WEIGHT OF MILK. Milk weighg about eight and a half sounds to the gallon, varying a little wecording to the percentage of solids. Oream will weigh about eight pounds io the gallon, varying some accord. ng to the percentage of butter fat. I'he richer the cream the less it veighs. Pure butter fat weighs a lit- de less than sounds to the gallon. Liquids expand when heated and contract when cool sd... A gallon of cream wien seated will be less than a gallon wher American Cultivator. milk cr ool J CLOVER MANURE. grow, médium red is ordinarily the best variety To grow simply for a green cre mammoth clover bet- MAMMOTH Where it will slover 10 Brow. nanure PD, is also better to sow with thin land. On will not be coarser he of the medium variety sich land, and it ripens at time as timethy. Alsike i3 the clovar jor wet land. —Epitomist. er. It is timothy on the stems stems SHADE FOR HOGS If hogs are to thrive in shade must be provided. Some farm cut away every The hog loves a where he can lie and snooze ‘he heat of the day. If left in a with no shade he will suffer, Ex perience of prominent breders shows, Sowever, that a mud ig by no means necessary. If cannot a clean bath, no bath prefer a child of the soil and und to ara coo! during ur wallow wad® the hog aave is able, but Svs | he SE HOR horse ROMAN N OSED It } with Roman noze is likely mal for is ii to be a go sensitive, aninial as high-spirited the horse nf hi ircops well as Do you att horse noon with A man might his dinner by avere us empt to feed and rest the his harness well think to enjoy down to it with es on » at on as gitling and glov at, hat DING FEED ¢ the agri “ul itura not ormly grinding GRIN] foyr ig oO do unif a rable LO srance of evidence os ole ins 7? 8 Ccieary in 3 AN roung stuff and the ox in our of the stock than stationg pract nd oven is, ice thie farmers ar feed grinder year al arc kind that unprofitable in as the te: And they do net do what i tus They 4 they so the in practice y not grind all the feed. But the feeyl grinder enough to make it worth while to have one A feed grinder is nol such a very | expensive proposition and rightly uz ed It is as profitable an investment | as the average farmer or stockman can make —Weekly Witness. WHEN COWS SHOULD DRY. As to when from milking, own experience says pends to some extent on the quality and vigor of the cow, and that a cow | in poor condition may be allowed tw months in which to recruit her strength, with advantage (o herself and her prospective calf, but this is to some extent a matter of keep, for the poor cow generally belongs to the poor feeder, and, if the feeding is gen- erous, the animal healthy, and the quantity of milk produced pays ex- penics there ig ne reason why the period of rest should not be further reduced. In the case of the average cow, the milking can be continued until] within a month of calving. If a cow is in low condition, it is better in our opinion, Lo resort to higher feeding than to dry off. We have known cows treated thug for many years, sometimes being milked to within a month of calving, that hava carried as good an appearance, and produced equally good calves, as those which run dry nearly three times us long. Six wecks may be con- ghlered the average period during which a cow should be dry, unless the circumstances are exceptional —Indl ana Farmer. cows should be driel | a dairyman giving his | that this de. | CURE FOR SCALY LEG, Coal ofl alone is little used for scaly log. It is too severe a treat. ment, Coal ofl with raw linseed ‘oil is very commonly used, and Is an ex. , cellent remedy much more casily ap- plied than anything that has to be rubbed 1a, Sulphur ad mixture very a half mix. tak The latter efficacious and For the former If more time can be two parts linseed oil. If you are stiff old tooth | cannot say. tainly is applied. use about one part coal hurry, take a and rub off as can be taken off brush readily in this way oil. If you are not, at night, and dip the feet of hen, holding her with feet In just an instant, letting the from the feet into the pall an more, then replacing her on roost.