Montana Sunlight (Whitehall, Mont.) 1902-1911, September 12, 1902, Image 3

‘SUBSTANTIAL DREAM i i. Julian — was a lawyer without We. bad proposed for Aiice . but had no hope ad ‘tather would overigok his = One night while lying Aha Bett ot aetties a@ man came into room» who introduced himself as a lawyer from London and told Julian that bis uncle had died and left bim $500,000. “I must leave fu half an hour for New York,” he sald, “but you may ex- pect me in a week or so, aud then the necessary arrangements will be com- pleted for placing you in possession of your inheritance.” . With this the stranger vanished, and Julian Blair, as he raised himself on his elbow and looked about the room,’ asked himself whether he was awake or dreaming, A sudden drowelness overcame him, and when he again opened his are it was “WasMt a Gream?* he cried as he dressed himself, “No. It is impossible, “There is the chair the mansat in, 1 remember his features distinctly and every word he said and even the tone of his yoice. Thank , God, it was no vision! It wag a reality, Jullan found after making his toilet - that he was etill a little feverish, with a strange fullness.in his head, but a glance at* the mirror showed that be was looking unusually well. One thing startled bim not a little in the course of the morning. After a brief interview with one of the bankers of the town be walked out on the street with $500 in bis pocket. A sudden doubt siruck him as he reached the sidewalk. lad he made a mistake in telling the banker of his good fortune? If the whole thing was only a dream, as he sometimes suspect- ed, he had done a very bad thing. “Pshaw,” he said to himself, “I am sick and nervous! How cau it be a dream?\ ; By degrees his confidence was re. stored, and later in the day, when he saw Mr. Howard, bis manner was well calculated to impress the millionalre. He told the story of bis legacy, and the rich man took bim by the hand and told bim that no man in the wide world would suit him better as a son- in-law. A week passed away delightfully. Blair found himself the lion of the town, but be spent most of his tcisure time with his xafflanced. One morning the young lawyer arose, cool and clear headed, without a trace of fever. He looked back upon the events of the past week In amazement. He no longer had any belief in the visit of the man from London. It was a dream and nothing else. “IT am in a disgraceful fix!\ he groaned. “I have lted to Mr. Howard and to Alice. I have borrowed money J under false pretenses. Nothing will ever conrince people that 1 am not a swindler,” : ~~ . . - . . . . The curd In Julfan’s hand bore the address. of flenry Morely, soMcttor, Middle Temple, London, and as the owner of the card was ushered Into the office the young lawyer looked at bim In blank It did not take long for Mr. Morely to state his business. “My young friend.” he said rather pompously, “it Is a genuine pleasure to me to be the bearer of good tidings. 1 have been two weeks iv the country looking you up. Your uncle, he left a large estate, and there is half a million for you.” “Is it another dream?\ whispered Julian. — “! don’t understand,” sald the Eng lishman, somewhat mystified. “Thisis no dream, It is business.” : Then be went on in his matter of fact way to make everything clear. “You have werer. Called on me be fore, have you?” asked Julian. “Certainly not,” replied the visitor. “I have just found you, and It was tio ensy watter, I can tell you.” “All of this Is very hard for me to believe,” replied Julian, “and It will take time to convince me of its real- ity. ao money ought to be tangible | enough,” said the lawyer. “If you feel like drawing for a few thousand now, I'll arrange it for you.” Such a proposition was not to be re- fused, and in the course of the day Julian had $10,000 to his cfedit in the bank. And then he broke down under the strain. For long weeks he lay either uncon- scious or delirious, and the watchers by his bedside wondered at bis talk. When he recovered, Julian, warned by the tricks his imagination had played him, lost no time in obtaining hid legacy and converting !t into sub- stantial investments. When this was done, he led sweet - Alice Howard to the altar. Once he said to her that he was in- Gebted to a dream for his greatest mis- ery and his happiness. This was all that he could be induced to say. He had passed through a terrible crisis, and during the remainder