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mountain towered upon our
right, far oa the river lay.
And over oa the wooded height we
held their lines at bay.
At last the muttering guns were still;
the day died slow and wan;
At last the gunners' pipes did fill, the
sergeant's yarns began.
When, as the. wind a moment blew
aside the fragrant flood
Oar brierwoods raised, within our
view a little maiden stood,
A tlay tot of 6 or 7. from fireside
freak she seemed,
(Of swell a little one 'in heaven on
soldier often dreamed.)
Aad as we stared, her little hand went
to her early head
la grave salute. "And who are you?"
at length the sergeant said.
?And Where's your home?" he growled
again. She lisped out, "Who is
me?
Why, don't you know? I'm little Jane,
the Pride of Battery B.
My home? Why, that was burned
away, aad pa and ma are dead;
Aad so I ride the guns all day along
with Sergt Ned.
Aad I've a dram that's not a toy, a
cap with feathers, too;
And I march beside the drummer boy
on Sundays at review.
But now our Dacca's all give out, the
men can't have their smoke,
Aad so they're cross why, even Ned
won't play with 'me and Joke.
And the big colonel said to-day I hate
to hear him swear
He'd give a leg for a good pipe like
the Tank had over there.
Good Effect Caused by One Mem Who
Stood Etect in the Ftvce of the Enemy
"That story of the shot that carried
away Whitman's rations at Kenesaw,"
said the captain, "reminds me of a
shot at Chickamauga. On the first
day of the fight I was in the front line
across the Lafayette road, and was
kneeling on one knee steadying my
gun by resting my left elbow on my
left knee. I was as unexcited and de
liberate as ever in my life, but just as
I was ready to fire a shot went
through my slouch hat above my left
ear, the sound resembling that made
by striking a pumpkin with a stone
I was a good deal surprised, but I
thought at once, 'If the rebs are shoot
ing that low, I wili stand up and see
where the bullets come from.' I
found out pretty soon, for the rebels
brought up their supports and our
brigade fell back fighting.
"I stood up again under very pecu
liar circumstances in the battle of Per
ryvllle. Ky. In the afternoon when
we were ordered to advance and occu
py the line held by the Thirty-Sixth Il
linois, just as we reached the brow of
the hill on the right of the Springfield
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Ex-Senevtor Mavnderson Writes - History
of His "Twin Revolvers' During the War
"The Twin Seven-Shooters" is the
title of a story by ex-Senator Charles
F. Maaderson of Nebraska, which
Is soon to be published in New York
in book form. 'It is founded on an
interesting episode of the senator's
service in the civil war.
The "twins" themselves repose In
a magnificent mahogany case at Man
derson's elegant home in Omaha.
They are of unique construction and
handsomely mounted in silver. They
were presented to him by his regi
ment. As there was danger of cap
ture he packed his revolvers in some
supplies that were on the way to
camp from the sanitary commission,
and which were going in charge of a
convoy. He himself made the trip in
safety, but oa reaching his regiment
he learned that the supplies, and. of
course, his precious revolvers with
them, had been captured by Gen.
Wheeler's cavalry.
Twenty years after the war CoL
Manderson received a letter from a
in Iowa, informing him that he
Claims the Phrase, "I Fights Nit Sigel."
Originated in a Court Room in Missouri
"The poem of Grant P. Robinson,
1 Fights Mit Sigel,' reminds me of
the time when the name of Sigel was
despised in Missouri," said an ex
confederate living la New York who
was chased by the men who "fit mit
Sigel" in that state. "It was the
belief in old Missouri that Pap Price,
as his soldiers called him, was in
vincible. When we heard that a
Dutchman named Sigel was in the
field oa the Union side we Johnny
Rebs laughed until we were too sore
to march. Anything in camp that
was no good was called Sigel. When
ever we got into a country where the
people were wavering between Se
cesh and the Union we brought the
hesitators arouad by asking them how
they liked a country that had to hire
a Dutchman to tight its battles. This
started the laugh and often won a
recruit
"Finally we went up against it in
the battle of Pea Ridge. It was the
first square-toed fighting we had
done and, according to history, we
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the Heroes
Notable among the colored heroes
of the revolution was brave Austin
Dabney of Georgia. His owner crav
enly refused to shoulder a flintlock,
but the negro offered to enlist and.
after some discussion, the officers en
rolled him. He was one of the heroic
band who faced the charge of the 71st
Highland regiment at Blackstock's
farm, and turned the crack troops of
Europe In open field, with rifle and
musket against the bayonet and at
Kettle creek Dabney was severely
wounded. After the war he was pen
sioned by the United States govern
ment and received grants of land
from Georgia. For gallant service in
Stune Set off Resolutions
The late Gen. Franz Sigel had the
-JagriiT felicity jot writing resolutions
3 the death of Gen. Joe Hooker,
twenty-three years ago. which were
o eminently appropriate to his own
saieer that the association of the
Eighth New Jersey volunteers.
"Honker's old guard." for which they
were written, adopted them again,
with only the change of name, in boa
x of Gen. Sigel himself.
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organization.
