MAKE A BLUFF.
St lhr Isn't any pleasure
Waits for you beside the way,
If there's not a thing to grin nt
In your journey day by day.
If rou've gut nniH for kicking
And for stirring up a row,
Don't you do HI Don't you do 11!
Just be happy, anyhow.
Just be happy, just be happy;
Take the fiddle and the bow,
Bnuunle it against your shoulder,
Limber up and let her go,
Till the world is full of music
And there's joy in every string.
Till you get all outdoors laughing
And you make the echoes sing.
It's duty yon are owing
To the world to shake your feet,
And to lift your Yoip m stagin'
Till the music Alls the street ;
If the world is dark and glor my
And you haven't got a friend,
It's your duty to dissemble,
It's your duty to pretend.
If you meet the world a grinnin'.
Then the world will grin Bt you;
You can laugh the clouds to flinders.
Till the blue slur glimmers through;
If you just pretend you're happy.
With your whole heart in the bluff
Then, almost before you know it.
You'll be hsppy, sure enough!
Houston Post.
I The Quest of Two Moons.
I
BY FRANKLIN WELLES CALKINS.
I
"Yob, he'g an effective member of
the police force," Bald my friend, the
Indian agent. He was speaking of a
tall young Sioux In uniform, who
bad just handed In a message and
stepped out of his office.
"Two Moons wag an odd boy," he
mused, "a dreamer, and imaginative
to an uncommon degree. He was
bout thirteen, I reckon, when he
came near to bringing on war out
here, and by a curious incident as
trivial in nature as many which have
been responsible for bitter reprisals
on our frontiers. This was the way
Of it:
"Two Moons was wading In the
shallows of Antelope Creek one day,
and found an old horseshoe. He took
this to his brother, Little Chief, who
was a helper in our blacksmith's
hop, and the brother told him care
lessly of an old tradition which said
that any one finding an 'Iron hoof
In a river, with the toe pointing up
or down, should ride to the end of
the stream, where he would find a
line herd of horses which would fol
low him home. The finder of the
ahoe was to go secretly, saying noth
ing to any one.
"Two Moons swallowed the story,
and kept down his excitement until
his mother slept that night. His
father wag away somewhere, and the
lad took his gun and cartridge-belt,
some bacon, which had recently been
Issued, secured a pony and stole
away. He was certain that the toe
of the iron hoof had pointed up the
creek, so up the creek he went.
On such an errand, the day-dreamer
was bound to strike trouble sooner
or later, and Two Moons struck it
aoon. He crossed the line of the
reservation Borne time in the night,
and had ridden fifteen or twenty
miles on the cattle range when he
came upon a bunch of horses, young
stock, feeding on the bottom-lands.
Looking beyond, he saw that the
creek was apparently cut off by hills;
so feeling a 'heap good,' he rode out
to the horses. The animals showed
no sign of wishing to follow him.
and Two Moons, concluding that
something was wrong with the 'med
icine' somewhere, drove the bunch
off down the valley.
"It was now morning, and Two
Moons, dreaming of the excitement
which his arrival at the agency would
create, forgot even to eat his bacon.
He had Jogged on for two or three
boars when, in turning a bend, he
looked behind, to see a number of
borsemen riding hard on his trail.
"He had the real Indian's Instinct,
In spite of his mooning, and he knew
St a glance that there were white
riders after him. He had made a
dreadful mistake in driving these
borses, after they hau refused to fol
low him. They were the white men's
stock!
"He knew what would happen to
blm should he be caught, and he put
the quirt to his pony, as much alive
and alert as he had been dazed and
dreaming. He rode a good pony,
.which had done nothing but graze all
summer, and for a time he opt his
lead. He had nearly reached the
reservation line when his horse be
gan to give out. His pursuers were
swiftly gaining, when, in dashing
over a rise, he came face to face with
his brother.
"Two Moons' absence had been
discovered early in the morning, and
Little Chief, guessing the cauBe, had
taken the trail, and was riding hard
after him. The brothers' horses
both were well blown, and, there
being no need of words, the elder
wheeled and led the way Into a
coulee which he had crossed a little
time before. At the head of this ra
vine the two turned their ponies
loose and took to cover, where they
had perfect command of every ap
proach without exposing themselves.
