SHOW MONEY MAKERS| so Loafers Spotted and Eliminated When Cow Test Is Used. No Dairyman Can Afford to Spend His Time and Money on Animals Which De Not Pay for Their Board— Value of Silo Is Shown. R. INGALLS, Wisconsin Experi- ment Station.) Cow testing shows the money mak- ers. The best cows in many Wiscon- sin herds are returning a profit of $100 or more every year. It is possible to have every cow kept do as well. The loafers, the cows that consume more than they return, are quickly spotted and eliminated when the cow test is used. No successful merchant handles a line of goods on which he loses money; likewise, no progressive dafryman will milk a cow on which he does not make a profit. The milking (By . A Good Milking Type. of cows is a straight business propo sition and no farmer can afford to labor to milk cows which do not pay for their board. Let's make the $100 return per cow our standard. To build up a profitable herd the cow test is indispensable. It enables the dairyman to quickly get a high pro ducing herd by selecting heifers from only the best cows. In this connection the sires that are capable of transmit- ting dairy quality and temperament to their offspring can be proven. The very general practice of sending ma- ture bulls to the block when they are Just in their prime for breeding pur- poses is detrimental to our dairy in- dustry and should be stopped. Cow testing also pays because sur- plus stock of both sexes sells for higher prices when buyers can see what the ancestors of these animals have done in the line of milk and but- ter fat production. When using the test farmers may know their cows as individuals and | f re. DISEASE OF THE POTATOES If Fungus lg in Sos Scab Will Ar pear, No Matter What Kind of Fer- tilizer 1s Used in Growing, —— 5 Some farmers have the idea firmly | fixed in their minds that stable ma- | nure ought not to be used In growing potatoes, the* claim being that it] causes the scab which Is so destruc | tive. This is not correct, for if the | fungus is in the seed potato the scab | will appear, no matter what sort of | fertilizer is used in growing the crop The only way at all certain of avoid- | ing scab in the potato crop is to treat the seed tubers used, and this should always be done regardless of where the seed comes from. You may con template using seed that vou feel cer | tain is free from the germ of the scab, but it will be safer to treat the seed. Buy some commercial formalin and | | to each one-half pint of it add fifteen gallons of water. Then soak the seed tubers in the mixture for two or even | three hours. Do this before planting | and you will be reasonably sure of having the 3 arop free from scab. WINTER ‘WORK ON THE FARM | Get in Ample Supply of Firewood | Repair Machines and Overhaul Wagons—Lay Plans for Spring. (By L. M. BENNINGTON.) On days when the weather will per mit we may press the work of get ting up the wood for another year. | He igs a very poor farmer who does not attend to this part of his farm | work, but walts till the wood is need ed from day to day. Hay riggings may be put in shape for the coming season. Other farm | Good Way to Spend Spare Time. machines may be repaired if they need Wagons may be overhauled, and too cold, new paint may be If any new buildings are planned A Poor Milker, vided. The value of the silo in supply- ing fresh summer succulence during the winter months and in helping out when pastures dry up in the summer is also shown best when cows are under test. RIGHT LENGTHS FOR SILAGE Question Is One Upon Which Much Difference of Opinion Is Manifest ed—Packing Eliminates Air, KILDEE, lewa Experiment Station.) The question as to the proper lengths in which corn should be cut when put into the silo is one upon which much difference of opinion is manifested. Some advocate as long as 1.4 Inch, others less than one-half inch or approximately one-quarter inch, and the majority intermediate lengths. The short cuts, such as the one-quar- ter and one-half inch, require more power, but insure a more palatable silage, resulting in less waste in feed- Ing, and make it easy to pack it