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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1896)
Mud! Mud! Murky, mucky niudl It In a halt and a bobble to every hoof, and a worry and weight to every Wheel. The clammy touch of Itaniultltudious finger clings to every foot and felly, It ia a monster born of clouds and darkness. The devil-fish of the path knd the highway. Tbe sunshine ia its enemy, before whom it creepa into ita hidden eaves. Mod ia the monster mother of earth's slimy things. It is the antithesis of flight. It ia a drag placed on the feet of the world. It is the sloth seeking to make a sluggard of every moving thing. Ita purpose la to daub and delay, dig tress and destroy. It is the ugly handicap of time and a blasting blight to progress. Its presence meats Isolation and Ig norance, superstition and squalor. It is the smoky glass enshrouding the Jight of liberty and motion. It is the underbrush in tbe path of progress; an Impassable lock in the current of commerce. It Is an incessant toll-gatherer and a perennial taxmonger. Its Joy Is to bother and besmirch, to balk and to baffle. It represents grief and gloom, and throws Its shadow over gayety and gladness. It was not made for man. Better a roaring linn in the sireet than a highway filled with mini. Banish it forever and a day. Atuen. A Good Hoada Suggestion. The suggestion of Mr. Henry Budd. the New Jersey Public Roads Commis sioner, that the corning highways will ne of steel is found to be a good one. when properly understood. Of course Toads completely covered with steel -or any other metal are out of the ques tion, hut steel trenches or trucks in which wagon wheels can run without sinking are practical, and Mr. Budd shows they lire also economical. In Is-hulf of this style of road Mr. Budd calls nttention to the ease with which loads can !o drawn, even where only one side of a wagon is on a metal track. It is well known that drivers of loaded vehicles prefer the street car tracks to any other part of the roiullied, although tbey can make use of but one side of it. Mr, Budd says n horse can draw twenty times as lieavj- a load over steel mils as he can over a dirt road, and five times as much as over ik macadam road. A macadam road sixteen feet wide costs on an ;iverage $7.nhi a mile. Ac cording to Mr. Budd. the cost of a dou ble steel railroad sixteen feet wide, filled in with broken stone, macadam size, would be ii.iNi per mile, while a ttingle track country road need only -ost $2."NI a mile. The rails to be laid on such a road would 1k of the thickness of boiler plate, formed like a gutter, five Inches wide, with n square perpendicular shoulder half an inch high, then an angle of one Inch outward, slightly raised. This would form a conduit for 1he water and penui: the wheels to enter or leave the track easily. What a Imiou. Inttb to wagon drivers and bicyclists, such a road would 1h! If Mr. Budd can get a trial road 'of this kind built in New Jersey he will Is- a benefactor to the country. TOLD ABOUT FRANK LAWLER. Incidents of Hi Service ia the Nation al House of Representatives. Several anecdotes relating to tiie lae Frank Ijiwler, of Chicago, were un reeled by niemlM-rs of the House yesfer t'ay. In a Isjok of travels, entitled "A Buckeye Abroad.' Sunset Cox animad verted rather unfavorably uKn the Irish ni-e. It created a good deal of lesentment among the Irish of the Culted States, of whom I.awler waa lather a conspicuous type. One Satur day afternoon Representative Wood burn of Nevada indulged In a vicious at tack on Cox. Ill which he charged him with lsdng a parasite of the Colden Club, and a sympathizer with the poli cies of Great Britain, free trade, anti Irian sentiment, and all. Cox was not In the House when Woodburn assailed him. But he read he speech of tbe tlery westerner In the Record on Sunday morning, and on Monday If? waa boiling over when he rose In the House to reply to his ad versary. In his speech he denied the charge of his pro-Anglican sentiment, nod reviewed the record of his ances tors as true-blue, standard-bred Amer icans. Congressman Frank l-awler was Just entering the Hotiee by a side door as Cox exclaimed, with uplifted right hand: , "Why. sir, my father opened the first Wink In Ohio "How did he do It." asked Lawler, "with Jimmy V It 1m related af Iawler that on. one aricMtaa be guvc the doorkeepers of the Home ablet lasrt ruction not to present tmf moti carta to bin, aa be waa great ly