WHY NOT PLAN FOR A
COVERED BARN YARD
One Man Who Has Done So With Success.
Superintendent Frank IT. Hall of the
Illinois farmers’ institute, in addition
to being one of the leading agricul
tural educators in the middle west, is
a practical farm operator on his own
account. One of the features of his
dairy farm is a covered barnyard in
which the cows run loose instead of
being stalled.
A good idea of his stable arrange
ment is shown in the accompanying
Illustration. As reported in circular
the same cows and in the same or
der.
When the milkers are ready the
Sates at the rear of the stalls are
opened, one cow enters each stall and
the gates are closed. The cows eat
their grain while being milked and
pass out through the gates at the front
of the stalls into the other side of
the shed. As the manger and gates i
divide the shed, the cows that have
been milked are forced to remain on
I
Ground Flan of F. H. Hall’s Loose Cow Stable.
P3 of the Illinois experiment station,
on Superintendent Hall's farm a space
In the barn 3*‘xr>2 feet is devoted to
the cows. A manner running length
vis ■’ extends to within eight feet of
the wall at each end. These spaces
between the manger and the wall are
closed by gates. At milking time all
of the cows are driven to the
Bide of the manger on which the
water tank is situated, and the gates
are closed.
The door of the milking room is
then opened and the boss cows are
always ready to enter. Near the end
of this room are three stalls in which
the milking is done and it is surpris
ing to note how quickly each cow
b arns in which stall she is to be
milked and the order in which her
turn comes, so that the three milkers
have little difficulty iu always milking
one side and cannot come to the milk- i
i
ing stalls a second time.
All grqin is fed in the milking stales :
and the roughage from the large man
ger in the center of the shed. This
manger is raised as fast as the manure
; accumulates, so that it is always a con
venient height for the cows. In this {
herd of .‘ill cows not a soiled cow was
! seen.
When asked what he considered to
be the chief advantage of keeping
! dairy cows in this wav over the ordi
; nary method of stabling, Superin
I tendent Hall replied:
“By this method we have cleaner
1 cows and increased milk flow ; we save
| labor in cleaning stables, and in haul- j
;ng out manure; and the fertility in
the manure is preserved more com
pletely."
The Forty=Three Points of the Dairy Cow
DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING POINTS OBSERVED IN JUDGING COWS.
1. Head.
2. Muzzle.
3. Nostril.
4. Face.
5. Eyes.
6. Forehead.
7. Horn.
8. Ear.
S. Cheek.
10. Throat.
11. Neck.
12. Withers.
13. Sack.
14. Loins.
15. Hip bone.
16. Pelvic arch.
17. Rump.
13. Tail.
19. Switch.
20. Chest.
21. Brisket.
22. Dewlap.
23. Shoulder.
24. Elbow.
25. Forearm.
26. Knee.
27. Ankle.
23. Hoof.
29. Heart girth.
30. Side cr barrel.
31. Eelly.
32. Flank.
33. Milk vein.
34. Fore udder.
33. Hind udder.
36. Teats.
37. Upper thigh.
33. Stifle.
39. Twist.
40. Leg or gaskin,
41. Hock.
42. Shank.
43. Dew claw.
GRADING OF CREAM
By F. A. Jorgensen.
There is at present more or less
grading of cream taking place in our
creameries, but two creameries scarce
ly ever grade alike. There are even
creameries that do not grade alike for
all their patrons and some that grade
for part of their patrons only. These
widely different methods of grading
are not reeonri endable and especially
in places where there is a great deal
of changing around of patrons. For if
a man takes his cream to one cream
ery for awhile and gets it graded and
then takes it to another and gets it
graded differently there, it will in
many instances tend to have the pa
tron lose faith in the grading. He
comes to the conclusion it is a swin
dling deal since they don't grade alike
—just one more way of robbing him.
