Subjects of Interest to the Farmer ANGORA IS USEFUL Valuable as Clearer of Ground and Grower of Hair. GOAT BUSINESS THRIVING. Average Animal Produce* Three Pounds of Hair Yearly, Worth Some times as High as sls a Pound—Woven Wire Fences Recajmmended. A The Angora goat business seems to be thriving pretty well all over the country, for Angorft-goats are becom ing recognized as great scavengers In places where brush and weeds give a good deal of trouble. Besides the good Jthey do in browsing, goats are also worth having around the ranch, on account of their hair. The average X'hs&tyfc-T£ill grow a fleece weighing at feast tj&r£e pounds every year. be d"fteared easily and sold at from 30' cents a pound. The price varies with the length and fineness of the fleece aud the amount of kemp, an undesirable coarse fiber which is present in the fleece of many goats. Kemp will not take mohair dyes. The Missouri Huralist declares that long fleeces of twelve inches or more pay higher prices, sometimes as high as $2 to sls a pound. These are diffi cult ito obtain .except from well bred goats. The fleece from young kids also pays a higher price than the average on account of its fineness. The picture shows a scene on a goat punch. A good way to keep the goats HERD OF ANGORA GOATS. 1* In fields inclosed with woven wire fence having stays twelve inches apart. If the stays are nearer togeth er the coats are likely to catch their heads in the fence.—Denver Field and Farm. Dry Poultry House*. Commercial poultrymeu who believe thoroughly in the roosting closet of ten use a double wall around that part of the house where the roosts are lo cated. If the rest of the house is built with matched boards and covered ou walls and roof with a good rooting pa per it will be satisfactory. Some peo ple have tried putting the building pa lter on the inside, so that the outside walls could be painted, but the plan is not a good one, as the interior of the bouse should he as light as possible. Besides, it often is very desirable to apply a coat of whitewash. Of course there is no reason why the building should not be clapboarded or shingled If the matter of appearance'is an im portant consideration.—Country Gen tleman. LUDICROUS ANSWERS. tome That Were Giverr In a Chicago Civil Service Examination. Applicants for police service con vulsed the civil service commission in Chicago by their answers to simple questions. One answer was, "Larceny is speeding of an automobile or other rig of wheels." Another answered, "Larceny is where a man and a woman, related, get mar ried." A third sidestepped rather graceful ly this: "Larceny is a very serious of fense. A policeman should look out for it." "What are the duties of a police man?" To this one applicant answer ed, "To take care of tire and murder ing and—the I'nlted States." To the question "What is the punish ment for misdemeanors?" one man an svvered. "Should lie taken to court and sued by the gang." "Kobbery, that is an act of murder, and that tv t'>» time to hit or shoot." "What would you do in case you found the body of a dead person?" "Report to the commanding officer." "What are the three successive pen alties for keeping a gambling house?" "Playing cards, pool tables and gam bling for money. You can't deal any of these games." Getting the Gait. "Has that lawyer taken any steps in the patent business*?" "Yes: he has bought n pair of patent l«gtber shoes."—Baltimore American. ! T WHAT SANDY SOILS NEED. < X . < % The addition of vegetable mat- < x ter to sandy sella la very lm- J <'/ portant since It Is needed to In- < X crease their water holding capa- J i> city us well as to add fertility. < Water Is often the limiting fac- % $ tor In the production of sandy % soils, due to their coarse texture % <•> and lack of vegetable matter. To prevent winds blowing saud the <t> lund may be laid out In long, J> % narrow fields with alternate <§' <V grass aud cultivated crops. Pro- 4 4 tection windbreaks of pines or <§> other trees are effective for short 4 % distances. & % The fertility needs of sandy 4 soils are nitrogen, phosphorus <?> f' mid potash. l'hosphorus and % *> potassium must be supplied el- & T ther directly In commercial fer- $ <•■ tillzer or Indirectly through the buying of feed which la fed to $ <>•> animals. <| Legumes are beneficial to sandy £ r soils because they supply the <?