*‘N HOW TO MAKE GOOD BUTTER. To make good butter you must set your milk where the wind will not blow op it, for the wind dries the cream, and dried cream will not make butter. In warm weather keep your | eream still, for if you want your | cream to become sour stir it often. | Very sour milk will not produce a ood quality of butter. In or | sold weather don't think that must let your milk set until it is sour | before you take off the cream. Forty-| eight hours is a sufficient length of] time for milk to produce all the] cream it is capable of producing. in a right temperature it will rise in less time. Much poor butter is the re- sult of bad management of the cream. It is a good plan in warm weather to gave strippings, about a quart night | and morning from each cow, and churn every day. Churn your cream as cool as possible in warm Much butter spoiled the cream t Warm. comes rather warm, salt you usually do, work just enough to mix the through it, and set it place for 24 hours, and work it over. Mnch will be dissolved and wil Thoroughly cleanse your salt. Use no water about vy for you cannot cleanse butter other lump of grease Some women talk as butter was not fit to eat unless first washed with cold water, when the fact is that the cold water always dam- ages butter Butter that is washed | with water is not fit to pack, for it will | not keep. When the brine that oozes from your butter, as you work it, is clear, that is, clear from milk, worked enough; don't it another stroke, except to get it shape. Pack your butter in perfectly clean vessels, and keep it well covered with strong brine. When you use your but- ter, set it on the table just as you cut it out of the tub, for it is injured if worked after it £4 been packed. If all butter was malle after this plan, we would see but little that is poor Ella M. Heas, Epitomist cool you | weather, churning butter by $4 is your twice 00 put in the your butter salt well cool up salt out with away in a then take of the rour butter any water or with though it is it is give into in the ABOUT FALL PLOWING There. seems to be considerable dif- ference of opinion regarding the val-| ue of early and late fall plowing I have had considerable experience and lieve that I can say that I have re ceived the best from early fall plowing. This plan the velopments of weeds. The land is much more easily taken care of and kept free from weed pests than if plowing is done late, or is delayed un- | til the following spring I detest a weed and any method of farm will prevent the development o pesis satisfactory southeastern lowa where been cropped for a long perio years [ feel that early fall plo the most satisfactory. Th can plow the better. In some localities, the soil is so light that winds during the autumn and early winter and also early in the spring blow away the soil that has been plowed in the tumn. Where this true it may be practical to plow in the fall. How ever, | am of the apinion that it is still advisable to plow in the fall and sow some which will grow well in autumn and start early in spring. This will prevent the ing of the soil. A crop which is very satisfactory to hold the soil in place is buckwheat. Sow this early and by the time cold weather comes sufficient growth will have been made to pre- vent the wind doing the land any par | ticular damage. —E. Bradley. resuits prevents de the ing that $34 these to e In is very however, arms au- is not crop the drift JORN AND COB MEAL AGAIN We have several times lately pub lished the experience of feeders, and results of the State Experiment Sta. | tions in feeding cornand-cob meal. | On this subject Prof. Curtiss, of the! lowa Station, says: “Corn and cob meal will give fully | as good results as pure corn meal | without the cob. There is then a sain of fourteen pounds in every! bushel, which is well worth consider: ing. It requires a good mill, however, to grind the corn and cob meal prop erly, and the atone bur mills gener: ally give the best gervice, though some of the steel mills do good work if the plates are kept in good repair. For a number of years it has been the pol icy at the Iowa Experiment Station and agricultural college {0 use corn! and cob meal instead of corn meal, whenever the conditions are such as | to warrant grinding at all, and we have never had any injurious results that could be attributed to the use of corn and cob meal when properly ground and fed to cattle.” The cob thus utilized is a saving of 26 per cent. of the corn so fed, and therefore an important matter, espe: cially as corn will continue no doubt at a high price for another year. SELECTING SEFD CORN. The best time to selzct corn ia be. fore the corn is cut, Go through the field and choose from those plants which are of the desired tyze. After the corn is once cut, it is almost im- possible to tell the type of the plant when sorting out the ears at husking rn pms rt, EN Although there {3 some gain in selecting the best ears when husk Yet a more rapid advance can be made by going through the field before and pulling off the seed corn at that time. The husks be left on the ears, which ought to he husked at once and trussed up to dry either in the manner shown in the illustration, hung in a dry, airy loft, where there is no danger of mold or of attacks by rads or mice. should or SHEEP ARE GOOD MIXERS. Professor Kennedy, of the periment Station, says that 600 Kinds of Iowa