—
F™ ENDSHIPS.
May tie caw ol Sallust always
retain «uzraved on the heart of
your kit. “Not with the help
of uriuics nor treasures do king-
dooms contaiue to tdourish, but
with tue acip of friends, and
these cannot be gained by force
nor bougit with gold: they are
won by acts ot kindness and by
faithfuiness.” And, moreover,
“it is necessary always to live
in unity with one'sown: by con-
cord the smallest things become
great. whilst by discord the
greatest are rednced to nought.”
Let him remember the example
of M. Agrippa. who thought
much ef this precept which alone
a good brother, a good comrade,
a good friend. a good king. Next
to God let nothing be dearer to
him than friendships. Let him
always implicitly trust the man
he once found worthy of his
friendship and, according to the
his friends in all things, but take
care first to prove himself also.
* ® + Slow In contracting
friendships. let him be even
more slow in breaking them
asunder and, if possible, never
let him do so.—Petrarch,
may make of your royal master -
advice of Seneca, let him prove’
NIGHT.
Mysterious night! When our
first parents knew
Thee, from report divine, I
heard thy name
Did he not tremble for this
lovely frame—
This glorious canopy of light
and blue?
Yet 'neath a curtain of translu-
cent dew
Bathed in the rays of the great
setting flame,
Hesperus, with the host of
heaven, came
And lo! creation widened in
man's view,
Who could have thought such
darkness lay concealed
Within thy beams, oh, sun! or
who could find,
While fly and leaf and insect
stood revealed
That to such countless orbs
thou mad’st us blind!
Why do we then shun death
with anxious strife
If light can thus deceive, where-
fore not life?
—Joseph Blanco White.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Reputations, like beavers and
cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.—Doug-
las Jerrold.
Dare to look up to God and
say, Deal with me in the future
as thou wilt; I am of the same
mind as thou art; I am thine; I
refuse nothing that pleases thee;
1ou wilt; clothe
me in aay dress thou choosest.
~Epictecus.
Every tub must stand upon its
own bottom.—Bunyon.
One of the grandest things in
having rights is that, being your
rights, you may give them up.—
George MacDonald.
Reputation is an idle and most
false imposition; oft got with-
out merit and lost without de-
serving.—Shakespeare.
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“RY PICKINGS.
v coop or house should
y aud weather proof, yet
ventiiated and without di-
I Giagg nts
i'lie pouury droppings should
sathered daily Where this is
ot possible it should not be de-
layed longer than a week. After
each cleaning the dropping
boards should be, dusted with
5 sifted coal ashes or road dust.
© Once a month a good coal tar
product should be used on the
roosts. in the corners of the nest
boxes and along the cracks and
crevices of the building. This
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will disinfect the house.
Overcrowding causes fowls to
“sweat” while on the roost at
night, which so weakens. them
that they become easy prey to
sickness.
Heat has as bad an effect upon
egg production as has severe win-
ter weather.
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MOLDY FEEDS ARE
FATAL TO POULTRY
Moldy litter in poultry houses and
moldy feed are the cause of a large
number of deaths among poultry and
particularly among chicks, writes H. L.
Kempster in the Western Poultry Jour-
nal. These molds in the body of
the fowl cause a disease known as
aspergillosis. The disease is as fatal as
the name sounds: Our scientists have
neglected to find a shorter name for
the disease, but among poulirymen
chicks affected with the trouble are
commonly spoken of as “lungers.”
Many times the disease is mistaken
for white diarrhea. The Missouri Col-
lege of Agriculture, in its investigation
of poultry diseases, notes the following
characteristic symptoms: The chick
stands around in a drowsy manner and
shows little desire to eat. The wings
hang down, the breath is rapid and a
white diarrhea is present.
An affected chick will be found to
have soft yellow growths from the size
of a pinhead to that of a pea, mainly
in the lungs, but sometimes in the in-
testines and mesentery. These growths,
li According to the report of the di-
rector of the national egg laying
contest at Mountain Grove, Mo.,
the smaller the bird of Tavored
breed the more eggs the
This conclusion Is reac od Jorge
three years’ contest and is authen-
tie. The White Plymouth Rock hen
that laid 281 eggs in the first con-
test weighed only six pounds, be-
ing one and one-half pounds under
standard weight. The White Leg-
horn pullet which made g Iyer of
260 eggs last year only weighed two
and three-fourths pounds. There is
no standard ‘weight for this breed,
but this pullet was the smallest of
a lot of thirty-six pullets of this
variety which were entered in the
contest. The illustration shows a
ied bred White Plymouth Rock
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RESPONSIBILITY.
All persons possessing any
portion of power ought to be
strongly and awfully impressed
Wild un idea twat they act in
trust and that they are to ac-
count for their conduct in that
trust to the one great Master,
Author and Founder of society.
