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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.
The German empire has about 4,000
a A
tought ‘with i a 5 ER 5. dl
!
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<air gymnasium, ten.
for resting. Even when the saow is
cure Is vigorously carried on.—
Haven Register
WOULD TEACH HOME-MAKING.
Women physicians in Chicago have
taken a stand advocating the right of
girls to enter any profession or to en.
gage in any business. At a session of
tne American
several men physicians read papers
deploring the fact that many women
left home life for industrial work and
asserting the future of the race de
pended on the checking of “this wide
spreading evil.” Dr. Helen C. Putham
of Providence, R. I, then sald: “Bvery
woman has the right to develop her
best faculties, to become educated and
to enter a business field where ghe
meets many men, so she can select the
fathor for her children. 1 favor es
tablishing a study of ‘homemaking’ in
the publie schools of cur country.”
Dr. Buma Culbertson of Boston sald
cooperation of the two sexes alone
satl kak be
2 OWN CHIFFON
the
One draw
for three
boudoir
COmpariment
gloves, each holding six
order Then comes a separ
for starched tiles and ool
and another $0f1 neckwear
as if the owner had a foad-
alliteration, are the com
for handkerchiefs, hosiery
“New York Press
FASHION NOTES.
be smart one must
taken horizontally
of
#1 5
Pace
for
for
hair
To
twee
the
have
in
sleeve,
A popular device is to simulate the
armhole by a band of material
The tight-fitting in some
of the Paris gowns Jook like stumps.
The net and mousseline de sole
are a great help in giviag
to the bodices.
design worked
shades of brown makes
banding trimming
sleeves
An Oriental ont
ng for
The wistaria is a graceful
much favored at present
embroideries.
A number of the pony coats of the
season have a slashed opening each
side of the front at the bottom, and
they are either closed with single or
double breasted front, finished
with a tiny flat veal.
An exceedingly smart walst for
wear with one's tallored street sulls
is that of siriped silk whose net ja
bot ig strapped with the silk.
Undersleeves upon evening wraps,
as upon house gowns, are of Mil fritls
of lace, often slashed to the shoulder,
beneath dolmandike sleeves on the
wraps, and capped by oversiceves of
cloth on the house gowns.
The chemise or corset cover with
the tinjest of sleeves is one of the
new fashions that secs to be grow:
ing In favor.
“The feature of the season.” the
head of a big wholesale stocking
house sald this week, “Is tan colored
hosiery and they ate scarcer than
heng' teeth.”
In the evening the satin slippers
and silk stockings must match the
design
among the
or