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&9999flHftHI &V i' 'ii ii . .I i -. i B -Tfc"H----i--irffc-rf-'wfc-r'-t-if-' M-W-if-fcj-h-ri n nftrtftfl rtnrtiirt arinnrta a-ani-. ft.j DAIRY NOTES. Plenty of sunlight In tho cowa stable The simple brick-shaped pound print (a tho most popular .way In which but tor. enn bo marketed.- It Is beat to raise your own dairy cows It possible to do so. Then you I know what you havo. It requires grain as woll as rough ness to produce butter fat, and but ter fat at present prices Is what pays. A liberal banking of sheds on the north sldo will provo a boon to the cows when tho cold weather comes. I - The Uabcock testor nover finds that " very good cowg nre owned by a poor feeder. " Remember even the best dairy cow cannot pay good returns without plenty of good feed. A pall of milk standing In a foul istablo for ten minutes will absorb enough bad odors to spoil It. Tho condition of the nnimnl ns well as tho condition of tho markot should 1 dotdrmtnc tho tlmo to soil stock. H Dcforo warm weather comes pro S pare u cpol place for the milk and 9 cream. Mako tho milk and cream ft' room cool, sweet and clean. Some of tho biggest dairy farms pay .9 tho smallost interest on capital In I vested, and some of tho smallest pay ft the biggest Some men nro land and I cow poor. Tho dairyman who does not uso tho 'H Babcock tester in determining tho gj " valuo of his cows should sell his ft dairy, buy a grocery, and sell sugar -M - by guess. m Tho man who does not get more m than two dollars returns from overy I dollar's worth of feed his cows con w sumo has not yet learned tho first lcs ft son of good dairy management. il J RAISING THE HEIFER CALVES 1 Two Important Factors to Keep In ft ' Mind In Producing Future Milk ft Cowa. I Within only a very few years It vl " wlirbo as dlincult to buy good cowb or good helfor cnlves us It will bo to ft ., buy good land, and .tho man who bo.. "IS . ' sins now to breed to good stock nnd w saves nnd properly raises his heifer calves will be In a positon to make I monoy In tho production of milk or butter or to soli stock at high fig I ' .. ureB. I ;' r There nro two Important things to 1 keep In mind In producing calves for I ' future milk production. Ono is that tho dam shall bo of known good record and tho other is that tho sire shall bo of n line of dams of exceptionally high " record. Dreed only to tho slro that is known, positively to bo of a high producing Btraln,,ovcn If the season cost twlco or throe times ns much ns that from ono of unknown moritr Flvo or ten dollars extra In this mat tor will mako a difference) in tho fu ture earning power of tho (omalo off spring of from one hundred to several hundred dollars, counting tho number of years sho will glvo milk find tho number of calves sho will glvo birth to, 9 which In turn nro to bocomo produ 9 cers. 9 A calf is about tho cheapest and ft easiest largo animal raised on tho 9 farm. Tho production of calvbs In tho ft ' dairy busines is a necessity In order ft to have tho cows freshen yearly, or at I regular Jntorvnls. As far ob feed nnd 1 enro nro concerned, It Is almost ns ft easy to raise" n $100 calf as It Is to ft ralso a $10 ono. There Is good profit I In tho former, but absolutely no profit ft in tho latter. In fact, a cheap calf X consumes much moro feed than It will I SUCCULENCE IN MILK FOODS ft Water Which Cow Gets In Her Food m Rather Than That She Drinks M That Goes Into Milk. I (Dy CIIAB. C. WENTZI.KR.) 9J Succulence Is a term applied to foods which contain a certain propor fi tlon of water. Milk Is 84 per cent. water. In summer cattle get all the fl Bucculeuco thoy require. In winter fl succulent foods have to bo furnished fl If wo 'expect to keep up the milk flow. fl It is tho water which the cow gets fl in .her food rather than the water fl which sho drinks that goes Into tho fl milk. Much of tho water which sho fl drinks is used by nature to carry off Nft certain chemicals In tho system for fl which she has no longer any uso. Tho fl excess of nitrogen is carried off in this ftft way and gives