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Temperature in Churning.
The temperature at which cream
may be churned to advantage depends
a good deal on the sourness as well
as the richness of the cream. A 20
per cent, cream will churn quickly at
a higher temperature than a 35 per
cent, or 40 per cent, cream. The rich
er the cream the lower the tempera
ture at which it may be churned with
out an excessive loss of fat. Twenty
per cent, cream can hardly be churned
at a temperature of 50 degrees as it
swells in the churn and will not
break. A good rich cream of say 35
per cent, or more ma^ be churned at
50 degrees in a reasonable length of
time.—Indiana Farmer.
Fertility of Eggs.
Good hatches do not depend espe
cially upon how closely the hen re
mains upon the nest, but upon the vi
tality and fertility of the eggs. If the
eggs contain strong chicks, and all of
them are fertile, they will create a
large amount of animal heat in the
nest, inducing the hen to come off fre
quently in order to cool herself and
the eggs, but if the eggs contain but
few chicks the hen will endeavor to
conserve the warmth and remain
closely on the nest. It sometimes
appears strange that a hen which sits
closely fails to bring off a good brood,
while another by her side, which has
left her nest much oftener, was suc
cessful, but such results are often
due to the difference in the fertility
of the eggs.
Good Plowing Makes Good Crops.
It is not always the best-looking
plow fallow that is the best broken
land. A plow constructed like a
gouge that slides under the turf and
inverts it without breaking it, looks
well, but for the production of a crop
it prepares the land badly. Many of
the plows now on the market are
constructed so as to bring the least
draught upon the team, and this by
many is considered the perfection of
the plow—the least draught for a giv
en depth. But may we not be labor
ing under a mistake in this? The
object in plowing is to invert and
pulverize the soil and prepare it for
a crop. Plowing may be so performed
as to invert the soil without breaking
it, except in the line of the furrow
slice. It is evident that if a crop be
planted upon land so turned, the roots
of the plant will have to contend with
the large unbroken blocks of soil, so
hard, indeed, in many instances that
the roots cannot penetrate them.
Water Gardens.
A small outdoor water-garden is
Just the thing to make one’s place
different from the general run of
commonplace gardens, says a writer
in The Garden Magazine. "Why not
try some hardy waterlilies this year!
I have two .pools in my garden, and
both are a source of great pleasure
to my J nily and myself, as well as
the stranger in my gates. One is
planted with water-lilies and the other
with lotus. In the former we have
flowers from early spring to late au
tumn. The colors are white, yellow
and pink. The lotus blooms for a pe
riod of about two months, and I have
nothing in my garden to compare
with its flowers in beauty. If you are
a lazy gardener try water-lilies. They
require no watering, when everything
else is drying up, and weeding at any
time. They multiply so fast with me
that most of them have to be dug
up every spring, and the increase sells
at good prices. Do not grow geran
iums, cannas, coleus, and the like,
when so many beautiful plants can be
grown so different from your neigh
bors.—Indiana Farmer.
Are Sheep Profitable?
On my father’s farm we kept a
flock of twenty sheep for many years.
They were very profitable in several
ways. They kept the weeds down in
old fields, ate the sprouts and trimmed
the buck bushes in the pastures and
also brought good financial returns.
The expense of keeping sheep is very
light, for they can live in fields where
other stock would starve to death. In
winter, good clover hay and a small
feed of oats or shelled corn twice a
day will keep them in good condition,
if they are sheltered from the storms.
On an average, the fleece of wool will
pay for the keeping of the sheep. The
lambs will be a clear profit. Our flock
generally averaged a lamb apiece ev
ery year and these sold from three
to five dollars per head, making the
profit on the flock each year from six
ty to a hundred dollars. The money
always came in at a.time when there
• was no other slock ready for the
market, so was always acceptable. An
old Scotchman with whom I was ac
quainted and who had grown wealthy
raising sheep, said: “If a young man
will buy ten sheep and keep their in
crease for ten years he can buy a
good 160 acre farm.” If this old
Scotchman was right and no doubt he
was, why do not more of our young
men go into the sheep raising busi
ness?—W. D. Neale, in the Epitomist.
To Kill Quack Grass.
