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MATTERS a OF INTEREST
AGRICULTURISTS.
TO
AeaMVs-ta-Date- Hlate Ahsmt CaltlTa-
tie, sf the Sstt'aasl Tleles Tfcereef
HorMealtare. TUtcaltare aatl nerl-
caHare.
HE KANSAS Ex
periment station
made some experi
ments to. ascertain
how. often and how
'early corn should
be cultivated. They
cultivate' some as
much as three times
a week; some twice
a week; some once
a week; once in
two weeks; once in
three weeks; once in four weeks. The
following: tables show the result:
Averages In Plats and Rate of Yield
Per Acre in Bushels of Ear Corn.
OF EAR CORN.
Yield of Bushels
Times cultivated. nubbins per
In lbs. acre.
Three times a week... 44.0 23.28
Twice a week 46.0 26.05
Once a week 45.8 28.65
Once in two weeks.... 48.8 22.25
Once In three weeks... 48.9 21.34
Once In four weeks 40.7 18.02
Averages of Two Years' Trials.
TRIALS.
Bushels
Times cultivated.
Three times a week
A w IvU eat WvvA
Once a week
Once la two weeks
Once In three weeks
Once in four weeks
Averages of Three Years'
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per
acre.
... 24.86
... 27.15
... 27.86
... 25.25
... 24.09
... 16.91
Trials.
... 40.31
... 41.29
... 40.86
Frequency of Cultivation.
An experiment having in view
the
INDIAN
Botanical name, OryzarJsIs micran
tha. Stems slender, erect, tufted, one
and one-half to two feet high, slender,
involute, with very long, sharp points;
panicle two to six Inches long, the
slender, spreading branches naked be
low and many-flowered at the upper
ends; spikelets shining, about one
eighth of an Inch long; flowering glume
smooth, shorter than the empty glumes,
enclosing the grain in fruit, with a
slender, deciduous awn About three
times its own length. This grass is
quite common in some parts of the
west. Wherever it is found In any
quantity it is considered to be of great
Talue. There is another kind of "In
dian millet," or "bunch grass" (oryzop-
influence which greater or less fre
quency of cultivation has upon the
yield was carried out on 30 plats, each
belna one-twentieth of an 'acre In size
and having 12 rows, with the usual dis-J
tance OI n ieei Between uio m.
These plats were cultivated with a'
spring-tooth cultivator the number of
times indicated In the table, all plats
under the same treatment being culti
vated at the same time.
It appears from the results that it is
possible to cultivate corn too much,
as well as too little. Cultivation once
a week gives the best yields, in each
series of averages. Care has been tak
en 'during these experiments to Injure
the roots as little as possible, but it
would be Idle to claim that the roots
were sot Injured at all, and it is pos
sible that the falling off: in yield as a
result of freaueat cultivation la due to
Injuries which the roots have sustained
in the process. In all cases of these
experiments, the corn was dropped 16
Inches apart, by measure. In the row,
two sound kernels being planted at
each place, and covered with a hoe,
and after the first cultivation it was
thinned to one plant in a place. Pre
vious experiments have pretty fully
settled the fact that the large varieties
ef corn produce best on this soil (which
is of but moderate fertility) when the
rows are 3 feet apart and the stalks
16 inches apart in the row.
Faagws oa Cedar aad Apple Trees.
(Extract from paper in Indiana 8tate
Horticultural report by Dr. L. M. Un
derwood. Greencastle, Ind.)
It may be asked how we know" that
this relation exists between the fungus
on the red .cedar and the seemingly
different fungus on the apple, for in ap
pearance they have little in common.
The answer Is twofold. 1. The apple
fungus never appeared in portions of
Indiana where the red cedar is not 'na
tive until after the red cedar com
menced to be placed for ornament 2.
By sowing the sporids of the "cedar
.apple" on the young leaves of the ap
"ple tree It win produce the apple fun
gus.. The proof is both historical and
experimental. And the experiments
'have .been attempted so many times
ana with such a system of checks, and
this experimental, evidence is" supported
by such an array of accessory evidence
that we -regard the case, as absolutely
demonstrated.
, I ind that the red cedar Is largely
cultivated for. ornament in the. vicinity
of hesaes aad orchards, and .In seme In
stances I have seen It planted ii quan
tity as ' a' wisdbreak for an orchard.
