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DtarofM NEEDS DIRECTION OF EXPERT Advice Given by New York Times Is Worth Consideration by Authori ties of Other Cities. Discussing the advisability of the formation of a body for the exclusive purpose of developing plans for the im provement of the city the New York Times says: "The city-planning commission should have In its permanent employ a well-paid executive officer, who should be an expert In city planning and city maintenance, familiar not only with domestic affairs, but thor oughly acquainted with all the various phases of European municipal under takings, so that he may avoid as much as possible experimental work at the public expense. Such an expert must be able to treat the subject freely on Its merit. He should have no proper ty or other Interests in the city liable to be affected, and he should have no personal considerations that might bend the plan to his own advantage, as is likely to be the case of a plan formulated by those put in office by local politicians. "The work of replanning a city like New York involves so many and such Intricate features that it is undesir able to Intrust it exclusively to local municipal engineers and architects, for however much experience they may have in their own lines they will be lacking in the special knowledge that Is necessary to make a success of city planning.” HOLDING GARDEN TO MARK Constant Attention to What Might Bs Considered Trifles Will Be Found Imperative. One of the world's greatest artists, Michel Angelo, said perfection is made up of trifles. The rules of art. so far as rules apply, bear the same relation to every earthly activity, whether it be sculpture or gardens. Therefore, the perfect garden is one where the planter has given, at some time, attention to each little matter of detail to see that it harmonizes with the garden as a whole. It may not be possible to deal with all at once, yet In time the grand total may be cov ered and tile sum of the little things will constitute perfection. In order to keep a garden up to a high standard it is not necessary to make many or marked changes at once, but deal with each little problem as it arises. If a plant dies, put in another at once. Do not wait lor a bigger job with sev eral. Keep substitute plants always ready. Efficient City Planning. It must not be understood that the artistic effect has always been the only aim in city-planning schemes of the old regime. There were excep tions, tlie most remarkable one being the case of Berlin in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the Prussian rulers practiced in a very efficient and far-sighted manner city planning on an entirely social basis, working with powerful hands for the rapid opening and building up of wide and healthful suburban areas, with out neglecting the beauty of the cen tral district. It Is largely due to this powerful and advanced city planning that Ber lin, from a little medieval town of 8,000 people, became one of the lead ing capitals of Europe, with 100,000 people at the beginning of the French revolution. This social kind of city planning, however, was the exception, and, with the entire change of the political situation caused by the French revolution, the social tenden cies in city planning suffered the same decline as artistic city planning all over Europe. Ireland's Stirring Song. The origin of the unofficial anthem of Ireland, "St. Patrick's Day in the Morning,” is most obscure. The ear liest known copy appears in Ruther ford’s "Country Dances," published in 1749, but it is said to have been played by the Irish pipers at the bat tle of Fontenoy in 1745, and was prob ably current for some time before this. The tune is found attached to various rollicking old English songs. The Cumberland song of faithless Carbary Bell, whose lover vows to wear a red coat for her sake. Is sung to a version of "St. Patrick’s Day,” the words "Barbary Bell’s my darling" being substituted in the chorus for "Patrick's Day in the Morning." Character of Ambergris. Ambergris, which is used as a basis for much standard perfumery, was first found, an unattractive mass, floating on the sea or lodged upon the shore. How so unlikely a substance ever sug gested itself as a perfume Is not known, but it has been in use for cen turies. It is believed by some to be the morbid secretion of* the liver of a sperm whale. It is described as a fatty waxy substance, disagreeable to sight sod touch, but even In its crude state exhaling a pleasant odor. The crude substance is subjected to chemical ac tion to extract the active principle called amberine. Vaccination a Fake. any tree doctor offers to vaccinate to repel insects and disease him and drive him off lie is a laker HHHkno good. It may 111,1 THINGS WORTH TRYING ALL GOOD AND JUST A LITTLE “DIFFERENT." Effective Touches That Will Not Add to the Cost of the Dishes but Will Add Materially to Their Flavor. Oh, you housekeepers who hanker after something a little different that will net add to the ‘‘cost of living,' have you ever tried: Tiny red peppers to garnish your salad plates rnd give the touch of de sired color, when tomatoes are not to he had, or are prohibitive in price? A center of yellow cheese for the tomato salad that Is arranged to rep resent a poinsettia? Halves ot canned itears. piled up with white grapes and nuts for a salad In the pale yellow tones? Or asparagus tips on white lettuce leaves if to get that special coloring you prefer not to use fruit? Rings