aE RY RAT RAIS SING CALVES It is an extremely unwise policy to feed for veal or for beef the heifer calves from valuable and good milk- ing cows. There are far too many unprofitable cows in the country, and the heifer calves from good milkers ought to be grown to take the place of their mothers when their days of usefulness shall cease and also to re- place the poor cows. As milk is an article of diet in increasing des | mand, many farmers are desirous of | getting the calves off their natural food as early as possible, and the problem to be solved is how to keep | and grow the animals. Several excellent calf meals and milk substitutes are on the market, and a man may now all his milk and still raies the calves rom his best 80 a3 to build up and strengthen his own herd, and also supply better material, if he has it, to his neighbors for the same purpose. Some persons, however, prefer their own mixtures. The following form- ula will make a very fair milk sub stitute: F 16 2-3 pounds, linseed mea! 33 1-3 pounds, finely crushed linse:d cake fifty pounds. Two and a half pounds of this mixture per day will be required for each calf. Scald it.in boiling water, then add enough more water to make two zal- lons. and add a little sugar and salt before feeding. As the result of a considerable amount of experimental work, the following mixture is said to give most satisf results: Wheat flour, thirty pounds; cocoanut meal, twen- ty pounds; linseed meal, two pounds; dried lood, two pounds. One pound of this is added to six pounds of hot water, stirred for a few mo ments, allowed to cool to 100 degrees, then fed to the calf from a pall or calf-feeder, the latter preferably. The calves are taken at s2ven to ten days old. and at first are fed twice a day on a ration of three pounds whole milk and one-half pound of the above mixture; in a few days—{our to seven, depending on bow the calf thrives—it is put on the full ration of calf meal. Wheat flour tends to keep the bowels from becoming too loose. Cocoanut meal contains twen- ty per cent. protein and nine per cent, fat —Amerioan Cultivator. young gell COW, lour, wtory 8S AD LIBITUM. To those who, like our ramily, are | extremely fond of peas, the question | often presents itself, “How may we have them early and in abundance?” Of late vears the question has been solved to our satisfaction; but there was a time when two or three short, strazgling rows were all we had, and one or two “messes” all wa could gath . as skating on Fourth of the N WORRIER great deal left to him." to me wearing A BOR i to worry a rine was he has confided in the habit of and that he was worried without any troubles sh to a frightful ex WHOLLY IMPO SSIBLE “Didn't you tell me yesterday that you had a wife and three small chil »* asked the benevolent looking dren? | man. “Mister,” responded Meandering Mike, “if 1 had a wife an’ three chil dren. don't you spose I'd put ‘em tc | work instead o' goin’ out dis way my | self?” i ——— i HIS EXCLUSIVENESS | “you don’t seem to mingle muck | with the friends of your early youth” said the visitor, in a reproachful tone | “Are you ashamed of them?” | “No, sir,” answered Mr. Cumrox, | stoutly. “But they woulda’t under | stand th.s cake walk and vegetable | party business that we're cultivatin®, | and 1 don't want ‘em to be ashamed HIS PERSUASION. “Have you ever made any effort te distinguish yourself in public de bate?” “No, sir,” answered Senator Sorg hum, “when money talks its argn- ment is usually most effective whem it comes in the nature of a strictly personal communication.” Washing. ton Star, IMPROVEMENTS. “fave you made any improvesnents yp have,” has just discovered a new way to put stock on the market” . . ;