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A SLAT QATE. It Will Prove Serviceable for tho Barn Doorway. Whore the horse stabTfe opens into [the buggy room and It is necessary to 'keep the door open for ventilation I find that a small gate constructed of "light material is an excellent protec tion against horses getting loose and injuring the buggies. The cut herewith shows a light gate "we have in use in our horse barn. It is very simple in construction, but serves mill 'V Slat Stable DoorT "a very important purpose. Were it not for this light gate we would find it necessary to keep the door closed be tween tiie horse stable and buggy room, thus shutting off ventilation. The gate is hinged onto the rolling 4oor with light strap hinges, explains a writer in Prairie Farmer, so that when the gate is not in use it swings around and fastens to the large door out of the \yay. For material in making the gate we use inch strips of good pine for the horizontal pieces. The upright piece3 are light strips gotten out for fence pickets. I find a light gate of this character a good thing to keep poultry out of •the barn during the summer months. KEEP STOCK IN CONDITION. Mo Time of Year When They Should Be Let Run Down. When? Right now—to-day and to morrow and all the time till it comes time to let the cattle out to pasture. Sometimes we may get a little care less .about this. So many men say: •What hurt does it do to let the cows go with scant rations for a few weeks in winter? By-and-by they wlil go out to pasture and then they can gain up again. It will not cost so much to get them in good flesh then as it would now, and feed costs so in win ter!" Of course feed costs. That Is a foregone conclusion. If we keep stock, however, ought we not to be prepared to do the fair thing by it? There are some of the best reasons why, from our own standpoint, we should do this. One of these is, that if we turn the cattle out in spring poor and weak it will take so long to get them up in good shape to (lo their best that we shall lose more than we shall gain by scrimping now. We are learning that cattle are sure to take the feed we give them if they are lean and in poor rig and lay it on their backs, first of all then after they are in good condition they will apply the surplus to the milk-pail. It is always the surplus that we get. And there will be no surplus if we keep our cows just on the verge of -hunger. The Farmers' Voice well says that it is the cow which has been kept well that puts the money in our pockets.' Cows poorly treated are our farm charges, to be maintained at the cost of what the best cows do. There should be no such charges every cow should be a producer. LABOR OF THE HOR8E. How It Can Be Made to Make Up for Lack of Hired Help. Some one has figured out that it costs on the average only one-half as much to feed a horse as it does to feed a man,-and that the horse will do ten times the. amount of work that it is possible for the man to do. If this estimate is correct, then a dollar's worth of food given the horse will produce 20- times as much results as the same1 amount of money will if ex pended in" feed: for a man. Therefore, when man domesticated the horse he immensely increased his own power of securing results. When much farm work is to be done there should al ways be enough horses to do it. Farmers try to economize on the num ber of horses and have to leave much work undone. In the event of hired help being scarce 4t is sometimes possible to offset this lack by increas ing the number of horses kept. In some parts of the west and northwest, declares the Farmers' Review, the scarcity of help has resulted in more horses being used. Five are hitched to a double plow, and one driver is thus enabled to turn two furrows at a time and practically double the work that one man has to do. This is the result of the complete .-utilization of horseflesh. Don't worry over the kind of dip to use, but be sure to use some kind. Talking about it won't, kill any of the ticks. HEAVKS CAUSED BY HAY. Veterinarian Cautions Against Too Heavy Feeding. -iS ii A- noted veterinarian of Canada says that one full feed per day of hay is enough for a horse that be cause the work horses are busy in crop time they only get one full feed of hay every 24 hours, but in the win ter are frequently allowed to stand and eat all day. He says that a horse to be in perfect health should have the stomach emptied, of the previous meal for two or three hours before he is given another. If such is not the case, digestion will not take place in a perfect manner, and disease is likely to result. There is a remarkable sym pathy between the stomach and the longs, because of the fact that the same nerve trunk supplies nerve force to both organs. When the stomach I is deranged from improper feeding the lungs are liable to become sympa thetically affected and heaves often result. Care should also be taken that a horse should be fed no dusty or musty hay. This dust is as light as aii', and the horse in breathing draws it right into the lung tissue with every breath, and this substance, being an Irritant, is very prone to develop the heaves. If no better hay can be ob tained, the dust should be laid by sprinkling with water, when the horse will not breathe it, but will be swal lowed with his feed and probably