—Farm Poultry. at the oil oll dri the . TESTS FOR A GOOD HORSE. One not familiar with all points of a good horse will find the following from the Farming suggestions: some good watch him stand still. If sound h« stand firmly and squarely on his without moving, except whe hag very high life. He will be on the ground with legs plum] and naturally poised. If one foot thrown forward and toe pointed with heel raised, it foot is lifted disease of navicular bone may be suspected or at is liable to develol disease If raised and the horse has founder, or the serious the thrown ont. Erought down, from laminitis, sinews are {oe the will or he frawn 1« sprained, If {eet are horse, it limb and weak If horse prove less Saathe; «neath the indicate vacement of of the muscles heavy pulling oO i¥ it 4 horaes FARM NOTES The sire is half the herd half iries to 3 an Oiniin 3 fresh inj cf the cow, ade [+8 f and a mixture of excellent Over-ripe wo much churning and overwork faults Guinea to raise as ing during fairly good Fright Is as disasiron Be geati a Fon three genera in making Are a most butter fowls small they gel weather expense of thelr liv They are warm ' ayer ri for a as for cow around the fle a ck; it pay. Don't oor hatch when he eggg or the Sick disgusting; Fowlis do there is No matter what «kim clean the incubalor {i fanit was with management are only useless fon"t let them not get aick from AIWAYS & reason method Is used Butter fat will not blame the chickens not but sick choice Feeding calves milk that is too col too much milk at one time cause scours. A cup of wheat and a raw egg in its milk is recom mended as a mild remedy for a cal or It The Story ¢f the Earth. By Prof John SS. McKay, T is probable that in the very remote past thousands of mlillons of vears ago, all the matter which now constitutes the earth ang the various heavenly bodies was widely distributed in space and exisied as a simple substance in a highly rarefied gaseous or nebu- This universal nebula at first may have been irregu. lar in form, at a very low temperature and non-luminous. But under the influence of gravitation it would in time become mods or less spherical in form, heated by condensation and selfluminous By the irregular falling of the particles toward the centre it may have acquired a rotary motion and in time become a flattened disk or ring. 1t different centres of attraction should be formed throughout the mass, tha universal nebula would separate into innumerable nebulous stars and thus form what is known as ithe galaxy or milky way. These nebulous stars contracting under the influence become hotter and brighter, increaking their radiation the liquid or solid condition. Then as the radiation the heat produced, they would gradually become cold ones requiring the longer time to reach this condition condensed new elemer and compounds would primordial substance ¢ nebula. Such appears to be the condition of the universe today, and such is probably the life history of every sun and star In the midst the great ring nebula that formed (he galaxy there was thus formed a nebulous star wiich developed into our sun and solar system. At first it must have been an immense nebula more than six billion miles in diameter turning on its axis once In 200 years As it contracted it became hotter and brighter and rotated faster The increased centrifugal force caused a flattening at the poles gnd a ring of nebulous matter near the equator wus left behind as the central mass continued to contract This ring of matter under the influence of fis own gravitation into a spherical mass, forming plant Neplune, which continued revolve arcund the central sun making a complete revolution in 165 years This process was repeated five times, central mass, contracting in. angular velocity, and abandoning rings which formed In succes- ‘ranus, Saturn, Jupiter Planetolds and Mars, each con around the central sun with speed which It when behind, and in a plane approximating that of sun's lous condition, of gravitation woull until they reached would be In excess of and dark, the larger As they cooled and formed {rom the simple its De of ti of drew up the to the nets the sWOlve left the tinuing to ring vs the had the If buying hay for dairy cows, re thing more for alfalfa or cowpea ha} than for hays that are less nitrogen ous, reason that cottonseed meal is. The Necessary Shock. ously ill of a fever for several weeks but the fever had left him at last, and he lay in a stupor, utterly exhausted “his is the really critical period. the attending physician sald to the watchers, in an undertone. “If he has sufficient vitality to carry him through this—and I am strongly dis posed to hope he has~he will re cover. At present there is nothing we can do but be patient and give nature a chance, watching In the meantime for an opportunity to awak en his Interest in what is going of about him." One of the atterddants, who hap pened to be standing near the win dow looking at the rosy sunset, re marked to the doctor: “See what a lurid sky there 1a’ The glck man opened hig eyes and turned his head in the direction in dicated, “Lurid!” he exclaimed, in a tone of disgust. “If you will consult yom dictionary, madam, you will find tha “He will recover!” announced the actdn Ariumphantly Youth's Com i :: 5 central sun was about 186.000.0060 miles In diameter and in about 365 davs, a seventh ring was abandoned ter two other rings were abandoned which formed Final’, when the which