TOO MUCH HAY. men, and my observation has led nie to the conclusion that | larger. per centage of farm horses suffer from this malady than in the towns and cities -of our ccuntry; and the rea: ! gon for this is, in iy opinion, due | to the facet that a large number of our farmers feed too much hay. No horse requires mcre than one full of hay once in the twenty- four hours. When farm horses working every day they are subject to just this condition, because they have not timo either at: their morn- ing or noon meal to eat todo much hay, but in winter they often stand all day with hay before them all the time. A horse to be in perfect health should have the stonach cmptied of the previous meal for two or three hours before he is given another, If such is not the case, digestion will not take place in a perfect manner, and disease is likely to result. There a remarkable between the stomach and the because of the faet that the trunk supplies nerve force Ccrgans. When the stomach ranged from improper lungs are liable to thetically affected and result Care should horse should be ty hay. This feed | are | sympathy lungs, ane is nerve both de to is feeding. the vm often berome pa- heaves also be taken that a fed no dusty or mus dust is light air, and the horse breathing draws it right into the with every breath, and this sub stance, being an irritant, is prone to develop the heaves. better hav can be obtained, should be laid by sprinkiing with wa ter, when the horze will it, but it will be swallowed feed, and but when at all pe clean hay, free fed to horses, fit eondition for a stomach di cause the stomach, right behind bulges: forward into the An extent that room to perform their functiors anything that function of the lungs pre heaves In many cases feed c©ne-third horses in the won'd as as in lntug tissue not breathe wit rom dust Again no h¢ active ex: tended with situated the Iu Ba SASH un 10K = hest the properly expa interferes If farmers lees bay winter come out in the ar ter condition, and ve fewer cases of heaves In the try than we have at present —J Fletcher in the American Cultivats Cor SHEEP AND WOO! The outlook for the sheep indus i8 very good now, and those keep advised feel sure that the com- ing year will be a good one preparing to avail portunitics for better Touch dustry trong eastern wool ing wool £0 as ry whn and are themselves of on more breeding and than usual wool part of th i that io ou bine storage ‘in the middle have better control market. Last year this t Been in western warchouze storage and where better results were regliz €d in the sale of the The Erecders Gazette says u Jeet: Obviously as long as Deston deal ers go to grower and purchase the olip the prestize of the eastern markets will be maintained, but if wecol is to be consigned as the bulk ef it was this year, the selection of some. point in the West for the changing-hands process wilt be inevit. able sodner or later. Thete in. are the oo there {dank be sal tendencies con by establish. Wes the was ’ of ndeney clip Las yon the ference of opinion as to the best point for the location of a new trad. ing center, ready planned the construction storage capacity at certain "points in the range country. Omaha is anxious ts develop a wool trade and is ol fering growers inducements in the thape of warehouses and banking fa- eflities. A definite proposition has been made to the wool of Well seasoned with salt, and with an and corn meal added to fit, hay cut fine, cooked and in boiling water ig excellent brood sows, milch cows kinds. for or bex with dry dust and Fowls take to this naturally and CLEAN DAIRY STABLES. Each particle of dust and dirt that gets into the milk is liable to carry with it bacteria or germs, which muitiply rapidly when they are in the milk and their velopment causes the milk to deterlo rate in value. Some of these bacteria produce what is known as g1 milk. This produces gasay curd in cheeze making. Others pro- bad flavors which are noticeable and also in the cheese. A barn in which the ceiling is cov- with c¢obwebs, these about falling down ouched by the attendant, Wann, sweet food 38Y ered blown when- t is not the kind of a stable in which to pro- ice clean, wholesome milk. A sta. ble which ¢ bad stable odors is poorly ventilated and contains foul, bad alr, is not the place to produce good milk, because ilk these bad odors and if is almost impossible to get rid them The stable should be clean and as free from dust as pom sible.~Colinan’s Rural World. or ever ntains smelling m absorbs be Cow SULPHUR WASH. past season the Depart: Agriculture has-made an im- i that the gelf-boiled wash is not injurious to when properly made and produce russeting and other injurious apples. Further more, if has been found to be as ef fective ss a fungicide as the standard Pordeaux mixture Extensive exper iment; have cartled on during the year by the Department on near Is fruit diseases by A NEW During the ment of r portant sCovery pe h foliage will not effects on heen iY . fommon which are proven and hE - friev tabi spraying that useful smonsirated is a very we Journal. MOLD ON MAPLE SYRUP According made by the Nebraska Station it the mold been obsery. brands of to experiments Experiment Las been ascertained that which gre maple eed two or has