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STONY POINT,
(Anthony Wayne, a letter written on
. lac-eve of his most famous exploit shows.
was convinced that he would not survive
the attempt on Stony Point: yet he led
that desperate attack, to use his own
phrase. "Spear In hand.")
" JHighlands of Hudson! ye saw them pass,
' Night on the stars of their battle flap.
Threading the maze of the dark morass
iMler the frown of the Thunder Crag.
. Flower and pride of the Light Armed
Corps,
Trim in their trappings of buff and
blue,
. Silent, they skirted the rugged shore.
Grim In the promise of work to do.
"Cross ye the ford to the moated rock!
Let not a whisper your march betray!
Out with flint from the musket lock!
"Sow let the bayonet find the way!"
Wilkes Booth's Oil Well
"About the close of the year 1864,"
said an old-time Venango county,
Penn., oil operator, "when the Prather
boys were scouring about the oil
. country trying to raise money to
' buy the Holmden property at Pithole,
before oil had been found at that
' afterward famous and rich, but short
lived petroleum center, John Wilkes
Booth was at Meadville ono day,
waiting for a train eastward on the
Atlantic & Great Western railroad,
now the Erie. He was in the office
of the McHenry house. One of tho
Prather boys was there talking up
the prospects of the oil at Pithole.
"Booth became interested. He be
gan to talk with Prather. He stood
by a window, and as he talked he
scratched his full name, John Wilkes
Booth, on one of the panes of the
window with the diamond in a ring
he wore. The upshot of Booth's talk
with Prather was that he invested
115,000 in Pitholo property.
'The Prather boys bad bought the
Holmden well for $100,000 and sold
it for more than $2,000,000. The
Homestead well, in which Booth bad
his 15,000 investment, was only one
of a dozen equally large spouting
wells, grouped at Pithole. Oil was
then $G a barrel, and the smallest
fraction of ownership in a Pithole
well was a fortune.
'The night that President Lincoln
was shot a thunderstorm, something
unusual at that time of year, gather
ed over Pithole. There was but one
flash of lightning and one clap of
thunder. This was not regarded with
any significance at Pithole at the
time, but subsequent revelations
clothed it with a significance that
awed the superstitious, and startled
those who were not.
Indiana Regiment's Battlefla.g
At the postoffice, Gen. McGinnis
has ready for shipment to New York
one of the battleflags of the Eleventh
Indiana regiment, to be placed in
the tomb of Gen. U. S. Grant This
is being sent at the request of Gen.
Dodge, one of the trustees of the
tomb, who has asked each of the
'states for two flags to hang in the
tomb. When the request was receiv
ed here it was found that all of the
regiments had turned their colors
over to the state with the exception
of the Eleventh.
This regiment has always closely
guarded the tattered remnants of its
flags. At the time of the unveiling
of the Indiana Soliders' Monument,
the regimental association held a
meeting and voted to send one of its
flags to New York and the others
were sent to the state house for safe
keeping, as they were becoming so
decayed with age that they were fall
ing to pieces.
Owing to the tattered condition of
the flag, a blue silk banner, eighteen
by twenty-four inches, was made to
accompany it, and on this the names
of the battles of the regiment were
worked in gold bullion. The flag was
with the regiment at the organization
of the Thirteenth army corps, and
was carried in every engagement of
that part of the army until the time
Gen. Grant left it
When the regiment left for the
front at the beginning of the war. a
True Comradeship
Here is a tribute from one com
rade to another, that should warn
the hearts of all veterans:
"He learned comradeship in a sure
and stern field, amid the odor of
gunpowder, the music was the blare
of trumpets, and the eloquence was
the sharp, curt orders of the officers,
and the answering applause was the
deadly volley of the rebel rifle and
shrieking shell; where the lid of a
cracker box was the festal board; or
in Andersonville, where even crack
ers -and cracker boxes were unknown,
except in the hungering dreams of
famishing patriots. It was picked
up on the line of march, where the
On the Field of Shiloh
"Shiloh,'' said the doctor, "was a
nightmare to the" North. It was our
first great battle in the West, and it
was, in fact, one of the bloodiest bat
tles of the war. So many conflicting
stories were told at the time that the
people were in a frenzy and boat loads
oi doctors and helpers and investigat
ing committees were hurried to Pitts
burg Landing. The late Dr. E .P.
Goodwin and myself were among those
who went to Shiloh from Columbus.
Ohio, to do what we could for the
wounded and sick. We didn't expect
the battlefield to be so big. and when
we got there our party started to walk
to Ohio headquarters.
"We were disappointed at the cheer
fulness of the soldiers, and their in
difference toward us and our mission.
We were depressed by the repellant
formalities at the several brigade
headquarters and kept moving on. At
last darkness came upon us and we
were practically lost. In due time we
came upon a line of guards, one of
whom Dr. Goodwin knew, and he took
as to Gen. Garfield's headquarters.
We had known Garfield in Columbus,
and be received us all cordially, but
with the dignity of his military posi
tion. I was just asking myself how
we were to break the -ice when Gar
field caught sight of Dr. H. and shout
ed: Mnst in time, doctor, just in time.
A wood tick has bored into my back
and I want you to take him out.'
