pp a—— Sm —— 0 hfe 5 Rg » . Te ® Bs “Sg vee INBRED HORSES. In breeding is the method by which the blood of an exceptional individual, of a particularly fortunate nick, iy made to characterize, of descent on both sides, If persisted same the an ahwost unlimited extent by choice of a single animal—-In practice generally that of the sire It method not so much of crigisating ex. cellence, as of making the most of ex- cellence when it does appear, and it is no: too much to say that a large proporiicn of the really great have bwen strongly inbred. An inbred animal is of course enor mously prepetent over everything else. Its hall of the ancestry, being largely of identical blood, dominate the offspring. law that governs grading, sires Inbreeding is of all breeding, giving rise to the s plest of pedigrees, an advantage quick- ly ognizéd when we recall the law of ancestral heredity. All things con- red, no other known method of equals this for intensifying , doubling up existing com- and making the most of ex. individuals ey side breeding blocd binations, ceptional lines valuable strains Many have experi- that in Satis dam lated. ation, tried have not The quite { desirable ize, strong and vigoro hysl f who f inbreeding it did produc § sire and nimals closely conforms from 1 al defects, eye detect, and infirm ities 8 of temper that produce of the must bear a c¢ I the parents themselves but, much to ths the breeder, been of an undoes these breede who have so unfortunate as to obtain such regsuits will always stroagly condemn the practice of inbreedisg The results in such enses have due largely to the influence ism. If those breeders wh unforiunate could haw» character of every cone of ters cf the stallions #nd mares on both sides for seversl generations back, they would undoubledly have found some ancestor eymmon to both sire and dam that exhibt®ted in a strong degree the same undesirable gu ' could the animals lance to respecis, and diss duce has acter, and 15t of rable char been been | atar- 0 have heen learned the | the ances- ality produce of that sire and dam, both of which, outward appearances, wers the undesirable qualities plainly mani fested by their offspring. -—Horse vCcler. free from SORGHUM, cne of the largest yiell ard one of the most farm stock. It she : corn is im the ground when the soil is thoroughly warm. It is a drought resistant plant, should be prepared as for corn may be broad casted, drilled In close | with grain drill or in 3 wide enough apart to permit cultivation. We use the dril!, setting it for 11.2 busheis on the wheat scale and letting | all holes feed. The young plants may | be cultivated with the harrow till ther are 4 or 5 inches high If necessary to | break crust on the ground or to kill weeds. We prefer the Early Amber | varisly. A field of sorgham 1s a great | help in August and September when | pastures are short. All frm stock aro | greedy for it when cut and fed green. It is especially good for dairy cows. It may be out and cured much as other hay is handled. When sown thick it may be out with the binder or where drilled in wide rbws, with | the corn harvester and cured out in| shocks. We prefer to let it stand till frost, shock it within a day or two anda | let it cure in shock and stant thers Lil needed. In well made shocks it will stand with little damage. A fow acres of it in an odd corner will con. vince you of its value The most serious charge made againgt this crop Is that it puts the land in bad condition for ths next crop, especially if that Is a small grain crop. It is sald that eorn does better after it than wheat or oat. We got a god crop of cow peas yYear.-~Epitomist, BEST BARN FOfl 180 ACRE FARM. Replying to ing-iry of R. E. By of Grant county bn issue of May 30th, 1 have the following to fers For grain and hay barn te accom miodate 160 acre farm, with room for 6 to 8 head of horses, the best and cheapest barn available Is one circular in form, about 84 to 70 feet ih ia: meter, with 20 foot walls. Frame of fight dimension lumber, with hoon plates, girders, nailties, ote; Solid concrete wall, or foundation, concrete floor and water tanks, First floor 7 feet 6 inches in clear, and balance of 20 feet devoted to mow for hay, and possifly a few Bins, at outer walls, that can be fliled from trolley track and carrier, and emptied by gravity through spouts. About 34 feet of central part devoted to work. ing space, bins, etc., about which the horse stalls are placed with heads to voard center. Tle spacs on opposite palat- | able to all uld be | planted after Ground Seed i row side from horses, may be used for ve machinery, ete, or stalls may be provided for a few cows or young stock. A space 14 to 16 wide is left open at main entrance, through which hay may be taken up and con vey:d to any part of mow on circular track. feet Barn would require about 16,000 feet o frame lumber, including double mow floor. Total! expense of building suoh a to conditions, localities, Mow space is open and unobstructed and genera! arrangement the very best in particular.