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BATTERY B."
And so I thought when beat the dram,
and the big guns were still,
I'd creep beneath the tent and cone
out here across the hill
And beg. good Mister Yankee Men,
you'd give me some 'Lone Jack.'
Please do; when we get some again.
I'll sorely bring it back.
Indeed I will, for Ned says he If I
do what I say
111 be a general yet. maybe, and ride
a prancing bay."
We brimmed her tiny apron o'er; you
should have heard her laugh
As each man from his scanty store
shook out a generous half.
To kiss the little mouth stooped down
a score of grimy men.
Until the sergeant's husky voice said,
"Tention, squad!" and then
We gave her escort, till good-night the
pretty waif we bid.
And watched her toddle out of sight
or else 'twas tears that hid
Her tiny form not turned about a
man. nor spoke a word,
Till after a while a far. hoarse shout
upon the wind we heard!
We sent it back, then cast sad eyes
upon the scene around:
A baby's hand had touched the 'ties
that brothers once had bound.
That's all save when the dawn awoke
again, the work of hell,
And through the sullen clouds of
smoke the screaming missiles fell.
Our general often rubbed his glass,
and marveled much to see
Not a single shell that whole day fell
in the camp of Battery B.
F. H. Gassaway.
and Perryville pike, we came into the
zone of musketry fire. The boys were
doing the scrooching act, and I was a
keen first in the business. I glanced
to my right and my captain caught
my eye and called me by name, say
ing, 'Stand up, Blank, and be a man.'
"I stood up and walked' straight as
any soldier could until we halted.
Years afterward at one of our regi
mental reunions I related the story,
and my captain was sitting in the au
dience directly in front of me. I
asked him to tell me why he singled
me out at such a time and ordered me
to stand up. He rose and said he re
membered the incident very well, and
explained that he spoke to me be
cause I was the youngest man In the
company, the baby In years, of all the
boys, and In the belief that I would
obey him without question, and that
my going forward in line erect would
influence the others. He added that
his theory was correct, for when the
company halted directly in front ol
the enemy, every man was standing
erect."
had in his possession a revolver in
scribed with his name. He had got
it from a southern soldier. CoL Man
derson journeyed to the writer's home
and there joyfully received the
weapon.
His story of the recovery of the
other "twin" eight years later is thus
told by himself:
"In the cloak room of the senate
one day Senator Pugh introduced to
me an Alabamian, a typical southern
colonel.
"'Suh.' said the colonel to me, 'I
believe I have something which will
interest you.'
"And he handed me a revolver
bearing my name engraved upon the
handle. I grasped it eagerly. It was
the other pistol.
"The colonel said he got it from
one of his soldiers, and had used it
during the remainder of the war. It
had thus fought under two flags."
The weather man is mixed in his
dates.
were not in It We didn't sit up In
ramp much after that singing songs
and cracking jokes about Sigel.
"But the saying, 'he fit mit Sigel'
originated, I think, in the court of a
justice of the peace in Missouri who
was a Union man. An old soldier!
was arraigned before him on the I
charge of stealing hogs. The evi-!
dence was going gainst the prisoner
pretty hot and the old J. P. was
scratching his head and biting the
ends off his whiskers until his beard
looked like a hedge fence after a rab
bit chase. The soldier, who couldn't
speak much, if any, English, was put
on the stand and muttered something
the justice didn't understand.
"'What's your client trying to
say?'" asked the justice of the coun
try lawer.
"The lawer replied of course the
lawyer did not know "he says he fit
mit Sigel.'
"Then he didn't steal the hog
said the justice. 'Prisoner's dis
charged.' "
Foremost Among
of the R-evolutJoncLrv W&r
the field he was freed by an act of
the state legislature, and his value
paid from the public funds. Grateful
to the white family who nursed him
when wounded, he earned money to
educate their eldest son, and wept
with joy when the youth was admitted
to the bar. Riding into Savannah to
draw his pension he humbly fell to the
rear of the white men he bore com
pany. Gov. James Jackson, himself
the owner of many slaves, saw Dab
ney rushed out shook his compaalon
in arms by the hand, and had him
lodged in his "quarters" cr row of
houses where the servants lived.
Leslie's Monthly.
Does Dutv
for Gen. Hooker and Gen. Fmnz Sigel
rapidly, and is composed of those who
served in the Philippine Islands and
China. Comamnder Robert S. Hans
bury reports having organized contin
gents in Altoona, Montgomery. Ala.;
Bismarck. Dakota: Allegheny City.'
Boston, Wilmington aad Camden, and
that others are being organized in
several states. The annual meeting
will be held in 1903, at which time
there-will be a reception, election of
officers aad banquet
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The oddest Industry In the metropo
lis is that of a succoth carpenter, who
finds employment one week of "the
year in the Ghetto among the ortho-.
dox Jews. His wont Is done in the
fortnight which precedes the Feast of
the Tabernacles and consists In build
ing odd little booths known , as suc
coths In the back yards jot the tene
ment houses. The feast of the taber
nacle is supposed to commemorate
the time during which the children of
Israel wandered in the wilderness,
and probably also their sojourn, in
the land of Egypt. During this period
they lived more or less in the open,
which fact Is symbolized by the booth
having no roof, or else a covering of
evergreens and bulrushes. According
to another school, the booths repre
sent the time when the Israelites
came in such numbers that they were
unable to get into the temple, and
so built temporary shelters around
the sacred edifice.
