TOPICS.
Milk from Farrow Cowge~Working Three
Horses Abreast--How to Know a (ood
Cow+~Plymouth Rocks--Etc,, Etc
MILK FROM FARROW COWS.
those that
passed the flow of new-milch cows
and the words refer to those that
are not intended to breed for another
calf. In such cases it ia always best
to protract the milk-producing period
as long as possible, The milk of such
cows is generally richer than that
from cows that are giving the largest
flow of milk. This, however,
the case when the cow
and the demands of
foetus take every. week more and r
of the nutriment from which milk is
made. We have seen the milk of such
cows turn nearly to whey as the time
for parturition approached. If it is de-
sired to keep the cow farrow this
be by her,
render her of
ing.
Farrow cows afe have
i
i
has been
increasing
done Ww
spaying
incapable furtl
Spaved COWS can
84 mil three
J url
cheaper
with three |
thus
than
with
stop for
day. West
almost
astern far
at
he
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dairy typ¢
developed
hip bones.
wedge-shaped
have a
system
make the
fessor 1.
Yorker.
tO ua
PLYMOUTH
Havin most
breeds of fowls, |
every-day average farmer who wishes
to keep poultry on a small
breed will answer so well
mouth Placing them
gide with kinds, they
nearly as eggs as
white or brown leghorna,
have customers whom he supplies
the aiming Keep np
the year around, surely the Plymouth
Rocks will do more than any
They zlso lay largest sized
my experience with Piymouth
has taught me that no breed will atan
the cold and with The
old birds will lay in the fall u the
puliets begin, thus insuring a constant
supply. 1 have heard of great re-
sults obtained from leghorns in winter,
but have never been able to get them
to do anvthing extra. They are too
small for sitting, although the brown
leghorn is faithful to her nest, it. is un.
being so timid as they are, it is un-
pleasant to handle them. I would ad-
vise using only the Plymouth Rocks
for incubation, as they will cover a
good number of eggs, are easily
handled and make the mother. —Rural
New Yorker.
HOCKS,
tried of the com
believe that fo
jocks
other
many
week, to this
other
the egRs
Rocks
thrive them.
wil
aki
SELECTING STOCK FOR BREED-|
ING.
The egga which are being laid now |
wiil be largely used for hatching and |
whether the results are successful or |
not depends largely on the breeder |
The males especially need attention |
and one of thg main essentials in al
good breeding cock ia that he should!
be healthy, active and alert. If hel
spends most of his time sunning him. |
self he is too fat for good service and |
hunger.
duce the flock to four or five. By this
method of mating, the hens will lay
more egzs when in company with the
male ans) they will be much stronger
in fertility. Eggs from well mated
hens are about of the same 3ize each
laying, perfect in shape, and if
shells hard and smooth,
chances in favor hatch
sire Oy under
size
will
are the
are of a
r-large
uneven
should
ng chicks or
rough,
hatch well and
for the purpose,
usually indicate that
hens are too fat, not that her
product will be the same. Tone
down by proper food
lay the sort of eggs
if
lantic Journal,
eggs with
not
sued
such eggs
never
be
1
and she will
best for
properly mi:
800N
hatching
been ated. —At
she has
SPRING MADE BUTTER.
1 sometimes
difficult to
of
that
iI8
in
mor
it
ter
think
make
the
good but
year than at any
prime
Ir An
£ au
Try
HAVE
TWICE?
of years ago 1 had,
wa
CAN HOGS CHOLER/
Tun oer among
'
10KS, me
twelve brood s at hom
a bunch that had
ly passed through Al-
h the hogs bought were apparent.
ly well and healthy, home hogs!
twsk cholera from them and a good
died. 1 only saved runty
from the twelve sows.
after buying the hogs
a few sows of those took the
boar, and those 30ws raised healthy
litters of pigs right among the hogs
that were dying, neither the hogs |
bought nor the pigs from them be-
ing affected with the disease. I have
noticed since immunity from the dis-
case in sows and their pigs where sows
had lately passed through the disease,
and 1 have never known a hog that
recovered from the cholera to have]
it again, I do not know whether im-|
munity to the offspring lasts as long
as the sow lives or wheiner, a3 is
claimed in csse of vaccination in hu«|
of hogs
cholera.
aon
my
many two
pigs
Immediately
bought
consider hogs that have]
passed through the cholera without!
constitutional Injury, much safer for |
breedera.
Hog cholera is c¢icarly a contagious
disease,
We consider the Berkshire eminently
the hog for the South; we bave raised
them for about 30 years. Although
they have attained heavy weights,
they fatten at any age, stand well on!
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WARTS.