The. birds, moreover, have carried the
seeds far and wide; so that in Putnam
coaaty at .least the 'young cedars are
ssrtsgisg-.np in waste places, every
where. The "cedar apples" are abun
dant, scarcely a tree bat what has more
or less of them, aad these is the vicin
.ity of orchards are likely to be loaded.
The natural .range ef the red cedar
is Indiana Is mot' entirely known, but
its distribution aeems.'to be local ex
cept lathe southern parts-. of the state.
There are few regions, however. -In
Z SA jblBK asaall
which- tt Is Rot Blasted ss mi
asemtal tree, aad thus the chaaess sf
lafectioa are greatly iaeaaed. It la
not certain how far the spores asay he
carried during the short series tluu)
they retain' their power of germination,
but it is likely that they at times may
be carried .over a considerable die-'
tance. though the chances of- Infec
tion vary inversely as the distance.
Wild crabs a 'mile from any red cedar
have:'been .badly aCected by the apple
fungus.
Certain kinds of apple seem more
or less subject to the .ravages of the
apple fungus. The Baldwin. Rome
Beauty. Beilflower. Rambo, Siberian
.Crab, and -many others are especially
susceptible. Certain others, like the
Ben Davis, the Winesap, the Red.As
trachan, and some others are much lesa
likely to be attacked. There seems to
be some relation between the character
of the apple leaf and the susceptibility
to attack, those with thick leaves seem
ingly suffering least
Fetroteaas fee Apple Seals,
The following Is an interesting sketch
from the pen of D. L. Bliss, on the
apple scab: "Recently I saw a long ar
ticle in regard to apple scab and how to
get rid of it. Several years ago to kill
what was thought to be a worthless
apple tree before cutting it down I
washed It all over with petroleum
(crude oil as it is taken from the
ground), in the month of 'February. I
then left home for the Pennsylvania
oil fields, where I was engaged in busi
ness. When I returned home the next
fall that scraggy apple tree which I ex
pected to find dead was as bright as a
silver dollar, and the twigs had made
a growth of twelve inches to eighteen
Inches, and a few as nice Tompkins
County King apples as ever hung on a
tree, greeted me. and to-day it is a
handsome bearing tree, twenty years
old. Since then I have used petroleum
on my apple trees to free them from
scab and noxious insects that collect
and breed on the trunks of old trees.
I apply it with an old whitewash brush
at any time before the buds begin to
swell in the spring applying it freely
on all large branches and body. Per
haps it could' be applied with a sprayer
MILLET.
sis cuspidata), which has a distribu
tion similar to this species. In the
Bad Lands and along the Cheyenne
river it is thought to be quite valuable.
This is the grass illustrated on this
page. It may be distinguished from
the first-named species by its very
large, wide-spreading panicle, large,
hairy fruit, and generally coarser
habit of growth.' Both seem to be wor
thy of trial under cultivation. A spe
cimen analyzed !at the South Dakota
station gave substance air-dried:
Water. 6.06; ash, 15.94; ether extract.
2.21; crude fiber, 29.10; crude protein,
8.06; extract free of nitrogen. 38.63;
total .nitrogen, 1.29; albuminoid nitro
gen, .97.
more effectually. It is very cheap, and
I would. like to have apple growers try
it and report"
f Maattas; Say Beaas.
The North Carolina experiment sta
tion says: Do not sow soy beans broad
cast but plant in hills or drills 2 or
3 feet afiart according to the richness
of soil. If in hills, 15 to 24 inches is
far enough apart in the row. They will
doubtless grow on any soil suitable for
corn, and may be planted at the same
time as corn, which gives a long season
from March to July. It is a good plan
to plant in the corn between the hills
or stalks of corn. If corn is grown for
silage, the beans can be cut with the
corn and will add greatly to its value.
The upright growth of soy beans leaves
room for cultivation, and this should
beaccorded to check the growth of
we$ds. As food for stock the soy bean
is one of the richest legumes that can
be grown In chemical composition
the dry matter of silage and black pea
vine hay differ more in fat and other
carbohydrates than protein. The roots
bear numerous tubercles, which aid it
by gathering nitrogen from the air the
same as those of the pea vine or clover
roots.
