VARIETY IN FEEDING HORSES.
One of the commonest faults in
feeding horseg is the lack of variety
in feed. Considering the number of
different grains and feed stuffs it does
segm strange that every. team owner
should not provide for his animals
a tation that would be perfectly ac-
ceptable to system at all
It is a faot, however, that no
thae 20 per cent. feed what may
termed a well-balanced ration,
The other 80 per still .eling
to the old ration of corn and hay, or
oats and hay, which practical expert!
mens have long proved to
expensive and wasteful, When {t
comes to feeding
think of your own appetite. Suppos-
ing were performing hard work,
$abor, how would yon
be content to eat two articles of food,
the same thing for every meal, day
after It pretty safe to say
that you would tire of ration
in a very short time.
A bad digestion and a poorly nour
ished body are always the of
improperly balanced food. When such
a ocomdition exists in man or
norse, the best physical effort cannot
be expecied; it is impossible. No
one or two articles of fead will sup-
piv to horses all the a
of nutrition that their system needs.
If you want the best results, feed a
ration that :
of nutrition
tions
its
more
be
cent.
since
your horses
vou
long
day? is
your
result
either
your
cont 3 all the
perly ba'asced por
f
bal.
pro
not a well
Corn alone is
i feeding, neither
anced gral for
oats is proba-
‘aan either
Barley {3
feed,
» grain makes it
and a very large
through the st
an undigested condition
tion of the feeds wil
grain and
statement
ymach o
examina.
the whole
prove the truth of this
YVhen
ration you prepare it for qu
tion Your
you feed a ground
k diges-
animals uti more
readily and there ls practically ne
waste. It ghould be remember: { that
the horse digests its food quickly, and
whatever ration you be
prepared with a view
nutrition the horse
horses work
condition on five or six
nd mixed seed
quarts of
variety
1
ang
ize it
feed should
to
ne
supply the
Your
and keep
ada,
will better
better
of gr
on eight
Feed a
balanced.
than they wil
whole grain
»f grains properly
have it well ground
will not only have beliar
but it will cost you less money
much desired result :
withstanding all that has
it is likely that
looked
his horses and
ing for them. It may nat
praciicable apply the
in handling horses, but
possible all other rules could be laid
aside. There would be no danger
horses going hungry or without suf
ficient water, they would not
ped and to stand
and
horses
vou
you
to eStain this
Not boon
said
ters will
man ov
not
be after unless
oR
thought
to len
Gol
i"
of
be clip
Tault 3 5 ’
left in a cold wind
be kept clean, they would not be over.
worked or over<driven and the hamane
officers could go out business.
When man is educated to look on the
horse as a fallow creature. and treats
bim accordingly the question of how
the horse should be
be gettled. The principal
is love. Where it reigns
need not worry about details they
will take care of themselves Love
solves all problems. —J. P. F., in the
American Cultivator,
of
treated will
thing
we
NOTES FOR THE FARMER
Which is cheaper in the long run,
cur tempers?
let the horse eat all the dirt he
vants. It is good for him Occa-
sionally throw a chunk of turf into
his box
This is the day of the specialist,
and the specialist is only some one
who has learned to do something bet.
ter than the average run of people
rngaged in similar work.
Abundance of pure alr and pure
water are cheap and essential. parts
of a balanced ration.
The high price of grain and the jow
, price of milk are incenfives to in.
crease home production of feed for
dairy stock, and many farmers plan
to raise more oats and corn than
usual.
Pure air and sunshine are the great
curatives for tuberculosis and they
are even greater as proventives than
as remedies, Give them a trig] in
Nour own sitting and bed roon.
Watch thedhorse's hoofs,
‘of blacksmithing is worth a pound of
veterinarying,
If you wish to cash in your weeds
und underbrush, the sheep and goat
vill pay the highest price,
Genticness and good treatment are
as essential to the well being of the
dairy cow ag proper feed, A cow that
f hension is in no condition to do her
[ natural best work in the way of pro-
| ducing high grade milk. Cows and
dogs are not natural companions,
| either.
|
| BETTER QUALITY FOR MACHINE
i MILKING.
