THE STAVE SILO.
Mr. J. Dorsey, one of the greatest
users of silos in Illinois, in a recent
he hag fund the stave silo the best.
In his letter he says:
“i am’ one of largest users of!
silos in the State of Illinois, having
two 24x44 silos and one 22x44 silos.
Two of these silos are the cement lin-
ed siles, and the other is a stave silo,
the
eral silos. | find no cbjection to the
stave silos, but do find that in com-
parison with the other types of silos
mentioned, the silage t-
ly and is as sweet around the
side as in the centre, while In the
ment silos, I find that the silage that
lies pear the cement is dead and stag.
nant, and I have learned from my own
experience that this and stag-
nent silage j= very det:
I fing that
two conditions in cement zllos: Either
dry mould caused absorption of
moisture from or slimy, foul
smelling silage
‘ion of the moisture
ted my opinion is that
30t be stored close to a
stone wall, as it is too ecld
he stave silo which 1s a non-conduc-
wor of heat or moisture, the
tre much more satisfactory.
“4 number of cement silos built
have proven
comparing
keeps perfec
out-
Oo.
land
mental to cows
there ig apt to be one of
by
the silage,
by condensa-
aingt the wall,
caused
ensilage should
cement or
«i! 5
while in
nit 2
Testis
in
ny neighborhood prac.
tically worthless, and
scst of the stave zilos with the canen
the
or cement lined silos ang the results
pbtained, the stave gilo, in my
on, is much the m
af silo.
“Another
of
re practical
that, after
should
feature is
years of use,
itself,
and put
can be solid
original cost
aumber
yecaalc
an
another
y larwe
Je obtained
“I telieve in silage and
ng. A good
rae stion, will run twent
corn per vou
ices not take 18
~orn
~~ dh
nresent the stave
faken
loeation,
down
aor
part of the
PE FF ~ -
crop of corn
acre as
weisth a
fifty
tor
cents
ready the silo costs fo
cents per ton
your investment
shinery and for
plete process of
iflo. making a
ents per ton.”
tn interest
y and
and
in
3 1
the si
in
the labor
putting {it
total cost of n
CONCRETE FLOORS
For the construction of the
stable or barn floor, which
Marry any great in
proportion is to be recommended for
the concrete base: One
2% parts clean, sharp
parts ~f nore pra
This should i
face with a one 1%
2 mixture of one part
13% to two parts of clean, sharp san!
The total thickness of this floor 1
be from five to eizht
ing upon the load it iz to carry
The floor should be constructed with
tlope enough to carry all liquids to
“ertain prints from which it may be
drained. Profoct the new floor from
the Airect rays the sun, earrents
of air, and frost, and keep constantly
moistened for several dave. Water ia
very important in the curing of con-
crete constructions, and gost be 1h
erally nsed.
Use n thine hat tha best cement
that ean be shtained The sand shoud
be clean, sharp and not tos fine: it.
rhould be frees from lam
these will tend to destroy the adhesive
guality and retard the setting of the
cement U'se clean. pure water fHr
mixing. Mix thoronghly. Witer thor.
oughly. Cure thrrouehly —H 3.
Bainer, in the American Cultivator
ordinary
is not ta
weight the followine
part cement
and five
el ar broken ste
gand,
be finished on the
4
inch a
to vor af
cement ani
inches, dens
of
or clay as
FARM NOTES.
Get r'd of the caterpillars: the mars
you deftrov vear, the lesq you
will bave the next.
Farmirz conditions would be
proved if were Kept
they help to exterminate weeds
dogs and other oblectionahle features
appear to have driven sheep
mest of our farms.
Cows that are to come fresh re.
ouire special care. Ther should have |
the freedom of a good. roomy box !
stall for at least a month before cals.
ng.
Alfalfa, when fed in some palatable
way, wakes an ideal feed for brood |
sows. For growing good, clean, flinty |
bine and keeping the animals grow. |
ing and In smooth flesh it is unex |
celled, .