The succoth should be boxlike In
shape, not less than six feet in height,
six feet long, and four feet wide. It
should be made of the cheapest and
flimsiest building material to indicate
what it represents. Some of the
builders take pride in making the
structures as ramshackle as possible.
Others use the poorest materials, but
saw and fit them with so much skill
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Although the possibility of breeding
lion and tiger hybrids in captivity has
long been known, the results of the
experiments have not been very suc
cessful, the animals rarely reaching
to their full size and development.
More recently Mr. Hagenbeck has ob
tained some extraordinary results, and
has supplied me with particulars. One
is that of a mature animal which was
born on May II, 1897, and it is now
rather more than five years old. It is
a male. Its height across the withers
as it stands erect is 45 Inches, English
measurement. Its length from the
nose to the tip of the tail is 10 feet 2
inches, a length which exceeds that
of a full grown lion. In May during
the present year it weighed 220 kilo
grams, equal to 467 English pounds.
It Is an exceedingly fine, well-grown
animal, showing slightly the stripes
of the tiger, but it is not furnished
with a mane like a lion, and as this
appendage usually appears in the lion
when three years old, it may be pre
sumed that no mane will ever be pres
ent in the hybrid. Mr. Hagenbeck has
not yet succeeded in rearing any off
spring from it This animal is de
scribed by him as larger in size than
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Society That Was at One Time Very Popular
Among the Indians.
The fondness of the American In
dian for masks or false faces is held
by a student of Indian lore to prove
that secret 'societies exist among the
red men as among the whites. Accord
ing to Iroquois belief, certain spirits,
whose entity is comprehended in ugly
visages, have the power to inflict bod
ily ailments and to cause diseases to
afflict their people. To counteract
their evil designs, the "Society of the
False Faces" is maintained among
the pagan Iroquois, in order to ap
pease the evil spirits from whom they
take their name, as well as to effect
a charm against disease and to cure
others. When a candidate is initiated
into this strange society, the chief
"False Face" thus addresses him:
"Brothers, listen! Now you must
know that we did not make this cus
tom. The beginning is from Niyoh.
our creator, who is above the false
faces. A member of the False Faces
must go about among the people in
the spring and fall to keep them from
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ARE NOT NEW DISCOVERIES.
California Gold and Tuberculosis Bac
illus Known of Old.
A student pouring over an old book
of voyages in the library of congress
learned that gold was discovered in
California, and much was written
about that discovery nearly a century
and a quarter before the "days of old,
the days of gold, and the days of '49."
One Capt George Shelocke. a naviga
tor, published in 1726 an account of a
voyage around the world, in which he
told of the great gold fields of Cali
fornia, but his books had little cir
culation, apparently, and his discov
ery passed without credit Otherwise
there is small doubt but that the Eng
lish would have possessed themselves
of what is now the whole Pacific
coast of the United States. Another
interesting paragraph was found In
"Niles Register," published in Balti
more, November 5, 1825, clipped from
and credited to "a London paper:"
"It has lately been discovered by Mr.
Rogers' microscope that the morbid
secretions ir. the human subject
known as the pus of consumption,
and of cancer, etc., are actually
masses of animalcule." This some
what antedates the "bacillus tuber
culosis" discovery of Dr. Koch in
1882.
FIND MANY BOGUS PENNIES.
New York's Subtreaaury Discovered
117,000 of Them in 1501.
In the minor coin division of the
United States subtreasury in New
York of 42,000,000 pennies received
there in 1901 over 117,000 were coun
terfeit; of the J2.025.0C0 received In
minor coins nickels, 3-cent pieces
and pennies $1,231 were in counter
feit pieces. Although the Baltimore
subtreasury has no record of the
amounts of coins detected here, be
cause of the fact that the United
States secret service men collect all
of these coins from this city and take
them to Washington for experimental
purposes and for the purpose of de
tecting wfcstker or not any new coun
terfeits are being circulated, it is
known that but comparatively few
spurious coins find their way into
the local office of the treasury.
About 15,050.000 pennies are handl
ed by the local subtreasury each
year, and of these a remarkably
small percentage have. been found to
be of no value. It was stated at the
that the finished succoth Is neat aad
attractive. There Is bat little com
mercial element in theindustry. The
employer supplies the., wood or the
builder sells It to Urn at cost, while
for the work of setting lt.vp ale price
is nearly always fifty cents. Charit
able Hebrews will cftsn employ, two
or three builders and pay "each the
same as the rest.
Here during the festival week the
family takes Its meals and assembles
every day for prayer. It Is not at all
unpleasant-ln fair weather, but when.
as often happens, it rains, the situa
tion la decidedly uncomfortable. On
a rainy day symbolism vanishes, as
rain is practically unknown in the
stony desert where the Israelites
wandered ages ago.