Thereupon he pulled his woolen shirt
over his head, and, handing the doctor
a knife, ordered him to take the tick
out. This broke the ice, and' when
the tick had 'been removed from the
general's back we were oa the footing
of alt friends -and acquaintances."--Cslcage
later Ocean.
JULY 16, 1797.
"Halt!" rang the sentinel's challenge
clear.
Swift came the shot of the waking foe.
Bright flashed the ax of the pioneer
Smashing the abatis, blow on blow.
Little they tarried for British might!
Lightly they recked of the Tory Jeers!
Laughing they swarmed to the craggy
height. jit
Steel to the steel of the grenadiers!
Storm King and Dunderberg! wake once
more.
Sentinel giants of Freedom's throne.
Massive and proud! to the Eastern shore
Bellow the watchword: "The fort's our
own!"
Echo our cheers for the Men of old!
Shout for the Hero wno led his band
Braving the death that his heart fore
Over the parapet, "spear in hand!"
Arthur Gulterman in New York Times.
Thft tidines that the war was over
had reached the oil regions, and the
American flag was flying from the
top of every derrick. The one thun
derbolt of that storm at Pithole
struck the rig of the Homestead well
and set it on fire.
"When, next day, the news of the
assassination of Lincoln by Booth
came to Pithole that city was over
hung by a dense pall of black smoke
from the burning Homestead well.
As far away as Oil City the ominous
black pillar was seen hanging against
the sky over Pithole.
"The fact that the assassin Booth
owned part of the Homestead well
at once occurred to all at Pithole,
and when it was learned that the
bolt had descended upon it at the
very hour and minute that Booth
had fired tho shot the coincidence"
seemed so significant that every ef
fort that had been made to extin
guish the fire at the well and stop
the great waste of wealth every lap
of the flames was adding to, ceased
on the moment, and the very spot
was shunned by all but the others
interested in the well, who at last
succeeded in getting control over tho
flames.
"The moment the news of the as
sassination reached Meadville, Indig
nant guests at the McHenry house,
Meadville. would have shattered to
fragments the window whereon
Booth had inscribed his name a few
months before, but the proprietor of
the hotel succeeded in saving it, as
he had a thrifty eye to its future
value. He removed the offensive
pane from the window, and subse
quently sold it for a good price to a
Philadelphian, who. I believe, pre
sented it to the Pennsylvania histori
cal society." New York Sun.
dramatic incident occurred that the
members of the regiment love to re
late. The regiment was drawn up in
line in the old state house yard
under the command of Colonel, after
ward General, Lew Wallace, and the"
flag was presented to the regiment
before a vast crowd that completely
filled the inclosure. As the general
Eleventh Indiana Flag.
received It, he commanded the men
to kneel and swear to "Remember
Buena Vista," which afterward be
came the battle cry of tho regiment.
Indianapolis Nctts.
already overburdened shoulders did
not hesitate to lend a helping hand
by bearing the belongings of sick or
weaker companions, or skirt the road
for miles that he might have a drink
of clean, fresh water, or some deli
cacy not found in the army ration;
where selfish seeking had no exist
ence, and the strife was all for one
and one for all. In that school h
learned comradeship, the ties oi
which were as strong as iron, and
with all their rough and jagged edges
as tender as a woman's love, and en
dures forever. There may be others
who may yet present themselves
graduates of the same school, but
Comrade McElroy is all right
A Young Drummer Boy.
Floyd Stewart Loomis of Grand Rap
ids. Mich., 9 years old last May, is per
haps the youngest drummer boy in
the country. His instructor in drum
mlng is his father. J. P. Loomis, who
is called the champion drummer of
Michigan. Floyd has been accustom
to drumsticks since he was two years
old, and now he can play the bass
drum and the snare drum at one and
the same time, beating the bass drum
with his foot and the snare drum with
his hands. He has played before large
audiences, and always has given de
light American Boy.
Three Million Different Colors.
The number of artificial coloring
matters prepared since Perkins' dis
covery nearly fifty years ago of the
preparation of aniline dyes from coal
tar has been enormous. It is esti
mated that at the present day over
3.000,000 different individual Te
stuffs are easily accessible to our in
dustries. while at least 25.000 form
the subject of patent specifications.
3?t,ST ber of colring matters fur
nishsd by natural agencies is compar
atively small, and those that do exist
threaten soon to be ignored in favor
of coal-tar derivatives.
Small Efforts Are Valuable.
Do not be discouraged because of
the apparent insignificance of on
portunities. Remember that the poet
Wl'uxGZ
The smallest effort is not lost
Each wavelet on the ocean tossed
Aids in the ebbtide or the flow
Each raindrop makes some floweret
blow.
Each struggle lessees human woe.
Those who have read Alphonse Dau
let's wonderful book. "Rois en Exile,'
-rill appreciate a little 'story told by
Mark Twain to Col. S. C. Kellogg.
Jnlted States army, now retired, when
.he latter was military attache to the
mbassy at Paris, over which the
ate lamented James B. Eustls pro
dded 1893-97.
Clemens said that he was sitting,
me brilliant and beautiful summer
norning, on a bench in one of those
jicomparable Paris parks. The view
jras gracious beyond words. Grass,
almost dazzling in its greenness;
lowers, fountains, running water,
patriarchal trees, a passing throng
aiore picturesque than any pageant
jver seen upon the stage all the
:harm and mystery and romance of
Paris, en grande tenue.
