CORVA jr. SEMI-WEEKLY. Consolidated Feb., 1899. COKVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OEEGON, TUESDAY, JAIOJAIIY 1, 1901. . " - - - - t VOL. I. NO. 36. DORKINS NIGHT. IThe theater was full, it was Christmas night, And Dorkins was going to play A character new to himself and the stage He'd trod . for so many a day. ' By eight the theater was perfectly jam med. All waiting a pleasant surprise. For they.inew that they'd laugh till their sides would ache; And they longed for the curtain to rise. The curtain .arose, the play soon began. And eagerly watched each eye For Dorkins to make his first entrance, and then To give him a cheerful hi! hi! At length he appeared amid loud ap plause, , ' .. But something was wrong, X could see, Why "Dorkins is playing quite badly to night," The people said, sitting 'round me, -A hiss! Yes, it was, I saw Dorkins start. As if stung by a serpent's fang, And cast a beseeching look around While his head on his breast he did . hang. "He's drunk!" some one said, and I thtfught so myself, For to me it was painful at times To see how he'd straggle along with his part, And constantly stick in his lines. At length to the footlights he slowly ap proached, And "Ladies and gentlemen," said, "If I have not pleased you to-night, my dear friends, The fault's not the heart Bat the head. There's many a time I've made you all laugh, When so ill I could scarcely well stand, When everv moment was naln tn me. tps! If even I'd raise but my hand. You've hissed me to-night, and think that I m drunk. From his heart came a sob and a moan. "I'll tell you the reason, I know you won t laugh, - I've a little one dying at home." Bobby Newcomb. - DAME URSULA'S GOLD. i EARLY fifty years ago, In the city of New York, not far from 1 what is now called the Battery, ' there stood a square and gloomy look ing edifice of stone, then occupied by an old dame, Ursula Bond. The house was rapidly crirmbllng to decay with age and want of proper care. Ursula Bond dwelt there in grim , j- loneliness, forcing the beautiful and artless Leonora, only child fher de ceased daughter, to live with her, and to do all those menial tasks for the per formance of which all others would have demanded money. Leonora- was In her seventeenth year, when, one evening In June as she look- - eoVfrom the door ere she should bar, bolt and lock it for the .night, a frank and manly voice called out from a near heap of old boards where the owner of the voice had been watching for more than an hour: .. "Leo!" . ' , "Hist!" whispered the maiden. "Is it you, Walter?" ' "Is the coast, all clear?" was the re . ply as a- tall and handsome youth of 2 years showed his activity by gain ing the side of the maiden by atound that cleared fully ten feet ."It is lucky for you, dear Walter,' said the maiden, "that Dame Ursula is not in hearing, or that bold pate of thine would be greeted with a taste of her staff." .. "That for her staff!" said Walter, -s he snapped his fingers. "But where Is her: . - ' "Writing in the back bedroom.". "Ah, adding up her gains, the old cross, mean " "Walter! Remember she is my grand mother." - "I only wish she was mine," said - Walter. "And if she lives long enough - she will be, won't she?" "If you behave yourself," replied Leonora, pretending to refuse the kiss he gave. "But why have you tortured yourself?" "By boarding so near you, eh?" said Walter. "Because you must let me re main in the house all night. This morn ing as I was going to my work I pass ed the open window of an ale shop and I heard a strange voice mention your name. The voices In the ale shop were speaking in French, which you know I have learned by night study. - Well, I heard enough to tell me that the strangers there were two of them Intend to pay Dame Ursula a visit some time . between midnight ' and dawn, and for no good purpose. So here I am to act as your defender.' "But - you should have told the po lice." "Bah! for the police!'' said Walter Brandon. "Am I not a match for two men who speak bad French?" ' "But, my dear Walter " . But Walter had vanished Into the house and vanished as quickly as one of those bats he had mentioned. Leonora was in great perplexity, yet as she hal boundless faith in the dis cretion of her lover she barred the door and hastened to her grandmother. "You've been very long in barring the door," said the old woman, as she clos ed her huge ledger, which was to her what a Bible should have been. "I thought I heard the voice of that Impu dent young carpenter, Walter Bran don." . ; "Please, grandmother, let me have light" said Leonora, who trembled at the thought of spending that night Id . darkness. "A light!" screamed 'Dame Ursula, astonished at such extravagance, "away with you; you will be asking for something more to eat next." That night as the clock In the hall struck 2 the dame was aroused from golden dream by a sharp pain In hei neck Tand a loud oath. Springing from her bed, she shrieked for help, and, pursued by the assassin, rushed into the hall. She gained a distant room in time to lock herself in. At this instant lier horrors were aug mented by the report of a pistol. Imme diately followed by a shrill scream, and then by another pistol shot, and ere the echo had died away the assas sin burst the old door from its hinge and was in the room. The horror til-; dame endured as she crouched against the wall, praying that the darkness might shield her, curdled her blood in her veins. But suddenly the assassin sprung a light. -At the sight of this man. Instead of crouching in" fear or screaming with terror, . the came sprang to her feet saying: 'So it is you, John Bond, wiff nave returned to murder your wife cow ard!" Hag!" hissed the old man yet. he was much younger than she, "do you think because the devil lets you live so long that you are to live forever? Tell me where you have hidden your hoards, and those of your first bus- band, whom all men say you poisoned to marry John Bond." "To tell you. I must leave this room, said Ursula, as her corpse-like visage grew Hvld with hate and -despair. : "Whither, treacherous hagr' -"To the cellar, John Bond come, and stepping boldly by him, she went on along the hall, lighted by the thief's lantern, which he carried. If I suspect treachery If you cry for help I will shoot you dtad, Ur sula Bond." Ursula led the way. Lift that trap, John Bond," said she, pointing to a heavy iron ring im bedded in the floor. Ursula grasped the ring with- both hands and strove to raise it, till, grow ing impatient he grasped it himself and raised a trap door about three feet square. As he staggered with the weight Ursula fell against him'and he fell headlong Into the aperture, but as he fell he let fall his lantern and with his left hand grasped the edge of the trap. Ursula, ferocious with hate, stamped upon the clinging fingers, and, as her feet were bare, making no im-" presslon upon the desperate clutch, she heaved at the trap door and let it fall upon the assassin's hand. Dame Ur sula fell with a bullet In her brain across the trap. The assassin fell to the bottom of a deep and narrow cellar, damp and dis mal, and made more horrible by the rays fihed by his lantern. The tide was rising In the bay already the water was trickling through the stones of the foundation. While Bond entered the house from the front, his accomplice, a ' brutal wretch from France, had gained a noiseless entrance from the rear. Had Walter been at his post this would not have happened, -but poor Leonora, hor rified at the thought of what might happen to her-lover, had sought him instead of her couch. . . Not until the sudden flash from the French -burglar's lantern streamed across the room did Walter remember his self-imposed office, and' as he sprang to his feet the" burglar, turning to fly, was shot through the lungs. But as be fell he returned the shot and Walter, with the thought that his skull was crushed, fell senseless. Poor Leo nora had already swooned. - When Walter regained his senses, be found his sweetheart weeping and chafing his hands, and he was delight ed to discover that the robber's bullet had only stunned him. The burglar was dead. .-."".-..-.'--.-.. Not six months from that night Wal ter became the husband of the wealthy Leonora, who was sole heiress of Dame Ursula's wealth, mnch of which in gold was found secreted about the mansion. The year following, as Walter was di recting the excavations for a new edi fice where the old one had, stood, his workmen discovered a lantern and near it a human skeleton. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "..7 ' " t; Two Parliamentary Balls. - : The -session of Parliament that re cently ended was hot particularly pro lific of funny sayings, but there were a couple of good things unconsciously said. The first was by Mr. Field, M. V. He had made a statement at which Mr. Chamberlain shook his head, a silent negative. Mr. Fiefd turned to Mr. Chamberlain and proclaimed: "The right 'honorable gentleman shakes his head I am sorry to hear it" The second was from an Irishman, Mr. Flavin, "M. P. He was aborit to. put a question to a cabinet , minister when the right honorable gentleman re minded Mr. Flavin that a letter . had been sent to him (Mr. F.), -asking him to postpone the question: until such