One of the most difficult plants to
get rid of is quack grass. Indeed, un
less gone at in the proper way, it is
almost impossible to clear it out of
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land. The preliminary step toward its
destruction is to plow the ground
that is infested just before winter
begins. The furrows should not be
made over four inches thick, for then
the long roots will be turned up to the
surface where, if they do not dry and
die, they will receive a very severe
shock. Follow this treatment up in
the spring by a thorough harrowing
with a sharp spike tooth drag, or bet
ter with one whose teeth are curved
forwards, so as to gather the dead
roots and those still alive, that they
may be raked together and burned.
Whereupon, again plow the land as
shallow as before, leaving the roots
on the surface to dry. As the sod
where quack exists is thick and dense,
there will be a large quantity of dead
matter in the soil to make a good
crop of corn or potatoes, and if this
crop is planted and well worked by a
light sharp-toothed harrow, the teeth
of which slope forward, the majority (
of what roots is left will be torn up l
and thus may readily be removed from
the land. It should be plowed again
in late autumn, however, and the
next year the same process repeated
as before. If the wrork is thoroughly
enough performed, this will generally
use up the toughest piece of quack,
and the rotted sod that is obtained
therefrom be equivalent to a heavy
manuring—Fred O. Sibley in the
Epitomist.
A Good Barn Plan.
With your permission I will try to
give a description of the barn I built
last year for the benefit of W. M.,
of Fulton county. My barn is for
horses only, but can be arranged for
any kind of stock. It is 36x50 feet
with basement 36x50 feet. The barn
is set in concrete walls S 1-2 feet high
18 inches thick at base and 9 inches
at top. That is high enough to drive
a top buggy in. This gives room for
three rows of stalls 9 feet deep and
a drive way through the center 10
feet wide by 50 feet long. The first
floor space 36x50, 8 feet high, 12 foot
drive way the short side and 2 wheat
granaries one on either side of drive
way. so that the grain may be scooped
out of the wagon into them. The oat
bins arc back of the wheat bins. All
of these have chutes running down
into the basement. The corn into the
feed way, the oats into the feed way
and the wheat into the w’agon in
drive way. The hay mow is 36x$0x
6 feet at the plates and 18 feet in
center and not a timber in it, the
roof being self-supporting. To get the
hay down to basement we have four
hay chutes 4x4 feet square. Fill these
full and it will feed the 20 head of
horses several times. We have four
double stalls that we can run buggies
in, or anything we want to keep in
the basement. It is very handy to
drive in and unhitch in bad weather.
We keep a wagon in basement and
clean stalls into it;’ when loaded it
takes but a short time to haul it to
the field. The water tank is in one
of the double stalls and is much bet
ter in bad weather than going out to
water.—W. Barnes in Indiana Farm*
er.
Watering Cows.
It is usually conceded that the more
you can cause a cow to consume, the '
more milk she will give; perhaps I ;
should say, a cow cannot give milk
without plenty-of water. It may make
a difference in what way she gets it.
Perhaps it is better in the food than
from an ice box. The silage-fed cows
consumed from all sources 92.94 lbs.
of water, and the grain-fed cows G9.09
lbs. Still the silage-fed cows aver
aged to drink from the trough 45.3
lbs. of water, while grain-fed cows
drank 65 lbs. .
Silage has been objected to because
“cows would not drink as much when
eating ensilage.” These cows drank
less but consumed more, for, “al
though they drank only 70 per cent, as
much wAter, the cows taking the silage
ration really consumed 135 per cent,
of the water consumed by the cows
on the dry matter.” This last state
ment is a blind one to the ordinary
man, and ^is only noticed because I
wish to commend t-his bulletin for its
clearness in contrast to some I have
seen. They remind me of the story
of one of Emerson’s admirers who
took one of his books to him and said-:
“Mr. Emerson, I have read and re
read this page, but I cannot catch
your meaning. I wish you would tell
me just what you meant.” After read
ing it twice and scratching his head,
he replied: “My friend, there is a
beautiful thought in that page* but I
have forgotten, myself, what it was.”
