SHORING COLTS. The first shoeing of the colt is the most important of all. Many a good forse has his speed injured by wrong fmdgment being used in doing the first jab of shoeing. We have heard much on shoeing being an evil necessity, but the greatest of all evils comes In been followed along sane lines. ble rarely starts with the first shoe- ing, because experience tells trainer what kind of a shoe should At the age of two years is not too poung for the first shoes to put on, but at this age when ing-in process has just the bones and muscles of have not vet received their full tion of growth or strength, and in or der to avoid breakage to the hoof and other damage to the food it is be been the colt ed at that age The unfortunate shoeing is that some save expenses in Ing more weight’ on the feet than the animal is able Carry self justice. A colt that is a speed prospect asked to carry four ounces, to have the each hoof. The proper gaiting of colts is accomplished barefoote i athle should be attach goes on the de increased at each shoeing wige trainer will adhere t« mum rather th experimenting, other weights of an in« At four vears of workad one should be able to that may be deemed him to wear during his li dow many times period of his life Borse is with by a chance of weights being applied t , the hoof, also a change in the designs of shoe. A ap hoof wear. horse- look to apply- to apply about people shoeing by thing to and do two should not he than three years mare ; 1d i¢ ig and i or same hest by driven iMDos. them where tl} is f the i to him. wei bys of the shoes but the least o evil necessity an with reased order, after being tho age, or two years, colt carry any weight necessary for fe time. But lo we find after i has experimented this arrived that a od animal should have his after his starts, this is impossible, provided the trainer knows hig business there radically that will require something more shoeing to Journal, working life and if then is something wrong than correct —Horseshoer's + THIN MILK OFTEN THE BEST. The rather general opinion that food value of milk depends upon the percentage is certainly an erroneous one. for infants, and those of weak digestive powers the might be stated that the more cream or butter fat in the the of butter fat it Often invalids truth the milk less a part of the food the sugar and other that make up usually about 10 per cent. of the total solids in a normal milk are easily digested and assimilated into the system. furnishing the protein that goes to building up the muscles and their power. These elements are about at the same percentage in milk that in cream, and in what would be called a thin mitk. Even in elements is rich not been greatly reduced by remov- ig the cream, and their percentage ows along with those which gave milk much less rich learned that oalves upon ealled the poorer found that a gradual ‘change from all new milk after the calf was days old to all skimmilk or separator milk by the time they were two weeks old kept the calf growing het ter and was less liable to result in excessive aoouring than was the feed. ing of whole milk all the time. if other conditiong of cleanliness, sweot. they could raise better the milk of what cows were Of course gour milk, cold milk. or the use of feeding pans foul with the part- iy decomposed food of a previous day calves, nor is it for young pigs. Af. for either have reached the proper age for weaning thelr stomachs may be strong enough to digest even the worst of these, or they may not al ways be so. When a few generations ago the farmers, and thelr families took all the cream from their milk to make butter, and drank skimmilk, they might have been doing so from mo tives of economy, but they were “building wiser than they knew” They were building up for themselves and their children the strong frame, the powerful muscles and the good digestion that enabled them to work that few today, excepting the trained athlete, would care to attempt, and which even they might not be able to endufe for as many hours a day, and day after day, as did those men and women of -the olden days, even though the latter failed in many oth. or particulars to conform to the rules of right living—~M. F. Ames, in the dmerican Cultivator, FARM NOTES. Grit must be sharp. Feed before you water, Do not feed grass for grit. Feed a mash the year round. Clean out the feed troughs daily Oyster shells are too soft for grit Never throw soft feed on the ground, Round pebbles will not answer for { grit. | In feeding grain in the runs broad: cast it. Do not weather, Millet seed is a great egg-dropping grain. Always feed the mash crumbly, not sloppy. { The noon meal { during the sumrmer Do not allow the | the troughs | Beans are excellent food being high. { Iy nitrogenous, A quart of feed for twelve hens i3 ‘a good Milk sweet, i i i i i feed corn during the hot is not necessary mash to sour in measure can be sour fed in any forme buttermilk an egg-p diet of it or od, be Buckwheat is but a to the Don’: ones, That poultry + number of h yard and hou but and then give them good care. is the secret of success in raising On the farm where it can be cheap use of ski to feed it t The who can I orn and alf: and has skimmi 1 * good ra- ’ milk farm- iifa ly obtained the best is poultry. er yr his hens, all produced on the From g GREAT SHEEP DEMAND he wonderful demand far rams, 80 in is r Sheep the vear { for pure J § OPW bred the American The big 3 k UBUALLY western 1066 Breeder as follows breeders who 4000 ra: ram ave to 3000 to are already, with clean Hamp and more than half sold out a certainty of ns spare being cloged out The big Lincoln 2.000 and before midsummer. shire, breeders 2 000 orders Cotswold and who raise from R00 to the trade, have every ram lambs for in hand good ram in barns and warm weather is bring troops of ram buyers for every. thing good in fields barns enormous buving of “wool on back” in the states, aggregate 50. 