• much needed nitrogen as well as <£> humus. Peat can be used to ad- $ <£ vantage as a nitrogen fertilizer |> where a supply Is readily avail- J? <;> able. The use of lime on sandy <§> soils, which are very commonly % acid, will aid in securing a stand 4 of alfalfa and clovers. —Wiscon- xj 'i» sin Experiment Station. <§> Hazelnut* For Profit. The culture of our native hazelnuts has been almost entirely overlooked, says the Kural New Yorker. The Eu ropean hazels, or filberts, as they are commonly called, are affected with a fungous disease in the wood that pre vents them from being profitably grown over the greater part of North America except on the Pacific coast. There they do remarkably well, es pecially in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. But the two native species of the hazel that are found here and there from the north Atlantic states to the Dakotas and Kansas are entirely free from any such affection and ought to be grown for profit and pleasure in many sections. Grading of Wheat. The grade given to wheat depends today almost wholly upon its appear ance, condition and test weight. When the natural color or bloom of the,ker nel has been destroyed by rain and sun while staudiug in the shock and the in crease in a moisture content has caused corresponding decrease in the test weight the grade given is lower than it would be if this same wheat were marketed in good condition with out deterioration resulting from ex posure to weather.—Field and Farm. COURTSHIP OF THE FUTURE. Women Will Take the Initiative, Say* Thi* Lecturer, George Willis Cooke, lecturer, be lieves that in the very near future wo men, not men, will do the proposing. He was not referring to leap year. "With the coming of suffrage they will act for themselves not only politically, but socially," he declared In Boston re cently. "The present shyness of girls In lovemaking are subterfuges, a part of the present social teachings." he added. "They go back to the head ship of the man. Among the Zuni In dians these qualities are exactly chang ed. It is the boy who is called mod est, ditlident and shy, for there he leaves Ills own home when married, just as the girl does here. "Another reason why women should do the proposing is that they are get ting better educated than the men and therefore will select more Intelligent ly. In time it will be the women who will do the courting." Cheer Up. Why so pen Hive? Why so sad? Why the look of anguish o'er you? Is your business to the bad? Do the bill collectors bore you? Pn you fret at price of meat. Fret because of a tomorrow? Are you fearful of defeat. Short of cash and cannot borrow? There's a morgue Just down the pike. When you're passing pray step In It. Any corpse that's there would like To be in your place a minute. —New York Times. URGING OF A NEW IDEA. Monty In Ralafng Flah» Ftrmirt Art Told—Btat* Land* Halp. When Professor L. L. Dyche of the Kansas State university vu made fish and game warden be was told that his chief Job was to make the fish In dustry worth while In the state. The state has let the contract for eighty-three new ponds, covering eighty acres of ground as an addition to Its flsh hatchery at Pratt, and will have the largest fish hatchery In the coun try. One million minnows a year Is the capacity of the new hatchery, and all of these will be furnished free of charge for breeding purposes to the Kansas farmers and sportsmen. "If every farmer In Kansas will grow one mess of fish a week for his own family it will mean $1,250,000 added to the revenues of Kansas each year," said Professor Dyche. "If they are careful and sell a few fish each year the revenues of the state will be in creased from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 a year. Fish are the easiest grown and most productive crop that can be raised on a farm. A half acre pond will re turn more to the farmer each year than any five acres he owns and with the least work." The state refunds one-half the taxes on all farm property made- Into ponds of certain size and certain materials. The ponds are tilled either by pumping or by storing the winter rains and snow. Every farmer who builds a pond is supplied with fish and taught how to take care of them. Correspondence courses in building ponds and caring for fish have been installed at the Kan sas State university and the State Agricultural college. DIRTY EGGS ON THE FARM. Cause of Large Loss to Producer Be cause They Sell as "Seconds." Wliil* there ure u few egg producers who take the best of enre of their prod uct, the average farmer considers the eggs produced on the farm a byprod uct and makes very little provision for their care, aside from gathering them. A large loss in caused by dirty eggs, the number being enormous, and, ac cording to the estimate of Secretary Wilson of the department of agricul ture, this money loss to the farmers in the United States amounts to about s[>.ooo,ooo annually. An insufficient number of nests Is of ten the cause of many of the dirty eggs. Eggs are laid on the ground and around the hay and straw stacks and. becoming stained, are