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