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CORVA A SEMI-WEEKLY. SISWii'SiriM..! Consolidated Feb., 1899. COKVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1901. VOL. II. NO. 2. GAZETTE HEADS UP. Don't kick and whine, Just get in line With the fellows who've grit and plnck; Don't frown and scowl. Look glum and growl. Stop prating about ill luck. Lift up your head, Don't seem half dead. Stop wearing a wrinkled face; Give smiling hope Sufficient scope, And joys will come apace. Out on the man Whose little span Is full of grief and gloom, Always dreary, Never cheery, From trnnjle-bed to tomb. Give me the chap Who, whate'er may hap. Looks np, and is cheerful still. Who meets a brunt With a smiling ffont. And nerve, and vim, and will. Success. r? shall never marry," said a man's II voice from the depths of a huge lounge chair. "People are fond of telling me I shall change my mind, be cause I've got a title and a fair amount of money. That shows all they know. It makes me laugh when my people wisely tell me I shall have It one of these days, and have it badly. I've had It, old chap, as badly as I could have it to live, and I'm inoculated for all time." -"So that's it, Is it?" murmured Graves, sympathetically. i "Yes, that's it. The only girl I ever loved," Lord Kiddersleigh went on, not looking at Graves, but staring hard up at the ceiling high above their heads, "loved another Johnnie. Now, I take it, when a Johnnie loves a girl that loves another Johnnie there's nothing to be done but clear out; so I cleared out of the ld Black Horse into this regiment for no other reason than that It would bring me out here, and at least keep me from seeing the other Johnnie having it all his own way." "Is she married yet?" "I suppose so. I really don't know, for I never heard a word about her. My people knew her, ah, yes, but they've never mentioned her in their "letters, as they don't know I take any Interest In her they think I haven't had 'it," he added, with a burst of ribald laughter that all the same had a ;ring of wretchedness in it. ."Do you know the other man?" asked Graves. "No, I haven't the least idea who he is, and I don't feel like making any particular inquiry on the subject. But that's why I never moon about after the women, old chap; I'm off all that kind of thing." "I never suspected It," said Graves. "I've often wondered why you kept yourself as you do, but, by Jove, I nev er guessed at the reason." thing a Johnnie cares to talk about to everybody. I wouldn't have told you, old fellow, if you hadn't happened to chum up with me as . you have done, and nurse me through that last go of fever." "Oh, that was nothing at all," Graves thrust in hurriedly. "Nothing nothing at all from your puiul vl view, ueciarea lviaaersieign In his mildest tones. "From mine, though, it's the sort of thing one don't forget, and, by Jove, -If you ever go home, just you go and tell my mother, and you'll find out whether she calls it nothing any more than I do." "Oh, I say. Stop that," said Graves, shuffling uneasily in his long chair. For a few minntes neither of them spoke. Then Kiddersleigh went on. "I don't know that I'd mind India if it wasn't for the beastly climate," he said In the querulous tones of a semi-con-valseent "It's all right if it happens to suit you. Look at you, for instance you're as sound as a bell, and as healthy as a roach; but It don't seem to suit me, somehow, and three goes of fever take it out of one horribly." Eiddersleigh got leave next morning to go to Simla to recuperate, but in less than a month after returning to the regiment he was down again with fever. This was the worst attack of any, and long before he was free of It Graves took upon himself to write to Lady Kiddersleigh his exact impres sion of her son's state of health. He felt easier when the letter was fairly gone, and after that Kiddesleigh took a turn for the worse, and there was some serious talk of sending him home by the very first ship. Kiddersleigh, however, refused to listen. "No, no," he said, obstinately, 'l came out to see some sport, and I've had none. This beastly fever must wear itself out in time, and I'm not going to be beaten by it. I never ailed a thing in my life till I came to India, and If a Johnnie gave in at the begin- ' ning he'd never be able to call his soul his own again as long as he lived. Give me stronger doses of quinine, doctor; you medicos are so afraid of your nos trums." " - The doctor shook his head and left them. "Graves," he said, a little later In the day, "that young fellow will croak one of these days If we don't look out. Can't you persuade him Into listening to reason?" "You mean he ought to go home?" "I do. Can you do nothing?" "I'll try," said Graves. And Graves did try. He opened the conversation by speaking of Kidders leigh's home-going as a certainty, at Which the Invalid caught instantly. $ I "I ain't going home," said he. "Look here, old chap," said Graves. "Don't you think you're paying that girl too high a compliment altogether? No woman in the world is worth a man's life, and that's what you're giv ing in this case." "Do you say I shall die?" "Yes, if you stop here." For the life of him Graves could not keep his voice quite steady, and afterwards he ad mited that he had never felt so helpless or so lonely In his life as he did at this time. "Well, then, I'd just as soon," said the invalid, tenacious of his one idea. Graves jumped up and went out of the room. For the life of him he could not have spoken at that moment. He went out on the veranda and winked the scalding tears back from his eyes, and swore a little under his breath, and then he took a resolve. It was that he would write again to