thor oughly at time of filling. This packing helps to eliminate the air, thus im- proving the quality, and makes it pos- sible to put a greater quantity of corn in the silo. It is more essential that thoroughly- matured corn be cut into shorter lengths than corm that is more imma- ture and succulent, as much of the dry portions will be wasted by animals on full feed if not cut into small pieces. When one considers the matter from all standpoints it is evident that the common practice of cutting the corn into one-half and three-quarterinch lengths is the preferable one. The writer has made it a practice to cut the corn into threequarterineh lengths, but realizes that when corn becomes dry the one-halfinch cut is more desirable. If the man interested wishes a shorter cut for the upper part of the silo i would recommend the upper third be filled with one-haif- inch cut. (By H H Farm Lumber Shed. Every well-appointed farm should include in its equipment a storage place for lumber. Much time fis wasted annually by farmers, who never keep an extra board or a tim- ber on their places, with the result that every time they wish to do a little repairing they have to journey $0 town for lumber. i put on the ground. Often the earth is | not frozen so hard that we cannot plow | lars or excavate for house cellars. The stock calls for careful attention | now. The first and last work of the | successful farmer for the day must | be done at the barn, feeding and oth | erwise caring for cattle, Take out the old solid board win | dows of the cow stables and put in | their place sash glass. This will add | to the health and comfort of the | stock. It Is often possible to press the | fall plowing well into the winter. This | places the farmer at a decided advan | tage over the one who waits for spring | to begin before he does any plowing. Stormy days may be used for read | ing, writing, and laying plans for days | THAN THOSE OF THE PAST. San ————- the Front, Even When They Would Be Considered Quite Seriously Injured. The bullet covered with hard nickel as a rule. lp NEW YORK.—Wheat-—3pot irreg and No. 1 North bappy one. These often broke up in- muscles; bones and other parts. ing wounde which kept the soldier il} for a long time. The modern long Corn—=8pot steady: No. 2 yellow, 72¢ Oats—8pot easy, standard, 53'%¢; No. 3 white, B53. Butier—Process, extras, 264@26c; current make, seconds, 22; packing stock, current make, No. 2, 21@21%. Live Poultry Firm; Western chick keys, 12% @ 15; dressed firm; Western jury. intestine, the stomach, the kiduey, the wound closes up without any serious after-consequences. good deal, | cumstances. he gets a bullet through it When he is tired and half swarving. and A curious fact, 300 to 600 yards has more range of 12%. @17%: turkeys, 12@21. PHILADELPHIA — Wheat- ern Duluth, $1.26%4@ 1.28%: No Western, $1.21@1.23. Rye—No. Corn---Carlots, No. 2 yellow, old, 81 new yellow, as to quality, 80@70; cob, per 70 pounds, 87@ 68 Oats—No. 2 white, 54@54%%¢; ard white, 53@53%: No. 2 white stand £91 52% range under or over that bone without doing very much bone and makes recovery slow. bad Small as it Is, If a it gives a blow lke that crowbar. We are hearing a great deal about of a The probability is that The bullet now in use consists of a core of lead The Pied Piper Recently occurred the anniversary the visit to “Hamelin Town in in 1876 of him “who, for the fantastical coat which he wore being wrought with sundry colors, [the Pled Piper.” Old Ver- stegan told the story in prose of how “the Pied Piper, with a shrill pipe through all the streets. and of out of the houses in great numbers them.” It is to Macready's young Its preservation Browning's next collection of poems was a blank page or two to be filled, just big enough to do it. 8o If in his life the Pied Piper destroyed hun- dreds of children his biography has amused thousands.