time as the minister .could obtain the information needed before an answer could be given. - . - "Yes, sir," replied Mr. Flavin, "that Is so. I have got that letter, and have not had time to open it" Philadelphia Post - " : . ' . Justice Waits for an Excursion. : - "During the course of my career in the police department I have seldom come across anything more humorous than a letter recently received at the detective headquarters," said Captain of Detectlyes Lohrer yesterday. - "We arrested a man wanted in a city not f hundred mile's from here -and we wired the marshal to come at once and get his prisonef. He wrote us a letter and said: "Please hold for one week. There is an excursion to Cleveland then and I can get cheap rates-Don't forget to hold him and see about a cheap tick et to here for my man." Cleveland Leader. ; The old woman who lived In a shot is probably the only one who neve complained of its being too large. CHILDREN'S COLUMN. DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. X.-;- Something that Will Interest the Ju venile Member of Every Household ' Quaint Action and Bright Saying of Many Cute and Cunning Children. A long-time ago, oh, a long time ago. Things were very mnch different from nowadays, you know. The frog, 'stead of hopping; with wings sailed the air; The lark, on four legs, waddled here, ant- bled there; The dog, too, had wings, and the horse had a horn, . And went by the very queer name, uni corn; - And all things were Jumbled and mixed up just so But that was a long time ago, you know) A very,hng time ago. The birds and the beasts held a mid-sum-' mer fair, And all were invited and so all were there; : . -. .' And while there in session, to a queer minded bird - A notion quite novel and striking oc- - - curreds- ' To trade some appendage for that of some friend Might prove a great blessing to all in the . end. Some very great changes thus came about so -." - But that was a long time ago, you know, A very long time ago. The horse got a mane and the cow got some horns (But she had- to strike trades with two unicorns), ' : ' The lark Host' two legs, but through the air could now sail, And the frog had swapped off both his wings and his tail. The dog ceased to fly, bat he got him a . bark ---.-"... - To- scare off the things that come round in the dark, - ; And the changes thus made suited all. high and low But that was a long time ago, you know. A very long time ago. Perhaps you imagine this story's not true, But this is the way I can prove it to you: When a tadpole grows up to a frog,, to this day .... He takes off his tail and throws it away. And nothing is surer to both you and me Than that frogs have no wings and can't fly, so, you see. All that makes it plain that they traded, you know, - At the bird-and-beast fair a long time ago, - - A very long time ago. - Chicago Record. Amusement for Tonne; Folks. - A piece of glass is supported between two books by being placed beneath the covers, and underneath it are put little figures cut from tissue paper. If the glass be now rubbed with a piece of OUTFIT FOB ELECTRICAL THICKS flannel the electricity generated will cause the figures to rise and fall, as If In the act of dancing. :; If cut out the five pieces here shown may be formed into a large square, and this square 'may again be made . into WILL POEM TWO SQUARES. ' two others. . A good plan to make the paper thick enongh to avoid bending, is to paste them all together on a piece of cardboard before cutting them out 1 Cle-ver Japanese Toys. There are no people in the world so fond of- toys as the Japanese, but.the pretty trifles give instruction as well as amusement to those who play with them. One sort of playing cards have printed upon them 100 scraps of classi cal poetry, by which the rudiments of the art of versification are expected to be Inculcated. .Another set is of natu ral history cards, to give instruction in the names and forms of animals; and still another is especially intended for girls, affords examples of women who have been celebrated for their virtues -and noble qualities. So far as -both tops and kites are concerned, the young American or European is an ignoramus compared with his Oriental rival. ; - Among the babies' toys is a mouse that' feeds from a bowl when a little bamboo spring is touched, lowering his head and long tail in quite a lifelike manner. Another is a small cylinder, into which one blows through two small reed tubes, three balls of pith be ing kept bobbing in a bit of a cage over Lthe cylinder by the breath, while a cut ia one 'of the tubes produces a shrill whistle. -. Another is a little man, who Is made