Milk should be cooled down to 60 |
degrees, as soon as removeed from the |
cow, and never put the cover ou 4a
ean of warm milk but use a piece of |
mosquito netting or «loth instead {
In small fruit growing, cultivation |
and mulching are what produce the
best crops,
We consider strawberries a profit.
able crop at eight cents per quart,
growing them by the narrow matted
row system and giving thorough cult.
vation and plenty of fertilizer,
Save the best sows for breeders, but
do not breed them too young.
Keep a record of your breeding op-
eravions. Get a good blank book for
the purpore and follow a thorough sys.
tem. Tt Makes work but it pays,
Little pigs must not be overted, un
der.fed or pampered too mach. They
eich
fra.
as
But
more sheep
fore
sa 00
i
themselves provided only that abunA-
ance is within reach.
| Young pigs must have exercign,
{ fresh air and some occupation to ward
| ¢ff the thumps.
{ The curl in a pig's tail Is not f! use.
ornament; ft indicates good
ealih. When the curl begin to straight.
| en out, look for disease and give medi
' cine or a change of foed.
By better when left to hunt feed for
less
T.RIGATION WORKS WONDERS IN
WEST.
Ten thousand acres of land will be
placed under the Wenat-
chee Valley, west of Spokane, within
the next two years by the extension of
canals. There now
acres of land in a high state
of cultivation whieh but six vears
were
irrigation in
the present are
pres ar
25.000
ago
to the
"= xt iiv nwd
practically ari¢
water Since
tar
de.
fruit
ation
WN) acres heen
veloped into cne of
districts in the world » entire val
is now a eity
te new canals will is h
along tl ‘enatchee
Rivers within a rad
les of Wenatchee, the centr
acres of orchard which,
rizate tl
1
benches 1e UW
ar An
25.000
estimated by exper:
O00 car'oads * an:
000. — Weekly
Ai
JAPANESE MILLET
the
Host If not the very
of
One
h
vest, forage crop is Japanese miliet
ion for corn will
Fifteen pounds
2H
Grating unlik
1 is usuali
tha nn wards
1¢ dormant perio
accomplished hy
dormant twi
we wish 0 probdagate, |
¢ which
are several
or seed] DE tre
a at
to change
of grafting
There
hiit the
118 in
differ more
fact
tree is COncarn.
RO
©
3in tree
into one
produce a variety
yssess certain de
OR
THE BOAR
ir is t] bizgost
Averages
and the be
ver each nile
part of the
pigs
As
18 the
2 sow geven
a ar exerts
L litter
h influence
: :
that
ow does that the breed
ing of the
mnoortan®
means
boar times more
any
intaing ten
boar's im-
increased to seventy to
r the fact that
nicely with
a pure bred
Home Jour
than
if
# and cne b
th es im oo ’
the bin ling of
one sow the herd o«
gsOw ar. the
poriance fis
This
get along
gows if you have
Ona arcounts f
You can ver
#5 PHS FY
FIN
on
*oar.~From the Farmers’
nal
A PATCH OF RAPE
farmer has a flock of
hould have a patch of rape
little trouble and on good ground
wth and will
furnish a forage for
vour sheep till late fall or early win
er~Farmer's Home Journal
Byer
ghieen
who
ja
11 make 4 luxuriant gr
excellent
vi red
mos
Modern Physics of Epicurus.
et us ask ourselves #f. in our theo
ries of atoms and elecirons, we have
really advanced beyond the ideas of
ancients Democritus certainly
advanced a theory of atoms. and Eplo-
urus taught that an ihfinite number
of atoms. existing from all eternity in
infinite space, continually in motion,
the
which the universe la composed. It
is true that our modern theory of
atoms at first sight seems to resem.
ble closely that of these two philoso.
phers; for in the air of a room we
suppose billions of atoms; we believe
in the continuity of matter, and there
fore that all matter is ultimately
made up of atoms. The znclents'
conception of atoms was a flight of the
imagination, but the modern theory
is supported by mensurements of
welght, ‘magnitude and speed At
lantie.
Not for Politeness Only,
Mother" "When we sit down to din.
ner at Mrs. Perking' today you say
nothing till the meal's over.”
Young Son-—I suppose it's more po-
lite for children to keep quiet while
eating at other people's houses, ain't
i, Ma?