Therefore, if the creamery men could
work in harmony, then they could
adopt some common method and allow'
a large enough discrimination so it
would encourage the patron to pro
duce a good article. Resides the sys
tem of grading would have much more
effect. At present the difference in
price paid between a first grade of
cream and the poorer one is, as a rule,
not large enough, and it may be justly
said that the undue competiiion is the
very cause of it. it is also the very
cause of the present abuse of the Rah
cock test which can be found in every
day practice in many of our cream
eries. Where competition is sharp
some of the tests are under-read in
order to give some a higher test than
they are entitled to. This is the cause
of much of the dissatisfaction among
so many of the creamery patrons. It
is unjust and it tends to make them
slack and produce an inferior grade of
cream. Therefore, it ought to be
stopped. Rut it cannot be done ex
cept through a combined effort of the
dairy and creamerymen of the state.
Curing Indigestion.
Dr. Shaffer says that one of the best
methods of treating indigestion is to
give remedies that will stimulate di
gestion and the action of the liver.
Probably the best remedy for this is
two drams each of fluid extract of
tararacum and cascara sagrada given
in 4 ounces of syrup or molasses and
eight ounces of "water three times a
day until the bowels become slightly
loose. In case the bowels do not
Bhow a tendency to become loose for
three or four days after giving the
treatment care should be exercised
not to give too much of this prescrip
tion because an overdose might in
duce abortion. The mare should be
fed good, sweet hay and grain. The
grain should consist of a liberal
amount of bran 10 two of oats. Keep
the mare in a box stall at night and
give her exercise during the day by
working her moderately or turning her
in a pasture lot. We advise you to
treat your mare in the last mentioned I
manner.
Clesn Milk Utensils.—I believe the
ordinary ten-gallon milk can used for
the transportation of commercial milk
has been the cause of more trouble
than any other one tiling, declares an
Ohio correspondent of the Orange
Judd Farmer. Frequently cans which
are supposed to he clean contain a half
pint of filthy rinsing water. I believe
there should be an ordinance in every
village and city compelling the milk
vender to wash and sterilize his cans
thoroughly before sending them to the
producer. In the washing of milk
utensils you should not use soap pow
ders or soaps of any kind which con
tain organic tat. Ity so doing you may
convey to your milk undesirable fla
vors and cause to remain In your
utensils deposits which win rontanil
nate or deteriorate the milk.
New York’s Milk Appetite.—The
product of 80.000 dairy farms Is re
quired to supply New York, and some
of its milk comes 40'J miles.
Cowpeas.—Cowpeas are great milk
produce:s. I advise all dairymen to
grow them, as they give large yields
and are beneficial to the soil.
After Farrowing.
After the sow has farrowed, do not
hurry to feed her. The excitement
through which she has passed has left
her in a mental condition that has dis
turbed the digestive system. The
stomach is closely connected with the
brain, and in the case of great excite
ment all the nerve force that runs the
digestive apparatus has been drawn
upon to supply the needs of the brain
Thus, one frequently loses appetite by
reason of excitement. This is true of
the sow and shows why the sow is not
in a mood for eating just after the ex
perience of pig producing. It is bet
ter to let her go for twelve hours, af
ter which she will have returned to
her normal mental state.
Mabvblou.
P CARLBTON R. BALL,
AGRONOMIST
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Milo is one of the durra group of
sorghums, closely related to white
durra ("Jerusalem corn") and to
brown durra. It is probably of Afri
can, perhaps Egyptian, origin, and was
introduced into the United States be
tween 1880 and J8S0, and was first
grown in South Carolina or Georgia.
It came probably from Africa, but this
is not certainly known. No sorghum
brought since from Africa has been
exactly like milo. though one found
in Egypt and called there durra safra,
or yellow durra. is quite similar to it.
Milo was first known as "Yellow Mil
lo Maize." The adjective "yellow"
was applied because of the yellowish
color of the seeds and because a white
seeded sorghum, related to the kafirs,
was then being sold and grown as
"White Millo Maize.” Many other
names have since been applied to
milo. Among them are Branching
doura. Dwarf milo. Dwarf milo maize.