"Well, the cow-men came up, and
warned by a couple of shots, grasped
the situation. There were five of
them, and they posted four, so as to
hold the Indiana. Then the fifth rode
away after help.
"It was about this time, I reokon,
that Two Moons' father came in from
his visiting; and ho posted after his
sons, to come Wxk in the afternoon
and report their situation to me.
Much disquieted, 1 cautioned the
father to Bay nothing to any one else.
but to get a fresh pony at ouco, and
guide me to the besieged.
"It was after dark when we roached
the ground. 1 posted my guide at the
mouth of the coulee, and soon was
among the besiegers. There were u
dozen or more angry cow-men sur
rounding a covert so porfect that
they couldu't rush the Sioux without
a certainty of serious loss of life.
"I found their leader, a ranch fore
man named Farrell, whom I knew. 1
told him my version of Two Moons
quest, and begged him to drop the
matter. He and two others who
stood with him laughed at my tale,
which I must confess, though I doubt
ed not of Its truth, smacked of im
probability. They declared that they
would 'get those thieving Sioux,' it
they had to starve them out! Had
they been within the reservation lim
its, 1 might have made my authority
felt, but they were well outside my
jurisdiction; and I naw that neither
threat nor persuasion could avail
i "After some talk I wont back to
where I had posted Chaska Two
Moons' father only to find that he
(was gone. I knew then that, in spite
bf my injunction, he had passed the
tord of bis boys' plight out oyajr the
Seucy. The cow-men muu back
down In the end, or fight my Brutes.
"The wretched prospect of another
Indian uprising was staring me in
the face, and I had not even com
munication by wire with the outside
world. I went back to the cow-men,
to be a witness against thorn and for
my Indians In the last extremity.
"Had the night been dark, I should
have had hope that Little Chief and
Two Moons might crawl through the
lines or make a dash and get away;
but there was a brilliant full moon,
and a man could be seen quite plainly
at 200 yards. The cowboys stood,
or grimly sat, at Intervals of fifty
yards, and a rabbit could not have
passed their line without discovery.
"Farrell was not at all pleased to
see me when I bivouacked at his
stand. He was offish In conversation,
not exactly rude, but with a tone
which said, 'You may camp here, it's
a free range too free for Interfer
ence of any sort!'
"By midnight other cow-men be
gan to arrive, and by daylight there
were twenty-five or thirty at hand.
Evidently these men expected a sortie
by the agency Sioux, and were pre
pared to fight. Losses from stock
'rustling' of late had exasperated the
whole district of the Antelope. Each
man of these besiegers carried a mag
azine gun and two revolvers, and was
belted with metallic cartridges, so
that, in the distance, he appeared to
be uniformed In copper plate.
"I knew that, if not interfered
with, they would rush my Indians
and end the business as soon as they
bad coffee and a bite to eat. While a
detail was passing coffee and hard
biscuit along the line, my Sioux put
in an appearance. To the number of
fifty odd these filed out of a coulee,
in a glitter of oiled guns and copper
sjiella, and took position, sitting their
horses, like a group of bronze and
armored statues, at 600 or 700 yards.
They were the pick of my agency,
armed, doubtless, with all the guns
and cartridges that could be collected
on Antelope Reservation.
"The cow-men paid this formidable
and greased, hung In two strings
down his breast. In all his bearing
there was the high spirit of celf-
sacrlfice, of making atonement. As
he drew near, I found myself biting
my lips and my vision getting misty
with the pity of it. He came direct
to me.
" 'My father,' he said, 'I alone am
to blamo for what has happened. I
wish to give my body to these men
that my people may not suffer.'
"A dozen or more cowboys had
gathered about their leader as I in
terpreted. As I spoke. Two Moons,
with flushed face, showing a plead
ing eagerness that his sacrifice should
be accepted, went forward a little to
face them.
"Before I had finished speaking a
thrill went through me. The at
mosphere of hostility had melted as
clouds vanish after a June shower.
The bravo spirit and truthful face of
the boy had won what neither argu
ment nor force could have accom
plished. "There were somo seconds of si
lence; then one of tho men raised the
tension.
" 'Shucks!' he said, and turning
his back on the scene, walked off.
