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Nuts. ed a ju- ience on sr State, opinion as food. \pe-Nuts > in our lelicious, lispensa- wveryday 1ealthful od us to ind pies an prefer rich and 1 perfect ntive of ave been yeneficial used by ith «face oft. 2 11 derfully. my ex- Hf Grape- of meat mportant satisfies the pow- ts use in- le conse- v a meat Postum » : IS 3 J ¢ * p - EAE TTT ‘matching the tulle deed therels Smart ‘fects and the material Gives Her Hair a Rest, It's a strain on the hair to be curled and coiffed in devious ways all winter, and many fashionable young women are giving their locks a rest just now by dressing theth very simply, minus the Marcel wave and various other additions to beauty. One girl discov- ered that she was ruining her hair by too frequent treatments and curlings, and the result is that among her friends’ visits to the hairdresser have grown less frequent, for whatever eise the summer girl can affogd to lose, she can’t afford to lose one strand of her Thair.—Indianapolis News. Natural Rose Worn. New York belles have set the fash- jon of wearing a single rose instead of a mosegay. The blossom ‘is, of course, the most perfect to be found, and is worn where it will produce the most artistic or startling effect. A favorite place for the single rose is directly in front at the point in the decolletage. A girlish effect is given by wearing the rose just over the left shoulder. : A schoolgirl has adopted the fashion of wearing the rose tucked coquettish- Iy under her hair, which she wears coiled low. The short girl has seized the oppor- tunity of making herself appear taller by using the rose at the top of her head, where the hair is knotted. A pretty effect is’ obtained by a brunette who wears a deep red rose caught “in ' her collar, close to her throat. 1 Perhaps the least conventional wear- ing of the rose was made a fad by one of the society leaders, who appeared at the theatre with a great pink blos- som directly in the middie of her back. From the flower hung tulle streamers, and chiffon laces about the fair, bare shoulders. Princess Gowns, We never quite desert the princess style. For a woman with a fine figure in- no dress so altogether and becoming as the princess. So true’is this that at intervals this mode is raovived' for street wear, us- nally in the shape of a princess skirt, and some sort of abbreviated jacket. It woes tithout saying, however. that the princess style is at its best for house wear, and especially for -evening. Many of the most superb evening dresses are in this mode and though white is the choice as a rule a number of lovely colors are seen in superb “ef- appears to greatest advantage, there being one long, tremendous sweep from shoulders to trail end upon which the lights play in delightful fashion. Oriental crepe, heavy, mellow and satiny, is a chosen fabric. It is bound to be magnificent. Just now pailettes on fine net are much in evidence. The great thing is to have these sparklers very tiny, and in no wise suggestive of big, circussy spangles. A charming example is in pale blue, with a starry, all-over effect in silver spangles. The net over-dress appears to be almost loose, and it is caught into the tightly-fitting satin foundation ress about the waist. Not flatly, how- ever. Indeed, the uninitiated might suppose it to be hanging loose and nat- urally clinging at the curve. Zigzags of pale blue velvet ribbons adorn the foot of the skirt and are also employed to form a sort of bolero, which serves to finish to decolletage.—Manchester Union. The Farm Picnic. Picnies elaim every summer month for their own, and ofttimes appropriate the carly autumn as well. Impromptu affairs, with the accessory luncheon basket opened in some attractive wood- land spot, are the preconceived notions of the picnic proper, but there are other sorts which, owing to their nov- elty, will appeal to many. The farm picnic is the first of these, and when once the farm and the farm- er are secured there can be no doubt of the success of the new departure. Presuming that these two items have come into your possession by a day’s hire, the plan is to convey the guests byswagon or trolley car to the farm. Arrangements having been made with the farmer, the guests find a cool sit- ting room, a porch, a barn, farmy ard and broad acres at their disposal. Hammocks and swings up, the croquet and archery in readiness, tennis and even golf can.be brought into the list of the day's enjoyments, if a too great nicety. for court and links is not de- manded. ' The serving of the luncheon in the big barn, which is bedecked with boughs and redolent of the odor of hay, is the feature®of the day, though it is closely seconded by a late after- noon frolic in the hayfield, where the city folks are permitted to load up the scented cuttings and ride back to the barn; the work which is play to them being a real benefit to the farmer, though, of course, he would never ad- mit it. The hostess provides all the eatables, so that the farmer's wife is not put to any trouble by the invasion.