frequently upon various after they had been in the household it has been ed growing SYruns to the air weeks, ©xt frp 107 more form The recommendation is made that if the gyrups are made sufficient iy little or no growth of mo! likely to occur. concentrated d is CAPONS. A capon bears the same relation to a rooster as a to a bull, and as bull meat iz not equal to steer 30 are roosters not equal to When cockerels become they to grow combs wiattles, crow and fight, much and finer flesh, nore and eat no more chickens Farmers’ at por meat, CABO CAPO: and row bring than Home CoARe not faster money ordinary Journal. do RYE IN THE RATION. The Pennsylvania Experiment Station has discovered that rye meal i | : in an milk cows is as efficient and butter production as equal weight of corn meal, jurious effect upon the quality of the butler was noticed —Farmers’ Journal A BOOBY HUT. Lone Survival of an Old Yankee Fashion in Sleighs Goes to a Museum. booby hut sleigh, so-called in the when Yankees considered it ef. tion for milk A te pain worth House, the home American Revolution. The sleigh which Helena. That Boston will surrender its wool trade tamely is improbable nn do FARM NOTES. A little extra effort will secure you a market, at good prices, for all the fresh CEES you can furnish. Next be very sure to furnish nothing but fresh eggs A little carelessnoss at this point will cause you to seek a how market. ~ Pullets will develop better and more quickly if kept unmated until ‘spring. No pullet should be used for breeding purposes that are less than ten months of age. Growers are sometimes in doubt whether to ship apples in packages or in bulk. Packing adds greatly to the cost but sometimes number ones pay best in barrels or boxes. Cir . Suman cen and the season must de cide. The government for South Ans _ tralia bas recently purchased 1,600 acres of land for the purpose of en- couraging and demonstrating the ig modern methods in dairy farm. kind in existence in New England. It #s a covered sleigh, with a cab like that of the modern automobile, and the driver's seat in front behind a high dash-board. front and back are used to suspend the cab. The sleigh is bullt of heavy oak ners, which are about three inches upholstered with a fabric white with a blue figure. In the k of the cab, near the top, Is window with an adjustable shade Windsor {Conn.) correspondence of the New York Sun. a Exports of Chifean nitrate in the 12 months ended March 31, 1908, were 1,978,600 tons, against 1.892.116 tons for the preceding year. The produc tion was 2,068,920 tons, a gain of 51, 848 tons. The world's consumption of nitrate in 1007-08 was 1972814 tons. Hp THE AMERICAN A passion asain panty = re a } New York City. — The H. Harriman to the directorate o the New York Central is an impor- tant event for it means that Mr. 3 E. of the total rajiiway United States, and that third, bracing as it does such important in. terlacing trunk lines, implies a do- main far wider thaa he bare figures would indicate, Mr. Harriman conirols to-day, In part or wholly, ten great rallway sys. tems, aggregating 77.0080 miles, securing so many thousand miles of allway-—-the ecommon carrier ol the advocates of Govern ment regulation, and even ownership, will find weapons ready forged to thelr bande. A little more than two years ago, when open discontent over such ‘rail i way mileage of the United States. exploit of last April dominating voice. these ars the sys- tems thus controlied: Mileage Union Paclie ...covcevnese. Southern Parcifie Illinois Central $731 4.378 EEE EE EEE Cham s REE ER ES self, Harriman made a speech at Kansas City, in which he repudiated the charge. He then declared: “The impression prevails that | control more miles of railroad than any other man. That statement is made frequently. I deny it. It is not true. 1 do not control one mile of railroad. 1 do not believe in any one man or any one company controliing vast interests of this kind. There are fourteen or fifteen thousand per. rallroads and other corporations in Atchison St. Pam EEE ea EEE RE EE EE EE EE Baltimore and Ohio. . cov eve. Deleware and Hudson. ...... Georgia Central .covveneens. 1, Erie EE EEE EE EE EE EEE EE on 7 Tole). ..onvesnataps i. 1 . a The American people will not view with equanimity the centralization of such vast power in one person. de- clares the New York Evening Post. They say, and say rightly, that it veakene, and oreasionally even de- stroye, representative government, It is not the voters; it is huge corpora- tions that more than once have de- clared what the laws shall be and who shall execute them. . nnbridled greed of Harriman and his kind ia sure to be made the atense for renewed agitation against corpora. tions. We have just passed through a panic, and from one end of the country to the other financiers have bean imploring. “Let us alone!” Well, if letting alone resnits in one man's This is, no doubt, one side of it. Most people will, however, class this reasoning with the logie of the schooimen. Wall Street looks, not for metaphysical distinctions, but for hard facts, and the hard facts are that Harriman fully exercises the con. trol described If any shareholder Coubts it, jet him try to discuss tha policies of the year in a Harriman company’s annual meeting It is not always fair to accept a telegraphed account of an off-hand conversation with reporters, but the comment ascribed to Harriman, in Richmond dispatches regarding his election to New York Central's board, was at any rate accepted on Wall Street as stating the position: “So far as the New York Central is concerned, I can say this: I was elected to the board of directors. 