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EXERCISE care in selecting PARENT STOCK FOR BREEDING Breeders Do Not Give Sufficient Thought to Individuality, Size, Bone, Substance and Soundness — Temper or Temperament Not Considered, Speed Being One Object Sought for. A Good Horse of His Breed—A Hackney. (By CAPT. A. H. WADDELL.) If we are good judges of human na ure, or able to judge others by their iographers. we should feel very much icllned to lay a $10 bill to a 10c piece bat the wily “Richard’’ who once jade himself hoarse shouting "A iorse, a Horse, my Kingdom for a lorse." wanted a good one. Richard had just killed five Iiich aonds, or thought he had, and was joking for another when his horse ras killed under him, and when he ttered his memorable words. Yes. e wanted a horse and he wanted one adly enough, but, he wanted a good DC. A good norse was wnat ne wanted, > ood horses are what we all want, and j t is only the large breeder who can tally tell ns, how many bad horses e breeds, for one good one that he ells. This is in large measure due i haphazard methods in breeding; reeders are not careful enough in le selection of their parent stock, nor a they take pains enough to ascertain le peculiarities and characteristics of le families from which the parent ;ock conics. In the trotting horse everything has ten neglected for speed, and in the loroughbred in this country, nothing it this element has been considered; ie result is too well known to be re ipitulated Notwithstanding this no idy seems to try to remedy the de cts that this near sightedness lias educed. There is not one trotting irse in a thousand whose anatomical relation, physical and constitutional mndness, will permit him to become 2:10 trotter, nor is there one race irse in the same number that can dlop a mile in first class company th any chance of winning, for the me reason Breeders no not give sufficient care individuality, size, bone, substance, d soundness; they never think of iiper or temperament and only con er sjiecd. which, although inherited both sides is useless in a weakling Stamps and types of horses and hies have been bred which are well emplitied in the Shire, Clydesdale, ffolk, Pereheron, Belgium and Mack s' 'Vhy cannot this obtain in some lasurc at least in the trotter and iroughbred in America? It does in ter countries and why should it not here, In the greatest and most lavish ly, bestowed by nature for the pur pose? The American is the best business man in the world, as good a horse man us can be produced anywhere, and is always looking for the straight est way of getting to a certain point, and has certainly succeeded in sur prising the world in this direction. He has produced the most extraordinary light harness horse that has ever been heard of. when speed alone is consid ered, and also some of the fastest thoroughbreds, and it seems that the time has not arrived when more care should be shown in the selection of horses for breeding purposes, so as to be able to produce sounder, bigger, and better individuals. SUMMER WORK FOR CHICKENS Where There IsNot Perfectly Com fortable Poultry House on Perm One Should be Pro vided This Summer. (By MILLER PUVIS.) If there is not a perfectly comfort able poultry house on the farm, one should be planned and provided this summer, at least before cold weather sets in, for it is poor planning to put off providing a warm poultry house until the time arrives for its use. A comfortable poultry house need not be a costly one nor a particularly warm one. Every poultry house should have two rooms with a tight partition be tween them. If it is build in this way, the (lock may be crowded into one room when very cold weather comes, and the heat of their bodies will keep the room warm. A hen does not feel the cold as quickly as a man does, for her blood is five per cent, warmer nat urally, and if she can sleep where there is no draft blowing on her she will be very comfortable in a room in which the temperature runs as low' ns 10 to 12 degrees below the freezing point. Sheep Will Eat Roots. If too many sheep are confined on a pasture they will eat the grass roots right out of the ground. ASPARAGUS PLANT IS HARDY araSus may be started from seed d in^° for table use at the >ear. Seed may be planted as as mid-summer. /•quires about six weeks for the 0 germinate and come up. The P ants may be cultivated in . 88 other garden vegetables and Permanent rows or beds this 0r D«t spring. V^^us plant la doubly use , ® young shoots can be used rati 8n<1 fo,,aK» branches for 0n Sprays of asparagus are equaled by few other plauts for their pleasing effect In decoration. The plants are very hardy, will stand all kinds of treatment, but will respond liberally to good treatment and will thrive In one place for ten to twenty years. The Illustration shown a method of planting asparagus In a French nursery house. Green Food for Ducks. Green oats, sweet corn fodder and rye are excellent green food for both old and young ducks. HOT WEATHER GARDEN WORK Pulling Up Weed* Whenever Found Will Save Considerable Labor Next Year—Care for Lilac*. (By KREN E. REXFORR) Weed, and weed and we*d again. In brief, pull up every weed na soon as you see it. All the work of this kind done this season will save a great deal of labor next year, for every plant allowed to go to seed will most likely be perpetuated by a