The midland journal., April 16, 1909, Image 2

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JPROFESSOR A. LAWRENCE LOWELL.
The New President of Harvard; For Eight Years Professor of the Science j
of Government.
Improved Coffee Urn.
Aar methods adopted by the own
ers of restaurants and cfifes to hasten
the service and shorten the time re
paired: to fill the easterners’ orders
kre always welcomed. The busy busi
ness man has no time to spare for
U> naontef meal, generally forcing
It down as quickly as possible. To
facilitate matters a Philadelphian has
dovtsod and patented an ingenious at
tachment for coffee urns which saves
• great deal of time and annoyance.
This consists of Sn automatic cut-off
attached to the spigot. There is no
turning of handles. With an arm
fall of dishes on one side and an
empty cup and saucer in the other,
the waiters merely press the cup
against the spigot and the coffee runs
out. With each prossure on the au
tomatic spigot only enough coffee •
paases to fill the cup. The time for
merly consumed in depositing the cup
and turning on the spigot is elim
inated. The waiter simply presses
the rim of the cap against the spigot
gad Ja a few seconds has a cup full of
coffce, at the same time retaining the
other arm full of dishes.—W|ahing
ton Star.
Modm BaDdings Inferior.
In modern buildings the cement
and mortar are the weakest points;
in the buildings which the Romans
and Grecos raised thousands of years
ago the cement and mortar are the
■trongnt points, and hold good while
the Tory stones they bind together
cnimbte away with age. With all our
acteace we cannot make such cement
and mortar, and. therefore, we can
not construct such buildings as the
ancients raised.
They Invariably Fail.
One of the great troubles with trial
. marriages seems to be that they never
prove to -be satisfactory.—Chicago
Record-Herald. c
ROUSING THE ENGLISH RURAL MIND ON THE SUBJECT OF
VOTES FOR WOMEN.
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The van is one of the best devices from a women suffragist standpoint
to **Mch the agitators led by Mrs. Fawcett have yet resorted. There ara
dosKMUK of the vehicles ..going op and down and across the country.
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Definition of Assault in England. j
An assault may be committed with- !
out the exertion of any actual force, ;
as a case before Mr. Justice Darling
this week -shows. A person may be
guilty of the crime by simply fright- '
enlng his victim. If any form of
physical contact takes place the of- 1
fense rises from an “assault” to a j
“battery.” “Assault and battery,”
therefore, is not a mere reduplicated
phrase. To constitute the minor
crime some degree of alarm must
be present in the mind of the party
threatened, but that in itself (not
very logically) is not enough; the
person guilty of the menace must
have the power of carrying out his
implied threat, whether the victim
knows it or not. Thus it has been
held that while presenting a loaded
pistol at a person is certainly an as
sault, to point an unloaded pistol is
not. —Manchester Guardian.
Electric Cream Separator.
It is now possible to separate cream
from milk by the employment of elec
tricity, the process requiring much j
less time than with the costly cream*
separators now in use. The process
consists in passing an electric current
through the milk to be treated, the
passage of the current causing the
separation of the cream from the
milk. The apparatus necessary is
shown in the accompanying illustra
tion, the invention of a Kansas City
man. The milk is poured into the
funnel at the top and drops through
the tub onto the inclined chutes, ar
ranged one above the other. Current
is supplied from adjacent storage bat
teries. On its passage down the
chutes the milk will alternately be
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subjected to positive and negative
currents, causing the rapid separation
of the particles of cream. The milk
and cream will finally drop into the
receptacle at the bottom, the cream
collecting upon the surface, whence 1
it can be readily removed by skim- j
■ ming.—Washington Star.
UltM AND GARDEN
EXPERT OPINION ON MILKING
MACHINES.
The practicability of milking toy use
of mechanical milker® 'has been given
a test at the Nebraska Agricultural
experiment station and the results
with the opinions of those In charge
of the tests made known in a bulletin
wlMcih. the station recently issued. K
milking machine plant was installed
at tlhe station in October, 1906, and
since that time a number of experi
mental trials have been made and
careful report® kept. From these
data the experts in charge of the tests
! have reached the following conclu-
I etons:
“Heifers In their first lactation ap
parently give better results by ma
chine milking than do aged cows that
have been accustomed to hand milk
ing for one or more years.
“Some cows are not adapted to ma
chine milking.
“Alternate hand and machine meth.
ods -cf -milking have a detrimental ef
fect upon the milk flow.
“Manipulation of the udder is abso
lutely necessary In some Instances be
fore all the milk can be drawn by the
machine.
“One man operating one machine
can milk about the same number of
oows per hour as one man milking by
hand.
“Two men operating four machines
can practically do the work of three
j men milking by hand.
"Two operators with four machines
j milked twenty-one cows per hour in
i the university dairy.
"It was found necessary to thor
oughly wash and 'boil the milking ma
chine parts after each usage in order
to produce milk with as low a bacteri
al content as that resulting from care
ful methods of hand milking.
"Washing the machines at irregular
intervals or simply drawing water
though them will increase the bac
terial content of the milk even above
poor methods of hand milking.