There are no spreading by running
vines to shade the ground, which is
one of the potent factors in soil im
provement hence soy beans must be
planted near enough for shade. On
poor soil there should be one plant
every 2x1 feet and from that up to
2x3 feet It is usual to plant 2 to 4
beans in a hill, as it makes the stems
finer, and they are hard and woody at
best To save the seed the stalks should
be pulled or cut and stacked up loosely
as soon .as leaves and pods have
changed from green to a golden hue,
and when dry threshed out The pods
should not be hand picked, because
there are too many and with only one
to three beans in a pod it will not pay.
They will beat out very easily when
ripe and dry, as he who leaves them
too long will learn to his cost, for the
pods will open and the beans scatter
upon the ground. This, is a most de
sirable plant to raise for stock. It is
also s. good table bean, but requires a
long time in cooking, 'and most people
have to learn to like its flavor.
Fried Johnny Cakes Are Fine. Did
you ever eat fried "Johnny cakes?"
They -are perfectly delicious, and are
L think; indigenous to Missouri, I never
ate them anywhere else, at any rate.
Take a cupful of sour milk, .one cupful
of aweet milk, two .eggs! and. enough
soda to sweeten the mess. To this add
in.commeal and flour till you can make
firm round balls' of the dough by work
ing It in-yonr hands make them small,
'using one-third flour, the rest meal
and then drop them in lard and fry
as you. would doughnuts. Eat. them
when hot with butter,-or make a gravy
as for cream toast, then cut the dough
nuts open and covsr- with the gravy.
N. Y. World.
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Hew EactsBsfat Farmers Operate This
Departaaeat ef the Haras A ' Few.
HlaU as ta the Cere of Uve Stock
aad Poultry.
DISPATCH FROM
Washington .says
that a dairy divi
sion has been creat
ed .in the bureau of
animal industry of
the agricultural de
partment, --and that
it will be organized
about the 1st ot
July. Comment
ing on this a Chi
cago paper says:
of this division will
The purpose
be to collect and disseminate informa
tion about the dairy industry of this
country. The wisdom of such a depart
ment cannot be questioned when we
consider the wonderful development of
the dairy industry in this country in
the last twenty years. Its growth and
development have been so phenomenal
that it is almost impossible for dairy
men to keep track of it and secure the
statistics necessary to show the produc
tion of butter and cheese.
The first creamery in Illinois was es
tablished at Elgin in the year 1870.
Two or three years later the agitation
was begun in Wiscconsin. and later the
movement spread to Iowa. The first
butter from the Elgin creamery sold in
Chicago at 10 cents a pound above the
market price. Before that time Illinois
had been obliged to send to New York
and other eastern states for her dairy
products. In 1892 the number of pounds
of butter sold on the Elgin dairy board
ot trade was 30,496,284; the number of
pounds of cheese, 7,115,735; the cash re
ceived for butter, ?7,725,725.28, and for
cheese, $589,560.94. There were repre
sented on the Elgin dairy board in 1892
300 creameries, leaving 266 creameries
in the state not reporting their sales
there.
Taking the summary of the Illinois
dairy product for 1892, prepared for the
world's fair, we find that the value of
the milk was placed at $21,024,000; the
value of condensed milk, $1,022,000;
Illinois milk sent to St. Louis, $402,960;
butter and cheese sold on the Elgin
board of trade, $8,315,286.29; creamery
butter and cheese sold outside the El
gin district, $6,927,519.06; dairy butter,
$31,000,000; value of skim milk for feed
ing purposes, $7,000,000, making a grand
total of $75,691,765.35 for the annual
dairy product of this state. It was fur
ther estimated in that year that there
were 1.600,000 cows in the state of Illi
nois, and that the dairy industry repre
sented a capital of $336,000,000, with
out including condensing factories or
manufactories of dairy supplies.
The importance of these figures can
be seen by comparing them with the
report of the state board of equaliza
tion, which shows for the same year
324 stock companies, aside from rail
road corporations, that represented a
combined capital of $115,210,045, or
about one-third of that invested in the
single industry of dairying.
In Wisconsin W. D. Hoard estimates
that there are 700,000 cows, producing
350,000,000 gallons or milk annually
and representing a capital of from $130,-
uw.inw to si&u.uuu.uuu. Tne income
from the dairy industry in that state is
about $31,000,000. Wisconsin regards
the industry so important that it has
established a state dairy school at a
cost of $40,000, which has about 100
pupils.
