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at bis cream ripening. On" the other
band, many butter makers do not
make use -of the' test" when It Is con
venient, and the greater part of the
benefit to be derived from ts use Is lost
i m i . 1 J I j
SH I enureij. uo icst buouiu oe wuue use
of daily. I
Lieean For Butter- Makers;
A moTement Is on foot in Minnesota '
to secure the segregation of the dairy
and food departments, and provide for '
licensing of butter makers. A com-1
mlttee is at work on the matter, and j
the state legislature will no doubt t
called upon this winter to more forcl- !
A ROUND HOGHOU8E.
All things change. But perhaps there
Is no Industry showing greater changes
An recent years- than the dairy and
(creamery business, says Creamery
Journal. It Is certain that these meth
bds have changed more in thirty years
than have those of almost any other recognize the dairyman's interests.
form of agriculture. There was a time 1
THE NEW MATERIALS.
(when Orange county, N. Y., Goshen,
Ta and the Elgin district in Illinois '
iwere the only spots where perfection '
in butter making was supposed to be ;
approached. Today hundreds of cream- j
erles In the east the west, the north
and even the south produce Just as '
good butter as Orange county, Goshen '
or-Elgin ever did. While the fashion-
SATISFACTORY SILAGE.
Silo
Emphatic Indorsement of the
by an Iowa Farmer,
I am glad to note that you are urg
ing your readers to build silos, writes
TV. B. Barney of Franklin county, la-, j
to the Breeder's Gazette. The breed-1
era of the hoef lirerda nnriir in ha i
slow in taking up with silage as a feed.
A Convenient and Comfortable Xatre
Parrowlne Pen.
Advocates of the round form In the :
construction of certain farm buildings !
claim that It has advantages In some
Instances which the square structuro ;
does not possess. The llrst that will
occur to the reader Is that It affords a
larger amount of room H proportion to
the material v.srd thud the square
building does. The cuts from Iowu
Homestead show the front elevation
and ground plan of what for conven
ience we may call the round farrowing
Flowered Sllka For Evening Wean
Fashionable Rough Goods.
Pompadour and flowered silks of all
kinds are very much the fashion. These
beautiful sllka and brocades are made
up Into evening gowns and. cot. very,
simply. They are often finished around
the neck with a bertha of raro lace
which almost hides tho small sleeve-
puffs.
The Cowered brocades are also hand
some for lining evening wraps, the lin
ing nowadays being more than two
thirds of the garment
Three-quarter raincoats made of di
agonal are very smart for rainy day
and cool weather wear. They are
puui-ii-ti Hum of rtllk or velvet. These
pluKtrons are usually removable and
tlms-admlt of variation.
A blouse coat- off the deepest green
emerald velvet, made In this- manner
was trimmed wl'h Jet and had: a
tucked plastron of tucked poao da- sole
jncrusted with motifs of suing colored
lace. These motifs were so outlined
with Jet that the light color was al
most bidden.
iuu urvi urcw iu ujc piciucv
Is of rough gray cloth trimmed with
strappings of gray satin. The chem
isette la of white taffeta and yellow
lace. JUDIC CHOLLET.
able dry cafes still offer butter of , Tne' late experiments at the Illinois
these particular brands the product Is 1 noD aoaia be convincing evidence.
made elsewhere. The three points men-
We have built two silos, the first one
Hr, . six years ago. The size was 32 by 20,
tloned early gained a reputation be- - . . " , . ,,'
cause they were ahead of the mass. " -
They learned how to make good butter and COQ,sfJC"oa P"J '
and made it before others had even , "csfuL mf, ?aB f .
thought of it Today these dairymen ; ttx decP and 25 ' la aamctcr. J8 '
find more profit In supplying neighbor- i onelsa winner Lastyearnorthemlowa
tog cities with milk, and the butter wcntdry- On that account thousands of ,
making honors haxe been passed to , aCTesf 0001 w of llttIe use Pt t
iur Skilful? in iuuuit. 1 1 1 1 H EPHKnn inp
younger and possibly more successful
section
Dairying? Weglected In Oklahoma.
Dairying Is a slow proposition In all
new countries, says Farm and Ranch
of- Dallas, Tex. There are too much de
tail and too much close attention to
business required In dairying, to suit
frost caught us and we have filled our
silo with frosted corn, and expect a j
fine quality of silage Mr. Daggett
u;auuger ui uae jaevreocn larras, snowed i
the writer silage from frosted com i
put In last fall. It was of most excel
lent quality. About forty palls of wa-
the free and easy ways that new set-1 f a noon and sht, were
tiers adopt when their move Is intended
to better their condition. This Is a
complaint that comes from Oklahoma.