Still more suggestive is the way In
which the prayers are said. Instead
of kneeling or of clasping the hands,
the ono who prays holds a fruit,
usually a pomegranate, in- one hand
and a bulrush or water reed in the
other. At the end of the prayer each
of these is shaken twice and then
handed over' to the next member of
the family. The water reeds' are sup
posed to commemorate the finding of
Moses in the bulrushes, and the fruit
the promise of the Lord to give 'them
a land flowing with milk and honey.
New York Evening Post
Half-Tiger
any lion or tiger. He speaks of it as
a monster, and says that the two
young ones, which are now only thir
teen months old, are larger than any
pure-bred lion or tiger of the same
age, and he thinks if they progress
satisfactorily they will grow to a
greater size than the large male.
The two younger ones, which were
a year old on the 28th of last April,
are both males, and show the tiger
markings rather more 'distinctly than
the older animal. In addition to pho
tographs of these Mr. Hagenbeck has
sent me another of two young lion and
tiger hybrids, male and female, born
April 20 in the present year, twelve
months after the others. It shows the
two little ones lying across a small
terrier, which has furnished them with
a small supply of milkthe remainder
being given to them by a bottle. The
same terrier was the nurse for the
two larger ones. These animate, thus
bred in what may be termed domesti
cation, become exceedingly tame and
docile. W. B. Tegetemeier, in the
Field.
It's tco bad that some things seem
too good to be true.
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sickness, and must visit sick people at
all times when called upon. This is
all I have to say."
In a report made to the New York
university in 1852 Lewis H. Morgan
thus describes the workings of this
curious order: "When any one was
sick with a complaint within the range
of their healing powers, and dreamed
that he saw a 'false face,' this signified
that he would be cured. A feast was
then prepared, the false faces' ap
peared and marched In Indian file,
each one wearing a mask, and carry
ing a turtle shell rattle in the hand.
On entering the house of the invalid
they first stirred the ashes upon the
hearth and then sprinkled hot ashes
over the patient until his head and
hair were covered, ending with the
sick person marching around the room
with his queer visitors. The mysteri
ous callers were then presented with
food, which they took away and ate
in secret, as they never unmasked
themselves before the people.
subtreasury yesterday that the prin
cipal trouble, as far as counterfeits
arc concerned, has been with nickels.
Not more than about 500 of these are
received in a year, and receipts of
pennies have been proportionately
less.
The man accustomed to the work
spots a bad penny in the fraction of
a second. Counting at a speed almost
too fast for the untrained eye to fol
low, he seldom, if ever, misses one
that is off color or that lacks the
sharpness of outline in the modeling
of a genuine one. -
The expert however, is seldom able
to tell you what are the things that
mark for him a particular coin as
spurious. His senses are so highly
trained to the work that he differen
tiates and chooses almost instinctive
ly. It Is merely a matter of unremit
ting vigilance and long experienced
Baltimore American.
MILLIKEN WAS NOT JOKING
Characteristic Anecdote Told of En
terprising Merchant
Many good stories are told In the
Worth street dry goods district about
that stalwart man Seta Milliken, who
has now gone to his long home. One
of the best Is related by A. D. Juil
Hard in his inimitable style. It was
during a money famine, and Seth Mil
liken was dining one noonday with a
few fellow merchants. The conversa
tion naturally turned upon the finan
cial problem, and Mr. Milliken gave
as his opinion that times were not as
hard as most people., thought they
were.
"Well," said one of the diners. "I
don't agree with you. Why, I'm will
ing to bet $1C0 that you. Mr. Milliken,
with all your resources, couldn't raise
$100,000 in cash within the next two
hours."
"I'll take that bet" said Mr. Mini
ken, ane within the time specified he
exhibited a certified check for the
amount designated, and demanded
payment of the hundred dollars.
"Why. I was only fooling." said the
surprised friend.
"You may have been, but I wasn't''
came the reply. "I fool with chil
dren' sometimes, but with men never."
The friend paid the betPhiladel
phia Ledger.
It's wtiat a woman doesn't kaow
about a man that causes her to have
a good opinion of him.
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Stockmen and others seldom stop to
Bonder the relation of the lungs of
arm aalmala to the services they
ender. Yet It is believed, that size
of the lungs has much to do with the
laying on of fat, as well as of the
consuming of fat in the exercise of
the animaL The greatest conserver of
fat la the hog. and he has the small
est lungs. We find It cheaper to turn
food into fat by way of the hog than
by the use of any other farm animaL
The smaller the lungs the less car
bonic acid gas they throw off, and the
leas carbonic acid gas they throw off
the loss fat do they consume In the
creation of that gas. The hog la a
fat producer, because he haa no need
of exercising much and therefore no
need of using up much energy. It
would perhaps be better to say that
he haa no need of creating that en
ergy, which would simply go to waste.