The exports of butter from the United
States in 1892 were 15,047,246 pounds,
and of cheese 82,100,221 pounds, with a
combined value of $9,835,000. The Am
ericans were rapidly securing the Lon
don market for their cheese until some
of the dishonest exporters began ship
ping filled cheese and selling it for full
cream cheese. This deception has been
a severe blow to the American cheese in
Europe. The English statistician, Mul
hall, places the total annual dairy pro
duction of the world at 1,946,000 tons,
and that of the United States alone at
610,000 tons, or about one-third of the
entire product
But these figures only indicate the
importance of the dairy industry in
this country and the necessity for some
department of the government that can
give especial attention to it and pub
lish reports that will enable the public
to secure an intelligent knowledge of
its production, as they have regarding
the general condition of agriculture
and the apimal industry.
Dairy natter That Pays.
Market quotations and notes are lia
ble to mislead the would-be butter
maker in one respect. He observes
that the highest quotations are for
choice creamery grades, from which he
concludes naturally that the private
dairy Is wholly out of date. Yet, ,rot
withstanding the general market quo
tations, it is a fact that the highest
prices are received for private dairy
butter of fancy makes, which never
reach the wholesale trade at all, but are
sold directly to consumers.
For these gilt-edge brands the price
obtained is often surprising. As an il
lustration, the butter from Millwood
farm, in Framingham, Mass., is sold to
Boston private customers at eighty
cents a pound. This is one of the lar
gest dairy farms in the whole region,
keeping about 150 cows to supply con
tract trade in fancy milk and butter.
The butter cows are all high-grade
Guernsey, including some of the best
stock In New England.
To get this fancy price great pains
have to be taken with the product, be
ginning with the care of the cattle.
They are kept very clean and are card
ed regularly. The food is given not so
much for quantity as quality, consist
ing of choice hay and Indian meal. No
other grain is given except a little old
process linseed meal. The milking
must be done in a cleanly manner, after
which the milk is strained through no
less than seven thicknesses. The same
extreme care is taken in the whole
nrocess of making the butter, so that
the big price is in part offset by the
aaainonai muor uuu uuiuer in tue va
rious details of the manufacture.
There are many private dairies, thou
sands of them, which make a grade of
butter that sells to a private trade for
more than the best creamery. It is
only the ordinary grades which find
their way Into the general market and
determine the quotations for dairy but
ter. Private dairies can still be made
to pay in the production of really high
grade butter. Mass. Ploughman.
Clover Bloat.
The time has nearly arrived for cat
tle to bloat when turned on rank clover
pasture, writes C. P. Goodrich in
Michigan Farmer. Soon farmers
stockmen and dairymen will be
asking through the agricultural
papers what to do with their cattle
when they bloat on clover. I know this
will be so for it is so every year. In
places in Wisconsin last year there
were serious losses from this cause. At
one farmers institute a gentleman
read an excellent paper on dairying in
which he mentioned this trouble -and
said he would give $500 to be assured
'against loss by it in the' future. It is
all right to advise using the trocar to
bring relief in such cases, but'frequcnt
ly the trouble is not discovered or the
remedy Is not applied in time and fatal
results follow.
I told this gentleman' and the audi
ence of a sure preventive, but I do not
suppose I will-ever get that $500 for he
claims he has the whole "future" to
prove whether1 or not I am right, and
that is a long time to wait Be that as
it may. I will tell my., way to the read
ers of the Farmer gratis. i
When I first turn my cows out in the
spring, and that Is after the clover in
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jXte
;ftav5ilr
the pasture has got m good start, they
are given their regular feed of ensilage,
clover hay, bran and meal first Then
when they go out they are not hungry,
and .they eat but little of the green
clover and that not greedily. At night
they are put in the stable and fed good
clover hay and a small grain feed again.
If the weather is warm they are turned
out again for the night but if cool they
are kept In. during the night, and after
being fed turned out in .the morning.
.My cows are' always put'in the. stable
and fed seme nice early cut, well cured
clover hay, and a .small grain .ration,
twice every day all summer, no ma'tter
what the pasture, is. They always eat
some, since 1 commenced inn practice
many years ago I have never had the
least symptom of clover bloat, while
my neighbors who give their cows noth
ing .but pasture have at times suffered
badly from, bloat My cows do better
in giving milk on account of the feed
they get in the stable. It is also econ
omy, I think, for, with land worth from
$50 to $100 an acre, pasture is dearer
feed than feeding in the stable.