—London Chronk cle, Armenia. May we call the region in which the Butter—Western, solid-packed cream ary, fancy, spe cial, 36¢c; extra, 34; ex- tra firsts, 3°@33; firsts, 30@31; onde, 26@28; nearby prints, faney average, extra, 35@36; firsts, 324 seconds, 28@ 30; jobbing sales of fancy prints, 42044 Egge—Nearby extra, 42@44c per dozen; firsts, $12@ 12.30 per standard sed ym of, 11.40 per crate; Western and Bouth- western, extra firsts, $312@12.30 case, firsts, F10.80@ 11.40 per seconds, $37.20@ 7.80; @11.10 per case; fresh exgge, 47@48¢; refrigerator eggs. according to quality, 21@ 27 per dozen Cheese-—-New York, full cream, earl receipts, choice, 16¢; do do, cur rent make, choice, 15@15%: do do fair to good, 14, @ 143%; do do, part skims, 8@13 live Poultry- roosters, 10@11; case, Fowles, 12@ 14«¢ ‘ spring chickens, ao 11913; ducks, 136 guiness, weighing 2 pounds and over aplece, per palr, 60. do, weighing 1% @1% pound apiece, per palr, 50855: do da, old per pair, 40; turk ye, 12Q 18; pigeons per pair, 156@ 18 BALTIMORE. —~Wheat—-No. 2 red January $1.18% nominal. Corn-—Contract, new, 68%c, er mixed, 66. Closing firmer; 684 nominal. Oats--Standard white No. 8 white, 524€Q52%. "Rye -No. 2 rye, Western $1.16@ | 1.16%: No. 3 do, $L14@1.14%: No. 4, B2@53%¢; For couvenience, certainly; but, as Sir Charles Eliot points out, strictly speaking, i of Kurdistan, also unofficial. and Armenians being mixed up, one ~—Timothy-—No. 1. $20, No. 3, $15@ 16.50. 3IR@ 1860; No. 2, 816@17. Hay 817.5018; No. 3, $12@14.50. bay, as to kind, quality and condition, Straw-—Straight Rye-—-No. 1, Tangled Rye 2, BRL0@e 17.50. No. 2, $8@R.50. 1. $10@11: No creamery, cholce, 32@33; good, 30@31; creamery, prints, 33G35 ladles, Late weeds make fine sceds * - a Sprouts sap the life of the tree. * - - Nearly every weed sced will grow | if given time. » * ¥ Plow up the fall crop of weeds and | gave work next year. | - - - Don't strip off the leaves—they are | the lungs of the plact. » - ® Thin overloaded grapevines plucking the poorest bunches. the young shoots to the trellis. * ® Ld by | Tie Keep the bung out of the vinegar barrel, but have a bit of wire sereen over the opening to guard against things that may fall. - - Plow up the empty garden and sow turnips and spinach and transplant cabbage, beets, celery, lettuce, caulk flower, ote. Keep busy, - - . There are some of those roosters left yet, in spite of everything, Get them out and sell them right off, They are eating their heads off and you will never get half your money back. * » - * Hang a good thermometer in the cel lar. look at it now and then when the mercury is shivering down toward zero. But it is all right to keep the temperature as nearly down to frees ing as you can amd not bave it get a- Convenient Rule, The editor of a newspaper that he frequently receives They are al pertinent and worthy of publi says the Evening Post Satur. ways Meeting his correspondent one eve- | ning at a friend's house, the editor going to print it Saturday. But teil me, what rule do you follow for punc- “Why,” said the gentleman, “the same rule that | learned when 1 was a boy. I put a semicolon every twalve words, and two commas between each pair of semicolons.” His Hobby. “I can say this much for Dobuon— you never see him wasting his time In a foolish argument.” “That's because Dobson takes no in- terest in the subjects most men argue about. Just walt until somebody comes along and tackles him on the subject of Egyptology. Then youll hear an argument that will make poli tics, religion and the war in Burope pale ifito utter insignificance.” But She Didn't Mean It That Way. “Madam, | am visiting the roral dis tricts in the interests of diversifica- tion. Have you a hog on the place?” “You'll ind my husband out In the barn.” W. Va, rolls, storepacked, 19; Md, 20021; nearby, firsts, 36c; Western, firsts, 26; West Virginia, firsts, 235, Southern Live Poultry—Chickens— emooth and fat, 14; Ducks Muscovy, and over, 14; do, puddie, 3 Ibs over, 13; do, smaller, 12; do, Indian Runners, 12. Geese Nearby, 14615; do, Western and Southern, 12. Pigeons --Young, per palr, 20; do, old, 20. Gulnen fowl--Young, 1% Ibs. and over, each, 35; do, do, smaller, 26. Turkeys ~~Young, 8 Ibe. and over, per 1b. 18Q 19; do, do, small and thin, 13614; do old, 17@1% Dressed Poultry—Turkeye, choice, 18@19%¢. do, fair to good, 16617; do, rough to poor, 13@14. Chickens Cholfee young, 14@15; do, old and mixed, 13@14; do, old roosters, 10@11 Ducks, 14@15. Geese Nearby, 146 15; do, Western and Southern, 12 Live Stock CHICAGO ~~ Hoge Bulk, $7@7.90: light, 36.703 7.40; mixed, $6.806G 7.40; heavy, $6.75@ 7.40; rough, $6.756G6.00; pigs, $5250 7.40. Cattle—Christmas beever, $1113; native steers, $5.70@ 1085. Western steers, $5.25@8.40; cows and heifers, $3.25@5.50; calves, $6.60G0.25 Sheep — Bheep, $540@0.50; year Ono KANSAS CITY, MO.