Mark sat there musing. The dew.
was still upon the foliage. The air
was fresh, exhilarating. He caught
it seemed to him, the faint, elusive
oerfume that had made last night a
fragrant memory. He bathed his
fine soul in sunshine. All of a sudden
there came within his view a pale and
mildewed saunterer. His hat was
middle-aged and shiny. His coat
suggested better days. A black cravat
seemed fiercely bent on throttling
him. His trousers bagged -at ' tho
knee, and his shoes, patched and
worn, spoke of sunshine stove polish
with special and peculiar eloquence.
His eyes were hollow and his cheeks
both wan and sunken. He approached
RELIEF SECURED BY
"TURNING THE HOSE"
A Phoenix gentleman who recently
returned from California relates an in
cident that occurred to him which
may be of benefit to Phoenix women
who cannot go to the Coast, but who
desire to avoid the effects of the ex
ceSive heat as much as possible. The
gentleman in question is an extremely
modest married man, and it was only
an overwhelming curiosity that helped
him into the secret about to be im
parted. On the way home he occupied a seat
toward the rear of the coach, and a
lady, who also had a ticket for
Phoenix, sat opposite him and one seat
ahead. He noticed that the farther
they traveled the more uneasy the lady
became. First she tried fanning her
self vigorously, but finally gave that
jp in despair and resorted to her
handkerchief, with which she inces
santly mopped her face, removing per
spiration, paint, complexion and
everything else that was not rooted in
the cuticle.
Just before reaching Maricopa the
lady squirmed around a great deal,
looked out of the corner of her eyes
to see if any one was watching (and
there was, but she didn't know it),
GOSPEL TEXTS PUT
ON MAILED MATTER
The Chicago postofflce authorities
are looking for an enthusiastic preach
er whose religious vagaries have oc
casioned them considerable trouble.
A few days ago envelopes, which had
covered incoming letters, were sent
to the postmaster by local business
men with a vigorous remonstrance
against the practice of stamping
selections from scripture on mail
passing through the postoffice. The
texts were printed in fine type and
stamped in purple ink on the envel
ope by means of rubber stamps.
A distinguished citizen wanted to
know why the postoffice should be so
interested in his salvation as to
stamp these texts on an envelope ad
dressed to him:
"Jesus Wants to Save!
Tell the World!"
"Ye must be born again. John 3-7.
How? Whosoever believeth that Jesus
is the Christ is born of God; 1 John
5-1 and doth not commit sin, 1 John
3-9."
An immediate investigation was
made in the local office, but the re
ligious enthusiast was not discovered
among the ranks of Chicago's postal
employes. Some of the letters had
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UNCLE SILAS ON AUTOS.
Old Gentleman Compares Them Un
favorably With the Horse.
"Naw," observed Uncle Silas as he
hitched a nail keg a few inches so as
to keep within the receding shade of
a tree in front of the country store,
"I calkilate I wudn't hev one o' them
goshding'd ottymobeels ef sum feller
wud giv' me one fer nuthin. Hain't
skasly a day passes thet one o' th'
blame sputterin' things don't break
down out in th road in front o my
house. One o' them ottymobeels will
git up an' git like all Sam Hill fer a
few miles and then, fust thing yew
know, it will jes stop, clean tuckered
out
"Ez I wuz drivin' Intew town this
mornin' I kim acrost two ottymobeels
thet hed balked. Th feller thet owned
one wuz a-layin' on his back in under
it a-tightenin' up sum bolts in its
stummik. Tother chap wanted tew
know whut I wu'd charge tew haul his
ottymobeel ten miles tew th' nearest
railroad station, so he cu'd ship it
hum." I tol him that Jinny, my bay
mare, wuz skeer'd 'o th infernal things
an thet ef I'o hitch her tew th' otty
mobeel I reckoa'd she wudn't stay
hitched long.
"Naw-sir-ee I don't keer fer enny
ottymobeels in mine, thanfc'ee; I cal
kilate thet Jinny will answer my pur
pus yit fer a spell. Jinny is goin' on
23 years old an' mebbe she hain't
quite es spry es ehe uster be, seein'
es how she is spavin'd sum an' inter
teres in frunt but when I start out
behind her I hev th consolation o
knowin thet she won't git sick an' lay
down in th' road like one o them
gosh-blame ottymobeels. Jinny, she
can't go a mile a minnit, like an otty
mobeel kin. but she goes a mile es
quick es she kin, an' thet's swift enuf
fer me, b'gosh! I wudn't swap thet
little bay mare fer all th' ottymobeels
that yew cud pile in a ten-acre lot
I wouldn't I gum!" Ohio State Jour
naL Students Protect Themselves.
Some of the students in Paris, when
perusing ancient books in the Nation
al Library, protect themselves with
muzzles. This is done to prevent the
inhalation of dangerous microbes said
to infest old volumes.
Rats Chew Gum.
Rats, says the Pittsburg Dispatch,
have coatracted the gum-chewing hab
VtatHobokea. Rata!
Mark's bench with leaden feet, sat
down upon the farther end aad Bear
ed a sigh that sounded like a moan.
