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Experiments conducted at the Storrs
Agricultural experiment station for the
purpose of finding out the cost of rais
:g calves up to the age of six months
show the following results, says llol
rtein-Friesian Register: Two lots of
cj.iV o were experimented upon. The
drsi were fed new milk for four weeks;
then skim milk was substituted for it.
With the second lot this change was
uade when the calves were less than
wo weeks old. Rowen hay, or hay
cut for tlie second time in the same
season, was kept before them constant
ly. The first lot was not given any
grain, but the others had grain given
them for the last two months.
The first set gained one and one-fourth
pounds pc- day per calf, the second
>ne and one-third pounds, both of
hieh gains were considered as satis
factory, as these calves were destined
for a dairy herd, and it was therefore
aot desirable that they should lay on
iht. The cost of the first set averaged
47.3 cents per week and. that of the sec
ond 44.6 cents.
Similar experiments*to show the cost
■3i raising calves to a greater age were
iEso made, the period of testing being
iwo years and eighteen days. When
M ISS days as above, 188 days at
pasture, with one pound of grain per
Say; 181 days in the stable at 50 cents
jer week, and 194 days at pasture,
with 120 pounds of grain, the average
■iost per animal was estimated at
$33.20.
Convenient Cow Stall.
The illustration of the so called mod
-3 stall, which is taken Hoard's
Hairymafl, shows a single stall with
THE MODEL. STALE.
me side entirely removed. It may be
is narrow as one pleases, but the width
ind length should be proportioned to
ihe size of the occupant. We do njt
consider three and one-half feet any
too much room for the cow of average
dze. The construction of this stall is
such that when standing the rack in
front forces the cow back a few inches,
so that ah droppings fall well to the
rear. The bar across the stall at the
®ar should be fastened to the floor
Jjst in front of the cow’s hind feet
when standing with her head to the
:ack. This bar serves the double pur
pose of retaining the bedding in place
*nd of encouraging the cow to move
forward when about to lie down, bring l
ng her head under the projecting rack.
The bottom of this rack should be
from thirty-five to forty inches above
she floor. A shallow manger may ex
pend across the full width of the stall
in place of the slanting box.
The cow is fastened with a halter
about the head, aud instead of remov
ing the headpiece every time the cow
:ss to be loosened attach a stout safety
snap to the end of the rope and snap
this into the ring under the throat, let
ting the cow wear the headpiece all
±e time.
Aim of the Holstein Breeders.
The aim of the Holstein-Friesian
breeders is to produce milk fit for all
purposes—for home, village or city con
sumption, for cheese factory or butter
factory,, for the production of cream
for the creamery, for ice cream or for
village and city use, and the Babcock
test and centrifugal separator enable
iMni to do all this. —M. H. Gardner in
Pacific Homestead.
Testing Mills.
Three vital points in testing milk—a
zrue sample of the cream, an exact
tuantity of the sample in the test bot-
Cfe and reading the test accurately.
Avoid Stable Contamination.
Stables with too many cowy odors
Ja them are not fit to keep milk in, and
separating should be done in another
?lace.
The Cow and the Farm.
Professor Curtiss, at the recent dairy
invention at Cedar Rapids, la., told
why dairying maintains the fertility of
the- farm. He said: “In selling SI,OOO
vorth of wheat from an lowa tVrm at
present prices we sell with it about
$350 worth of fertility. In selling sl,-
100 worth of corn we seil about $250
Torth of fertility—or constitutents
which would cost the farmer this
amount if he were obliged to buy com
mercial fertilizers to maintain the fer
tility of the farm. But we can convert
il,ooo worth of corn into beef, pork or
mutton and sell it in that form and not
remove over $25 worth of fertility from
die farm, or we can convert SI,OOO
vorth of feed into butter and not re
move a single dollar’s worth of fertil
ity with it. Butter is almost wholly
pure fat or carbon, and it adds nothing
to the value or productive capacity of
lie soil.”
Cost of Keeping a Cow.
The average cost of keeping a cow a
/ear has been variously estimated by
experiment stations in different locali
ses at from $35 to $45, says Farmer’s
advocate. The means of keeping the
scord of the income, enabling the
weeding out process, are now available
a every dairyman. The Babcock test,
which is a simple means of determin
ing the richness of the milk in fat, and
lie scales for determining the yield of
milk enable the farmer to ascertain the
miue of milk and butter production of
each cow in his herd and whether she
is a source of profit or loss.
SERVANTS IN RUSSIA.
The Law Excludes Them as Witness
es Against Their Employers.