Roesen has found the following pro-
very in removing
warts, callosities The thickened
nolstened with
(boraciec or sali.
serviceable
ele.
slight
tly
cedure
epidermis |
an antiseptic sf {
id and then covered with
ck layer of pure crystallized
this placed
in
cha
yiution
cyclic ad
salicylic acid Over
borated lint
of gutta-pe
the ase
the dre
ed remain for
moval, it will be found that the thick.
ened tissue Is somewhat and
subjacent parts
ir
mi presenting no traces of in-
jury of bleeding. The author has never
3 tic effect from this
urrounding and sub-
callosity is of
(ness, as Is often
the foot,
n place for t
be left |
wed after five days, 1
fabrie,
of small warts
is allow-
ssing is
five days. On re-
piece
bandage.
and
callosities,
Lo
shrunken
ch are covered with perfectly n
skin,
geen Any caus in
plication on
Jacent tis
the
en
ho
application i
3
salicylic acid
thickened area.—
fs § ¥ + $44 or rt
: a peri .
The Making of
Plate
ai
th i vel af
then put through
tempering
veral
ron
anna ing
ae By 1 ON . »
Wi ! Py
rim
and IHOCesze sy,
Pi days; after this |
y a perfectly uniform
olished until it ac.
brilliancy
eines
n
that
i * 1ryel $y
in ¥ Fa :
Bad
%
agen
thi +
a i
Ht ost
most
R LORS,
'
quires the
The cost of 1
greatly in
This iz
a large sheet may
flaws and
which utterly y its value a
strictly first-class commodity. Small
pieces are cut from the perfect places
in the large plate, and in this way the
most serious loss is avoided.
Teas.
ed in proporti
due to the fa
out imperfect
turn ripples,
destroy its as
Typhold Patients sad Their Food.
As ..¢ result of long continued and
careful exp.rimenting, an eminent
physician prescribes as a food for ty-
phoid patients bananas as in their per.
fectly ripe state. In severe cases of
typhoid the lining membrane oi the
small intestines becomes irritated and
inflamed, and finally develops ulcers
of various sorts, which throw ci coat.
{ag after coating, leaving the walls of
the intestines dangerously thin. Solid
food coming in contact with these deli
ale spots might produce a rupture
with the most serious resuits. The
banana, which is almost ali nutrition
fore it reaches the inflamed part. The
like that no harm comes from it. For
f discawe.
MONSTER MAGAZINES.
WHERE UNCLE SAM KEEPS HIS POVDER
DRY.
Thousands of Tons of Ammunition Stored |
Away in Solitude in
Woods++The Largest in the
the Government Has its Heaviest
serve Supply There.
Re
Scattered about here and there
long, narrow valley which is perched
high up In the mountain region
sleeping.
and all the
them let loose
would do it
would
pent-up villainy
and the tinest
a goodly portion of Jersey
torn the
in chaotic frag
the ir winds of heaven,
mountains that girdle
fairly
and even
spark
be out roots,
dust
by
scattered and
ments to fou
The very
valley all would
their rockribbed fou
New York,
the
about reel In
ndations,
50 miles away, would quiver
* terrific jar, '
f these
thos
bowels
I the
are lled with
housands of gundpowder i
which for
FOVern-
n high-
it g ile Way, to
handsome stone
Bat
gate Dosti
tiie
at
fact 1a the
:
rm of upr
ance
ght eanon
hor
them
are made in the fo
the from «
0 the
gates
to martial designs
111
uia
that
geives is wrought in
wo be that
had made
off in the
firat Impression
millionaire recluse
. .
if a private park away
reas
re everywhare
There
guards a
the grounds
to
ritical
always conscious
nm you
d there at
as visitors on-
times
fh
wi
these
at
10
eyes Are up
wide in- |
ay and apparently in no!
order; are the seven silent
sleepers for whose benefit all this wide |
and solitude have
«d here an
ari,
profound
Very quiet and harmless
dull, brick
buil with red tiled roofs and red
iron and and
shutters partially thrown open in fair,
that the air may get
the buiidings where the in-
cased explosives are stored. Water,
as as fire, has to guarded |
against in the storage of powder, and
dampness is water, One reason the
high mountain region was selected waa!
together away from the moist air of a |
lower level. i
The navy powder is stored away and |
apart from that of the army, and the
buildings are all painted in dirty mud- |
dy yellow, which, for some reason, is!
traditional with the navy. They are;
in a set off tract of 340 acres, and on
a mountain aide above the valley prop-
er. A branch of the Morris County
Ratlway runs up to the reservation.
Cars are backed up to the magazines
at various points. Two hours after
ammunition is put aboard them it may |
be in New York, if there is need of 30
great a rush, They are filling shells!
now in the navy magazine, and car
load after carload of them have been
sent away since the war scare began.
It is Major Buffington, the invenlor
of the disappearing gun . carriage,
whick has worked such a revolution
in coast defenses, who Is mow in
charge of the Plceatiny powder magu-
zine. He has been at the post about
% year.