Ex there are weeds and agricultural states, and of p eat 550, horses eat 82 : Erasses grow ing in the she ind cattle cat 56. He says and therefore, every farm of ¢ tion should have at twenty-five sheep to the and that way on most hoon seep most weeds, do we least flock of help down weeds, IM farms “Less labor is andlin in hi required sheep than almost any stock , Year they will and at the ularity of and arms, of the other kind take care of themsaelve time utiliz Service same its other wastes True it is sons year 3 and attentior 80 at lambing flockmaster 3 the old and food, care sful s€CA80N PLUCKING GEESE * ‘s al oht as iL i Fight Pluck their feathers This will and if and about th the molt of Ju ¥ come are plu not injurious to them po ¢¥ to pick geese more than once a year and not advisable to pi lings at all In plucking a goose draw a stocking over its head, or you are apt Ds not pick the feathers the wing butt wings to trouble r feathers ony easy ked it is easy and it is poor k the gos to get bitten that will cover as it cause the means lot of Do not pick the feathers growing or down it let it be on make ni any would it of the body i but lows, pick the down from market. — E Maine, SHEEP FEEDING Prof. Kenne ref: tring to se ! u yy, of lowa ® me fpne in feeding Mutton more « sheep, says can be onomically the mer months on grass alone than produced by feeding grain and has during the fail and The can oftenti half-fat of April be feeder mos 18 the at part of May lambs or the first them from forty to si R good profit market prices during th first of July over those ruling in April and the first part of May Sheep can be fattened e« onomically on grass and corn on grass alone, Sos beans, on of their high pro tein content, grain ration clover hay rea advance in ize due to the the or account should not form the in conjunction BEAN PODS NOT GOOD FOR Cows I am getting the notion that bean pods are not good for milch cows My Jerseys do not get with call read ily when given this sort of feed. Some of my neighbors made the same com- plaint Two years ago considerable of the bean roughage was fed to the cows, and now | have that does not come in heat at all and wil! have to be sold for best It appears that some of the others were affected more or less, though they appear to Ret over the difficulty since | stopped Cows eat them greedily as soon as they learn the taste, and so do horses, so that it will be my practice hereafter to feed bean pods to my horses, as I have no sheep. — John Chamberlain, Erie County, N. Y. one cow Chicago in Babylonia. President Harper of the University of Chicago has succeedel in securing from tHe Sultan the right to explore the ruins of ancient Babylon. The university has now obtained permis sion to excavate in Tel Ibrahim. Ap. plication was made to the Sultan for permission to explore the ruins of Babylon and its neighborhood in 1800, and after long deiays it was granted But further delays occurred and the irade was not issued. Then it was digcovered that the Germans had re. ceived permission to explore the same territory. It is believed that the ruins of the temple in which Nebuch. adnezzar offered sacrifices in 580 Rn C., anil also an extensive library of clay tablet, will be uncovered. Sir Hiram Maxim declares that his flying machine is an unqualified sue. cess, As he has never put his now theory to a practical test, and it is still a dead secret, there's no room for argument EISON IN MONTANA, i a a Success in Building up a Herd From Small Beginnings. The University of Montana, Misaou la, maintains a Flathead Lake, part of the 1 J. Elrod, scribes in atation n northwestern bilogical enr in the State, Professor dires of the station “A Biological Reconnais sance,” published last year by the uni- versity, the herd of 230 buffaloes on the Flathead Indian Reservation. The herd, derived from thirty animals purchased in 1884 by Charles Allard { and Michael Pablo, has in years inc to more than ten the original number, tor de 3x 350 Many reased time to Eastern cities roological here buffalo than are herder, and therefore of while the : erd is rarely n. | enterprises and parks and { conditions gardens. The favorable Par! attends are more in Yellowstone constantly for The by a anime are not afraid Yellowstone Park } The park herd also ranges at a al altit thous where snows are deep and winter long but the Flathead man, ude, over sgeven and ever herd altitude below thr thou not ranges nf and occur, to range an feet, where deep snow or hay and grain the may taken animals in a few n Their to one hundred does not exceed square animals might be mal much smaller range not bear calves until! they five years old, and about half The fert produce every ity The herd year the herd is not decreasis of the increase, look: after the calves, and, in fact, the ani- much more carefully attend er keeps note mals are ed than the they graze. Professor Elrod of opinion the success of this private enterprise is to An would buy as Pablo With increase save the buffalo appropriation « large a herd as in the care the efforts extinction 000 its if $8, Al and purchased be ginning herd and of hundred lard the same between 400 If a tract containing fifty to square mi were set for a buffalo range, witha an appre tion at the start of $15.000 and an an nual appropriation of $5000, there would be no difficulty in developing a herd that would be a the nation, The