of bis life bis greatest desire was to forget all about It. A Doubter. A little boy four years old was very school much taken up with his teacher, but, returning from school _ the other Sunday, he went crying to “when pert his mother and told her the teacher had been telling stories. “What bas he told you, then, my dar- ling?” “He told us that angels wate all round our bed at night.” “Bo they do,” was the mother’s. re- ply. A Vienna dispatch to the London Express says: An Austrian engineer of note, Herr Wetkovic, has invented a new type of ship, which he claims will be capable of traveling at liabtaing seat. : F declarge \tiat it will enable a journey round the mede_in.e 3 ok. John | Blair, died recently In Liverpool, where | nis OF KASHMIR. why ‘nher “nde Wed os Daavtifal es They Once Were. The girls of in former times wees Nt ‘ away to the Punja in kL ‘yy commanded a price, and nts In moderate 4 nees for centuries past have been in the habit of parting with their daughters to place themselves in easier circumstances, and the daughters have generally been quite Willing to escape of opulence and ease, A laboring man in this part of India | cannot earn over $2 or $3 a nionth, while many re for their daughters yas hish as $1,000. There are some cases where “$5,000 was © paid, but the usual, price has been from $100 to $500. The practice became so common as well as so damaging that a severe law was enacted prohibiting any one from removing any woman from the coun- try, but it is said that the business goes on now as it has done for hun- dreds of years, and to that practice may be charged the fact that the wo- men of Kashwir are not as beautiful as they once averes The process of taking all the beaut!- ful girls awny, leaving only the ordi- nary and ngly ones to continue the race, has lowered the standard of beau- ty. Most of the women and girls per- form field labor as much as the men, and their dress is of the coarsest and plainest materials, consisting of a gar- ment like a nightgown made of white cotton. There ts no effort to have it fit. The condition of women_in Kashmir is a very sad one, but one from which . there does net seem.to be any present escape. It is a constant struggle to from a life of penury and labor to one\) [Original.} Twere is nothivg that will ongiumil such contempt among men for a com: panion as effeminacy, And yet, while we all know what effeminacy is as dis- cannot describe it. It is often.a ques tion whether we are right in attribut- -| ing It In any given case. In 1870 I was‘serving with the —th United States cavalry. Ove June day it was announced that a newly made second lieutenant from West Point had been assigned to our company and would soon report for duty with a squad of recruits. He came along in tine, but instead of bringing recruits brought one gentle looking young fel- ted for a poet than a soldier. Merl- wether was his name, and he hadn't béen at the fort a day before the men began to call him Mary. Then fol. lowed a series of practical jokes of which he was the butt In some un- xplainable way he got salt In bfs cof- fee instead of sugar, Then there was cactus in. his bunk. Coming off guard Was sure to be wakened by misinke for the midnight relief. He was the most unsuspecting little chap I ever saw, and as the boys always expressed wonder how such mistakes could hap. pen, besides great sympathy for him, it never entered his head that they were at the bottom of his discomforts, Indeed one day he came to me as first live, without the least hope of any ac cumulation or of ever seeing better | days. The men only receive about 5 cents a day and the women generally about 3 cents, and that will provide only the coarsest food.—Philadelphia Inquirer. PICKINGS FROM FICTION, There is nothing that ts cnough fer a woman, but all.—“The Mississippi” Bubble.” Overdone heartiness is rearly as nas. ty cs underdone mutton.—“Comments of a Countess.” No man can be brave who considers pain the chief evil of Iife.—“The Hero- ine of the Strait.” We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.—“A Double Bar reled Detective Story.” Occasion’s everything, but the rub ts to know an occasion when you see it.— “The Lady Paramount.” I'd be slow in advisin’ anybody te go crooked, but when ye feel ye're in the hands of-sharpers it’s the only way.—“Rockhayen.” The master poets love to deal wiib the victory of the vanquished, which the world’s thinkers Know to be great: er than the victory of the victorious.