BERGE ED EaE 5 SR E256 REC 525TSH x POLO PONIES | PONIES WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN ope Wealthy NP evotess cf Sport Pay Big Prices for “x wrari Torses” Raised on the Western Raxches. Br W. C a A Polo wealthy playing the soared VREELAND. inctly chief is dist for the The game SP rt requirement + the the pony, price of the since such popularity til a in the four ponies is the sport and lionaires is and he good pony now figures essential comp keen surest of sald est may in gold. Foxhall to be Keene recently ponies $10,125, an 125 each. Express, ponies, brought $3,100, and Peter, another famous pony, for $2 Both bid in J. Rainey, the young muiti-mil a turfman and a polo enthusl Crotona, another pony, was bid in bY Keene for $1,500. Polo ponies come oming or Montana “raw” ponies have ih averag one of for 1 » v We Dey ty yall, were Oy Paul lionaire, as from Texas, Wy Bef 3 ire are shippe they pever felt the currycomb ret at $2.50 a ized Likeiwnl as high as Auction sales are rare in in England ponies are $6 very ! many sales heid 500 was received nD years five sold years Row seas § brought A a oughtreds ard with tl} been used in yf the quick Am Hur the great at ever ret pony the the 41 ty speed and ! 1 hard turf whil acecstomed to Aan 7 th ¥ Oi ponies are the transinsion of English ! from mares has results, and speed an orld. mating sia with Americas thy good lion= ranch # wy by abroad Anot been nroductive the foals have stability. — New . croes with tier of ; Ne THE MAN OF FALLEN FORTUNES His Opinion of His Fellow Man Deduced From Hard Experience “Losing honey,” said man of fallen fortunes, “is not with out its compensating comforts: for inatance, in the discovery of real friends “When | was rich | sure whether a man, drawn to me because or whether, being poor, he was drawn to me because he thought 1 could help him: but it was easy to tell after T had lost my money, “The proudest gratification that got then I found In the loyalty of my family. One and all they stood by me with a gentle gympathy and un faltering devotion that has continued to the present momefit and that | know will never fall--my strongest and more encouraging support, “And then I began to make dis- coveries about my friends, to discover which were falr weather ({rionds, which were friends only when 1 could help them, and which were friends through thick and thin: and I found friendliness to exist as a bed- rock enduring quality in rich and poor alike, “There is this to be sald abou’ the rich man and his money: When 2 man has made money he hates to give it up. But I have known rich men who proved themselves stal as one's never kaew for being rich, was I was rich also wart staying friends indeed; “who gave though the chances of the money ever coming back to them—if they thought of that at all—must have seemed very slim; men who gave with a prompt readiness that took all the sting out of the necessity of asking with a willingness that was of itself most helpful and cheering “And then while 1 have had men drum me for small debts which 1 was able to pay off only very slowly 1 have had men whom I owed big | gor debts say to me-—and this out of sheer kindliness and friendliness to -to take away from me a bur ‘Forget it, old man; don’t worry vourself that. We'll just sim off the books and call And thig is not the the things that have sol men, rich men whom my friend VAY8 ever ne, with and eon to over ply cross that it square.’ and re are rich, with another day were treated revealed {« friendliness known; to Ine BAave ule WHAT AILS OUR FARMS? the Experts, the Farmers. Chiefly, Say the Greed of FEEDING SILAGE. The average dalryman feeds thirty to forty-five pounds of silage a day to each cow. Thiz means that an acre of land, ylelding twelve tons of green corn, will supply average ration of silage for seven months to three animals The amount of green corn raised per ac was from eight to twenty-two The silage should after milking on that it imparts iF is Hable taint the last cause it to have able odor. It is im be left | or scalle the re wns, Always account to barn leys. The manger of the from silage finished eating tion. Years of that silage is producing foods t If the barn is pro; and no silage is heft on the floor to decay air with odor, ther: i jections the feeding is the careless and men who have led gaged in the milk demn the There are barn as to still eo advocates claim tha to a receplacie tg feeding facts lo kind, for stations have pre incurred by