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A Now TypMM Terror.
' Although the discovery of
sources of danger to health, new car
riers of disease germs, should be am
encouragement to the scientific worker
'as tending toward the more accurate
application of preventive measures,
ithe knowledge that the typhoid Infec
itioa isdMlng carried about la scorer
of supposedly lealthy persons will
prove rather alarming. To the medlaal
.profession It Is well known, of course,
'that the typhoid bacillus sometimes
persists for years In certain portions
"of the human anatomy, and .that It Is
always to be found for a, time daring
convalescence, but the possibility that
healthy and apparently robust Indi--vidsals
may be carriers of the deadly
germs, and that the arrest and' isola
jtlon of such "carriers" may come to
'be a part of the public campaign
against the disease, Is a" comparatively
recent aspect of .the question. The
discovery of this added danger should
nerve to emphasize the Importance of
scrupulous care in ascertaining the
health, and antecedents of household
servants, says Philadelphia Ledger. In
particular case that led to the dis
covery of one aggravated instance of
typhoid "carrier" six persons in a
single family developed the disease
within n few 'days after the arrival of
la mew cook.' 'After every other possi
jble source of contamination had been
Investigated and found guiltless, an
inquiry as to the cook revealed thet
'Startling fact, that during the five
'years previous at least 26 cases of
typhoid were associated with her serv
ifce in seven different families. She
'was detained, and a bacteriological ex
amination revealed'her to be a chronic
typhoid feverfproduoer.
Recreation for Working People.
Turning from the more substantial
.features of industrial betterment to
iwhat may be called Its lighter, though
jmot leas Important side, there are all
Isorts of opportunities for recreation. A
(large factory or department store has
:a social Ufe an its own; there are
iclubs, athletic, social, literary and
imnstcaL The sensible outdoor life of
ithe English leads to open-air match
jamMS, tennis, bowling, cricket and
iswlmmlng for the men, croquet and
;tennis' for the women. Compulsory
(gymnastic exercises are given in the
company's time by physical directors.
(Where there is a piano in the recrea
itfon rooms a dance or concert bright
iens the noon hour, says Mary R. Cran
ston, In the Reader. Picnics and vaca
,tidn camping parties in summer
take the place of dances and match
;ball games in winter. The saloons
(have found a powerful rival in the
latter, for practice at noon leaves little
time and less Inclination for beer or
other stimulants. Dublin, Ireland,
Pittsburg and New York may boast
the distinction of roof gardens for em
ployes. It Is queer that roofs are not
more frequently used In cities where
it is so difficult to make any kind of
Improvement without great expense.
For very little the roof of the average
factory could be made a Joy forever
and a great safeguard, by .keeping
young people from idling in the streets
at noon.
A Hindoo editor has gone to jail for
printing a large section of his mind in
his paper. If the British government
Insists on making a popular hero out
of this editor doubtless he can stand
It A jail sentence Is nothing, says
Chicago Daily News, if the populace
outside Is standing around shouting
for the prisoner and during lulls is
snaking faces at the British govern
snent That editor may get his name
In history long after the impetuous of
ficial who caused his arrest has been
forgotten. This may be some consola
tion, to him. Then again he may get
better grub In jail than he was able to
rustle outside. On the whole, the
British government has done; him a
great kindness, but that isn't saying
that he appreciates it
The glass eye crop comes from
-Thnringia. As Newfoundlers are fish
ermen, or as Cubans are tobacco
growers, so the typical Thuringian is
a shaker of glass eyes. Almost every
jThariaglaa house is a little eye fac
ftory. Four men sit at a table, each
with a gas jet before him, and the
eyas are blown from plates and mold
ed iate shape by hand. The colors
are traced la with small needles, and
as no set rule is observed in the col-
no two eyes are exactly alike.
It has been decreed by the manufa&
! turers of those articles of feminine at-
:.tlre that next year skirts shall be
worn longer and so loose-fitting as to
fhide all suggestions of curves. Maybe
!so,:hut history goes to prove that It
all depends.
: Miss Robb, who baa died in Edin
burgh at the age of 94, has been a
naval pensioner for 93 years. She was
fthe. posthumous child of Capt Robb
of the royal navy, and was put on the
state pension roll at birth.