to jump up a long stick by bamboo spring, and still another to wooden gentleman, who rides along be tween the wheels, being attached to the axle with a heavy base. Further devices for toy purposes are kaleidoscope boxes, with glass tops fill ed like cupboards, with various house hold utensils in' miniature, and bags with shot for tossing. , The Apple of Faith. The teacher was trying to communi cate to the Juvenile class an idea of faith, and to better illustrate it she held Qf7 up an apple and said: - x "If is were to tell you there are ne seeds in this apple you would believe me without further proof,- would you not?" " .;" Yes, ma'am," answered the class In chorus. .. , "WeU, that Is faith," said the teacher. The next day. In order to test their recollection of the lesson, she asked: "Who can tell me what faith is?" -"I can," promptly answered a small urchin. "It's an apple what ain't got no seeds in." 1 he One to Complain. Higgins That dog of yours is making night hideous, right along. The neigh bors are all up in arms about him. Wiggins I don't blame them, but if it is bad for them it is worst for me. The. brute keeps me awake as well as any of them, and I have to feed the dog and pay for his license besides. I think I ought to be the one to complain If anybody is. Boston Transcript Rough on the Bay State. A teacher in civil government had told his pupils that once in ten years the State of Massachusetts takes a census. Little James, who is an attentive scholar, upon being called up to recite, said: . Once in every ten years Massachu setts comes to its senses." New York Tribune. Hi Only Plan. "A pretty lot of children you are for a minister to have," exclaimed a pastor whose children 'were misbehaving at the dinner table. Then "why don't yon change your business, papa?" asked 4-year-old Nel lie. " .. Tommy's Reason. 'Tommy," said his uncle, "can you tell me why the enemies of poor St Sebastian shot him full of arrows?" I reckon 'cause they didn't have no guns," replied Tommy. White and Dark Meat. The belief that white meats are more suitable for the sick owins to'ereater digestibility and the presence of less uric acid and nitrogenous extractives. is shaken by an analysis made1-; by prominent medical men which shows that while "white meats such as poul try and fish do in certain cases, as fish ana iresn venison contain less ex tractive 'and nitrogenous derivatives, tne average amount does not appre ciably differ in dark and white meats such as poultry, veal, beef, pork mut ton, and so on, to make either prefer able.- The only way of limiting the in gestion of these deleterious extractive and nitrogenous substances is by di minishing the amount of meat taken, rather than by forbidding dark meats. They also asserted that among the ex tractives present in meat the most im portant ones are by no means harmful, if taken in small quantities as Is ordi narily done. The same holds good as regards the other organic extractives which are nitrogenous. Cleverly Imitated.' Directly anything becomes a public need or fad, it is imitated or adulter ated. Within a few years the curios and blankets of the Indians, especially the-Navajo tribes,-have been, much sought after by those who furnish artis tically or "value a souvenir of the dis appearing race.. The blankets . have been especially sought after as the crude colors and patterns are what might be called barbarically artistic and the colors and-material are lasting, that is, they - were. The Navajo has learned to cheat; his tribe owns a mil lion sheep and instead of using this in the manufacture of the .blankets that have become famous it is sold and the flimsy Germantown bought for home weaving. In the same way tBe old en during, vegetable dyes are being re-, placed by the analine dyes of com merce. The red man will find the mar ket for his bizarre loom products dwin dling If once the confidence In .their genuineness is lost - ... .' Ordination of a Priest. ' A missionary in China thus describes the ordination ceremony of a bonze (priest) of which he was a witness: "On the appointed day the friends and in vited guests assemble In the pagoda where the ceremony is to take place. The act of consecration begins with the removal of all the hair from the head by "a close shave. Then as the cere mony progresses, little balls made of sulphur, grease and Incense are placed upon the head and so fastened as not "to roll off. At the "proper moment the su perior completes the act -of consecra tlon by setting fire to these balls. The candidates are forbidden either to move or touch their burning heads, Some of the poor wretches suffer this torture