- “Nathan Hale.” f Be sure, before you give your love and your trust, that you are giving them tot only to one who deserv: thom, but to one who really wanir them.—“Many Waters.” Usetal Purposes of Rosin, There are many useful purposes to which rosin cau be applied outside of those of general practice. As a non conductor of heat It is used in the pro- tection of water pipes, particularly fh ; crossing bridges, where the plpe is laid | in the middle of a long box and the’ whole filled with melted rosin. Rosin is also used in supporting basement floors In machine shops, which may be laid over some dry material, as spent molding sand, which is carefully lev- ; Cled off, and the planking Inid upon i temporary supports separating it about two inches above the sand. Numerous holes about two tnelres ip diameter being bored through these ; planks, melted ross is forced through them by means of fuhneis until the whole space is solidly filled, and then the upper flooring. is laid upon these planks. In case the floor is subjected to shocks sufficient to break the rosin it rapidly joins together again In much the same manner as the regelation of ice. The Dragon Slayer. At an English school a powpous youngster whose father, it was well known, had been a successful omnibus driver was one day fingering ostenta- tiously a large seal which be is iy the | habit of wearing, representing St. | and the dragon, and, having . drawn the attention of a school eom- | panion to it, remarked carelessly: “Ah, one of my ancestors is supposed to have killed the’ dragon, don't you know!” “Good gracious!” inquired the other, somewhat anxiously. “Did be run over it?”—London Answers. Went Back on the Biuve, Gerald—My brother turned crimson the other day. Geraldine—I never knew him to blush. Gerald—I didn’t say that he blushed. Geraldine—What didhedo? . Gerald -—left Yale and entered Har- vard.—New York Press. Ignoring Precedent. Edmonia—Mrs, Topnotch.is what 1 call impertinent. Eudocia—In what way? Edmonia—Why, she is not a Colonial Dame, but when she came to the volo- nial reception she had on a more ele- gant frock than any one of the Daur Detroit Free Press. Fruitiess, Little Willle—Pa, what does this p» per mean by saying it- was a fruitless search? - Father—It probably applies, my son. to the quest of some man who was sergeant of the company and asked me if he couldn't take extra tours of guard duty for some of the ringleaders, they having expressed an extraordinary amount of sorrow that he had stum- bled over a pile of condemned muskets on a dark night. Since they vad pur. ~posely put them in his way this was a | trifie teo much for even my thick skin I told him not to bother me with ridic- ulous questions and warned the ring- Iéaders that I would see the first man punished who should again impose upon him. The first map was Tom Conover, who had been the instigator of the most contemptible | pranks against the recruit, and be was given a walking tour with a billet of wood on his shoulder for a whole afternodn/for his pains. This stopped the tmpdst- tion, and Meriwether fell into the con. tempt of not being noticed. This last- ed till we were fighting the Modocs tn the lava beds In 1871. Little Meriwether didn't Nike fight- ing at all, that was plain, for the color would rush from his cheeks | whenever a bullet whistled too close | to his delicate ear. But | noticed that | he would grit his teeth and scemed to be resolutely fighting himself to keep his slender body up to lis work. One afternoon we were having ap especially hot Oght, keeping up a steady fire on the Modocs and recety- ing as good as we sent from behind a natura! breastwork of lava, when Meriwether came crawling toward me on all fours with an expression of hopeless despair tn bis face. “What is it?’ I asked anxiously, fearing something bad gone wrong. “Conover—he's hit/’ “Well?’ I could see nothing re markable in Conover being hit when one-third the men were in the same fix. “He wants water,” “Get him some from a canteen.” “There's not a drop to be found any- where.” “Well, then, be must go dry, for the only water near is cown there in that crevicé, and no one can go there with- out getting shot.” “He's suffering dreadfully.” “Go back to your place, you little fool,” 1 said sharply, remembering what he had suffered at Conover's hands. He crawled beck, and | dismissed the matter from my mind, Presently 1 saw a sight that filled me with astonishment. Meriwether was rupning, canteen in hand, for the crev- fee containing water. Bullets sang [ about him like buzzing fics. Whether or not be was hit, he kept on and in = seconds sank out of sight in the bends I bad no right to do so, for there were two commissioned officers with the company; but, singing out to those beside me to follow, | jumped up and made a dasb for a rise in the lava just beyond the crevice. It was no use. The fire was too hot, and the men would not leave their position. I was shot in the leg and sank Into a hollow place, where | was comparatively safe. 1 was thinking of little Meriwether and wondering how he would get back | with the water for the man who had injured him when I beard a shout and, looking toward our fellows, saw bim.) plunge headforemost In among them. Night was well on before I dared leave my position and go back to the command. The first thing I saw was Meriwether lying on bis back, white as a sheet and motionless. One of his former tormentors was bending over him, and several others were leaning on the muzzles of their muskets, look- ing down on him anxiously. Mert-. wether turned his eyes to me, and I presumed he was about to ask me that dreaded question “Shall 1 live?’ when he sald: : “That was a very kind thing of you to come after me. How about Con- over? Was tirere all the water’ he wanted? I couldn't get much, for there wasn’t much to get.” I tried to say something gentle to him, but it wasn’t lu me. “Oh, stop that,” I. said, turnliig4 away. “You owe Conover nothing.” Later, when the captain asked me for the names of those who were to be meritioned for conspicuons bravery. I told hin’ there was but one and his name was Meriwether. But the poor over the surface like a skate over ice. Ingenious contrivances are constructed to minimize friction and air presdure. Experiments will begin: shortly in the Adriatic sea, and Herr Wet- kovie confidently asserts that the world will be astonished. - Sean RRRRNT Faint Praise nr not obstrocta - “How can they, mamuia, whem my looking for pineapples ~ | fellow did not live to read the order, ~ glide ts against the wall?’ || Chicago News. —— PHILIP T. BAKER. ene eee = ‘Marvelous Boat. not displace the water, but glides Choteau County Apples. A ‘Fort Benton special, to the Helena Retoré says: ‘William Morrow brought his tinguished from what is feminine, we low, who appeared to be far better fit: | and turning in for a good snooze, he ~ A HANDY GRAIN LIFT. An Iagenious Comtrivance to Save Time and Muscle. The plan’ of a device to take sacks of grain up in a loft nine feet from the nd over a ‘cornerib ig furnished to the Ohio Farmer by a correspond- ent, who says: We put one foot of gravel in the corncrib. for a good GRAIN LIFT. drive, leaving eight fect. The top of the wagon is four feet, leaving four feet from the lower end of the lift to the roller on the edge of the loft floor, The length of the lift from this point up Is eight feet, made in the style of o ladder, When the sack is set on at H (see first cut), by taking bold of the lift at F the sack can be swung out very easily. The farther out the sack goes the more purchase you have at F, and when the sack Is on a liné from E to B (second cut) It will naturally run in itself because the lift will be in a shape to muke it down grade from ¥F to G, and after the sack passes the roller, A, the trucks at 1 will run on the floor, and you have a complete truck. The stop, C, docs not want to ‘come below the line from F to G. If this device is made of good sea- soned red elm, 2 by 4 scantiing, it» 1s DETAILS OF GRAIN LIFT. very light, and grain can be taken up more rapidly and a great deal more easily than to carry it up the steps on your shoulder, The wheels can gen crally be found in some machine | agent's pile of old tron. The cost is | but a trifle, and any person can make one with but few tools. It will save your back, and that Is quite au item in this generation. BUDDED FRUIT TREES. Cutting Of Siubs During the Grow- ing Scison of July or Augast. Buds put on last August or Septem- ber, if growing, should now have the stubs cut off. The stub Is the three inches or so of the stock left above the bud when tlie top of the stock (the young tree that received thé bud) was cut off in spring. This leaving of two or three Inches of the stock above the bud helps the latter in starting to