Comparatively Know
look lead-colored
thes
buildi
doors
shutters doors
dry weather,
through
well be
few peuple
s such an establishment as (his
ammunition depository in
Lying right at very
thera
removable
the
axislence,
er in thousands knows of its existence,
As fur the people live
in the vicinity, the fact of the powder
nagazines' existence has so long
them that they
it
came
mountaineer
of
# with patriotic pride
tion of the great Goy
They fecl
great temple of Janus is right
re, and that they have a
responsibility for the
Washington
country who
een
had
until
in cid with
glory
il interest in
tically lost
. BX
war
the
found
itement on.
humblest
ithin a radius ten
w
at the mere men
de pot }
ernment obviously
that the
t their doo
it of par
safe keeping of the keys.
oWAr,
8
sonal
TEST FOR YELLOW FEVIR
That May Be of Use
Our Soldiers.
A Dis:overy Great
fo
ited over
8 ate ey
urther exp«
case of plasmod]
no difficulty
malaria mic
dgscrit
photographed hundreds of t
Orleans Times-Democrat
maiaris
fermining, as
well
the
nown having been
“ao i “
Raising Hares for the Market
What appears to
industry for Kansas
cording to the Star,
many will soon be engaged, is
the raising of the DBeigian hare, a spe-
of the hare family, larger than
the Kansas jack rabbit, whose meat is
of the chicken or
Lamphier, em-
ploye of the Memphis Railway Com-
pany, and W., W. Simons, a precsman,
are the originators of the industry in
Kansas City. They have built a rab.
bit barn on a lot adjoining Mr. Lam.
phier's home at Kansas City, Kan.
and from thirteen fine padigreed hares,
City, Kan., ac-
peach o
cies
Geol ge an
imported breeding stock last fall, they
now have more than 100 hares 10 start
with. Several other nansas City peo-
ple are now purchasing breeding stock
two more rabbits will be raised in snd
about Kaneas City than are running
wild in some of the big prairie coun-
ties In Kansas,
But there Is a good demand for the
meat of the Belgian hare. which 2ally
as high as twenty-five cents a pound
in the Eastern cities, and some of the
packers at Kansas City say if the
industry is well developed they can
lapose of all the meat that can be pro-
duced at fancy prices.
The hares are killed when fou
months old, when they will weigh
from four to five pounds, although
they frenuently grow much larger,
some even weighing ten cr twelve
pounds. The fur of the Belgian hare
{s valuable and each pelt will bring
twenly-Gve cents,
! The Ballet in Russia.
they 14a)
ballets hal
hours, and t§
rendezvous of
tic and t
the ff
The
Bt Petersburg,
There
of three
the
the most art
it
theater then is
Binaries
vary
aristocratic set HET
{ Lalle
fol
indorsement « royal
too, takes the place panioming
ch frequen hail
the |
ana i
fidren,
th
irong i Wilh
their
ied
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“bes
amusement ie
513 le i r
Woe ail al
Ciothes
| The
i
{ Bon
Mikedo's Daughter,
dimir langammer,
ager of the Imperial Theatre
the three
special ever f the winter se
tion of Th
vt by Vi
mang
Marie, on
royal playhouses of th
Russian capital. It i drawing
crowded houses an
and
terpsichorean
The Bs
hag been
a ni
the general
of
aiences, there
a
kowsky's
Woods.
The ball
all Russian ball
danse
|
of whi
clevet]
Ehe
ore the
E118
more
warming
st what
Diet
wn of bh
an
ha
mos
mad
iilian
was th
on hi
Bug
whether the: 8 %
per
mat
to whom bh
anything confidenti
He liked little children. an
habit
beaus
and welcomed
5 a] “Fy
s doubtfu
oy
y AT
tha
Har
time mc dozen
Philadelphiz r for that
the
re
whele count
fran
i008
Brother of the Presideat
“There is ng that Washing
seenfl,” said an
vening as Abner
McKinley turned corner of 15th
and F
“I refer to a brother of a President.
Abner McKinley is one of the few men
who have ever n brother of a
President. That so far as Wash-
ingtoniane know any thing about it.
Garfield had a brother, but 1 don't
think be ever came to Washington
while his brother was in the Whit
House. Grant didn’t have a brother
and I believe that Hayes and Arthu
brotherless. That we neve
brother vis)
sireeis
bee
is
is,
him while inoffice.
“No one | have talked with can
member that Lincoln had a broth
visit him in the White House, and th
game is true with Buchanan. i
ember, 1 don't say that the President
1 have mentioned were brotheriess
1 merely comment upon the fact th
old-time Washingtonians fail to
ember that those Presidents had broth
ers who visited them here while #
fice and became familiar figures o
the streets, as Abner McKinley &
done.”
The British Museum in London §
581,006 visitors last year; 151.363 uw
the reading-room of the library.
A fine ostrich Is calculated to yield’
$2,000 worth of feathers.