—Hoge Bulk, $7@ 7.15; heavy, $7017.20; packers and butchers’, $7T@7.22%; light, $6659 V22%, pigs; $6.25G6.80. hip Soldier's Qeoupation in Civil L Certainly Should Have Fitted Him for the Job. The Real war conditions sometimes give trained to arms in the well-ordered | days of peace. Here is a case in point A Prussian Landwehr company was being mustered into service and there | were many things to be done. Uni | forms, equipment, riflles, were to be | distributed, rolls prepared, reports | made out, and quartermaster’s lists | checked up. The captain had his hands full. He ordered hie first pergeant | noncom. who could write | The first sergeant was equal to the emergency. | Corporal Kammermeyer was prompt | ly summoned the crisply detailed for | clerk. The corporal | captain, who looked | with a mixture of wonder and distrust. “80 you can said. “A little, sir, at your service.” The captain stil] looked dubious “What Ig your trade in civil he said professor of was the rep! reported to the figure, corporal,” be | 1ife fT am mathematics Hemedy for Hed, ye wk Eye te fe Watery Etoarun gv the EY Uhicag aw * Ny r Bonk rye Hemel, 7 £ i] Granul ated just Wye comfort Wr ne w Frex Murine The View. Thre i8 a story in that You must be ale of your eve 5 face gecing tf out of the —— th Mothere Examine carefully every bottle of Beara the ; Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria | Upsetting His Theory. The heavy explosions of a bat always cause rain. It rained after Wa. terion; rained alter Fontenoy rained alter “But Marathon was and arrows, m There go cold water on anyt} it Marathon fought dear Always YOu throwi ing 1 have {0 say At the First Signe Of falling hair get Cuticura It works wonders. Touch spots of dan- druff and itching Cuticura Oint- ment, and follow pext morning with a hot shampoo of Cuticura Soap. This at once arrests falling hair and pro motes hair growth. For free sample each with 32-p. Skin Book, address post card: Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston Bold everywhere. —Adv. Had Debts of Mis Own. Here's a list of European Don't they stagger you? Well, they might, old man: just been looking over my Life with Nodd Todd- I've Failures as Stepping Stones. John Wanamaker, in a recent ad urged his audi ence to persevere “Every successful man, “has probably had more failures, more {allures, than the nonentity bad. “Success, after all, is nothing more ew coat of paint.” he said, far bas Poor Burglar. : A. burglar got into my house about on my way home from the club,” said he get anything?’ asked “1 should say he did get something,” replied Jones “The poor devil is in My wife thought it was "Cincinnati Enquirer. Distorted Vegetarianigm. “So long as you find the cost of liv. said the friendly adviser. “why don't you and your husband be “What do you mean?” asked the | “Why, ucts.” “Couldn't think of it. What I'm try. | in’ to do now is to persuade John to | take to beefsteak and quit tryin’ to, live on Hquor and tobacco.” ) Travesty. on Real Falstaft. : Yarmouth has a claim upon all Eug- lishmen quite independently of its as | sociations with the breakfast bloater, | remarks a writer in St. Nicholas. For | it was the home of Shakespeare's Fal staff, whagppears to have been a man i of exemplary plety. The Falstaffs | were an old Yarmouth family. i “A Falstolfe or Falstaff,” writes! John Richard Green, “was bailiff of | Yarmouth in 1281. Another is among | the first of its representatives in par lament, and from that the members of that family filled the highest mu. nicipal offices. 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