aiawij 1 1 fr U who were, taking f half hla tliac, In the lobbies. Mis. Lawler one day approached a door- "i ' fife, V- te, f .. keeper, who bad held bis position but a short time and who did not know her. Htm asked to as Oungreaautaa Lawler. "Sorry, madam, he said politely, "Mr. l-awler will see no one." "Oh, yes," said Mrs. Ijiwler, "be will see me. Just tell him his wife is out here." "That won't do," said the doorkeeper, "that racket Is worked on members every day." Washington Post. DAINTIES FOUND IN THE ARCTIC Delicious Berries Produced rhorea of Labrador. oa tbe In spite of the latitude and Arctic current, Labrador is the home of much that is delicious In the berry world. Even the outlying islands furnish the curlew berry and bake apple in pro fusion, and upon the mainland In the proper month, Septeni!er. a veritable feast awaits one. Tbre varieties of blueberries, huckleberries, wild red currants, having a pungent, aromatic flavor, unequaled by the cultivated va riedes; marsh berries, rasptierriea. tiny wnite rapiuaire tea oemes, with a flavor like some rare perfume, and hav ing Just a faint suggestion of winter- green; squash berries, pear berries, and curlew berries, the latter not so grate ful as the others, but a prime favorite with the Eskimos, who prefer it to al most any other; and lastly, the typical Ibrador fruit, which, excepting a few scattering plants In Canada and Newfoundland, is found, I believe, no where else outside of the peniusula the gorgeous bake apple. These cover the entire coast fr ra tbe St. Lawrence to Cngava. Their t-au-tiful geranium-like leaves struggle with the reindeer mists upon the islands. carpet alike the low valleys and the highest hilltops, and even peep from banks of everlasting snow. Only one berry grows upon each plant, but this one makes a most delicious mouthful. It is the sixe and form of a large dew berry, but the color Is a bright crimson when half riis- and a goldea yellow when matured. Its taste is sweetly add, It is exceedingly juicy, and ho deli cate that It might tie thought Impossi- ble to preserve It wllh all Its freshness and original flavor throughout the en tire winter, merely by covering It with fresh water and heading it up tightly In casks or barrels. Outing. Keenness of Scent. An interesting test of the skill of bloodhounds in iiiaii-tmcklng through the streets of a populous city, over Ice and snow, was given in ludiariaisdii- In connection with the t dog show. Four dogs were entered In the test. Brandy and Countess, Is-longing to S. M. Miller of Darlington; I'riuce, owned by Bowers & Harris of Noblesville, and Bright, who Is owned by W. S. FieblM of Wheaton. Early in the morning Dr. Bell of Ko- komo left Tomlinson Hall and passed out, and after walking through alley and streets, he put on a pair of arctic overshoes and continued his walk through the parks and on the strict- frequented by pedestrians. On the liir of march the doctor saw n rutin wn team, and in connection with the -rov.-d assisted in catching the horses. He then returned to the h.ill where the show was in progress. An hunt later the dogs were placed on the trail and followed it with comparative ease. except at the point where the runaway was halted and at one or two othei places over which there had Is-en con slderable travel, and around which the crowd following the dogs surged until it was almost lui'Mtssihle to break through. With unerring Instinct, how ever, the dogs again found the trail. followed it stmdily over the entire llm which Dr. Bell had walked and back tr 1 oniliiison Hall, where, they picked him out of a crowd of several hundred people, going up to him and indicating his Ideutity by barking.- Cincinnati Kn q Hirer. " .less." I lie original of Rider. Haggard' less'' Is suld to be Mrs. Marks, for merly Miss Millie I'rosoh, of Pretoria She married a young man named Mot to Marks, who at the time of the mar riage was quite wealthy. Mrs. Mark was. however, forced to leave her bus band, who is now a roamer. pickinh up odd newsiaer Jobs in Johannes burg. He went through the whole o) his fortuue In a short time, and. likt all others of his class, ls-gan to depeml on His wires earnings. .Mrs. aiarks arter leaving her husband, became a member of a South African opera company, which failed. ltke Their rather and Mothers. Wise parents are continually hearing something from their children: and the more simple-hearted the children are. the more Instructive is their