PREPARING CORN FOR CALVES. It 1® useless to attempt to bring up the calf on whoie ear corn yet it is much bet ter to cut It in the ear than to feed it to calves shelled. A corn cutter can be made home which, if there are but a few ani mals to feed, will answer the purpose as well as a cutter costing several dollars. Take the cutter from an old plow or a ■blade of a scythe or even an old cleaver ouch as is used by butchers and sharpen well. Make a little bench and nail a small board to the side of it cutting a hole at the 4ower edge. Through this hole the ear of oorn to be cut is passed. One or two small blocks of hard wood arc na'.led to the main / JL_j board of the bench back of the upright pieces three Inches to keep the blade In a given grove for action. Another upright would answer the same purpose though It might not he no easily kept In place. In the Illustration, which makes the plan and description clear, A shows a hole cut In the board to allow the cut p'.eces of corn to drop through Into tho basket which Is to be placed underneath. Figure B shows the manner of fastening the blade to tho ■lever and M tho bolt securing the lever. The whole Idea can be worked out readily by anyone possessing a little Ingenuity. WHY THE BOYS LEAVE THE FARM In commenting on a recent magazine ar ticle covering this subject the editor of an agricultural journal remarks that the rea *on for leaving the farm Is given by many boys as "because they do not Uko frtrm ■tng” and that such being Ihe case the farm >1» bolter off without such boys. We do met believe tills Is a logical deduction, for. u the majority of farms are managed there Is no reason why a boy should Uko farming. A hoy with any sort of a head »n his shoulders Is not content to settle down as a farm hand; on the other hand give him a chance to learn how ho can use tils brains In farming and you will sec his idlsUkc (?) for farming disappear very fast. .As a, rule youth wees the rosy side of life and It takes a long time of hard labor he «fore a farm born and bred boy concludes 'that ho docs not like fanning. Give the * boy a chance to get an agricultural educa tion, something that will tit him to man ■*ge a farm rather than be a farm hand find tho chances are nine out of ten he will aot want to leave tho farm. There are ex ceptions, of course, but It Is well worth ithe effort to ascertain by agricultural cau sation If the boy Is not Inclined to bo a (farmer. . J 4.0OK OUT FOR SCaLE MILLERS, j One or more firms are sending represen- 1 tallVes throughout the country who offer for a money consideration to treat trees for Injurious Insects. The process con sists of scraping the bark from the trunk ■of the tree In whole or In part and then ■painting It with some substance which Is •claimed will kill the disease or prevent . Insects from attacking It, whichever your tlree suffers from. It Is not probable that tthere Is the slightest merit In the material •applied, and the one fact that the bark Is •scraped from the tree, destroying the cam bium layer, Is sufficient to brand the ■scheme as one well to avoid, to put It ■ mild. Unfortunately our ornamental trees dill through the country are threatened ■ with destruction and every town should •take the matter seriously In hand through •the proper local officials. One way of as certaining just what to do Is to apply for ■feel? to the experiment station of your -state and by all means avoid the remedies ■offered by the people of whom you know ■aothing. wm-uc i « uwu vnur iu varcv^w. In Bectiohs where It is possible to raise a fair crop of millet, and It does well on any good corn land, it is one of the best •crops to raise for tho dairyman and the upoultryman while It may be fed with l>roflt to swine. Horses, however, are made - «lck by It at times and it ought not to be fed to them. Tho German millet furnishes the best crop and It la fed to cows, both «talk and head, not threshed. It is not a good plan to feed It regularly for then the cow* get somewhat tired of it and will eat the heads only. We tlnd it best to feed it about twice a week and thus it be comes something of a delicacy and the -cows cat it up clean. We thresh a certain ^portion of the crop and feed the seeds to (poultry. In this connection we use it in several ways; as one change in the ra tion by itself, mixed with cracked corn and wheat and in the scratching shod; in the latter case a certain portion is thrown hi from the lot reserved for the cows, that Is, unthreshed so that the birds may spend their time in picking out the seeds and scratching over the lot for any seeds they (have missed. The straw of the threshed (portion is used for bedding and as it rots readily when put in the manure pile It returns to the soil a valuable vegetable jfertilizer. When fed to hogs It is given •only oeasionally and then unthroshed. If GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP. \ So Medicine So Beneficial to Brain { und Nerve*. l Lying awake nights makes It hard to keep awake and do things In daytime. To take “tonics and stimulants” under such circumstances is like setting ‘.lie ' house on tire to see if you can put it j out. ( The right kind of food promotes re- 1 freshing sleep at night and a wide- 1 awake individual during the day. 1 A lady changed from her old way of > eating to Grape-Nuts, and says: ( “For about three years I had been a , great sufferer from indigestion. After ! trying several kinds of medicine, i lie doctor would ask me to drop off pota toes, then meat, and so on, but in a few , ] days that craving, gnawing feeling would start up, and I would vomit ev- i erything 1 ate and drank. "When I started on Grape-Nuts, vom iting stopped, and the bloating feeling i which was so distressing disappeared 1 entirely. “My mother was very much bothered with diarrhea before commencing the Grape-Nuts, because her stomach was so weak she could not digest her food. Since using Grape-Nuts she is well, and says she don’t think she could live with out it. "It is a great brain restorer and nerve builder, for I can sleep as sound and undisturbed after a supper of Grape Nuts as in the old days when I could not realize what they meant by a ’had stomach.’ There is no medicine so ben eficial to nerves and bruin as a good night’s sleep, such as you can enjoy after eating Grape-Nuts.” Name given by 1’ostum Co., Dattle j Creek, Mich. “There’s a reason.” • THE LADYBIRD BY CRETE HAtiti It was all so absurdly trivial. In ’act, she had almost forgotten what it vas about. They had quarreled be ore, lots of times and over more seri >us matters, but they had always nade It up again directly afterward intil now. Now she came to think of It, it was ilways she who had begun the quar el and he who had begun the mati ng up. And quite right, too, she said to her ;elf. When he proposed to her he had old her that he worshiped her, that le was her slave till death, that for ler sake he was ready to go through Ire and water. She had only to com nand, and he would obey. Very well, then; she had taken him ,t his word. She had commanded and ic had obeyed—until now. She had never asked him to go hrough fire and water for her. No, he was much too reasonable for that. She had never demanded the impossi ile. The things she had expected him o do were all quite simple and easy. “I wouldn't order George about quite o much, if I were you, Kate,” her sis er had said to her the other day. "What do you mean?” she asked in mazement. “Well, I don't exactly know how to xplain it," said Em. “You know you’re uite a pleasant, easy-going sort of erson, generally speaking, but with leorge you’re a perfect tyrant. I some imes wonder why he puts up with ou.” "You don't understand,” returned fate, loftily. “When a man is in love ,dth his wife it is the greatest pleas re and privilege in the world for him 3 do her bidding." “Even if it makes him look like a 30l ?” asked Em, whereupon Kate pre erved a dignified silence. Of course, Em had never been mar led, never been engaged even, and con equently knew nothing about the feel igs of people in love. Yet, somehow, those words of Em's ankled. She thought of them now, as she I The womgn, as well as the man. must j be prepared to give and take. Up tc ' the present, he had done all the giv ! ing, she all the taking. | How blind, how selfish she had been! She saw it all now. Why, why should the man be always on his knees to the woman? Why | should she be the queen and he the j slave? She had never questioned her ! right until now, and she could find no reasonable title to the claim, i Surely the woman who loves her i j husband should bo as ready to serve , | as to be served. There could be no w question of commanding or obeying on I either side. The ladybird was balancing itself in | a. reckless manner on the edge of George's white collar. If he moved his head ever so slightly, the tiny thing would inevitably be crushed. In the midst of her remorse she was seized with a sudden solicitude for the ladybird. Stepping up behind George, she flicked it lightly and dexterously from his collar. He felt the gentle touch, and turned his head in surprise. The next moment a pair of soft arms were flung about his neck, a hot cheek laid caressingly against his own. I "George, I want to make up,” she whispered, “and—and there’s such a lot I want to say to you.” When she had said it, with her pretty head very close to his, he turned to her with a glad smile. "I’m the proudest, happiest man in the world today,” he said. “I didn’t realize, until this moment, what a sen sible little woman I had married. Don’t think, dearest,” he added, hastily, “that I ever regretted the vows I made to you when I asked you to be my wife. There is nothing I