“The man operating the milkers
must thoroughly understand the care
and management of dairy stook. He
should also 'be ipersi stent in the at
tention to details in order to obtain
the best results.
“Prom these studies it would appear
that the milking machine is fitted for
large herds rather tlhian small ones,
andd we believe t would be impracti
cable to install them where fewer
than thirty cows are milked the year
1 round.” I
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FARM NOTES.
Don't attempt to carry a lot of
weakly or stunted chickens through
the season. Get rid of them. ;
Birds Intended for exhibition
Should be handled and made tame.
The judges cannot do justice to a
wild or frightened specimen.
Take the cabbage which are too
■moll to use on the table, the small
potatoes, beets, turnips, etc., ..gather
them all In and store for the poultry.
Help in sacking potatoes.. Take
three sticks about an inch and a half
la diameter and make a strong trian
| gular stand. Put three hookas in the
| upward 'part of the angle. The hooks
Should be about as high as a sack
when filled. One man can do two
men’s work in this manner.
Crowding ami Improper ventilation
are the source or many ailments and
losses in otherwise well managed and
weH regulated flocks. This is espec
ially true at this time of year and
with the growing youngsters, •which
often are orowded Into a little 2x4
coop that Is cleaned out once a .month.
No wonder that they are lousy and
droop around with one ailment or an
other.
Kaffir corn Is an excellent food for
poultry. It will grow anywhere, pro
, duce more grain per acre than Indian
com and will stand more drouth than
any other grain. It should be drilled
In rows and cultivated like corn.
Some poultry raisers successfully
fight poultry parasites by treating
their mature fowls to a bath in "sheep
d4p” twice a year, but they do not use
' the sickening tobacco dips..
By all means grow sunflower seeds.
1 They make an excellent feed for I
young stock that are growing .feathers,
i and for molting fowls they are unex
! celled as a means of aiding the new
j coat of feathers.
PICKING OUT THE I AYERS.
I Dairymen, to make the greatest
profit, build up their herds through
careful breeding, careful buying and
j unmerciful culling. They do not ask
. the good ones to average up a record
: for the poor ones.
This same “common-sense” plan can
! be profitably applied to the poultry
business.
.Hens that lay 200 eggs in a year
should not be averaged at 150 eggs
with hens that lay 100 eggs,
j A dairyman uses care in breeding,
| If he huys; there are certain marks
that govern the price, the shade from
the end of the nose to the end of the
| tail is taken, into acoount, the small
: feminine neck and head have a value,
| and clear down a line of points he
. makes bis estimate, the very same
| rules and the very same .principles
apply to the highest point In poultry
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raising.
Any experienced, close-observing,
poultry raiser knows, at a glance, the
laiyiing hen. The small feminize neck
and head count again, the bright, alert
eye tells a tale, the drooping tall tells
another tale and when she picks her
feet up and plumps them down we
have another pointer.
A very few club-headed, thick
necked steer-horned cows are any
good. Even with the cow the tail
tells a tale, the heavy .club-tail sel
dom follows a good cow, while on the
other hand, a slim tail is one of the
characteristics of a good one. —Farm-
ers’ Alliance.
THE BOY’S FLOCK.
The boy on the farm should be en
couraged and not hampered in his ef
forts at poultry keeping. With a start
of hut $lO with which to buy stock
or eggs a boy ten years old, of aver
age ambition, intelligence ajid indus
try, can on the farm make this grow
into .a balance in the saving*mik of
at least $2,000 when he is twenty-one.
By starting with, a flock of fifteen,
then increasing to twenty, then to
fifty, then to one hundred, and to two
hundred the last four years, he can
produce a profit for ten years which,
with compound interest, would seem
almost incredible. He can raise the
increase of stock from his profits on
the cockerels, and as few .laying
hens should be kept beyond the second
season he can turn off one-half of his
floclk year on which there is a
profit of at least 50 cents each, and
double that, if good thoroughbred
stock Is kept, as there is a good mar
ket at $1 each for the old hens as
breeders when on learns how to mar
ket them.
Thus by raising a good number of
young stock each year the profits are
considerably increased, as there is al
ways a good market for surplus pul
lets and 'well matured cockerels for
breeding purposes.—N. H. Bent in the
American Cultivator.
A WELL TRAINED HORSE.
A well bred horse is easily trained
to do just what his owner wants him
to do, which proves that .blood tells.
There is an instance of one owned by
G. W. ©handler, of Massachusetts.
This mare is named Nell, and is used
by him in the wood and coal business,
and this is what the horse does: i
When in the morning she is hitched to
j her coal cart, first she walks nearly
an eighth of a mile to a drinking foun
tain, without any direction or assist
ance, and takes all the water she cares 1
! for; then of her own accord she goes
! by another street to the railroad de
pot, crosses the tracks, passes up to
the sidetrack where the coalers are
and backs up to the oar from which
her cart is loaded by the man In j
charge. All this is done without any >
assistance or direction whatever from :
any human .being. When In the morn
ing she is harnessed to a carriage in
stead of the coal cart she takes pre .
cisely the same action in going to the ,
fountain and drinking, but then, In
stead of going to the railroad depot, .
she turns down* the main street to the ;
office, and whimneys for her -master
that she has arrived and is ready for !
him. —Indiana Farmer.