We could not if we would, produce
fat cheaply by using the racehorse
as an instrument He has very huge
lungs, and those lungs change fat into
carbonic acid gas very rapidly. The
racer, of all animals, requires a well
balanced ration, and his allowance of.
carbo-hydrates must not be reduced
below a certain amount for out of
this part of the ration he must create
energy. The proteins are indeed neces
sary to repair the wasted muscles, but
the carbohydrates are the coal from
which is created the heat to drive the
machine. Oats are, therefore, a most
excellent ration for horses, as they
apply protein and carbohydrate ma
terial In about the right proportion.
The dairy cow and the beef steer
differ in their lung capacity or should
differ. The beef does not need lungs
correspondingly large with the dairy
cow. She must transform her car
bonaceous foods into milk and butter
fat while the steer nas only to store
up the surplus fat he can get out of
his food. He does not therefore
change fat Into carbonic acid gas as
rapidly as does the cow. Some cows
with very, large lung capacity remain
poor all the days of their lives, but
are most excellent machines for turn
ing food into valuable dairy products.
Farmers' Review.
Cocoa Hulls as a Stock Food.
The Pennsylvania Experiment Sta
tion haa recently received for exam
ination a sample of cocoa hulls of
fered for sale as a cattle food. This
la the first appearance of this material
in the Pennsylvania cattle-food mar
kets that has come to the station's
attention. The husk makes up 12 to
20 per cent of the entire bean, of
which the United States imports over
forty million pounds annually. These
hulls are used to a considerable ex
tent In preparing coatings of cheap
confectionery, and for making a cheap
drink. Their use as a cattle food has
been little studied. The sample re
ceived had a chocolate brown color
and the cocoa odor and flavor. It
contained about 13.5 per cent of pro
tein, 3.5 per cent of fat 15.5 per cent
of fiber and 51 per cent of nitrogen
free extract The protein sometimes
exceeds this amount Weigmann
found it tc we composed, to the ex
tent of 75 to 80 per cent of true al
buminoids, though caffein and theo
bromln, the alkaloids of the bean, are
also present The fat is quite diges
tible; Maercker found the protein di
gestible to the extent of 33 to 50 per
cent much less than In ordinary
grains; the nitrogen-free extract is
probably far less valuable than that
of our starchy seeds. Albert fed co
coa hull to steers. In quantities in
creasing from one to twenty pounds,
and found they soon were fond of it
and that its feeding value was Inter
mediate between that of. meadow hay
and wheat bran. It promises to be a
desirable addition to our list of. com
mercial feeding-stuffs, though not of
sufficiently high grade to warrant Its
purchase at a price. Wm. Frear, in
Farmers' Review.
Two Classes of Hogs.
A famous agriculturalist, when
asked what in his opinion was the
first and most important requisite in
the successful production of swine
aid: "A knowledge of what consti
tutes the perfect hog and the practical
application of the same In the swine
herd." No man ever gave utterance
to a truer statement A thorough
knowledge on the underlying prin
ciples relating to the breeding and
feeding of our domesticated animals
is also Indispensible. No man can af
ford to underestimate the value of
the same. They are, however, but
the means to an end. The success of
the sculpturlst and the painter Is
guided solely by the height of his
ideal and the nearness to which he ap
proaches the same. Just so with the
breeder of live stock, his success will
be determined largely by his standard
of excellence and the nearness to
which he approaches the same in his
breeding herd. The ultimate end of
the hog is the block. Thus the per
fect, or ideal hog is the one which
most nearly meets the demands of the
consumer. The butchers preference
is almost solely controlled by the de
mands of the market All markets do
not demand the same kind of hogs.
In some the bacon hog, so named be
cause of its long deep side, is pre
ferred; while in others the fat or lard
hog Is the most popular, especially
where the demand is for hams, broad
loins and fat backs. Thus in forming
an opinion as to 'the best type of
swine to breed, it Is well to keep the
requirements of these two markets in
mind. They have established for us
two very distinct market classes of
hog.
A Queer Ration for Calves.
No less a paper than the New Zeal
and Dairyman is advocating the use
of cod liver oil in the raising of
calves. It claims to have discovered
its efficacy as a partial ration. This
oil is fed with separator skim milk,
and is supposed to take the place cf
the cream that has been removed from
the milk in separating. The amount
to be fed each day is two liquid
sunces. -The oil costs about $1.25 per
gallon, which means'that the cost per
calf is about 2 cents per day. This Is
not an excessive cost ir it does the
work proposed. In the United States
we have many cheaper things, such
as' flax seed. In this country to put
calves on a partial ration of cod liver
oil would be to call into alliance the
corner drug store. We wiH wait to
see how the New Zcalanders succeed
before we take up with the novelty.