grow. Some Icare no stub, but cut of the top even with the bud in spring. This saves labor, but the bud is not #0. certain to grow, and the wound docs not heal so well as when there is a sec- ond cutting In July or August. The cutting {s not ditienlt if the stub is half an inch or less in diameter, but care ia required to avold cutting the bud. The cut, as will be observed, la made on the side opposite the bud and should be slanting, about forty- five degrees. A sharp knife and a steady hand are necessary; otherwise the knife may slip or the polut of the kulfe iiiy Hot come cut soon enough, and the bud will then be cut off and all the previons labor lost. The proper cut is a somewhat rapid inclining upward, and if properly man- aged the point of the knife will be drawn out before the edge can come in contact with the growing bud. One cut may be sufficient, but frequently more than one will be required, and better three or four efforts than to run the risk of cutting the bud by one in- judicious cut. Should the stub be con- siderably over half an inch in diameter a small saw may be needed at first, smoothing the cut with the knife after- ward. Cutting off the stub during the grow- ing season in-July or August, the heal- ing process wil] proceed at once, and by the time the leaves fall the wound will in many cases be entirely covered by the new growth.—National Stock- man. ~ Formulas For Bordenux. The bordeaux mixture 4s ordinarily applied frequently injures to some ex- tent the foliage of the peach, etc., causing a shot hole effect on the leaves. This injurious effect has been shown to be largely obviated by the use of the following: 2 pounds copper sulphate. 6 pounds lime. & gallons water. This is known as the 3-6-50 formula. ‘Some experimenters have also recom- mended the following for peach foll- age: (a) 22-50 formula (Cornell Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 180). (b) 3—-9—50 formula. The latter contains three times as much lime as copper sulphate. New Remedy For Horse Colic. - Louisiana Sugar Planter says mo- in curing horses of colic. Two pounds of molasses are given in a mixture of eight to twelve pounds of oatmeal or bran, which is the ration per day for one horse, One of the apples measured 14 inches in circumference and was assound as could be. Mr.Morrow set out his fruit trees only three few bushels of large red apples. years ago last spring. yesterday that were grown on his ShonRin ranch, three miles from He raised what he esti- mates to have \ been a wagon load ‘lof strawberries last spring and.all fof his fruit has had no water but| New town. two windmil oo Thefunéral services for William Craig, the secret service agent who was killed while accompany- ml President Roosevelt on his England ‘tour, were held at POA ash gute ———seaialed , ry lasses has been found of good Service * MICHIGAN SUGAR te Uxperience Im 1001—Advantages of Prolenging the Planting Season, In the continuous growing of, beets ah the same goil at the Michigan sta- tion the development of fungous dis- eases and propagation of Insect ene- mies bas been under observation... The leaf Ddlight, a spot disease of the leaves—Gercospora beticola, Sacc.—ap- peared first, attacking every leat on the earliest plantings, but on the later plantings, although immediately ajar: cent, it developed no more than on new fields planted at the same time, It was observed that the — beets planted early in the season and which were attacked by the leaf blight In- variably showed a lower percentage cf sugar than did those varieties which were planted later and escaped the at tack of this fungus. The beets which showed the highest percentage of sugar were those which: grew continuously throughout the season, May 8 planting has given the highest yield of sugar, while the May 1 plant- ing is but slightly behind. The yields decrease as we depart either way from the former date, The very early plant- ings—-that is, the middle of April, have each year been followed by a week of favorable growing weather, while in each case the planting of April 24 has heen followed by unfavorable weather, rom these figures !t is readily seen that the time of profitable planting may be extended over quite a consid erable area. It is safe to plant beets as early as the middle of April if the ground can be fitted at that time. After | the 20th of May there is a decided de crease in the final results, The special advantage