classed as "dirt ies." Again, when too many eggs are allowed to remain in a nest some are broken and many of the others become smeared with broken yolks. This is brought about by allowing the broody hens to use the same nests with the layers. After gathering the eggs care should be taken not to put them where they will become heated or near oil, onions or other vegetables, as they readily ab sorb odors. ij J£ Grist From the Jokesmiths' Mills ' 1 The Thankful Heroine. "Thank heaven!" cried the poor girl who was earning a precarious liveli hood as heroine of a popular novel. And yet she had apparently little to he thankful for as she crawled into her pallet of straw In the corner of the dingy room. She was very, very poor, and yet she was thankful. "The advantages of a bed on the floor," she murmured as she lapsed into sweet slumber, "lie in the feeling of security it brings. When a girl lies in such a lowly bed as this she knows that a man cannot possibly get under it." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Stickler For Peace. "George," she asked, "if we were both young and single again would you want me to be your wife?" "Now, my dear," he absentmindedly replied, "what's the use trying to start a quarrel Just as we have settled down to enjoy a quiet evening?"— Chicago Record-Herald. Fickle. Marlon—Did you say Harold doesn't know his own mind? Marion's Papa —He doesn't unless some one introduced him to it lately.— Chicago News. Aviation'* Luoky Sid*. "Did that aviator friend of yours, have a successful season?" ' "Very. He more than made enough to pay all his hospital expenses."—De troit Free Pre**. The Portrait That Was Too Good a Likeness By EMMA ANDERSON-HODGSON Vhen Mr. Barnlckel got rich the | flot thing he wanted was a crest, ; w.lch he found, though his title to It 1 ws rather thin, and the next was his pctrait to hang in his drawing room aid to hand down to his descendants as the lineaments of the relnstltutor of tb family. Arnold Elliott was at that \ < tine the principal portrait painter in tb city where Mr. Barnlckel lived, i nid to him Mr. Barnlckel gave the or dir, agreeing to pay for the portrait SSX>. Sow, although Mr. Barnlckel had dmltlu hides, an article not calculated to stimulate the imaginative faculty, his imagination was strong. The mo ment he set himself up as a relnstitu- 1 to - of his family he saw himself a tine locking, dignified gentleman of arlsto critlc mien and benevolent counte nmce. In truth, he was a crafty look liU man with a money making nose. II; saw the picture of himself grow- In.; up in the hands of the artist as he wis and not as he thought himself. Hi made several protests, but when he attempted to point out tl»e errors he signally failed. lie could not give tie artist ills conception of himself, and the artist had no choice but to paint him as Mr. Barnlckel. When the portrait was finished there sat the merchant looking for all the world as if lie were buying a cargo of hides. When Mr. Barnlckel saw the portrait he refused to accept it on the ground j that ills best friend wouldn't take it for hint. As soon as Mr. Elliott got a little' 1 spare time lie hooked Mr. Barnickel's j portrait up against the wall of his studio, covered it with a slteet of ■ drawing paper and on the paper sketched prison bars. This done, he cut out the paper between the bars, leaving Mr. Barnlckel in limbo. Un derneath he placed the title of the pic ture. "A Prisoner For Debt." It was not long before one who knew Mr. Barnlckel well saw him behind bars. Ilad he loved Mr. Barnlckel he would have gone to him nt once with the information. But he didn't love Mr. Barnlckel—few people did—so he went about telling those who knew the hide dealer of the rare sight to be seen, and Mr. Elliott's studio at once became very popular. Indeed, from among those who visited it to see "A Prisoner For Debt" he secured a num ber of orders. The episode nt last reached a mem ber of the Barnlckel family, and the family head was informed. The same morning he drove up to Mr. Elliott's studio, nlightcd in a hurry, climbed the stairs in anger and burst into the stu dio in a passion. There hung the pic ture, and there sat the artist quiescent at his easel. "What do you mean by perpetrating that outrage?" shouted Mr. Barnlckel, pointing to the picture." And Som* Voice* Ar* Not! Nexdore—Your wife used to sing and play a great deal. 1 haven't heard her lately. Naybor—Since the children came she has had no time. Nexdore—Ah, children are such a blessing!