example. Why, Mary." said Mrs. Wilson to her little girl, "you and your visitors a re doing nothing but sit about and look miserable. Why don't you play some thing'" We are playing." Playing whaty'" "We're playing that we are growed l" SelUer-Watcr. It Is not generally known that seltzer water takes Its name from the village of Iower Seltzers, in Nassau, when several springs, united In one basin, yield R.flOn cubic feet an hour or the sparkling and effervescing mineral water. Over a million and a half bot tles are exported yearly, bringing the State a revenue of oyer fHft.nflft. The vslue of die springs was so little real ised, that two centnrlea after they I'ad been discovered they were r:;led for four shillings a year. ' Maa'a Kgotlasa. Mrs. Fogg I don't care, Henry Is Just like you. Even a stranger eould tell In a mlante that he Is your son. Mr.Fofcg Mb. Hannah. dotrt say Mich tblnga la tola praaaaee; you'll make the chap as vain aa a peacock. Ronton Transcript ' TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A OMOtCI SELECTION OF INT!. MTING ITEMS. Sato a ad Criticiame Baaad Cs the Happewings of the Day His torical Bad News Nate. The sultan has yielded again, (tf). Mr. Keelv will have to keen his mo tor out of aight of the new photograph era. norseheads. X. Y.. has declared for Oov. Morton, and the lioveruor expects to win by a neck. Well. If Schlatter Is In the chain gang, he has the comfort of knowing be Isn't the first "heeler" to serve In that capacity. Can any one, except Colonel Breek tnnnge, recall rue name or bis suc cessor? But perhaps It is enough to recall that he did a mighty good Job, A St. Paul tyiewrlter has leen sued for 112,575 da.uiag.-s for alienating a husband's affections. The St. l'aul key-pounder In actlou on the affections must be a terror. In the last eight years only three per sons In Florida have died of rattle snake bite, a nil two of those were Eng lishmen who, there Is reason for be lieving, bad never heard of the Ken tucky cure. The New York Journal asks: "Where ts the Democrat who can think of the Chicago river In July without a shud der?" What has that to do with ltT The Democratic national convention will not be held in the Chicago river. Schlatter, the heilcr, baa been found In Southern California near I-sj An geles. This Is In accordance with his announcement that he was on his way to heaven. He has done the ls?t he could without leaving earth. It Is unfortunately true that the At lantic cable Indicts Alf Austin's poetry upon us. But that should not make us wish Cyrus W. Field had never l-en born. The cable also carric to En gland our opinion of the jHietry. The American miser who died in Paris lately, leaving Hon.um in cash In his room, hail resided In that city a dozen years and restricted himself to a week for exjM-nsc. He made a study of how far a sou will go In Paris, and may have had what lie considered good time. All volunteered fluent apologies have some mixture of a lie In them. No person who plans atologos plans to speak the plain truth. If he is Inge nious. he contrives a veneer of fact; but the substance is falsi an actuating principle or motive is kept out of sight. Xolsidy who is fair and aliove-lsiard In conscience and aims has the apol ogr.ii g impulse. Culiis P. Huntington erslNts In say lug Ihat tlie I'entral Pacific means to repay the government I'm cents for every dollar of debt owed It, A jhtsoii unfamiliar with the sifiiatlon would suppose the diily thing preventing the Central Pncillc from liying up whs the refusal of ihe l ulled Stan- to ac cept i In proffered money. If Hunting ton wants to pay up w hy didn't he do It long ago, and why doesn't he do it tiowV Boih l iic mind ami IhhI.v are so con stituted that they require constant but varied action, l iter idleness, of either bisly or mind, unless Uicv be in a more or less diseased slate, is not only un necessary, but harmful in the extreme. It is a tin lift which, once indulged In. will grow tiiMin tin- Individual. Change of occupation for the muscles, cliamre of the current of thought for (lie brain. Is what will promote the fullest and most healthful development of Isith. How ignorant are they who talk of the days of romance being over, us though the uuexpi-cted happened one whit less often than of yore! A loiter er oil one of the bridges of the Seine, the other day, was addressed by a stranger who placed a packet of bank notes In his hand, with the remark that he hoped life might