of green peppers on greenish lettuce, with a garnishing of French peas when an all-green salad is de sired? Roquefort cheese, grated, or chopped onion in your French dressing? Cheese hails molded from a paste made of cream, chopped nuts and pars ley and seasoned with salt, pepper, a dash of paprika and Worcestershire sauce? Or this same paste used as a tilling for sandwiches? Thin bread and but ler sandwiches of brown bread to he served with your salad in place of the more orthodox wafers? A sprinkling of paprika on top of the regulation stuffed potatoes? Small white heads of cabbage, boiled and adorned with a cream dressing, instead of the more aristocratic and costly cauliflower? Cabbage or turnips au gratln in place of potatoes cooked In the same fashion ? A sauerkraut stuffing for goose or duck If you have any hankering after "Hutch" dishes? A boiled dressing made with orcani Instead of oil and seasoned with a double quantity of mustard with yout Dutch suppers? Tripe with a very highly seasoned cream gravy, or chicken livers broiled with bacon, when you are at your wits end for sametiling new and not too ex pensive In the way of meats? Ripe bananas peeled, laid in earthen dish, water lo cover, sprinkled with brown sugar and a few drops of lemon juice and baked slowly for about flail an hour? If a few chopped nuts gr dot of apple jelly are added to each por tion the effect is prettier, Use Mild Soap. No strong washing powders ot kitchen soaps should be used on linole um, as they slowly fade the pattern, destroy the dressing, and so make the linoleum look old and grimy, says a Country Gentleman writer. Clear water may be used and mild soaps which are really mild enough to he used us toilet soaps. Wiping up the linoleum with milk lias more disadvantages than advan tages. The sugar and the fat in the milk seem to glaze the linoleum, but the stickiness of It will in time make the linoleum hold more dirt and in the end give a grimy appearance. A thin coating of the best varnish twice a year will do much toward keeping the linoleum bright and shiny and preventing wear. New Luncheon Dish. Poach an egg carefully in boiling water to which a squeeze of lemon juice has been added, trim it neatly with a round cutter, mask it with some thick, nicely flavored white sauce which is still warm, and put it aside to get cold, hust the egg lightly with flour, brush it over with beaten egg cover thickly with dried bread crumbs seasoned with salt and pepper, and fry it quickly (one and a half minutes should be sufficient) in a bath of boil ing fat. Serve the egg on a round ol buttered toast and garnish the plait with watercress. Veal Croquettes. Put two cupfuls of finely chopped veal in a saucepan, add two table spoonfuls of fine bread crumbs, out) teaspoonfuls of butter, the beaten yolks of two eggs, one teaspoonful ol onion juice, quarter teaspoonful of sail one saltspoonful paprika and a speck of mace. Stir the mixture over the Are until thoroughly heated, then set aside to cool. Shape into croquettes, dip in beaten egg, roll in tine crumbs, let stand one or more hours, and fry until well browned. Serve with lonia to sauce. Renewing the Tablecloth. It Is suggested that when a table cloth wears thin around the edge oi the table, as it frequently does before showing signs of wear elsewhere, it is a simple matter to cut out the worn strip and to insert in its place a strip of heavy but not necessarily expensive lace. Cream Puffa. They are very nice and not very ex pensive. .One cupful boiling water, butter size of egg. Melt in watef While boiling stir in one cupful sifietj flour, stir thoroughly. When cool stif in two eggs, one at a time unbeaten, and a pinch of soda size of pea. Heat well and drop In tin far enough apart so they will not touch while baking Hake in very hot oven. Makes nine puffs. Filling: One cupful milk, one egg, one teaspoonful flour or corn starch, and sugar to taste. Flavor with vanilla. Beans Spanish. Soak overnight two cupfuls of pink beans, then boil them until tender. Roil three sweet red peppers and put them through a sieve. Fry three slices of bacon until brown, then add the pepper pulp and one green pepper that has been minced fine and one shredded onion. Then put in the .beans, adding plenty of Juice, a little Kit and some grated cheese. Cook to- Kther thoroughly . p|®r fAcrs THICK CREAM GAINS FAVOR Colorado State Dairy Inspector An swers One of Most Common Ques tions Bothering Dairymen. (By R. McCANN, State Dairy Insp dor, Colorado Agricultural College.) One of the most common questions arising among cream producers and handlers of cream is that of how thick cream should be skimmed, when the same Is to be used In butter-making. Cream skimmed so as to test be tween 35 per cent and 40 per cent Is of the most desirable thickness, Thick cream keeps better than thin cream, there Is also not the waste in handling a smaller bulk of cream than there is of larger amounts In the way of hauling and express charges, more over the skim milk is kept on the farm for feeding calves and pigs. If it is too thick, there Is a loss In some of the cream going over into the skim milk and also a considerable waste from the amount of cream that will adhere to cans and utensils. A uniform richness of cream may be obtained at each separation. 1. By using the same amount of waste or skim milk when flushing the bowl. 2. By keeping the cream screw the same. 3. By running the separator at the same and at a uniform speed. 