this expelled water an JS ammonia odor. a All. grains contain somo water, but fl not enough. Silo and roots are rich i M In water content When her ration 9J Is made up of a sharo of succulenco fl in winter the cow keeps up her nor- fl mal supply. But It is due to this 'MB 91 H f . sell for on tho opon market. Many n calf sold for vonl nt, sny 38. consumes $10 or I2 worth of milk before it is morketod. Kor this reason many dairy men either kill or glvo away tholr calves nt birth. Of course all male calves, except thoso of high grade saved for breeding purposes, must bo disposed of nt nn early ago nt no profit, except on farms where pnsturo is very plentiful and thoy nro saved for beef stoers. Hut tho rnlsing of a ' (KftS99999lal9Bh&k Ferris Golden Winnie. good holfer -calf will moro than com pensate tho loss. The Illustration shows the head of Ferris Golden Wlnnio, n champion 2-year-old Jersey heifer, owned by tho Wisconsin Stata Farm. SHOVEL-KINK VERY USEFUL Excellent Implement for Digging Up Muddy Ground Readily Cleans Itself. A railroad grader lately vlBltlng tho writer Bhowed him the shovel-kink horcwL.i illustrated. As tho idea seems good, wo pass it along, wrltos J. E. Drldgaman in Farm and Ranch. Tho writer was opening up a Bmnll ditch that drained ono corner of n cow pasturo. Tho ground bolng very muddy, tho dirt stuck to tho Bhovol, causing us to do moro or less cleaning of samo. Our visitor remarked that It wub not nt all necessary, and proved It by tho slmplo method herewith 11 lustrntod. Tho six throc-olghth-lnch holes wero drilled through tho shovel, nnd It nt once caused sumo to scour. Evon tho i r m A Shovel Kink. thick mud would readily leave tho blade. Tho holes, I supposo, allowed tho air to escape from tho surfaco bo tween the shovel and tho dirt. At any rato, tho shovol readily cleaned itself. Raising Calf on Milk. It Id un expensive proposition to ralso a calf on milk nt tho present markot prlco. Tho quantity of milk which a calf will rcqulro for its main tenance and growth may bo somewhat reduced by early teaching tho calf to eat hay, corn and other foods. Tho young calf will learn to cat shelled corn at four or flvo weeks of ugo and hay at tho same age, or oven enrllor. By giving it theso feeds twice dally regularly the milk ration may ho reduced. principle that an Improperly winter fed cow, Increases her milk flow when sho Is returned to pasturo In the spring. Cow Testing Organizations. In somo parts of tho country tho farmers nre forming county cow test ing organizations through which they hopo to weed out tho deadhead board ers ftorn their herds. Ono small as sociation which conducted this work last season found many cows which were drones supported by others of the herd. These have gone to tho block and the dairy business has been put upon n moro profitable basis. This should bo an incentivo to every other section of the country to tako similar steps, and while on this point why would It not bo a good Idea to tag the owners? Don't bo afraid to uso disinfectants about the cow stables. To be sure milk soon absorbs the odor of these things, but milk has no business stand ing around tho stable a minute after a cow is flnishod. ON THE SKYSCRAPER STRENUOUS LIFE IS THAT OP THE IRONWORKER. Well Styled "Cowboys of the Skies." the Men Who Erect City's Tall Buildings Always Have tho Crowds. In tho past they woro a boisterous, swashbucklng lot. They "floatod from New Orleans to Vancouver, lived in freight cars, built bridges nnd dropped off of them with a grin and a choking "good-by." A hero among thorn was n man who had tho longest fall to hi, credit, or who could tosB a white-hot rivet tho greatest dlstanco. Thoy lived hard nnd died cnBlly. Today they know that n man stands highest on tho pny roll who takes his work and Its dangor most seriously, who also watches the man next to him for In this calling ono man's error often menna another's llfo. Harper's Wook ly says. Even so the brldgoworker of today has not lost his romantic sldo. Ho Is still tho cavalier of tho workaday world. Seo him now, clinging Uko a fly to