Everybody laughed, and Farrell flung
his hat at the boy's feet.
" 'You little sap-sucker,' he said,
'you've mighty nigh raised a lot of
mlBchlef, but you've shore made good
for the sand! Bill,' ho said to one
of his men, 'bring up that gray pony
o' mine and give it to this high red.
We've got to remove him from tempta
tion.' "Amid laughter and the gathering
of the clan, white and red, the gray
pony was brought, and Two Moons,
the most amazed and delighted little
Indian on earth, I reckon, was lifted
upon the back of a fine cow-horse,
and made to understand that it was
his. Then the cowboys rode away,
with my Drul on whooping 'Howl
How! How!' aftor them.
"When the noise had subsided. Two
Moons turned to me. 'At any rate,
father,' he shouted, earnestly, 'my
medicine was good, else I should not
have got this fine pony!' " From U-"
Youth's Companion.
A NEW VOCABULARY FOR A NEW INDUSTRY
0-y('-y-.S)-y.Sk. -.(sv-w-w'-
The Price of Eggs.
"When eggs get in the neighbor
hood of forty cents a dozen and but
ter climbs to thirty-five and forty
cants people always want to know
what the cause is," said a New Jer
sey farmer to a Dock street merchant
the other day. "They think we are
trying to bleed them, but It they
really knew the truth, they wouldn't
have much to say, I don't believe.
Of course you fellows here on Dock
street know the causes, but the ordi
nary person doesn't. Do you know
why eggs are scarce? It's not be
cause the hens are not working as
hard as usual. Some may he taking
a vacation, it's true, but it's because
the farmers are saving their eggs
for Incubators. About this time of
the year the poultry raisers collect
all the fresh eggs they can and pile
As It Striketh the Philosopher.
By H. J. THIEDE.
1. Keep your conscience tender.
2. Be not weary in well doing.
3. To-day's frugality Is to-morrow's felicity.
4. Salvation Is an accomplishment through the selection of
the best ends of life. Degradation is a consequence of the cultiva
tion of the worst ends of life.
6. Better go supperless to bod than to rise in debt.
6. Man should pay more attention to the chips on his lathe
than those on the street.
7. Every dollar put by to-day comes as a gift to you to
morrow. 8. One whose falsehoods no longer deceive has forfeited
the right to speak the truth.
9. Mediocrity can talk, but It is for genius to observe.
10. Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a
great ship.
11. Character building Is a consequence of constant train
ing and development.
12. Man Is like a cracked bell that does not ring because of
the grating of the two broken surfaces on each other, but if these
could be trimmed off by means of a saw or file, it would remedy
the defect.
party no apparent heed, but pro
ceeded calmly with the bread and
coffee. Yet I knew that a fight was
imminent, and without providential
interference could not be delayed be
yond a few minutes. I begged per
mission of Farrell to go to their
covert and have an interview with
them Into the patent setting hens
You aBk why they do this? Well, it'i
simple proposition. It takes thret
weeks to the day for eggs to hatcb j
out. As soon as you get chlckeni
you begin to feed them to beal
everything. The brooders, in which I
they are kept in winter to keep them
"By what authority came the word
chauffeur to be foisted on an English-speaking
public?" The question
is often askod prlvstely and from
time to time some indignant pure-speech-loving
enthusiast echoes the
same query through the columns of
the dally press, with an appeal to the
potentate of the blue pencil to use all
his power and Influence to extermin
ate the foreign Intruder.
There are about a dozen other
words, as foreign to the average man
ten years ago as ancient Oreek, which
have gradually slipped Into evoryday
use until to-day they pass unques
tioned, and have, by their mere per
sistence, earned a place for them
selves In the latest editions of na
tional dictionaries.
It Is one of the rules of life that a
nation which has the honor of Intro
ducing anything new In any depart
ment of activity should Impose Its
own nomenclature. There are suffi
cient examples in our own products
adopted by speakers of other tongues
and allowed to retain their native
names to warrant accepting a few
from outside. Because France got a
few years' advance on the world in
the Introduction of the automobile
she had to supply a new set of terms
to cover the nakedness of her new
creation. "Automobile" suggested
Itself, nothing being simpler than the
combination of auto self and mobile
moving. But before automobile
was allowed to pass as a substantive
it was used In connection with car
rlage, the new vehicle being a volture
automobile, or automobile carriage
As every noun In French must be of
either masculine or feminine gender
It had to be decided which class au
tomobile should go into. As volture
is feminine some declared that auto
mobile should be of the gentle sex,
too; pthers took up the opposite side,
and an academic division was pro
duced. Even now It Is not certain In
the land of its creation whether an
automobile Is a "she" or a "he."