putting is nearly put into the Corn an 3 of value Ad re experimen prove vie equal age Dairy ¢ fod « A when fodder the stock, On the other har will cor leaving form milk after have been merits of the zi! 1. Silage Is than 2 kh a satisfactory 3. Btock will than dry rous 4 It Ered ber of anbira is suee are while grown V year without of ter the dem Heges and in spl ntists ‘and ricultural stations land should under er treatment grow richer and ¢ bountiful year by year, our agri tural acres deteriorating sec that the owner from an annual yual ne than what would be a moderate if they were ordinary con the natrations of ag co experiment Wh wong arable are derives inconte eo to iw properly cultivated The Early Bird. very steady and serious country tfeman had joined a newly estab metropolitan club which offer ie usual advantage of bedrooms coumiry members temporarily ir vn When next the country gent] came town he put ug night at the club, which had meantime become efremely hours correspond The visitor wert ie early hour when all was sd + ean fo the irregular an ingly ous and quiet, The next morning he came down for breakfast at his usual hours eight o'clock-—-but was surprised te find the room In the middle of the dusting process and not a cloth on the tables. While he was gazing help lessly around, a sleapy-eyed walter came up to him, “1 beg your pardon, sir,” he sald apologetically, “but no suppers can be served after half past seven'™-- Harper's Weekly. Summe: Conventions. Summer conventions psomote goud | fellowship, stirculato patriotism, ex- pand the menty! herizon, refine man- ners and serve the good end of mak: ing the nation better ncquainted with {tself. Viewed In thelr commercial aspect, they Increase rallway earn ings, swell the wolume of retail trade and diffuse money into new chan nels ~New York World. THE While thing it Is a fine bathing materi the coming w self In the member the for the material Have a eral hens better yet partition off end of the house fill in eral barrels of In very eid weather it gift In the war angio When the bath 1s Wrge eno will dust at once to make a fog that i= hard on the When the old hens are the ones culled out, is a good time to clean up the premises at any rate the houses, for the winter Give a thorough cleaning, removing all ae | cumulation from the roost room. fill in : with fresh dust or gravel a higher than the old dirt was, whitewash the walls well not tilce about dropping the wash coal ofl the roost until every and crevice is full of oil If the nest boxes are removable wy should have been removed at the beginning of the clean up, if not removable, then all the nesting should be removed, and the sides | of the nests oiled and white winier require hens to very can be and dunt is ugh hens thick Hee anid or | little then being then crack burned, inside When tobacco stems and SCTADS Are obtainable, use them among the nest. ing. The bemefit will be very great. Where there is room to use one end or corner of the house for a bath room, and it will really take no more room than will the dusting box, the nest boxes fixed firmly above the dust place is a good thing The more dust the hens ralse the better for the boxes, as lice and mites cannot Hve in a fog of dust: then too, space is economized —E. C. in the In. diana Farmer. MILCH GOATS. In this country the goat is con sidered the buzzard among quadru- peds, the seavenger of refuse heaps, tolerated only In Mrs. Wiggs oad bage patch and such stummy sections of towns. In Furope goats are kept as Indispensable domestic animals. The prejudice here is against the lsh sparrow, “yellow dog” representa. tive of a noble, useful breed. . An amateur who undertook the keoping of a few milch goats has none of his old prejudice left at the end of a year or two with tiful white, hornless breed n Good Housekeeping he giv this opinion, based on his own experience: “The care of these ‘litt milk deser Hook intelligent, the beaw as glant by the le producers,’ aptly ibed as ‘the most engaging and most cattle’ nleturesnne Pi ur JE opens an invit and useful re tion or occupa . women even children mmending itzell work The reporting 5 at one flock kept for should linwe I! hens poultrymen are thelr eggs, which euickly oat know gond snd of those which producers are THE oF CALVES The care of dairy oal ly the most influential development a good Keep the ealves in light, airy tors Many farmers do not lx calves touch the cows: this somewhat debatable question, but have three meals direct