—The Bee Hive. On Feeding the Children. Do not forget that the baby outgrows his food just as he does his clothes, and that timely additions to his dietary are a valuable means of preventing scurvyy rachitis, diarrheal disturbances and other diseases of dietetic origin. Many gpildren are peevi ish and ill- tempered because they are improperly nourished. A revision of the diet, with suitable additions, will satisfy the child and transform it into a happy, crowing youngster. A healthy child has an instinet for sweets, and this should be gratified in moderation. Honey is one of the best of sweets, or a little good butterscotch or sweet chocolate may be used. It is better to overfeed than to under- feed a growing child, says the Medical Brief. Overfeeding is less apt to occur with a properly selected diet, for the child will be satisfied with a lesser bulk of food. It is net a good plan to feed children on thin soups and similar fluid foods, as they are filled before the demand for nourishment is sat- isfied. Children often eat too much meat, re- sulting in abnormal’ stimulation of ‘the nervous system ‘and imperfect nutrition of the bony and muscular framework of the body. Cereals, potatoes, whole- wheat bread, milk, eggs, cheese, nuts, green salads and vegetables furnish the elements of growth and repair in a satisfactory form. When children lose appetite, instead of pampering them with injudicious indulgences, try feeding them nothing but fruit for a day or so, when appetite will quickly reassert itself unless some disease is incubating. Children who are properly fed will suffer little, as a rule, from toothache, headache, nerves, broken sleep, etc. Proper ventilation, daily outdoor exer- cise and regular meal times are ‘all essential to spoatiie and good diges- tion. atten 4 Woman as a Cilizen. It is strange how slow men are to recognize that in all matters of practi- cal hygiene the women are necessary. We shall never have clean cities until they undertake the job, nor shall we know kow to be gocd national house- keepers until the private housekeepers of the nation extend their hereditary function to public needs and duties. Every time the women are given a chance to clean up a dirty city, carry on a crusade against public disgrates and immoralities, they are successful and there is at once a new order "of things. In one State the men, the eat- ers of meat and makers of law, legally allowed the butchers to carry on their work in such a diseased and disgusting manner that the health and morals of the whole people were affected. “One woman alone reformed and cleaned up the whole abuse and made the slaugh- ter houses of the State models of hy- gienic order and decency. Here is an- other instance. In a Michigan city, Kalamazoo, the women grew tired of filthy streets and disregard of law and they got per mission to clean one street for a while, on the same conditions as the contractor had not cleaned it. They did the work, forced slumbering or- dinances to wake up, demonstrated to the city that cleanliness is as easy and as cheap as filthiness, and now the men and politicians of Kalamazoo say they have learned their lesson and that they will carry out the reform in ali streets of the city. The movement was instituted by Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane. who also did such marvelous work in the Michigan slaughter houses. There should be a women’s civic club or city improvement league in every American city and town.