Is? sweeter to the recipient than It had liecu to Die giver, and lief ore the oilier hud recovered from his surprise, the man had climbed over the balustrade ami was drowned. These things are often unknown to the world: There is much pain lliat Is quite noiseless, and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whlsiH-r in the roar of hurrying exist ence. There are glances of lis I red that stab and raise no cry of murder; rol lieries that leave man or woman for ever lsggared of peace and Joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer -eoinmlttii! to no sound except that of low moans iu the night seen In no writing except that made on tbe face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and ear ly morning tears. Many an Inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed luto no human ear. It Is surprising what strange slid un usual names pa rents sometimes burden their children wllh. eiqs-i-lslly If the Hums lie Is Itself somewhat --cciilisr. Mr. Sninuel Stales, of Jefferson, pa., had a son whom lie called "I'lilted." Some time ago he addressed a letter to Tnlted Htates, Paiiitn wuey. n., and the postmaster, thltiklug that no name was on the letter but that of our coun try, held It for better directions. Some yeas ago there II veil In Southern New Yotk a man named Federal Coiiatltii tlo Dlnlnney. He waa Isim on the ilay tlie constitution was signed, Sept. 17, 177. or the day a yrar and a half Inter when tbe nine flutes needed t set tbe new Government In operatioa was sacwrod. la Now York City baby born on the 2Stb of November, 17K3, wss named by Its parents "Evae nation," that being the day that th last British soldier stepped from Ne York docks on tbe British inen-of-wai that were to take them home. Evacua tion Smith, we believe, was bis name, and be had no trouble to reiuetnher hit birthday so long as he remembered one of the most Important events li New York history. For every great discovery or Invent tion the most Impossible and preposteri ous claims are put forth by peopla whose enthusiasm and Imaginative, faculty exceed their knowledge. So l is with the Roentgen or cathode or X ray, or whatever else anyone may choose to call a certain little under Stood force, or mode of motion. Roent gen discovered that by the agency o this "ray" images of certain sutwtan1 ces were formed upon sensitized plates, though objects which do not transmit ordinary rays of light were Interposed between tbe substances "shadowed" and the plate. And already we hav been told that the "ray" bas resuscltat ed a drowned mouse, and that Mr. Edi son la preparing to take a picture of s man's brain, and that the ray Is going to cure numerous diseases by jienetrst mg the human body Innocuously and slaughtering myriads of baclll. Tbls 14 a very wonderful force, no doubt, but let no one suppose that It will pene trate tissues and produce pictures ol bones, and at the same time penetrata bones and produce picture of tissues) that It will bring dead mice to life but kill bacilli and do no barm to human tissues. The word "perfunctory" applies U Queen Victoria's speech from thetbroni more accurstely than It applies to anj other official act In the world. It Is 1 mere form. Its most emphatic utter ances refer In only the least significant terms to the most Important publh events. The sieeehes of the Queen re late to matters on which she has noth ing to say for herself; she can orlginati nothing, declare nothing that Is 01 great InqKirt. A Sfieech Is written bj the Premier and approved by the en tire Cabinet It Is then read to her an approved and she authorizes some offl cer of the Government to read It It Parliament. It is accepted as the Hull diplomatic evasive sittings of publb and foreign business which the Gov ernment is willing the s-ople shoulc understand. To Americans the onlj really important part of tbe Qneen'i speech delivered recently at the open ing of Parliament was the referene 10 Venezuelan affairs, and that is very lame. There is nothing altout the Mon roe doctrine. There Is no hint as to the position of the Tnlted Slates on tin juestlon of European colonization ot the western continent. The venerabU monarch paraphrases President Cleve land's forcible message In a statement that "the Government of the Fnltei! States has expressed a wish to eo-oper ite in terminating the difference which have existed for many years be tween my Government and the n-pub lie of Venezuela upon the boundary; of