Our dairy consists of pure bred Jer
seys, and we use our best endeavors to
keep them free from flltb. The card
and brush and sawdust for bedding are
In c nstant nse. The manure is drop
ped into the basement directly under
neath, on which swine are kept to pre
vent hsatiug.
1Ui' stable is well lighted and ven
tilated, and our cows have always been
frpe from disease. V"e have never lost
one except from accident, and since
they have been dehorned accidents are
very much less frequent. We water
but once a day, at 11 a. m.. several
rods away at a fountain that seldom
free.:-s. supplied from a warm spring
of pure running water, except in rough
weather. Then they are watered in the
barn from a deep well. At no time are
they left to shiver in the cold, and they
appear to euloy the exercise. We feed
only at morning and evening. The
first feed in the morning is ensilage,
then mixed hay after milking. In the
evening, also aftsr milking, we feed
hay, oat hay or Hungarian after grain
with most satisfactory results, as they
have ample time to masticate and di
gest the same.
We still use the deep sotting process
for raising cream and allow twenty
four hours, and if faithfully done there
will be no butter fat on the skim milk.
We know by this season's trial that
there Is more money in selling milk at
6 cents and cream at 20 cents per quart
than at 25 cents per pound of butter
fat, all being taken from the door. We
are feeding cottonseed meal all the
year round, even at $1.75 per hundred,
with other approved brands, according
to the requirements of the animal. For
tying, we use one-half inch rod twelve
Inches long, with hoops and rings on
each end to drop over the stanchion, a
piece of chain on top of suitable length
with rings between links and another
piece on the lower end without rings
with a snap in the end for fastening
and made to correspond with size of
animal to be tied. I have stalls for
two, one tied on each side, with part
ings between. With such chains they
cannot molest each other. C. E. Chad
bourne In American Cultivator.
A Grand Ilolntel:-.
The subject of the illustration, from
the Holstein-Friesian Register, Is
Belle Korndyke, the foundation cow of
r BELLE E.OKKDYXE.
the now famous Korndyke family,
owned by Thomson & Son of New York
state. She is vigorous and hearty and
Is still doing good work at the pall and
Is the only twenty-five pound cow with
four daughters all over twenty pounds,
official. The combined records of her
self and her four daughters average
twenty-three pounds. The sons of
Belle Korndyke are siring large pro
ducers. She is the dam of Pontiac
Korndyke, the sire of Pontiac Rag Ap
ple, with an A. R. O. record as a four-year-old
of 31.G2 pounds butter In
seven days and 12G.5 pounds in thirty
days. The illustration gives this cow
at eighteen years and five months old.
All Are Necessary.
There are many things that enter
Into the development of the dairy cow,
and possibly if one was dropped the
best of results could not be obtained.
The man who uses that part of his
body above his ears the most freely
usually succeeds best. We have come
to believe that a large part is due to
the feed. The organs of digestion, like
the other organs and muscles of the
body, are developed best by constant
use. The breeder who through neglect
has not provided In some way for the
emergencies is shortsighted, says a
writer In Kimball's Dairy Farmer. We
all know that when a cow once shrinks
In her milk It is hard to get her back.
Quite often It is Impossible even with
the best of feed, so It stands us in
hand to provide in some way for these
times. Either have some soiling crops
growing or enough silage stored up to
supplement the short pasture of sum
mer and to supply succulent feed for
winter use.
Don't Overload the) Ch lrn.
If the churn is too full churning will
be a failure simply because there Is
not room enough for the cream to ob
tain proper motion. It is not enough
for the cream to slide around the churn
In a smooth and gentle manner. It
must fall with a chug and thug enough
to enable the fat globules to come close
enough to each other to unite and form
butter granules. A desire to save the
extra work that would come from two
churnlngs is frequently responsible for
poor results. The extra quart of cream
over and above the proper amount in
the churn can easily choke the ma
chine sufficiently to string out tbe
work to a wearisome length. Two
quick, easy churnings are better than
one long one. A churn half full will
do better and quicker work than one
two-thirds full. The time will be short
er, the butter will come better and the
buttermilk will show less butter fat
when the churn is not overloaded, say)!
Field and Farsa.
PRODUCING PURE MILK.
ample That Won Medals at the .
tlonal Dairy Snow.
The department of agriculture hat
Just Issued a bulletin by Professor C.
B. Lane on the milk and cream exhibit
at the national dairy show at Chicago.