We have used the milking machines
{ for more than a year on our dairy
farm, milking around 125 cows, The
| results have proven most satisfactory,
tand we rhall never milk another cow
iin the old crude fashion—filthy at
best. Each month we are increasing
our herd. A year and a half ago
i that same herd was sale because
of the difficulties we experienced
regards the milking of
| heard the machines,
|
|
for
as
the cows. We
investigated
had been
of
and
used succes
i than three So we saw no rea
i son why, if they were able to handle
{ them, our enterprising westerners,
{| who do things and go at a thing to
| make it win out, could not likewise
| make a success of them. We brought
| of the machines on,
thoroughly and very
we still milking every cow
with them, and increasing
our herd, should speak for itself. They
are always on hand at milking time
and the that has proven a
nightmare to so many, is now a pleas
ure. satis
factory
them found that they
YOArs.
several tested
{| them fact
that
we
t he
are
own
business
We really find them more
than the man
They appeal strongly to those favor.
ng .an clean,
product. It may interest you to know
that
since installing the machines —Lewis
Dairy (
average
absolutely healthful
we have doubled our business
‘ompany
CEMENT ON THE FARM
ent as a usual thin
making nearly
and
many
barns
houses
! "nye
Sins
floors of the bara oul of
$ he
§irt or
doss not take manure up
as the floors
tant
O08
walks,
quick board
Any man who Is
an make own
We made our own walls and was no
ing out excep { i
Ld
Of cement,
handy with
his walls and
t tha time
-
Some
peolue
cannot do anything with
have an
* they ofily thongh so they
boards, mix wp the cemeny
the walls walks and do
When bullt our
less they experienced
fix
{ and make
it themselves
! house
| which
i
the
or
we
we had
the house
ived in
came a
waa on and we
it about six months and there
heavy rain and the
we went to town and
fixed it bett
mason, and
the
wa
put
washed
cement and er
made by
{the money chat was
mason was thrown away, and the
that standing today
-Ralph Mickey, in
Ome
fle
it was
gpent 10 pay
made is still
i as a rock
{ Indiana Farmer
we
Fis
ge
BOUNTIES FOR CROWS
Until recently depredations on grain
crops were the main cause of
3 and the crow was
principal object of attack down to the
i part of the
in 1805 a crow-scalp tax was in
in Virginia, under which taxpayers
in five counties were required to de
liver scalns annually, or
pay a penalty of 4% cents for each
missing scalp. In 1826 a premium of
jeight cents on crows was paid by
i some of the counties of Virginia, and
two years by the whole State
{ Meantime, Delaware had authorized
| the creation of a crow bounty fund in
| Newcastlé County as early as 1810
fand New Hampshire had established
ia premium of 12% cents on crows in
| 1317-1819. Some years later New
| Hampshire re-established the rewards,
| and subsequently offered premiums of
| ten cents in 1829, 1832, 1835 and 1849
| 1851. Maine followed next with an
| eight-cent bounty, which was in force
| from 1830 to 1834. The most recent
{crow bounties of consequence are
| those of New Hampshire (1881-1883)
land Maine (1889.1891)~ten cents in
Vt case —~American Cultivator
i hoatil
to birds: the
atter present century.
fore
oree
three crow
later
RAPE FOR SHEEP,
If the pasture area is limited, an
{ acre or two of rape will afford a sar
| prising amount of green feed. A good
| plan for this early pasture is to sow
{oats and rape ag early as the ground
{can be worked well. The oats will
{ grow faster than the rape and will
\ afford pasture in a shorter time than
| would the rape alone. But the rape
| wil grow. along and by the time the
cats are seven to nine inches high
the rape will be several inches, {00
| and as they are eaten down the rape
i grows up, thus furnishing green feed
[for a good deal jonger period than
| the oats would alone.