formed the earth. La Venus and Mercury The earth ring in condensing seems to have developed two attraction which resulted in two spheres, very close together and their common centre of gravity like a double star one the other the moon Detroit News Tribune, &F & &F Skimping Economics an? Penuriousness Do Not Pay By O 8, OBODY centres of rotating the forming Marden, admires a narrow-souled, vest in books or travel, who will wy hirnanlf a wd wel aimeel, Aang ¥ oul not follars always pick out that be imi allbered broa tation man gauged bel the admin EAVIDE and fice ween which saves | af penny. who overest aR belong The great things today minded man, with a head and a things in their large relations, that sud fone in a large way. It liberal Econo in its sense involves the highest levelbheadness and breadth of vision The wisest economy lavish expenditure aude there may be thousands of dol the { hundreds. It often means a very broad pending best onomy which SOO NOI § or the sake of time 0 save wh 4 man wich niggardly worth I have finiea to do Cheese-part i iriousness do not It is the liberal man can today must be of imated the large the kno dings meihoas never minds 8k Fs be! fo and lines © SCOnOi ie on broad judgment, th large things wins to imping done sound WNT level conds Ww ho ge is the 0 and very upon f- judgment often requires jars deg ng and gener admi broadest wereld Ous be spending o istrati Some gance with ing of sand comi their to ey fn on, a iberal 8 of the ness men 1 know are generous almost to extrava their customers, or in their dealings with men. They think noth ling a thousand dollars if they can see two thousand or thou ng back from fit But the petty economizers are too narrow in views, too jimited in their outlook, too niggandiy in thelr expenditures measure up large things. They hold the penny so close helr that it shuts out 1 ilar The habit of saving may be carried boomerang and proves a stumbdling-block instead bad economy for the farmer to skimp on seed corn ingly shall also sparingly."—From Success &r Fia®a apen five ever to fey he uch that it stepping sion He that sowel) & (0s extent an {f a Oi reap or People Not To Eat Meat By Allan LL. Purves AN was not intended to be a carnivorous, table eating animal. A vegetable diet man, in all respects, physical, his life is longer, vigorous, and his power of manual labor not less than with an animal diet; and while the use of animal food begets a ferocious disposition, a carelessness about life, a callousness to the suffer Ings of men or animals, a vegetable diet develops the gentler affections and produces a broad and genial sense of brotherhood. It is submitted that vegetables contain all the principles necessary for the sustenance of man, that therefore the use of flesh is unnecessary, and that this being so it is selfish, cruel and tyrannical, calculated, too, to In crease selfishness, cruelty and tyranny in men, to cut short the existence of inferior animals. To a race of vegetarian men, like the Hindus, surrounded by vegetarian herds from which they demanded only milk, flocks whose sole tribute was their fleece, and poultry which sup piled nothing but eggs to the board, the idea of depriving creatures of life in order to eat them would seem monstrous and repulsive. We have among us rigid vegetarians who think with the Hindug and the ancient philosophers that fruits and vegetables are the only proper food for rational beings, and who, like them, are shooked to &ee the bodies of God's creatures exposed for sale at the butchers’ as food for man. Mhe relations between man and the other animals of the globe would have been altogether delightful but for one unlucky circumstance, a circum. stance, which, far from being inevitable or natural, is one of the insoluble problems. of the earth, and has caused a terrible jar and discord in creation, namely, the fact that one animal is food for another. The normal state of every living animal from the lowest to the highest is one of conflict, the big eat the little, and the weakest go to the wall, Men are the same as other animals in eating, sleeping, fearing, suffering and propagation. Reason alone is man’s superior distinction. Deprived of roason he Is upon an equality with the brutes. The uneducated man and the savage are just as rational as our nearest relations among the mammals. The savage in all lands gluts himself with the slaughter of animal life, nor is his elvilized Christian brother much behind him in the propensity to destroy sama life, which nothing but the interest of proprietorship avails @ to clieek. erywhere it is absolutely a capital crime to be an unowned but a fruit and vege is the most favorable to intellectual and moral; with It arn GIRLS MARK this thing geen at all indivigeal way of marking girls