4. By having the temperature of the milk the same each time. 5. By keeping a uniform Inflow to the bowl. 6. By washing the separator thor oughly after using. Exactly the same butterfat test cannot be expected every time from the observation of the above, as there are other factors entering affecting re sults but a close following of the six named checks on variation will work wonders toward getting a uniform thickness of cream throughout the season. PREVENT COW FROM KICKING Device Arranged Around Hind Quae ter* Acts aa Simple Means of Edu cating Animal to Be Good. With this new arrangement hooked up to her hind quarters, "bossy" will kick nobody but herself when she undertakes to show her resentment by a rear thrust at the milk pall or the dairy maid Alter a few experi ences with a kick which rebounds every time on herself, she soon be comes cured of the kicking habit. A Reflex Kicking Strap for the Cow. kicking cow Is an aggravation about the dairy and the device referred to has been recently patented and is a simple means of educating her to be good. It will be quickly seen how the device is applied to the hind leg of tlie bovine and also how any pres sure exerted upon the device, as in an effort to kick, the energy thus expended will give her a sharp re minder that she is not to have it all her own way. BEST FEEDING FOR PROTEIN Necessity for Giving More Than One Grain—Wheat Bran, Corn and Stover Make Good Ration. Dairymen who are on a short al lowance in the matter of grain natur ally wish, to keep down the expense bill, and make the mistake of feeding one grain only. For example, a cor respondent asks which would give him the best results, corn or wheat bran, when, as a matter of fact, he should feed both to get anywhere near a balanced ration, and they should be fed In the proportion of one part of the w heat bran to six parts of the corn. This, with corn stover as roughage and with an occasional feed of oil meal or a change to some of the concentrated feeds like gluten meal, will supply a fairly balanced ration and not a costly one. Those who have to do with farm affairs are coming more and more to figure out these problems instead of guessing at what they ’should do or working on the same plans they followed years ago, when conditions were, perhaps, much different. This Is going in the right direction and the ultimate re sults will not fail to be satisfactory. Combat Fungous Disease. Grape rot Is a fungous disease. The only way to combat it 1s by spraying with bordeaux mixture when the buds swell In the spring, and repeating sev eral times during the season. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S CASTO R I A PROFITABLE HOG FEED Swine Raising Is Most Important Branch of Farming. feeding Facilities and Available Feeds on the Farm Must Be Taken Into Account —Blue Grass Is Satisfactory Pasture. (By J. G. FULLER.) Forage crops constitute a most Im portant pa; l of the food supply for swine. Since there is little or no profit in feeding hogs on grain alone, the swine raiser should arrange to develop his market animals -as much as possible on dairy and farm prod ucts and forage crops, leaving the heavy grain feeding for the fattening and finishing period. Most forage crops are suited to swine feeding, and in proper condition and stage of growth provide at least a mainten ance ration. Native blue grass is a satisfactory pasture for the spring and early sum mer months or before it becomes dry and ceases to grow. By the middle of July this forage is of little value In many sections. as it is too dry, and from then until the fall rains begin to revive it again, should be supple mented with t'ape or other of the for age crops that can be grown for swine. However, it does furnish the first green feed in Hie spring and is always relished. Rape has proved a valuable forage for swine, The animals are kept on Mite grass until this gels too dry, and are then turned into a field of rape. Thrifty Hogs Fed on Forage Crops. The rape should be sowed In three plats and at intervals of about three weeks The rape stalks should not be 100 closely pastured after the leaves are eaten off. When this plan Is followed, tlie rape should be from 14 to 18 inches high when the pigs are turned into it. For less Intensive feeding, where fewer animals are to be kept on the same piece of ground for a longer period, rape is sown broadcast with oats and clover. Five pounds of rape, six pounds of clover, and one bushel of oats are sown to the acre. The swine should not be turned into this until (lie crop is from eight to ten inches high, after which each acre with a good stand of the crop w ill sup ply 15 spring pigs with forage for the rest of the season. Clover, before it becomes matured, is a most valuable forage crop for swine. For the corn belt, clou r and corn make one oi the best combina tions known for cheap pork produc tion Because of the tendency of clover to kill out, II is most satisfactorily grown in a rotation with other farm crops rather than in small plats to bo intensively stocked But whether or not clover is a satisfactory forage for swine depends largely on the season as affecting growth, the stand, and the state of growth at which this is fed. Under favorable conditions, red clover has been found even more profitable than rape as a forage for spring pigs. The value of alfalfa for growing swine has been fully demon strated in tlie western states, where it Is grown abundantly, but in some of the north central stales it has not been grown to any great extent