thousand seedlings. Make a practice of going over the garden beds and clipping away seed vessels. The plants will at once set about making good their loss and as flowers are the first step toward the formation of seed, they will soon pro duce a new crop of blossoms. In this way make almost constant bloomers of kinds that won't bloom but once during the season if al lowed to follow out their own in clinations. Keep the ground about the lilac bushes mowed or hoed closely. If this is done the suckers about this plant of which so much complaint is made, will cause no more trouble than ordinary weeds. It is when they are allowed to grow for a sea son that the trouble begins. There fore, keep them down frcvn the start and you will have nothing to com plain of. A place without the lilacs would be one that failed to live up to the privileges warranted. I con sider the lilac one of our very best shrubs. SURE TO DESTROY WEEDS Ingenious Implements Arranged to Allow Injection of Liquid Around Roots of Plants. A most ingenious implement for destroying weeds has been Invented by a Washington man. A rod has a sharp metal point at one end and r————““———— ■■ • Sure Weed Destroyer. a reservoir extending out from it just above this point, which is hol low and has an opening at the *bot tom. The reservoir has a discharge spout leading into the hollow point and a rubber bulb, by means of pres sure on which the contents of the reservoir are discharged through the spout. This reservoir is filled with tobacco Juice or some other liquid that will kill plant life. The garden er then inserts the point at the root of a weed and presses on the rub ber bulb with his foot An injection is thus squirted on the roots of the weed, which soon kills it. Compare this method with the laborious sys tem of pulling weeds up, one by one, and tearing up the turf Into the bar gain—to say nothing of the wear and tear on the only back you’ll ever have. STACKING HAY FROM WAGONS Trolley May Be Arranged to Do the Work In Fields Where There Is Much Hay to Be Piled. The accompanying illustration shows how to make a trolley stacker that will do service in the field where there is much hay to be stacked. In constructing this a wire cable one half inch thick is required, says a writer In the Farm and Horne. It may bo made any length, according to the requirements of the farm. Trolley Hay Stacker. This cable is attached to stakes in the ground and is run up through a crotch mado by two long poles at either end of the stack. On this ca ble is run an ordinary hay fork. A, b and c show details of attaching the cables to the poles. Corn Fodder. The chemist tells us that 70 per cent of the feeding value of corn fodder la below the ear. If this be true, how much do you lose by feed ing the fodder whole when put in the silo the stalk is worth about as much as the ear. and the ear has lost none of its value? DEVICE TO MEASURE FIELDS Simple Contrivance Shown In Illus tration Much Better Than Sur veyor's Chain or Tapeline. The simple contrivance shown in the illustration for measuring fields 1b much better than a surveyor’s chain or tapeline, because it can be used by one person, says the Homestead. It is made of a small hub and Bpokes a little larger than lath. Make them of such size that one revolution meas ures exactly one rod. This is done by having each spoke thirty-two and Hub and Spokes. one-half inches long. The hub (b) is made of two circular pieces of board one Inch thick and six inches in diameter bolted face to face to gether, and holding the epokes firmly In the grooves previously cut. There should be eight spaces between the points, as there are eight spokes, which at the end should be twenty four and three-fourths inches apart. The points of the spokes must not be sharp, or they will sink Into soft ground and the distance will not be Device for Measuring Fields. accurate. Paint one spoke a different color from the rest, so that it may be easily counted every time it comes around. Push the wheel ahead like a wheelbarrow. Measure the field lengthwise, then crosswise, multiply length in rods by breadth and divide the result by 1G0, which will give the number of acres the field contains. BALE YOUR HAY THIS YEAR Kept Compact, Is Easy to Handle . and Takes Up Comparatively Little Room—Always Clean. Loose hay is so bulky that it takes up five or six times the barn space of baled hay. Ix>ose hay quickly gathers dust—which causes cough ing of stock and perhaps disease. The whole outside of a stack of loots hay is practically wasted by wind, rain, sun and the other elements. This often amounts to 20 per cent of the stack. Loose hay can not be shipped far, and the local dealer knows it. So he pays you his price, and you sell because you know that your loose hay must be sold near home. Baled hay is compact—easy to handle—takes up comparatively lit tle space, so can be stored until prices reach the top, when you can sell anywhere, distance does not mat ter much. Baled hay is always clean and fresh, loses none of its nutritive qualities, and there is no waste. Gathering Onion Bulba. Notice your onions, and when the tops cease growing and begin to de cay, gather them. Dust air-slaked lime over them, tlo the bulblets in bundles of one-half dozen and hang them up in a cool place in the barn or cellar. Remember that bees crawl up In stead of down. Extracted honey will candy