The object of this experiment was
to determine whether silage could not
be substituted for a considerable por
tion of the grain usually fed to dairy
cows. The, two rations were‘carrying
practically the same amount of dry
matter. In one ration over 50 per
cent, of this dry matter was obtained
from silage and less than 18 per cent,
from grain. The facts reported seem
to justify the conclusion that a cheap
er ration of the right kind may be used
at considerable profit. The present
condition of the grain market makes
the appearance of this bulletin oppor
tune and compels dairymen to “get
next” or “get out” of the business.— i
\C. E. Chapman in Ohio Farmer. I
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PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
If a man could have half his wishes
he would double his trouble.—Poor
Richard.
How blunt are all the arrows of ad
versity in comparison with those of
guilt!—Blair.
A thankful heart is not only the
greatest virtue, but the parent of all
the other virtues.—Cicero.
Action may not always bring hap
piness, but there i3 no happiness
without action.—Disraeli.
Facts are God’3 arguments; we
should be careful never to misunder
stand or pervert them.—Tryon Ed
wards.
Hold the mind prayerfully in con
ference with God. We are certain of
success; go, nothing doubting.—R, s
Storis.
1 he short sayings of wise and good
men are of great value, like the dust
of gold or the sparks of diamonds.—
Tillotson.
“Do not attempt to pack a Great
Hope into a small soul. Let your
soul expand, so that great hopes shall
have great room.”
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is
criminal, and he may properly be
charged with evil who refuses to learn
how he might prevent it—Johnson.
What man is there that,dees not
laboriously, though all unconsciously,
himself fashion the sorrow that is to
be the pivot of his life?—MaeterliDgk.
RAN UP OLD GLORY.
How Paul Jones Accepted the Chal
lenge of the Serapis.
The Bon Homme Richard was still
bearing down on the large ship, which
was then protecting a large fleet of
merchant ships. In order to protect
that valuable convoy, as it was his
duty, he (the enemy) hove to, hauled
up his canvas and prepared for ac
tion. Side lanthorns, of course, were
up throughout the enemy’s ship and
every man at quarters was plain to be
seen. We were then but a very small
distance from them and y®u may be
sure that our ship was as well pre
pared for action as it was in the pow
er of man to have a ship. While we
were still bearing down upon the en
emy, she hailed us in these words:
“Hoie! the ship a’hoie!” Our cap
tain, with a large trumpet in his
hands, made no answer. The enemy
again cried: “The ship a-hoie!” Jones
then in a very loud voice said: “I can’t
tell what you say.” The enemy again
replied: “Tell me what ship that is
diiectly or I will sink you.” Jones
then answered: “Sink and be
damned!” Both ships were within 50
yards of each oher and at the words,
“sink and be damned.” I fully believe
no man living could tell which ship
fired first, but so It was that each ship
fired a broadside. I was at the time on
the lower deck commanding two of
the 18-pounders. Before the action
commenced, everything was so silent
that a man could easily hear every
thing said. At the second broadside,
the guns that I had command of were
dismounted as were also all of our
lower deck guns, and of course, the
men were quartered elsewhere. At
this time. Jones ordered the helm to
be put hard up and to run the enemy
on board. It was done. In doin
-, — ran uetween our
mizzen-shrouds and mizzen-mast. Her
jib-boom carried away our ensign
staff and colors. At this, they gave
three cheers. We answered them
with one cheer. Jones at the same
time cried out: “Look at my missen
peak!” at which place was run up the
glory of America. I mean the most
handsome suit of colors that I ever
saw. They were about 3G feet in the
fly.—From the “Narrative of John Kil
by—Quarter-Gunner of the U. S. Ship
Bon Homme Richard Under PauJ
Jones,” in Scribner’s.
To See Life at Its Best.
Keep in the sunlight; nothing beau
tiful or sweet grows or ripens in the
darkness.
Avoid fear in all its varied forms of
expression. It is the greatest enemy
of the human race, says the Philadel
phia Inquirer.
Avoid excesses of all kinds; they
are injurious. The long life must be
a temperate, regular life.
Don’t live to eat, but eat to live.
Many of our ills are due to overeating,
to eating the wrong things and to ir
regular eating.
Don’t allow yourself to think on your
birthday that you are a year older and
so much nearer the end.