When the new. racetrack is estab-
i the air doubtless the enter
gentlemen who affect check-
suits will build a commodious
aad establish a poolroom on
the three-mile limit to
hooks on the races.
The city council of Lexington, Ky
is aastnl an ordlaance forbidding
to sleep aU day and bark all
As the penalty for violation is
the regulation is net as foolish
Kiosks.
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LITTLE. POINT
THAT HELP IK
SELLING GOOD.
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Let the Public Knew What You Have
ts tell Never Step Pushing ..
A Hint" far -the
Clerks. ,,. '
Pluck.
Stow often you hear one business
man say of another who has beensuc-v
cessful: "Ain't he luckyr Luck has
nothing to do with anyone's success.'
It is pluck.
Pluck and enthusiasm arc the pow
ers which make tho winner. With
these two qualities, which are in
variably found together, a man will
succeed.
Business men who have achieved
greatness in their line are those who
possess an abundance of enthus
iasm.
A possession that is better than any
thing else to a man Is that determina
tion of character known as pluck, and
an enthusiastic confidence that he will
succeed.
To persevere against great odds,
and to make 'a victorious fight in the
face of almost impossibilities, it re
quires (luck which is not governed by
Impulse.
To cultivate pluck one must encour
age steadfastness of purpose. When
a thing is begun it should be fin
ished. The trouble with, most of us is not
so much that we have a hard row
to-boe but that we dislike hoeing.
Opportunity knocks once and often
a- dozen times at every door, but
you have no kick against the fates if
Opportunity knocks, finds you lost'in
a pipe dream and turns away never to
return.
Bacon said: "The mold of a man's
fortune is in his own hands."
All men cannot be captains of indus
try. All men cannot succeed? phenom
enally. All men, it seems; cannot suc
ceed even moderately, but all men can
make an effort to succeed.
We must not stop striving to reach
a higher and better place until we are
willing to sink to the bottom. If we
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Turn to and bury the mail-order house monopoly under the sod of local
prosperity. You can do it by spending your money with the local merchants.
If you give them an opportunity they will treat you fairly, and they, like your
self, represent the interests of the home town.
simply expect to float and not try to
awim we might just as well quit It
would be well for us to keep aa a.
motto before us: "Perseverance and
pluck conquer all things," for it bears
close relationship to the subject
Chosen. If we regarded the little op
jportunlties in life more seriously and
made the most use of them we would
be better able to master the golden op
lportunities. '
Let It Be Known.
You may know that you have the
best assorted stock in town, but the
public will not know it unless you tell
them about it; they are not clairvoy
ants. First use the newspapers liber
ally, then circulars, personal letters,
talk to them when you can catch them
in your store, -at their homes any
where. The first and last thing to
bear in mind about advertising is that
It is as wide as human nature in its
appeal.
Advertising is the mighty engine of
success, aad without it the business
world would be minus its dynamo of
energy.
All the Time.
If it pays to push when business is
good, it pays to push when business is
bad.
If it pays to push when business Is
Dad, it pays to push when business is
OOd.
If it pays to push at alL it pays to
push all the time.
Therefore, don't let it 'die.
When everything is coming your
way, push to make it come the faster.
When everything is going the other
way, push to make it come back to
fOU.
Push all the time and youll feel
the better for it and make more
money.
It takes hard thinking' aad hard
work to increase business in the face
of strong competition. But the busi
ness Is there, and somebody will get it
you or your neighbor, or perhaps
your competitor In the next town.
Which shall it be?
Help your employes. Increase your
business.
e Business, Throughout,
A joke is a joke, but business Is ao
joke, and it Is mighty hard 'to make
the two mix.
once said: "It pays to adver-
t
Use most businesses, but mine Is dif
fereuL" .The 'sheriff sold him out, and
now he works for his successor, who
does advertise. V v
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The secret ofmost successes, lies In
the man rather than in the method.
Making people want the goods is,
after all, about as near the secret of
it as there comes to being any secret
Make'the public want what you have
to, sell and the sale is half 'made.
Epitaph of 'a failure: "He worked
overtime dodging work."
v That Man with the Overalls.
When the man with the overalls
comes into your stortr don't turn
around and take your time to wait on
him. Don't snub the man with the
overalls in order to wait upon some
elite of your town that la. If the over
all man came into your store first.