He gazed at the toy landscape, took
in tho glittering pageant, coughed the
cough of hunger and distress, then
turned to Mark and asked, with a
pathetic bleat, "Were you ever a
king?"
Sadness and humor are close
friends. Down the endless corridors
of human hope and strife. passing arm
in arm through the throng of beautiful
and mean ambitions, they gather the
story of the human race and write
its chronicles at leisure. 'tWere
you ever a king?" Paris does not hold
monopoly in this sorrowful and
shabby case. Have we no discrowned
kings ourselves? Doer, the gay French
capital, with its royal refugees and
loafers, have no rivals in this broad
and happy land? Verily, it seems to
us that all the kings, or would-be
kings, have not been stranded in one
place. There are pathetic pretensions,
vain hopes and wretched ostentations
all about us. The discarded boss, the
back number chieftain, the leader
without a following all these are
familiar, if sad, spectacles in this
land. Don Quixote has survived the
wreck of worlds, and the duke of
Barataria still presides over Barme
cide ceremonials and waves his sword
of lath.
We, too, are in this business, even
though we have no Daudet to assert
our claims.
then pulling off her shoes she removed
her stockings, turned them inside out
and put them on again.
By this time the modest Phoenix
man was mostly eyes, and what wasn't
eyes was' curiosity. He felt that he
had to have an explanation of the
woman's conduct, and there was no
one who could give it but the woman
herself. He approached her, therefore,
begged her pardon, and said that he
seldom took the liberty of inquiring
into other people's business. "How
ever," he continued, "I just witnessed
the lightning change act that you per
formed, and curiosity has prompted
me to inquire the reason of it"
The woman blushed a little on dis
covering that she had been watched,
and then said: "You see, I am going
through to Phoenix, and it's very hot
down there. In fact, it's been getting
hotter every mile for the last three
hours, and my feet were literally burn
ing up, when I decided that regardless
of conventionality I would have to
turn the hose on them." Arizona Re
publican. Money talks in a language that all
the world can understand.
come from the east and the envelopes
were transmitted through the usual
channels to see if the enthusiast was
not a railway postal clerk or a clerk in
the Boston or New York postofflce..
All clerks and carriers denied the
impeachment and the papers traveled
back again to Chicago. The investi
gation was continued there, and after
a slight delay it was found that on a
particular day in the middle of De
cember a traveling preacher passed
through one of the big office buildings
and had stamped everything in sight
with tests of Scripture. It seems
that he went through some of the
offices and impressed the stamps on
letters lying on the desks. No one
appears to have connected his visit
with the texts on the envelopes, and
it was concluded that some one in the
postoffice had become interested in
the spiritual welfare of the general
public and had taken this means of
calling attention to pertinent texts
found in Holy Writ
The explanation was a relief to the
postal authorities, who had been vain
ly seeking for more than a month to
discover the person responsible for
the hand-stamped texts.
WHERE SHE WAS WRONG.
Mistaken Impression of Old Lady
New to Automobiling.
It had taken considerable per
suasion to induce the old lady to take
a seat in an automobile, but finally
she had consented to do so because
she was anxious to reach the bedside
of her sick grandchild in a village
some twenty- miles away, the last
train for which had left some, ten min
utes before she arrived at the station.
When the owner of the big automo
bile, who was touring through Long
Island, had overheard he old lady's
regrets at being left, he had insisted
on her accompanying him, as he was
to pass through the -particular one of
the half a dozen or more Long Island
villages named Hampton where the
sick grandchild lived. Everything
went lovely until the almost flying ve
hicle, in attempting to pass a wagon
loaded with hay which occupied the
entire center of the road, went unex
pectedly into the ditch and rather vio
lently deposited its occupants in an
adjoining field.
Recovering from the shock, though
somewhat confused from the rather
unusual method of alighting from a
vehicle, the old lady asked of the
chagrined chauffeur:
"Is this a Hampton?"
"No, ma'am," he managed to gasp,
"this is an accident"
"Oh, dear," said the ex-occupant of
the vehicle, "then I hadn't oughter
have got out here, had I?"
But such naivette was too much for
the owner, of the damaged vehicle,
and he said the only safe thing for
one in his position to say noting.
Automobile Magazine.
King Cotton for Cuba.
It appears to have been demon
strated that sea island cotton can
not only be grown in Cuba, but that
its yield per acre is very large. The
cost of its cultivation is small, and
the plants will yield for years, making
replanting unnecessary, except at long
intervals.
If this is true, and it appears to be
beyond doubt that it is, tLen cotton
may come to be king in Caba, as it
was and is in the gulf states of the
American Union. Here is something
for the secretary of agriculture 'to
"foment," which can be gone Into by
small farmers, which does not require
any capital to speak of only plows,
hoes and seed cotton for the Irst
year's plaatiag. Havana Post
it aw I PaswCwPw 'LVIbw
Our Apple Trade With England.
Our apple trade with England
to be ia a very healthy state. Accord
ing to the English statisticians Eng
land received from this country darns
the export season of Aug. 10. 1901. to
May S. 1902, a total of 792428 barrels
of apples. From the port of New York
were sent 154,223 barrels, from Boston
143,851 barrels, from Montreal 122,405
barrels, from Portland 100.419 barrels,
from Halifax 265481 barrels and from
St John 6,049 barrels. On the other
side Liverpool was the leading point
of import, 408,656 barrels being landed
In that port. The port of London re
ceived 229,808 barrels and Glasgow
129,312 barrels.