Professor Lane tells how the milk and
cream which won the medals were
made and draws some sound conclu
sions from his facts. He says:
Gold Medal Milk.
The herd consists of choice pure bred
and grade Jerseys, numbering about
thirty milking cows. It Is the practice
of the owner to raise heifer calves from
the best csws. The barn is well lighted
and ventilated, the floors are of ce
ment, and the walls and ceiling are
kept thoroughly whitewashed. The
manure from the stables is hauled di
rect to the field.
The feed used in this dairy consists
of corn silage (well eared), shredded
corn stover and mixed hay for rough
age, the grain part consisting of wheat
bran and middlings and buckwheat
middlings, besides the corn in the si
lage. Care is taken during milking to
have as little dust as possible In the
barn. The cows are kept thoroughly
clean. The milk from each cow is
weighed after milking, and as soon as
a small can is filled it is taken to a
separate building used only for han
dling milk. Here the milk is strained
through a wire strainer and three cloth
strainers and stored In cold water un
til bottled. After bottling the milk is
placed in cases and packed In Ice
ready for delivery. All dairy utensils
are rinsed, washed, scalded with boil
ing water and drained. The herd is
tuberculin tested, and great care is ex
ercised to keep it healthy.
Sliver Medal Milk.
The barn is a frame structure of or
dinary type. The herd of twenty-eight
cows is of mixed breeding and Includes
Jersey, Holsteln and Shorthorn grades.
The cows are fed a well balanced ra
tion the year round. When the milk
was produced for the contest the ra
tion consisted of millet hay and cut
corn stover, supplemented with corn
and cob meal, dried brewers' grains
and molasses feed. The milk was pro
duced and handled In a cleanly man
ner, cooled and aerated Immediately
after being drawn and stored In spring
water.
Tbe Gold Medal Cream.
The milk from which the cream was
taken was the mixed milk of a herd
made up of pure bred Jerseys, Guern
seys, Ayrshires and Holstein-Friesians.
The grain fed consisted of a mixture of
400 pounds of wheat bran, 100 pounds
of cottonseed meal, 100 pounds of corn
meal, six to eight pounds of this mix
ture being fed to each cow. For rough
age each cow received forty pounds of
silage and five pounds of hay. Previ
ous to milking the udders were wiped
with a damp cloth, and the milk was
drawn Into covered milk pails. After
being drawn the milk was taken at
once to the dairy, separated by means
of a centrifugal separator and Immedi
ately cooled and iced..
Cleanliness In the Daftly.
Cleanliness is the first law which
should be observed by every man who
in any way manufactures or handles
dairy products. Any condition which
will promote this end effectively should
be established. The simpler these con
ditions can be made the better. Un
clean dairy utensils are among the
greatest sources of contamination of
milk. This contamination is due to
the presence of undesirable bacteria.
The undesirable bacteria are those that
produce taints in milk and that exist
principally in filth lodged on the sur
face and In the crevices of dairy uten
sils. They are minute organisms which
have the power of multiplying very
rapidly under favorable conditions.
Kansas Experiment Station.
Dairy Talk of Toda.y
The University of Illinois has made
records of 554 cows for a year. The
lowest 139 yielded 133 pounds of but
ter fat each during the year. The best
130 produced 301 pounds.
Licensing; Balls.
A writer in the Michigan Farmer ad
vocates the licensing of bulls. This is
the way he reasons on the question:
"If a license fee of $5 or $10 per year
was required for each sire In use it
would, I believe, prove a panacea for
the evil and work much improvement
In the dairy stock of the country. The
owner of a scrub bull would not pay
the fee, and his animal would in con
sequence be debarred from service.
The owner of a good bull, on the other
hand, could well afford to take out a
license for his animal, as he would no
longer have to meet the competition of
cheap scrub bulls, and, in my opinion,
the stock of a community would show
such steady improvement that the
plan, when once given a thorough trial,
tvould find general favor."
Tainted Millc.
The following experiment shows to
what extent the surroundings may In
fluence the product of the factory.
Milk allowed to stand near cow stable
or pigpen overnight showed but little.
If any, Injurious flavor, but when
cheese was made from such milk it
only scored twenty-seven in flavor at
the end of eight weeks, selling for 6
cents per pound, while cheese ma&t
from the same milk sept free from
taint sold for 11 cents.
I'nsafe and Unbusinesslike.
Guessing at the amount of milk Is
unsafe and unbusinesslike. It Is sur
prising, though nevertheless true, that
the regular milker of any cow In a
herd where the milk is not weighed
regularly can seldom guess within
1,500 or 2,000 pounds of ber actual
r early milk production.