that country and my colony of Hrit ish Guiana." She has expressed hei sympathy. gisd old lady, "with tin leslre to -ome to an equitable arrange ment. and she trusts "that furthei negotiations will lead to a satisfactory settlement," And, bless her old soul she probably will make Salisbury anc Cliamls-rlaln come to her way of think iug ill the end. TOO MUCH LAUGHTER. The Curious C'tise of a Negro Now l-.K-riting Iondon Hperialiala. A case of Insanity of a curious sort is Just now exciting considerable Inter est among the mcdlnil fraternity of London, says tin exchange. A negro was found the other day In a gentle man's house at Wlilesden and could give no account of himself li-ause of severe Ills of laughter which convulsed Ills frame. He whs taken to the nearest workhouse and ever since then luis done nothing but laugh. lie has not uttered a word in the In terval, and what Is his name or where lie came from is unknown. He laughs coiitlinioiisly from morning till nlglii and at meal times he swallows his fisul like lightning in order, apparently, that he may continue his tit of mirth with as little Interruption as possible. When he goes to sleep his sides shake with laughter, and in the morning the mo ment he opens his eyes his capacious mouth oK-iis, tis), with a loud guffs w. , At first It wss thought he had adopt ed this means 1o escape from Is-lng tried 011 the charge of attempted burg lary, but physicians who bavo exam: I mil him unite in pronouncing him In sane and saying that his cure is doubt ful. The chances sre, it seems. I lis I he will literally laugh himself to desth. This form of insanity, though rare, Is not unknown to medical science, though the mania Is generally of a transitory nature. There are several cases on rec ord of grave iersonages, who had rare ly been seen to smile, suddenly break ing into a habit of uncontrollable and contagious laughter. Dr. Houston telli of a solid, prudent business man who one day startled his family by s fit of laughter which lasted so long snd was so hilarious that every one In the room had to Join In. From time lo time after that he would Is seized In the church. In tin; train or In the streets, snd whenever be started sll who heard him would liave to follow. It was the first symp tom of nisnla. Very soon delusions and the most outrageous conduct super vened and then the asylum. Send a boy down town with a tlo bucket, and he wilt tone the lid. You can't stuff some people so much His I they will btl gratoflll. THE FARM AND HOME MATTERS OT INTEREST TO FARM ER AND HOUSEWIFE. Views of One Farmer oa Faras Wagea Unless Aaiasala Arc aneltered Good Feeding Docs Not Avail-Water for Cows-Variety with Ensilage- Manure from Clover Hay. A Baltimore County farmer writes to Hood's Dairyman the following In struct! ve and Interesting article on Farm I-ator. He says: "My father once told me that about twenty years ago, as he was on the t)rt of the year taking stock, so to speak, of the year's work he put as the lowest calculation, the price for hay at $'Jt a ton, wheat at 1 a bushel, and other products In proportion. To-day I pay tbe same wages that tie did, when It Is reckoned in money, but when It is reckoned In grain and hay, it takes two bushels now where It then took but one, and in this year of a short hay crop It takes nearly two hundred siuniU to pay for a day's labor, where it used to take but one. "Now, In the face of this, am I go ing to employ all the labor I can, and create a still further demand for labor, which Is my greatest eieuse? Hard X- My great aim Is, and I Is-lleve H should be, to run the fa nn with as lit tle hired men In It as itosslhle. It my aim be to combine the two elements, acres and machines, with as little as possible of the third element, lalHir. I bare beeu hiring two men In the winter, three in the spring and summer, with extra help at harvest and thresh ing times, and paying from six to eight hundred dollars a year for my lalsr. I-ast spring I rented to one uelghlnir one field, to another, another Held, and one hired man and myself worked off the balance what we could well, and Un rest was left uuworked. And as a re sult, I have Just as much grain and hay, and that at a clear saving of from two to three hundred dollars, from my reduced lalsir bill. There Is money In farming with low-priced crops and high-priced lalsir, but few, mighty few of us, ran get It out. What we want to do Is to use as little lalsir as posslbb until cither