"Chauffeur" Is an Interloper an
Interloper who cannot give one solid
reason why he should have been al
lowed to creep into the automobile
language. Before self-moving road
vehicles came into being chauffeurs
were found only on railroad engines,
steamships and stationary steam en
gines, their duties being to feed their
charges with coal. Why the driver
of an automobile should have been
called a chauffeur it Is difficult to
understand, for his prototype on
steam engines had nothing whatever
to do with driving, that task being
left to the mecanlclen, and even the
first automobiles, crude as they were,
had little In common with a stoke
hole. The further one goes back the less
glorious is the ancestry of the chauf
feur. In the dark days of the French
revolution armed bands took advan
tage of the weakened executive pow
er to roam through the land and rob
all and sundry. A favorite method
of persuasion when the terrified na
tives refused to reveal the spot in
which their treasure was hidden, was
to chauffe or burn the feet of the un
fortunates. Frequently, in those
cold winter nights the chaufferette
or bed warmer, was seized upon as
the convenient Instrument of tor
ture. So extensive were the depre
dations of these bands that for a
time chauffeur and brigand were sy
nonymous terms.
A garage is merely a shelter, with
nothing in its make-up to indicate
that It has any connection with auto
mobiles. Tho connection is easy to
Bee between garage and gare, a rail
road station. A garage line on the
railroad is merely a siding; when It
was necessary to christen the home
of the automobile, It was moro nat
ural that the locomotive should be
godfathor and not the horse stable.
As at present applied, chassis Is
Just , a little younger than the auto
mobile Industry. In earlier days It
designated any kind of wood or metal
frame, from a wooden cucumber
framo to the metal framework of a
railroad coach. It Is only by common
consent that chassis has olitalnod its
present-day significance; originally It
meant the side members and cross
sections, nothing more In fact than
the framework on which the mechan
ical organs are attached. Little by
little its field of Influence was en
larged, until now It Is generally un
derstood to mean the entire mechani
cal part of the automobile. Whether
used In the singular or the plural,
Its termination Is the same, chesses,
which occasionally finds Its way Into
print, being altogether Incorrect.
Georges Hullller, one of the direc
tors of the Mors factory, in Paris, is
responsible for elevating the tonneau
from a humble field of usefulness as
a wooden cylindrical chamber for
containing wine or beer, ln.o a dig
nified position as part of the automo
bile. At a time when automobile
carriage work was without form and
void, Hullller produced a new design
of body with rear entrance and
rounded ends, to be fitted on the
chassis in the rear of the driver's
seat. Roughly it resembled a barrel
cut across the middle; as no more
suitable term could be discovered. It
was called a barrel for tonneau Is
merely the French for barrel and
has remained a tonneau, In tho Eng
lish language, despite radical changes
In Its design. In French modern side
entrance tourlsg cars have ceased to
bo known as tonneaux, the type de
veloped from the rear-entrance barrel-shaped
body being a double
phaeton.
Down In the old-world Department
of Correze, In France, known under
the old regime as Bas-Llmousin, the
peasants wear a heavy full footed
wooden sabot, known locally as a
limousine. The district has also a
particular type of closed carriage, a
sort of small stage coach, the design
of which. In this unchanging country,
has probably not been modified in
ages. A coachbuilder from Limoges
established himself In Paris, produced
a new type of open vehicle and named
It limousine In honor of his home
land. From an open vehicle the
name began to mean a completely
closed carriage and with the automo
bile Its importance has grown antll
now it designates the most luxurious
type of touring body; the peasant's
wooden Bhoe, however, has not re
nounced its right to the title.
Bavaria appears to baveglven birth
to the landaulet, with a type of ve
hicle fitted with a folding top, and
known as a Landau, after the town
of Landau, in which it originated.