Never look on the dark side; take
sunny views of everything; a sunny
thought drives away the shadows.
Be a child; live simply and naturally
and keep clear of entangling alliances
and complications of all kinds.
Form a habit of throwing off before
going to bed at night all the cares and
anxieties of the day—everything which
can possibly cause mental wear and
tear or deprive you of rest.
To Increase Height.
If you want to increase your height
wear
Long perpendicular lines.
No horizontal effects.
No pronounced plaids.
Cuban heels.
For the street, skirts that just clear
the ground.
Trailing skirts for the house.
Plain fabrics or those with fine, in
conspicuous pattern.
Narrow shoulders and drooping
sleeves.
Long stoles of fur or feathers.
Either a hip jacket or a full length
coat.
Toques rather than high hats.
No deep flounces, no three-quarter
coats, no broad shoulder-puffs, and no
deep-pointed girdle.—Chicago News.
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New York City.—There are many oc
casions for which nothing is quite so
well suited as the fitted coat. This one
u u w
is severe in style and lias all the smart
ness which comes from such cut while
it is absolutely becoming to girlish
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Tucked Blouse Waist.
The blouse waist continues, and will
continue, to be the favorite of the fash
ionable world, and seems to know no
limit to its variety. Illustrated is one j
of the newest that can be utilized both
for. wash materials and for silks and
wools, and which allows of many va
riations in the trimming. In this in
stance white liuen is combined with
handsome embroidery and the waist is
unlined, but the trimming can be lace
or banding of any sort that may be
preferred, while the fitted lining will
be found desirable for silk and wool
materials.
The waist consists of the fitted lin
ing, which is closed at the front, the
fronts and the back. The tucks are
so arranged as to give tapering Lines to
the figure at the back and to provide
becoming fulness at the front while
the closing of the waist is made invisi
bly beneath the edge of the right front.
The sleeves are the favorite ones wliich
form generous putt's above smoothly j
fitted lower portions. There is a regu
lation stock which can be worn with a
tie and a turn-over, as in this instance,
or be made to match the trimming as
preferred.
A LATB PBSIGK BY WAY WANTOH.
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figures and q /.ite simple. In the illus
tration the material is white serge
stitched with belding silk, but while it
is in every way to be desired for the
immediate season, the model will also
be found available for the autumn and
for every fashionable suiting as well
as for general wear.
The coat is made with fronts, backs
and under-arm gores, and is absolutely
plain. At the neck are regulation col
lar and lapels, and the closing is made
invisibly by means of a fly. The
sleeves are the accepted ones that are
full at the shoulders and narrow at the
wrists.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is three and a half
yards of material twenty-seven, two
and a quarter yards forty-four or one
and three-quarter yards fifty-two
inches wide.
Overskirts to Be Worn.
There is every prospect that we shall
be wearing overskirts within the com
ing year. The tunic skirt is being
boomed by the dressmakers, and since
many women have taken kindly to the
innovation, its success is fairly well
assured. The style is very becoming to
tall figures, but is not at all a happy
one for short or stout women.
Use Great Care in Selecting.
With short skirts invading the ranks
of almost every style of dress, a mis
take often committed is that of hav
ing every skirt in your wardrobe short,
instead of having an occasional long
one for high days and holidays. And
another mistake even more encoun
tered is the wearing of several tailored
skirts with exquisitely embroidered
blouses, the excuse being that they are
both white, and so should be all right.
They are not all right, by a great deal.
Short skirts belong, by the very nature
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is three and three
quarter yards twenty-one, three and a
i nw
quarter yards twenty-seven or two
yards forty-four inches wide with one
yard of all-over embroidery to trim as
Illustrated.
of things, to the less formal side of
things; and embroidered blouses—
this, of course, refers to the more elab
orate blouses, not the simple little
ones that belong, by rights, to morn
ing and walking suits—to a rather
more formal side.
White to He Popular.
White, the trade journals say, wih j
be more popular next year than it
lias been this or previous seasons. The
buyer will, therefore, take every ad
vantage of white sales in the shops.
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Positive, Comparative, Superlative.