much sooner than comb honey. The drains should be properly laid out and carefully graded. You give the weeds a big advantage If you let them go to seed. Send your honey to the market in as attractive a form as possible. When the crops begin to grow it's easy to find where the manure spreader quit. The breeder that is afraid of the real test of his breed will never do the breed much good. Some weeds have such tenacious roots that the only way to kill them is to pull them up. One of the chief causes for alfalfa failure is that the young plants are crowded out by weeds. Deep plowing is one of the most effective ways of keeping a good mois ture content in the soil. The automobile Is an important addition to the farm equipment It Is more than a luxury. Remember to keep the lnsuranct policies in force now for one nevei knows where the lightning is going tc strike. A teaspoonful of coal tar to a peck of corn, moistened with a little water is said to be a protection against gophers. To be on the safe side cabbagt plants should be started in soil which has not been previously used for cab bage culture. Weeds are growing fast this year Remember that any season that makes the crops grow fast encour ages the weeds also. ■ The Disturbing Element "No." said the girl In the gray pongee, as she put aside her green silk parasol and proceeded to hunt down half a dozen hatpins lost in the maze of tiny green buds on the gray hat. "I’m through camping!” Her audience sat up and gasped In wonder. The girl in the gray pongee was the champion camper of the neigh borhood. "I've camped for the last time!” she said, emphatically, after allowing a proper time to elapse, for the sake of Impressiveness. “It’s grown worse and worse every year, but this year it was positively unbearable. “When we first started camping,” explained the girl in the gray pongee, “we made an ironclad rule that we would lead the simple life. We would live in our gym clothes, eat our meals in go-as-you-please fashion and pass the evenings In whatever garb pleased us most; in fact, bo perfectly natural for the whole two blessed weeks. “It was such a relief to know that you could luxuriate for those two weeks in bloomers and blouses, or in wet bathing suits, without having to worry lest somebody accidentally see you. I used to count on it all winter, when I went around strapped into dresses that would have burst if I had had another eighth of an Inch of circumference! "Then last year some of the girls Informed us that a crowd of young men were going to camp near us. and we’d have to entertain them once in a while. Some of us balked, not so much at the entertaining once in a while as at the fact that there were going to be men In the neighborhood. It meant that we’d have to think about onr looks and that spoiled the camp ing! “Well, we had to endure the inflic tion. The men were there artd when they weren’t invited they came any way and sang silly songs under our windows. "The girls they knew thought It was so romantic. The rest of us, however, w-ere simply disgusted and we told the girls so, too. But do you suppose It did any good? They Just smiled sweetly and went and covered their faces with cold cream and powder be fore going sailing, for fear they’d get sunburned! “The rest of ub made up our minds that we’d not be—shall I say bullied? —into dressing up every evening, even if those who had callers did devote their mornings to ironing and washing to make themselves lovely. We deter mined to go on dressing as we had dressed before and merely to shun the men. "But do you suppose we could? Mercy! We’d go for a stroll down by the bay and there we'd meet one of our girls all In white with a man! We'd dart behind trees until they'd passed and then we’d go back along the path thinking that we’d get into a dark corner of the porch and have a good time talking. But the darkest corners were always filled with couples and of course we couldn’t sit in the light in our bloomers! It was simply a case of dress up or go to bed, so we finally chose the former, for it was too hot to swelter in bed, and the men came awfully early! "This year, when we went out, the girls all promised faithfully that they wouldn't invite a single man. We were going to have a real old fashioned camp, and. oh! how I was looking for ward to it! •'Well, the very first evening wno should happen to pass b? in an auto mobile but Jack Strone! One of the girls called out to him—and 1 Just know she had been expecting him. We all had to run in and dress in skirts, while he sat in his car and waited for UB. "He took some of us for a ride, and before he left he asked if he couldn't bring out the whole party of fellows who were doing summer engineering near by! We had to say yes, after he'd given us a ride. "That ended all the fun. There were enough young men to go around, and then some, and they came morning, noon and night! We had to wash and iron long after we ought to have been asleep, so that we might be neat and fresh all day long, for fear some of them would come out to call. It was simply awful! "I vowed that I was never going again But the others seem to like it, and they’re going to make a regular house party of their camping next year! ” "It's too bad that Fred has to be away all summer, isn’t it?” murmured a listener, cautiously. “Now, if he'd—" "Yes," admitted the girl in the gray pongee, dreamily, “if