires. The one is the land of the rising sun, the other that on which the sun never sets, while the population of tho British empire is about 400,000,000, nearly a quarter of the population of the globe and nearly ten times that of Japan. The revenue of the United Kingdom i:more than four times that of Japan, but the foreign trade Is 17 times and the national debt 12 times greater. The marked contrast between the na tlonal debts of the United Kingdom and Japan is that the former has been raised almost entirely for carrying on the wars in which that country has been engaged during the last 200 years, while that of Japan has been chiefly for public workB and industrial enter prises. In the United States the population Is, roughly, twice the number In Japan, Its size is 23 times as large, its revenue four times hb great, while the foreign trade of the United States is nine times and its national debt seven times that of Japan. Russia covers one-scventh o! the surface of the globe, is 00 times the size of Japan, but its population Is less than three times greater, consequently population in Japan is0 times thicker than In Russia. France has an area nearly 40 per cent, larger than Jnpan, hut a population 10 per cent, less, and not growing. Its national debt is enor mous the largest of any nation in the; world nearly double that of the United Kingdom and 20 times that of Japan. Germany, which now alms nt becoming a world power, is about tho same size as France, or 40 per cent, larger than Japan, while its population is one-fourth greater. A striking fea ture of the population of Germany is that it is growing at a much greater rate than that, of the United Kingdom or Japan, and justifies, in some meas ure, the desire for expansion. NO BUCKET BUSINESS. ' When Snot nnd IIIU Met There Wn JVo II'iikkIhm; or Any OlUier KtilNitiiue. "On the train, as T was going to Chicago the other week," said a De troit er, according to the Free Press, "I fell in with a man who was on his way to visit his brother in a certain town. The two had not met for 30 years, one having lived In New Hamp shire and the otheV in Michigan all that time. I became somewhat inter ested in the affair, and In imagina tion I pictured the greeting between them after such a long separation. Indeed, I was more enthusiastic than the traveler. He had given no notice of his coming, but when we reached the town he pieked up his satchel and looked out of the window and said: " M think I see my brother right out there on the platform now.' ')i followed him out and he walked up to the other and queried: "'Ain't your name Sam Blank? " 'Yep, and ain't your name Bill Blank?' queried the other in reply. "It is. Howdy do, Sam?' " 'Party well, Bill.' " 'Come to visit me?' v " 'Yep.' " 'Then come along to tho house "That was all," sighed the narrator "no hugging no tears no linger ing handshake no old-oaken bucket business whatever. "After U0 long years Sam had hap pened to be at the depot as hia brother Bill got off' the train, and Bill went home with Sam. It uindo me so vexed that 1 didn't enjoy the rest of the day at all." Took It Literally. Once upon a time a very nervy man called on his physiciau and asked him for medical advice. "Take a tonic and dismiss from your mind all that tends to worry you," ha hi the doctor. Several months nfterward the pa tient received a bill from the physi cian ashing him to remit $18 and an swered it 'thus: "Dear doctor, 1 have taken' a tonic and your advice. Your bill tends to worry me, and so 1 dismiss it from my mind." Moral: Advice sometimes defeats its gher. Cleveland Leader. 1 r Um-zr'zL "7 -- . fT.-m g- ggT3j'