** I have used one of your Fish Brand
Sljckfcra for five yearat and now want
a new one, also one for a friend. I
would not be without one for twice the
cost. They are just as fcr ahead of a
common coat as a common one is
ahead of nothing.”
(Kamo on application.)
HlfiHEST Aff 1RP WORLD’S FAIR. liHU.
Qo sure you don’t get one of the com
mon kind —this is the rCfSWO?’*
mark of excellence, g **
A. J. TOWER CO.,
BOSTON, U.S A.
TOWER CANADIAN CO., Limited,
TORONTO, CANADA. 352
Makers of Wet Weather Clothing & Hats.
trousiea wit a ills peculiar to
their sex, used as a douche is marvelously euc
cescful. Thoroughly cleanses, kills disease germs,
Etops discharges, heals inliammation and local
soreness, cures leucorrhcea a-d nasal catarrh,
Paxtine is in powder form to be dissolved in pure
water, and is far mors cleansing, healing, wermkidal
and economical than liquid antiseptics for all
TOILET AND WOMEN’S SPECIAL USES
For sale at druggists, 50 cents a box.
Trial Box and Book of Instructions Free.
Thi R. Paxton Company Boston, Mass.
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FOR t
Big Bargain
To better advertise; the South’s Leading
Business College, four scholarships are of
fered young persons of this county at less than
cost. WRITE TODAY. .
Gallon Ctstsm* 918 80
1.880 Gal-Ion Cistarn, 21.40
2,100 Gallon Cistern, 28-81
Cypro**, Sash and Door* very cheap.
Wire Bcroom and Doors ohaap.
$3C0 From An Acre.
Last year’s little garden was tho
most satisfactory we have ever had,
says a writer in The Golden Maga
zine. The area was little more than
one-third of an acre, which was
plowed by a colored man for $2.25. The
dead weeds and other trash were re
moved for $3, so that when the gar
den was ready for planting tne total
Investment amounted to $5.25. The
gTOund slightly declines rrom the
north to south and faces the sun for a
good many hours each day.
\\ e sold $20 worth of products,
which gave us $10 over the original
cost. A careful account of all the
products sold, used given away, or
put away for Winter showed our gar- ,
den was worth $110 in cash.
Tobacco Ashes as an Asset.
As everybody knows, tne ash left
on burning tobacco is considerable.
A ton of tobacco leaf would yield
four hundred weights of a?h, which
represents valuable mineral constitu
ents withdrawn from the soil which
have to be replaced by abundant ma
nuring.
On the fare of it there would seem
to be a fortune in store for that in
dividual who could device a success
ful means for the collection of to
bacco ash, and it is a great pity that
so much valuable material should
forever be lost to the soil without
any attempt at direct restoration bo
lng made.—London lancet.
OUST THE DEMON.
A Tnssle With C*fTee.
There is something fairly demonia
cal in the way coffee sometimes wreaks
its fiendish malice on those who use it.
A lady writing from Calif, says:
“My husband and I, both lovers of
coffee, suffered for some time from a
very annoying form of nervousness,
accompanied by most frightful head
aches. In my own case there was
eventually developed some sort of af
fection of the nerves leading from the
spine to the head.
“I was unable to bold my head up
straight, the tension of the nerves
drew it to one side, causing me the
most intense pain. We got no relief
from medicine, and were puzzled as to
what caused the trouble, till a friend
suggested that possibly the coffee we
drank had something to do with it, and
advised that we Quit it and try Pos
tum Coffee.
“We followed his advice, and from
the day that we began to use Postum
we both began tp improve, and in a
very short time both of us were en
tirely relieved. The nerves became
steady once more, the headaches
coased, the muscles in the back of my
neck relaxed, my head straightened
up and the dreadful pain that had so
punished me while I used the old kind
of coffee vanished.
“We have never resnmed the use of
the old coffee, but relish our Postum
every day as well as we did the for
mer beverage. And we are delighted
to find that we can give it freely to
our children also, something vre never
dared to do with the old kind of cof
fee.” Name given by Postum Co., Bat
tle Creek, Mich.
Postum Coffee contains absolutely no
drugs of any kind, but relieves the
coffee drinker from the old drug poison.
There’s a reason.
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