Fred had been there—” A ripple of laughter aroused her and she blushed rosily. What’s the Use? "Folks do a lot of useless things, don't they?” asks the man with the iridescent whiskers. "Guess they do,” answers the man with the undecided eyebrows. "Yep. F'rlnstance, there’s my Aunt Jane. She persists in going through her whole list of symptoms over and over again to everybody that calls after she has recovered from her ill ness.” If He But Knew. Sergeant Murphy (drilling men of awkward squad)—If ol knew which of ye two spalpeens was out av shtep, oi’d run 'lm right in to th' g’ardroom. —Judge. LAO HAS A REAL GRIEVANCE New Baby Sister Deprives Him pf At* tention, and He Shows the Effects. Since the stork brought a little girt to a family living in the Bronx the heir, who had attained to four years of dignity before the sister came, has had his nose very much out of Joint. Hia mother, in fact, found trouble at times in keeping him from poking out the eyes of the intruder and other wise exhibiting the innate cruelty of the boy-child. Vigorous spankings thoroughly repressed this tendency, and it has now given way to a general ly silent acquiescence in the new or4 der. Yet nt times the feeling of deprive tfon of old-time attention will come to| the surface. Then the boy will take himself to the darkest corner to b« found in the flat, push himself closely) up against the wail and begin to whimper in low tones. Soon th® whimper, like the musical patrol, grad ually becomes more apparent. Then from out of tho darkness comes th® low plaint: ‘'Muvver don't like me." There is a cessation of the whlmpsft for a moment; then it begins on aj more emphatic scale and again come® in louder tones: "Muvver don’t like me.” From this the protest goes into sob bing, and finally it comes to a climax] in most heart-breaking tones: "Muvver don't like me." J This is the time for the head of th® household to intervene, for she bn® learned by experience that whatovp® she might say before the psychological moment is Ignored. In the softest] tones she answers: "Yes, dearie, mother does like you She loves you with all her heart." From out of the darkness comes In a great, indignant cry: "I don’t want you to.” Despairing sobbing follows, bvt It goes down as the musical patrpl die® away, and finally a very penitent llttl® boy comes out of the comer andl plucks at his mother’s skirt, lookln® for attention. -- TO SAVE OLD MANUSCRIPTS } Japanese Silk, Thin and Transparent* Is Passed on Them and Pm- ; serves Them. In the preservation of rare mam* scripts and books an additional safe guard bas been found In Japanese silk. Its use bas removed a fear that long existed In the minds of librarians that the rare old manuscrips would up and return to their original ele ments. Fortunately, however, the employment of a silk of extreme thin ness and transparency has settled the question of the life of these manu scripts for the next two or three hun dred years at least. By that tlmej perhaps, some other method may hot discovered. i This silk is thinner than the thin nest tissue paper, the threads being; finer than spider webs. It Is pastedl over the manuscript so firmly that M wards off all dust and air, and yet la so transparent that it does not Intar fere any more with the appearance oC the manuscript than would an ordin ary pane of glaRs. It strengthens thn manuscript so that the danger ot handling is reduced to a minimum. For some time past the Untte4 States library of congress has had Ini hand the examination and protection! of all its old manuscripts, emptoytnc for the purpose the silk mentioned. Unless one be an expert in old manu scripts, he Is unable to recognise thn fact that the silk has been used. I The Musical Laugh. So much do we hear and read aE the attraction of laughter that we fln<^ It almost shocking to realize- how veryj seldom a musical laugh is heard. Very few men have agreeable laughs. Women as a rule understand the art a little better. Laughter cornea more naturally to them. Not because they have a great sense of humor, but because they use laughter for a groat-* er variety of purposes than do men. Women laugh In coquetry and they] also uso a light laugh to bridge con versational gaps Women really us* laughter in all their lighter moods. All laughter to be at all attractive must first be natural. So, then, th* Ideal laughter of a man or woman must have sincerity as Its basts. And ideal laughter Is always kind. Real mirth laughs with a person, neves at them. Flight of Seada. It Is popularly believed that winged seeds from trees travel to great dis tances on the wind, hut the investi gations of a British scientist who haa spent much time at Singapore, indi cate that winged seeds hnve a far narrower range of flight than hav* “powder" seeds and plumed Beeds- Th* greatest distance travelled by th* winged seeds of a forest tree observed by this authority was 100 yards. Under the most favorable clrcumstancaa, h* calculates. It would take thla plant Just 100 years to spread 500 yard* and 1,500,000 years «o spread from the Malay Peninsula to the Philip pines if a land connection existed.— Scientific American. Sure Sign. Mrs. Climber—There's no doubt about It. We have at last arrived in good society. Climber—Why are you so sure? Mrs. Climber—W* go with peopl* who don't want us and who never glv* anything that’s really enjoyable.