Mother-It's more polite, and de
sides that, you can ea! move! "—Rrook
Iyn Lite
DING AFRICA
i New York Cit
{ er, arrived here oi
{ news of Mr. Roosevelt's bag
“ EF arom ne
1 the Kronprin
| velt’s expedition,” said the writer
n the New Ydrk World
sem—— nt ——
OF “VERMIN
¢ Wilheim, and sald that tue |
“Mr.
“should be of great value.
Roose.
He
| best naturalists in America
| did shot, and should do well.”
rcsm—— —————
be wit kill many lions, for
Mr. Roosevelt is a splen-
--One Consignment of
600,000 Berry Boxes
Weights and
about $10.
10,000 came from the people {n New
York City, in spite of the municipal
bureau of weights and measures, of
whose head Superintendent Reich-
not a very complimentary
0
he people wholose most through
measures.” he de.
who have
This State
is
il
weights and
“are the very poor,
uy in small quantities.
ar behind its neighbors that
becomes dumping
short weight and short
measure goo Ru which we
consider a barbarous co is ec
the
oF
i
1
18 a,
untry,
State In respect to its weights and
measures, as to make us blush.”
Primarily the reason for this great
defrauding of custome yy dealers is
not dishonesty, in Superintendent
Refchmann’s opinion, but the {mper-
fect laws, which leave each muniel-
pality to work out ita own destiny,
with meraly a general supervision on
the part of a sadly handicapped State
department. Thus dealers in one city
Iving retailers in some other eity
different regulations as to
and measures, or perhaps
no inspection,
og
I's
sup;
with
welghts
negligent inspection or
may unintentionally pervetrate a
fraud, which the retail dealers would
pass along or intensify.
“To be sure,” Mr. Relchmann econ.
tinued, “there fs much dishonesty,
deliberate and intentional, fn every
large city and many small ones, and
it is to guard against this that the
sealers of weights and measures have
t» watch constantly.
Berry Boxes Short Measure.
“1 stopped a consignment of 600,
000 berry bozes to New York City the
other day from one of our up-State
cities,” the Superintendent added.
“They were short measure. The con.
signor said they were to be used for
the ‘wagon trade.”
The staggering statistics which he
from fraudulent weights and meas-
ures were complied by taking twenty
foodstuffs. the average proportion of
logs found by the department's tests
and the average consumption yearly
“They were twenty average com-
modities—flour, bread, meats, ogge,
butter, coffee, tea, sugar, beans and
the like,” said he. “Those figures,
too, are conservative. If anything,
the amount would be larger rather
than smaller.”
To take one example, He esti-
mated that on dried beans the con-
the course of a year. What purport-
ed to be a quart of dried beans was
purchased by one of the inspectors in
A grocery store for twelve cents. The
beans and the bag containing them
The bag weighed
A correct
quart of beans is supposed to weigh
exactly thirty ounces. Thus on that
Towa College Puts Girl
on Baseball Team.
Des Moines, Towa.—Miss Josephine
Armstrong has just been placed on
the Still College baseball team to play
centre fleld. She is pretty, seven.
teen, an expert tennis and golf play-
er and can throw the ball farther
than any man on the team. She will
play in all scheduled games against
the crack teams, She also has a bat-
instead
for which
Reichmann
are used by
Those mer
ionest inten
scales or im.
cks
: nerchants
who dis}
ionally ma
chants are not d
t ¥ have faulty
perfect measures of which they know
nothing because they are not tested.
The longer a set of scales is used the
worse It becomes-—for the customer
~unless it is tested and repaired. But
the average merchant never will ask
a test if he has to pay fees for
uniess his customers com-
plain of him Now, in some towns
there is the fee system: in others the
municipal sealerof weights and meas-
ures has a salary and collects fees
which go into the city treasury; in
others, again, there is a straight eal-
ary basis, and no charge is made for
In some cities there is a rigid
spection; in others absolutely none.
Bad Conditions in Syracuse.
“We went to Syracuse a time ago
and found horrible conditions pre-
valling There was a municipal de-
pariment of weights and méasures,
with a salaried head, who sald he
never had done anything much, be-
cause his predecessors never had dons
anything but draw their salaries.