It is Interesting to note that in the
above shipments there were 296.427
boxes of apples. These were reduced
to barrels in making the returns.
These boxed apples were from Cali
fornia. It is somewhat surprising to
find so many apples shipped in this
form, but it Is an Indication that the
public takes kindly to this form of
packing: This trade in boxed apples
has grown np largely during the last
four years. The first commercial rec
ord we have from England of Amer
ican apples coming in in boxes was in
1895-6, when the number reported as
Imported into England was 15,471.. No
farther separate mention is made of
boxed apples till 1899-1900, when the
number Is placed at 181,985. The next
year there was a slight falling off, the
number being 149,515. Year before
last the number of boxes of apples Im
ported into England was 203,333. Evi
dently the box as package for apples is
to remain a factor in our export trade.
Our apple trade with England shows
great irregularity. This is caused by
the constant variation in yields of ap
ples in both countries. A short crop
In this country means such high prices
that the sales of American fruit in
England are greatly restricted. This
past season the prices were so high on
this side of the water that the amount
sent abroad was smaller than for six
years .previous.
Mahlon Terhune, a freight broker of
the' New York Produce exchange, has
compiled the following table of apple
exports for the years given:
1880-81 1,328,806
1881-82 239,252
1882-83 395,594
188344 o 1,5 32
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1885-86 885,273
1886-87 807,924
1887-88 608,421
188849 1,407.409
1889-90 677,762
1890-91 451,285
1891-92 1.450,336
1892-93 1,203,538
1893-94 174.841
1894-95 1,438455
1895-96 751,255
1896-97 2,919346
1897-98 913,996
1898-99 1,221,087
1899"l9vv lv-otlX
1900-01 1,346.030
1901-02 792,128
The coming year promises to be one
f large crops and with prices for ap
ples so low that exportation will be
encouraged.
A Newly Imported Weed.
Professor Moore of the Wisconsin
Experiment Station sends out the fol
lowing warning relative to a newly-
imported weed of the mustard family:
"I find growinj In the newly seeded
rurkestan alfalfa plats at the station
a plant which belongs to the mustard
family and may become an obnoxious
weed. It Is not a native of this coun
try, but was undoubtedly brought from
abroad with some of the imported
Turkestan alfalfa seed. The blossom
of the plant is of a lighter shade than
the native mustard, and the leaves are
not so rough and hairy. A strong,
disagreeable odor is given off, which
Is very perceptible. All farmers
growing alfalfa for the first time
should examine their fields at once,
and if the above described weed is no
ticeable, pull or cut in order to pre
vent going to seed. If the alfalfa was
sown with a nurse crop, cut the crop
for hay; if sown without a nurse crop,
pull all plants and destroy. Where
tho acreage is too large to pull con
veniently, cut with mower. The alfalfa
will come on readily after cutting, and
no detrimental effects will be notice
able." Timothy. Versus Corn Fodder.
At the Missouri station it was shown
that when young beef cattle were win
tered on rough leed alone a better
gain was gotten in every trial with
timothy hay than with corn fodder.
i;From these trials," says the experi
menter, "it is perhaps safe to estimate
that timothy hay is worth fully twice as
much as whole corn fodder pound for
oound for wintering young cattle. This
refers to large, coarse fodder from
traps averaging sixty to seventy
bushels of corn per acre. That grown
sneclally for fodder would presuma
bly have a much higher feeding value
and could be fed with much less waste
than this coarse fodder. It should be
borne in- mind that in feeding this
large fodder whole nearly half by
weight, viz., the lower portion of the
stalk is refused by the stock and is
only valuable for bedding and man
ure." Use ef Roots in Cattle Feeding.
In all parts of the old world the
feeding rations of cattle -include roots.
In this country littie attention Is paid
to them, though nearly all scientific
feeders advocate their use. In the
feeding of beeves roots are valuable,
especially before the finishing period
is reached. The amount to be fed
each day must depend on the size of
the steer, but to a 1,000-pound steer
50 pounds per day may be fed at first
and this may be increased. As the
time for finishing approaches, the daily
allowance of roots should be decreased
as the food affects the hardness of the
flesh, too many roots making it soft
The best feeders advocate cutting the
roots, slicing them: Some pulp them
and mix them with the forage, delay
ing feeding till the forage is moistened
by the palp.
In dairying as In everything else or
ganization seems to be easiest along
commercial lines.
After a girl gets on the shady side
of 25 she drops the afinity business
and begins to hustle around- for an
ordinary breadwinner. Chicago
News.
People who use religion as a cloak
In this world will doubtless manage
to keep warm la the next without a
cloak. Chicago News.
A Profitable Celery Patch.