Rape gown on well prepared ground
during May or June will furnish an
abundance of forage during the usual
ly dry period of August when “ther
pasture is brown and dry. For late
the pollination stage, and If 3 suf
last plowing. This will furnish the
pasture fag soon as the dorn ls past
the pollination stage, and if a suf
ficlent acreage Is sown there will be
~Homestead. »
IT SOMETIMES TAKES A LARGE CHEST TO HOLG ALL ONE'S MEDALS,
{
Hotels---Cause of Appendieitis---Chemist Blames Unclean Condition For
Many Inflammaiory Diseases---Urges Better Household Sanitation
Poa,
Washington, D. C.—~To those who |
to the
who
yf ee
no re-
and chocolate cclairs as it is
man with the drooping mustache
regales himself each noon
and sinkers.” 1 i
spector of persons
discussing the
It is this on '¢
Whenever a restaurateur offers You a
cracked mug and a ehipped, seamy
plate on which food is served, flee it
in the
recesses of those eracks lurk thou-
sands of bacteria, and they draw no 13 i
distinction between the miilionaire bl ndividus gerionsly considers
employer and his $10 a week steno-' #
grapher.
The Burean of Chemistry, at
head of which is Dr. Harvey W.
he baci
Dr
of
are
sti
ies. in
his test
resuit 8,
EAYS
question which must
{Oo every SEDONSE-
eating sje.
When
and variety
in relation
the auestion of honse-
hold sanitation becomes more im-
perative than ever, and a study of
the sanitary conditions in private anc
duplicated in public life would In many instances
In New York and Chi- | furnish startling resuits
"1 “Many of our hotels, public res
{tanrants and cafes are particular t
igeg that splendid serving rooms are
provided and elaborately furnished,
which from exterior appearances
iseom to be ail that could be desired
The examination of the chinaware | for the welfare and comfort of thei
by the Government came about as a | guests, but let one go behind the
result of a crusade being waged scenes in many places and note the
against unheaithful kitchens and (changed conditions. The picture may
be entirely different that ex
pected,
“The sanitary aspect of relrigera
tors and icebores during hol weather
i may develop conditions beyond hu.
man toleration Why people do not
‘take better care of these places
storage is diffisuit to say However,
it is a regretiable factthat many such
places often contain highly objection.
able material and if not intended for
immediate us? it often contaminates
and ruins the entire contegits of the
! jeebox
of organisms | “In concluding it seems highly de.
in sirable to eliminatethe use of cracked
ider the
of organ-
to thes:
the
Wi-
great namber
isms studied
cracked mugs
The |
conditions they find to exist in the
cago, where trade at “quick lunch
a far
iz be-
$ 3
table
the cracks and crevices of the
from
umbia., With the approval of Seere-
the trail. They discovered mill
fons of germs in the cracks
Dr. George W. Stiles, bacteriologi-
had
Several dozen
of
The result
organisms ranged in number from |
more careful observance of
inch.
Nearly aif of the bacteria belonged
y of bacillus coli i
The bacillus coil is blamed as the |
cause of many inflammatory diseases, sue with Dr. Wiley.
among which In appendicitis
Many of the other bacilli fonnd in
the cracked chinaware are due to un. |
clean conditions. Thess may not be |
noticeable, and the kitchens of the |
lanch rooms may be clean and spot
less, but the impossibility of cleans
ing the utensils thoroughly when they
are eracked leaves the bacilli to In-
crease and multiply,
The presence of the breeders of
disease is just as much a menace to
the girl who has loft her typewriter
our food from unnecessary and un
desirable contamination.”
“Of course there
{**ag there are in everything else in the
universe, And it may be that some
{is as 6 to 1,000,000,000,
{ germ may kill you;
| harmful results. A healthy
single meal, without getting s0 much
as a suggestion of the stomach
ache.”