'Wheat corn, cotton and cattle feed are
monopolizing the attention of Okla
homa farmers, and they are making
things hum along these lines. The re
thrown over the corn as It was put In.
Their silo Is about thirty-three feet In
diameter. This year we used fifty
palls of water per day on our corn, as
It went In quite dry.
We have never used feed of any
kind that young stock make more
sources of that territory for profitable 1 "wth on. We believe it Is admitted
oy mi as oeing ine oest ana most eco
nomical feed for milk cows. In an
experience of twenty, years we have
never found Its equal. We do not i
think a barren Holsteln-Frieslan cow !
dairying are not surpassed anywhere In
the country, but the Industry will be
alow to mature. Dairying Is a form of
advanced agricultural enterprise that
takes years to develop. Compared with
j lence we may call the round farrowlnj; : jpr ;
S i i T i
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I M I i vM ;
Oklahoma, Texas is an old state, and 18 an5" batder to make into acceptable
Texas dairying Is, still In a formative
state, developing; It is true., but not de
veloped. There la-nothlng of more Im
portance to on- agricultural state than
dairying development, for dairying 1m-
cow beer than many of the other
breeds. We know that silage will;
make her put on flesh In a most satis-'
factory way.
I hear many complaints about the
risBowcto nocsr.
(Front elevation and ground plan. Glut's TAXIHI xjlds dress
pen. although it Is, in fact not round. J mtLfo trith half -fitted backs or else
but twelve sided. It Is owned by an . wlto tne fnUness belted In with a short
Iewa breeder of Poland-Chinas. strap.
In addition to the Increased amount Dcvr uiioi. maiJea are rery fanc
of room It affords as compared, with, a , m the way of tucks and strarmlnrs.
plies Improvement In cattle, improved i work of filling' the silo and will admit
solU improved intelligence and lm- j that this Is one of the principal objec
proved methods of farming, making , tlons to Its use, but we have found that
one acre produce as much profit as hauling corn from the field in winter is
half a dozen produced before. The I not a very desirable chore. If It Is to
time will come when the southwest ; be shredded and fed In this form, it
will be the most prosperous dairying might as well be cut a little earlier and
section of the country. This Is assured
by natural conditions.
Prosperous Dairy Interests.
It looks like a prosperous winter for
the dairy Industry. Higher prices for
milk, butter and cheese seem to be fa
vored. There never was so much rea
son for taking the best of care of dairy
stock, grading up herds and feeding
with the utmost care. While the or
ganization started some years ago by
this journal is largely responsible for
the present improvement in the dairy
industry, says American Agriculturist
it remains with the Individual farmer
to keep up with the procession, both by
making milk of the best quality and at
the lowest cost and by enthusiastically
supporting his local cheese factory.
creamery or milk producers union.
DUt In the sIIol Where It 1 nrfirtftiltr
all saved. We nave found our silo one '
of the best investments on our form.
square bouse It has the advantage that
the pens ore grouped around a short
alleyway, so that In feeding and car
ing for the hogs the work can be done
with a minimum amount of- travel.
The panels which form the wall of the
house are eight feet wide, making a
structure ninety-six feet In circumfer
ence. It Is divided into ten pens, the
dimensions of each being marked on
the ground plan given, and each pen
Many of the skirts are made habit back
and finished simply with three long
strappings or one long nnd two short
The long skirts have fairly long trains,
and the sides and front are very long.
Rough goods, zlbellnes and camel's
hairs are worn on even dressy occa
sions when a tailor made Is required.
The girl's tailor made illustrated is
of dark blue cloth. The blouse Jacket
is laid in perpendicular folds stitched
liiflllijl
has a sliding door through which the , tat4h rercr8 f embrolderv
sows can go outside. Access to all the aDd a lnJe -
pens is by means of a six foot alley, as ... ... , . . ... . .
shown in the plan. The height of th ta" PWa tomt breadth, and the
house is six feet from the sills to tbe ldc and S" "V ,
eaves and fifteen feet fromfhe ground 0D- JCDIC CHOLLET.
Ex-Governor James S. Hogg, while
talking to a group of cattlemen out
west recently, told them that he had
recently bought 104 head of Angora
goats and placed them In one of his
tracts of land In east Texas, which has
a variety of brush, vines, etc on It
He stated that the brush was faring
very badly, but the goats were thriv
ing beyond his most sanguine expecta-
Progress along best lines Is feasible ' tions. "Goats have a predilection for
aesserts, very mucn llKe the human
race," sold he. "but I never discovered
this until I made this recent purchase.