—American Medicine. Some charming hats of the season are faced with pinked crushed roses. Especially lovely are the flowered chiffons, and in cotton voile this fabric is well imitated. A strikingly pretty French organdie has bunches of wisteria over it with long ribbon loops and ends. The best hats for motoring are the small “polo toques.” They are easy to keep on and comfortable shapes to fit a veil over. Nightgowns with square necks out lined with handsome embroidery and pale pink or blue embroidery are sell- ing in the shops. Lace and fine lisle thread gloves have a bit of, color woven in the back and come in long lengths to meet the elbow sleeves of the moment. Polka dotted belts are new. They are deep girdles of white kid cut in holes the size of a dime to show a bright colored lining. “In chiffon and gauze materials there are some newcomers. A wonderfully beautiful specimen has a cream cdlored surface patterened with mauve flowers and disks of shaded soft satin. A pretty petticoat is made of taf- feta in a coffee tint. It has a deep flounce of embroidered lawn in pale cream color headed with a beading threaded with coffee colored ribbon. A dust cloak of checked taffeta silk is considered very smart. It is made three-quarters length, is double-breast- ed in front and trimmed with large metal buttons. The back is semi-fitting and falls loose. expression of THE PULP] A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. CHARLES EDWARD LOCKE. Subject Music and Culture, Brooklyn, N. Y.—Dr, Charles Edward" Locke, pastor of the Hanson PI ace AM. E. Church, preached Sunday on_*Mu- sic asa K¥ actor in Culture.” He took” his text from Psalms el:1: #Praise ye the Lord.” Dr. Locke said: From that moment in the creation when the morning stars sang togeth- er and the brooks went singing down the hillsides of Eden, and thie birds made glad the dawn of time with their thrilling melodies, music has had an indisputable place in the world. The study of music is a liberal edu- cation. Music, like poetry. makes its appeal to the noblest instincts of the soul. * It is said that the inhabitants of Cynette, who slighted music, were the cruellest of all the Greeks and no other town was so immersed in Jux- uries and debauchery. Christianity was born with a song on its lips. Mary sang in thrilling measures of the Magnificat; the angels sang in their tumultuous hallelujah chorus: amd the shepherds. sang in plaintive strains of quizt ecstasy. And the world has been singing ever snce Paganism does not sing; it laments. Pagodas and mosques do not lighten their sombre interiors with music, but every Christian church, however humble, is a conservatory of sweetest melodies, : 1 » Music is both a science and an art. As an art it does mot, as do painting and sculpture, occupy itself in repro-, ducing .nature—for it is its seif a part of nature, and seeks to reveal ifself. The Egyptians first excelled in music, but great strides were made by the Greeks under Pythagoras. The word music is derived from a Greek term, which includes all the learing of the Muses. Of all the fine arcs, music is the most comprehensive. The majes-. ty of the architect. the pictures of the artist, the rhythm of the poet and the themes of all these belong to the nu sician: whether he sits .at the instru- ment or pours out his soul in vocal melodies. The fable tells that Meus cury stretched strings of (ried skin across a shell, and, striking fhem with, his fingers, .iuvented the lyre, The bow as a niusical instrument was prob” ably first used by the warrior, who, 1s lige deseribed his HuceesSes in hat- tle, twanged the string of his bow. It was later discovered that the bow: when drawn across certain hollow 0b- jects, produced. - pleasing _sounds— thence.the lute and the violin, Mu has been called the universal Jangua and “truly it is a means of commun zation “hetweenn” 411 Souls, “whateve¥ clime may have® given them Biv: I is the most responsive: 6f all the-arts the most human. It mere neatly breathes and sees and feeis. It pos; sesses..alle the, vauying, ues. of the soul. The music of the siren would allure” Ulysses to his death and the monotonous tones of the bell buoy di- sect the imperiled” mariner to saféty. Tumultuons music is the completest happy souls on festa jays: and. tender, sombre strains in- terpret the language of sad. hearts when. a nation mouvrns for its martyred neroes. (laa. hallelujah, or peniten- tial psalm, expresses the ‘contrasting amotions of the ‘scul. Music was détined by our own Sid- ney “Lanier as “love in” search of a word.” There is an. inexpressible something in tha heart of wan which seeks to define itself in speech, but, failing in this, ‘music flies to, his re- def and.in melody he pours out his im- prisoned soul, Music is the language ‘of the over- soul; it is tle soul "pro- longing, or projecting itself; The high- ast music cannot. be -expressed in words. © This is the explanation of the angel’s advent anthem and of all mu- sic in worship. The