wouldn’t willingly do for you. It was only when I found that my love was in danger of spoiling you that I began to resent the—the—” “The horrible tyrannies I practiced upon you,” she interrupted quickly. I'&cofioe, j 1''"^=S=~SS^|^r «« 1 tole into the garden, where George ad taken refuge alter dinner. She new where she would find him. He ras sitting in his favorite place, under he old apple tree at the back of the iwn, unconscious of her presence. Noiselessly she stole up behind him, nd stood watching him, as he moodily uffed at his pipe. A ladybird had dropped from some verhanging bough, and was crawling lowlv up his back, in the direction of is collar. Had sne really made George look a ool? And did he mind looking a fool -for her sake? Surely the Ideal, the erfeet husband, should shrink from othing, not even ridicule, incurred in is wife’s service. And yet—-and yet— o man likes to be made to look a fool, t isn’t in human nature. Thoughtfully she stared at the lady ird as it made its slow, laborious jour ;ey across George’s light coat. After all, perhaps she had expected lira to do a little too much fetching nd carrying, and all that sort of thing. Of course, man should wait on roman. That was perfectly right and iropcr, but—there are limits to every hing. Was George beginning to rer ■gnlze this? Was that the reason why ie had not been as ready n3 usual to latch up their last little squabble? Mow she came to think of it, she re nembered how the squabble had orig nated. She had commissioned him to get a ertain back number of an illustrated >aper that contained a portrait which ihe admired. \ The offices of the pa nor were in Fleet treet, and George hfid an office in loiborn, so that it would have been he easiest thing in the world for him 0 get that paper. But no, he had sim )ly forgotten all about it. He had had 1 busy, harassing day, he said. He vas awfully sorry, and he would be ;u" - to r member tomorrow. Mow, she ha 1 particularly wanted he paper that very day, but what up ;et her most was not so much the want f the paper, as the fact that he should lave forgotten to fulfill a wish of hers. His business worries had. for the ime, obliterated the remembrance of ler! The thought was unendurable, he had told him so, and that is how ho squable had begun. The ladybird had by this time •cached me rim of George’s coat collar. Well, certainly, he had been looking •at ler worried lately. Pc maps it wa i l.ule unfair to expect him to devot : i s ealhe tnoughts to her and hsi . .shos. : h? began t> remember a hundred q tiuu oi when sne had eitor ;.ol and t^ which ho had submitted aiicnt-Iv. Harm.ess little tyrannies, a -sv < f t out quite unnecessary, . .i>- — sin- :.ad practised smi le be u-so sue 1 >ved to see aim at aer . q. . he rom xnV'raJ reading somewhere on o ’. iUL i .e true k:vi < i marrio! .;i ;. UK* pr.iicipla of ’give ..m lUi'u;. "Geoigi, what a selfish little wretch I’ve been!" Strange Work for Women. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. "Girls are uisplacmg men in walks o) life undreamed of only a decade ago,’1 said August H. Kaems, deputy stats factory inspector of Sheboygan, Wis. "Up in my own city girls have been working in the varnish rooms of the chair factories for almost twenty years and within the last ten years many others have found employment in one of the foundries enameling kitcheri utensils. Barring the intense heat in the rooms, the work is comparatively easy, though it does seem strange to find women in foundries. "The bottling departments of the breweries also employ girls in prefer ence to boys, and the work being almost entirely automatic, where other condi tions are wholesome, little criticism can be made. "It was not until I entered upon my present duties that I learned that girls a re also being employed in tanneries. I am a tanner by trade, so that It was quite a surprise to me when I saw frail women perform work which fell to sturdy men in former years. These girls are principally employed in the chrome departments. In northern Wis consin some of our inspectors have found women employed In the sawJ mills.” Not His Fault, Though. "It is a very fine thing to be brave and generous and noble,” said Bliss Perry, the noted writer, editor and teacher of Harvard, "but sometimes we are generous and noble against our will. Then, of course, we deserve no credit. • . "Of thi3 type was a young married man whose father-in-law, a reputed Bh millionaire, hurst in on him one day and groaned: “ All is lost! I am utterly ruined!* “‘Ahem,’ said the son-in-law; ’thev I married for love, after all.’ ’’ Two Miles a Minute. Twomllesamlnute, Geehowwefly! Swlftasameteor Streakingthesky. Whatlsthatblur? Onlytlietrees, Lookatthemwave. Mywhatabreeze! Ahonkandarush, Atlashandasmell— W hatdldwehit? Didsomebodyyell? 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