Neglect and lice always mean fail
ure In the poultry ImihIhohh.
(food time to wood out tho tin
profitable hens from tho Hook.
If ;lieHslnn lly Is prunonl In tho
wheat cut the grain IiIkIi and hum tho
K(lll)l)lc
The land that Ih drained In always)
roajly earlier In tho HjirluK for putting
in (he crojia.
The scales and tho Hahcock tester
nro tho only infallible proof of the
Kodil'cow. Are you testing out your
cows?
Uuii-dowii farms reflect tho lack of
Intelligence of those who have by their
methods brought them into that con
dition. t
The well-fertilized field will stand a
drought better than one not so treat
ed because the plants strike their
roots' deeper.
Calves raised on skim milk should
have some feed to provido tho fat content-taken
out of tho milk. Linseed
meal has been found to give tho best
results.
Tho plow wheel will often become
loose and wabble a go6d deal. To
overcome this put In a leather bush
ing. It will last well and will not
fjqubak.
Tho day of tho educated farmer I si
upon us. Another generation and the
follow who believes that all the knowl
edge of farming needed can bo gained
upon tho farm Itself will bo hard to
find.
"Don't forget the green stuff for. the
poultry. If they cannot got it for
thomsHvcs see that it Is provided for
them. You cannot lmvo a healthy
flock where such green food is denied
them.
i
Tho small horse has little place on
the average farm. It Is tho heavy
drafter that Is nblc to do tho hard
Htunts that the farmer needs. Why
wil( he worry along with a horse that
Ih unequal to the tasks required of
him?
Temperature is one of the main
points in churning. Cream should
have developed about !10 c. c. acidity,
nud have been standing at about
BO degrees for four or Jive hours to be
in prime condition for bringing tho
butter.
.-loused to be thought that the dairy
man was the only one who could
protltubly use the silo but. It has come
to bo recognized aftor thorough test
ing that silage is valuable In the feed
lug of all kinds of stock, and obtains
hotter results from the grain feed
than is otherwise possible,
Hob White Is surely the friend of
tho farmer. Investigation has shown
that he has been known to destroy
GO different kinds of weed seeds, and It
Ih safo to sny that live per cent, of his
food Is made up of seeds harmful to
tho farmer. This In addition to tho
injurious hugs which ho cuts places
him high In the runkB of the farmer
friend.
i
Thnt tho high check rein Is n species
df cruelty which the humane horse
man will not permit is generally
conceded. Prof. Mlnkler character
ljr.es tho horseman who drives his
norse wun nis neau mountod upwnn
and held In plnce by a severe check
rein as heartless, and declares that ho
should he compelled during war
m
weather to wear a cuff around his
neck in, the plnce of a low collar,
'Tho silo Ih the dairyman's saving
bank Into which he can pour tho say
Ings of tho Bummer time and make
heavy drafts upon It In tho winter
nt)d collect a handsome. Interest on hit?
Investment. Almost (lie ontlro value
of the corn can, be saved by cannln
In the silo, and it provides a succulent
food for the winter which will keep
up, the milk flow almost to tho poin
where it is when tho cows nro on pas
ture..
One hoe in hand Is bettor than a
lozen hanging in the tool shed.
Mix tho vnrletles of plum trees si
that they will pollenlzo each other.
A two-fold point In favor of alBlk
clover Is thnt It Is line for bees ana
makes good hay.
Try the happy euro for your troub-
es. Don't see the latter and be cheer
ful though you don't feel that way on
the luulde.
Small seeds when planted during
warm weather should he shaded, as
the ground Is apt to crust over thorn
and prevent tho tender shoot from
growing.
The alfalfa raiser should be pro
vided with canvas caps to put over the
stacks to protect against rain, for a
wotllng Is apt to prove disastrous to
tho crop.
Ditch construction Is a business In
tsolf, tho snmo nr. carpentry and ma
sonry work. Keep this in mind when
citing work of this character and be
suro and get a man who Is ontc
his Job.