1 am going to serve in that capacity, and Jook after my interests. The Vanderbilts and anybody else can look after theirs.” As between Harriman's and the Vanderbilts' interests, recent history of the New York Central gives a fair notion of which will be looked after best. Rome, Italy.-~Nobody, the Cabinet Ministers, can say yet what is approximately the present amount of the earthquake fund, be- cause it is in various hands. Some of the money was sent personally to the Nearly $600,000 wag gent to the Pope. Some came to the Foreign Minister, the Minister of ! i i i i : { i i | i i presided ever by the Duke of Aosta, the Red Cross and the local relief, Certainly all this means an im- mense sum, in addition to the Italian contributions and app {ations by the Italian Parliament. last, ex. a diate Te asad Tob ea oe been left u ye! ce, sides immediate relief, it Is necessary to be prepared to ald thousands not only for weeks and months, but for years to come. George Page, treasurer of the American committee here, says that to be $20,000,000 in addition to the italian contributions, the appropria- tions would not be a fiftieth of what is necessary. The Americans were sending thelr own rellef party to dis- the initiative and organizing power of Ambassador Griscom, who, through steamer Bayern, and the American way $200,000, while Edmund Bill- ings, the Massachusetts State agent, fs still on the ground distributing $65,000. Naturally, complainte are plenty, peo le not understanding the motives of the authorities, who, now that the first horror Is over, are obliged to gard to the orphans, widows and aged, leaving further immediate re. Hef to the local committees, Fra to Tax Foreigners . that theirtaxable incomeghould 1 im Shi rama value M. Siagtriad propuned that it should be consid: at times, M. Cafllaux, Minister of said the Government would was ¢ We on 1 LE Rare Form of Insanity Ob. served in a Michigander, Mich.~-Claus Vander. about the matinee girl” “with her stage idols, ber violets and soda water and her Sat. urday promenade on Broadway? Have the conditions you mention given her “How “No!” sald Mrs, Barr emphatically. “The matinee gir! is all right. Her call it, is only the unthinking, un- formed enthusiasm of yotfftu. In Lancaster, where | was born, we used to have a saying: ‘Where you fing froth vou find good ale;’ and you will find just as sound and sweet a heart as in the prim girl of the village. There's nothing hopeless in what I have—perhaps Incorrectly— described. “But let me tell you ome thing” continued Mrs. Barr earnestly, “the matinee girl has no future unless some good man makes her fall in Jove with him and makes her marry him. The home gir! is the only one that is worth while, and the gir! who doesn’t marry if she gets the right chance 8 a fool. Only that way lies happiness. And by the right chance | don't mean money and auto mobiles and the chance to be idle. A salary of $1500, $1,200 or even $1,000 a year i5 enough, and more than enough, for any young couple to live happily on, 1 don’t eare who they are. And if they have any sense they can do it right here in New York, too. “A girl has no busines: to go tra pesing off to an office or a store un: iesg It is a matter sheer bread and butter. She has no business trying to carve out a so-called ‘ea reer’ for herself. If she is making her home a better place to live in ber career will come without her seeking it. “It doesn’t matter a gifted woman she does possess or art or has no right to a ‘career has married and bad gone through suffering and don't care how great genias is, she can make paint or write should when He endowed her fler talent. She must have experi enced the heights and depths of life | In order to make her art-—-whatever | it is—a speaking, vital, original force: and marriage is the only gale to that experience. And without it, | if she writes, she is doing no more admirable un thing than pouring ths contents of one inkstand into anoth | er. of whether she not. What {if talent for music work » a y Hterary sorrow, | = a herself God fit intended to sing or as fhe “1 never wrote a line until after | I was fifty-five years of age and had | married and reared fifteen children. | I am prouder of them than 1 am | of my books Every period ‘of al woman's life has its own peculiar men- | tal and psychological secret: and I am not so sure that ‘it is because 1 am an old woman that | sometimes | feel that youth and its powers have | attained a ridiculous degree of ex. | altation in modern opinion Is the | poise of age and bittersweet experi ence not as potent? Should it not be ore potent than the impetuosity of early life? Polse is the magic that enters into women's lives at about | the age of fifty-five. Without polse We can do very little in any fleld, and it js this quality which most women conspicuously lack. The want of it through her younger years brings her a large share of unhappl- ness