HahVTIT?* — » I'llilrffo.' CHEAP STRAW SHED. laKnblr for Cattle, Sheep or Hogs anil the Storage of Farm Tools and 1 niplemeuta. When stacking straw either in the fieid or barnyard, a good shed suitable for cattle, sheep or hogs, or even rough farm tools and implements, may be made with little work. Before threshing, secure six posts, each eight feet in length, and forked at one end if possible. At the place stack is to be built, set the posts about two feet deep in ground, in rows of three posts on USEFUL STRAW SUED. each side; the rows eight or ten feet apart, and posts nine feet apart in row. Take two poles each 20 feet long i and place one on each row of posts for I crosspieces to hold top. Lay rails or ' poles six or eight inches apart on top | of the crosspieces, and set ordinary j fence rails, slanting, round frame, | leaving one end open, as shown in the i illustration. The rails should be close enough together to keep'the straw ) from falling in or being pulled out.'l Build the stack on top of• this frame, I end a comfortable shelter will be pro- ! vided. If desired, stalls may be made ! in the shed; and the size given—2o fet 1 long and eight or ten feet wide—may ' be adapted to suit the wishes of the \ farmer or the amount of straw at his disposal.—J. G. Allshouse, in Ohio Farmer. HOW CATTLE MULTIPLY. Tliere la No Iliisliiex* n* Profitable n« the Systematic Raining of Good Stock, There is money in raising cattle and 1 no one who has ever kept them and cared for them in a business way has ' ever made a statement to the con- ! trary, says the Texas Stockman and ; Farmer. A young man cannot invest | SSO in a safer or more certain business I than to buy- a good cow and take care of her progeny for a period of five or ten years. In ten years $.lO at ten per cent, will double itself, but where can a young man loan $.lO at such a rate of interest? Anyway at the end of ten years he will only have SIOO for his in vestment. If he will invest "$.lO in one good prolific cow and take care of her and her offspring for ten years, his SSO will not only double but create more than 1,000 per cent, of the first principle. As an example of what can be done in this line a case is given by the Hoxie Sentinel. "Ten years ago,"' says the Sentinel, "John Sims presented his two sons. Willis and Robert, with a cow each and put them in Willis Johnson's herd to pasture, instructing Mr. Johnson to sell or trade the steer calves for heif ers and also sell enough of the increase to pay the herd bills, which he has done. Mr. Sims and family returned home from Colorado, where Ihey had been seven years, and the boys found that each had a nice little herd of cat tle. One had rather bad luck, however, and only found 12, while the other found that he was the possessor of 28, making a total of 45 for the two cows, after deducting all loss and expenses." If the young men in question worked and cared for their respective stock and with the proceeds of ma tured animals added more breeding animals to their herds, it is plain that the above figures could easily have been doubled. OF GENERAL INTEREST. The raisin product of California in 1900 was 70,000,000 pounds. One of the doing kind of farmers is worth one dozen of the suggesting sort. The total value of the peach crop in the United States is about $50,000,000 annually. The estimated profit of wheat-grow ing in Argentina, at current prices, is $3.42 centd an acre. Dou'v fail to read the best papers. Form your own conclusions, then work * them out, since it is the only sure way to make the farm pay. The effort of the California fruit growers to secure a six-day fruit-train service from Sacramento to Chicago, and a nine-day one to New York, has resulted successfully. The first load of new wheat of the J9Ol crop was marketed at VVinfield, Kan., June 24. Weight, 62 pounds to the bushel. Kansas hard red winter wheat is now a formidable rival of the justly celebrated northwestern spring. —Farm and Home. slici-p n* Weed Destroyer*. It has been sviid that the sheep is a double-purpose animal, because it fur nishes two profitable products-—mut ton ijnd wool. We would add another value to the sheep; as an aid in the destruction of weeds on the farm he stands second only to the plow. Wher ever a flock of sheep is kept weed growth is kept in check, provided, of course, the area is not out of propor tion to the size of the flock. If you I want a pasture trimmed up neatly and made to appear smooth and well-kept let, a band of sheep iu it for a few weeks and they will make a complete change of it.