The heavy hen is a poor one to put
on eggs, as she Is more than apt to
break many of them, and will make a
clumsy mother and kill many of the
chickens she may be fortunate enough
to hatch.
The poor cow Is apt to remain poor
under tho best of care, but the good
cow can bo easily ruined under care-
ess treatment. Oood animals need
good feed and care if they are to
prove profitable.
A butter tub pnlntcd green and set
upon a post In tho front yard makes a
lino receptacle for such flowers as
petunias, vincas, coleus, etc., with nas
turtiums and other climbers around
the other edge to trail downwards
over the sides.
One of the most fruitful causes of
tuberculosis In cows Is tho lack of
proper ventilation of the stables. It
has boon found that very few animals
that run loose outdoors havo tho dis
ease. The matter of stable ventilation
must be considered by overy dairy
man. Oats mako a valuable feed for Krow-
ng chicks as they provido tho bone-
making Ingredients. The best form In
which to feed them is in tho ground
state. The oat has a hard covering,
iind tho young chicks find It hard to
grlid thorn up. Do their grinding for
them.
Tho Infertile spots on tho farm
should be so treated that they will
uvorago up with tho rest of the farm
and pay their shnro of profit. If It Is
tllo drainage which Is needed, put tho
tiles in. If it is fertilizing which Is
needed, study to learn just what Is
necessary and then apply it.
Six pounds of timothy seed, live
pounds of white clover, three pounds
of Kentucky blue grass and one pound
of rod top per acre has been found
to bo an excellent mixture for sowing
In northern sections. If tho ground
Is Inclined to be wet, the red top will
soon take the place of the timothy.
You nro raising boyws and girls as
well as crops. See that, you are as
careful to provide for tho wholesomo
growth of the former as you are of
tho latter. Many a successful farmer
who keeps his farm free from weeds
lets tho weeds grow up In tho lives of
liT.r children which prove a curse to
.am all their lives.
Chickens sutler from crooked breast
bones sometimes. This defect is gen
erally caused by the heavy birds roost
ing on poles or fences. Tho bones of
tho young birds are soft and are turned
to ono sldo by pressing on tho roost.
If you havo heavy fowls, lot them
roost, on tho Moor covered thickly with
strnw, and you will have no crooked
breast-bones.
Tho trouble with a good many or
chards Is that the farmer labors un
der t ho Impression that as the fruit
trees nro a sort of side Issue they
need no special attention. What a
mistake. Thoro might just as well bo
a good profit turned from the orchard
ns from tho Hold, If tho same cultiva
tton and care were given which are to
tho ordinary grain or corn crop.
The first principle in the breaking
of a balky horso is In bringing tho
animal to understitnd that you will not
knowingly nsk an unreasonable thing
or nun. or course tho old and phrenic
balk'or mny bo unreliable tg treatment,
for probably abuRo and fool handling
have confirmed him hi iLne habit he
yond tho hope of curing, hut with the
young hprse of intelligence thnt has
manifested ;. disposition to balk It Is
possible to overcome tho bnd lial.lt
Hy cnrofuA handling bring tho animal
to understand that you nro his friend,
i. i.i.- t . '
iiiuii inn. ma enemy. I'nysicai sunor
Ing no--or yet cured, but rathof" con.
J firmed, balklness.
Usually It Is ago rather than wisdom I
hat establishes a man as the oracle
of a rural neighborhood. But some
times it Is a sort of qualntness, a
readiness and an nptness In tho ex
pression of opinion, and often It re
quires moro judgment than is likely
to be found In most communities to
detect tho difference between facility
of speech and that Intellectual virtue
which tho ancients regarded as sa
pience. One night at a social gather
ing to celebrate tho golden wedding
of a Justice of the pence old man
Brizlntlno had for moro than half an
hour held forth on the beauties of un
compromising truth when Llni Juck
lln remarked:
"Vcs, there are very few things
more beautiful than tho truth some
times. Hut I don't know anything
thnt has given tho vicious bettor op
portunity to vent their spleen than
truth nt nil hazards. Tho man that
don't know when to toll tho truth or
to sldeatcp a trifle from It hasn't
enough judgment to be trusted with
a dangerous article."