My goats go out In the morning and
feast on briers, young saplings, cacti
and other substantial food products
throughout the dairy world, and It be
hooves our farmers to improve the
present situation to the utmost
Market Direct.
In large cities dealers often use nil
kinds of abominations in the milk be
fore they deliver It but that will only ! oftU about noon, when they turn their
tmake more and better customers for
those dairymen who can and will per
sonally reach the consumers, and I
know thousands of dairymen could
now reach the consumer direct If they
only would, but we farmers have be
come entirely too dependent on the
middleman. Eliminate him wherever
you can and deal direct I practice
what I preach, and I know it is profita
ble, pleasant and gives a man a feeling
of Independence. Produce the best
personally see that it gets In Its best
condition to the consumer, and you can1
almost dictate prices. L. W. Lighty In
National Stockman.
Cream Pasteurlxtntr Indorsed.
Minnesota makes good butter, but
the indications are the most of It lacks,
keeping qualities, according to Cream
ery Journal. The three prize winning
. packages at the Minnesota state fair
were put into storage and tested eight
days after the first scoring, with the re
sult that EL J. Bosenau's and M. P.
1 attention to this year's growth of
limbs, Including leaves, where they cut
six. or seven wide swaths; then along
about eventide they finish up on about
104 saucers of poison oak leaves. They
arranged the bill of fore to suit them
selves and manifested no desire for a
change. They are perfectly willing to
work for their board and give me their
clothes. They are doing good work
too."
Angoras and Foot Rot.
Unscrupulous breeders or those who
do not know will tell you that Angora
goats do not suffer from foot rot This
Is wrong, for we have seen a flock suf
fering badly from his trouble. Either
goats or sheep will most assuredly Buf
fer from this terrible scourge If they
are compelled to remain In filthy yards
or barns for any considerable time.
Anything that will Interfere with the
proper working of the secretory or ex
cretory gland of the foot will cause a
soreness to arise between the digits of
points, while Mr. Sondergaard'swas but
half a point worse off. Mr. Sonder
gaard's butter was safe from pas
teurized cream, and Qt result of the
test looks like a pretty long and pretty
bright plume in the cap of pasteurized
rream butter.
Have a Test and Use It.
Many of our creameries are not sup
plied with the necessary apparatus for
testing the acidity of cream, starters,
eta, and where such Is the case the
fha ifimn wTili t nofrlrvifo will ma
Mortensen's butter had deteriorated B to ,nto f t roL Foot t ,'s an
nnt-. erthlln tl Cnniln-M'tnMl'awaa hilt k "
thing to arrest In its iafancy; but, al
lowed to develop to any extent it will
break the heart of any shepherd and
the bankbook of any flockmaster.
Shepherd Boy.
Combine Goats and Sheep.
We do not advocate the keeping of
goats instead of sheep on forms that
are well cleared and where the land Is
already valuable, but we believe that
a profitable combination of goats and
sheep is possible on any farm. Wool
.butter maker Is. ofnecesslty guessing I Uarketa and Shee2.
gives a commodious second floor for
the storage of feed and bedding, and
over the doorway, as will be seen In the
Illustration. Is a dormer window which
opens to its full extent as a door and
which Is provided with a hoist to raise
the feed and bedding for storage In the
second story. The floor of the hog
house is made of railroad tics, and the
second floor Is slatted Instead of being
laid close, so that from any pen the
herdsman can reach up and pull down
bedding as needed through the cracks.
It Is provided with a chimney, not
shown In the elevation, but indicated
In pen Xo. 9 of the ground plan. A ;
stove can be put up In the alleyway
during cold weather and any desired :
temperature maintained, and the early
litters when they come Into the world 1
during the severe weather will be made
comfortable. The house Is a very con
venient one, and the designer ascribes '
much of his success, especially with j
February and March pigs, to the aid i
which the possession of such a house j
gives him when handling them. Its j
cost la about $200.
V TAILOR MADE SUITS.
Rnsilan Qloose Snlta Are Xo Looser
ruin.
Fashionable modistes are using a
great deal of ecru and string colored
lace on gowns for tbe autumn season,
and if of the heavy guipure type this is
most effective on brown, tan and the
deeper blue tints of soft woolen ma
terial. The Russian blouse or coatee
is no longer of the plain belted order,
but is varied In many ways.