deeper. the soul life the more is one conscious of feel- ings beyond the limitations of articu- iate utterance. In the attempt of the finite soul to praise and glory the In- finite, all earthly devices of language atterly fail, and music only, which ts an adjunct of the iufinities, en- ables man to sing what he can never axpress, his adoration and gratitude to his great God and Xing. Conse- quently, whenever religion is the sin- cerest, then music will be the purest. Music is the echo of God's voice in the soul of man. Without that echo man’s soul is a cavernous abyss, filled with specters of despair. Music is a gift of God. gciences, it is a radiation of divine truth. Pythagoras taught a close af- finity between music and astronomy. He was right so far as he went, "but music leads men up to the perpetual throne of glory, of which stars and constellations are but glittering scin- tillations. St. Cecelia, receiving her music from angel visitants, tells the secret of the musician’s power. Great musicians are born, not made. Their extraordinary genius is an endow- ment manifesting itself in phemone- na! ways in childhood, as in the cases of Mozart, Liszt and Christine Nils- son, The divinity of music further ap- pears in the fact that the greatest mu- sicians have been good men; and to develop the mighty impulses which they have felt in their souls the great musicians have chosen lofty divine themes- This was true of Jubal and Job, of David with his harp, and Sol- omon with his sweet songs. It was true of Beethoven, whose soulful son- atas have won for him a genuine priesthood of the emotions; and of Bach, whose elaborate fugues have been likened to Gothic temples in their intricate details. It was true of Men- delssohn, who, in thirty-eight years. filled the souls of men with musical pictures; and of Batiste and Schu- mann; and of Chopin in his nocturnes; and of wierd if not unearthly Pag- anini, with his miraculous Stradivar- ius. It was true of Mozart, ~vhose thir- ty-five years gave the world such treas- ures from the Infinite that he is truly Like all the exhaustless; and of Liszt, wha dying as late as 1886, seems to belong to us. At eight he was the wonder ot Europe; at twelve Beethoven braced him as a coming master. ing the days of his best work, as a Kempis’ “Imitation of was his constant companion. true of Wagner, picturesque, once ostracised, now nearly shiped. ‘lhe Holy Grail” is theme of one of 1asterfuol Most {rue was it of Haydn, tlie ems= Dur- Christ” It vas unique, wor- his b presence es of somphon~’ shoser massive oratocio of “I'he Creawon”. brings men into the . of God's. colossal creative power: and true, indeed, of Handel, the majestic grandeur of whose mas- terpieces has’ remained unequalled for two eonturies. There was another in- carnafion when he produced his di- vinest work, the oratorio of “The Mes- sinh.” which no doubt he was right in believing came to him from above. It is the mission of music to soften and remove the asperities of men. It helps to unify the race and make them homogeneous, Sectarianism ~~ slinks into hiding places of shame, as Charles Wesley, a Methodist, sings ‘Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” and Toplady, a Calvanist, “Rock of Ages,” and Sarah Adams, a Unitarian, “Nearer My God to Thee.” and Whittier, a Quaker, “The Eternal Goodness,” and Faber, a Roman Catholic, “There's a Wide- ness in Gods Mercy,” and Doddridge, a Baptist, “O, Happy Day.” To-day these well- Know n bymns are sung by ali and claimed by all. In spite of con- troversy and unbelief, the music of the Christian Church is saving the world for the Caristian Christ. The hymn and the singer are often a long way in advance of the sermon and hearer in evangelizing influences. Music refines and ennobles. In the duys of chivalry the sir knights studied music Fecause of its elevating and purifying influence. Music bright- ens life’s dark places and soothes the heart in trouble. Many prison doors have opened and manaecles burst asun- der when troubled hearts have sung songs in the night. Music was believed | by the ancients to have healing power, and was used as a therapeutic. Many a weary soldier, tired and footsore, has leaped on to victory under the magic spell of fife and drum. There is a quaint belief that singing precedéd speaking. Alas! perhaps one of the entailments of sin is that sing- ing has degenerated into discordant, rasping speech. Perhaps, when man shall have reached his highest earthly estate the means of communication