Sensational Murders of a
’ Flot Summer; Their Motives
July 21--Andrew Bergen Cropsey, of Bath Beach, Brookiyn, shot
and killed his wife at No. 1749 Eighty-fourth street; rage.
July 19-—Mrs. Ottilice Eberhard killed, her daughter wounded at
Coalburg, N. J.; Gustavus Eberhard, of New York, strongly guspected,
still at large; robbery.
July 15-—The Rev. G. B.D. Prickett, former Recorder at Metuchen,
N. J., shot and killed by Archibald Herron, whom he had sentenced to
jail; revenge.
July 12 Hazel Drew murdered, body thrown in a pond near Troy,
N. Y.; jealousy, supposedly.
June 29--Dr. N. H. Wilson, of Philadelphia,
bottle of ale; revenge.
June 21-—Johm Klevenz, sexton of the Church of the
Trinity, Brooklyn, shot wife, killed self; insurance.
“June 16—John H. Blackmeyer, out of a job, killed his mother-in-
law and shot his wife at No. 144 West One Hundred and Forty-fourth
street; despair. ,»
June $--Brooding over her husband's attack on their neighbor's lit-
tie daughter Mrs. Lena Winnett, of Stapleton, killed her baby and her-
self; humiliation. .
‘Yune 7--Sarah Koten shot and killed Dr. Martin W. Auspitz, No. 157
Past Ninety-third street; revenge.
Tene 3 Frederick Rosatage, No. 181 Union avenue, Brooklyn, shot
wife, killed himself; quarrel,
*
poison sent to him in a
Most Holy
FS ———
£1.00,200 in Gold for Leopold
From Private Estate in Uganda,
TLondon, England A dispatch to
the London Dally Mail from Entebbe,
Uganda, states that two shipments of
gold, valued at $300,000, have passed
through 1 from the Kilo
mines, In King Leopold's private do-
main in Abe Dongs . Jndepangent Beate,
from whi oreigners are rigorously
exriuded, fdians, simply being used by night to
It is surmised that territory cov- give an alarm when necessary.
Dogs to Guard Luxembourg
Paris, that of musenm keeper.
M. Dujardin Mepumetz, Secrotary
of the Fine Arts, has decided to en
foil in that body fox terriers for the
new Luxembourg Museum. They will
act as ancliaries to the human guar
piles in| The careful recruiting of the
in | cantne functionaries has
.
The Mystery of Human Life
By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
T seems to me that
regarding
whole thing
with it all
some
when al raid. but two ways of
of human
too black for
the beautiful bellefs which
source of
there
are
£% tha
2h, ie
up
the mystery life. Either give It
a4 a tragedy respect, and give
have cone into from
unutierable patience, or herole faith, give
frankly, God and goodness, Heaven and hagpines
ity and peace—give up all that makes life
ful, pain reasonable, and hope possible-—or cise ac
at is worst, candidly adwit its monstrous perplexities,
whole array of them over, into the gaze of a
in the blackest of them the of the
Our spectres,
facts of this an i
up,
4, faith and pur-
jeath cheer
things
{oles
the system of
and boldly swing the
reasonablencis which Sees
shadow sun. If we make angels of
afraid. In a word, If we can in worst
1 for their justification or even thelr explanation
in another, we have gained a point of view the most brilliant sceptic
in this scoffing world cannot deprive us.
em
SW el
eternal
we need nol be BOG the
life
of which
&F &F
How a Comet’s Tail Grows
By Waldemar Kaempffert.
id
a Ww
jarful
transport:
covered that it is aki: the blue
ae gas by and the
consi { inations of hyd:
When
oth
priately called
heavens, far
a comet
the
by che:
removed
SWimns on
carbons.’
k a comet
toward the sun the hydro
moereasiy
With
evenly:
into hyd en gids and
closer approac
point
carbons
form
It must
ing that train are
No matter where mney
the solar s» 'm or ig speeding
from the
luminary
light
My Vision.