It was modified, slightly reduced in
size, and a few more letters added to
Its title. Taximeter had to be created
to meet a modern need for a handy
term to designate a vehicle that will
doubtless play an Important part in
every-day life. Some advertising
agents appear to have assumed that
a taximeter is a special type of auto
mobile, forgetting that the box of
clockwork In Itself no more modifies
the vehicle on which it is placed
than the gas meter changes 'the na
ture of the gas. It Is merely a com
bination of taxi, a tax, and metre,
a measure of distance, designating
the instrument which taxes accord
ing to distance. On Its Introduction
it occasioned a little trouble, some
users being in favor of taxametre and
others rlatmlng taximetre; after some
discussion etymologists declared the
latter form the only correct one, and
It has remained.
Jerome Cardan has long laid in his
unknown resting place, and his math
ematical researches have so passed
into the sea of knowledge as to be
almost forgotten as individual efforts.
The universal Joint which his fertile
brain created, and which was first
known as Cardan's joint or Joint a la
Cardan, was never In danger of dying
out, but Its application was somewhat
limited and Its admirers were few
until the automobile came along and
brought It Into public favor, four cen
turies after the death of its inventor.
The Automobile.
Little Chief and Two Moons, but after warm, are fairly alive with the little
a brief talk with some of bis men, he fellows, and by stuffing them wltb
refused my request. corn and wheat we soon have chick- ;
"The tragedy was at hand. The ens as big as squabs and kill them
men had finished eating and were for broilers. You know what the
looking to their weapons and hitch- are th4 highest kind of chicken
ing their cartridge-belts into position,
and a detail had brought up their
horses tor distribution when, at the
meat. You can't blame the farmer
for hoarding their eggs when you
know the profit there is In broilers.
head of the coulee and In their cen- Then you get as much per pound a
tre, I saw a fluttering rag, apparently , you get for a dozen eggs at forty
thrust up out of the ground. cents a dozen. Its only the law ol
"I lost no seconds In pointing this supply and demand which makes
out to Fa-rell, who was about to
mount his horse.
" 'They want to talk,' I said. 'Let
them, and I will interpret.'
eggs high, as everything else. Let all
the farmers turn all their eggs into
market, and you will see the price
come down; let them hoard theli
"Farrell scowled fiercely at the eggs for hatching and up goes tb
pitiful signal, and swept the outlying
Sioux with a swift glance of sus
picion. Theu he turned to me.
" 'Well,' he growled, 'holler at 'em
It it'll do you uny good; but don't
give 'em any notion they can get away
from what'B coming!'
"I raised my voice and shouted to
Little Chief to know what ho had to
say.
" 'Two Moous will surrender!' was
his auswer. 'He will go out to those
meu now. I have never taken their
horses, and I did not counsel my
brother to do so!'
" 'The boy who ran off your horses
by mistake will come out to you now,'
I Interpreted, turning to Farrell and
the nearer men. 'He will come un
armed. The other man, his brother,
was In no way to blame, save In tell
ing the boy an old tradition of finding
a horseshoe. If you punish Little
Chief, you uhould punish also r.U
these others who have come out to
defend the boy.'
" 'Sounds reasonable,' Farrell re
luctantly admitted. 'Well, tell the
thief to come out.' Then word was
passed along the line.
"I signaled the brothers that Two
Moons should come on. There was
no hesitation. The slim, half-naked
boy suddenly appeared upon the
levsl. He came toward ug, walking
very straight aud steadily, and to bis
doom, as I verily believed.
"The lad was stripped to the log
gings, and his hair, freshly braided
price. It's simple when you know
the truth." Philadelphia Record.
Costly Necklaces.
The most costly necklace In the
world belongs to the Countoai
Henckel, a lady well known in Lon- j
don and Paris society, the value a', j
which is said to be $250,000. It if
really composed of three necklaces,
each of historic Interest. One was
tile property of the ex-Queen of
Naplos, sister of the late Austrian '
Empress; the second was once the
proper t of a Spanish grandee; whlls j
the third was formerly owned by the
Empress Eugenia. Not long ago a 1
necklace composed of 412 pearls, to !
eight rows, the property of the lata '
Duchess of Montrose, was sold foi I
$69,100. Tho Empress Frederick of
Germany is said to have possessed a
necklace of thirty-two pearls, worth
at least $100,000, while Lady II
Chester's necklace of black pearls is
valued at about $125,000. Tit-Bits.