tho top ring of that lofty derrick, or swaying in midair with ono leg wound cnrolcs8ly about n dangling cablo, or standing upright nlongsldo a dizzy column, hundreds of foot nbovo tho ground, with nothing moro sub stanUal under his clinging too than an Inch'Wldo boltl Tho plumber lay ing pipes In tho dark basoment gets Just ns high a wago and hla work 1b quito as important. Dut tho Ironwork er gets tho oyes of tho crowd and knowB It. "Cowboys of tho skies" -they hnvo boon styled, and nptly so. Thoy have many characteristics in common with tholr brethren of tho plains. Thoy lovo a dnro and a scam poring rnco. Often they mako and havo them when tho boss In not wntchtng. Just recently two sky scrapers In Now York raced up sldo by Bide a veritable" Marathon of tho skies! and prodigies of daring nnd foolhardlness wero dono by tho rival gangs facing each other across tho In tervening sldo-streot. Thoy Btolo ouch other's hats and wrenches ub they Balled up atop tho loads of Iron, danced giddy hornpipes on tho ends of pro jecting beams, tried to "best" each other taking chances amid tho pnndo monlum of whip-snapping cables and swinging Iron. Thoy uffect oxtrnvngancos nnd pe culiarities of dross. That nthlotlc-look--ing fellow with tho "grimy face nnd hands appears on idlo Sundays In will to flnnncis nnd silk hoso. Tho man bosldo him is n favorite nt bridge men's dances nnd has been known to wear nnd grnco n frock-coat. Thoy made no serious complaints ovor tho now ordor of things tho rush of the work. "Sure," said ono. "It'B all right, only It's over nowndnys boforo you got your second wind." Said anothor: "This going up nt a story a day InterforoB with mo soclnl llfo. On that 13th street building thoro was n hotel within nrm's roach, and ono day I got to talking with a pretty maid through a window. Noxt day I had to talk down to her nnd noxt I had to yell to hor, and In two days moro I had to suy good-by. " 'Good-by!' says sho. 'Sorry to bco you go; but I'll Introduco you to my friend Kntio who works on tho tenth floor.' " Likes Really Good Music. "What did you think of tho pinnlst7" "Worst I ovor heard." "NonBenso. Sho'a a romarknbly lino performer. Hocuuho alio plnys classical music, you don't appreciate her." "What's that! I don't nppreclato hor, don't I? Well, then, I don't. Ilut that's no proof that I ain't on when good music is played. Did you ever hear that red-headed llttlo Maine Do herty piny 'Has There Anybody Horo Seen Kelly?'" The Giant Bible. Thoro Is In tho Royal library at Stockholm, among other curiosities, a manuscript work known ns tho Giant Bible, on account of Its extraordinary dimensions. It measures about 35 inches in length-nnd is about 19 Indies In breadth. It requires three men to lift It. There nro 309 pages, but Boven havo been lost. The parchment of which tho book Is composed requlrod tho Hkins of 1C0 asses. Thoro are two columns on onch pago, and tho book contains tho Old nnd Now Testaments, with extracts from "Josephus." The initial letters nro Illuminated. Tho binding Is of oak, four and one-half centimeters In thickness. Tho book narrowly escaped destruction in tho fire in the Royal palace of Stockholm in 1697. It was saved, but somewhat damaged, by being thrown out of a window. In Doubt. "WJion are you going to tako your vacation this summer?" "Oh, somo tlmo when my wlfo noti fies mo that there is room for mo at our cottage." Detroit Free Press. - -1 - M3uxitwmhrm wwy bin mi , whhi m wmsMsmi ! win mmmtMsmmamamtamaAri rr , I H Tact and the Brindle Cow 99999991 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmKammmmmmmm H By John Philip Arth M Thero It was, flat and plain. "Mamma told mo yesterday that If I did not dlscourngo you sho would speak to you herself." "Hut what can sho have against mo?" "Sho Bays she's going to tako mo abroad noxt year and hnvo Bomo lord or duko fall In lovo with mo. Oh, Will, I wish mothor, wasn't wasn't Bitch a gooso!" "And you'll glvo mo up to marry a title?" "N-o, and yet I must do ns mothor BayB, muBn't I? If you'd only go at It nnd do something horolc. Can't you save