Tour overall man usually stands by
the home town. He works in the
shops, in the stock yards, in the fac
tories' and in the mills. iHs dollar Is
just an good as the dollar given to
you by the man who tries to put on
all kinds of airs in your town. The
old American eagle on the silver dollar
given to you by the man attired in
overalls counts for just as much and
screams just as hard as the bird on
the dollar turned over toy the man
who belongs to the "upper tens." Be
sides, if the man' in the overalls wants
credit until Saturday night .or until
the'vfirst of the month, you'll stand to
win to 'get the cash from him when
he says he'll pay you. Don't give him
the marble heart. You want his
trade. He needs dry goods and gro
ceries, and he will spend his money
with you if you treat him right
Business Sickness a Common Com
plaint Stuck in a rut are you? Same old
rut boss doesn't appreciate your ef
forts. Interest in your business wear
ing thin at the edges? Eh? Thought
so! Well, what are you waiting for?
You .know nothing really comes to
the fellow who waits, except the
"push. Some people never "get
there" unless they're pushed.
If you're sick of your job you're do
ing yourself and your boss a bad turn
by hanging on. Start looking around
for another job that'll keep your
mind liquid. Wonderful what a pick-me-up
job-hunting is to some people.
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If you get "turned down" two or three
times you'll begin to think what small
potatoes you really are after all, and
that's good toalc for business sickness
the first sign of recovery, in fact
Your present job will, maybe, ac
quire a fresh interest to you, and
yon'll come at it again like a two-year-old.
If you were born with a square chin
and the normal amount of gray mat
ter youll probably want to get ahead
of the procession. There is only one
sure wy, and that Is "know how." A
fellow with "know how" never loses
interest in his job. He wouldn't get
the "know how" if he did.
It's marvelous how interesting bust
ness is when you get the proper spirit
Some men obtain more genuine pleas
ure from business than they do from
Play. If you want to enjoy business
study it soak yourself in it and ima
gine it's play.
You won't hJe to imagine long, and
when you've got the spirit of the game
you couldn't be kept out of it with a
pickax.
Women as Lawmakers.
Nineteen women holding seats in
congress. What do you. think of it?
Not In any little congress of women's
clubs or anything of that sort, but in
the lawmaking body of a nation.
Not" one in ten thousand people in
this quarter of the globe know this is
a fact although there is really no' rea
son why they should not know, it
These women have won congressional
honors and assumed tha duties of law
makers' in Finland. At the election
held in that country only a couple of
weeks ago the socialists developed sur
prising strength, and, consistent with
their pretensions, they nominated a
number of women for congressional
seats. This forced the other parties
to do the" same thing.
When the ballots were counted it
was found that 19 women had been
elected, nine of them socialists. They
have taken their seats and promise
to make good lawmakers. To fully ap
preciate the importance of this it must
be borne in mind that never before
have women or a woman been elected
to the .national lawmaking body of any
country. Woman's National Daily.
Millions in Line of Shipping.
There is about $100,000,009 invested
la transatlantic passenger
steaming from New York bay.
AT A WAYSIDE HOSTELRY.
;
Darky Servtter Meet Obliging Under
A traveling mum Mopped recently at
a little country hamlet some miles
frost a Texas city to sell a Merchant
a MB of goods. There was only one
hotel in the place, and this had an un
savory reputation. He had only' one
night to stay, however, so he con
cluded to make the heat of a had bar-
He went to his room early, an.
feeling the need of some hot rter
to remove the stains of his 'ourney,
cast hi eye about the rll for am
electric button, which, rk course, was
conspicuous byts !eace. '
He happened to think that he .had
seen a negro "rter below, and, stick
lag his hear out of the door, he yelled
lustily:
"Hey, yon Mack rascal, corns up
t
"Yas'r, yas'r, Ts comlnV was the
quick response, and a. moment later
the old darkey appeared before the
drummer, bowing obsequiously, cap In
"I want some hot water, and I want
It quick," said the drummer.
- Ts powTul sorry, boss, poWful
sorry.", replied the negro, his voles
trembling. "We ain't got no
watah, but I Ha hot yah some.'
PURIFIED LIFE INSURANCE,
Benefits from New Law, Which Re
mains Substantially Unchanged.
Through, the 'influence of Gov.