music. Music, if not more perfectly than printing, the art preservative of ali art, is surely the best interpreter of of all art and science. The mystery and miracle of truth reveal their open sesame, when studied through the at- mosphere of music. The minster, graceful with * gothic ~ beauty, or massive; with Romanesque magnifi- cence, can only be filled to groined ~rches and spreading dome by music's S -elline® Tones, Music gives a motif to architecture. The art gallery's cor- r.dors, or beivederes only reveal the master's secret in marble or canvas as diyinest music fills up all the inter- tices of finiteness, And poetry never reveals most exquisite tints of beauty and. truth except when in the companionship of music, its twin sis- ter. Theology would have ncne but altars to the unknown God if music did uot dream. and prophesy. and feel, in the priestly office, Music i; what Walter Pater called “thé great Anders- Strohéh-reaching forward of all art.” 1. is the soul of man endeavoring to come to ifs.own—to express and realize and fulfill itself. Tt helps Browning's grasp to acquire its reach. Music is thus an intellectual factor. 1 is not so much a truth seeker as it is a truth finder.. It dees not delve among the rocks, but it comes down like a dove from above, singing, “This Is My Beloved Son!” It dwells in the heizhts and shouts “Excelsior!” from peak to peak, and makes life's dizzy Alpine uplands echo with hope. Granting that music furnished to cul- ture its initial impulse, and that musie more than any other factor sustains the quest of man's nature for the high- est and holiest achievements, I dare to sabmit the deliberate conclusion that instrumental, and well as vocal, music should be a part of the public school curriculum for every child. Alas! that the children whom posterity affords the opportunity of musical study often so little appreciate these privileges, while many who crave these facilities are deprived of them by pov- erty. Even the boys and girls who are conipelled to leave school to enter upon the problems of making a living, wonld live a larger and more hopetul life if their musical instruction had included familiarity with an instrument. As is his Maker, so man is a spirit. Muscle and brain are merely temporary expedients by which man, as spirit, shall for a brief season tarry upon this earth, When painting, and sculpture, aud architecture, and, perhaps, even poetry, shall have ended their earthly ministry. music will be revealing the fathomless mysteries of spirit and life, its Music is the language of celestial throngs, True eloquence is thought winged with music. The Infinite God is more perfectly worshiped with mu- sical accompaniment because music goes beyond language and logic and opens up the vistas of faith through which can be seen the King in His beauty. Do you ask me which is the mightier agency for culture. Bacon or Beethoven? Spencer or Schumann? Kant or Mendelssohn? and I will an- swer that science and philosophy have their own important places in the foundation of intellect and character. ad are as. necessary to the soul as food to the body: music, however, not only has its mission side by side with these, but when the present conclusions of men shall be abandoned for the completer revelations of the all truth of Him who is the Way, the Truth and the Life, then music, which was never anything but divine in its nature and influence, shall be cur old familiar friend increasing in divinity as our own evolving souls are permitted to comprehend and participate in that divinity. ~ The Body’s Cross. Keep green my love, keep fresh my remembrance, Keep young my heart Feed me with the feast of yesterday; stir me with the songs of yesterday; Thom- | the | brace me with the breczes of yester- day; glad me with the glow of yester- day. Let me walk the valley by the memory of tle mountain air, by the nanlth of the svirii let me bear the sody's eross —=orge Matheson, : 15 Your Life. its lest is a high, but .s.DE, ‘cnsciousness of God's »& own. MI and the Father the humblest word a mar | life in or | are one’ is | can utter, when it is but another | ver: sion of the prayer, “Not my will, bul Thine.” When that Gethsemane prayer is pre ‘ed and 1 int and lived | the other “I and the Father are but one,’ nes the simple fact. will be in the soft tones of chastest’ SI 2 Sea A ZS 0% VF Chicks Fed on Corn Meal. When chicks are fed on cornmeal, do not make it into dough, as it is not sufficient, but with each mess of corn- meal mix fresh milk instead of water, and the value of the mess will be in- creased. Give the chicks a variety of feed, as they will eat any kind of seeds or small grain, especially broken wheat. The chicks are liable to get wet by wading in the milk, although it is ex- cellent. If this is not the case, the milk will become sour and breed dis- ease. Mix the milk with cornmeal and let the mess be eaten up clean; then the chicks will relish it and thrive on the mixture.