Things were stirred up; this superin-
tendent was made to see the error of
his ways, a couple of deputies were
added to his staff. Now that same
man is one of the most active and
best men in the State He tells me
that his working day is limited to
eight hours, but that he wants to
work overtime in getting after viola-
tors of the law and does it. I went
to Yonkers some time ago, and there
was hardly a straight weight or pro-
per measure in the town. Now they
have a good inspection there, and the
merchants are running pretty much
on the level,
“But it's so easy to beat the game.
How many customers know the differ-
ence between dry and liquid meas.
ure? Yet if a grocer sells a quart of
lima beans, say, in a liquid quart
measure, he's stealing about fifteen
per cent. It's very easy for him to
undersell competitors a cent or two a
‘quart’ on that basie, and thus he
drives them out of business or into
his own habits. A butcher, say,
keeps several gheets of paper on his
scales. The paper weighs, perhaps,
an ounce or an ounce and a half. It
doesn't make much difference on a
ten-pound roast, but on a half pound
or pound of meat for the poor woman
it tells heavily. And spring scales
there are as many ways to manipue
late them as there are makes of
scales.”
“All our neighboring States have
good laws. Canada, on our northern
border, has probably the most rigid
law in the world. If an inspector
stops a wagonload of bread and in
the joad finds one loaf short weight |
he confiscates the whole load, gives it |
to some charitable institution and |
prosecutes the baker. Massachusetts |
has probably the best weights and |
measures system inthe United States; |
Rhode Island has an excellent sys- |
tem; Connecticut now has a bill un.
der consideration which seems likely |
to pase; New Jersey has a good sys.
tem; Pennsylvéinia and Ohio, too.” |
for
Racing Doomed in Japan
and Horsemen Lose Heavily.
Tokio.~~A tremendous effort has |
been made by the race track element
in Japan to induce the Government to
retract and permit betting upon the |
tracks, but uis Katsura, the Pre.
mier, has stood firm, and for another
year at least the race tracks of the
empire will be without their favorite
parl mutuel or any other form of bet.
ting average of 289,
Miss Armstrong wears a natty ,
0! college n
ting. This means practically an end
and, neces-
various
sarily, a the
race tra :
ETIQUETTE FOR THE OFFICE.
Very few business women have. like
men, one get of manners for the office
and one for their private life, and this
very inability to machines
when at work is one of their greatest
handicaps. For what employer can so
adjust work that may wait on
headaches, fatigue, and the tears that
prone to?
who goes work Ir
ustom herself to an
relationship
must not
pecial
become
his it
women are
The woman
an office must
abeolutely imper
about
to
and
sex,
80
to
ac
sonal
with
nly
courte
those her She
the s
i181
feman
priv
but
allments, her tem-
cease
ally
sles ges
granted to hes he must hide
her coquetries, her
©8, and
rot
of tho
alone
tactful courtesy
ai the mere appearance
timable qualities.
Unless a girl really
brusqueness of her
tended as a time saver, not a brutal
vill to go about with
of injure
employers is
Ey
she be apt
tdi
toat
cence than
Hall
ressed alr
which nothing can be more
Better to outright
with It, though sc
be imagined, are even
men an offi
yili
sup;
irritating
done
Weer
enes,
ore
Lom
id
business world
r
int
demanded
time
should «
express
possible
ters a I
want to
af appl
legible
in
applic
rai ha
first the
its
one who wish
there is the list
The
typewritten
qualifications
lettor moreover be
plain, businesslike sta-
ret the writer's address,
.
nsisting of
on
Uonery, with 8
then a salutation o
i
“My Dear
writer's
Mr.
penned
"Yours truly.”—New
the formal Biank,’
and finalls
ture
t.aven
the
after the
Register.