Hughes, the New York Legislature de
cided to make no radical changes in
the new insurance law. It was pointed
out by Gov. Hughes that the New York
law has already 'accomplished wide
spread ' reforms, with proportionate
benefits to policyholders, and that it
should be given a thorough trial be
fore any amendments were seriously
considered. It is estimated that the
cost of the mismanagement of the past
did not average more than 20 cents to
each policyholder, while the benefits
to present and future policyholders
will amount to many times more and
be cumulative besides. The speed
craze of the big companies and the ex
cessive cost of securing new business
was the most extravagant evil of the
old managements. Under the new
regime the cost of new business has
already been greatly reduced, along
with other economies.
The showing made by the Equitable
Life Assurance Society In its report
for 1106 was a strong argument
against meddling with the new law.
In the Equitable alone there was a
saving of over $2,000,000 in expenses,
besides an Increase In the income
from the Society's assets amounting
to as much more. The ratios of the
Equltable'8 total expenses to its total
income was 19.42 In 1904, 17.38 In
1905, and only 14.48 In 1906. The
dividends paid to Equitable policy
holders in 1906 amounted to $7,289,734,
which was an increase of more than
9 over 1905.
While the Equitable made a better
showing than any other big company,
all reported radical economies and un
der such conditions the Legislature
wisely decided to leave the law sub
stantially as It stands.
His Idea of a Oood Time.
The retired contractor sighed as he
got into bis dress suit and thought of
the elaborate dinner and the opera
that were to come.
"Some day," he said. Til git real
desp'rit an' then do you know what
rn do?"
"Something terrible, no doubt" re
pUed his ambitious wife.
"I suppose it wouldn't look well In
print" he admitted, "but I can't help
that What I'll do will be to throw
away these high-priced cigars, put on
,some old clothes, go out an' come In
by the back way an' smoke a quarter
pound of cut-up chewin' tobacco in a
cob pipe while I'm tattda' things over
with the coachman in the barn." The
Bohemian.
Prizes for Tanned Faces.
" With the object of encouraging the''
pupils of the Farnham grammar school
to spend their recent holiday in the
open air aa much as possible, the Rev.
8. Priestley, the head-master, offered a
prize to the boy who returned to
school with the brownest face. On the
pupUs reassembUng for the summer
term 12 were picked out as being the
most tanned, aad it was announced
that the judges had awarded the prize
to Foster, the- captain of the school.
It is understood that Foster declines
to divulge to the other boys the secret
of his preparatida. if aay London
dlobe.
Quaker Wit.
A maker riding in a carriage with
a fashionable woman decked with a
profusion of jewelry, as a substitute,
perhaps, for her scantiness of clothes,
heard her complaining of the cold.
8hiveslng ha her lace bonnet and
shawl, she exclaimed, "What shall I
do to get warm?''
1 really don't -know," replied the
Quaker solemnly, "unless thou put on
another breastpin." Sunday
WENT TO TEA
' And It Wound Her Bobbin.
Tea drinking frequently affects peo
ple as badly as coffee. A lady m Salis
bury, ML, 'says that she was com
pelled to abandon the use of coffee a
good "many years ago, because it
threatened to ruin her health and that
she went over to tea drinking, but
finally, she had dyspepsia so bad that
she had lost twenty-five pounds and
no food seemed to agree with her.
She further says: "As this time I
was Induced to take up the famous
food drink, Postum, and was so much
pleased with the results that I have
never been without it since. I com
menced to improve at once, regained
my twenty-five pounds of flesh and
went some beyond my usual weight
"I .know Postum to be geed, purer
and healthful, and there never was an
article, and never win be, I believe,
that does so surely take As place of
coffee, as Pastum Food Coffee. The
beauty af it ail Is that it is satisfying
and wonderfully nourishing. I feel as
If I could not sing its praises too loud."
Read "The Bead to WeUvUIe," in pkgs.
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PUDDING THAT WILLKEEP. v
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Savory and Cheap Dessert Rsady ts
Serve at Any Time.'