Vegetarians.
Vegetarianism has got Its grip on
society, and baa already commenced
to make converts In numbers large
enough io be encouraging to the
evangelists ot the cult ot the beau
aud-nut-food. M. A. P.
Preserving Shingles.
The Forest Service has studied the
shingle problem along with that of
the preservation of farm timber. It
is found that shingles treated with
creosote by a special process which
the service has invented warp but
little and decay slowly, because
water is kept out of the tissues of
the wood. One such roof will out
last two or throe left In the natural
state to curl, spring leaks and fall
to pieces. The creosote used Is noth
ing more than dead oil of coal tar,
but it keeps water from entering the
pores of the wood and render it im
mune to decay for a long time.
A root of that kind costs a
little more at first, but it Is
cheaper in the long run. Woods
which are usually classed as inferior,
such as loblolly pine, beech, syca
more and others which are quick de
caying, readily take tho preservative
treatment and are given a largely In
creased value.
The preserving apparatus is
neither expensive nor hard to oper
ate. One such outfit will serve sev
eral farmers. The main items are
an Iron tank (an old engine boiler
will do), with preservative fluid In
it and a fire under It, and another
tank of cold preservative. The shin
gles of other woods to be treated
are immersed for a sufficient time in
the hot creosote and then in the
cold. Full details of tho operation
are given to applicants for Informa
tion by the Forest Service at Wash
ington. Harper's Weekly.
It Is suggested that Boston should
pension the cook who, in forty years,
has made 39 4,000 pies and 2,000,000
doughuutB.
The National Forests.
The area of forest land reserved
by the Government was increased
during 1907 by 43,000,000 acres,
making the total area ot the Na
tional Forests more than 160. 000.
000, seres. The income from the Na
tional Forests waa greater during the
past fiscal year than the eutir cost
of administratioD. This income
amounted to $1,530,000 twice as
much as the liioomo for 1906 and
mors than twenty times that for
1905. President Roosevelt's Message.
What Happened to Clark.
Just what a railroad train can do
to a man when it hits him is sug
gested in a petition filed In the Ma
con Circuit Court by M. B. Clark, a
motorman on the Union line, St. Jo
soph. Tho Injuries tor which Clark
wants $50,000 are thus summarized:
Compound fracture of the femur.
Crushing and maiming of right
leg below the knee.
Amputation ot right leg.
Injury to head.
Bruising of back.
Injury affecting hearing.
Bruises, maiming and injuring ol
hip.
Pressing and injuring ot sciatic
nerve.
. Injuring ot left arm below the el
sow.
Injury to general health.
Affecting injuriously the norvou
system and hearing.
Injuring plaintiff Internally, cans
ing him to be sick, sore and maimed
General permanent disability and
suffering great physical pain.
Mental anguish. Kansas City
Journal.
American Cars Needed In India.
Consul General William H. Mich
ael, In the following report from Cal
cutta, shows the desirability of tli
American railway train system lu
India:
"in consequence of recent murders
robberies and other outrages on
trains in India the Eastern Hongal
State Railway has ordered electric
alarm bells to be Installed In the cars
of their line, so that passengers may
communicate with the guards on the
train. It would appear that the only
effectual and practical remedy is the
subatitutlou ot cats built on the
American plan, with open ends and
vestibule connection, for the side
door arrangements used In India
The EVgllsh passenger cars, or car
riages as they are called, which open
at tho side, are not suitable for lu
dla. waily Consular Report.
W Better Cow, Better Calf.
'A good cow In good condition will
fjlve birth to a stronger calf and will
give more milk to nourish It than
will a cow In poor condition. Cor
respondingly, a plump, heavy kernel
of grain will produce a better plant
than a shrunken. light kernel. This
fact has been demonstrated beyond
doubt from experiments testing the
yield from light and heavy weight
seeds. American Cultivator.
have to break her, which often Is
quite a vaudeville show and often of
somewhat unpleasant memory. From
the start play that you are the
heifer's calf and make her believe it,
and to the calf be Its god of the feed
dish and two disagreeable things In
dairying breaking heifers and teach
ing calves to drink are made into
pleasant pastimes.