do him no harm but when at all possible only bright, clean hay, free from dust, should be fed to horses. Again no horse is in fit condition for active ex ercise witli a stomach distended with hay, because the stomach situated as it is right behind the lung space, if full, bulges forward into the chest to such an extent thajt the lungs have no room to properly expand, and cannot perform their functions properly and anything that interferes with the func tion of the lungs predisposes to heaves. In many cases if farmers would feed one-third less hay to idle horses in the winter months they would come out in the spring in better condition. SHIPPING CRATE. It Will Make the Handling of the Calves Easier. The size of the crate will depend upon the size of the calf to be shipped, For an ordinary ix months' calf th« crate should be 3ys feet high and 18 inches wide. It is nailed solid with the excep- stanchion strips in the front end which are made re movable so as to he-adjusted to the size of the calf neck. The top of the crate is open and the quickest way is to lift the calf into the crate through the tops. If desired, suggests Farm iiiSd Home, a small feed'box can bfe at tached to the bottom of the front end of this crate. GOOD FOR LOUSY HOGS. Post Saturated with Oil Against Which They Can Rub. Set a post four feet long, four inches in diameter two feet deep in the ground. Bore a 3 in a hole 16 inches deep in top of post. See cut. is filled with coal oil, and, says the is so a Farmer, the hogs by rubbing against it will do the rest with one-quarter of the oil you would use in dipping or spraying. STOCK TALK. Skim milk is good for lambs. The farmers are not yet fully awake to the value of a good cow. Feeding high-priced stuff and mar keting at a loss is an unprofitable proposition. The young pig needs bone and mus cle developing foods, both before and' after it is born. The time will come when farm made butter will sell for as good a price as any other kind of butter. Keeping the hogs clean will not al ways keep: away cholera, but it has a strong tendency in that direction. Do not turn stock into the meadows when they are wet, as the tramping is very injurious at that time% Try This Plan. Rather than feed all corn to stock on which you want to produce growth, you had better sell corn and buy wheat bran, middlings, oil meal or any other feed high in protein that can be had at right kind of prices and mix with your corn. I know it is a com mon practice among some farmers to finish their hogs for the market on an exclusive corn ration. I very much doubt, the wisdom of this method. I do not believe there is a period in a hog's life when a variety of feed will not be productive of better results than an exclusive corn ration. Dori^Feed Corn Alone. Tests have shown that the largest gain from feeding cornmeal alone is less than one-half pound per head per day on well-bred swine. Something is needed beside corn, although this is very essential. Study Your Cows. Study your cows. They will teach you more than lots of books. Read dairy and stock papers and books. Talk to scientific men and your mind will broaden. CEMENT FOR CREAMERY FiCOR. Danger of Rheumatism Obviated by Steam Pipes Laid in Cemer.t. The Industrialist, issued by the Kan sas agricultural college, regarding ce ment floors for creameries and cheese factories, says: For many years createry sanitation has been a question of vital impor tance to the dairyman. To secure this, one of the most important projects i3 the installation of a perfectly close Pipe Arrangement for Cement Flodfr floor with rcrei' connection to the sewerage syscji.i. Cement floors have proved to be the best in tr.is, but considerable com plaint has b?en made on the ground that ihe bultsr maker frequently con tracts rheumatism and is forced out of the business. This also had a tendency to yr.r/enl some from going into the creamery work. This proves a menace to the business. To overcome this the dairy depart ment of the Kansas state agricultural college has been conducting experi ments during the past season, and has been successful, a new cement floor having been installed with the system of one-fnch steam pipes laid under the concrete in such a way as to infuse heat through the cement, rendering the floor warm and dry. This experi ment lias been thoroughly tested dur ing the past month, and thus far has given absolute satisfaction. The ex pense of heating is very small, as once the floor is warmed up it re quires very little steam to maintain a uniform temperature. This system of heating may well be considered by stockmen. Further ex periments-along this line will-in all probability be conducted at the Kan sas state experiment station during the coming year. DAIRY MATTERS. The home market for American dairy products is so great that we need not worry about the foreign out let for dairy products. The dairy cow on the farm needs improving still more than the dairy cow,, in the barn of the professional dairyman. Green stuffs should be grown for helping the cows over the dry time af summer. Plan to raise a good bunch ofi heifer calves this year. Look ahead, two or three years to see where tire price of cows is likely to be. The high: price of feed last fall sent more than the usual number of cows and heifera to the block, and it will cost good money to