stoically. Invoking Buddha, while the majority add their terrible shrieks of pain to the horrible smell of burning. flesh." .i Economy in Profanity. The English law of libel makes pro fanity a money-saving vice. If you call a man a thief, and cannot prove your assertion, yon commit libel. . If, how ever, you garnish your description by any of the adjectives usually deemed unfit for publication, any libel action brought against you will fall through, for the law says your profanity proves that you- have lost your temper, and, therefore, you are not 'actionable for your words. - - .; Confederate Constitution. ' The original draft of the Confederate constitution is in the possession : of Longstreet Hull of Athens, Ga. Mr. Hull is a grandson of Thomas R."R. Cobb, chairman of the committee that drew the document - .; ; Many a man who gives up his money freely for foolish whims disputes the price of necessities.' If a man does his duty to himself he does his duty to all the world, .TRUMPET CALLS. Barn's Horn Sounds a Warning Mot to the Unredeemed. y C.,0 O be content with Mpless Is to have leas discontent A very little child may open a very large door into heaven. - It is poor relig ious exercise bal ancing on one foot on the edge of sin. ' The modesty of true worth Is only equalled by the worth of true modesty. . . -A blank cartridge will make the most noise. I It needs no courage to choose evil la the face of good. - "" i Fidelity to old truths demands' ho ' taUty to new ones " , ' I If you would escape all censure, do not walk With Christ I When you open your heart to lust, love will leave your life. Not man, but the Christ-man, is the crowning work of creation. A man's wealth may be measured by his capacities not by his coin.' Modern murmurers are bitten with the fiery serpents of their own tongues. There Is only one single step from the level rock over the precipice of ruin. - - " Getting Christ into the people will solve the problem of getting people into the church. - When we think to thank God for our pleasures it will be easier to bless Him tor our burdens. - If men put more sense Into their sa cred service the world would put more faith in their sanctity. It is mockery to pray that your chil dren may be gathered home in eternity while you do nothing to keep them at home in time. . - MADE HIM BEAT A RETREAT. ncident in the Career of Literary Clergyman. Noted Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, whose Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West" has been so favorably re ceived, has overlooked, one incident in his career that at the time made him the mos.t-talked-of man in Denver. - It occurred a decade or more ago, bef ore ..ux-.uij his name so generally known as it is at present He was then the rector or ; t8 keeping. Yet while not many farm one, of Denver's fashionable churches. erg teel able to do the former for senti Certain of the young ladles of his con-1 Qjent's sake, there are hundreds who gregation, in tne interest or raising funds for some pious purpose, hit upon the plan of presenting a comic opera, the exigencies" of its presentation ne- cessitiited a most noticeable shortening of the skirts of the ladies of the chorus. Their devotion to the cause enabled them to bear up under that ordeal and for some of them it was an ordeal in more senses than one and after elab orate preparations and rehearsals in numerable the piece was produced in one of the local theaters. 'Rev. Mr. Brady was there, of course. " But he had hardly settled him'self in his seat after the curtain arose before the young ladies of his congregation his Sunday school teachers and choir singers and what not filed before his astonished gaze in a garb that left as little to the imagination in certain respects as the display In a hosier's show window. The now popular writer stayed long enough only to reassure himself as to it " i - . , . . tte correctness of his vision and then stalked grandly out of the place. - The uproar that followed-the ladiea belonged to Denver's most exclusive set-threatened for a time to disrupt the church and filled the newspapers for days with frantic headlines. But Rev. Mr. Brady stood by his guns and neither threats nor vituperation ever made him retreat from the position he had assumed in the face of that hosiery display. :-",; With Ma's Bias. : Harry's father was' an author who had written several books of which he was rather proud, but of the merits of which his wife never - lost occasion, within her own household, to sneer ingly speak. .One day this good lady had need to reprimand Harry for some error of deportment and to add to the lmpressiveness