The Russian servant is hired for one
year and is told exactly what his par
ticular duty is to be. lie then sticks
to that one duty. As long as each serv
ant faithfully performs the special
duties of liis position all is well, but
the neglectful butler or cook or coach
man is sent by the employer with a
written note to the police judge, who
after carefully investigating the com
plaints has a right to order bodily pun
ishment or to write a bad mark in the
book kept for this purpose
In great Russian households often
from twenty to fifty servants are kept,
and even the middle class families
have two to four. The pay of these
servants varies according to the line
of work. While the “chiefs” in the
kitchens of wealthy families often re
ceive £3OO a year, a cook in an ordinary
citizen’s employ gets no more than £l2
a year, and a maid of all work never
gets more than £5 a year. At Easter
every servant gets a generally
a suit or dress.
Every other Sunday the servants in
a Russian household are entirely free.
Their work stops Saturday night after
supper, when the servants leave tlie
house not to return until the next Mon
day morning. The employers never
ask where or how the free time is
spent.
Russian servants will pilfer. Since
Russian ladies leave everything to the
care of the servants the latter do as
they please.
The manservants smoke cigars be
longing to their masters and pay fre
quent visits to the wine cellars of tlie
house, but a gentleman would consider
it “demeaning’’ himself to prosecute a
servant for this.
'Tlie Russian servants will talk about
fellow servants, but never about their
employers. Even when they quit one
place and take service in another
family they would never mention any
thing about their former masters.
This discretion gop>s so far that even
the law considers it. In Russia the law
excludes servants as witnesses against
their former or present employers
so long, at least, as these sen-ants are
not suspected of having taken part in
the crime. —London Mail.
SHORT TALKS.
A terrible lot of love is wasted on
cats, dogs and unmarried men.
So many people waste time! Do you
do it? Do you talk, and talk about
nothing?
How we all dislike tlie child that
has its own way and is impudent! All
of us need a great deax of training.
A good many people are like pie
plant—their' good qualities are not
known because no one handles them
right.
When a woman’s daughter marries a
preacher she is more firmly convinced
than ever that her children have, ad
vantages she did not enjoy. . [
If a woman truly loves her husband,
when she is asked how he is she will
say, “Well, he does not complain, but
I do not think he is very well.”
If you have a little hard sense it has
probably been beaten into you; very
few have it naturally. So that, after
all, adversity and criticism are useful.
—Atchison Globe.
The Bear lie Missed.
Telling in his book of some hunting
experiences near the north pole, Cap
tain Sverdrup wrote: “Walruses and
seals were harpooned and shot and also
the large arctic hare, which seems to
have contracted the peculiar habit of
frequently running long distances on
its hind legs. Hunting was not always
easy, the atmosphere playing strange
tricks with the eyesight, as witness the
following account of the stalking of a
bear: ‘With the utmost caution, with
his gun ready and his eye fixed inex
orably on the bear, Sehlei advanced to
the spot. Meanwhile the bear sat wag
ging its head, but keeping a good look
out, it appeared, for when Sehlei had
come some twenty steps nearer it rose
and flew away. It flew as well as any
bird, which, after all, was not remark
able, for it was a glaucous gull.’ ”
An Important Difference,
Not long after a series of losses at
sea on a certain steamship line two
travelers we-e discussing transatlantic
liners. One of the men preferred the
C line, the other the T line, the
one on which the repeated wrecks had
occurred.
“There’s one important difference,”
said the fhst, “that you don’t seem to
have considered, but winch weighs
strongly with me.”
“What is that?”
“Why, the C line guarantees to
take you across, but the T line
guarantees to take you only as far as
it goes.”—Harper’s Weekly.
He Found It.
“Always,” said the astute news edi
tor to the new reporter—“always be on
the lookout for any little touch of hu
mor that may brighten up our col
umns.”
That evening the new reporter hand
ed in an account of a burglary in a
butcher’s shop which commenced, “Mr.
Jeremian Cleaver, the well known
butcher, has been losing flesh rapidly
of late.”
Sartorial Diversion.
“I expected to find that suit done,”
stormed the customer.
“Oh, well, here’s the other suit dun,”
said the tailor, who was a low wag,
and who had a bill in his hand—Buf
falo Express.
They Managre to Escape.
She—So you think that men are
smarter than women, do you? He—
Some men, but not all, She—Well,
what men are smarter? He—Old
bachelors. —Illustrated Bits.
SOCIETY TO UPLIFT LABOR.
Order Founded I>y an Illinois Man
to Be Made National.