A Philadelphia society that has
ruanlng a three-acre co-operative
farm, says ia a report: One of the
most Interesting aad profitable parts
of this three-acre farm was a celery
plot of one-sixteenth of an acre. This
miniature celery farm, after thorough
fertilisation and preparation, was
transplanted at the rate of one hen-,
dred thousand plants to the acre, the
rows being only nine inches apart,
and the plants sets in drills five laches
from each other. The plants were
grown in the ordinary way and were
transplanted to the plot at the proper
season for such work, that Is, from
the middle of July to the middle of
August The plot was given a shal
low or surface cultivation every ten
days, bat was never handled or
banked with earth as is usually done
in celery culture. On this one-sixteenth,
of an acre five thousand fine
large stalks were matured, and after
being bleached, marketed- at an aver
age of one and one-quarter cents per
stalk. At this rate one acre of land
will yield a gross product of one
thousand dollars. I am not prepared
to say that this can be done year after
year, for we attempted the same thing
last year and failed, but I am sure
that no greater risk is incurred in
growing a crop by this method than
would be incurred under the ordinary
way, and I am confident that it can
be done with much less labor In pro
portion to results.
When to Grind Feed For Stock.
The following concise advice from a
recent book on feeding by Prof. Henry
of Wisconsin, a recognized authority
on the subject, is commended: "Thia
subject is a difficult one to discuss
owing to the great variety of condi
tions existing as to both grain and
animals. Directions are here given
whlci may serve to guide the feeder
in his practice. For horses which are
out of the stable during the day and
worked hard, all grain, with the pos
sible exception of oats should be
ground. For those at extremely hard
work, all grain should be ground
and mixed with chaffed hay.
For idle horses oats or corn should
not be ground, nor need the hay or
straw be chaffed. A cow yielding a
large flow of milk should be regarded
as a hard working animal and her feed
prepared accordingly. Fattening steers
and pigs may be crowded more rapidly
with meal than with whole grain,
though there is more danger attend
ant upon its use. Sheep worth feed
ing can always grind their own grain.
In general. Idle animals and those
having ample time for mastication,
rumination and digestion do noc need
tLeir grain or roughage prepared as
carefully as do those with only limited
time for these essential operations.
Experiments quite generally show in
creased gains from grinding grain, but
in many cases they are not sufficient
to pay the cost of grinding."
Large Versus Small Pastures.
Prof. W. A. Henry: The subject of
large or small pastures is frequently
discussed. The majority of experi
enced American feeders favor a single
large range rather than numerous
small pastures. Grasses, both in va
riety and quality, are never quite the
same over the whole of a large pas
ture, and cattle soon detect the slight
differences, and satisfy their desire
for variety by ranging from one spot
to another. In large pastures the hab
its of the animals become regular, and
it is interesting to study their move
ments. The herd will be found in the
morning on one side of the valley,
feeding on the more abundant vegeta
tion. Later, 83 the sun's heat Increas
es they appear on the hillside, where
there is a movement of air and where
the grasses are shorter, but more nu
tritious. At noon they are to be seen
resting In the shade at still another
point This regularity in grazing cer
tainly conduces to comfort and quiet
and Is of importance to profitable re
turns. Where the pastures are cut up
into several lots, the fresh bite of
rank herbage which comes with each
change leads to irregularity and un
rest, 'thus reducing the gains.
Skim Milk for Fish.
The proprietor of a creamery In
Kansas has a fish pond near his cream
ery and he has noticed that the fish
seem to be very fond of curd. He, there
fore, inquires whether it would bo
more profitable to feed this curd to
fish, which are worth 10 cents per
pound, or to feed it to calves and pigs.
We are not aware of any specific ex
periments having been made to deter
mine this question, but as an original
proposition, we should be inclined to
the opinion that the curd could not
be put to any more profitable use than
feeding it to the fish. Of course,
there should be some care exercised
and a very close watch kept to ascer
tain whether this could be used as a
sole diet, or whether the health of the
fish demanded something in addition.
There is n- reason to suppose that the
curd would give any unpleasant re
sults in the matter of flavor or tex
ture. We can readily understand, how
ever, that it should never be fed in
greater amounts than the fish would
consume readily, as otherwise the sur
plus or refuse might decay and render
the water unhealthy. Hoards Dairy
man. Beware of Poor Cottonseed Meat.
Of late the practice has become
common of grinding the cottonseed
hulls with the meal and making a very
inferior product to be sold at a little
lower price than prime meal, says a
bulletin oi the Missouri State Board of
Agriculture. If the meal has any
ground hulls or black specks in it. or
if it is offered at less than S25 or $26
laid down at your station in car lots
this year it may be taken for granted
that it is not prime meal and that it is
either adulterated or stale. A sample
recently sent to the station for exam
ination by a feeder in southern Mis
souri showed on analysis to be nearly
one-half hulls and to have a value of
9.bout -V6 per ton on the basis of $25
for prime meal. Good meal has a
bright yellow color, free from black
specks or cotton fiber; a fresh clean
smell and a pleasant taste. If in
clined to be lumpy or if it shows any
evidence of having started to mold or
is dark in color, reject it.
When the church is an arbor of rest
for the rich it cannot be a harbor
for the refuge of the wrecked. Ram's
Horn.
There Is little glory in a heavy
weight's victory over a featherweight
champion.
:r case ef em Eating.