of her rebuke she read an extract from the Bible, at the same time speaking of It . as "the ""Good Book," and following the .reading with the query: "Harry, do you know why it is called the 'Good Book?" " Yes," unhesitatingly replied Harry; because pa didn't write it" Boston Courier. Youthful Marriages in Algiers. A census was taken lately .in Algiers, and It was found that the youngest AraD man was years oiu, ana mat. there were very many boys who were married at 13 and 14, while some at 15' years of age had several wives. There is a voutbful Algerian widower of 15. and a divorced husband of the-same1 . Girls are still ; more nrecoclous. ' and are sometimes married -when onlv 11 years old, though 12 is the-more Specimens wrappea in paper Kept oet usual age. There are 189 widows of ter than those not wrapped, and there 15. and 1.176 divorcees of the same aea. were few rotten apples, and they lost - Berlin a Quiet City, No other large city is as quiet as Ber- lin.. Hallway, engines are not allowed to blow their whistles within the city limits, and the man whose wagon gear ing is loose and rattling- is subject to a fine. Strangest of all, piano playing Is regulated in. Benin. Berore a certain hourintheday and after a certain hout in the night the piano must be silent in that musical city. Even during play- ing hours a fine is imposed for mere banging on the piano. . '0A'J&2&0gmgflri J I Wood or Holds Milk Pail Firmly. It is a somewhat difficult task to hold a milk pail between the knees while filling it with the lacteal fluid, and it is not always a wise plan to set the pail on the floor beneath the animal's udder, both for sanitary reasons and because or 0x6 danger of an accidental upset Nelson 1L jewett or Kicevuie, lowa, TiTnTTn, Z stool and pail holder Illustrated below, with the idea of providing a secure Dlace for the naIi -nd Tet TCrmittw it tn he InatAntlv removed when deslren The front edge of the stool is cut out in A COMBINATION PAILrHOLDEK. a semi-circle, and at one side are se cured metallic straps which fasten with a latch and form with the stool a circu lar well into which the pail is lowered. The milkman may now seat himself on the stool and draw the latter forward until the pail Is catching the streams of milk. This invention should prove use ful when the pail Is nearly full, if at no other time, as the weight is then much ' increased and tilting the pail must also be avoided. , Unprofitable Stock. It is one thing to keep an old animal ' that has been the wide and ret of the ' famljT for yeara after it has ceased to . oe prontaDie, ana anotner to seep one jnat is not and never was able to earn are doing the latter from no other rea- ! 30n than an unpardonable ignorance as to the cost of keeping, and the actual results received from the animal. The Babcock test is doing much to weed out some of the unprofitable cows, when used in connection witn tne regular weighing of the milk, but other animals need to be looked after. Sheep need to be culled carefully every year, and those that do not produce and bring up good lambs and a good shearing of wool should be fitted for mutton. There is many a man who keeps a horse. ' when be could hire one to do the work he has for him at less than the cost of j feeding, and others who keep two, though one could do the work except- Ing during a few days In the year. . Weed out - the unprofitable animals even if obliged to kill and bury them. They- may do the world .some good in that way. - " . r Jraininfir Low Lan-l. (- gtone wiU make an excellent araln I for low wet iana if It ,8 carefully. -u n.s th. nA.nts ere nf Vp.nr Inrio. gtroctn, and once made the drains wlu be permanent The extra cost of dIesrinl, the lareer ditches will he more than repaid by the use of the stone. CROSS SECTION OF STONE DRAIN. But the stone is to be laid carefully so (that it will not fall in, and that the water will not flow in behind it and wash out the foundation. The accom- pany Ing cut shows how the stone should be laid to be safe. AA are two flat stones placed as shown, one np richt and the other slonlne: the rest of Lho drain. B. is filled in with small at a nd on toD Ia igj,, 8ome brugh. Drains have been put In according to thlg hod and have been found to work wfn, better than the square stone arains. - ...... - Storin-r Apples in Winter. The Canada experimental farms made experiments to ascertain the best methods or storing apples in winter. least oy evapumuuu. iue grouuu noor storeroonr did -not preserve : them as well as the cellar. A tight package preserved the fruit best in storeroom but not in cellar. Per contra, a venti - , lated package