of planting at various periods is due to the fact that | there is a longer period allowed for thinning the beets and a more general distribution throughout the season of the work of caring for the crop. The early plantings are of advantage be cause they permit of getting the thin- ning done before the press of other work demands the time of the farm labor. It also allows the tops to get sufliclent growth to completely mulch the ground before the weeds ninke their appearance, thereby dimiulshing the work necessary to keep the ground clean, Contrary to expectations, the earlier planted beets have giver vo ta ‘dications of cariier maturity, | setigalietitede MOUNTING A GRINDSTONE, draw cut from left to right, slightly . A True, Steady, Easy Gotng Stone With No Backlash, The most satisfactory method of con structing a grindstone frame | have met with Is shown in the accompany- ing sketch, says a Home and Farm correspondent. For ordinary stones the frame should be built 18 Inches wide, 80 inches high and 36 inches long. Make the ends of 3 by 8 inch stuff and the sides of 2 by 8 inch. Pinne it up nicely, bolt it secure- ly together and give it a good coat of paint. One ean .buy ‘very good sets. of grindstone trons now for 50 cents, in- cluding a mandrel roller, bearings and crank. I have one very serious objec- tion to the cominon grindstone man drel, and that is that the crank doos not screw on, but has a square end, on which the crank docs not fit, but flops about “dhy old way” aud very often causes the one who ts furnishing the power to bruise or skin his knuc kle against the frame. The Grst thing 1 would do with such a mandrel would be to take It to the nearest Liacksmith’s shop, saw square end off with a hack saw, run a drill through the square hole in the erank and make {ft round, run a tap through the crank and thread the end of the mandrel. By so doing you hare FRAME POR GRINDSTONE. a good, steady, easy going crank, with out any backlash. Fit a piece of wood in the square hole in the stone, find the exact center with your dividers; then bore a hole the size of mandrel throurh tite block. Use a plece of thick the | A farm linea of the better class of those found-in New Logit ts*kuawir as Norway LUI farm, ‘the residence of Cr, Duncan of southern New Haimp- shire, says American Agriculturist. Mr. Durecan, who has been prominent- ly identified with the milk producing interest for the Boston market, Is a dl- rector of the New Bnglund Milk Pro- ducers’ unldn and keeps about twenty cows, whose milk is shipped to Boston. Ag iti most of the northern New Eng: land states, the house and barns are connected by a covered passageway through the. shed, carriage house and stables, ‘This is done to avold shovel ing through the snow fn early morning in winter to get to the barn and te fa- cilitate work, The farm consists of about 200 acres besides out prstures and wood'and and euts annually fifty tous of hay, 100 tons of silage and a few acres of ont fodder, Hungarian, ete, The barn ts what Is commenly called a double deck er. The hay goes in on an upper floor, the cattle arc underneath this, and be low all is the cellar, The cattle are fastened with patent swing stanchions, and the stable is (tted with a water- ing device, with running water before the cows, Twelve borses are kept, part of theni belug boarders. Very liptle conynercial fertilizer Is bought, but sey- eral breeding sows aré kept, and use ts made of every available source of plant food about the farm. Mr. Duncan is a firm believer In a large manure pile and through making the most of what has been produced on the farm bas been able @> manintaln and tucrease the fertility of his land, The Laboring Oar, Charles Y. Kaight ts editor of Chi cago Dairy Produce. Aas secretary of the National Dairy union Mr. Knight CHARLES ¥. KXIGUT. has devoted nearly all bis time for the past three years to the movement to place legal restrictions ov the fraudu, lent sale of oleomurgarine, The suc- coss of the tironut bill Is unquestiona- bly due to the strenuous effort, able manuagement and tireless energy put forth by Mr. Knight, who was the “la- boring oar,” as Governor Hoard says, at every stave of the work. A testl- monial fund ts now being raised for Mr. Knight.