labor comes down or crops go up." Wintering Fall Mas. The great point in making fall pigs pay a profit instead of tscoinlng squeal lug runts Is to have a warm place for tlicm to sleep, and to give them partly warmed fsl so long as the weather Is cold. We have often seen pigs fed milk and swill from the barrel that hail Ihi-ii frozen over, and 1ki1i were nearly or quite at the freezing temper ature. In such case It takes Ps much sf the nutrition in fiwsl fed thus to maintain animal heat. All this food has to Ik- hea till to the temperature of the body before it can lw-giu to digest. When this Is done what Is left will not make much fat or growth. Warming Water for Cows. It probably des-s not pay to warm water for any oilier stock than cows. It is not necessary for store of fatten ing animals to drink a great deal in cold water. But if the milk How is to bo kept up and tile digestion is to be kept good, the cow must have plenty of water, and In cold weather It should be warmed to very near the ln-at of the animal's body. This la especially luiisir- tant for the cow approaching time for isirturition. At this m'ImI tin- system naturally somewhat feverish, and the aultiial should be encouraged to irink as much as isissilile. Variety with Knailaue. Probably nine-tenths or niueteeti t wititleths of the ensilage put up Is corn fodder, either grown for itself alone or grown for the grain, and sl bs'il rfter the ears have been stripped from it. This last Is often done with sweet corn, and after the ears have been cleared of their grain the green busks are put In with the other fod der. Tills is greatly relished by 'lit tle, hut the fi-cd is not a properly bal anced ration. It )s not possible to get clover in tlie best conditio!! to put 111 the silo at the lime with the corn. Its season is In June, long ls-fore tlie corn is lit to put up. But tlie clover cut ami dried helps to balance tlie corn ration quite as well 11s If It had Is-en siloed. Ill fact, dry feed of some kind ought always to be fed with nny en silage. Clover well cured Is the Im-s dry feed that we know of to go with com ensilage. A lhca) Way to Hegita with Ileus. Let one purchase hens of the com mon mongrel stock-which can always be got quite cheaply, says the Agricul turist and Willi these hens limte a purely bred male for the variety desired lo breed Into. In the autumn carefully select the strongest and best-develois-d pullets, still retaining tlie former male bird. Select only those millets which are robust and healthy In every re- iqs-ct, and strongly marked In form, i-olor and general characteristics of the breed represented by t heir sire. Mate this second crop of pullets to an unre lated sire, and the resulting generation will be equal to thoroughbred stock of that breed for all practl-al purposes lu laying and marketing qualities. The KfTcct of Halt oa Milk. Salt given to cows bus some effect on the quality of the milk. This Is necessarily so, as the suit aids very much In the digestion of the food, and It Ik the quantity of the food digested that regulates ihe quantity and finality of the milk, says Farm and Home. Salt Is indispensable to the health of any animal that feeds on vegetable matter, nnd the milk Is affected great ly by the health or opposite condition of the cow. Wheu salt Is given to ex cess, It Is Injurious, and causes an In tense thirst, hut this does not neces sarily make the milk more watery than usual. If the cow dr'nks more water than Is customary, there Is no lea "on to believe Gist this ' - almtesthemi.k. Th. U in mus si " -"u"1 tag down of the jfUDdular tissue of Uja udder, and this m-ver ntalna r than a normal quantity of Tbd kidney, are charged with of any ex.vs of ws'er from the blood, and tl. s drain or outl t, if In go work ing condition. UI alaaya attend to lli 0Ba business; snd If It does not orf cannot, for any reason, the milk glandj cannot is-rform this fun-tlou, but tbe cow become diseased at once. But this is a question that the i-areful farwef will never have to consider, becaua he will always taks care that such a suppled mistake will never happen. It is only the careless farmer who runs risks of giving his co. or permitting them to get, too much salt. Two Men and Ibrir Pairie. John and George- start with dalriea alike. John is the smarter of the two, but he lays als-d lu the morning an hour after George is at work. John trust the bins man to do the feeding and milking, and gets his wife to look after the milk while he attends to tb larger matter atsiiit the farm, says L. S. Hardin, lo Home snd Farm. George l d'lU'T man, but a painstak ing fellow, who lis.ks after details. 