A writer ia an unidentified exchange
says: I have a curious case of egg
eating now in my yards. A few weeks
ago it began to happen regularly that
some ef the eggs ia two adjoiaiag
nests ia one corner of ono of the pens
were broken and eaten late in the
afternoon, the eggs net broken being
very much daubed up, ad -e aests
torn to pieces. It was never done
early In the day. and if eggs wero
gathered about 3 or 4 o'clock thero
was no trouble. As soon as I had an
opportunity I set a watch for the cul
prit aad caught a two-year-old aea
in the act She was shut ia a small
pen occasionally used for sitters until
an opportunity to dress her occurred.
The next evening when I came home
I discovered that she had laid on the
floor, but had paid no attention to the
egg. I put In a nest box. and left
her there for a few days. She laid
almost daily, and never disturbed the
nest or egg.
There was one hen Identity nu
known which, instead of laying in
the house, laid among some raspberry
bushes beside a stone wall at one side
of the yard. As no eggs were laid
there while this hen was shut up. the
conclusion was reached that she was
that hen. 1 .iking it for granted that
as she did -not molest her own eggs.
she was not a confirmed egg eater. I
returned her to the pen from which
she had been taken. The nest by the
wall again contained an egg almost
dally. For perhaps a week the nests
in the houses were not disturbed.
Then one day I came home late ia
the afternoon to find those same two
nests all torn up. Next day I came
earlier and caught this same hen in
the act
Again I shut her up intending to
kill her this time in an unused dog
house, putting a couple of slats over
the opening. She laid here the next
day and the day following, and did
not attempt to eat her egg. So as a
final test I put a few eggs in the aest
In the pen where the breeding hens
are kept, and put her in the yard. In
less than ten minutes she had found
her way to this nest, had broken the
eggs and was back In the dog house.
This time she gets no reprieve. But
why doesn't she break her own eggs?
The Fat of Fowls.
To properly fatten a fowl Is a
science. That fowl is not properly
fattened which has a large amount of
fat In layers under the skin and
around the Intestines. Around the
Intestines It may be. but the flesh
should be rather permeated by fat
than surrounded by fat The flesh
should be evenly infiltrated by fat
Fat should not show through the skin,
nor should there be any fat under the
skin to show no matter how thin the
skin may be. In France a well-fattened
bird is one that has a good sup
ply of flesh over the back. When that
is attained the buyers feel certain that
the breast meat is in good condition,
as fat more readily accumulates on
the back than on the breast To fat
ten birds properly requires food rich
in nitrogen as well as carbo-hydrates.
It also requires some attention to
breeding, as the quality to fatten prop
erly must be inbred to a very- con
siderable extent As yet we have
done little along the line of determin
ing what breeds fatten most perfectly.
Probably in each breed will be found
strains of fowls that have the desired
qualities. Before long, experimenta
tion will witnout doubt be made along
this line. The result should greatly
improve the quality of the fattened
fowls we see in our markets.
Moist Air in Incubators.
The incubator which will furnish
its air nearly or quite saturated with
moisture, so as to prevent drying of
the embryo at any stage, will prevent
the larger proportion of the deaths in
the last stages oi incubation, and fur
nish large and stronger chicks to be
brooded, says a bulletin of the Rhode
Island Station. It would seem to be
preferable to allow the heated air to
pass over a wlcking or cloth saturated
with moisture just before or upon en
tering the incubator. It is doubtful
whether saturation of the air of the
room will ever be fully satisfactory
on account of the atmospheric
changes, although much may be done
by keeping the room closed. Where
comparatively tight, unventilated
rooms are used, the continual burning
of lamps oes far toward using up the
oxygen and raising the temperature
outside the incubators, so that more
moisture is necessary. To wait for
the heated air to take up necessary
moisture from pans within the incu
bator, seems 'o subject the eggs also
to tho same influence, and to permit
their moisture to be taken up. All
tendencies of this kind will be avoided
w.en the air is admitted saturated
with moisture, or nearly so, after be
ing heated.
Salt as an Egg Preservative.
Fine table salt, such as is sold at
ordinary grocery stores, was used,
says a bulletin of the Rhode Island
Experiment Station. Salt to the depth
of two inches was placed in the stone
jar, and on May 18. 1899. twenty Leg
horn eggs, laid during the five days
May 12th to 16th, were placed in the
jar, small ends down, not touching
each other, and closely packed in the
salt Tho jar remained untouched in
the cellar closet to the end of the
test Result: Good. 0 per cent:
bad, 100 per cent. On April 4. 1900.
these eggs were examined and their
contents had somewhat shrunken, the
air cells being greatly enlarged. The
whites were orange tinted in some
cases and slightly darkened in others.
Severn! used as droDneil eecs had a
rather flat taste. The whites of sev
eral subjected to the oqg beater
frothed up nearly as well a3 the
whites of fresh eggs. Both the whites
and the yJks of these eggs had a
taste similar to that of smoked her
ring, and could not therefore he said
to have kept well. For preserving
eggs for a few months, however, this
method may be recommended. It is
simple, cheap and for short periods
reasonably effective.
Percentage of Fall Chicks Savea.
A correspondent of the Farmers
Review requests information as to the
proportion of fall incubator chicks
usually saved. We pas3 the query to
the readers that are raising incubator
chicks in the fall. Let us hear from
them as to their experiences in the
saving of the chicks hatched at this
time of year. Ho" does the number
compare with chicks hatched in the
spring of the year?