"Do you mean to say," snld Hrizin-
tine, "that truth Is a dangerous ar
ticle?" "Yes, sir, sometimes ns dangerous
as gunpowder In tho hands of an
Idiot. That is, when truth is re
stricted to Its narrowest sense, and
that Is tho way that some men Insist
upon using It. Muck somebody I
camo across him somewhere wanted
to know if there was such a thing
ns ndmlnlsterln' to a mind diseased.
There is, and It Is the wlthholdln'
from that mind the true state of its
own condition. A good deal of the
sickness of this world Is In tho mind
only. This don't make It any the less
real, for the mind is as real as tho
body and a good deal moro so. Wo
see that a man's mind is diseased. Ho
asks our opinion, and if wo tell him
the truth it confirms his own belief
ind makes him worse, and maybe a
few doses of our truth will finish
lim. No matter how big a Har a fel
or may bo, we believe him when
10 tells us we ain't lookln' well."
"I don't exactly follow you," replied
Hrlzlntine, "but wouldn't you rather
know the truth on all occasions?"
"Well, not perhaps until afterward.
I recollect that ono time I wont on
three notes for a man. When tho first
one fell duo the feller that held all
three came to me and said that tho
man I had accommodated had signed
over property enough to meet tho
other two, but that I would have to
pay the first ono. It didn't amount
to Qjiough to wnrrant me In sellln' my
farm, so I went to work with extra
force and made the money and paid
It. Well, about six months afterward
here came tho foller again and said
a mistake had been made and that
It was the third note that was to be
taken care of and that I'd have to
pay the second one. This shocked mo
a good deal, but he declared by all
that was good and bad that the third
one would give mo no trouble, so I
strained again, doubled the forces of
my energy and soon met tho other
note without sellin' my farm. Then
I know I was all right; but, sir, in
duo time hero came the holder of tho
notes and said that ho was sorry to
havo made such a mistake but that
the property set aside was worthless
and thnt I'd have to pay the third
note. This hit me between tho eyes,
but I strained again and paid tho
note."
"But I don't seo where tho vlrtuo
of all that lyln' come in," said Brizln
tlno. "Well, I do. If It had been made
known to me at first that I had to
pay the three notes I would have let
my fnrin go at a forced sale and
would have been worso than home
less; but ns It was, bollevin that I
could meet tho small amount, I wont
to work with a vim and when I got
through I found that tho surplus of
my extra exertion had put mo beyond
where I had ever been before. The
holder of tho notes was a wise man.
Ho know that tho feller I had signed
for had left tho neighborhood, dis
honest and broke; and ho know, also,
that tho full knowledgo of it, told to
mo right off, would crush mo. In a
way ho was a liar, but both him and
mo benefited by It. There Is such a
thing as belli a professional truth
teller just as thoro Is a professional
honesty. I recollect once thoro was a
toll gate over .hero on tho pike, and It
was kept by nn old man named
Bowles. IIo and his son worked out
In the Held while his wife took care
of tho gate. On ono occasion sho wont
away to look aftor somo young chick
ens and loft tho gate opon. Along
came a man on a boss. He hel
loed and no ono camo out. Then,
lookln' across.' tho Hold, ho saw tho
old feller and his son at work hooln'
corn; so hp got down off his boss and
trudued across, tht' clods of tho Hold
i
and came up to whero Bowles was
sweatln under tho br'llln' sun.
" There wau't anybody down at tho
houso to lot me through the gate,'
said he.
'"That so?' the old man Inquired,
lookln' at him sharp.
" 'Yes, so I have brought you tho
five conts.'
" 'Oh, you have, he said, takln' tho
five cents and lookln' at It as If It
was a curiosity. 'Nobody there, eh?
But wan't the gate open?'
" 'Yes, tho gate was opon all light.