—Burke.
dt is meat and drink to me to
see a clown. By my troth, we
that have good wits have much
to answer for.—“As You Like
It,” Shakespeare.
Men’s minds are as variant as
their faces. Where the motives
of their actions are pure the op-
efatlon of the former is no more
to be imputed to them, as a
crime, than the appearance of
the latter, for both, being -the
work of nature, are alike un-
avoidable.—George Washington.
THE ISLE.
3 ai o
There was 4 little lawn islet £
By anemone and violet,
Like mosaic paven,
And its roof was flowers and
leaves,
Which the summer's breath en-
weaves,
Where no sun nor showers nor
breeze
Pierce the pines and tallest trees,
Eaen a gem engraven.
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vy many wave
and
clogging the air passages of the lungs,
are directly responsible for the death
of affected birds.
In mature fowls there are two forms
of the disease. The mucous membrane
lining the air sacs and tgbes may be
covered with a membranous formation
which is soft and yellowish and has
an offensive odor, or the post mortem
will reveal white or yellowish nodules
imbedded in the tissues of the lungs.
Early symptoms are that the bird is
Inactive, sleepy, and #f forced to rum
will fall from exhaustion; breathing is
rapid, appetite is diminished, and more
or less catarrh is present.
There 18 no cure for the trouble, but
since it is caused by eating moldy feed
or by being permitted access to moldy
litter, it can be entirely prevented by
not compelling fowls to eat moldy
food and by keeping them away from
moldy litter.
This is just one of the mamy poultry
troubles that can be entirely avoided:
by feeding nothing but fresh, clean
feed and keeping the pens and yards
free from filth and molds.
Clean the Poultry Yard:
The adage “Cleanliness is akin to
godliness,” which has been wrongfully
ascribed to the Bible, is quite as true
in the poultry yard as in the home of
growing children. Tt lies at the foun-
dation of health and is the corner-
stone of success. Dirty yards are dis-
ease breeders; dirty eggs soomr rot;
dirty fowls are disgusting; dirty roosts
bring lice, mites, fleas and loss.
Feeding Fer Eggs.
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LIVE STOCK
HUSBANDRY
DAIRY and
CREAMERY
SELECTING DRAFTERS.
Horses With Big Middle Sections Are
Easily Kept In Condition.
A good big bread basket makes a
big difference in a horse’s price, writes
John Mason in the National Stock-
man. Dealers when in search of horses
for work invariably select those with
deep flanks, the reason being that
horses so equipped are almost invaria-
bly good doers, easy keepers and carry
their condition better than those that
are short in their back ribs and tucked
up in their flanks. There is an appear-
ance of roundness in a horse’s flank
that is especially objectionable, indi-
viduals possessing that conformation
being almost always hard keepers and
likely to scour under hard pressure.
Besides this, short back ribs and de-
ficient flank space are usually concomi-
By many horse raisers and users
the Percheron is regarded as the
last word in excellence. It is more
universally bred in this country
than any other draft breed and al-
ways brings top price in the great
horse markets. Whenever heavy
draft horses are required the Perch-
eron is welcomed. He is quick,
powerful, docile and is second to
none when heavy work is to be
done.
tants of long backs and weak loins,
this combination being the worst fault
really that a horse can have. Person-
ally I would rather have a horse a lit-
tle rounding of his hock and showing a
slight gristle than I would one with a
light middie. Light flanked horses are
never good shippers, and dealers on
the market will often pass up animals
as sound as the proverbial bell of brass
merely because they possess this fault.
Stallions faulty in their conformation
in that they are short of their ribs and
light of their flanks should always be
passed up. I do not know of a charac-
ter which is transmitted with such
deadly accuracy unless it is a drooping
“goose” rump, and the two not infre-
quently go together. Capacity, as the
‘dairy cow men call it, is just as essen-
tial in a horse that works with his
shoulders as in a milk making machine
that works with her udder. Without
the most ample space to care for and
digest the food consumed neither one
can be worth very much. Under no
circumstances should a light flanked,
short ribbed stallion be used. Eschew
him always. Accept no excuses for hig
lack of “capacity.”
like him, and the dealers if they take
them at all will discount them heavily,
PIG FEEDING EXPERIMENT.
Effect 6f Various Rations Demonstrated
at Kentucky Fair Grounds.
An account of an interesting experl-
ment in pig feeding at the Kentucky
state fair grounds at Louisville is re-
lated in a recent issue of Farm and
Family. Five lots of pigs were placed
on feed on June 17, and a month later
were weighed and results noted. The
final result of the test would be an
nounced at the annual meeting of the
Kentucky state fair, it was said. .
