1 „rn Potatoes Are I*r«e i«rce size to which ""tunes prow in the west is among which r\re given by Rural New I;,toes thrive best in cool , ^ loose, loamy, rich. Irrigation, properly proc I,,,, the ilesired mechanical i'in rich soils brings into and consequent availa ,iocs of plant food which .rrassfeeder, fastens ,\innds^itself accordingly, '..pie about it, simply rich ' ,,’tlv cultivated and judi re cure or money refunded. Auk jo-xt < frlce 15 cents. it of seventy-five counties in license saloons. KNOWLEDGE imfort and improvement and Pensonal enjoyment when a- tee many, who live bet and enjoy life more, with i‘“re, by more promptly A rr!d * products to tnfeal>in&wi11 attest sea th of the pure liquid ™clP.le?,. embraced in the ‘Spot Flg3. ' face is due to its presenting tercnb.le and piea^ :;Mrfitves ‘nsatijf C?-nng constipation, "saiidactionm millions and kcau^"!* of the medical raS R, fCts on the Kid and .®Vwels without weak ktionalu *S P?rfect'y free from 'andtilf"r,8ale by all dm bv th*e r’rfes’but ilia ®an »wlCahfor,lil1 Fig Syrun 11,0 tli8me 15 Panted on every *1 ? “"“.Syrup of fK 'he ! ■Ml: Haul IP*S|3 rsa-fesasa te-, V '‘'“Si?** Plow Cl,. '■ N'KII, DAIRY AND POULTRY, INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How Successful Farmer* Operate Thla Department of the Homeatead—Hints aa to the Caro of Lin Stock and Poultry. _ Economy of Dairy Practice. The Pennsylvania experiment sta tion has been making some experi ments relative to the influence of quantity of food upon economy of butter and milk produc tion. In a summary they say: Varying quantities of a ration consist ing of timothy hay and a mixture of corn meal, wheat bran and linseed meal were fed to ten fairly good cows for a period of 101 days. 1. When the average cost of food consumed per cow per day was 10.0 cents, an increase of 3.5 cents in the cost of the ration produced an increase in the value of the butter product of 3.6 cents, or a net gain of 1.1 cents per cow, amounting to 3?. 3 cents per day for a herd of twenty-five cows, or #72.50 per year. а. a iurtner increase 01 J.7 ceniB per day, making the ration cost 25.1 cents, showed no increase in the butter pro* duct, and was therefore fed at a loss. 3. At this point a reduction in the daily cost of the food consumed to 30.1 cents per cow showed a net gain in the daily profit returned of 3.5 cents over the period when the ration cost 25.1 cents; amounting to $263.50 per year for a herd of twenty-five cows. 4. A further reduction of 3 cents per day in the cost of the ration, making the average cost 17.1 cents, gave the smallest net profit of any period in the experiment, amounting to a loss of 6.3 cents per cow per day when compared with the ration costing 20 cents and 7.4 cents per day per cow in comparison with a ration costing 23.4 cents. This means a yearly loss on twenty five cows when compared with the ration costing 20.1 of $472.50 and $555.00 when compared with the ration costing 22.4 cents per day. 5. It does not appear to be profitable in the average case to increase the food of animals as long as they will continue to show an increase in the butter produced, for beyond a certain limit, which varies with different ani mals, the increased product is made at a greatly increased cost of food. б. While there is a danger of loss from over feeding, as is shown by the results in period 3, there is a very much greater probability of a loss oc curring from under feeding in ordinary practice, since the most profitable rations in our trials were nearly up to the limits of the appetites of the ani mals when the consumption of any considerable quantity of coarse fodder was required of them. 7. Wide differences are shown in the yearly profit returned by animals pro ducing approximately the same quanti ty of milk and butter. The extremes in the ten animals used in this trial are as 1 is to 1.95. 8. The ration giving us the greatest daily profit is lighter in digestible nutriment than that recommended by Wolff and that found to be the aver age of a number of leading dairymen in Wisconsin, but agrees iu all details quite closely with the American stand ard proposed by Prof. Henry. Ole margarine Versus Butter. The Supreme court of the United States has rendered a decision in the Massachusetts oleomargarine case which affirms in the broadest terms the power of a state government to protect its citizens against fraudulent imitations of articles of food. The opinion of the court is that it is with in the power of a state to exclude from its markets any compound man ufactured in another state which has been artificially colored or adulterated so as to cause it to look like an article of food in general use, and the sale of which may, by reason of such color ation or adulteration, cheat the gen eral public into purchasing that which they may not intend to buy. “The constitution of