One-half cup beef suet chopped fine,
one. and one-half cups seeded raisins,
one cup New Orleans molasses, one
cup milk, three cups tour, one-half
teaspoon soda dissolved In warm wa
ter; beat the mousses and soda water
'well; add milk, aoet, raisins, then
flour. Put In an airtight vessel and
set in boiling water to steam four
hours. Sauce for same. One pint
water thickened with two tablespoons
cornstarch, one-half teaspoon cinna
mon, half cup sugar; just a little nut
meg and allspice, juice of one lemon,
little grated rind, whisky to taste;
boil and serve hot When done and
turned out on n plate it resembles
fruit cake. Slice as much as you
want In thin slices and put the re
maining portion away. Turn a gran
ite cooking vessel qver it to keep it
moist and it will keep a long time.
When you want to serve it again cut
as much as you need and warm it by
steaming in closed vessel.
HAVE THE HOME ORIGINAL.
Ideal AbWnf Place Carries Stamp of
Individuality.
The surest way of Snaking the home
distinctive is to do all we can our
selves, and stamp it 'with our own
.individuality.
Never copy ether people's ideas of
comfort and decoration, but employ
your own talents and experience to
the best advaatage by carrying out
original designs and schemes. Don't
copy; originate.
: If you can't afford to buy a new
parlor table on the installment plan,
you may buy a cheap table, and cover
it with preity chintz and muslin very
reasonably indeed; and if the cover
ing matches the wall paper, the suc
cess of the venture will , be doubly
sure.
All husbands appreciate the efforts
of wives to make the home pretty,
bright, and dainty, and as they are
mortal, and do not possess Inex
haustible purses, it will please, them
still more when they hear it "is all
"home-made."
Swiss Curtains.
A pretty way to finish white swiss
curtains for summer use is to edge
them down the fronts and along the
bottoms with narrow linen or cotton
lace. It Is not fulled in, but stitched
on flat by machine. Curtains of swiss
never should fall below the window
sill, and. when edged with lace, may
have a hem an Inch or more wide on
the fronts and bottoms, with the lace
sewn to the edge. This finish is far
more durable and neat than ruffling
.the material onand the expense is
about the same, since lace may be
bought for from three to five cents a
yard. Overdraperies of cretonne also
may be finished at the edges with lace,
and this will tend to make them hang
better, as the stitching and extra
iwelght of the lace make the edge firm.
Brown Sauce.
Two ounces of butter, two pounds of
tbeef, two onions, a quarter of a pound
of lean bacon, two cloves, one bay
'leaf, pepper, salt and two quarts of
water.
v Put two ounces of butter in the bot
tom of a stewpan, with the bacon cut
into small bits and the beef into very
thin slices, with two small onions, a
little pepper, salt cloves, bay leaf and
a little water, just enough to keep It
from burning; stir over the fire for ten
or 12 minutes, then let it simmer until
it looks brown and rich; fill up the
stewpan with two quarts of water and
when boiling draw it to the side of the
Tange, skim off ail the fat and aUow
to simmer slowly for an hour and a
half.
To Can String Beans.
The beans must be young and newly
gathered. If toughened by long-keep
ing or If old and stringy, they are not
available for our purpose. With a
sharp 'knife remove the strings from
both sides of the beans. As you do
this let the prepared beans fail into
ice cold water. Now cut them into
inch lengths, still dropping the bits
into water. Put over the fire covered
with cold water, slightly salted and
peppered. BoU until soft but not
broken. Transfer to heated jars, cov
er with boiling salted water from the
kettle and seal.
Sauce for Roast Meats.
A quarter of a pint of water, a sprig
of parsley, the juice of one lemon, pep
pUr, salt and one ounce and a half of
butter.
Put the butter into n stewpan with
a sprig of parsley, chopped fine; the
juice of -oas lemon, straiaed; season
with pepper and salt and a quarter of
pint of water; set it over the fire
for about ten minutes until hot or just
on the Soil, and serve with roast meat
Omgcrbread.
One cupful of molasses, one-half
cup of butter, one-half cupful of brown
sugar, to eggs, one and one-half tea
spoonfuls of soda dissolved in one cup
ful of hot water, one teaspoonful each
of ginger aad cinnamon, three cupfuls
of flour. One cupful of chopped raisins
and citron may be added If desired.
Bake in well-greased pan hi moderate
oven.
Monument to a Bull.
Dan R. Hanna, son of the late sena
tor, is about to erect a costly monu
ment of gray granite at his Cottage
Hill farm, Ravenna, to the memory of
Bapton Diamond, an imported bull
that was the pride of his famous short
horn stables and was a prize winner
at leading stock shows in the coun
try. Washing Berries.