1I Is always on hand when the cows are fed, and sees that each one gets all she will eat up clean, aud no more. He even take the trouble to weigh the milk night and morning and keeps a record of It. which be lis.ks over at night to see how each row Is getting along. Noting the slightest variation In Polly's yield, he Inquires als.ut It, and Amis she has tired of her feed and. neglects it. lie changes her projKirtinn ami d'U a few roots or ollmeal for a few days, ami so gets her back again, while If she had Is-en neglected he would tiara had tlie "Isid luck" of having her fall off in milk yield. So he gm-s In every, thing about hi dairy, a little here and, a 111 tie then-, but always on the lookout to s-e that there Is no waste. Now, which of those two dairymen will hava the most "Imd luck" at the end of thi year? I It will ls John every time. His no tion are tisi big. The only break h can si-e Is 11 wagon gap In a stake-andi rider fence. He will not Isither with those small things that make up tint sum of life ami the success or any busi ness. So far as luck Is concerned, ttis iioin vim sits down nnd waits for it seldom bits It. while tlie tun 11 who goes forth to meet it will get many shock. downs, but he will conquer lid luck nnd add to his victory all tlie g'ss! luck that comes his way. Seeding Too Soon. The desire to get the seed Into the) ground as early as smsltile is met very often with a loss, and where seeding U done when the snow Is on the ground, its with clover, frequently an Insnf licietit amount i meil, and the "catch"' is pisir. Frost, Mrd and lin k of cov. erlng to the seed leave but 11 prosr. tion to germinate, says the Philadelphia, Record. When the snrlnc oim-iis Sim parent ly early, especially If the wlntetf has Im-ou mild, there Is a strong lempl tiltloti to begin seeding. Tile loss o( seed Is unite an Item should a cold socil come after seeding, but Ihe heaviesj loss Is In time. 7 lie very effort made ti ls-gln early causes the crops to lw lab Is-caiise a second planting must 1st made, due to the seed decaying lu tb ground. It should Is- uiiderstissl that It requires a certain temperature, on warmth, ls-fore life Is-glus lu seeds' aud tin temperature varies according to the kind of wills. It has long ag beeu demonstrated that seeds planted after the warm days of stirlmr have well advanced will sprout and over take those planted when tlie ground Is cold, and the fact is well known i, farmers, yet thousand of dollars' worth of seeds are annually lost by tlie desire to get crops l:i earlv. or in Incurring tlie risk of unfavorable weather. Cesl of Milk Production. Professor Wing, of Cornell, in 1,1s summitry closing Bulletin ,VJ on "Cif of Milk Production." says: Our rec ords of tills herd for the Hast vesr si-em to warrant the following conchi. sluns: 1. Willi it fairly herd, ci.rofo n feil and kept, milk can In- nrodiiced fns sixty-live cent per hundred weight, ami fat for sixteen cents tier iw.m.,1 f.. the cost of food consumed. 2. That Individual of the HU turn lif-Art vary more widely in milk ami i.n... production than do the breed them selves. 3. The larger animals consiino.,1 im pound of dry matter s-r thousand pounds live weight per day than did the smaller animals. 4. That In general the best vn.t.i. 0 tut were obtained from cows tl...i ...... at least u fairly large flow f milk. in general, the cow coiisuinln niowt food produced both milk u,i at the lowest rule. Feed for Breeding Kwea. Kwes that are with In mi. .1 . .- . .. ....... nudum ai- ways have root during rbe winter sea. son. They need these before nmrt,.., tion as well a after. Th. j ... "- IOU 01 gestation Is always one when continued dry feeding Induces a feverish state of tbe system, and this means imuii digestion. It Is common to give roots after thc lambs hnva A to Induce a good flow of milk for them 11 111 1 ne rotns snoiiiu oe given several weeks lcfore parturition nA . grain added while, the lambs are uck. ung, so as 10 aeep the ewe from grow ing too thltt lu flesh. Te Kill Hea Lie. For lice, dust Persian Iruwt i " CVPfVQI, freely lu every crack aud cretrfce, and on the lody of Ihe hens, In among tba 1 m 1 iif-rs. Kfga a Winter. ' To produce eggs, avoid free f.11 and feed meat and milk, with ..i. '. grain at night, autlttlag com.