LOVED FELINE ARISTOCR ACY.
dame Henriette Ronner, whose death
sels. Only Eugene Lambert
her, and, though his
technique
superior, from the painter's point
but that only in rare
understanding of the cat
his insight into thelr nature. and gym
pathy with their feelings,
ly on a level with those of Madame
onner,
As Ruskin puts you must know
“kitten nature down to the most ap
palling depths thereof,” and be sen.
sitive to “the finest gradations of
kittenly meditation and motion.” “Ger
icault, Barge and Delacroix all painted
or modelled the cat, but they usua'ly
Eave us tigers in little—thus
ing home to us the saying of Mery,
Louis XIV's surgeon; “God created
the cat that man might caress a
tiger.”
I have geen studies by Madame
Ronner of helplessly dozing kittens
that positively seem to drop their
heads in little spasmodic nods: eats
and kittens, too, that seem to be alive
on the canvas, and their fur (Infinitely
difficult to paint) like the very thing.
When she would paint one or more
of her mercurial pets, she would
place them in a gorgeous Louis XV
glass case, made comfortable and
beautiful with gorgeous cuzhiong and
embrolderies—or whatever other ae
cessorifes she needed. Her rapidity
was wonderful. She would not stay
to draw outlines—there was not time
for that—she would regard the ani.
mal as a mass, a compound of light
and shade and feline nature, and swift.
iy brush it in. Her ultrasevere train.
ing under her father had fitted her for
such work. Then she would elaborats
her pletures from rapid studies and
from quist observation at her leisure,
when alone she could hope to seize
the mood and humor wanted, and ree.
ord it with truth, intelligence and
love. Madame Ronner was among the
it,
0000
elect, for she had
masculine handling—which
world permitted
er have
woman's grace with
had the
her, she would rath
the of
She
3 ar
devoted to painting
dogs, which ghe loved better still
was a wonderful woman,
a nchble character who Jn
life, long and gaddened
frue heroine if ever
M. H. Splelmann. Pr
a fine artist
her private
WAS @
O16 |
DOS
ton,
there was
isgels
Record.
Orres
Philadelphia
Some dress
clota.
boast
They
women they can
he
in ten minutes.
ed in that tim
ed. In nothing
does great h
may
more thar
iste
The girl wh
never make
her
habit i
1768
only the
1. 2
d read
i i the
careful dresser
flaunt her celerity. “You look
thinks woman, or, “You
can't be colar cles or “Your
must resembl g pig pen.”
One cannt i attention to
bathing, bh ad
Justing of clothes in
Woman
fur
the other
thrnuoh *
LAT OUEG,
a a Fay
and careful
required
The
cept
on
ter.
in
uncleaniin
arn
1.Y
MIRRORS
will not read
that thim-
and safety pins and hairpins have
$7 The
woman of
tm toarpst
with sympath
interest
imple
woman's
aeir hair the Roman wom
used a straight bronze pin,
large spherical head. The ances
ble was topless, also many
Fine-tooth ivory
taken
dkins have
The
hair have been from
an Etruscan tomb.
been found in
for the
while x
large numbers,
envied her modern sister her French
mirror, for in those
the best was a bit
however,
days substitute
Press
HINDOO MOTHER'S
DEGREE
Mrs. Srimati Amma. gq H
indoo wom
B
took
in the
Malabar University. She first
competitors. Three months ago she
teacher in a college for girls. She is
one of the editors of the Sarada. a
literary journal, and believes the wom.
en of the Orient are on the eve cf a
general awakening. She is especially
hopeful for India by reason of the
fact that the Hindoo husband is en
couraging his wife to study. Mrs
Amma believes this probably is the
most remarkable development in all
the presentday progresg of women the
world over, ag for scores of centuries
the women in India have been held
worse than chattels. There seems to
be real advancement in India. for a:
the last convocation of the Bombay
University two Brahmin women took
degreees, and the Madras University
for the first time has had women
among itz gradusies New York
Press
“
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YOUNG WOMEN LAWYERS.
Miss Anna Quindbr, secretary of the
State Loyal Temperance Legion of
Ohio, recently acted as attorney for
the prosecution in a larceny ease in
Bdenton, Ohlo. Miss Jane Purcell,
another young woman lawyer, acted
as counsel for the defence. It is
called the first case In Ohio In which
both attorneys were women New
York Sun.
Sleeves are longer and flatter and
they closely follow the Uaes of the