If one has young'.cattle he does not
want to take out of the pasture and put
in the stable to feed, a good way to do
is to have a stack of clover hay in the
field. where they can have free access
to it One will be surprised to see the
cattle .leave the rank 'green clover tw
nr throo tinsoa n -'rlflv and pat ereeilil
a few minutes from the stack. fCatfle
know something, frequently much
more than wcgive them crediCTor, and
will take care of themselveslprctty well
if given ahance. f r -
Even a straw stackB7nere they ohn
come from the green Mover and gee at
it, will help some, ythe pasture has
a variety of grasses, such as timothy,
blue grass, wild grass, etc., aside from
the clover, and these in abundance,
there will rarely be any trouble from
bloat
I wish to' say again that a sure pre
ventive of bloat (it may or may not be
the only sure one) is to put the cattle
in the stable twice a day and feed
them all the good dry hay preferably
clover hay they will eat. Do this and
you. can turn them into clover at any
time at any stage with perfect safety.
Shipping; Coops for Fancy Ponltrr.
H. B. L., writing in Tennessee Fan
cier, very sensibly says: This is a very
Important item in shipping fancy poul
try, as there is a great deal of kicking
on express charges. You can very
easily make a nice, neat and substan
tial coop of pine boxes picked up about
stores, by splitting slats say about 1
or y inch wide,half inch thick, tacked
to good bottom, then cover with cheap
domestic, leaving top open and tacking
on enough slats after putting your
fowls in to keep them from jumping
out A coop on this pattern necessary
to hold a trio of fowls would not weigh
over three or four pounds net. I re
ceived a trio of S. L. Wyandottes a few
days ago from a point in Georgia; they
arrived in a coop large and stout
enough to ship three, good sized hogs
in; it was about 2 feet square, made
of green oak and green plank 3 inches
wide by of an inch thick, covered
with coffee sacking, and weighed net
22 pounds. The express charges on
coop alone would have been $1.50; the
charges on coop and the three birds
was $2.50 or nearly as much as I paid
for ihe trio. This kind of shipping Is
out of the question and is enough to
keen any one from ordering fancy
poultry any distance off. They can, in
most cases, pay for the fowls, but 10
think of paying from $1.50 to $10 per
hundred pounds on old gum planks
knocks them out.
Express rates are high enough at
best, and would advise shippers to
make coops as light as possible, but
stout and securely nailed. Express
messengers, as a rule, try to handle
such class of freight as roughly as pos
sible, when it would be very little more
work and trouble for them to handle
with care.
I am an express agent myself, and
know just how they do; they will throw
a coop of fowls or basket of eggs at
you rather than hand it out to you.
Be careful to make light coops, but at
the same time substantial; it will pay
you in the long run.
Hoes It ray to Exhibit Fowls?
It is very evident that it pays our
best and largest breeders, or we would
not sec them at so many shows in a
single year; but do they derive the
greatest benefits? No. The person who
has only a few birds, none of them ever
having been scored, is sure of getting
more benefit than any one else. Why?
It is worth more to them than the cost
of entry to know what their birds will
score, and did they win a prize, it is
hard to estimate what the benefits will
be. It will depend somewhat on the
number of birds they have for sale, as
they will be able to realize nearly
double the amount they could have
done had they not shown any birds. I
might say they will be able to do this,
although they did not win any prize.
I have in my mind an old gentleman
who bought one sitting of eggs last
year because his wife was bound to
raise some chickens.
He entered nine of these birds, four
cockerels and five pullets, from this
hatch in the Chattanooga Poultry show
at the cost of $3.50 for entry fee. They
being about seven months old, and in
strong competition, of course he won
no prizes. However, he has since sold
two of these cockerels for enough more
than he asked for them before the show
to pay for entry, and has disposed of
two more at a very good price, giving
him a nice profit on his investment
He not being in the chicken business,
his neighbors were inclined to laugh
at him for presuming that he had any
fine chickens, consequently, he gives
the credit for sales to the poultry show.