— Boston Transcript. A Professional Secret. Magistrate—How did you manage to extract the man's - watch from his pocket when it was provided with a safety catch? Prisoner—Excuse me, sir; that is a professional secret, i I am willing to teach you. however, for $lO. New York Evening Mail. ■*. , Stealing the Climate. "Fine climate you have fiere—so bracing," remarked the casual visitor. "Yes, pretty good." allowed the vil lage pessimist, "but them confounded automobilists come along ~nd pump the air Into their pneumatic tires."— Lippincott's. * ' Fare For the Fair. "What's the meaning of this elabo rate collection of charlotte russe, fudge and sweet pickles?" "Oh, I am advertising a business woman's lunch."—Kansas City Jour nal. "What outrage?" asked the artist without discontinuing his work. "Putting my portrait behind bars." "Your portrait? That isn't your por trait. You said yourself that no one would recognize it." The merchant saw that he could not demand the removal of the objection able features without eating bis words. He went out, slamming the door be hind him. He had been triumphant in too many deals to be beaten by a pic ture maker; be would tind a way to get round the "imposition." But before he found this way he heard that a uew feature had been at tached to tiie portrait. The artist had removed the bars and the title, replac ing the lutter with the words "You Want Too Much." The title fitted the expression on the face so well, and Mr. Barnickel's idio syncrasies were so keenly appreciated that a new lot of people came pouring into the studio to see Old Scrooge, us they called him, buying hides, though some declared that he was disputing the price of his portrait. Mr. Bar nickel was made aware of the change by receiving an anonymous letter in quiring which of these two Interpreta tions of the title was correct. By this time the merchant had con sulted his lawyer, who advised him that the most satisfactory way out of the difficulty was to pay for the pic ture and take it away. Therefore on i receipt of the nnonymous note he drew I his check for SSOO, jumped into his car ! riage and drove to Mr. Elliott's studio. On entering his eyes naturally sought the picture. The expression had been ] changed. Instead of Mr. Barnickel beating down a seller, it was Mr. Bar nickel just having bought at his own price. There was no title attached to the picture. Instead a bit of cardboard rested upon it on which in big letters was inscribed "Sold." Mr. Barnickel saw the word and was seized with a new anxiety. He, and only he, could not see Its double mean ing. , "There's your check. Send that datft) home," he said. "I'm sorry, Mr. Barnickel. Don't you see the card on the picture?" "That's bosh. No one would want my"— He stopped. He was about to yield to his beating down propensities and add "ugly mug," but remembered himself. "I don't think the purchaser cares much for It," said Mr. Elliott coolly. "You might get it at an advance on the original price." "How much is the"— Mr. Barnickel was about to say swindle, but feared to make matters worse. Mr. Elliott arose, went to the picture and cut it in ribbons. "The episode is ended, Mr. Barnlckel. I have to thank you for many orders secured through your portrait" An Alibi. The story Is told by a traveling man of a pretty young lady who stepped into a music store in Springfield, Mo., j the other day. She tripped up to the counter where a new clerk was assort- j ing music and in the sweetest tones asked, "Have .you 'Kissed Me In the Moonlight?'" The clerk turned half way 'around and answered, "it must have been the man at the other count er; I've been here only a week."—Buf falo Commercial. A Farsighted Economist. Husband—Y'ou're not a bit econom ical. Wife—Well, if you don't call a wom an economical who saves her wedding dress for a possible second marriage I'd like to know what you think econ omy is! —Satire. Not Bur*. lier nusband Do you remember what I said when 1 proposed? His Wife—Why, you were so fright ened you just chattered unintelligibly. Her Husband—What! Then maybe I didn't propose at all. A Jolt For "I have the fnP' .noves moun tains," lie declp "1 wish," lils'y .-oinplained, "you had tlie v faith' tho- would move ttie ashes out of the cellar."—Chicago Kee ord-ilerald. Th* Rule of Thr*e. r.iv<e with y«»ur wife, your mother and your mother-la-law.