the United States does not secure to any one the priv ilege of delrauding the public.” The Chicago Tribune, commenting on this well says: Some people connected with the manufacture of butterine in this city are quoted as saying if the state take advantage of this decision it will close the market against the product and affect the price of cattle. Either cattle would have to be sold more cheaply or meat cost more to the con sumer if the manufacturers of butter ^ \aj uuu a, umrKet ior the 90,000,000 pounds of that material which they make per year. That is an ! awkward way of stating the case, be- j cause it will allow some people to draw the unfounded inference that nobody would knowingly buy butter ine for his or her own use and that the consumption of the article can not be procured except by a cheat. If this were true the states ought to rule out the fraud. It is the duty of their gov ernment to protect the citizens from •11 kinds of cheating, and certainly not less so in regard to food, drink and drugs than to other things. But is it so? It must be admitted that in the earlier days of its manufacture here butterine was pushed into use by sell- • 'ng it for butter, and that probably its ! consumption now would be far less extensive but for that fact, j »et it surely ought to be able to stand on its own merits by this time. The manufacturers tell the truth in saying that good butterine is much preferable to poor butter, and that veiy many consumers are wise enough to elieve that. It is undeniable that one great reason for legislatingagainst its sale under ordinary conditions has Deen the fact that it was sold for what not> and ^ I" probable that but *or this no restrictive laws would have been passed in any state. So if some of those laws be unfairly strict they only retaliate upon interests which have profited by fraud in the past The use of butterine is so well estab- j lished that it is assured of an exten sive consumption by people who would know they were not eating butter. And if not it should not be sold at alL There is no more right or reason in forc ing it upon people who suppose they are paying for butter than in obliging them to consume pork or coffee when they think they are paying for beef or tea and much prefer the latter. Ilon esty ought still to be the best policy, as it was in “the good old times,” or was supposed to be. The industry which can not flourish except by wholesale fraud on the community has no right to flourish at all, and it is especially desirable that fraud be not allowed in the articles which people take into their stomachs. The but terine men should see to 1t that their product is offered to consumers on its own merits, as an acceptable substitute for butter, but not for butter itself, and till they come out fairly and squarely with that policy they hardly have a right to complain if somo of the legislation intended to prevent fraud bears upon them a little more heavily than they think is fair. . What I Know About Poultry Lice. The following appears in the Inter State Poultryman: Mb. Editor: As I had nothing else to do and you invite people to give their experience about poultry mat ters, I thought I’d tell you what I knew for your valuable paper. This is the season that the hen lice get in their work most effect ively. Our family consists of me and dad and ma and about seventy-five Plymouth Rocks—little and big. Dad is sick and not feeling well. He had an argument with ma about setting a hen. He wanted to try the inverted sod we read so much about in the pa pers, but ma wouldn't have any such foolishness. Ma has a convincing way about her when she argues and that is what made dad sick. I should think dad would know it by this time, but he’s as stubborn as a mule. You don’t catch me arguing with ma. Ma says dad don’t know enough about a hen to last over Sunday,but if you could hear dad talk when ma ain’t around you could see he is right in it. Ma takes care of our chickens. Oh, yes, about the hen lice. The other day I heard dad tell Jim Simpson all about how to keep away the lice from your hen house, and he said you couldn’t find a louse in all his hen house because he kept it so nice and clean. I knowed that was all bluff, but I didn’t say anything. Boys know a good deal more than they let ob. l Knew a place in our nen nouse where the little red lice were thicker than people at a free show. I knew if I told on dad he'd be hot and he’d make me clean ’em out. That’s no snap. But dad oughtn’t tell fibs about lice, so I thought up a plan to make him repent and see how he’d like to roost in a hen house with all them red lice this hot weather. 