Big Poultry Farms. Dr. Green, on
Long Island. Lake Winneplseogee, New
Hampshire, has $120,000 invested in the
business, and $115,000 of it represents
the accumulated returns from an origi
nal investment of about $5,000. He has
15,000 laying hens, 4,000 laying ducks
and thirty incubators of 600-egg capac
ity each. The annual product of chick
ens and ducks is from $120,000 to $140,
000, and the buildings and yards are
very extensive. Gov. Morton of New
York has $60,000 invested in the poul-
try
business, and Havemeyer the
sugar king is another large producer
of poultry. They both find it a profit
able as well as an interesting business. f8 in good, reasonable breeding condf
Thero are dozens of other large plants I tjon and winter her in a corresponding
scattered through the East. The busi-; condition until farrowine time in th
ness has been reduced to a fine system,
and has been rid of the unpleasant fea
tures that characterize the ordinary
slipshod methods in vogue among far
mers and others who have not studied
it up thoroughly. Ex.
San Francisco Egg Supply.-Poultry
ld eggs to the value of $2,500,000 are
and
consumed by the people of San Fran
cisco each year. Strange as It may
seem, two-thirds of this consumption,
as to quantity, is supplied from the
east, chiefly from Kansas, Nebraska
apd Missouri. Think of it! A million
dollars going out of the state annually
for what might and should be profit
ably produced at home! And San Fran
cisco is by no means the only place
in California consuming eastern eggs
and poultry. Every city and large
town in the state contributes to the
revenues of eastern producers of the
same commodities. It is safe to say
that the extent of this ridiculous con
tribution of California to eastern pro
ducers is not less than $2,000,000 a year.
This, at least, is- the estimate of an
eastern expert who' has carefully in
vestigated the subject Pacific Rural
Press.
Scalloped Apples Butter a pudding
dish and put a layer of peeled sliced
apples In. the bottom. Sprinkle "with
sugar, a very, little flour and cinnamon
and some bits, of butter. Fill the dish
in this irianner and bake one hour,
covering the dish to prevent burning
on the top. Serve cold or hot.
'Inspeetlem sf all AsMrican musts is
rtgM and dees at foreign, peris, est me
case sf metmsl disease has ever beam de
tected. There have bees cemiplalmts, tt
is true; bst I will ge om record as as
sertiag that asms of these complaint
were ever oetmlmed. The ' as.omr
foretga trade to largely m matter ef pol
itics. . Men-representing dlfferemt na
tions get together and say : 'If you will
let ta our sugar free we will admit your
beef etc la case, of failure to make m
trade there Is retaliation, and this Is
sll there Is to It"
It wss in' these words P. D. Armour
f answered the charges that the federal
j u8 work of inspection'properly.-' So far
bureau of animal Industry Is not aoing
as the'assertion that diseased snimais
and meats rejected for export are put
on the market for home consumption
is concerned, Mr. Armour denied .it
vigorously and referred to the work of
the bureau In this city under charge of
Dr. Melvln.'
Up to three weeks, ago there were
three distinct systems of inspection of
livestock and meats in Chicago. The
federal Inspection was confined to ani
mals and .meats Intended for export.
and a force of inspectors was constant
ly i.t . r , ... - j
j acpi ai worx in toe peua
laughter houses where-this branch of
the trade Is handled. The state kept
several, veterinarians at work solely
among live stock- for the purpose of
condemning lumpy-jawed animals
with the exclusive object of stamping
out a contagious disease and not for the
purpose of -keeDinabad meat-off the
market In addiffbn the city had
force of heaKhiofflcers whose d
was to see condemned animals" were
destroyed, anrfto make frequemrrounds
of local markets to seize4uid "tank
down" bad meats. This three-headed
division of labor worked all right so
I far as federal Inspection for export was
concerned, but the live stock exenange
officials found certain sharpers who had
been making money by trading in
diseased animals could not be stopped
by any ordinary methods. As a result
the exchange adopted stringent rules
which brought about a co-operation of
the state, city and stock yards officials,
and the lumpy-jawed trade Is now well
under control, with every prospect of
being completely stamped out
Recently the federal authorities
found there was a loop-hole of escape
for unprincipled men in the handling
of bad meats in. other states. For in
stance, the dealers who succeeded in
getting diseased animals away from
the yards could ship them out of town
with little fear of detection, as the in
spection of meats was conflcd to the ex
port and local trade. Out of this has
come a new system of co-operation by
which the federal, state and city in
spectors all work together, and the
only trouble now known is that the
rigid watch has driven the disreputable
dealers to smaller towns where there is
no inspection. Of the work, Dr. Mel
vin, the federal veterinarian in charge
of the Chicago office of the bureau of
animal industry, says:
"I am sure there is no ground for
complaint so far as Chicago is con
cerned. The new system is working
nicely, and it is well-night Impossible
for any diseased animals or meats to
get out I have twenty-eight inspec
tors continually at work in the yards
looking at live stock before it is sent
to the abattoirs. Then I have six vet
erinarians and twenty assistants at
work in the slaughter houses. The
state has, I believe, five inspectors.