—Farmers’ Home Journal. Pig Notes. It is better to raise eight good pigs than twelve inferior ones. There will Le more money in the former than in the latter, though they outnumber them. Quality is more important than quantity. All troughs and feeding pens should be kept scrupulously clean. Don’t let any food remain after they get through with the food in the trough. It sours, moulds, and is.unhealthy. | Be sure the pigs have a trough for themselves that cannot be reached by the mother or the other hogs. It teaches them to eat and prevents any shrinkage during weaning. It is a self-weaiier.—Indiana Farmer. Roost aud Nest Boxes. A poultry exchange gives the follow- ing excellent plan for roosts and nest boxes: : “One of the most important arrange- ments in the poultry house is the pro- per’ location of both roosts and nest boxes, and the plan here described has been found all that is desirable. Its advantages are the placing of the roosts low. the chance for a dropping board under the roosts and the location of the nest boxes where it is quiet and dark, a condition quite Dlodeing to lay- ing hens. “Make a frame of the desired length and of a width so that the. nest box Be +31 AND NEST BOXES COMBINED, will De twelve inches in the space oc- cupied by the hen. The side boards ave eighteen inches high at the back and when covered with matched boards, whieh form the dropping board, it comes even with the floor in front. Then fasten posts at either end of the front on which the frame com- posing the perches is to rest, fastening this frame to the box frame, which prings - the .perches level. The one open side of the board frame is then partitioned off to form the nests, which are about a foot square in the clear. This plan forms a neat, compact, com- bined roost and nest boxes, and as it is placed away from the wall there is little opportunity for vermin to infest it. The illustration shows the details plainly, the drawing at the top labeled two indicating the nest boxes, which are shown in the main drawing by dotted lines.” rs evens The Queen Bee. The queen is a fair and stately hee, differing from the workers both in shape and color. She is longer than a honey bee by one-third, and some- what longer than a drone, but not quite so big around. The queen is treated with the great- est respect and affection by the bees. A circle of her offspring often surround her, testifying in various ways their dutiful regard, offering her food from time to time, and all of them politely backing out of her way, to give her a clear path when she moves over the combs. So strong is the feeling of the workers for the queen. that if for any reason she is removed, the whole colony is filled with consternation and dismay. Her death, when it is too late in the season to raise another queen, means the final extinction of the colony. A good queen will sometimes iay from two to three thousand eggs a day, or nearly the weight of her own body, and continue doing it for weeks in suc- cession. At the beginning of the season the queen lays eggs in the worker cells. She walks over the combs, puts her head into each open cell as she comes to it, as though to discover whether it is occupied or is in fit condition to receive an egg. I have often watched how faithfully she goes about her work, from an observatory hive, for hours. The queen only stings other queens, and seeks only to kill her rivals. She may be handled to any extent, without fear of being stung. She has also great tenacity of life, as well as longevity.