18 pound, accentuate ing in the bred beyond ang in a dozen years. standg for a sweep. the last and to or in sight for their pens, corra's sure the middle states and he the sheep's now Mally yy ram eastern fl movement Every ing bred 000.000 at to cents per oka sean indication purchase and of all fool we in the eastern that behind them a live advertizing owner We are looking for the biggest ram trade 1 on record well grown rams country have FALSE ECONOMY One of the biggest mistakes any person can make in the poultry busi. ness to to twice as much with poultry as he expected from any other business. The temptation to put 150 egzs in an incubator intended to contain no more than 125, is an error a good many beginners fall into, and it al ways results in dissatisfaction. Other persons who too much will under a hen that could is try do could desire few over half that number, only to lose all, or at the best nearly all. of the eggs. Sill others try to have bird fertilize all the egps laid by hens, when a dozen fe males is usually large enough a num- ber for best results. And so it goes all along the line, Economy in its true sense is all right, but the kind mentioned above is really extravagance and always fails to se. cure the desired result —R. B. Sando, in the Epitomist, ae wed —— POULTRY ON THE FARM. It is generally conceded that poul percentage of the world's food sup ply. It cannot be questioned that the and more an important branch of in- dustry In the world, especially in this country, The figures that tell the amount of eggs consumed annually seem fabulous. If poultry and their | product occupy such a high position among the world's Industries, how should the farmer regard the poultry department of his farm? money invested no other branch of the farm gives greater profifs—Farme ers’ Home Journal MOISTURE TESTS. Moisture tests at the Oregon Stas tion were made in which incubators ware operated according to the diree. tions of makers with the exception that moisture was used In different amounts. In the molsture machines a tray of dry sand was kept under the ‘eggs. The eand in the maximum moisture machines was kept wet all the time, or as wet as it conld be kept without water standing on the sand, The final results showed an in crease in number of chicks waened ture of 328 per cent. by using in Incubators. {| The girl who gives is a very graci- | ous figure in most of our lives. She | tatingly kind. If we are tired she sees to it that we get rested; if we are sad she comforts us; if we are sick Bes comes to us with all the sweet misistrations she knows so well; she finds a real Joy, that we ourselves understood, in meeting the needs other folk, even in sacrificing herself, constantly, for those whom may help. And we who have found the world sweeter because she lived in it, have loved the little services she dia 4s, have Interpreted them, perhapsin (he terms of a personal friendship and have longed in simple fashion to do something for her, too—not a mnt of payment, of course, just because want to. So it that when who gives is herself tired or ill, when we see that she needs some- thing that have for her; we are eager—almost childishly eager, give and give and give “do something” for the graci whom hove well vet withal she as ter but we the or worried is we some times—to we 80 keen, humble tor service falls the clear, our altruistic voice of stinging in iis of a whip cllessly who gives, hurting like our face-—"Oh' thank you I'm all right. There Why, § wouldn't have yourself out ff the cut isn't a need ir worlds! couldn't let 3 HS know, I simply who gives from us, ever Her volce te detachment of To us it She is the 3 sounds alm Lady Bountl hepefa Bra us always the has never learned the sceptance. She is mistress gractous arts of “philinthro; actual literal sympathy she hag litt Wa understand now, that her sweelness f 3 ormal generosity, but 1 moved from patronage its than in conscious And there are fow hurt ug to have root Kindness ity. that To standingly favor--it of real 1 { wounds quite 80 myo roceive gracefully and und another's gift, to accept is the surest to generosity perhaps of spirit s £5 Ix § Hi this ed seattering of largess It - it tact, con as gentleness It And is ga ing of ourselves.” requires hum ity as 11 well mn > ? well aus leship as meihlo without 3 - , v % -e love without ve charity, impossible —New TOO, Haven Register. MAKE EXCBULENT FARVERS Mrs. George farm in England, the inspection of and managed She went of the Cran, who oper has just farms Canada friwitat - invitation many by womon in to Canada on the Canadian jovernment found that women are more than hold ing their own with men the soil. Her will by the Canadian Government this country and Faglaind in the hope it will lead nsany women to the country with the obiect of enzag ing in active farming. “To be a cessful farmer In Canada™ says Mrs. Cran, “a girl must possess, absolutely open