1 felt sorry for the hens. Dad he was born tired and it’s been growing on him for about forty-five years, so he goes to bed early —he can stand more rest than afly man in this whole county. So I got a tin box with a lid on and scooped it full of red lice—about five hundred million of them—and took them ud stairs after dad had gone to bed. When I heard dad snoring—I should think snoring would be too hard work for him—I slipped into his room and emptied the box on the bed. It was awful hot and they had a good chance. Dad's pretty fat. I sleep in the next room. I went to bed with my clothes on so if I got in a hurry I’d be ready. I waited and waited and began to think dad was too tough for ’em, but pretty soon dad quit snoring. Then I knowed the things was working and I just held my breath and listened. Dad began to turn over and then turn back, and to throw his limbs around promiscu ous like and to say things out loud. I thought I’d bust, but I knowed I had to keep quiet if I swal lowed every sheet on the bed. I never thought dad could be so active. It was a whole lesson in gymnastics. I felt that something was going to hap pen soon, so I slid out on the kitchen roof. Dad couldn’t stand it no longer and got up and lit a match to see what ailed him. You would have died had you seen dad’s face while he was look ing at that bed. I slipped down off the roof and slept in the hay mow that night. I thought maybe dad would want my bed. Dad had to get the coal oil can and take a kerosene bath right away—that knocked them out. If you want to see a whole circus of wild beasts just ask dad what he knows about hen lice. You don’t need to send us any paper this month, as dad is awful excitable, and being sick the doctor says he must keep perfectly quiet or he won’t be responsible for the result. Yours truly, William Weslet, Jb. P. S.—I had to scour out the hen house, though. But I don’t care, I guess I had more fun out of it than dad. 2d P. S.—I have had a lot more ex perience with poultry, and if you pub lish this I’ll write some more. N. B.—Don’t send us any paper this month, I’ll see one; dad’s awful ex citable. At the last meeting of the Iowa1 Dairy association Prof. Kent said: The j provision of fat in the animal is to i provide warmth, and so temperature j has much to do with the consumption I of the fat in the body. A large pro- j portion of fat is needed in the winter j time, and from this fact it is necessary ! to conclude that a wider ration is j needed in the winter than in the sum- j mer. Fat can be formed by both the animal and vegetable economy. Some have said that fat can be formed from the proteins, while others contend that fats are formed from the starch of the food. \ Absolutely pure War <'orr«**pomlencff> In A«l». Hard indeed is the lot of the wav cor respondents with the Japanese army. An order has pone forth from head quarters enumerating a long scries of conditions on which alone these unfor tunate journalists will be permitted to perform their duties. Among them is a rule that controlling oHirers alone ore to prescribe the places correspond ents are allowed to visit as well as the time when they may do so. Corres pondents must, moreover, always carry "in their hand" their tickets of permis sion. As to their letters, they must in all cases be laid before the controlling ofllcers for examination at a time to be fixed by them. Their remarks must, moreover, be strictly limited to past events, must not mention in any cnBe the strength or distribution of the Japanese forces nnd must on no ac count state the place or time of send ing out the letters.—I-on down News SlOO Howard. SI on. The renders of this pnper will be plensod to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to euro In all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure uow known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is tnken internally, noting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tho system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution nnd assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much fnith in Its curative powers, that they offer One Hun dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. 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I keep a list of all the gentlemen who have asked me that question you have just put, and there has been only one exception among all my guests who have occupied the room, and that was Mr. Fawcett, the late postmaster general, and he, poor man, was blind.” HOW I MADE 81,900 W By not sowing Salzer’s seeds! That is what a jolly farmer said as he entered our sanctum, llow is that? Why, says he, Salzer's seeds not only grow but they produce enormously. Hud I planted a few acres more of his oats, wheat, corn, potatoes, grass and clover seeds, I would have had to double the capacity of my barns; that would have cost me 91,200. It is a fact that if you want big,rousing farm, grass and vege table crops, you must sow Salzer’s seeds. If Yon Will Cat This Out and Bend It with 7c postage to the John A. 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