Popular Feed Rack.
The Illustration of a fodder rack
here shown is one Invented by the
editor of the Agriculturist and used
by him for many years. The rack
Is such a good one that hundreds
of farmers copied the Idea, and they
came into quite general use on cattle
farms. There is absolutely no waste
of feed In using this rack, and any
thing can be fed In It, from corn
fodder to ensilage and meal, says
the Wisconsin Agriculturist.
The rack has n tight bottom, into
which all litter falls as cattle pull
How to Dip Sheep.
For dipping a number of sheep,
I from 1000 head up, the vat should
be at least forty feet in length and
five feet deep. The bottom of the
vat should bo six Inches wide, tho
sides sloping outward and upward,
till at the top the measurement Is
at least two feet, but on no account
should It be any wider, as then the
sheep swimming through would turn
around, which Is one of the things
to be guarded against. The vat Is
made five feet deep to obviate the
danger of tho sheep striking tho bot
tom of the vnt when thrown in and is
made sloping at the Bides to save ex
pense in dip. The inside ot the vat
should be Hush, so that no obstruction
will interfere with the passing
through of the sheep. Sink the vat
in the ground to the depth of four
feet. The vat should nt first be
filled with water to see if it leaks.
Keep water In It till the leakage
stops, then ball out and fill with dl-
Epitomlst.
Feed Rack.
out the hav or other fodder from
between tho slats. It Is twelve feet
long and five feet wide. Three or
four such racks in a yard will hold
a load of hay or corn fodder. It Is
the best rack In which to feed corn
fodder we ever saw. Cattle will pull
out every leaf and husk, leaving the
bare stalks in the bottom, which may
be removed as desired.
The posts are four by four, six
feet long. On top of the posts a two
by four is spiked, upon which the
slats that hold the fodder rest. These
slats arc four inches wide and
placed far enough apart to admit the
nose of a cow about six inches. The
bottom is made of common six inch
hoards. If meal Is fed In the rack
matched flooring Is better for the
bottom. A six inch board is nailed
on around the outside ot the bottom
to hold the feed.
Where young cattle, cows or steers
run loose there Is no better way ot
feeding them. We have fed a good
many steers in this rack. They were
dehorned and ran loose in a shed. The
rack was kept full of clover hay and
ensilage, and meal waa fed twice
daily in the tight bottom.
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A Rather Novel Idea.
It is said that a farmer near Lan
caster, Pa., unable to obtain farm
help and realizing that he would be
unable to harvest his crops alone,
hit upon the novel scheme of a public
sale of his crops as they stood in the
fields. He had a sixteen-acre corn
field and a large apple orchard. The
novelty of his proposition attracted
n crowd, and bidding was spirited.
In consequence the farmer netted
$28 per acre for his corn, while his
apples fetched him $1.25 per tree,
the purchasers furnisMng the labor
necessary to gather th; corn and
pick the apples. Weekl;- Witness.
Has Double Capacity.
The drawing shows a low down
j barrow In sufficient detail to enable
any one to make a Similar one. We
think that next to the low down cart
it Is the handiest thing around the
buildings and garden that we hare,
says a writer in Farm and Fireside.
Its capacity Is more than double that
of the ordinary kind, and the load Is
much more easily put aboard. It has
the advantage ot getting into close
quarters where the cart would not go,
and for use about the feeding alleys,
the stable, the lawn and the garden
there is hardly anything that will
take Its place.
For the framework get two pieces
of hard wood two by two Inches which
will project to form handles on one
end and for the wheel frame on the
Other. At front ond of box in rea:'
ot wheel a piece of the same dimen
sions is mortise! Into the frame to
hold it rigidly and to make the front
end of the box frame. Pieces one
and a half by one and a half inches
are also mortised Into the bottom ot
the legs, both front and back. Thes?
form the foundation for the floor,
Breeding the Baron Hog.
Mr. Hoyt says that Dr. Harper is
trying to get a good bacon hog. He
has Tamworths, which are certainly
a good bacon breed. But why should
he think to improve by crossing on
the Poland China, a purely lard hog?