care of the be placed under the the Biological Survey Department Agriculture, It hardly to pected that the animals will in Yellowstone Park, where the wint ers are long and severe, the summers short, and protection is afforded to animals which upon the calves —Bulletin of Americ Geographical Society. should to 500 in twenty vears land from one les apart pria credit to should of of herd juriadiction be is ex thrive wild prey the an TERRAPIN TRAPS, A New Device for Exterminating the Diamond Back. The terrapin hunters a new method for catching terrapin, and what few are left in a) B ' > peaxe Bay and its tri the Chesa butaries will soon he terrapis woven that the terrapins easily but find it img gel trap is then filled bait, part crabs, and marsh where terrapins have The terrapin hunte the marsh and game by the protruding heals ierrapins are compelled to come surface to breathe. Many of them are drowned in traps, and hag seen ossible {oO with most crushed the located through digcover Ax these hunter states that he two drowned in this the present summer. A terrapin can- not live in one of these traps three honre, and thus the hunter must be on the move constantly if he would preserve game alive Terrapins are also being caught in purse but these cannot in streams esefully on account the numerous stumps of trees on the bottom One hunier made 2 .arge haul with a fyke some weeks ago, He saw a large number of terrapin going up a narrow marsh stream and knew that it was useless to follow them at once on account of the numerous deep holes which rendered the terrapin practically safe from pursuit. He therefore stopped up the stream with | the exception of one narrow outiet. in which he placed his fyke. Night after night he waited patiently for the ter rapin to come down At length one | night there came a heavy rain and the terrapin came down with a ruab, #0 that he caught more of them then he had caught at one time for many yeare —Haitimore San, twenty manner during over his nels, shallow be used SUCH of An Imprisoned Lobster, A strange freak was found in Vine. yard Haven harbor this summer by a | young woman who wae bathing. She saw a bottle on the bottom and lived | for it, When it was brought to the { surface it was found to contain a live | lobster far too large to have crawled { through the neck of the bottle. It is | supposed that it got Into the trap | when it was a little fellow, and was Funable to find its way out, but how It | got food enourh to grow on is a mys i tery, ” | Farm hands in Norway receive $40 Do $80 nn year . sons nro a SO SANA The Making of Exposition Statuary, The work of enlarging the statuary for the Exposition Bressing rapidly under th Karl Bitter, Chief of the of Agriculture, In the of the Erie which is used th completed figures, working at vantage, jut newer methods, requiring only the conception of the idea in the small the t required This great St. Louls in pro direction of round-house Railway studio modele] and Hoboken, as a sculptor their own and with form of a model, to work has been improve. sculptor is not pop hig own statute. made possible by the “pointing-machine” of a Brook] em] tho ¥o a« in Young R the cigely iiptor, making pt to th T. Paine, fs loved eniarged fleur correspond tion and outline e clay cast of work general pning a plaster placed a frames SETI LE tiie group to be with plas in has mbling, mode! NE-MAChHInG ie fe a horizontal feet length, at in each and extend. ;. 08 The ma- framework ans na 3 aie measure small about an small er model en made point of the placed en one int of the placed In a correspondent up mark these cement is put on figure to be built driven in to round Two men the then brought it may the operate receive from hanis m- Reasoner, in workman, who is hi tiptor.—Elsie Week! The Odious Habit of Whining. There t Medical the world, EAYs sagrecable He he whines at at It There is n hing It Is just a bad The wh whines whine into ner On or a lazy on to be set to worl mental or physical 1 will whole att interest him engage ntion and |} will not We know One of them does her own house and She is have tims #4 " . 4 ne 10 wihing LWO0 women work takes 1 ong T! whining no be with } situated work and Whining has that with her yolce pment and narrow will drive make brace stand in the ining around, ting only pit i contempt. face Your and ake something of a g of the wo you ng omething ; f something } our place Universe self ach np to the stature girong Mnobiing nh 1. to beauty and strength o uperh manhood There you {to with EO matter Just quit yous hin‘ng worl and Water for the Stomach. The ach or stom liquids Health many per for all with the alimentary rece le, the and which i mixed, sava vat in are received ie habitually o« into a chem sorts of drugs reaching fills of varions from dandruff to believes that he can give no and better reasons for his in the therapeutic valu: than most other physicians wishing to emphasize cendant eioment of their administration Before and above all things ever, what is wanted i2 a clean gastro intestinal canal, and his claim is that water, properly used, in the agent to effect that ceanzing. On a part with this canal in importance are the elimiasative tissues and organs of the system, kidneys, membrane and skin. What therapeu tic agent, properly used, is better an averted by sons ical retor: remodie ieving the body, and re organs of corns The view of but here the and