—Benton Steele, Ap in the Indlana Farmer. ete. every chitect RAISING SHEEP FOR MUTTON. * A farmer writing to one of our ex changes refers to his own experience in sheep on a small farm. He says: In reply to the inquiry made in the Farmer concerning profits on a small we cannot do any better than as we have lived and farmed on the same place we now occupy for forty-two years. We followed ing for twenty years milking years as high as sixty cows and ing our own butter and selling it the highest price en the market. On account we were For hand- lambs and to dairy gome mak- at of scarcity of help to abandon dairying last fifteen years ling sheep, raising fending them in Chicago market I { here that here that 1 have Leen | the we have been Jur own once a year want to there has not be 1 th * not 104 realized p vimes considerably is no guees hed) book "nr \ work 4 have done with the same am d.~—Indianag Far as well pende mer CROP ROTATION rr restore in mainta and rT the soil on land op rotati nature's method of Py on is yo Ig worki Ian may supply of humus fertility ot i a worn-out soil ing harmony wih nature an adequate rh =“ 1 € the ava in resery lable rotatle mn and It is easy to adopt a that is under kind of livestock farming being followed that the clover other grasses that form an essen- tial part of the rotation may be prof itably utilized. One of the best rota. tiong for the of the mid. dle states follow following: corn, followed by winter wheat drilled in the manure to be applied as a and turned under with second crop for corn the next The time is past when afford to feed livestock just to manure, we must feed better more livestock. —Farm tillage is #0 stock farmer to is the clover, top dressing the Year stubble: we oan make profitable and Stock. THE PROTEIN Many tables, showing the averag. protein and. its value, have been pub lished, recommending that ail such fools should be sold under guarantee, the farmers when buying feeds to se those which furnish protein the cheapest, as this is the substance de sired more than any other when the PROBLEM enriching the rations made from home-grown produce. "It will be large io the interest of farmers to care fully study the composition of stock foods and endeavor to feed 80 as to secure the largest return at the least Sn—— CLASSIFICATON OF EGGS that or hereat “strictly Secretary Wilson says ter epgs sold ag “fresh” represented to be. Storage eggs must be sold as such, or under the pure food law the dealer is Hable to a fine six months’ imprisonment or both. Thousands of people do not «this will give them a chance to find out. American Cultivator An——————— SHEEP DESTROY SUMAC. For killing out sumac Edward Von Alstein recommends a flock of sheen First mow the sumac then turn in the sheep. It may be destroyed by persistént cutting after flowering sea before it sets berries, but sheep will do the work at less trouble and expense~American Cultivator FARM NOTES. Do not engage in poultry raising av a business unless you have a liking in that direction. Fowls on free range will produce a greater percentage of strongly fertilize ed eggs than those in confinement. Scald out all drinking vessels and feed troughs every few days to keep them from developing disease germs, Purebred poultry will give better resulta than the mongrel kind and will not eal any more or require any great. er care. It is a good plan to mark the eggs when sitting a hen. A small lead pencil mark fs sufficient, and then one can tell when they were set and keep track of them. The color of the comh and appear. ance of the plumage of a hen can be | | taken ns an Indication of her health, A Bealthy hen has a bright red com Nothing Too Small we do, otherwise we w and it ould hit back is a very good thing We must If, for us Dissatisfaction foot foremost, If you want to succeed you mus taking, Nothing is too small to do well. Big andertakings are the fruit of Whether your duty be way to do it, and that is the however, to be In a const comes from the best tO Progress, of depression, that we are ant state knowledge ou not putting t put your best effort into every small undertakings well done, r the big ones must meet You must say to yourself, “I am d there iz way in which I can do Do not be too easily cast down is wrong before you change M Constant change works against Don’t ask advice from every one indecision. When you nee most Never attempt People fulness, you ne way d advice go to the ask for it the big things respect and talk abowt them have scant never doing anything Actions, you know, greater impraoassion on “he successful It so times happens that ssman cour that duty and honor dictate ured. > the world In a cass of that uncomplaining But there wi the only consolat he js fa the right It takes a brave trary advice he had you to respect for th speak peop ie really the cens and hoe many dark on for hi m will be man and eriticism, but better keep to them until] it i Nobody is as much MW) YOu mus! rn to think and act You are the “captain of opportunity New York oF of v¢ Ev oilng the best I know how; I wonder | better.” and discouraged, and be sure BUCCEeSS, you know or will Hve in a you person whose common sense and oplini you intend doing unless you really mea e person who 48 always talking blg and you will make a blow-hard is doing the very and still he may best he car be much ¢ cised an carry the burden and fight If knows hopeless ours to face knowledge that he himse in the face of e conv that he is in the i that he is in the wrong : i # you : as you are 34 an own convictions inced § prove what and your NOT A AM a str ¥ ng advocate of life 1 future Keaping wi have to should study than any dther