Possibly in a year the method wii!
have dropped out of sight
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Packed and Print Butter.
a census bulletin we take the
following: The quantity of butter
made at creameries haa been reported
under two heads "packed solid and
"printa or rolls." It appears that ot
all dreamery butter, 32,95,69t pounds.
or 78.1 per cent is packed In solid
form, and 91.1C9.95C pounds, or 21.7
per cent In prints or rolls. The totals
of these two forms In the several
states indicate differences in the mar
ket requirements and the local cus
toms as to preparing butter for ship
ment and sale. la the New England
states; the numerous cities and large
towns easy of access furnish markets
where butter can be sold directly to
retail dealers or consumers. For this
purpose It Is prepared in bricks, prints
or balls weighing a half pound or a
pound. Vermont excepted, the cream
eries of these states make twice as
much butter into prints as they pack
in solid form. In Rhode Island and
Connecticut with consuming markets
at their doors, eight pounds of cream
ery hatter is put into printa to every
pound packed. In Vermont on the
contrary, with little local demand and
the consequent necessity of shipping
away to market only about one-fourth
of the creamery butter Is made into
prints. In New York the practice has
alwaya been to pack butter solidly In
firkins, tubs, or boxes; and print
butter is rather exceptional in the
great market ot New York city. la
that state, therefore, four and a half
pounds of butter are packed to one
pound put In prints. The Philadel
phia market on the contrary, and
Pennsylvania markets In generaL
have always been noted for print but
ter; consequently it is not surprising
to find that the creameries of that
state report almost as much made Into
prints as the quantity solid packed.
From Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota
butter must be sent long distances to
market and naturally goes mainly In
bulk; less than one-eighth of the
creamery product of those states Is
made into prints. South Dakota, even
more remote from market packs 99
per cent of its creamery butter in solid
form. But upon the Pacific coast
local customs favor butter In rolls of
two pounds weight accordingly in the
states of California. Oregon, and
Washington, three-fourths of all the
butter made at creameries is reported
as in prints or rolls. Fanners' Re
view. Around the Dairy.
Every employe of the dairy should
be quick, gentle, regular and cleanly
In his habits. A cow abominates an
unclean maiL. Tobacco in all Its forms
Is obnoxious to every department of
dairying. All the work about the
herd should be done with the utmost
system and regularity; a fixed time
for doing everything and everything
done on time. Nothing has been pro
duced which begins to compare with
the human hand as a milking ma
chine. Cleanliness and regularity are
the first requisites in good milking.
Next quietness and gentleness should
be accompanied by quickness. A fast
milker will get more buttexfat out of
the cow than a slow one. This Is not
theory, it is a proved fact The but
terfat cornea from the cow. but it Is
the expert milker who gets it It is
certain that change of milkers, man
ner or time of milking, Irregularity,
or any disturbance at milking time
may be expected to cause loss of but
terfat In milk. The loss may not be.
great, but it Is measurable in butter
or money. In short It pays, and pays
well, to have the milking done fn the
very best manner and by the very best
milkers to be found. Chicago Dairy
Produce.
Keeping a Record.
At a Wisconsin farmers' institute D.
B. Foster said: In N the most con
venient place on each side by my
stable I hang a spring scale and very
conveniently Is placed a lead pencil
and a card (about 5xl5 inches for
ten cows, small as possible, so as to be
handy), ruled and cross-ruled, to make
one square for each cow for each day
of the month. The weight of the
morning milking for each cow is put
in the top of her particular square
and the night weight underneath. The
scale, pencil and record must be con
venient and the work of recording
will soon become a fixed habit just cz
much as the brushing off of the cow's
udder, or any one of the thousand
things we do without ever thinking of
the work it is nor the time it takes.
At the end of each month a new card
replaces the old one, which goes to the
house to be figured np and entered In
the yearly record book, so as to show
just how many pounds of milk each
cow has given each month since she
came to my dairy.
Blanketing Cows.
From time to time blanketing of
cows is advocated. This has been
tried in various parts of the world
In the United States, Europe and Aus
tralia. It has several times been re
ported on quite favorably. Yet it al
ways drop's out of sight again In this
country. Some of the Dutch fanners
have the habit well fixed. One of tho
leading butter makers in Wisconsin
has in past years followed the prac
tice of covering his cows. Generally
the covering is dene to keep off the
cold, but sometimes to keep off flics.
Covers for the latter purpose are of
course too light to be of use in cold
weather, and if covering were exten
sively practiced summer and winter
it would require two sets of covers.
For the present there is little likeli
hood that American dairymen will
take kindly to the blanketing idea
certainly not so with those that be
lieve a wire fence is all the protection
a dairy cow needs in winter.
Vigor a Valuable Quality in Swine.
Prof. W. J. Kennedy says: In judg
ing swine, the butcher's preference
should be adhered to very closely. The
profit in the production of hogs large
ly lies in successfully catering to the
butcher. There are some other points,
however, which must be considered in
this connection. The evidences of
constitution and vigor are points on
which the butcher cannot realise prof
it To the feeder and breeder, howev
er, they- are of the utmost importance.
No man can afford to underestimate
the value of constitution and vigor in
the bos. They are the best specifics as
yet discovered to ward off the ravages
of hog cholera.
A boy wouldn't be happy in heaven
unless he could rue the risk of break
ing his neck.