eliminative soft water, then, if it be still neces. sary to administer a chemical agent, one may be selected that will, with these organs and tissues in better condition work wonders. £0 foolish as to allow yourself to be yourself with wator before resorting to chemical aids, In New York City schools 1,000 ehil- Aran hava trachoma, Billy's War Record. A veteran of the Spanish-American | War was before Justice Lewis | Northeastern Police Btation, on urday morning, the person of Bill Goat, late mascot of the United Sta ship Atlanta, Biily { imen of the genus goat, was of contention between Halle, 961 North Wolfe Joseph Crow.ey, 16 South street, the latter being charged the former with the larceny of Billy, whose ‘value was placed at $10 by his | owner. Billy was turned over to Halle and Crowley was discharged lilly has a record that is enviable. He has served on t United States ships Detroit, Buffalo Dolphin, Texas Annapolis and Atlanta. He was en sted member in & moderaieiy iarge gray spec A and Charles Bireet, the 48 a HBT Cre 1 0) being rated as an ''; mascot,” to his drawn up He was like bis 8 he papers hav Ang geon treated tir Lm ar physical been by sur assigned ghipmat Biverely @ aq Bever Was ned discipl drunkenness, and duty in breaking up a ping tween hi; s while Once was compe the engine pong game be officers fent In the Ma to do inerior APerior Once Halle was a pa t Norfolk the goat in eg reguarly in¢ Hospital a Way “Billy Goat" a tien ‘ st patient i put to BOM broke ita Thereupon Was fore regis a8 a wher: knit departure from the bed, mained the leg had sterday the with Justice others in the urt ro Sun “ Baltimore Tact Among Doctors, succeed in the p To ne ct | 3 cifie IACl I8 a8 neces ractice Ary as Everybody's Magazine a woman dos of the “A came flufling raw day io of her first oppor w OBS delicate young flee on yjman into my « a wet know why sh down at I iooked ckings comfor I heard ward as perhaps, | I bad t ury no yt 3 14 “ y t ’ should havg petted to ali tha Lhe listened ber troubi 4 duced matter of cately that she we ? ire per m openwork asion.” soap he assert u ¥ the benight dia. Until recently urs European much su OnBervy perion Orthodox of a blade about 2 handle turned teak-—by a fiddle rigidly attached t bazaar for six annas device be out made has a Can bought while in th cents; the cheape razor offered he sh as much Modern Lake Dweller on Lake Con stance. M. Henueberg, a great silk facturer, who recently manu retired from Constance a Labltation exactly after the model of a prehistoric lake dwe ling shown in the Zurich The building. which iz about drei feet off the coast of Museum aun lake two the from the wood of the yew tree consist of willow wicker work and mud plaster, the floor hard mud and plaited willow, and the ceiling of pressed staw are ornamented with designs with coal and bullock's blood drawn The Baby's First Tooth. It is a funny craze that urges the wearing of baby's first milk-tooth, but The most ly devoted Parisian mammas. » shedding of the first tooth is trifle is handed over to the jeweler. He polishes and trims little tooth until it has all the of a jewe'. Some rings are of plain gold, with only the tooth as an ornament, but more often baby's first milk tooth forms the center in a marquise ring of diamonds and a hoop ring has bern goon con taining five little teeth taking their positions among large diamonds. Thirty-seven per cent. of the Amer. can people now live in cities of more than 4,000 inhabitants. National bank notes are onesixth af the money in circulation THE QUESTION. Publicity! Oh, potent How harshly is your way pursued! "Tis you who bids the poet sing Of medicines and patent food And if pens a simple strain Of t blooms and smiling skies business man will look again What it advertise? thing, one ender LF iour And ’ Bay, does And if Who { il tales bold weal Bing of heroes; for a nati statesmans! you battle of ie Which great sagaci GC { Wa aom aqgveriiae aington Star LES ON the world EXIravag: awful met- the Re SIs Indianap- CON JEX ever Knos wr TY HT UP TO DATE you a typewriter at ys Have BRINGING HIM AROUND cant get up early,” said a gentleman to his can.” was the reply, follow my advice. hour of rising 1 doctor you “if will only What “Nine o'clock.” “Well, got half-an-hour later ew day, and in course of a you will find yourself up at 4 morning." — Pearson's Weekly you . ' "ee is your usual up ery the mouth in the AN EPOCH. “How old are you?’ the teacher asked the new student. “Six vears old,” lisped the one. “When were you teacher “The day our hired said the little one, Pittsburgh Dispatch. school little #ix?" asked the girl came” conclusively — JUST LIKE A WOMAN. Growells—Our servant has Mrs left. : Groeells—Well, I'm glad of it You were always complaining of her. Mrs, Growells—Yes, but I'm afraid I'll never be able to get another who will furnish as much cause for com. plaint. — Memphis Commercial Ap- peal. POETRY REDUCED TO ITS “GRAB STAKE.” Cecil (sentimentally) —- Don't you feel gloomy when the sky is overcast with gray, when the rhythmic rain sounds a dirge upon the roof and the landscape’s beauties are hid by the weeping mist? Hazel (sweetly)-—Yes, it's dread- fully annoying. It does make one's hair come out of curl so!™Tid Bits. The United States Imports of trop feal and semi-tropical fruits $1,000,000 a day. dibienn 1 Ses.
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