replace them. When cows are kept in the stable continuously, as in stormy weather, it should be cleaned often enough to keep as free as possible from manurial odors. I always use butter color in making butter, writes a farmer's wife in Farm and Home. I use one teaspoonful in summer and two teaspoonfuls in win ter to six gallons of cream. I put it into the cream and churn the cream when ripe, that is, when it has the appear ance of velvet over the surface after it is stirred. I have a safety No. 1 separator and never mix the warm cream with the cold cream. I use salt at rate of 1% ounces to one pound butter. Overfeeding the Dairy Calf. One of the most Coiiimon ways of in juring dairy calves is to overfeed them. When the calf is left with the cow this does not occur. The calf nurses frequently and gets little at a time. But when he is raised by hand he is fed but two or three times a day and is then given all he will drink. He is ravenously hungry and fills himself up to the aching point. When he has done this a few times, his stomach has been reduced to a state in which he cannot digest the milk completely, and a part of this is passed undigested into the intestines. That begins the scouring of the calf. If the same reckless feeding is contin ued, the calf stands a good chance of being killed. Coloring Butter. Some folks object to coloring butter, but if the average butter were sent to market without a little coloring, it would not find a sale at half its value, no matter how perfect it might be in other respects. Butter should be col ored to suit the person, or the market, for which it is intended. In no case however, should it be given a deeper color than is given it when the cow is on grass, supplemented with enough grains and concentrates to properly balance the ration. After Calving. After calving tepid water only? should be given, as cold water may bring on a threatening ailment. If nourishment is needed, a little oilmeal or ground oats in the water given will prove helpful. Let the feed supplied, after calving be light for a few days. former Does'1 Not Rob Latter of Any Elements Needed in His Rearing.^ It is my observation that many farmers would milk cows and sell the cream if they felt sure they could at the same time produce a good calf, writes a correspondent of Farm and Home. I take it for granted farm ers know that if a skim milk calf can be successfully grown It will rep resent one-half less cost than the calf which has had the entire and exclu sive attention of its dam. The hand separator, which is used entirely in connection with the dairy business in many western states, has contributed very largely to successful calf raising. This is' so because the milk can at all times be fed warm and at the same temperature, and also that it may be fed sweet at prac tically all times. In calf feeding the uniform condition of the milk con tributes probably more than any other one thing to. successful feeding. Skim milk contains all the elements of whole milk, except the fat, and these are the elements necessary to produce muscle, bone, hair and pro mote growth of the young animal. Butter fat is not necessarily essential to growth ofjyoung calves, and four per cent, milk, which is rather a higher percentage of fat than aver age milk, contains at least "two per cent, more butter fat than is needed by the calf. To illustrate this point many farm ers will point out a certain cow In their herd which gives thin milk, yet produces a larger and more vigorous calf than the cows which give milk containing much more fat. This is evidence in support of my claim that the normal amount of fat contained in cows' milk is not needed by the calf. Skim milk contains all the elements necessary for growth, tut some fat must be fed in connection with milk to produce a certain essential amount of fat in the calf's body, and also to keep the calf warm. Calves running with their dams are eating more fat than they really need, which results in loss to the owner, because it does the calf no good. When butter fat is selling at an average price of 22 to 23 cents per pound it will be economy to save this fat and sell it. On the other hand, if a substitute for this fat can be added to the ski^i milk, and this substitute is cheaper than butter fat, aa it is, then, the farmer is again. practicing a system of economy, which he can't af ford to overlook. HEALTHFULNESS OF MILK. This Quality Is More Important Than the Richness of It. We hear a great deal of talk about watered milk and milk that runs be low a certain standard in proportion of butteMat. But the, most important thing to consider is the healthfulness oftifiilkr It" will however, be a long time before the citizen can put the eleanliii&s® of milk ahead of the qual ity of miltk as relates to the butter fat i£. This perhaps comes from the fact that i'c:* centuries while we had no means of testing milk it was judged on the amount of cream that rose on it. Good, clean milk is a very desirable food product. If it could be made always clean and healthful, there is no limit to which its sale might go. One dairy expert, says the Farmers' Review, asserts that where poor quality milk has done one dollar's worth of damage, dirty milk (which after carries disease germs) has done $50 worth of damage. More than once typhoid fever has become epi demic