--Creamery Journal. Batter That Will Keep. If butter is destred for long keeping or; for export purposes In ordinary cold storage, it will be found better to work the butter very slightly after the addl- tion of salt than reworking the fok lowing day, says W. L. Carlyle of the Minnesota Dairy school. This gives a much drier butter and lnsures an even admixture of salt. If, however, the butter is for linmediate consumption by customers, one working after the salt has Alssolved will He suftictent. Weight of Milk. The average specific gravity of milk ia 1.082, water being 1,000. There is (no legnl standard of weight for milk, - | and ordinary scales are not sufficiently |delieate to determine the different | qualities of milk by weight. Average jmilk weighs 8066 pounds per gallon. }If it sould weigh appreciably less ithan this, the indications would be that it had been more or less watered; if it weighed more than this, it would | indicate that, more or lees cream bad been remor ed. The Cow's Delicate Organization. The condition of the cow's blood ma- | terially affects both the quality and quantity of the milk she gives; so docs pastebonrd on each side of the stone the condition of her nervous system. between the tron washer and the stdne. Put the stone on the mandrel, observ- ing to use the washers as above, and screw the nut up hard ain fast. A stoné mounted thus should rup trué, but if ft does not do vot resort to wedges, as is usually the case, but | take an old flat mill file and use it as a turner’s gouge and turn the stone both on the sides and face, Too Good to Be Wasted. The leaves of alfalfa contain more than three times as,.much protein as the stems, a ton of alfalfa leaves contain- | ing as much protein as 2,800 pounds. of bran. Prot is the material in feed necessary fér the formation of blood. lean meat and milk. Every effort, then, should be mgde to cure the alfalfa in such 4 way as to save all the leaves possible.— Kansas Station. Effective For San Jone Seale, The Oregon and California washes have been found extremely efficient scale insecticides at the Illinois sta tion, nndtt is apparent that these west ern washes, costing $1.12 per hundred gallons, are at least as destructive to insect life as the solution of whale oll soap, costing $6.50 for the same quan tity. Professor _ Rudolph, V irchow, leader amrong the world’s scientists | and one of the greatest pathologists] whoever lived, died in Berlin after a long and useful career, in, which he added constantly to the fund: of knowledge of his profes- sion. 81 years. a on ‘He had reached the age of Professor Virchow. was a direvtor of the Berlin Patholog- ical institute and one of the great- a Obsorvin 1A brutal milker can easily kick all the | profit ont of a very good cow. -Neg- lect, exposure and excitement affect the yield adversely; and so do bad feeding, bad water and the absence of |salt. The man who expects to get | cows to do their best must like them ‘and trent them kindly, for they are as delicate in organization as a woman, Our Battier Trade In the Orient. The dairymen of the Pacific coast are alivé to the importance of capturing \the rapidly growing dairy trade in | Honolulu, Manila, Japan and China. Most of the butter now supplied to those countries is made in Sweden and Denmark. In Japan butter from Swe- den in one pound cans retails for 45 cents gold per can, It is a reproach to American enterprise and skill not to capture a great portion of that trade, says Hoard’s Dairyman. Train the Helfer. It seems to be an spall itein, but when every item Is to be considered ‘it is one that should not be overlooked, and that je when a hetfer is trained to be a milker teach her to allow any one to milk her without worrying or ex- citing her. If this is not done and it becomes necessary to change milkers. there will be a shrinkage in the amount of milk. 5 Morris Wilson, an aged Bap- tist minister of Geno, Wayne county W. Va., cut his wife’s throat with a razor. Her screams brought the neighbors to the house. Wilson was supporting the dying woman with his left arm and with the bloody razor in his right hand was. repeating: “Withoutithe shedding of blood there can be no remission ofsins.”’ ‘the presence of his eee meen ft ARE YOU ADVANCING? & Timely Exhortation to the Butter Makes by One of Thent, During a visit to several poorly managed creameries one may notice poorly kept and untidy yards about tho factory, moldy walls, dirty mk aud tream vats, greasy fcors, piles of old, Yyornout tools, waste tin cans, etc., leaky joints, badly runuing machinery, untidy battér maker and things gone wrong in general,. Then, what @ relieé it is to visit a few well managed, up 1o date creamerics where everything demonstrates the superiority of the workman In charge. Clean, well kept lawns and dMveways around the creamery, neatly painted walls, inside and out, machinery running smodthly, }.tldy; wideawake operator and eyery- thing denoting that a man is at the behu of the institution whe takes pride in his work, The time a butter maker consumes fixing up aml decorating tn- aide and outside of the creamery !a well spent, and the man who ts oper- ating a creamery and who will not at- tend to these litle matters bas missed hig calling and may rilss his job some moruing, The butter maker who does the best he can—all that Is expected of any one—will reap his reward some day, end he will not have to wait until the day of the millennium either, Let a butter maker fit bimself for the bost ercamery in the country, and be will not be compelled to look for a job ev- ery few months, Brother butter maker, which class are you to be enrolled In? You know better than any one clse whether, you art a good butter maker or a poor one, If you are not absolutely positive to whieh division you belong. just ask yourself this question: “Am I satisfied with my present-comdiiions aud envi- ronments?’ Lf you answer this Inquiry in the affirmative, you may rest as- sured that if you are not now one of the “has beens” you will be In the course of a very few months unless you mend your ways. Methods used In buttermaking are continually chang- | lug for the better, and the butter maker who does not make the business a con- stant study, with Improvement as his } atm, where | back to wit down, will eubsequently Mind himself he will not have to go away Ile will already be ; there, . Just as soon as A butter maker becomes satisfied that be enannot jJearu any more about the business just so soon does he be gin to degenerate os a skilful crafta- man. Don't bea satisfied butter maker whatever you do, Satisfaction Isa fa tal disease. The boys who are making a succees of the butter making business are the ones who look upon past ne- quircments and present conditions as ouly the legitimate outcome of an hon- est cflort on their part and Instead of folding their bands tn conte miment make more extensive plans for the fu- ture, We as ereamerymen need to better appreciate the fact that we cannot re- ronin at a standstill as regards the con- dition of our factories and our skill. in the work. It is an unbroken law of nar ture that everything, animate and in- animate, Is continually wearlng away or building up. Conditions are con- stantly changing. ~~ B. K. Slater in Creamery Journal. The following table in the Farmcr answers an oft repeated question: Ratimated size of silo needed and number of acres required for a given number ot cows for a fecding season of 180 days: Est. consump- Size of silo Average No. tion of silage, needed. acres cora cows. tons, Diam, Ht. needed. a ae Sby2 . i1to2 10 by 22 Sto3 li by 2 by 3 liby 3 2 by 2 iby w ® » a: 36 Bto4 bto6é - a a“ es = to? » 108 Stoo iby G 9 to 10 16 by 31 liby 2 ' 16 by % 10 to 11 17 by 31 iby 2 18 by 32 19 by 29 17 by 33 Woy HM Largest Glio. The largest silo ever built stands on the McGough farm, near Aztalau, Wis. It is sixty-three feet Inside diameter, with a concrete foundation extending four feet above the ground, on which massive concrete walls rise perpendicularly, for sixty feet, the en- tire depth being eighty feet. it is estl- mated that it will hold the hashed) corn from: 400 acres, though it has never been entirely filled. The crop of corn from 163 acres is the most that has ever been put into this large cylin- der. ht Cheap Silo Satisfactory. y At the Colorado experiment station‘ a very cheap silo was constructed and) filled with corn ‘fodder. When I was opened and fed out in December, it was found that the less was about 8 per cent. The most expensive silo could not have preserved the corn it, oo 162 il to 12 180 12 to 13 neighbors, he turned toward them and waving his~ blood-stained ra- zor said, *“The will of the Lord be done; blessed “be the name of the Lord,” and left the house and disappeared in the woods. Wilson was a highly respected minister in the comnmmity where he lived. William W. Roach, ex-United States senator from North Dakota, died_ in New. York city. Sunday” morning. ~ meee —~ semen better condition or at » smaller loss. | a