A SOURCE OF DISEASE.
Beware too Maa Who Blows Imsk
Thronarh His Nostrils.
A popular practice of many smokers
consists in discharging the smoke in
haled, especially from cigarettes,
through the nostrils. This is even
considered by some to be essential to
the full enjoyment of tbe flavor of the
tobacco.
The London Lancet while acknowl
edging that perhaps under ordinary
circumstances no harm is done to the
smoker save to his sense of smell, has
sounded a note of warning against the
habit as a possible disseminator of dis
ease. Hay fever and other annoying
complaints have been spread through
unsuspecting households by the un
thinking visitor who habitually blew
smoke through his nose.
The surface traversed by the tobacco
smoke before issuing from the nose, it
is remarked by the Lancet, is mois
tened with the natural secretion of the
mucous membrane lining it. and this
secretion is mingled with the fluid dis-
J charged from the conjunctival sac pro
tecting the eyes. It therefore contains
numerous micro organisms, which,
floating in the air, have become attach
ed to the moist and stick surface, of
the conjunctiva, as well as those which
pass- over the surface of the nasal
membrane. As Tyndall long ago show
ed, germs are completely filtered off
from the air Inhaled by the extensive
and irregular surfaces presented .by
tbe turblnal bones. These germs- are
carried into the air by the man who
blows smoke through bis nostrils.
A SENSE OF DIRECTION.
Tbe Prime Requisite For Making a
True Woodsman.
A sense of direction I should name
as the prime requisite for him who
would become a true woodsman, de
pending on himself rather than on
guides. The faculty is largely devel
oped of course by much practice, but
it must be inborn. Some men possess
it; others do not just as some men
have a mathematical bent, while to
others figures are always a despair. It
is a sort of extra, having nothing to
do with criterions of Intelligence or
mental development, like the repeater
movement in a watch. A highly edu
cated, cultured man may lack it; the
roughest possess It. Some who have
never been In the woods or mountains
acquire in the space of a vacation a
fair facility at picking a way, and I
have met a few who have spent their
lives on the prospect trail and who
were still and always would be as
helpless as the newest city dweller.
It is a gift a talent. If you have its
tiniest germ you can become a trav
eler of the wide and lonely places.
If you have it not you may as well
resign yourself to guides.. Stewart Ed
ward White in Outing Magazine. ,
Science and Morality.
The true student of the professional
or technical school becomes heir to a
comprehensive and clear understand
ing of his duties and responsibilities in
bis relations to his fellow men and to
the community. Those duties and re
sponsibilities present themselves to his
trained mind in their real proportion.
He Is neither nondeveloped nor malde
veloped In bis judgment of affairs. His
university training, especially in tbe
technical school, has taught him accu
racy and penetration in the analysis of
any proposition confronting him and
that truth and knowledge must be
sought with the directness of a plumb
line. Science yields nothing but con
fusion to the shifty, devious and dis
honest inquirer. The fundamentals of
morality are the very stepping stones
to technical success or professional at
tainment Scientific American.
The Hellbender.
"There's no reason why the hell
bender shouldn't be good to eat," said
a scientist "Its principal food is the
crayfish, the same as the principal
food for bass. Tbe bellbinder belongs
to the same family of amphibians as
the frog and is very closely related.
Both are hatched from the egg, and
both pass through the tadpole stage
before reaching maturity. The hell
bender Is a mighty fine fish, as any one
can prove to himself If he will conquer
his natural aversion." The hellbender
Is found principally in streams about
tbe foothills of tbe Alleghany moun
tains. The Saddle.
Early Greeks and Romans rode
horses bareback. They regarded It as
effeminate to ride in a saddle. The
modern saddle, with pommel, crupper
and stirrups, was unknown to the an
cients. Nero gave out fancy coverings
to his cavalry, and the bareback riders
of the German forests used to laugh at
them. Saddles with trees came into
use in the fourth century, stirrups
three centuries later.
Standing; and Sittinsr.
David Slowpay I shall bring you
back those dark trousers to be reseat
ed, Mr. Snip. You know I sit a good
deal. Mr. Snip (tailor) All right and
if you'll bring the bill I sent you six
months ago I will be pleased to re
ceipt that also. You know I've stood a
good deal. London Tit-Bits.
Properly Situated.
"They may say what they like
against him," said the convicted one's
defender, "but his heart is in the right
place."