mothor's llfo In Bomo way? Can't somo great danger threaten her and you rcscuo hor," Will Pelham had known Glynn Durnham for a yenr or moro, nnd ho had boon engaged to her for tho Inst three months, though It wns a Becrot engagement. Ho lived in tho city nnd had graduated as a mining cnglncor and was looking for a placo. Ho had no monoy to bpenk of, nnd ho did not go Into society much, but thoso who know him spoke In his pralso. Ho had nn undo living near tho wldow'n country house, 15 miles out, nnd ho had boon coming down to boo that undo every Saturday afternoon nnd finding his way ovor to the othor houBO. The mothor had nover had n vory worm welcome for him. Now Bho had nut hor foot down. Sho wanted a rich and titled Bonlnlaw. Ho must not call at tho houso any moro. If Glynn wouldn't elopo with him ho must give her up. While ho wan holding down a placo In Montnna or Novndn, a thousnnd miles nwny, Bho would bo taken off to Europo to cap tlvato some old man with n tttlo and tho gout. MIbb Glynn wns tearful and ho was iald nt tho parting, though neither looked at It ub flnal. It was too sud don. Two human heartB cannot ho pnrted that way. Thoy mtiRt hnvo time to got accustomed to theo sepa ration. On bis way over to IiIb. unclo's young Mr. Polhnm noticed tho proud and ambltlouB mother In tho meadow culling dnlBlos. Sho had gono forth to glvo tho daughter an opportunity to repent her words. Forty rods farther along tho highway ho noticed n brlndlo cow looking over tho fonco nt the widow nnd Blinking hor bond and giving other signs of nnger. Only a civil or mining " englnoor, whose profession Is to surmount all dllllcultios, whether nbovo or bolow tho surface, would havo stopped for flvo minutes to wonder how to bring that, brlndlo cow and Hint ambitious woman together, lie looked at tho woman hb Bho culled nt tho cow an Bho mumbled nt the Bdltury treo In tho pasture, and ho decided that It could bo dono. Ho went homo to ask of hid undo: "Who owns that old brlndlo cow over thoro 7" "Why, GrlggBon docs. I meant to toll you nbout her. Don't try to cross that field. She's prejly near killed two tramps this summer." That was enough for a starter, and Will Bat down to flguro the rest out to scnlo. This would bo nn nbovo ground affulr, but thero would bo somo points to solve. For instance: How faBt can n brlndlo cow run7 How much faster than a brlndlo cow can a young man In love run? What are the first Impressions of an ambitious mother at seeing n brindle cow com ing for her In an open lot? Would her second Impressions bid her climb the treo within a few yards of her? Can a young man in lovo run around the trunk of a treo faster than a brindle cow not In lovo7 All those things entered Into tho engineering problem beforo tho young man, hut ho had a wook to work tit them boforo coming again, nnd thero wnn a hopeful smile on his faco, Ho knew by letter what had happened nftor ho loft tho Iioiiho. Tho mother had como In wjth her bouquet of daisies and snld: "I saw that person passing along tho road half an hour ago." "Yes, mamma." "You told him what I asked you to?" "Yes." "And he knows my feelings on tho subject?" "Yes," "Thon we may consider tho matter as Bottled.'- In reading tho dally pa pers uftor this, If you corno across any titled persons mentioned cut nut the piece and savo it. I am glad you have acted so sensibly about the thing. Every girl's mother knows what Is best for her." Miss Glynn wns not weeping nnd sho wns not mulling. Sho was won dering how good a mining engineer Will Pelhnm was. A week lator and he was on bis mettle. Ho was look Ing over the fence throwing clubB at that brlndlo cow to Btlr hor up. Sho B wns easily stirred. Mrs. Durnham was B in tho dalfly flold again, nnd tho old B bovino considered It a personal af- H front After a fow momenta tho cow jB wns engineered nwny from tho fonco B nnd tho rails thrown down. Thon, the B engineer started for tho treo, 30 roda .