—.National Rural. DIGNITY OF FARMING. In All tlic World* There Ik %o Moblrf or Morn Lenrni'd ( hllliik Than Tlint of Agriculture. Within recent years it has come to be acknowledged that the vocation of the farmer isthe most dignified of all the sciences and as an art it is ex celled only by those of painting and architecture. IK its highest forms it is the most learned of all professions. A knowledge of geology and chemis try and their relations to the soils lies at the very foundation of scien tific agriculture. The problems that arise from the complex nature of the soils and their origin require the best thought of the best minds to solve. More educated young men should be farmers. Agriculture opens a wide field leading to influence and power, one, too, that is not filled to repletion. It holds forth the most splendid promises to young men of ambition. It is filled with liberaliz ing tendencies, a noble conservation and the most healthful and invigorat ing influences. The day is not far distant when agriculture will attract men of the largest capacity and the highest executive ability, and be re garded as the greatest of all the pro fessions. Let anyone who is familiar with what agriculture was a hundred years ago compare its condition then with what it is to-day and he fsill search in vain for the same pro portionate elevation and progress among its followers in any other I branch of human industry. Many of I those engaged in agriculture now are men of high elevation and broad reading. Many of them have exten sive and valuable libraries and take numerous journals devoted to their , business. Agriculture moves along in I its own quiet, dignified, but irresisti j ble way. It has no booms, so to | speak, but it gathers strength with j each decade and with every accession i of knowledge, and will forever be the , most important branch of human in i dustry and the greatest necessity for the human race. If the young men who are measur ing tape and laces would surrender their work to the young girls who are seeking employment and turn their attention to the pursuits of ag riculture there would be less misery and more contentment in the land; there would be mc%e independence and less servility; more men and few er creatures; more happy wives with ! comfortable homes, healthful chil dren and cheerful tempers. A woman surrounded by all the active agencies i of a well-kept farm and living in a | beautiful country home "with foun dations and flowers and sweet ever greens," has those environments that develop the sweetest graces and high est impulses of her nature and make her virtues shine resplendent above the world of frivolity and fashion. She becomes a true woman, the happiest of wives and the best of mothers. Such a home and such a wife realize our highest ideals of human happi ness. It is a home where intelli gence reigns and ennobles work and work crowns intelligence with honoi and profit. A young man who is in search of an easy place, with no responsibility, will never be a master and will nevei control others. He who selects a vo cation because it is easy is already ef feminate. —Southern Farm Magazine FENCE STEPLADDER. A Convenient and Snfe Arrnnjrement for CroKMlnK Harrier* I.ike llnrli W ire. A wire fence always presents to those who undersand the "power" of its barbs a formidable appearance, and, in truth, is an unpleasant affair to cross, either by climbing over 01 crawling under, or between the strands. Happily, however, the ac- FENCE STEPLADDER. companying illustration shows a con venient and safe arrangement where by such barriers may be crossed as often as desired, and that without any tension on the wires being lost by cutting a gateway. It is simply a double stepladder, and can be constructed by anyone at all handy with tools in a short time, the railing consisting of gas pipe, the lower ends of which should be deeply inserted int<* the ground. Where a wire fence has to be crossed frequently in some outrof-the-way locality this device is of preat value. —Frederick 0. Sibley, in X. Y. Trib une. Improving Jlnmhy Lnnit. When a piece of marshy land has bten drained it is often found that crops fail to thrive, although it seems to be very rich in nitrogen. The rem edy is to add The semi-aquatic vegetation which for merly occupied the land decays so slowly that cultivated crops cannot get nitrogen rapidly enough for their needs. When the manure is added it sets iip a fermentation which con verts the nitrogen bearing materials into a more soluble and hence avail able form.—Director C. E. Thorne, Ohio Experiment Station. Be sure to furnish your birds a shal : low tub to bathe in, and they wall not trouble your water bucket. 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