Dwarf yellow milo, Millo, Millo maize,
Milo maize, Red Egyptian corn. Rural
branching sorghum. Yellow branching
dhoura. Yellow branching millo m?ize,
Y'ellow branching sorghum. Yellow
millo maize. Yellow milo, and Yellow
milo maize. Several of these names
are occasionally applied to brown
durra also. Dwarf milo, Y'ellow milo,
and Milo “maize" are the names most
commonly used for milo.
The name “milo” is adopted and rec
ommended because it is short, distinc
tive, and appropriate. The word
“maize” should never be used for
milo, as it confuses this crop with
corn.
\\ nen first introduced mi o was suit
able for use only as a general forage
crop. Owing to its small and scanty
leaves and pithy stems it was inferior
to kafirs and sorgos fo- forage pur
poses. On the western plains it be
gan to be developed as a combined
grain and forage crop. Like ail sor
ghums it was strongly drought resist
ant. Compared with some other grain
varieties of sorghum it was only fairly
early ami productive, but it possessed
good seed-holding power, which white
durra (“Jerusalem corn”) and brown
durra sadly lacked. From the stand
point of grain production it had, be
sides these desirable characters, sev
eral very objectionable habits. These
were (1> the abundant stooling, (2)
the free branching, (3) the size and
height of the stem, and (4» the pend
ent, or "goose-necked." heads.
In the past four or five years the de
velopment of milo as a grain crop has
been progressing rapidly along the
lines just shown to he desirable. The
carefully selected milo of to-day is a
great improvement over the common,
unselected crop. Ordinary milo has
been reduced by selection to a uniform
height or 4 to 4% feet in the plains
regions lying at an elevation of 3,000
to 4,000 feet above sea level, or at an
equivalent latitude. Through selec
tion and thicker seeding the heads
have been changed from mostly
pendent to mostly erect. All heads
not leaning over more than 30 degrees
from the perpendicular are classed as
erect, since for all practical purposes
they are erect. From 75 to 90 per cent,
have been brought to this position in
different strains. A large part of the
remaining 10 to 25 per cent, are mere
ly Inclined, i. e„ bent over more than
30 degrees and less than 90 degrees,
How He Published the Banns.
An old Scotch minister took it into
Ms head to marry his housekeeper.
Ills precentor being 111 on the day
when the banns were to be pro
• la lull'd the minister, not caring to
make the intimation himself, arranged
with his herd boy to do it.
‘ Now," he said, “you just call out
lti a loud voice: ‘Proclamation of mar
rl»ge between the Rev. Mr. Murray of
this parish and Jean Lowe o’ the
saine.' Ha, ha!” laughed the minister,
as he concluded, "wha'd hae thocht
!t?"
The Sabbath came around and the
congregation assembled. When the
moment arrived the lad, who had duly
prepared himself, rose and called out:
"Proclamation of marriage between
the Rev. Mr. Murray of this parish
and Jean Lowe o’ the same. Ha, ha!”
he laughed, thinking this to be a part
of the proclamation, "wha’d hae
thocht it?” The effect on the minis
ter and the congregation can be im
agined. What the minister said is not
recorded, but on the other two occa
sions of the banns being called all was
in order and without the "ha, ha!"—
Glasgow Herald.
or the horizontal position. These in
clined heads would lie readily gath
ered by a header.
By the combined influences of se
lection and thicker seeding, branch
ing, has been almost entirely pre
vented, and stooling, or the production
of suckers, has been greatly citecked.
About one-fourth to one-half the plants
produce no suckers at all, and most i
of the remainder produce only one i
sucker on each plant. Earliness lias [
been increased until these strains \
ripen in 90 to 100 or 110 days under the !
conditions of altitude and climate
found in western Texas and adjacent
territory. The grain yields of the crop
have been maintained and increased
during all these changes in habit.
A true dwarf strain, growing only
3 to 3'*. feet in height under the same
conditions as the ordinary taller strain,
has been improved in the same way
as the ordinary miio, though the
changes are not yet quite as firmly
fixed.