Wise
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It Is little short of marvellous to
travel through the country
the pathetic attempts made to obtain
meadows and pastures on soils that
are quite devoid of available plant
food. Aa examplea, witness the gul
lied hillsides, rocky slopes as
tain plateaus, to whoso barren
moisture 'and humus are
Remembering Mow very small the
seeds of grass and clover are aai
what a little mite of plant food m
locked up in each seed and for how
short a space of time it can supply
the needs of the plant. It does not
seem strange that numerous failures
occur when you consider that those
tiny little plants are seeded on land
in such bad physical condition that
the lumps of soil 'appear in compar
ison aa the towering mountains to
the mole hilL Think of seeding land
in such an abominable physical con
dition and you can understaai one
reason why the grass falls to
a stand. Thus ono principal
why wo are not more successful in
the culture of these crops u duo to
the bad physical condition of the soil,
to the fact that It dees not contain
sufficient available plant food, and to
Its inability to hold moisture duo to
its barrenness of vegetable matter.
Under such circumstances the mechan
leal condition is of necessity bad, and
it ia absolutely necessary that it he
corrected as the first essential step
towards its successful culture in
es and clovers. Andrew M. Soule.
Starting the Furrows.
Good plowing requires a knowledge
of the principles of soil turning and
requires experience In doing the work.
If the first furrows are run carelessly
or Incorrectly It will be found exceed:
ingly difficult to do a good Job. The
plowing of old fields is loss difficult
than the plowing of new ones, for 'the
reason that the old fields have land
marks that are easily understood. This
is, of course, true only If the plowing
of former years haa been correct It
is a somewhat difficult task to turn a
straight furrow across a new field
with nothing to serve as a guide but
some object on the further side. The
skilled farmer should not entrust the
turning of the first furrows to the boy
or the unskilled hired hand. If the
first furrows are crooked it Is difficult
to make any straight ones afterward.
The best plowman will find it difficult
to correct the errors of his predeces
sors. Even the skilled plowman will
not find it an easy matter to run the
first furrow straight ahead of him aad
keep his team well under control. If
the field is to be plowed on the "lands"
plan, then there is an added reason
why the best plowman on the farm
should take the matter In hand, for
there will be several "first" furrows to
plow. The first furrows are the pat
terns of all that are to follow them.
Landmarks set up on opposite sides
of the field will assist the plowman In
making his furrow straight whether
he be skilled or a novice.
Sites for Orchards.
The site for an orchard can not be
selected by rule. If we attempt to
divide all the orchards of the country
into groups to correspond with rules
we have In mind we very soon find
that the rules do not mean very much,
as the exceptions to the rules are very
numerous. Exposure, soil and drala
age must all be considered. As to
exposure, a northern slope for an ap
ple orchard is always advisable, yet
there are many successful orchards oa
the leveL Probably the northern,
slope is more necessary in the north
era rim of the apple growing belt than
Mn the southern rim. The soil Is a
matter of a good deal of importance.
Sometimes, a farm contains a doxen
different kinds of soil, one or two
kinds being more suitable for the or
chard than the others. The soil best
adapted to the growing of orchard
trees is the one that should be se
lected irrespective of whether that soil
be near or far from the house. Too
often the orchard la located with refer
ence to the house rather than in rela
tion to the soils of the farm. Bui
it is better to have a productive or
chard a half mile from the house than
to have an unproductive orchard near
the house. Nearly all clay soils need
to be drained even if the location of
the orchard be on the hill.
Shorthorn Association Prosperous.
Probably the American Shorthorn
Association is more prosperous than
any other' live stock association in the
United States. There are few asso
ciations of this character that have
a surplus big enough to put at inter
est The association mentioned has a
large sum' of money invested, as is
shown by the following financial
statement taken from a pamphlet just
issued:
ASSETS.
Balance in treasurer's hands. $4,690.44
Chicago real estate 5.500.00
Harvey real estate 2.000.00
Office furniture 500.00
Books on band 14.290.00
Bonds. SG0.000.00; present
worth 64,860.00
Share of stock ,, 25.00
..' 191,805.44
LIABILITIES..
Capital stock 120.009.00
Estimated cost of pedigrees
on hand 12,350.00
Fair prizes not awarded.... 12.350.00
Surplus 55.955.44
$91,805.44
When to Cut Alfalfa.
Alfalfa should be cut when not more
than one-tenth of the plants have
come in bloom. Cut at this early
stage, the yield of hay for the season
will be much greater than if the al
falfa is cut near maturity, and every
pound of hay secured will be worth
more for feed. At the Kansas Ex
periment Station, a strip through a
field of alfalfa was cut when one
tenth was in bloom, another strip was
cut after full bloom had passed. -The
strip cut early was nearly ready to
cut the second time when that cut
after full bloom was being harvested
the first time. The strip cut early
grew vigorously through the season
and made tliree cuttings and a good
aftermath, 'lhe strip cut after full
bloom' gave a low yield the first cut
ting and did not grow sufficiently to
yield a gcod second cutting. Early
cuttings invigorate the plant Kansas
Station Report.
The love of truth for its own sake
Is the Icve of Gcd. Be not afraid to
contemplate with unflinching eye
aught that Is. Truth is' absolute; lies
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Idly. The
very Ism sad osro shonld-ho toman, not
to overfeed, as too much should not
he given nt ono thmo. food fire or
six times a day for the first ton days.