How many the city employs I don't
know. We all work together. If one of
my men finds diseased animals or
meats be reports to the state and city
inspectors, and there is no let up until
the bad stuff has been condemned and
put into the rendering tanks. We
watch the pens, the slaughter houses
and the gates, and I don't think any
bad animals or meats get out"
Turnips for Sown.
It is known by the farmers who have
tried it that no live stock on the farm
is more profitable than the old sow,
who raises a litter of pigs in the fall,
which find a ready sale when four
weeks old at $1 each, and another in
the spring, bringing at the same age
from $2 to $3, writes a correspondent
ot the Pennsylvania Farmer.
It is also known that one hog can be
wintered with slops from the house and
a very small outside grain expense, but
when the proposition, "if one sow is
profitable why should it not pay to keep
ten or twenty?" is presented, invaria
bly the answer is given, "the expense
of wintering would eat up all the
profits." Therefore the only pending
question to a successfully managed
"hog ranche" is the production of cheap
winter food.
For several years I studied and ex
perimented with roots of numerous va
rieties, finally settling beyond a doubt
in my own mind that mangel wurzels
are the least expensive and better
adapted for wintering hogs than any
thing which can be raised on the farm.
It has been my method when experi
menting with different foods to keep an
accurate account of the cost of produc
tion, and particularly with this experi
ment was it profitable, for the results
were truly wonderful and to the casual
observer almost impossible.
I fitted a piece of ground in as proper
shape as my knoweldge would then al
low and harvested from it 1,240 bushels
per acre of mangles, weighing more
than a bushel of potatoes. I have since
learned better methods of mangle culti
vation and in good seasons do not ex
pect less than a rate of 1,500 bushels
per acre.
The expense of seed and labor in fit
ting ground, planting, cultivating, hoe-
j ing and harvesting was $42.25 per acre.
or less than three and a half cents per
bushel. This ground received about
100 loads of manure to the acre, of
which only the hauling was charged.
I put my brood sows in their breed
ing pens about Oct. 1 and commenced a
series of experiments regarding amount
of mangels per animal, and the propor
tionate amount of cornmeal therewith
As my hogs are a large breed, the fol
lowing conclusions may be safely fol
lowed by the average farmer: In a
proper pen, constructed so that manure
will not freeze at 10 degrees above zero
and subject to ventilation when weath-
! er requires J can place a brood sow that
' X.a Im omI aAMriAaMllA a.Ka Jl mm-
spring, on two feeds a day, consisting
of one peck of mangel wurzels and one
quart of corn meal. Considering meal
uortli $15 per ton. it costs me less than
5 cents per day to winter my sows In
a good enough breeding condition.
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infrvme, ,.SJLlSLS
In above calculations I charged man
Now, dairymen, please consider: If vou
charged ".corresponding prices for man
and team work in the production otthe
feed required to winter one cow in the
proper condition of flesh to give the
best results the following summer, and
in the fall deduct the amount from the
proceeds of that bovine, do vou not -be
lieve the net profits of the sow. will
place tne old cow so far in the shade
that, to use a slang expression, she will
be "clear outof sight?" But, then, ycu
have the pleasure of milking her, night
and. morning, for nfne long months,'
and that is something." -
Soups. Don't make soup, from stock,
now the hot weather is-coming. Cream
soups can be made entirely in, at moist,
half an hour, and they are particularly
appetising these summer days. There
is no end to the variety in cream soups
which are to' be. made! Cut up any
kind of vegetables desired, stew, in as
small amount of. flour as possible, add
'ft
to boffins: milk, thickened and seasoned
to suit' sttafa and serve. Potatoes, on- F
Ions, celery, tomatoes or carrots make
very delicious soup 'prepared is .this . E
fashion. "
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Arizona I'cte had been called upon in
tlaW absence of. all the deacons antl
titer qualified church officers, to pass
the contribution basket
In a scat half way down the middle
aisle bat the wealthiest man in thecon
jriejration, fast asleep. Arizona Pete
stopped when near him, held the bas
ket tinder his nose and waited.