There Is really no hog that will make
better bacon than the razor-back of
the South, the black-haired survival
of the fittest. His fault Is slow ma
turity and big waste. It I was breed
ing for a bacon pig I would use
the Tamworth with razor-back sows,
and by continually keeping only full
blood Tamworth males, I would ex
pect to have Ic. a little while the
finest bacon pigs In America. Smith
field hams are made from the native
Virginia stock, and caunot bo made
from the Western lard hog.
The Value of Poultry Mnnure.
Farmers do not appreciate the
value of poultry manure. It has
been estimated that the value of the
droppings for fertilizer is fourteen
cents per fowl per year. The New
Jersey Experiment Station values the
fresh manure of fowls at $4.96 per
ton; the Massachusetts station values
it at $5.28. The farmer doesn't value
It at all, yet fresh hen manure Is
considered nearly twice as valuable
as fresh cow manure. It is claimed
that the poultry manure if sold or
usod would cover the cost of the
care of the fowls. Left In the hen
house to dry, the dust breathed in by
the fowls, it costs the farmer more
than he would wlllinzlv nav. did ho
i kuow. Wallace's Farmer.
A square foot ot a Persian rug
means tweut)-tbre days' work for
the H.nd.
Teaching a Calf to Drink.
H. E. Cook says In Tribune-Farmer:
Fix things ao the calf can never
suck Its dam, and when the cow has
mothered for a few hours don't be
in too big a rush about it milk about
three quarts of her milk Into a pall,
put It up under the calf's nose so as
to touch it, and in a minute it will
drink from the word go, aud you
have wou oui and kept your ploty
besides. A calf that has never sucked
will drink as readily as it will get
the bang of finding its own dinner.
By the same rule, a heifer should
always be hand milked and then she
knows no other way. Let the calf
run w.th her a few days am' theu
to milk her is. In her way of think
ing, "robbery" ot her calf snd you
Low Down Barrow.
which should be of three-quarter
Inch boards. The legs are mortise!
Into the shaft or handle pieces, the
front ones resting about three inches
from the ground and the rear ones
securely braced, as shown in the cut.
If desired the sides may bo built
from the floor solid and straight up,
but we find it better to have a per
manent bed from floor to top of han
dles, with removable side boards to
slip on for use in handling bulky
stuff.
Heavy matorial, such as bags of
fertilizer, large stones, etc.. are easily
handled with this type ot barrow, as
they may be loaded between the
handles directly from the ground.
Farm Notes.
It is a benefit to an old orchard
on level land to turn hogs Into it.
Hitch the horse to the stone boat,
put on a box and drive around the
building, dooryards and nearby fields
and pick up the loose stones.
If we cultivate small fruits, have
plenty of Interesting work on the
farm, this will tend to keep the young
men at home.
Clean out and air out tho cellar
thoroughly before putting in the po
tatoes or other root crops. Old,
musty or vermin Infested lumber
should be replaced with new and
clean.
Don't let any apples go to waste;
convert them Into cldsr or vinegar.
Don't use a sour or musty barrel;
roll it on the fuel pile.
Cider to be kopt during wiutcr
should be got just before the mill
shuts down in late fall. Put in a
barrel tree ot muatlneas and then
keep as near to thirty-five degrees as
possible. Such cider will keep sweet
until spring.
Tho man who peddles squashes,
selling them by the pound, will find
it helpful to leave two or tbreo inches
of vine with the stem. In belling,
by using a pull down hang scale, the
vine aud stem will hang to the hook.
Cut the corn low, thereby savins
more fodder, and making the field
look less unsightly and the i..-:.t
plowing easier.
Burn the potato tops, is the good
advice of nearly all potato special
ists. Don't winter over any manure:
you can't afford to. The 10113-r yo.i
keep it above ground, tho less valui
It has.
Every farm ought to havo a thor
oughly good watch dog; mi he
should be treated just as kindly and
considerately as Is the horse. A dog
thus kept Is an ever faithful friend.
If the corn crib needs repairs, why
not make them right now?
When poultry attain good slss
look them over and any runts, sick
or maimed coop by themselves and
give special care, with the Idea of
selling or putting In the vat among
the first.