George 11. Center, a miner of Du
quoin. 111., has gained considerable dis
tinction by founding an order for the
uplifting of people in general jand min
ers in particular, says a dispatch from
Duquoin. “It reaches men,” says Mr.
Center, “that the churches can’t reach
and that the secret societies won’t
have.”
The order is known as the Knights
and Ladies of the Cross, and so great
has been its success in Duquoin that
Mr. Center has decided to send out gen
eral organizers. The order has 340
members, 200 of whom are miners. The
members bind themselves to meet their
fellow members as equals, not to injure
one of them, not to gamble or carry con
cealed weapons and to use their influence
against the use of alcoholic drinks. Mr.
Center says few of tlie members fall,
and that when they do they are helped
tip and on agan.
Outsiders at Duquoin are astounded
at Mr. Center’s success in raising men
from the gutter, and he is almost an
obpect of worship by the families of
many men and by the men themselves
whom he has helped to their feet.
There are three degrees, in tlie order
—Faith, Hope and Charity—the first of
which is public. The order maintains
a public reading room at a cost of
$1,200 a year, which is paid from vol
untary contributions and money raised
by giving socials and entertainments.
No dues are asked of the members and
there is no initiation fee.
Mr. Center’s personality is out of the
ordinary. He began work in a coal
mine at St. John’s, north of Duquoin,
thirty-eight years ago, when he was
eleven years old, and mining has been
his life work. He is now manager of
two mines owned by a coal and coke
company.
DRY DOCK FOR CAVITE.
Ease Steel Structure Being; Built For
the Philippine Harbor.
The body of the largest steel floating
dry dock in tlie world, which is being
constructed for tlie United States gov
ernment at the dock department of a
steel company at Sparrows Point, Md.,
is now above tlie basin which has been
dug for it, says the Baltimore News.
This dry dock will be entirely of steel
and will be used in Cavite harbor
Philippine Islands.
The dock *is 500 feet long and 100
feet wide between walls, while the
height of the walls will be sixty-four
feet. It will cost $1,124,009. Notwith
standing the many rainy days during
the past winter, work has progressed
| rapidly, but this summer it will be
i pushed with all possible haste. The
| dry dock, it is expected, will be ready
; for delivery in the summer of 1905.
It will dock a 10,000 ton war vessel,
which is the largest in the United
States navy, or a 20,000 ton merchant
vessel. While the work possible for
this big structure is immense, will
take very few men to man it, and o
crew of eighteen men is all that will
be required.
It will be necessary to tow the dock
to its destination—the Philippines. In
order to do this powerful vessels will
be necessary. The government, how
ever, has two very powerful tugs. It
will take about five months for the
structure to be towed to its destina
tion. The distance around the Cape of
Good Hope is 14,000 miles, and it is es
timated that 100 miles a day will be
covered.
EXCHANGE OF HARVESTERS.
Plan of Four States In Wheat Belt to
Avoid a Labor Famine.
The authorities of the four states in
the western wheat belt—Kansas, Ne
braska and the two Dakotas—have hit
upon a scheme to furnish one another
with -harvest hands in the hope that
the labor famine, usually attendant
upon the wheat harvest, may be avoid
ed this season, says a Lincoln (Neb.)
dispatch to the Kansas City Times.
State Labor Commissioner Bush of
Nebraska has organized a bureau at
Lincoln, with branch offices in various
parts of the state, the latter being gen
erally in charge of railway agents.
The field is canvassed for harvest
hands, addresses are taken, and advice
as to the needs of Kansas wheat grow
ers, whose fields must receive full at
tention before the earlier ripening of
the wheat, is furnished by the main
bureau in Kansas. Rates of a cent a
mile have been scheduled by the rail
roads, and the harvest hands will be
sent in squads to the points desired
from the three northern states. The
Nebraska harvest will next receive at
tention, the tide of laborers being turn
ed back to the north and thence to the
Dakotas after the harvest in Nebraska
is finished. The promoters of the plan
expect to employ 20,000 laborers by
this plan.
Putting; ou Style In Arizona.
Every symptom points to a tendency
to spread on style in Tombstone, Ariz.
Among other instances in this direction
the boys bought a pair of beautiful
barber pole suspenders and presented
them to the amiable dispenser who
shoves the amber extract of cheerful
ness over the mahogany of the Parlor
saloon, says the Tombstone Prospector.