— F. G. Herman, in Massachusetts Ploughman. nr ats in the Chicken Yard. A never failing remedy for these pests of the chicken yard is not at pres- ent in sight; but a substitute may be mentioned, a remedy that fails some- times an mes succeeds. It is this: 1 1d with sweet grease from f § bacon Rats will eat breat Spras ized butter, and they e spread any pastes, and =3 - this poison sprinkle sugar. Cut the bread into small squares and lay them where the rats run, a few in a place; but not where chickens, or hens, or children will get them. Deo this in the evening, having set cans of water where the rats may find them easily. In the morning gather up what pieces of bread have not been eaten and bury them. If they have all dis- appeared during the night,’ rejoice. There will be fewer rats around for awhile. In the course of a week make a mush of cornmeal, mix the poison with it, sprinkle a little sugar over the top and hide it away from them in some dark places. They will find it and eat it. Again rejoice. But do not place the same kind of dish for rats a second time in the same place. They are cautious and suspicious. Be more crafty in providing tidbits for them than they are cautious. Now a little beef, again scraps of fish, and then bread and grease. Vary the tempta- tion, and they will fall victims to it.— William R. Cory, Windsor, Conn., in the Tribune-Farmer. Advantages of Silage. The: difficulty of securing succulent feed during the dry period of summer, and also during the winter season, has been met in several ways with varying success. But for general feeding upon most dairy farms throughout the Cen- tral States corn silage is the most eco- nomical succulent feed which can be obtained for cows at a season when pasture is not available. = When fed with. other grains so as to make a bal- anced ration, it tends to heavy. milk production and is always very cheap feed. By the use of the silo, green feed can be had at less cost than for soiling, sinca with the silo corn may be used to a greater extent. Professor W. J. Fraser, of the Illinois Experi- ment Station, states in a recent bul- letin, No. 101, that in Illinois corn is the best single crop for silage. and combined with cowpease or soy beaus, the feeding value may be somewhat increased. The time to cut corn for silage is hen fully tasseled, and when the ears are just beginning to show the dents on nearly all the grains. It is found that at this stage the dry matter and nutrients as.well are at the highest point. If ripe, silage will not settle weil into the silo, and so will not be sufficiently protected to prevent spoil- ing.. Corn for this purpose is most easily handled by cutting with a binder, using a silage cutter and large knife to take the bundles without cutting the bands. In filling the silo the leaves and stems must be thoroughly mixed, and after: it is put in the shock well dramped | next to the wall. Afte filling, the top six inches should be wet once and tramped occasionally for a week to ob- tain a compact layer, which will pre- serve the silage. Records of thre cost of silo filling on nineteen different farms in various: parts of Illinois show that the cost ranges from forty to seventy-five cents per ton, the average being fifty-six cents. Of 372 comparisons made be- tween silage and unsilage milk, ey per cent. were in favor of the silag milk.—Orange Judd Farmer. : A Pig House. A veteran raiser of swine has set about raising his animals on the .col-: ony plan, somewhat after the plan of raising poultry. -He has no diffi- culty after the first week when the pigs learn which house is their own. The pigs are placed on the range with these colony houses as soon as they are old enough to graze. The houses are built low and arranged so that the ends are open near the top, using slats of heavy material with a. wide board at the bottom. The back is solid. and there is a good roof which is water- proof. The front is arranged so that the bottom removed; it is board may be hooked in place at each end, and over the roof, of a shade, entire front is placed a sloping somewhat in form like the roof veranda. This roof furnishes and with the partly open front and sides, there is plenty of ventila- tion. The pigs graze all they wish and then go into the pen to rest or tv get out of the hot sun. At night they occupy it very rarely, sleeping on the grass. With the smaller pigs care | is taken to place the bottom board of but on the score of | liberally. the front in place and hook it at night. Any feeding that is done is given in a trough at the side of the colony house. The illustration shows the construe: tion of these houses, which should ba small enough so they may be placed on a stone boat or sled and carried under cover in the fall.—Indianapolis News. At Last! At Last! A man who is always on the lookout tor novelties, says the St. James’ Budget, recently asked a « * in auto mobiles if t e was anything new in { machines. “There's that has just been ed the de a patented put
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