-- Lippincott's. ROPII\|Q WILD HORSES. Difficulty Exp*rl*no*d In Clearing AH« sons Forest Rang*. An attempt to clear the ranges of the Prescott national forest of wild horses Is being made by the stockmen of Williamson and Skull valleys, says the Arizona Republican, and tlje first rodeo resulted lu the capture of about thirty animals on the Tonto divide. Forest Hanger Mercer had a confer ence with George A. Carter, Clarence Stewart, J. V. Dickson, J. M. Cook, 11. N. Cook ail<l E. Contrerusi. repre sentatives of the Burnt ranch compa ny-,' and others, and a rodeo was* ar ranged, with J. V. Dickson as cap tain. During that week u stoetuda corral was built at r»-e old chimney In Toohey canyon, and wire fences were strung along the canyon to inclose the water holes, leaving a narrow entrance at the south end. "Mormon wings" of cheesecloth were stretched upon the brush for more than a mile from the entrance of the fenced lot along the hillsides to the open country at Tonto divide. A rodeo camp was established at Carter's cor ral, on the old Toohey place, and at the beginning of the following week a dozen men began the work of gath ering broomtails and outlaws. Lookouts were posted upon high points near the south end of the can yon, while the larger number of riders went in search of wild horses in the open country west of Granite moun tain. When a band was found the riders gave chase and tried to drive the horses into the canyon. Some times they got a band headed toward the canyon, and sometimes the'mus tangs had notions of their own and went elsewhere. When the broomtails took to the hills there was wild riding through scrub oak and over rock strewn slopes and ridges, aud the lookouts plunged down from their stations and tried to head off the bands or picked out sin- ' gle horses and roped them among the rocks. Before the "Mormon wings" ' were stretched it was difficult to keep a band going down the canyon. The wild horses seemed to suspect a trap and broke for the hills regardless of the riders who tried to turn them. The cheesecloth, however, proved an ! effective barrier in most Instances, al though one small band went through it when alarmed by the presence of men near the corral. A band of thir teen mares and colts was kept in the straight and narrow way by the streaks of white rag fluttering in the brush and ran directly Into the corral. SAFE FLYING ALTITUDE. An Argument That Aviator* Should Soar Reasonably High. There Is a distinct advantage In fly ing at a reasonably high elevation, says the Engineering Magazine. In case of accidental stoppage of the mo tor or other incldont necessitating de scent without power the production of . sustaining force ceases. The Inertia of the machine, notwithstanding this, keeps up Its velocity for a time, so that descent will begin gradually. It may even be checked or altogether off ! set for a time by increasing the ln : clination of the planes, but this Intro duces a supernormal direct resistance and accelerates the exhaustion of that j very inertia of velocity which la nec • essary to suspension. Vet by purpose- J ly manipulating the planes It 1s quite { possible to retain a margin of relocl ty which shall be available at the last Instant to decrease the rate of down ward movement suddenly, while at the same time bringing the machine as a I whole to rest within a very short dis tance of the point where It strikes the | ground. The whole manipulation which produces this result Is merely ; that of adjusting the inclination of the planes so that they make a very ; slight angle only with the trajectory ! until the latter has brought the ma ! chine close to the ground and then abruptly Increasing the Inclination un til descent Is entirely checked. Many accidents have occurred dur ing descent, and the character of the ground on which landing Is to be ef fected Is a matter of moment. The higher the altitude of flight the more choice Is there as to the point of land ing, and the more control (If the alti tude be not too great) will the opera tor possess over his machine with re gard to such landing position. The safest altitude, should the motor fail. Is not necessarily, therefore, a low altitude. A fall of thirty feet Is Just about as serious as one of a thousand feet "Papa" Cam* From France. The use of "papa" In this country il lustrates the flow and ebb of fashion In words, as In costume, pretty clearly. All authorities agree that "papa" aud "mamma" arrived here from France in the seventeenth century. At first they were courtly expressions and were used by "persons of fashion," adults as well as children, In the eighteenth cen tury. But with the nineteenth centu ry the middle class took them up, orig inally regarding them as gep*«el. In our own time one of the fauta of the hero of "'E dunno w'ere 'e ara"" aft er coming Into "a little bit o' aplGsh," was that he " 'ad the cheek and lnvu deuoe to call 'ls iKother 'ma.' *■ file usual result followed. Everybody's words, adopted as genteel, bec*a»# vul gar, and now "papa" and "anirama' 1 are dying out even among children.— Loudon Chronicle. Improving. "Bllggins likes to heur himself talk." "is that.all you have against him?", "Could anything be worse?" "Certainly. Bllggins used to like to hear himself aing. "—Washington Star.
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