Milo is at present the most success
ful summer grain crop for the southern •
half of the plains region. It is an
earlier and more drought-resistant
crop than corn and makes a satisfac
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tory feeding substitute. The highest
average yields of corn under the same
conditions have been ten bushels tc
the acre less than those of niilo. The
yields of blackball kafir have been five
bushels less to the acre.
Milo is now a staple crop in a large
part of western Texas and in the ad
jacent portions of New Mexico, Colora
do, Kansas and Oklahoma. This sec
tion lies at elevations of 1,500 to 4,000
feet above sea level, and has a vary
ing annual rainfall of 17 to 25 inches
Milo is well adapted to the whole
southern half of the plains region lv
ing below an elevation of about 4 500
feet.
In 1907 rnilo was ripened at several
points in eastern Colorado at eleva
tions of 5,500 to 0,000 feet. It was fully
matured at the agricultural experi
ment substation at North Platte, in
western Nebraska. At the experiment
substation at Highmore, in central
South Dakota, at an elevation of 2,000
feet, in latitude 44° north, the earliest,
niilo was Just ripe when frost oc
curred, on September 26, 1907.
Early strains of milo will be thor
oughly tested in 1908 over all the
northern plains region and throughout
the Great Ilasin or inter-mountain
area as well.
All He Could Afford.
The young and lanky wayfarer stood
before the cheese counter.
“Do you sell Swiss cheese?” he In
quired.
"Yes, sir,” replied the polite clerk.
“And do you charge for the holes in
the cheese?”
“Of course not."
The long and lanky wayfarer fum
bled in his pockets and found them
empty.
“What can I do for you?' asked the
clerk.
“I'm broke, boss.” replied the way
farer. “1 guess you better give me the
holes in the cheese. They'll do to
day.”
Inland and Foreign Commerce.
The total foreign commerce of the
United States during 1907 amounted
to $11,652,840,939. This is at the rate
cf $10,000,000 a day. The inland com
merce of the United States last year
probably amounted to at least $25,000,
000,000, which is at the rate of $68,
000,000 a day. The inland commerce
is therefore nearly seven times as
great as the foreign commerce.—Wall
Street Journal. 1
Orient
Would Resist
American
Intrusion
By ST. NIHAL SING
(Copyright, by Joseph U. Bowles.)
It is but recently that the oriental
has begun to awaken to an apprecia
tion of himself. Hitherto he has not
only allowed himself to be treated by
the occidental as chance ordained, but
lias measured his ability wiih the crite
rions set up by westerners. It is hut
yesterday that the Asian assumed an
aggressive attitude and vowed that
he would resist the intrusion of the
European and American, employing
the occidental weapons to accomplish
that end.
The change in the attitude of the
east towards the west during the last
two decades has been phenomenal. It
has led the Asiatic to resent the west
ern insinuation that the oriental is the
inferior of the occidental in mental and
moral caliber. It has also wooed the
Asiatic out of his inaction and leth
argy of ages, inspired him with the de
sire to break the shell of his limita
tions and set his face towards modern
ization and evolution.
Time was, and not Ions ago, when
the rank and file of even the cultured
orientals were obsequious in their at
titude towards even the mediocre
westerner. To the Asiatic, “white”
skin was synonymous with superior
talent and character. The white man
represented to him great strength of
mind and body and skill of arms, of
fensive and defensive.
The Asian no longer mentally or
physically prostrates himself before
the Caucasian. To him, no more the
Anglo-Saxon boast of surviving as the
fittest has any weight. A brown or
yellow hide has come to be, to him,
as good an index of character and cal
iber as the white.
This attitude has found expression
in many and diverse ways. The Russo
Japan war was one indication and ful
fillment of it. It was also the means
of further advancing these sentiments.
The greatest and most trustworthy
signs of this metamorphosis, however,
are to be found in the boycott move
ments started or threatened against
occidental products and men in sev
eral Asiatic countries. The boycott
of American goods in China, the boy
cott of English goods in India and
the once-threatened boycott of Amer
ican goods in Japan, though probably
failures in their economic aspect, are
yet vitally significant of the way the
occidental views things western.