-H away. Ho began, nt tho same tlmo, to ' shout to tho daisy gatherer: 9999J "To tho tree! To tho treo I Swing M yourself up Into tho treo!" B Tho first Impression of tho widow B was to run. Tho second was to skip B for tho treo. Could Bho climb? She ,-. B could. It is plcblan for n woman to B climb trees, but sho seized a low- B hanging branch and went up like a 9999J coon boforo n dog. That brlndlo cow 9999J coming on tho dead run, nnd gaining; B on tho engineer nt cvory Jump, looked 9999J bigger than any tltlo In Europo Juat 999J 999b Will Pelham could runt In run M nlng with a brldo ns tho prlzo ho could 9999 inalto n locomotivo look tired. Ho 9999 reached tho treo seven feet six Inchon 999J ahead or tho old brlndlo. Ho hadn't 999J planned to climb tho treo. No horolca 9B 'can tako placo up n treo. Ho ohol 999J ored himself bohtnd tho trunk, nnd 999J tho brlndlo cow passed It by nn inch 999J nnd drovo on with n bellow. H "O-h-h-h, Mr. Pelham!" from up tho '999J 99B "Yes, ftB "Wo shall both bo killed-!" H "I suspect that wo shall, but I'll H die " 99B Thoro was not tlmo to ndd tho word 99B "gamo." Tho cow was coming back J9 Uko n freight train on n down grndo, "H and tho englnoor had to Bldo-Btop 99B again. Tho hollows of rngo as tho 99J tnrgot was missed would havo dono 999J credit to n fog-horn. 999J "Mr. Pelham, sho will surely kill 99B you and thon climb tho treo and kill 99J 99B "I I can dodgo her n llttlo longor." 99J "Rut climb up horo bosldo mo bo- 99J foro It's too Into." 9 I "My sliouldor, you know 1 can't H climb. Hang on for your llfo Bho's 99B coming again!" H It that brlndlo cow had sot out, carl iT .99H Icr i)"llfe.Bho flight Unyo. hoiojillSil ""rH Standnrd Qll company in ownlngtho 9Pftl United StAtos. Sho had sand. Sho 999J had porsovornnco. Sho had ambition. 999J Sho charged again and again. Sho' 999J hooked and bunted tho troo and ?9 brought down screams and prayers' 999J Sho kept tho engineer dodging Uko a . H cat on a hot stove, and It was n long 999J half hour before alio tired out. 99 "I cannot diol Savo me! Savo mo!" 999J came down from tho brunches for the - 999J tenth time. H "I will!" wub repeated for tho samo J99B 99 And it wiib done. Mr. Pelham loft ' H tho Bholtor of tho treo and mnde n ! ;999 dash for a piece of fence-rnll 50 foot H away and got It. Thon ho wont for , Vftft brindle. Shu bluffed, but ho ham B morcd her horns and hobo nnd spinal. 999 column and hind-quarters, and ho ran 9B her back Into hor pdBluro a sadder 99J and wiser farmer's friend. Ho turned B to seo a crumpled woman lying at tho B foot of tho treo. lie advanced to find 99J (hat It wiib Mm. Hurnhum, and that 99J she- wanted to tako his arm and go 9B home. Thoy didn't say much during 9B tho walk. It wns when thoy reached 9B tho veranda and tho waiting, wondor- B Ing Glynn that tho quavering voice of B her mothor said: B "Glynn, this Isn't a person It's Mr. B9 Pelham, and If you want to tell him ftjft that we've given up our European 9B trip you can do so. Do suru to nsk IftB him to stny to dinner. How grand J . H How noble! How courageous!" 9B Almost Equal to Bryan. 99J James E. Martlne, tho "farmer or a- , 99J tor" of New Jersey, told tho following H story on himself nt n dinner recently: 99J "llnpponlng In New York ono after- 99J noon I thought 1 would like to look ' 99J ovor the new station of the Ponnsyl- ' 99J vanln railroad, so I wont to tho ofllco H and asked permlsHlon from tho man 99J Inside. 99J " 'Are you hero in an official capac- 99J My?' I was asked. 99J " 'No,' I said, 'I'm only a farmer H fcodiiig you hungry mortals.' H '"Well, then, aro you a member ol " '' H the legislature?' the man asked. H "'No,' I answorod, 'but I havo four H times been a candidate for tho lowor H branch of the legislature, four times u H candidate for stute sonntor, twice 1 99 ran for congress and on two occa- H slons was a promising candidate for H governor nnd had tho honor of being H talked of for the United StatOB sen 99 atorshlp, and was beaten evory time.' H "'Good heavens!' responded my in I quisltor, 'you havo moro courago than H any whlto man I ovor saw.' And ho I culled n messenger and provided mo I AyUh a pass to go through tho build- fl Ing." N. Y, Tribune. fl fl B 999 fl