After the third day oatmeal will ho
found a very excellent diet: Groat
care should ho taken also In fudlag
this for the first few days, ss It Is
very lsnaealag The meal should ho
fed In dry form aad can be alternated
with the bread or ogsn. After they
become mors used to the meal It can
bo kept before them st all times In
litter, ouch ss very Sao cat clever
or hay. Grit ot seme sort should ho
provided from the first, aad should
ho kept in a lew tUah thsi ttw ohkhs
may have free aoceos to at aH times.
Now as the thioaana sat elder the
food should gru dually be rhsagod aad
given.
italniag plenty of
will ho found
to ho satiMsnt aad a mixture of equal
parte of eorn-meal. bran aad mid
dlings, sained with milk or water.
Use the former. If usslsls. taking
care not to mix too wet The wheat
screenings can ho thrown Into the lit
ter aad a little millet seed may also
bo given la the same manner. Thw
keeps the little fellows always busy.
and the result Is that st meal times
they are alwaya hungry. J. R. Braba-
Hanslna a Sitting Hen. .
From Farmers' Review: "What do
la with year hens?" I asked a
neighbor who had a plenty, sad mors
experience tana I. "Mine want to alt
aa late ss this, sad I've a good notion
to kill them allheal" "Oh. well, they
will do that; whoa they've laid their
Utter oat they wast to sot . every
time." "Yes, that's so; but what do
yea do to make them give up slttiag?
My grandma used to have such n time
with hers. She would half drown
them sometimes, and once she put a
rot of briars la the aest of one per
sistent hen aad. aa grandma ex
pressed It that hen just stood and
sot " A knowing twinkle came rate
my neighbor's dark eyes as she said,
"Well I just put mine lata a gunny
sack aad pin them onto the clothes
line and let them swing there for
twenty-four hours, aad that scares
them so It takes all the sit out ot
them." I'm going to try It but mr
rack will bo hung from the rafter!
of the barn, as I might be minus a
hea or so if left outdoors over alghl-
Mrs. A. E. Rand.
Keeping Ducks.
From Farmers' Review: Will sosk
reader of the Farmers' Review giro
me information oa the best methods
of handling ducks. I have kept land'
fowls all my life, hut have never han
dled water fowls. I want to keep a
small flock. What kind of n house
do I want to build for them, aad la
what way should It differ from a
house built for land fowls Also do I
aeed to feaco la the pond to keep them
from wandering all over the adjaceat
land What are the first points to be
looked after when one goes lato the
keeping of ducks I hopo I shall hear
from some one. -Alfred Strong.
Pigeons.
From the Farmers' Review: Do aay
of the readers of the Farmers' Re
view keep plgeoas? If so. what do
they find to be the best varieties to
keep? What are the profits? Does It
pay to raise them fcr squabs to be
used on the farmer's table? Does
it pay to raise the squabs for sale?
If so, where are the rquabs sold? Is
It much trouble to keep pigeons? How
are they taken care of ia winter aad
how often do they have to be ted In
winter? Anyone that can give me aa
answer to these questions will great
ly oblige a reader of the Farmers
Review. James ThralL
Varietiea of
From Fanners' Review: Will some
one that haa kept a good many varie
ties of geese tell me something about
them as to varieties? I wish to be
gin raising some one variety, but I
And there Is a difference of opinion
as to which variety is the best Which
breed Is best for the production of
feathers? Which is best for the pro
duction of eggs, and which gives the
best growth? If someone will answer
these questions, I may be able to form
my own conclusions aa to which Is
the best breed? Nellie Thomas.
Suggestions on Dipping Sheep.
Frank E. Emery, vice director of
the Wyoming station, in a recent bul
letin, gives the following advice: An
lafected flock should be quaraatiaed
so that it shall not transmit the dis
ease to other flocks, and should bo
kept from public hlghwaya where
other flocks may pass, until it can be
thoroughly cleansed and rured. We
suggest that the dipping tank should
be so set that the cheep come to it
down a slight incline. That the dip
be kept deep enough in the tank so
each sheep is immersed and Is obliged
to swim a few feet to get out oa the
rislag incline, which is quite long
compared with the approach and fit
ted with water tight floor so the fluid
draining from the sheep will Sow back
to the tank.
As a means of heating the tank a
small furnace to use wood, or coal,
or an oil stove could be used. It
should be a feasible plan to set the
tank In a brick wall so a small fire
or the nil stove could be used under
it aad the dip heated as desired with
the least possible handling. Two or
three float thermometers should be
purchased with the tank. Cost is
about 35 cents each for good ones
At Fort Steele, Wyo.. Messrs. Cosgrifl
Bros, have a turntable approach tc
the dipping tanks. The central part
fon this turn-table bears several gates
which assist in dividing the sheep
into squads and hastening er retard
ing their movement from the yards
as may be needed. Men stationed
along the line of movement briag up
the sheep or squeeze tho dip out ol
the wool as those dipped climb the
incline leading out of the tank. Er
ery user of a tank should carefully
select a dip free from anything which
can hurt the fibers of the fleece or he
polsoaoua to the sheep.
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