SOTLS AND YIELDS.
Perhaps the hardest point for the
unprofessional farmer to understand |
Is that two fields of soil may look
alike, but one -will yield 75 .bushels of
corn and the other 19. This very ex- i
ample may be seen at the Urbana
(Ohio) Experiment Farm, where one
field has been grown to corn exclu
sively for 30 years without manure j
or fertilizers of any kind. In 1907 it i
yielded less than 1 bushels to the acre, j
Not ten rods away with everything !
else the same, over 75 bushels to the
acre were harvested, only because the
necessary plant food had been replaced
In the form of stable manure, etc., |
and because rotation had been prac
tised, using as corn one of the crops I
in the rotation scheme. —The EJplto
mlst.
CARE IN FEEDING.
Do not feed fresh cut green be no
to your birds oftener than twice a j
week. There Is no'better egg producer,
but good things can be woefully
abused. Too much at a time, or too |
often, and the hen’s bowels will get
out of fix, and her reduced condition
\ therefrom will prevent her laying.
Two ounces a week per hen is a prop
er allowance, when fed in connection
with beef-scrap always before them
Wholesome grain and green food, the
staples—.beef-scrap, the “between
meals” —cut bone, the treat —that's
It; and you can’t expect returns from
any or all unless you use proper dis
crimination in setting up the treats.
Better no green bone at all than too
much. —Farmers* Home Journal.
No fewer than 8,282 medical stu
dents attend lectures at the univer
sities of Germany this winter.
India sends America many rugs. All ;
the -pay the good weavers get for mak ;
hig them is 16 cents a day. Head •
weavers get sls a month
New York City.—The half fitting
ce~A in box style Is very becoming to
young gfrls and to be Very much worn
throughout the season. This one is
simple and youthful yet is cut on ad
mirable lines and is equally well
adapted to the suit and the general
wrap. It Includes patch pockets that
are both smart and convenient, and
Is finished with rolled-over cuffs,
while It allows effective use of the
1 fashionable buttons. Panama cloth
BODICE DECORATIONS.
w£n etitdhed edges is the material il
lustrated and Panama cloth is to be
extensively worn.
tote coat is made with fronts,
| backs and under-arm gores. The
neek is finished with regulation collar
; aad lapels, and the sleeves are made
i in coat style, in two portions each
* wttto slight fulness at the armhole.
The backs are lapped over onto the
j uoder-arm gores to the depth of the
stitclrings. so allowing comfortable
freedom of movement,
j The quantity of material required
| for the sixteen-year size is four yard?
tweroty-seven, two and five-eighth
yards fifty-four or two and a quarter
yards fifty-two inches wide.
Three-Piece Suits.
Three-piece suits all of one tone,
but representing three materials, are
frequent occurrences among hand
some Imported gowns. A rich cos
tume seen recently has a brown satin
skirt, a chiffon waist of the same ma
terial trimmed with the satin and
finished with just a trace of sable at
the throat, the cuffs and a coat of vel
vet, also of the same tone, trimmed
with band* of sable. All the coats in
such combination are half-fitting, to
avoid crushing the bodices.
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High Ruchings Out.
High ruchings ary going out and in j
' their place are seen crush ribbon and j
i satin folds
Popular Sleeves.
A popular yet simple sleeve for eve
ning dresses Is cut straight and even,
1 with the material looped up nearly to
the shoulder on the outer side.
Shadow Plumes.
Shaded plumes are in high popular,
ity, and the old-fashioned navy blue
feather, flecked with red, , yellow and
a variety of other tints, also has spe
cial claim to consideration.
In Various Greens.
Green has the stamp of approval,
for the moment, at least. Parisians
show a decided leaning toward the
color right now. There, are smart
green tailored costumes abroad, and
indoors the afternoon gown of green
in all its shades, from the peacock
blues and greens to the empire green,
and again the softer shades of gray
green.
Misses’ House Jacket.
The house jacket that is loose at
the front and half fitted at the back
is always a becoming one, and this
model suits girlish figures peculiarly
well. It will be found just as desir
able for the morning dress that is
made with skirt to match as it is for
the general negligee, for it is pretty
and graceful and becoming. It can
be made either with three-quarter or
long sleeves, with the wide fancy col
lar illustrated or with a plain stand
ing one as liked.
The jacket is made with fronts and
backs. The fronts are tucked at each
side of the centre and finished with
hems and either the fancy collar or
the plain one is joined to the neck >
1 edge. The sleeves are moderately
full and gathered Into bands, what
ever their length.
The quantity of material required
for the sixteen-year size Is three and
five-eighth yards twenty-four, two
and five-eighth yards thirty-two or
I one and seven-eighth yards forty-four
! inches wide with three yards of edg
! ing and one and a half yards of baud
! ing.