"Yes," assented the other, "and so Is
the rest of him for a few years."
Practical.
"What did she say when she heard
he was dead In love with her?"
"She wanted to know if he carried
any life Insurance." New York Times.
i
! AN EMERGENCY SPEECH.
t Soothed the Indians and Probably
Saved General Gaines.
People : often say very funny
things in times of emergency. It
was fortunate for the general whose
conciliatory efforts are described in
Mrs. Jefferson Davis' life of her
husband, that the Indians with
whom the men were dealing had no '
great sense of humor. Lieutenant ;
Davis, then on the staff of General
Gaines, had accompanied his supe
rior officer to a conference with the ,.
chiefs of the Sac nation.
The council met in a tent. The
warriors, decked with war paint and
feathers, sat scowling and silent,
their arms stacked near by. Seated
with them was a dark old woman,
shrunken to a mere skeleton,
clothed in white woolen. She held
herself with great majesty of mien.
The general began the council in
a hesitating manner. He explained
that it was necessary for the Indians
to move on, for the white man must
have the territory. At this the old
squaw became greatly excited and
began speaking with vehemence.
She declared that the Sacs must die
on their own hunting ground. The
general showed considerable irrita
tion at her tirade and spoke to the
interpreter.
"Tell her a that a woman is
not expected to interfere between
the a white and Indian braves.
She must be silent."
The squaw rose from her seat
with great impressiveness and
stretched her skinny arms above her
head with a wild gesture.
"Does he say I am to be silent in
the councils of my people? In these
veins runs the blood of the last of
the Sac kings. It is my right to
speak."
The chiefs rose about her, stirred
by her words, gesticulating angrily.
It was plain that trouble was at
hand, and the Indians far outnum
bered the whites.
The general calmly listened until
the speech was interpreted. Then
he rose, with a sweep of the hand,
to command silence.
"Mr. Interpreter," he said, "tell
her a that a my mother was
a woman."
This revelation brought grunts of
satisfaction from the Indians, and
the frankness of the statement
pleased the old princess. Order was
restored, and the council proceeded
with the business in hand.
Baited she Wrong Fish.
It happens sometimes that the
cure is worse than the disease. It
was in the case of the mother who
tried to break her little Theodore of
the habit of taking sweets off the
sideboard. "We often have bon
bons when thee are guests to lunch
eon," she said, "and although Theo
dore promises not to touch them he
always does."
"You might do as I did in the
same circumstances," suggested the
neighbor, smiling reminiscently.
, "What did you do?"
"I carefully removed the inside
filling from a chocolate drop and
stuffed the shell with red pepper."
"Did it week?"
"It might have worked," replied
the neighbor , "if Johnny had hap
pened to spy it. As it was, I forgot
all about it in the press of othei
matters, and at dinner time the
guest of the evening got it."
Conscientious.
At a cricket match, Married ver
sus Single, the former took first in
nings, and t hiefly by the aid of some
blind hits by one of the players,
named Jones, made a score of 84.
Just as the bachelors were about to
commence their innings news of o
local railway accident, in which
some of the passengers had been
killed, reached the field.
"I'm in n bit of a quandary," said
Jones to the curate who had organ
ized the match. "My missus was in
that train,'
"Dear me. I'm sorry to hear it,"
was the reply. "You are anxious to
get away, of course?"
"Well, no, sir. It ain't that. I
was only thinking if anything has
happened to my Mary I ought to be
playing for the single chaps." Lon
don Queen.
Willing to Oblige.
A little cockney boy from one of
the back slums in London was in
vited, with about thirty others, to a
charity dinner given at the house ol
a lady in fashionable society. When
dinner was over the lady asked the
little ones to sing or recite in turn.
All went well until it came to the
little cockney lad's turn, but he
made no sign of starting to sing oi
recite until the lady said, "Come.
Tommy, let me hear you sing." Aft
er a moment's pause the young guest
answered, "I carn't, lidy." "What,"
said the lady "you. cannot sing:
Then what can' you do, Tommy!"''
"Well," said Tommy, "I aren't used
to singing, but I'll do my best. I'll
fight any of the other kids in the
room."
A Serial Story Entitled
Will Soon be Published In the Gazette
This entrancing
by
WARD HILL LAM ON
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womanly attributes of Miss Ann Rut
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affection, and unhappy mental condition
on her death. His short courtship of
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Final Courtship and Marriage of
MISS MARY TODD
Lincoln's early experiences as a law
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