What the new Occident wants to
day is reciprocity, it demands for it
seif perfectly even privileges in re
turn for those which it extends to
westerners within its gates.
This attitude is likely to assume
more aggressive and intensive form
as the awakening proceeds apace aiul
as the oriental succeeds in learning
the arts and crafts of subjugating the
forces of nature and utilizing them.
Considered in this light, it is easy
to understand the oriental view of
Asiatic immigration to North America
and the British colonies. The first
thing to be noted in this connection is
that the oriental is no longer prepared
to brook the aspersion that he is the
inferior of the Americans or British
colonials. Another and more impor
tant feature is that the hostile treat
ment of the oriental immigrants can
not but load to untold and vexatious
trade complications.
The peddler who sold his wares
front door to door had no status in
the minds of his buyers and he coui.l
well afford to cheat as he never
wished nor expected to duplicate a
sale. The modern metropolitan de
partment stores find that it is essen
tia] for them rather to lose a sale
than dupe a customer. In business
circles more and more the retention
of good will and the satisfaction of
the purchaser is becoming the sine
qua non of success. It is not the
new-fangled salesman, who induces a
state of hypnosis and dupes the
buyer into taking some article that
he does not need or that is not its
money s worth, who is the cornerstone
of a successful store; nor is the impa
tient and unobliging man behind the
counter or at the desk the keystone of
a business enterprise. In the long
run, both prove failures and represent
the crystallization of penny-wise
pound-foolish philosophy.
As it is with internal trade, so is it
with international commerce. The
economic is an essential feature of
inter-continental trade relations; but
it has been the experience of business
people whose operations extend world
wide, that, other things being equal,
the business man who is the most
gentlemanly and obliging wins out in
the race.
To verify this statement, one has
but to see how much business the
Englishman loses in India through his
snobbery and boorishness in his deal
ings with the native East-Indian
trader. If further testimony is need
ed, it requires but a single glance at
the way the Japanese salesman has
of recent years captured the East-In
dian business, which, but for his su
perior airs, the Englishman could have
had. Continuing the thought a little
further, it may be stated that for this
identical reason India to-day offers an
invaluable opportunity for well-man
nered and courteous American sales
men to get hold of a golden market
for their wares. The new conscious
ness in India is unmistakably showing
itself. In business, at least, the Eng.
lish superciliousness will not be tol
erated by the native East-Indian.
In the past it has been the case
that on account of the weakness and
inalertness of the oriental, the west- I
erner in the east has had his own way. I
It was very much similar to what he |
aid in North America. The North !
American Indiana, unable to cope
with the aggressors and incapable or
civilizing themselves according to
the western canons, found themselves
driven to reservations and extinction,
in several of the oriental countries
the Anglo-Saxon has attempted the
same thing, but without the same suc
cess. In India, for instance, 70,000,
000 people have been ground to such
dire and painful poverty that they
cannot manage to secure a single sat
isfying meal a day. in China the at
tempt has been made to parcel the
country and divide it amongst the Eu
ropean powers. The near-east has
similarly been the subject of such
machinations. Persia and Afghanistan
and the adjoining territory have been
threatened with a similar fate. But
for many reasons the oriental coun
tries have been saved from the doom
of the red Indian. Their present-day
awakening to a realization of their
situation and possibilities promises
that they will not only avert an igno
minious fate, but that in the near fu
ture a better and more equitable ad
justment of the relations between the
orient and the Occident will take
place.
So far there have been two stand
ards of equity. With the one the
westerner lias measured himself—
with the other, he has adjudged the
easterner. The occidental has gone
to Asian countries, through intrigue
and base devices obtained possession
of the land, fettered the people and ex
ploited the resources for his selfish
interests. But lie has invariably re
sented it- when the Asiatic turned
around and showed a disposition to
pay him the same sort of compliment.