"'But you wouldn't ride through?'
'"No, I didn't.'
" 'And you come trudgln' all the
way across this field In the hot mm
to pay five cents?'
" 'Yes, sir, I've done that because
I'm honest.'
"The old man turned to his boy and
called out: Mini, watch this feller.
IIo'll steal somethln' before he gits
oil tho place.'"
Some of the boys laughed and Briz
lntlno said: "Well, but the man proved
his honesty."
"Ah, hah, and that was tho trouble:
Ho wanted to prove It. He was too
particular, and a good many such lit
tle things wore brought up In his
favor some time afterward when he
was arrested for forgery, but they
proved it on him and sent him to the
penitentiary just the same. If hon
esty hasn't become so much of a
thoughtless habit as to bo unconscious
it will bear watcbln'. There ain't noth
in' more beautiful than the principle
of truth, and its highest aim Is to
benefit man. But when It Is turned
Into a profession they make a sort of
art of it, and, from what I can gather,
art as art always goes a little too far
to be real."
"But you wouldn't teach a son to
lie?" said Brizintine.
"No, but I would teach him truth so
sly as to make him bellove It was
born In him. One bit of Inherent
virtue Is better than a hundred vir
tues .acquired. The constitution we
are born with will stand moro strain
than the one we build up. You can
fatten a razorback lfog, mebby, just
the same as a Berkshire, but give him
a chance and he will run off his fat,
because he was born that way. But
keep on fattenln' razorbacks, and af
ter several generations they will lose
their disposition to run wild. Gettln'
back to truth, It ought to be an un
conscious quality, like a healthy organ
in the body. A man don't begin to
doctor his stomach until ho feels that
he's got one, and truth that needs
medicine ain't of tho best sort. You
know what the Son of Man said when
they asked him if he would pay trib
ute to Caesar. He didn't say yes or
no, but he gave 'em a beautiful figure.
A blunt truth would not have been
any truer and not half so wise."
"But, Uncle Lim," said a young fel
low, "how about a 'possum dog that
barks up the wrong tree jest to en
courage a foller?"
"My son," replied old Llniuel, "I've
been talkln' about men and not dogs."
(Copyright, by Oplo Road.)
New York's 212 Banks.
Twenty years ago the fact was made
much of that New York boasted of 100
banks and trust companies. To-day
however, we find that the greater city
has no less than 212 institutions of this
character.
When we add in the branches we
make a total of U21S different banking
organizations or places where deposit
accounts aro opened and the different
branches of the bunking business car
ried on.
Of tho total of 212 actual Institutions
14 aro national banks, Gl are stnto
banks, 52 savings banks und 55 trust
compunies. It is unnecessnry to say
that tho capital and deposits of tho
44 national banks overtop tho sumo
items in all tho other classes of in
stitutions. Moody's Magazine.
For and Against Suffrage Cause.
Marie Corolll continues to write and
speak against "votes for women," In
England, while Beatrice narration is
busy traveling from placo to placo
giving readings from "Ships that Pass
In the Night" and her othor books to
raise monoy to help the suffrage
cause. It is said that Miss Corolll has
refused to moot Miss Harraden in do
bate, saying sho didn't care to mako a
spectacle of herself.
The Diet Craze.
Thoro seoms to be a growing belief
that our mental as well as our phys
ical health depends entirely on our
diet. Peoplo want to explain every
thing by what they eat or drink. It Is
a craze, and, like all crazes, It has
no sorlous foundation. The secret of
health remains what it ever has boon
viz., general moderation and rational
exercise. Barcelona Gazot Medicu.
He Was Prepared.
The lawyer was doing a cross-examining
stunt.
"Now, sir," ho said to tho witness,
"toll tho court how far you were from
tho accused when he fired tho shot."
"Thirteen feet, seven und three
quarters Inches," answered tho wit
ness. "Oh, come, now," said the lawyer,
"how can you toll to the fraction of an
Inch?"
"1 knew some fool would ask mo,"
replied the other, "so I measured it."
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