from the cow, as it is nature's method, the nearer we can start the better experienced in to drink later, let it got quite hun to feed it, and whole started to to give pome the milk REGARDING CARE probadb in the herd. quar. their is a let is factor dalry Yas of two or and will be onl! to gry before atfempting change gradually from skim milk After well drink it advisable grain In conjunction with ration Weekly Witness. THE COW'S INCOME. The average dalry cow ocosis per year to feed. It is easy to figure out that if the income from the sale of her milk does not exceed this amount, the cow ls clearly not pay ing her way. The only satisfactory method of determining this question is by weighing the milk and testing the per cent. of butter fat it contains by the Baboock test. A cow that does not pay takes up just as much room as a profitable one. Sell her for tee! ~Farmers Home Joumal. LET THE HENS SCRATCH. Keep the laying hens busy In scratching a good part of the day, and they will eat more and lay more Feed them plenty of ground green bone, pulverized shells. grit and green things. All of these. including scraps of meat, contain the elements need ed by the laying hens. difficulty teaching the in male prisoners have previous records against them than males. EE JC ME FCCC FERC WORTH QUOTING : gs Sve ok Gorgioss Pross The Philadelphia ghall Bays “soon have battles in the air.” The ‘Pennsy” road In have over tt fei des oH. DINKK : sun has picked the south, looked Baltimore up another Har 1 rrigian They State a course that ' vi All ag tian OYE Yig requ liow in J Sx Fars 4 1 i pOrian mpiete ed The Arkan to the ena The Ok! { its Legislature edged ment of similar law provides for a curriculum ing horticulture, agriculture, raising. road building. flower cu fertilizers, dairying, drainage ar rigation and grazing laws includ stock ure ago a jud Re local fame 1} i iding In a 3 Ke case that a man 1 ir his wife once liable to the charge of excessive A long 1s] City magis in attempting define the rights of canines, says eve entitled to his bite aa day, place him on the list of malefactors Carrying this decision to logical conclusion, it is only fair to assume that every individual i= entitled his cholce between one bank robbery and one murder, and that the second attempt can there be any presumption of guilty inten! It is pot fair to close the doors of oppor tunity to all except wife-beaters and dogs. without laying himself and Oo ry dog if hie well as is only The Beardiess Comparatively few of our pablic men now wear beards Of the seven candidates for president this year have smoothshaven ooun- tenances, and Mr. Taft wears only a mustache. Out of 103 members of Congress who were photographed some time ago only ten cultivated wh re. The fashion of beardless ness 1s now also finding a ateady ins crease of favor among the Americ.n rank and file. Leslie's Woukly. Sixteen ounces of gold would be suf ficient to gild a wire thal would en circle the earth, Fashion, —_— MY OWNFAMILY USE PE-RU-NA. Loy i : nd your relief of cal tarrhal in their various Jorms. troubles fying re W 3 Pe runa most efi aclous and 1 cheerfu gre ner re ex | od vy hen rored 1 V certify ’ : a ¥ ure catlarrh and tonte t has no fa grippe, equal 13 ke me ‘ Ju PURE WHITE MADE BY y OM LEAD THE ¢ ~~ od A Sabstitute Sensation hunew His Business, Man and Reast wh The Sucker State. Illinois ha i been on, Was by a grandson The early Indian hal strapped their babies After they motl su exe have fm &% *yymt as 7 ne VE 1 Lory ine Lisa day wards ted many One its to be They even like papooses Taise ORs Lhe her little ray of abin for viate ude she large piece of raw pork to his foot by a when he attempted +h but to aile- gave him a 10 suck, first String. =o to swallow the « hour in his solit gave him from che New York AWFUL GRAVEL ATTACKS Years of Suffering. ¥. A. Rippy, Depot Ave., Gallatin, Tenn, says: “Fifteen years ago kid- ney disease attacked me. The pain in my back whs so agonis’ ing 1 finally had to give up work. Then came terrible attacks of gravel with acute pain and passages of blood. In all 1 passed 25 stones, some as large as a bean. Nine yearsof this ran me down to a state of continual weakness, and I thought 1 never would be better uns til 1 began using Doan's Kidney Pills. The Improvement was rapid, and since using four boxes 1 am cured and have never had any return of the trouble.” Bold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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