The results obtained for the first
month’ were: Lot No. 1 was composed
of four pigs of the scrub type. They
were fed a balanced ration of ten parts
middlings, ten parts corn meal, two
parts bran, one part tankage and blue
grass pasture. They made a gain per
day of 1.27 pounds at a cost of § 4-10
cents per pound of gain. Lot No. 2,
described as common type, fed corn
in a dry lot, made a gain of .93 pounds
per day at a cost of 5 6-10 cents per
pound of gain. Lot No. 3, common
type, fed balanced ration in dry lot,
gained 1.46 pounds per day at a cost
of 4 7-10 cents per pound. Lot No. 4,
common type, fed corn and blue grass
pasture, gained .82 pounds per day at
a cost of 6 2-10 cents a pound. Lot
No. Bb, pure bred Berkshires, fed bal-
anced ration and blue grass pasture,
gained 1.51 pounds per day at a cost
of 415 cents a pound. The Berkshires
therefore made the largest gaihs at
the cheapest cost per pound. The final
result of the test will be watched for
with interest by all pig raisers. So
far the demonstration has proved the
value of pure breds as against serub
pigs.
Weak Fetlocks In Foals.
For a colt with weak fetlocks the fol-
lowing treatment is advised: Feed an
abundance of sound whole oats, wheat
bran and good hay. By preference al-
low ajfalfa or clover hay.
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DAIRY IMPROVEMENT.
Why Many Farmers Fail to Secure Best
Results From Cows.
[Prepared by dairy division, United States
department of agriculture.}
One reason for low records and lack
of progress is that many dairymen do
not avail themselves of the education
in dairying and agriculture so cheaply
offered to them by the dairy and agri-
cultural papers, farmers’ institutes,
farmers’ reading courses, experiment
stations, agricultural ¢olleges, ete. It
has been clearly demonstrated that
dairymen must get above average
methods and average conditions to at-
tain success and must use business
methods and avail themselves of the
latest and best knowledge.
Cows producing good records are not
confined to any one breed or locality or
section of the country. The individual-
ity of the cow and the care and treat-
ment she receives have more influence
than natural conditions or peculiar
characteristics of the soil.
A cow’s dairy performance cannot be
fairly judged from her record for a sin-
le year. Dairy cows have their “off
years,” and this must be considered
when cows having poor records are be-
ing dropped from the herd. If this fact
is not borne in mind there is danger of
selling the best cows. -
Cows producing 5,000 pounds of milk
and 200 pounds of butter annually are
within the reach of every painstaking
The Jersey cow here pictured is
owned by J. C. Sibley of Pennsyl-
vanig. The herd is kept in open
air barng throughout the coldest
weather. The west side is always
open to the air. The cow shown is
a pure bred Jersey, and she made
an official record last year of 15,6556
pounds of milk containing 837
pounds of butter. She was in cold
quarters all winter.
dairyman. A lower yield than this in
most sections of the couniry leaves lit-
tle or no margin tor profit. It should
be the constant zin: of the dairyman to
raise his aT :
Many dairymen make the mistake
of keeping more cows than they can
properly shelter and feed It is more
profitable to bezin with a few well
cared for than with ua large number
poorly fed and poorly ~heltered. As a
rule dairymen have cows enough in
ndmber, but their yield is too low. To
increase the profit the product must
be increased.
The fundament:! steps to be taken
in improving dairy herds may be stat-
ed as follows:
Take advantage of variation.
the tendency of nearly all cows raised
‘is to become average cows, a number
500, 600, or even 700:pounds of butter.
selected and bred with care
and judgment.
‘While the test must be used to de-
tect variation and make selections, it
is needed particularly to test the prog-
eny, to determine whether the good
qualities of the parent have been per-
petuated and to see if any improve-
ment in the offspring has been made.
Feed, care and management are of
the highest importance. Having been
carefully selected and having stood the
test, the cows must be well fed and
cared for if their good qualities are to
be retained and improved.
Causes of Blue Milk.
There seems to be no doubt, says the
American Cultivator, that the abnor-
mal appearance of a blue color in milk
is in the great majority of cases caused
by the growth of micro-organisms in
the milk. The appearance of a few iso-
lated samples of blue milk which re-
cently reached one of our western ex-
periment stations has afforded an op-
portunity for a new investigation of
this uncommon phenomenon. The or-
ganism isolated from the milk and
proved to be responsible for this “out:
break” was the bacillus cyanogenes,
the same organism that has been iso-
lated in cther instances of blue milk,
The fact that in the Iowa manifesta-
tions the trouble occurred in only two
households out of eighteen served from
the same dairy and that these two
were quite closely associated indicates
that the infection of the milk took
place in the household.
Feeding the Dry Cow.
The feeding of the dry ccws and
heifers that must build up the frames
and give constitutional vigor to the
young calves is the true foundation
of improved dairy cows. Yet the aver-
age dairyman feeds his pregnant cows
and heifers the refuse. The best hay,
wheat bran and linseed oilmeal are
that are giving milk.
very elements that are needed by
it this period are withheld.
The
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