The loud call of duty may be
drowned by the soft cooings of In-fataatlon."
ones
The keeping attty of hatter de
pends very greatly on the water la
which it is washed. If the water looks
clear R is generally svpposed to he
pare. Bat the microscope has shewn
that the water that looks as clear aa
crystal to frequently the ahMlng place
of disease germs aa well as of f ermeat
germs of various kinds. We predict
that the time will come when butter
made in our first-class creameries will
he washed In sterilised water. There
have been numerous cases where but
ter made under highly scientific eon
ditioas has gone oft flavor in a short
time and subsequent iavestigatloas
has shown that the apparently pure
water in which it waa washed was
the cause. In the home of the farmer
the well ia usually depended on to fur
nish water for washing butter as well
as for other uses. Too oftea the well
Is dirty from different causes. We
have seen such wells where the water
actually waa odorous with decaying
animal life. Yet after the water be
came tainted it was still used for
weeks by the family. One such well
on being cleaned out was found to
contain great masses of 'dead angle
worms. It is no unusual thing for
frogs aad even mice to get into wells
and become decayed before their pres
ence is detected. Even when nothlag
of this kiad exists the water may aot
be pure enough to use for the washing
of butter. Germs of many kinds cap
able of reproducing themselves In the
butter may be ia the water. It is an
easy matter for the farmer to boil
water used for the washing of butter.
This is advisable certainly when long
keeping butter is desired. It would
not be amiss to use sterilized water at
all times. Could we but bring it into
general use in the washing of butter
the spread of disease would be pre
vented in some degree. It has been
shown that even in butter typhoid fev
er and other disease germs have been
carried.
Success With Gathered Cream.
S. E. Oaks in an address to Wiscon
sin buttermakers said:
If a gathered creamery Is run right. -and
it can be if men of the right kind
are at the head of it the first thing is
a good number one buttermaker, and
in picking out a good number oae
buttermaker do not pick out a man
who, when you go into his test room,
you will find his sample jars all
smeared up with cream from the top
to the bottor. 6o that anyone cannot
see through them. I would not want
that kind of a. man because if he is
dirty and slack in the test room aad
with his sampling jars he will be
slack with his other work, and if you
get one that is clean and understands
making butter, and the creamery is
run right and you use box churns
and wheel workers so that you will
know how much salt you want to uso
in your butter and will not have to
guess at it, I think the best grade oi
butter can be made and get the high
est market price at a gathered cream
ery; but if a combined churn is used
in a gathered creamery you do not
know anything about how much salt
to use, but I will admit they are all
right for a lazy man. I will say that
if a gathered creamery is run right
and it can be, the patrons will get 'a
larger profit than they can from any
separator factory- It should be a co
operative creamery and the overrun,
or profit, should be going back to the
patrons and making them better sat
isfied than If it were going into tho
hands of an individual.
An Error That Never Dies.
The old Idea that food affects the
fat content of milk seems to be one
that dies hard. A recent bulletin of
the Chicago health department said:
"There is all the more need of keep
ing milk sweet at the present time,
since the frequent rains have made
pastures so rank and watery that a
much larger proportion than usual of
the milk supply is deficient in butter
fat and other nutrient qualities. Ful
ly one-twelfth of all the samples now
examined in the laboratory are below
the ordinance standard in this re-
spect. and a large number of suits
have been begun against the venders
of tills poor milk." Who the man is
that is responsible for the bulletin wo
do cot know. It serves as a good ex
cuse for the men that wish to water
their milk. They go into court and
plead that the water got Into their
milk by way of the udder of the cows,
and "on account of too much rain."
Dirt in Butter Cannot Be Hidden.
I am not of the opinion that it takes
as much skill to make a pound of flour
as it does to make a pound of butter,
neither do I know of any other article
of food that a little neglect in its man
ufacture would cause it to deteriorate
so fast The interior of a flour mill. It
not perfectly clean would not perhaps
injure the quality of the flour; at any
rate the consumer would probably
never know the difference, but with
butter it is different The consumer
is being educated to tell whether the
milk and cream was perfectly clean.
from which the butter was mado, and
when any impurities get into the milk,
no known method will eliminate them;
they will remain until the butter is
consumed. So for this reason It takes
more care and skill to make butter L
than any other article of food that 1 j.
know of. and everything must be per
fect in the creamery. F. A. Lelghton.
Wells as Creamery Catch Basins.
Every once in a while a creamery
company sinks a tubular well to carry
off the waste water, but in no case so .
far as we have heard has such a well
given satisfaction, and in most cases .
the waste water contaminated the
water in the well used for the cream
ery. and In two cases caused serious
trouble, says the Dairy Record. Ont
creamery, after running the waste
water in such a well some distance
from the creamery was compelled to
draw water from a neighbor for two
months, and the pump in the cream
cry was kept going day and night dur
ing that time before the water could
be used again. Their experiment
should suffice for others, but still oth
ers try the same scheme, usually tc
their sorrow.
The Polish fowls are distinguished
by a crest or tuft of feathers oa ta .'
top of the head, which adds much tc '
their beauty. They are nen-sitten -and
prolific egg layers. They art -sensitive
to wet aad cold aad neec
warm, dry quarters.
Matrimony has spoiled many friend
snips.
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