or that if women c that they how and why meal, the doing of it would One of my father's pet stories is lunch, and found me, ting in ing great tears into thé pages while lunch He thinks it ia a good story, attempting to do a thing 1 and never would cook I went at it with a will and Mrs. Rorer apd my ment, then heard point, and Anything believe that rs¢jonal advise as to her to learn hotas eat, and Women rather slinve Know whatever BO ool i isarned a woman decry cooking w it is not so a woman can do well, rmily that I advooate chen life in producing good understanding her work, uninterested, she will find it a g soe if te in hings to e not ful, some shop, Housework fone intelligently is man who can do so, and has no trouble with her servants So I suggest ‘hat great art of cookery you will find should jearn It, oF to teach oOOXIDE, and woman who comes to do the things whic As long as th will ing one have h and should do are doing in art of cooking 1¢ thing that earn ook well at do the various things and not a drudgery came into they 10 ¢ our home my how one day hie lap, out what troubx was declaring that | meal bread an to cook and stuck at it cook everything in the usual And 1 never have a good cook. find the I tried to but | know jerstand, an. was that | of yy properly. mil sind ho was herself she enjoys doing. And It lg becaase bh 3 ac ing young 12 to coo well. I jove it and take her pleasur enters upon hou ehold at. If she fre fiee from it im: the panic Cooking done wel] cooked by And the reat hardship, and will drudgery Serving a good meal not Wi benefit fh fashionable to know how, rou make it an & This is my method: f y wn n i 1 i i ¥ o i & § 3 ¥ i a “Ross.” letter of the alphabet, vowels in conjunction, a, e, i, 0, un. bringing in a, ¢ |, 0, u. First beginning wi th “a,” then “Bb” and so on, using th al, ao, an. If there is © certainly nothing to suggest “Ross,” be, ete. Actress's Tribute to Garrick, Mrs, Clive was eminent: as an act ress on the London stage before Gar tick appeared, and, as his blaze of excellence threw all others into com: parative insignificance, she never for gave him, and took every opportunity of venting her spleen. She was coarse, rode and violent in her tem per and spared nobody. One night, as Garrick was perform ing “King 1.car,” she stood behind the scenes to obterve him, and, in spite of the roughness of her nature, wag so deeply affected that she sob bed one minute and abused him the next, and at length, overcome by his pathetic touches, ahe hurried from the place with the following extra tribute to the university of his powers, “Confound him! 1 be Held up the Army, The battle was golng against him. The commander in chief, himself raul er of the South American Republic, sent an alde to the rear, ordering Gen, Blanco to bring up hig regiment at once. Ten minutes passed, but it didn't come. Twenly, thirty, an hour—still no regiment. The aide camo tearing baok hatless, breathless. “My regiment! My regiment! Where fg it?” shrieked the commander, “Gen. eral,” answered the excited alde, “Blanco started all right, but there are a couple of drunken Americans down the road and they won't let it go by."-«8an Francisco Argonaut. 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BOLUTION OF THE 13M Every saful bh day recognizes the perple affairs In regard to Domestic service has HELP PROS BUCCe usekveper of i # domestic servi in the United Stat pugsed through great the last fifty ye few years, whether needed in the house dered by members o seoured by employing ¢ wife or daughter, who wi of the family While in rural changes ars Until 1 fF 43 Linus some has been bage : realiv change enea largely i immigration changes the industrial The American from an unskilled laborer, while the en het very secured for hou at the | American *WOl ry lation betwes n the helper has had The uring ind a large influence in det number of mestic to prove work There this There work Oran veal until native place, fow the re and the manufact women who engage service, as more shot establish. for are i or extra migal be to let then day off to make iabor performed 8 in would Another plan an afternoon or up for the extra If the p s ize that their helpers only ™ y treated fairly and do not want «« By omy our Ma Ye WArvice and KEEP IN THE 8UN “If you want to keep well baths” health dictum Not all o hi to the who day exposin bat all of gement gel is the latest us ment exire wrynnm i sanend air man do it back possible on it. of costume. The horrified but shut gaze by screens Bare feet or sandals which make walking easier, may quickly be ed off, and a low-necked and sleeve leas nightdress or wrapper of sheer material will allow lots of sun to get al your skin and do $s healing work on the pores. Lot your halr down aiso, for that too, is benefited by alr and sunlight. If you are not very strong. with sun than we shellored yard much time the airest kind neighbors may out you have a porch spend as Waar as be ying PF : Laer just will build you up better still The values of this exercise sun bath combination has been prov ed in an open air institution for men and boys in Germany, where wonder ful cures are being made of rheumat ism, neuralgia slight paralysis and fnervong affections The patients exercise in a high-wall ed space, Elothed only in lighi balk. ing trunks, The grounds are equip ped with an open