The fiasco which has resulted from
Asiatic immigration in Australia, Can
ada, the United States, South Africa,
etc., is mainly to be attributed to
this unreasonable and inequitable
dealing of the occidental in regard to
the Asiatic; but there is hope of a
satisfactory solution, as the spirit of
-the times has sounded the death kneil
for the maintaining of this dual stand
ard of ethics. Gradually the emanci
pated woman is obliging man to
judge her by the same standards with
which he judges hiniseif. With the
march of civilization and with the
gradual evolution of the orient, the
Occident will find that, like the ‘ new"
woman, the “new" oriental will not
submit to humiliating treatment. This
new rapprochement appears even
at this moment just about to mount
the horizon. In size it is no bigger
than a man's hand; but from ail
indications it is certain to increase
in dimensions. The resistance that
the East-Indian immigrants are of
fering in the Transvaal, refusing to
submit to degrading immigration laws
and preferring to lose all their vested
property and rights and even to rot
in jails; the recent memorial of the
native East-Ipdian soldiers to the corn
mander-in-chief of the British em
pire that they be taken out and shot
dead rather than be allowed to be hu
miliated by unjust and tyrannical Brit
ish colonists; the preparations that
India is making to boycott the incom
ingof British colonials and their goods:
the stout resistance that the Japanese |
immigrants have offered on this conti
nent ; all portend the aggressive atti
tude that the orient is displaying—
that the day is near dawning when
the occidental shall have to do by
the oriental as he wishes to be
done by.
In considering tlio matters per
taining to oriental immigration, it
must be remembered that the orient
is not planning a fell swoop on the
Occident. The aggressiveness of the
oriental is not flowing into the chan
nel of an attempt to despoil the
North American continent as did the
Huns the Roman empire. The pres
ent-day oriental finds too much con
structive work to do at home, to think
of such an invasion; and deems the '
very mention of yellow and brown
peril a ludicrous monstrosity. His
aggressiveness is finding an outlet
merely in the attitude which he is as
suming toward the Occident—which, it
must be distinctly understood, is not j
of hostility but rather of reci- j
procity.
The Asian is not scheming to thrust |
himself by sheer force upon the I
Occident. He only pleads for equit- |
able treatment.
Asia is the oldest continent of the j
world. Many of its countries are thick:- ;
ly populated. However, the re
sources of the orient are practically
inexhaustible and have scarcely been j
touched. The occidental exploiters ■
have but secured the crude surface
wealth and beneath this somewhat
exhausted crust lie treasures untold.
The new orient, unless it is usurped
as a breeding place for the European
exploiter, will provide an ample living
to the oriental himself. With a sys- i
tem of intensive and scientific agri
culture, with the harnessing of rivers,
creeks and waterfalls, with the em
ployment of steam and electricity in
manufactures, with the extension of
the transportation facilities and with !
the development of educational policy
and administration, the orient, thick
ly populated and old as it is, will
supply better opportunity for a com
fortable life; and the masses of
orientals who are being pinched by
poverty and famine into America and
the British colonies will live content
edly in their native lands. If the
$100,000,000 that India pays annually
to England as its tribute to its liege
lord remained in the country; and if
the lucrative government appoint
ments that to-day are monopolized by
aliens were held by the natives of
the land, the home-loving Hindoos
would not find it necessary to go to
Canada or British Africa. As it is.
the settlement of the Hindoo immigra
tion problem hinges to a large extent
upon whether the Occident, will or will
not continue to ‘ milk” Hindostan. If the
west will but keep its hands off Asia
—will cease looking at the resources
of the orient with covetous eyes and
fighting for their possession, the ori
ental will be enabled to stay peace
fully at home in his own land, and th«
problem of the “yellow and brown
peril” will solve itself. Even the “little
men” of Japan will more and more
confine their immigration and ex
ploitation to their own continent and
cease thrusting themselves upon the
hostile Occident.