mind. She must mind a certain amount of loneliness, and he must be prepared give several years to her work before she can become what one really may call prosperous. Given application and tience, however, and the woman farm. er will win a competence, 1 that women did best on dairy farms, and that many women successfully combine dairy farming and market gardening. A typical farm 1 visited consisted of 600 acres. The woman rors rd * report er spread over aner S10 first, to He 4 to owning her 600 acress outright. was independent and had rejected them all. This year she has sixteen acres under corn, she has six acres She markets melons, celery from fifty hives of bees. She his seventy- wilderness’ Mra ahead of “healthy, hard-working who have taken up farms in Canada York Press. BRING HUMANE LAWS, Dr. Margaret Long, daughter of former Becretary John D. Long of the Navy, has become a convert to equal suffrage as a result of obgerving 1 in actual operation In Colorado. She went West a few years ago and set tied In Denver. “Colorado women have accomplished a material amount of good in the brief time they have bad the ballot” she writes, “It geems impossible to me that any one can live in Colorado long enough to get into touch with the life here and not realize that women count for more in e affairs of this State than they do where they have not the power | greater weight is glven to their opin. fons and judgment. In actual gis lation thelr greatest influence is seen in the advance along humane lines, The humane laws Colorado sur pass those of any other State or country, and they have only risen to that since women got the ballot."— New York Press. —— THE KNOWING GIRL. There i8 no one trying to with as the girl who knows it all. is as persistent as the mosquito more to extinguish knowing girl expert, She tent to run as colossal as her snubs. If ’ iorce it of live She and The 10 an 80 hopeless can give pointers counts herself Her ObLUSENneRs te compe the world conceit Is she w might but the never so happy Eiri Views on them that and those evi know her un not muster her. The knowing Quaker to « 'ONVERSATION OF FANNY Ke: Fann: $ ug von urn ¥ Byng the question he Kemble's time At Miss had been silent turned and met look snauarely ‘1 don’t vou.” suid: and not Miss Kemble often with keen satisfaction, and she eX Der agree a word the with he more told silory strongest against Press. ended i heard York argument, she suffrage New SPINSTERS Massachusetts long record of possessing the greatest held the pro- any lina surplus of women of the Union. There are sald than 100.000 spinsters in the Bay Rtate #®ho out for themselves and been much discussion of benefit and relief, pro or in he no and widows look lege schemes for their Boston have in purchasing small tracts ir aerienltnral pursuits. The Massachusetts Homestead have its bene. cultivate small plots ani herbs mushrooms, vegetables, squabs, Cheap com fortable homes will be built on theso plots and necessary implements alse will be supplied. A wealthy New York woman stands ready to contri bute $300,000 to the project, and a Hrookline (Mass) philanthropist has offered to lend his big farm for expert | ments along this line — Leslie's Weok- 1y. ' SUSTAINING LIFE. i Mrs. Andrew Crosse in her remin. | fscences describes an old nurse, born | at Broomfield, who lived to be near. | ly a hundred. “All her life she had! eaten ‘a dew bit and breaklaat, a stay bit and dinner, a mommet and erum. | met and a bit after supper,’ eight | meals in all. Besides this it was bor invariable custom to mix together all the doctors’ stuff left after any il. | news in the house and swallow it, on the principle that what had cost | money should not be wasted. "Lon | don Chronicle, gage Women's ficiaries flowers, ————— HOUSEHOLD LECTURES, Mrs. Ellen M. Richards, instructoe in the department of chemistry at nology, has accepted a call to lecture in ‘the University of California. She lectures on i the Massachusetts Institute of ya York | oYas%esTarvas” oa Sav TarasTevastastestestasteste ts Household Notes rr Em CHICKEN WITH OLIVES, Stewed chicken with olives is de liclous. Cut the chicken into neat Joints and fry them in butter or sweet olive oll in a saute pan; pour off the oil, and add a finely minced shallot. Cook for a little time, and then moisten with rich brown stock or gravy. Cover the pan, and stew gent ly for about thirty-five minutes, About fifteen minutes before taking up the chicken, add twenty stuffed olives. Dish up on a crouton of fried bread and garnish with croutons. Pour the sauce (strained) round the fowl, and serve York New Globe SHORTCAKE bitter ORANGE Remove the and white covering of three oranges, slice and tough one-half then set lengthwise, rejecting seed Add the and About Ying sift t centre, of lemon aside sar sweeten taste, one-half hour before wo cupfuls of flour, twe table. Work two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one gpoonful of powder. of butter, UAKINE in onequarter thirds dough. Cul cupful of Spread on cakepan and bake cupful of When the pudding and ly Witne GRAPE ne grape pour is following on lettuce two egern, of up geasoni and quarter Sift into a warm one 2 basin, add two teaspoonfuls salt. Put pound flour one cake and two teaspoonfuls work melt half heated yeast sugar in a bowl, together till the spoonful itter, add which should be add well beaten; into Knead well; dough in a buttered table. milk, tepid, veast | Hguid one pint till stir piace the with to one egg them flour bowl. cover warm then Knead in a long plece, cut in and form these into on a floured oven shelf fifteen minutes, bake —sNew York Press 1 . ‘ Ciean cioth 't in piace rise a lit tle, four plaits. to hour, for one roll out strips Put rise for a hot het oven TOAD IN A HOLE. Quarter pound of flour, pinch of salt, half a pound of sausages, one egg, three-quarters of a pint of milk Put into a basin“the flour and salt; beat egg well, and after mixing it with the milk, pour gradually among the flour, beating it with a wooden spoon. When quite smooth, pour it into a gressed pudding dish: put the sausages In among the batter and bake in the oven for threequar ters of an bour. Pleces of appios, some gooseberries, rhubarb or pleces of cold meat or fish may be substitu! ed for the sansage and all make a good dish. The fruit requires a little sugar, and sugar must also be used with the pudding New York Press. the HOUSEHOLD HINTS. The woman who scowls over her sewing, her writing—all her work, fis the woman whose face will look old almost no matter how much pains she takes In creaming and massaging it Whan overdone, try a day off in bed. There 1s little danger of bad breakdowns for the person who makes Combs soom warp and break if washed with water. A good stiff nailbrush cleans them well When using thread, to prevent it from knotting dnving the process of sewing. thread the needle with the end of the cotton you start to unwind from the spool, then make a knot on the end of the thmad you out from the spool. This done, there will surely be no danger of inconvenient ‘When you buy a head of lettuce cut oughly. Wring out a cheese cloth mn cold water and wrap the lettuce up in it. and the lettuce will keep fresh and In boiling rice be sure that there is enough water so the rice will “swim,” that is, so the grains will not adhere If your wax has given out and the starch sticks to the irons try kero sene. Put a little of the ofl on a cloth and rub the hot iron over it a few times. Hot sunshine will remove scorch. Hot tartaric acid will take ink stains out of white cloth. h A package or envelope scaled with white of egg can not be steamed open. All Who Would Enjoy good health, with its blessings, must un. derstand, quite clearly, that it involves the question of right living with all the term implies. With proper knowledge of what is best, each hour of recreation, of enjoy- ment, of contemplation and of effort may bé made to contribute to living aright Then the use of medicines may be dis- pensed with to advantage, but under or- dinary conditions in many instances a simple, wholesome remedy may be invalu. able if taken at the proper time and the California Fig Syrup Co. holds that it is the truthfully and to supply the one perfect alike important to present subject laxative to those de siring it Consequently, the Company Syrup of Figs and satisfaction buy the Elixir «* Senna gives general To get its beneficial effects manufactured by the only, and for sale genuine, California Fig Syrup Co by all leading druggists A NN Sl St at SP A NN, {CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS! dd AANA AAS ANNAN NSAP PP PHOTORAPN FEE For HY Bhs gt 3 ADA HIE vr from ‘ Fileka' A Domestic Eye Remedy Experienced A herever ne Eve Remaodsy tare Gift, friend of noted 1 WaE gp m al frie married my lord,” said he, “something are, but not expensive.” “Present him with a air,” Granville whispered, JIiK¥ lock of SWeet]y. Same Locality. Aboard the stage Virginia mountains an an old woman were low -passen- gers The woman kept starin at him as if trying to remember last she said: “Stranger, "pears to somewhar.” The old man eyed and scraiched his head “'Spec’ you have,” said he. “Ab been thar.”-—PRtsburg Dispatch. He Knew. “Do you know bow to use ing-dish?” “Yes.” answered Mr. Sirius ar, “1 have some novel the subject.” “What are the “The best way a chafing-dish is in the bottom of and plant flowers ton Star O08 the man and fol old me 1 seen her reflectively a chaft- Bark- ideas on yo I know of to use to punch a hole it, paint it green, in it." —Washing- A Poor Memery. “Have you forgotten that you owe me seven dollars?” “Dear, me, | have forgotten. My memory is miserable--but wasn't it only §6.397?"-——Fliegende Blaetter. OVER THE FENCE Neighbor Says Something. The front yard fence is a famous council place on pleasant days. May- be to chat with some one along the street, or for friendly gossip with next door neighbor. Sometimes it is only small talk, but other times neighbor has something really good to offer. ; An old resident of Baird, Texas, got some mighty good advice this Way onon, He says: “Drinking coffee left me nearly dead with dyspepsia, kidney disease and bowel trouble, with constant pains in my stomach, back and side, and so weak I coud scarcely walk. “One day I was chatting with one of my neighbors about my trouble and told her I believed coffee hurt me. Neighbor said she knew lots of people to whom coffee was poison and she pleaded with me to quit it and give Postum a trial. I did not take her advice right away, hut tried a change of climate, which did not do me any good. Then I dropped coffee and took up Postum. “My improvement began immedi “My son, who was troubled indigestion, thought that if Postum helped me so, it might help him. It did, too, and he is now well and strong ;
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