Mankind's Emancipation From Evil Was Presented
By Julia Ward Howe,
a lg the
yield (0 the (acreasing
rplanetary sg is
pursue the comet in the form
ggnall enough to be toved
* comet be
away,
mighty wind
of goOt rte
Of A
over
STILTS
gl SL
i 3 3
ting
3
saw ihe i
out Mank
ind was
Suman
was gone from
emancipated and
ing, all
love,
undgersian encom pa
wolf gy on $ ¢
{ 4 pn -
perieg Of peace pas
&
of the
Clipper-Ships
ur H. Clark.
r4hip era began in 1842, a
delivery of
§ Ec] r
influetice of
The Days
Bv Captain Arth
{iE American olippe
ETrOowilng
continu
gold in California, with the oulbresk of
War Thess
interes
years form ie of the t
They stand be
man navigated
fay Pre be
CUurienis
mariiime
wear cenluries
and Lory
which
} witids and
tween (he uring
HE
the seq wilh oar and sal a slave i
jesg in calm and s10rM-— ng
ages of comparative darkness with the
gation, by which man obtained mastery
After countless generations of evolution,
development of the wooden salling ship in
Many of the clipperahips—indeed, nearly sm--made speed ‘
which were not equalled by the steamships of their day, and more than a
quarter of a century elapsed, devoted to discovery and invention in perfecting
the marine engine and boiler, before the best speed records of the clipper
ships were broken And even today there are not more than thirty ocean
mail steamers afloat whose speed excels the twenty-four hours’ run of
the American clippers of fifty years ago, while their records under canvas,
over courses encircling the globe, for the superd stake of commercial
supremacy and championship of the seas, sland unbroken and unsurpassed
—-Harper's Magazine
game time con
introduc
ithe
geparall
& & $4 4m ¢
HMOCE ion Of
Nas Ocean
witnessed the
ead
a vd
anda
best
er
Where the English
City Is Supreme
By Frederick C. Howe,
HE English city, (00, Is free from the spoils system
filled for efficiency and not for pull, and the employes is reiaingd
during good behavior. This is a real democracy of merit. Aa
alderman would think of demanding a city contract for himself
as soon as he would the creation of an unnecessary job for a
friend or relative. Public opinion, 100, would tolerate the one
about as quickly as it would the other. Not that the English
city has any civil service laws. It doein’t need them. Public opinion regu
tes the service just as it does official conduct in other regards. This is
the only kind of a merit system that protects the public from a bureaucratic
administration,
It is along these lincs that the English city is supreme. It has a fine
sense of itself. It has an intolerant conscience. It commands the service of
a high grade of citizenship. It has never known the ward heeler, and is exact
ing in its demands on its councilmen. And the people delight in the city's
successes They are proud of a fine tramway balance shect. They applaud
an efficient manager. They are glad when the city makes a profit. Not for
the sake of the profit alone, bul because of the success of it all. The people
care for the city and talk city in a way that we do not and cannot compre:
hend.
This is one of the things we lack, this sense of a city. We have not yet
aroused an organized public opinion that Is jealous of the city’s well-being.
We expect inefficiency as a matter of course, and shrug our shoulders when
an official goes wrong. And we do not expect the police and health depart
ments, {he civil service laws or the purely personal side of our political lite
to be above reproach. It is in its thrifty, commercial side that the English
city excels. This is largely due to the fact that only tax or ratepayers vote
This gives a rather sordid,
tone to all discussion. For the taxes are assessed against
rather than upon the capitalized value of the property |
And the taxes are paid by the tenant and not by the owner. In consequence,
the English councilman is always in terror of the taxpayer. And the people
get the taxpayer's administration and an administration that is very timorous
of anything which increases the rates—From “The American and British
City,” In Scribner. :
The German Emperor has a well. During the reign of Willlam and
equipped pottery which brings him 10 | Mary bachelors and widowors over
Jobs are
ungenerous
renal value