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ply, telling how
Doan’s Kidney Pills
cured him after he
had doctored and
had been in two dif
ferent hospitals for
eighteen m on t h s,
. suffering intense
pain in the back,
lameness. twinges
when stooping or
lifting, languor, dizzy spells and rheu
matism. "Before I used Doan's Kid
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weighed 143. After taking 10 or 11
boxes I weighed 1G2 and was com
pletely cured.”
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NOT EVES FAULT THAT TIME.
Childish Realism Instilled Into Story
of Garden of Eden.
Realism rules the nursery. A cer
tain Philadelphia matron, who had
taken pains to inculcate Biblical
stories as well as ethical truths in her
three children, heard, the other day
long drawn howls of rage and grief
filtering down from the playroom. I p
two flights she hurried, to find on the
floor Jack and Ethel, voices uplifted
Thomas, aged nine, sat perched upon
the table, his mouth full and his e>ea
guilty.
"Whatever is the matter?” asle 1
mamma.
“Bo-o-o!" came from Ethel; we
were playing Garden of Eden, li o-o’"
“But what is there to cry about?"
Then Jack, with furious finger point
ing at Tom, ejaculated through hie
tears: "God's eat the apple!"—Bohe
mian Magazine.
CARNEGIE'S RIVAL.
"He's a regular philanthro—what
do you call it?”
"Wots he did?”
"Why, in de last week he's give
away two dozen ‘Deadwood Dick' an'
a dozen 'Nickel' libraries!"
Couldn't Fool Him.
A custom house clerk, who, prior
to his entry into I'ncle Sam's service,
was a schoolteacher “a good many
years yet," as he proudly informs h:-*
associates, was standing on the corner
of Fifth and Chestnut streets one cold
day last winter, deeply engrossed in
studying a legend which appeared on
a dairy man's wagon, as follows:
"Pasteurized milk," etc.
His face wore a puzzled expression,
but finally betraying evidence of dawn
ing intelligence he remarked to a by
stander:
"Ain't these here Philadelphia milk
men a-gettin’ to be just as de.-.-pf ••
as anything! Pasturized milk, eh
But they can't fool me, 'cause I lie i
in the country, and know you can t
pasture cows in winter."
A Mere Fad.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was talking
to a member of the famous Bible class
about economy.
“But economy, like everything else,
may he carried to extremes—may be
made a mere fad of," said Mr. Rocke
feller.
"There is a farmer out near Cleve
land who makes a fad of economy.
Every time he drives into town he
carries a hen with him tied to the
seat of his buggy.
“A friend rode with him one day
and found out the use of the hen
When, at noon, the farmer lunched
under a tree he gave his mare .a feed
from a nosebag. The hen, set on the
ground, ate all that the horse spilled
from the bag, and thus there was no
w’aste."
DIFFERENT NOV/
Athlete Finds Better Training Food.
It was formerly the belief that to
become strong, athletes must eat
plenty of meat.
This is all out of date now. an'ft
many trainers feed athletes on tl; ■
well-known food, Grape-Nuts, made of
wheat and barley, and cut the meat
down to a small portion once a day.
‘•Three years ago.” writes a Mich,
man. “having become interested in
athletics. I found I would have to stop
eating pastry and some other kinds
of food.
“I got some Grape-Nuts, and was
soon eating the food at every meal,
for I found that when I went on the
track, I felt more lively and active.
“Later, I began also to drink Postum
in' place of coffee, and the way I
gained muscle and strength on this
diet was certainly great. On the day
of a field meet in June I weighed 12 4
lbs. On the opening of the football
season in Sept., I weighed 1-40. 1 at
tribute my fine condition and good
work to the discontinuation of im
proper food and coffee, and the using
of Grape-Nuts and Postum, my princi
pal diet during training season being i
Grape-Nuts.
“Before I used Grape-Nuts I never
felt right in the morning—always kind
of ‘out of sorts' with my stomach. But
now when I rise I feel good, and after
a breakfast largely of Grape-Nuts
with cream, and a cup of Postum, I
feel like a new man.” “There's a
Reason.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battik
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.