He prompt’y donned the innovation,
but claimed that he felt like he had a
fence rail on each shoulder. Then,
when they became overburdensome, he
would unbutton them and permit them
to dangle in frout, but he has finally
got them down fine enough to go to
church in. Several old timers, con
spicuously court attendants from the
other end of the county, have fallen
into the habit of wearing boiled shirts,
and it looks as if sky blue overalls
anight be discarded as a full dress cos
tume. Getting “powerful tony” in
town nowadays.
Tlie Population of tlie World.
According to an exhaustive statis
tical work by a German, of which
Harper’s Weekly gives an interesting
resume, the population of the world
today is 1,503,300,000. The average
density of population is about ten per
sons to one square kilometer, and the
distribution among the continents is as
follows: In Europe, 9,723,000 square
kilometers and 392,2G4,000 people, or
forty inhabitants for each square kilo
meter; in Asia, 44,179,400 square kilo
meters and 819,550,000 inhabitants,
eighteen to a square kilometer; in Afri
ca, 29,820,200 square kilometers and
110,700,000 inhabitants, fire to a square
kilometer. North America, to which
division are rather arbitrarily assigned
the West Indies, Mexico, Central Amer
ica and Panama as well as the United
States and Canada, is credited with
20,817,700 square kilometers and 105,-
714,000 inhabitants, five to one square
kilometer.
A Town on American Plan.
Towns are not often deliberately
planned and founded in Europe as in
America, but the fact can be wit
nessed at present at Schandau, Saxony,
which is situated in what Germans call
the Saxon Switzerland, says a Dresden
cable dispatch to the New York
Herald. Herr Rudolph Sending of
Dresden hotel fame is father of the
city, which he is laying down as a
novel health resort. New Schandau,
as the town is called, commands a
magnificent view of picturesque moun
tains and comprises big central hotels,
many villas, streets, rapid transit,
sewerage and lighting, all complete,
even to an extensive public park.
Lincoln nml the Mules.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New
York, who has carried his prestige as a
reconteur into the upper house of con
gress, relates a hitherto untold story
about President Lincoln, says Harper’s
Weekly. It is apropos of the demand
for an immediate strengthening of the
United States navy.
“I remember,” said the New Y'ork
millionaire on the floor of the senate,
“being in the executive mansion at one
time and in Mr. Lincoln’s office when
a telegram was handed to him which
gave the information that a brigadier
general, through foolishness of an ex
treme sort, had been captured down in
Virginia. In liis command was a long
train of pack wagons and mules. Mr
Lincoln read the dispatch. Then he
took up his pen and said:
“ “With that pen I can make a briga
; dior genera! in a minute, but I cannot
replace those mules!*
KEYS TO SLCCESS.
Mr. Cdw-. •? P-k, njPoref the Ladies' Home
Journal, Pel's > cuny Men How
: a-re.-s.; ;s v\ on.
Evert _ .'••* ; in n wants to succeed.
Tuere is no Mg so self-satisfying as the
bountiful r -m:; which await the man
who struggles and conquers. Fame,
V i:-.*-;, v.'v.a’.i •.*. ! power are the laurels
which Succc. s bestows.
Th„ ;• meal century is replete with
x iinple:. of young men, who, alone and
unaided, have risen to
the very highest pin
f J-’V nacle of success in their
/* •*:;. ■ chosen calling f>Here
. vj'ip;* we have the striking
'b ■’ example of the presi-
Jfpj? dent of the largest
V y manufacturing corpora
tion in the world, rising
to this position from one
of the lowest places in
hie Company's service. Again,—the
vouug man who came to this country
>ver thirty years ago, penniless and
• :endless and who, during the first two
■ars, earned only s6oo, working beside
tank foul with the smell of oil; but
-day, there is scarcely a drop of oil
msurned in this country which has not
iceti purchased from his stupendous
'rganizHtion, the Standard Oil Company,
a another walk of life, we see at the
aead of a great college, a man who
chopped wood to pay his way through
school.
The great captains of industry of to
lay were the poor boys of thirty years
igo. It was not a wealthy parent nor an
influential friend who started these men
an the road,to fortune; they made their
>wn opportunities ; they fought their own
•> r:ties ; they have won.
What is the secret of their success?
What is that irresistible force which has
enabled them to overcome all obstacles,
m surpass their fellow-men? Every am
oitious young man is searching for this
secret. He believes that honesty, so
orietv, perseverance, and determination
ire essentials in the foundation on which
to build a successful career, and yet he
realizes that he must possess something
more than these mere prerequisites if he
would achieve conspicuous success #
Those who have studied the lives of
successful men will tell you that they all
possessed a certain force of character—
the power to mould the opinions and
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