and, as yet, in those states, the value of tills forage crop cannot be fully es timated. The use of clover, alfalfa rape or a red-clover-and-oat mixture properly grown for forage should make a sav ing of from 25 to 30 per cent in the grain ration for growing and fattening swine. To get the best results, tlie crop must be carefully seeded, fed at the right stage of growth, and never overstock! d at the beginning of the feeding period or trampled when the ground is wet. An acre sown to 'hese crops, properly grown and cared for, should furnish forage for about four months for 15 to 20 spring shoata. Then, to finish the animals for mar ket, heavy grain feeding is begun. Spraying is insurance. It pays to watch the incubator in hatching time. • * ♦ Drafts are a great cause of dis ease in the hen house. * • * When keeping liens for eggs alone a male bird in tlie Hock is a useless ornament * * * Five cows properly cared for and fully fed will return much more than ten cows half fed When selling your surplus poultry stock don’t forget that you will want some yourself for table use * * t Clean the stables twice each day. Use absorbents in tlie gutters This will go a long way in keeping the air in the stable good Success Wifh Poultry. Success with poultry is in the man and in the hen and in the feed, and in a lot of other things too tedious to mention, but not too tedious to the right man who can master it if he will Keep Good Brood Mares. No farmer should part with the right kind of a brood mare—whether she is of n* avy draft breed or of the light harness t) pe REMARKABLE RESULTS IN COW TESTING WORK. Harford County Association Increases Return On Every Dollar Invested In Feed Twenty-One Cents. G. E. WOLCOTT. Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station. The records of tlie Harford County Dairy Improvement Association, as published in Bulletin No. 187, of tlie Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, speak for themselves as to their value to progressive dairymen. The object of the cow testing asao- A TESTED PRODUCER. elation is to make tlie herd return a greater profit. Tlie “rst step toward an ine;eased prodit tii.’i and a larger profit, is to learn in. much milk and fat each cow in the be J produces iq pne year, and how much feed was re quired to make that production. When this is known, tlie cows that do not show a fair profit over the coat of feed can be discarded. By disposing of the cows that show an actual loss or that merely pay for their feed, the average production per cow will be Increased, and tiie net profit of tlie herd will he larger with a lower consumption of feed. In the case of tlie Harford Associa tion, the following table tells the gtory■ Average Production Per Cow. *■ S,j, il i* -Si* S * t x t % H CO *7 C T W Cy t C 9. U ~ ® 3 - * -Q. * c 2 f- O i-J ItU .—. Ist... 421.4 4786 234 4 9 $2 06 2nd... 440.5 5248 264 5.0 2.18 3aln.. 462 30 $ ,09 , -r-t V. —' ll c £ . J c & *J= 5 c ° 'Z „ F 9r - i S| PHt K S C > o £-Z ° e - >O. L o ~ Ist... I 99.05 $42.19 $54.86 $2.35 2nd... 112.18 43.80 68 38 256 Gain,. $ 13.13 $ 1.61 $13.52 $ .21 The above table shows that the av erage cow produced 4786 pounils of milk tlie first year, which contained 234 pounds of fat. The second year this production was exceeded by 462 pounds of milk; tlie increase amount ed to 30 pounds of fat. The average cow consumed $42 19 worth of feed the first year; tin- second year tlie feed consumed amounted to $43 80, which represents an increase of $1.61 In the cost of feed consumed. The profit above tlie cost of feed tlie second year was $13.52 mote than tlie first year. The average price of milk tlie second year was higher than the first, but the larger part of the increased profit was due to a higher and more econom. leal production. Every dollar expend ed for feed tlie first year returned $2.35; the same value in feed the sec ond year returned $2.56—a gain of twenty-one cents. BUILDING UP RUN DOWN OR CHARD SOILS. How Much And When To Apply Suit able Fertilizers. W. R. BALLARD. Maryland Agricultural ExperTnent Station. it is. of course, best to use solla which are fertile and in good tilth when tlie trees are planted, but thin and infertile soils may be used if necessary in order to save time If the trees are well fertilized while the ground is being improved. Tlie first tiling to do is to get vegetable matter into the soil, and wit'.out large quanti ties of stable manure this is best done with tlie clovers, cowpeas, soy beans, etc., tlie nitrogen gathering or legum inous crops. Beginning in August the ground should be well prepared and fifteen to twenty pounds of crimson clover seed per acre be sown if the soli is not too Impoverished to grow clover, but in case it is, then one bush el of rye per arre should be sown in stead. The resulting crop should be plowed under about May 1, and one bushel of cowpeas per acre sown at once. This crop should be plowed under early in August and crimson clover seeded immediately. if this plan can be followed for two or three years the ground will be won derfully benefited, and if some com mercial fertilizer can be applied twice * year when the seeding is done, the benefit will be much increased. The following amounts per acre broad casted will be decidedly beneficial: 75 to 100 pounds of muriate or sulphate of potash, 200 to 250 pounds of acid phosphate or dissolved bone, a.;d 50 pounds of nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia. 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