Take an ordinary tin milk pan, a
hammer, and nail and punch holes all
over the oottom. Put in your berries,
let the water run over them in the
sink, and all the sand and dirt will
wash right through those holes. Put
In holes from inside of pan, so (hat it
win stand a little way from the floor
of sink.
Ne Right te Wear Them,
fused to allow the girls to. wear caps
and gowns, which he says are wholly
wrong In schools below the college
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Horned cattle cannot be exported.
A good grindstone win save a heap
of time on the farm.
Th spruce tree needs no cultivation
after planting.
Sow rape with spring grain so as
to make pasture after the grain Is oft
The corn exposition at Chicago in
October. Corn you be there?
Lime and sulphur Is said to check
pear blight under some conditions.
Don't forget that the early cultiva
tion of the corn Is the most Important
The farmer must keep read up on
farm, topics If he would be progres
sive. Be a first-rate farmer. To be such
requires, the use of brains and brawn,
but it pays.
Land which is soaked with stagnant
water win not raise good crops. Drain
it if you would use it
Remember the best kind of a pull is
the one which comes from hard mus
cles and a busy brain.
Save the pea straw. for the sheep
as they prefer it to all other fodders
save perhaps that of clover hay.
Don't forget that poultry like skim
milk as wen as the hogs, and they
give a good return in increased egg
production.
Avoid dust in the barn at milking
time. Never handle bedding or hay
at such time. Wait until milking is
out of the way.
The poorer the sows the greater is
the necessity of using a high-grade
boar in breeding. That Is If the herd
la to be built up.
The shrinkage of corn in the corn
crib is considerable during a season.
and hence the holding for a higher
price is often a questionable policy.
Give good care to the young chicks.
Disease and vermine .are more easily
prevented than fighting them after
neglect has caused the flock to fall a
prey to them.
Cultivation has more to do with
good crop production than any other
one thing. Keep at it Put In a lick
whenever you can aad the harvest
will reward you.
According to decision by the agri
cultural department aU cheese made
from skim milk must be labeled as
skim milk cheese before offered for
sale In the markets.
Crown gall may be easily conveyed
from tree to tree by the saw or knife
which has been used to cut it out of
the diseased tree. The 'knife should
be disinfected after each use.
Sterilized skim mine is better for
the calf than unsteriUzed according
to investigations by Prof. Otis, of Wis
consin. He found that there was less
tendency to scours and fewer "off
feed" days.
Integrity is a great factor in the
work on the farm. The farmer cannot
deal deceitfully with his soil or his
stock without having it react upon
him. Good, honest, faithful work is
the only kind that will bring results.
One advantage of. planting potatoes
in the time of the full moon is that the
planter is able to see so much better
in doing his work. That is, if he wants
to do night work. If not plant in the
day time without reference to the
moon.
Kindness is the first requisite in
the breaking of a colt Why should
you go at the nervous animal ham
an Indifferent quality of animal, but the
"breaking" is necessary? Be sure
the colt understands what you want
and then gently but firmly enforce
your commands.
How did you come out in laying
your plans for rotation of crops this
year? Didn't think far enough aneaa
and so the old routine was followed?
Start now and plan for a better rota
tion next year, study to nna wnicn
parts of the farm need fertility the
most and put those parts into pasture
or meadow as soon as possible.
A Blaryland farmer is reported to
have a white Wyandotte hen that lays
empty egg shells. It is said the shells
are large, well-shaped and resemble
an ordinary egg, but they contain
neither yolk nor white matter. The
hen lays one such egg each day.
Empty-headed farming is a feature in
some localities, and perhaps this hen
is emulating the example of its
owner.
English municipalities are con
cerned about the milk supply, as weU
aa are the large American cities.
The excessive infant mortality is
charged to bad milk, and a biU has
been introduced in parliament provid
ing for the establishment in cities of
Sf.000 or over of municipal milk
depots. A clause of the bill vJrects
that "miUc specially prepared for con
sumption by infants under two yi
af age" shall be sold.
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Pi ornate the cows to the
pen who do not coma up to the aver
age yield of the herd.