- Many of these blouses do not meet In
front but fasten over a plastron of
cloth more or less decorated or em
broidered, or there Is a plain plastron
of the material over which Is arranged
Handling: a llltr noir.
An easy way for one man to handle a
large hog Is by means of a three-eighth
Inch rope ten feet long. Cut off three
feet and tie a loop in each end, ap I
shown In the i
cut The remain
ing seven feet
tie to the center
of the short rope
between the
loops. Place the
loops over tbe
hind feet of the
hog and draw
the long rope be-
tween the front
feet and over
tho nose, then '
back again)
through the I
short rope. Pull
forward more
noo norx. over nose, then
back again, as before, and tie. This I
comparatively simple method has been
found quite effective and satisfactory
by many farmers and by a western
subscriber to Orange. Judd Farmer
who each season follows the method
here outlined.
,FLAJX STREET CHESS.
a (alL ca&cadfiQf. lace. or. c
The Uncomplaining Lifo.
There is a wholesome lesson for those
people who are constantly grumbling
over what they call their luck In the
career of James Alexander Plummer,
who died the other day In Vlncennes,
Ind, at tbe age of seventy-six years.
In 1S15, when Mr. Plummer was a
member of tbe Cincinnati volunteer
fire department he was run over and
0o badly Injured that his life was de
tpalred of. But he got welL He was
a soldier In the Mexican war, and, al
though he had many hairbreadth es
capes, he left the army only to con
tract Panama fever.
In 1S19 he went to the California
goldflelds and survived the free pistol
practice of those days. In 1S77 be
was struck by lightning. In 1SS0 he
suffered from lockjaw. In 1SS7 his
limbs were crushed In the machinery
of a chair factory, and In 1901 he fell
and dislocated his hips. What further
mishaps would have befallen him had
he not been cut off at the untimely age
of seventy-six can only be Imagined. .
It Is learned from an Indiana paper
that he never complained. Men who
pass through such experiences seldom
do. On the other band, they are In
clined to take a cheerful view of life.
His case was very much like that of the
veteran at the soldiers' home who waa
shot to pieces In one of tbe great bat
tles of the dril war. An old comrade
found him In tbe home, where he had
been living in peace and comfort for
thirty-five years. Both legs and one
arm were gone. He had lost an eye.
He was almost stone deaf. But when
hla comrade shouted words of sympa
thy at him the veteran's face lit up
with a smile. "Why," he said, "would
you believe It? I have only two teeth
In my head, but one Is an upper and
the other a lower, and they are direct
ly opposite each other, so that I can
chew with them beautifully. I always
was a lucky dog."
The late Mr. Plummer Is said to have
expressed himself very much as did
the old veteran that although he bad
met with more than his full share of
accidents, only a "lucky dog" could
have survived so many of them, hold
ing that things were never so bad. bnt
that they might be worse. And, after
all. this is the true philosophy of life.
Clearing the Way For Panama.
Tbe official report of Attorney Gen
eral Knox in reference to the title to
the Panama canal franchise and prop
erty, announcing the conclusion that
"the Dnlted States will receive a
good, valid and unincumbered title."
settles an Important question In the
preliminary work of digging the isth
mian waterway.
The only obstacle now remaining Is
the Lick of an adequate agreement
with the United States of Colombia
concerning the terms upon which tbe
government of that country will trans
fer the concession to the government
of the United States of America. A
protocol was signed last May by Secre
tary Hay and Minister Concha of Co
lombia, but this bad to be modified to
conform with the Spooncr act subse
quently passed by congress.
Minister Concha seems now Inclined
to place obstacles In the way of the
consummation of the treaty, he having
apparently taken umbrage at the ac
tion of the United States in safeguard
ing tbe Panama railroad during tbe
revolution on the Isthmus. While this
has caused the state department at
Washington some annoyance and occa
sioned direct communication with the
Bogota government it Is not believed
that It will long delay negotiations.
Tho matter Is of so great Importance
to both countries that It Is hardly con
ceivable that any serious difficulty can
arise to prevent the promulgation of a
mutually satisfactory treaty.
The action of the National Women's
Christian Temperaacc union conven
tion In severely condemning the shock
ing Illustration on billboards by Bcme
variety theatrical companies Is to be
commended, and It is hoped it may
awaken n stronger public sentiment
against this evlL
" It makes no difference to what church
the family belongs, the daughter usu
ally selects the most fashionable to be
married In. Atchison Globe.