who make thing: « touch whi their own latest THEIR LINGERIE. In day ready-anade that X porional one's cle i8 10 have them many of ther njoy the } i putting makes The ens mn Bo and is have ths name in first marked in ing Then #1 outline ch, done with the golng over {it espocially much marks indelible The ured and med {to the nd writ a Work can ywners ha i3 worked wit 31 it or the machine, Handkerchie Sewing twice ire and when iim mach ai80 initia of lingeri on small if wet being tr im in colors thi MAY th color Flower several thing butltere ft. buys holes have a another this case very with th marking |! progpeciive they nage up, or, t If the g Hamburg them on whole that Ha fel butterflies of often the e owner’ 1 3 1 ir ’ ble ink In so: ner, ne where only see 3 Another marking ly was In blue bell plece of It A whole white, except is the =» former ant man himself, havi Gpporiunily tions, but p pleasures the Oo vale skin rying ibjects When we can impres t the unp tion but wn that ied art of governmen convinced thiok have ad HE they a privilege have inferior 5 v poonie 3 they it I Woman could grasp things that could disregarded for ages throw a sione, she not bound mouse, to seream when she The great uprising saw A true, not held these statements were not Dagnestic work is not liked: tonal distinction, women will seek amother outlet for thelr cfforts New Haven Pegister TREND TO GAYER GOWNS “Every time | come to New York)” sald a woman who visits the city at jutervals of two or three years, “I notice a distinct advance in the gayety of gowns worm for walking. Appar ently the tailor-made costume is los fog its grip even on the progressive roman. New Yorkers are working back to the theory of their grand. taamas, that woman should be attir od attractively at all times. Frocka are worn in the street today which 8 few years ago would have made a carriage imperative. It 4s no un- oommon sight to sce women dn Fifth avenue dressed in a way that in the i preceding decade would have been «considercd : correct only “in “drawing gooms. At first I thought the trend the way in which animals are slaughtered for what is termed sport and the millions of songsters killed in defiance of the laws of bird protection to adorn the hats of women and the manner in which naturalists impale birds, but. terflies and insects with a pin, seem and abhorrent to a refined nature, it the beef iagastes succeed In arousing the people to fors wear a meat Ales and turn to a pure frult and vegetable diet they will become bene any office fn the gift of President | peting for a prize of 10 guineas and | the emblazoned diploma which the | Boclety for the Destruction i | | the newly rich, but 1 realize all your best families have yielded to it. Twen. theth century fabrics have had some thing to do with causing the reversion | to warly nipetéénth century frilliness, 1 dare gay, for the number of ma terials fending themselves to glad col ors and soft effects is growing yedr. iy. Ngt the chief reason probably Is that women have regained the under standing that they are on earth to make life worth living to mankind, and tht the po Seahiningly Be array hey ghe lous FASHION NOTES A huge whi chip lined with pink siraw iz a dream i Crelonne Js full | little wonder that ular With the tailor-made suit the flat | sallor seems to be the jeading favor te, There are many ne! hats which are generally in black with frills of black lace and huge bows of black velvet. One particularly smart tie was dou ble, with the lower wings edged with German valenciennes and the upper with tiny crocheted circles and stars. The big picture hat lined with black satin put on plain and trimmed with a mass of wisteria, morning glories, irises or other similar blossoms is a high favorite among millinery oon celts, Short coats of white pique, hand: somely braided in soutache or em broldered, are for wear over muslins. For the front of the corset a heart shaped sachet bag filled with cotton and my lady's favorite sachet is cov. ered with flowered silk. This little affair is attached to one side of the corset, and after it is closed It is se cured by a tiny gold safety pin. Indian muslin and spotted gauze are being much used for afternoon and evening gowns as these fabrics do not crush as easily as muslin de sole. A very smart iallored costume no ticed recently was of white serge showing a line of black. The new ways of arranging the coil: fore are all designed 1o make the hair look as 4f waved naturally and very little. Hand embroidered veils are fashion. able. It is still the vogue to dye laces to mateh the materials they trim, Alfred Soderman of Warcester, Mase, hay succeeded in growing po ind somatons Jan my sans of charm, and it is the fabric is pop
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