Seeing is believing; Is an 'eld
lag, hut just remember that the eye
are not always to hi
Meadowbrook farm notes are a good
appetiser, but some gooa'farm jour
nal should be read la addition.
Buckwheat, honey is
Let the heifer get her growth before
breeding. If you do act she wUl ha
stunted and her future
jured.
Because of .the high price of
wax the production of that enmmsiky
la of far mere tepertanca than R
once
Air the stables before milking, even
in the coldest weather of winter, but
save the cleaning up until after the-
milk u safe In the dairy
It requires skin In haadhng the
farm team to get the most oat of It .
Study to know your horses, aad tbe
eaaiest methods of handling them.
Experiments by the Purdue (nd.)
experiment station shows that tho
hogs followlag steers which are fed
ear coin and clover hay, make the
greatest .gains.
Any thing .which excites the cow
disturbs the milk-making functions.
Never permit hard driving, abuse,
loud, talking or anything which will
disturb the herd.
Go over at least once a week the
farm implements which are in use
and 4 make sure that the bolts are
tight. A little forthougnt and oare
will save many an annoying delay.
The bee keeper should make it a
point to study up clover culture, for
there is nothing finer than clover
honey, and it is said that some of the
finest clovers are unknown In this
country.
The poultry raiser should stop and
consider that many a Thanksgiving
dinner goes down the wrong throats in
the spring, for the lice and mites have
excellent appetites and they get away
with many a young chick.
To dock the lambs tie a cord tightly
around the tail aad clip off with a pair
of sharp pruning shears. Leave the
tail about aa Inch long. Cover the
end of the wound with a Utile carbo
lated vaseline and remove the cord
at night
A good boar may cost more than
mer and tongs thinking that a literal
few dollars difference in price wiU be .
more than repaid in one season's
breeding. Penny wise and pound
foolish will ruin any stockman.
China's representative at Washing
ton has asked our government for
seeds and samples of every variety of
plant of recognized importance raised
in this country. A compliment to
American agriculture and a sure
enough indication that China is wak
ing up
The old cultivator which wtil only
half do the work had better be cast
aside and a new one secured. It takes
more labor to use the old than it
would a new one and whh the work
half done how can good results be
expected.
Stock feeders have learned that
what is called a balanced ration is
necessary to obtain the best results.
One-sided foods will always produce
one-sided results, and that on the
wrong side.
It would hardly seem necessary ts
say that the hand separator needs
washing every time it is used, aad
yet there is so much carelessness
creeps Into the dairy sometimes and
things are just let go, that we feel
that we must drop a reminder. Now
heed it ..
Like the unloaded gun its the gentle
bull that is dangerous. The bull
known to- be dangerous is watched,
and extra precautions are taken to see
that he does not get the opportunity
of doing harm, but the gentle bun has
all kinds of opportunities of doing
harm aad some day he takes the no
tion with disastrous results to the
one who never dreamed that ha was
loaded.
Why do you feed salt to your cows?
The Mississippi experiment station
has made a practical test of the ques
tion, which shows conclusively that
salt is beneficial. Three cows were
kept without salt for a period of four
weeks. During tile last two weeks a
record of their milk production was
kept and theygave 454 pounds. They
were then given their usual allowance
of salt and in the following two weeks
they gave 54 pounds or a gain of 110
pounds.
In roasting meal the housewife
should remember that the smaller the
piece of meat the higher should be the
temperature of tl.e oven, for the
quicker the exte'jor coagulates the
more the meat j-iices are prevented
from drying up. With larger roasts,
however, the tennerature of the oven
must be modified or the exterior of the
roast will be burned before the inte
rior is heated "through. In broiling,
this same principle holds an intense
ly hot fire ia to be desired.
Farmers are realizing more and
more the friend they have in cement
The various cement mixtures are aa
follows: Rich Mixture One part
Portland cement 2 parts of clean,
coarse sand, 4 parts of crushed rock.
This is used for floors, fence posts,
etc. Medium Mixture 1, 2, 5 parts
(respectively of cemeat sand aad
crushed rock). This mixture is used
for walks, thin walls, etc Ordinary
Mixture 1, 3, 6, for heavy wans,
piers, abutments, etc Lean Mixture
1, 4, 8, for footings aad in places
uhere volume aad not great, strength
b seeded.
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