did better in cellar than in storeroom. - Grain Fertilizers. In the Southern states there - are many who use cotton seed meal as a fertilizer to furnish nitrogen, in prefer- snce to using nitrate of soda, or any other of the fertilizing materials that xratain nitrogen, as tankage, dried fish waste. But it Is one of the peculiarities of this meal and of linseed meal, that when used as a food for milch cows, it increases the milk. Im proves its quality, and then returns to the manure heap almost as much nitro gen as it had -before being digested. Much the'same thing may be said of the phosphoric acid In wheat bran, and In this way they are cheap foods when properly used. " Changing: Feed. There Is yet much to be learned about the matter of increasing crops by obtaining seed from other sections " than that where It is to be planted. At the Iowa Experiment Station they ob tained potatoes from Canada and plant ed them by the side of seed grown up on their own soil, from the seventh crop of that variety grown there. They obtained 754 bushels per acre from th Canada seed and 109 bushels from the home grown seed. Yet the results are not always that "way even with pota toes. It may be said that generally home grown potatoes do not produce as much as seed grown farther north, but -it is not an invariable rule, and soma' successful growers would not trust their -crop to seed which they had not grown and saved themselves, and say that when they have tried it home grown seed has always produced the best crop. The result of one experi ment do not prove a case, and we need more, with a thorough knowledge of how the crop was grown, and seed se lected in each case. We need to know If forcing a crop to grow and mature in a shorter time, either by a richeroil. or cooler climate, or both, will make the seed more prolific. . Hackney Stallion. Bell Boy, a promising young Hack ney stallion, with Courier for his sire and Belle Lyons for his dam, was bred by Dr. W. S. Webb, Shelburne Farms, Vermont He Is of rich, dark chestnut color, a model in conformation and as; tlon. This is his first year in Canada. At the Montreal spring show he re ceived first prize; at the Toronto Indus trial Fair, second prize. He won the sweepstakes at the London fair, and BELT. BOY. the second prize at Ottawa. He was exhibited by his present owner. Dr. John Watson, Howick, Quebec. Breeding from Grade Animals. nnws a rn arhon animal, rtt ' n.j. breed were scarce in this country, farm ers used to grow some very good cows. ii T t Vi n ,rl, hnth ia nnrpntfl WAMAf annh mixed breeds that it would have been difficult to tell what predominate!. Why was this, and if It was so why do we so often insist on the use of a pure bred aire? Because such animals were accidents that did not often occur, while we desire in breeding not to take chances, but to know with a certain de gree of surety what we are to expect Those animals of our father's days had a strain of pure blood In them, and per haps of more than one breed, and they Were liable to breed back to the best when they were from the best animals they could'select as now we find one . of so-called pure breed revert back'to some unknown and far-away ancestor of Inferior blood. The care In selecting the best to Breed from had as much to do in determining the character of the offspring as the length, of the pedigree. - Peed Corn. So-much damp and warm weather as we have been having may injure some of the seed corn if it is not well looked, after. It may pay to bring it Into the house and dry It well before freezing weather comes. If it. is thoroughly, dried freezing will not hurt it but if It freezes while damp, it may injure the germinating power or at least reduce the vitality so that it will produce but a weak stalk. " : " About the Silo. Silage Is as valuable in summer as in winter. - , The. circular silo made of good hard wood staves is cheapest and best . The silo has come to be as necessary a part of a dairy farm plant as a corn crib or a haymow. , - Thirty pounds a day is"enough silage for an average sized Jersey cow. Larger cattle will eat more. - A cubic foot of silage from the mid dle of a medium sized silo will average about forty-five pounds. ' . , . ; For 182 days, or half a year, aa'aver age Jersey cow will require about six tons of silage allowing for una void able. waste. . ; V, j; . ; Fifteen feet In diameter and thirty feet deep Is a good size. Such a silo will bold about 200 tons of silage cut in half inch lengths. " Corn just passing out of roasting ear stage is the best single material for silage. Corn and cowpeas are the best combined materials in cowpea regions.