through bad milk, and scarlet fever is often carried by it. More than that, there are to be found in milk sometimes ferments that bring about the digestive troubles prevalent at times in various localities. So, to get the most good out of our investigations of milk, we should pay the most at tention to Its freedom from dirt and ferments that produce disease. SHAPELY HORNS, A Good Device for Training the Howe of Cattle. Here is a device for training calves' horns. After having tried all things that I ever heiard of, writes a farm er in Breeders' IM Gazette, I. found the most effective thing for that pur- pose I have seen. Take an ordinary piece of two by four inch, about two inches longer than from tip to tip of horns put two holes near each end at the base of the horns also put a staple or loop in each edge in the center to fasten one string around the neck. Then twist two strings together from front loop to base of nose, then tie around the nose. Put heavy cords around each horn and tie through the two by four inch. Never use wire for loop around horn, as it will indent the horn. Salting Butter. A Kansas dairyman has this to say in regard to salting butter "Take the butter out of the churn, drain and press out a part of the water on the worker, then weigh and salt one ounce to the pound and work enough to get the salt evenly incorporated. Some more water or brine will run off in the working and leave the butter salted about right. In this way It will be found that one ohurnlng will he salted very nearly like every other turn .-in.fc Order for Hearingon Claims. STATB OF MINNESOTA, & Comity of Mower—aa In Probate Court. Speeialterm, May 25th, 1906. In the matter of cue estate of David H. Stimson, deceased. Letters testamentary on the estate of It is ordered that all[claims aud demands of all Persons against said estate be presented to this court for examination and allowance at the probate, office, in the court house, in the city of Anstin in said county, on Monday, the 30th day of November, 1906, at 10 o'clock a. further ordered that six months from the date heierf be allowed to creditors to pre sent their claims against said estate, at the ex piration of which time all claims not presented to said court, or not proven to its satisfaction, «..e«.i0reVur *VJ'rred. unless for cause shown further time be allowed. Ordered further that notice of time and place anu examination of said claims and demands shall be given by publishing this T!S week for three successive weeks in the MOWEB OOCNTT TBANSCBIPT. a weekly newspaper, printed and published at the city of Austin in said county. May WW AustIn' Minnesota, the 25th day of By tVie Court, •SEAL] J. M. GREENMAN, Judge of Probate. Citation tor Hearing on Petition to Sell Land. STATE OP MINNESOTA, County of Mower—ss. In Probate Court. SchwaSfo^ent01 the 6State w^eiSe^ of Now therefore, you, and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause, if any you have, before this court, at the Probate Court Booms IU the Court House in the City of Austin, County of Mower, State of Minnesota, on the 22nd day of June. 19u8, at-! o'clock p. m., why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. Witness the judge of said court, and the seal of sai court, this 25th day May. 1908. /c J. M. GREENMaN, vSeal) Judge of Probate Court Citation for Hearing on Petition for Administration. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Mower.—ss In Probate Court, In the matter of the estate of Ellef Hansen, decedent. The State of Minnesota to the heirs at law of said deceased and to all persons interested in the granting of administration of the estate of said decedent: The petition of Anna Hansen, having been filed iu this court, representing that Ellef Hansen, then a resident of the coun ty of Mower, state of Minnesota, died intestate on the 1st day of Mav. 1908, and praying that letters of administration of his estate be you have, before this court at the grant I Christian Hansen, and tLe court having fixed the time and place for hearing said peti tion Therefore, you and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause, if any probata coiyt rooms in the court house, in the city «f Austin, in the county of Mower, state of Min nesota. on the 24th day of June, 1908, at one o'clock p. m., why said petition should not be granted. Witness, the Judge of said Court and the Seal of said Court, this 8 th day of May, 1906. (deal) J. M. GREENMAN, Probate Judge. Citation for Hearing on Final Ac count and for Distribution. STATE or MINNESOTA. County of Mower—ss. In Probate Court In the matter of the estate of Luke B. Fair banks, Decedent. The State of Minnesota to the heirs at law of said deceased and to all persons inter ested in the final account and distribution of the estate of said decedent: The representative of the above named decedent, having filed in this court the final account of the administra tion of the estate of said decedent, together with Ji petition praying for the adjustment .ind-allowance of said final account and for dis ribution of the residne of said estate to the persons thereunto entitled therefore, yon, and each of you, are hereby cited and required tc show cause if any you have, before tnis court Ht the Probate Court Rooms in the Court House iu the City of Austin in the County of Mower State of Minnesota, on the 15th day of June, lULit, at 10 o'clock a. m., why said petition should net begranted. Witness the -.dge of said court and the seal of said court this 12th day of May. 1908. Itjeal) J. M. GREENMAN, Judge of Probate Citation for Hearing on Final Account and for Distribution. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Mower—ss. In Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of George \V Varco, rlecec'ent. The State of Minnesota to the heirs at law of said deceased and to all persons interested in the final^ account 'and distribution of th« estate of saio decedent The representative of the above named decedent, having filed in this court the final account of the administration of the estate of said decedent together with his petition pra ing for the adjustment and ailnw ance of said final account and for distribution of the residue of said estate to tho persons thereunto entitled Therefore, yon, and. each you, are hereby cited and iequired to show tuse if any you have, before this cout-i, at the Probate Couit Rooms in the Court House, in the city of Austin in the countv of Mower, state of (Minnesota, on the 13th day of June, .1998, at 10o'clock a.m.. why said petition should not be granted, Witness the indge of said court and the seal of said court, this 16th day of Hay, 1906. [SEAL] JOHN M. GREENMAN. .. Judge of Probate Citation lor Hearing on Petition for Administration. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Mower—.ss: In Probate Court. In the matter of the SBtate'of'W. E. Kilgore, decedent. The State of Minnesota to the heirs at law of said deceased and to all persons interested in the granting of administration of the estate of said decedent: The petition of Ruth L. Kilgore having been filed in this court, representing that in. E. Kilgore then a resident of the County of Mower, state of Minnesota, died intestate on the 7th day of May. 1908, and pray ing that letter" of administration of his estate be granted to Ruth L. Kilgore and the court having fixed the time and place for hearing said petition therefore, you, and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause, if any you have before this court at the probate court rooms in the court house, in the city of ^ust|n in the Count} of Mower, State of Minne sota, on the lath day of June, 1908 at 10 o'clock a. ., why said petition should not be granted. Witness, the judge of said court, and the 3eal of said court, this 18th day of May. 1908. (Seal) J. M. GREENMAN. T. H. PBIDHAM. Attorney for Petitioner. Probate Judge. Citation for Hearing on Final Ac count and for Distribution. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Mower—ss. In Probate Court. In the matter of .the estate of Orrin H. Brown decedent. The State offMinnesota to the heirs at law said deceased and to all persons interested in the final acconnt and distribution of the estate of said decedent: The representative of the above named decedent, havine filed in this court tie final account of the administration of the estate of said decedent, together with her petition praying for tha adjustment and allow ance of said final account and for distribution of the residue of said estate to the persons thereunto entitled Therefore, you and each of you are hereby cited and required to show cause if anyyou have, before this court at the Probate Court Booms in the Court House, in the City of Austin in the!couuty of Mower, state of Minne sota, on the 8th day of June, 1906, at 10 o'clock a. m., why said petition should hot he granted. Witness the judge of said court and the seal of said court, this 11th day of May, 1908. [SEALJ JOHN M. 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Parts are few, simple, easy to get at. Only two parts inside bowl easy. to wash. Low milk tank (see pic turf.) Sold by J. BOIL TON, Austin. JWinn. 2- New Phonea IjflfS •-8 iflohmivcoo AUSTIN National Bank F. I. CRATsE, President. J. L. niTCHBLL, Cashier. F. II. MITCHELL, Asst. CasMer* Paid in Capital $50,000.00 Money seut to any part of the world at lowest rates. Real Estate Loans negotiated. The business of farmers and merchants solicited. Citation for Hearing on Final Ac count and for Distribution. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Mower—ss. In Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of Peter S. Ulland, decedent. The State of Minnesota to the heirs at law ?f said deceased and to all persons interested in the final account and distribution of the estate of said decedent: The reprpsentatne of the above named decedent, having filed in this court the fiual account of the administration of the estate of siid decedent, together with his petition praiug for the adjustment and allow ance of said finjil account and for distribution *'f Judge of Probate. T. H. PBIDHAM. Attorney for Petitioner. the residue of said estate to the persons thereunto entitled Therefore, you, and each of you, are h.-ieny cited and required to show cause, if- any you ii.tvn. before this court at the Probate Court lio\ms in the Court House, in iif C^y of Mi sr. in in the County of Mower. State of iiiAiiut.fcoi.il, on the 8th day of Juue 1908, at a o'clock p.. m, why said petition should not be granted. Witness, the judge of said court, and !the seal of said court, this 9th day ef Mav. 1908. J. M. GBEENMAN [SEALJ Probate Judge.