and fallure, whether in the homo or in the literary and artistic life. “At fifty-five or sixty a woman should find herself at her brightest and best” Bhe is now far enough past the child-bearing period to have fully outlived the physical strain of motherhood, with its decades of bur dens and cares. At sixty life as. sumes a truer perspective for a wom- an. She beging then, and. hardly de fore then, to see the great vital truths of life and character In their proper proportions. "Especially is this true of her ex periences with men. Ag sixty she looks back upon the tragedy of twen. ty, or thirty, or forty and takes an aimost humorous comfort in the knowledge that ‘he’ was not entire ly to blame. Ah, dear man, that is which the years plle up against the lives. “Therefore | say to the girl who dreams of a career, ‘Marry: learn Your lesson before you try to teach kr LADIES’ in the WELL. hunting field you will ses | ladles who ride well and ladies who i ride fairly well. But you will rare ly see instances of utter incomipet- { ence, Why is this? For three rea isons: women are almost Invariably | tas they should always be) mounted | on “made” horses of the right con | formation; they are usually gifted | with “hands.” and. their mnste good { taste and sensitive feeling forbid them to court adverse criticistu and ridicule, Bo much f Now for the { tain proficiency with th | with the girl preliminary instruction | and practice cannot well begin at (00 {early an age; though, as regards both | sexes, in extreme ycuth the lessons | should be brief, and comparatively io- { frequent, in order to guard against | possible and probable contortions and | malformations of the human frame | Following the method which has been | pursued in the of royal prin | cesseg the young pupil would be pro vided with two saddles, the one with the flap on the “near” and other with the flap on the “off” side, so i that she may ride on the left and | sometimes gn the right of her horse, though inclining in to the | front Of to sit | square and is the | correct theory. e shed | often sits crooked. i Ahbhere are lawry on a side sa | ticular commonly iis not, however, generally adopted by beginners, but there more | than average equestriennes who take id0 it after riding { properly aliud ed to Is that to the left up to her waist, but above it she | twists to right, so ace put RIDE finished who wohid article, at #2 ir the novice, Ais DOY, cage the both cases she ought ht. That in fractic course, straig jut of sitting in par seen it several ways 141 y idle One to be is are have been The fault woman leans they for Years the the shine La 2 that her head her body gle Be sitting Conse iis in the right pi an und sitting To av of these " n forms sirable a { sides crooked. there is false quend oR ginner practise { diverse saddles id the physical he two fauite, let the alternately upon If a girl be possessed of good nerve i and reasonable teach her by ail that at to ne anind, a to act with decision, de promptitude, at the sud | den incidents of an unlooked for dan ger. In the case of riding on horse back, this is what often happens: A scream, the are Joosened or drooped, the leg goes back (a grave the horse: catches the con of fear, and a fatal! casualty, which might have been avert by a little confidence on the part of the victim, is the possible result Confidence in her tutor, confidence in her horses and confidence in her the budding horsewoman be endowed with or must acquire. It desirable that cool courage could be ever at the command of the rider, not blissful ignorance. Few qualities more dangerous than a flashy unaccompanied by Pluck ofttimes physique i safely ¥ least one-half lies occur in means it. may be of { the averred acc ia con rYOuUsness, inck of presence {f nerve, or aplomb of want © reins ed must discretion to difficuties and dangers and to lead others into them when they should have been avoided; and when once in them, even a plucky individ. ual has not always the nerve to get out of them —lLadies’ Pictorial Maga: zine. THE BEAUTIFUL Nature intended have a beautiful figure. It is chest, when it is In control of abdominal and waist muscles, the carriage of the shoulders and the poise of the head that give a woman the power of personality. An erect carriage is the first quality to be sought and acquired The body must be held erect without stiffness, the abdomen drawn in, the chin pre vented from protruding and the chest kept high. An inevitable result of the proper development of the chest is the burying of the shoulder blades, the prominence of which will spoil any figure. A woman who is well groomed can- not afford to be careless of her ap pearance. She must dress so as to bring out her good points. . Te do this takes time. At least half an hour is required for dreszing in order that she may present that perfectly prepared appearance which is the indescribable charm of the wellgroomed woman. Particular attention must be paid to the finish. ing touches. Bach hook and button must be perfectly adjusted; her hair must be as neat ag possidle, with no straggling, {llkempt locks flying about, and her bands must defy criti clsm Pittsburg Dispatch. Wo— FASHION NOTES. FIGURE. ayery woman t(o the the
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