A soft snore was t he only contribu
tiorr. lie touched him on the shoulder.
Another snore.
Then he t.liook him.
'Fuddleston.'" lie said, "yon can't
make a sneak out of this pmc. l.'un
jrle tip or I'll throw you out of the
windowl'"
It is recorded that Mr. Fuddles ton at
once puriglcd up to tiie extent of S.1 for
the first and only time in his tcligioiis
career. Chicago Tribune.
Tobacco-Stinking Breath.
Not ilc.:.--;;nl tonlu.ijs c.irry aronml, but it
ilon't rompaiu with lliCRcricrictroyins; tiwcr
tliat tolai-to keep at work nicM ami iluy to
make ou ucalr and usroteixt l)i:ll e.e.. "lo-
of interest in sv.r-1 wnnis ami look-, tell the
story. Urate up quit. X To U.ic N a Mire,
quick ore RtarniiHi il ly DrifWsts cerv
where. Hook. tJtie-i 'i)en t Tolatto Spit or
Smoke Your Life Anav " fice. Aihlrcv. Ster
ling KemcUy Co., New York ( ily or ihkxo.
Trlrcraphir .Mlt:ikf.
The tciejrranlt has indulged in many
witticisms at the expense of the mem
beisofboth house.-, ot parliament, it
has transformed a classical allusion to
I'ato and ISrtttus" into "cats and
brutes;" the celebrated phrase used by
the late Mr. W. ForMer hi a speech on
lib. Irish policy, "mauvais subjects and
village ruffians" into '-wandering sav
ages and village ruffians;"' "tried in the
balance and found wanting into "iried
in the balance and found panting;'
"the cow was cut in halves" into "Ihe
cow was cut into calves.' and "the
militia is a reat constitutional force"'
into "the militia is a .'real constitu
tional farce." Macmillan's Magazine.
b. K t-tUSUKM. .MRr. Ciane scott. writes,
"i timl IialiS Catarrh Cure a aluahlc remedy. "
Dru.it.s sell it. 7Tk.
Thomnn who v.ould .'end other?, must
first lenrn how to .tand n'onc
I cannot sen; too hi.-h of Ii-."t Cure
forConMimptiaii. JIi:. rBiKMrniih, "l
W. -J--M St., Xew Yor'cv M. -1. Is''.
Dorrowcd troub'cj are the heaviest.
The tacit inn! st
will find In tho various tourist ptthMcn ions
isued by tho HuriinUii Koute just the in
formation he needs a! out just tho re.ort it
will pay hint to vi-it.
Hero'are the names:
"Hot Springs-, South Dakota."
"Summer 'lours in the H ac Pills. '
'The.Yellowstono Xntii.uu! Par.,-."
"Ktes Park. Co orado."
IVhii h do iof want .' 1 liey're all free. J.
Francis, O. P. & T. A., Hur.iugton Koute, f
Umaha. eb.
Ve.vct 1 at e- nre fcsliinunb'e lined with
cloth nnd cloth one-, with silk.
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and a permanent anc in Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. Taken during
pregnancy, the "Prescription" ,
liv nretwrintr the svstciu for parturition.
tints assisting Nature and shortening
"labor. J lie pauinti onxeai 01 ennu- .
birth is robbed of its terrors, and the
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mother and clulii. "1 He period oi con-
fiuement is also greatly shortened, the
mother strengthened and built up, .mil
an abundant secretion of nourishment
for the child promoted.
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A little girl in a. Pennsylvania town,
id "saying her prayers the other'night,
was. told to pray 'for her father and
mother, who -were, "both very ill. and
for one of the. servants, who had lost
her husband. She. faith fully did as she
wasttffd, and then, impressed with the
dreary conditioner things added on
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iod, take good care-of yourself, for. if
anything- should happen to you we.
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