Lady Kiddersleigh. And so, that same even ing, he did, laying bare his whole idea to her, and begging her to use her best efforts to persuade her son to go home. "I am breaking a sacred confidence," he wrote in conclusion, "but I am sure it Is the only thing to do, the only way in which I can serve him. Dear Lady Kiddersleigh, the bottom of it all is some girl I don't know her name, but he told me she was in. love with an other man, and he came out here to be out of the way. He never told me her name, but last night, when he was thor oughly off his head which he is most nights he kept calling 'Tita Tita.' From what he told, me she must be married by this time, but I think if you were to send out the papers with the accounts of it he would feel that it was really over, and resign himself to the inevitable." It was exactly three weeks after Graves had planned his second epistle to Lady Kiddersleigh that he received a telegram from home. "Coming at once, Julia Kiddersleigh," it said, and Graves shoved it into his pocket with a long breath of intense relief, know ing that whether his friend lived or died he had done the right thing, and could never be reproached with having unduly kept his people in the dark. At last he went to meet the train which would bring her, and stood there scanning the different carriages with eager eyes. Yes; there she was, a tall, slight woman; nay, very young looking to be the mother of a big fellow like Kiddersleigh, and with her was a very smart-looking maid and a courier. Graves went forward. Lady Kid dersleigh knew him by instinct and came forward, too. "You are Mr. Graves?" she said. "I can never, never thank you enough. How is he?" "Very 111, but not worse than the last few days," he replied. "I'm so glad you've come, Lady Kiddersleigh. You'll do him more good than anyone." Lady Kiddersleigh smiled. 'I don't know about that," she said. "I fancy my niece here will do more than any of us. Mr. Graves, this is Tita, about whom you wrote to me, otherwise Miss Vallence." Miss Vallence blushed a fine scarlet dolor as she returned Graves' bow. "You have come none too soon," he said, gravely. "Shall I take you to the carriage now, Lady Kiddersleigh? She put her hand upon his arm in stantly. "I've had a journey and a half, Mr. Graves," she whispered rap idly. 'There's -been a mistake she adores Kiddersleigh, always has done. She has almost broken her heart and Oh, yes," with a quick change of tone, "it will be nice to be settled down for a few days. It's a horrid journey." They only uttered commonplaces as they drove toward the bungalow which Kiddersleigh and Graves shared. "I'd better go and prepare him," said Graves, as he helped them to alight. He found ' Kiddersleigh lying in his long chair, staring blankly at the ceil ing. He was not smoking, for he was too ill to care for his pipe any longer Graves' heart smote him as he noted the sharp outlines of temple and wrist. "Old chap," he said in a voice that, try as he would, he could not makv an ordinary one, "don't be startled. Your mother's come to see you." "My mother! Did you send for her? Am I " "Old chap," said Graves, "I don't want you to croak without making an effort to straighten things out a bit. She's come, too. There's been a big mistake somewhere." But the girl Tita waited no longer, there -was a rush of light feet, a sob and a chokfng kind of laugh, and she was down on her knees beside the long chair. "Keddie! Keddie!" she cried. "I've almost broken my heart!" "But the other Johnnie?" he asked. "There wasn't another Johnnie," she cried, the tears running down her face and almost drowning the smiles in her eyes. 'I don't know what you mean, Keddie. There never was any one but you." "Tita my Tita!" he murmured; and then he quietly fainted away. Then, when they had brought him 'round again, he said with a weak chuckle: "Don't let Tita go. I want my revenge on the other Johnnie." St. Louis Star. Bnrdette's Idea of Hospitality. Bobert Burdette once said: "I do not go to my friend's house for the meal he is to give me. I can get a very good dinner at a hotel for 50 cents or half a dollar. I go to my friend's to see him and to have an hour in his company; I go for a certain quality of welcome that comes from his personality, not for his food." . ' Wasted Effort. "Tommy,"- exclaimed mamma, "I'm surprised at you. You should always strive to set your brother a good exam ple. "Aw, what for?" retorted Tommy; "he's too small a kid to know anything about 'rithmetic." Philadelphia Press. DEATH'S VISITS IN SLEEP. Apoplexy Frequently Attacks Its Vic tims Wliile They Slumber. The frequent occurrence of apoplexy during sleep was illustrated In the case of Col. Albert D. Shaw. He had made a patriotic speech during the evening and had retired In apparently good health. In his instance there was a combination of causes to bring about the result a banquet, mental excite ment, probable indigestion and a coin cident lowering of vital tone. In some respects the circumstances were similar to those attending the de mise of Henry George, who was like wise stricken after forced efforts on the platform. Why the accident in question should occur at a time when all the bodily functions are seemingly at rest Is at first thought somewhat difficult to ex plain. When, however, the arteries of the brain become brittle by age the slightest change of blood pressure is often enough to precipitate a rupture of those vessels and cause the escape of a clot either upon the surface or into the substance of the brain. High mental tension, being always associated with congestion, is In Itself an active predisposing cause of apo plexy. This condition is apt to con tinue during a more or less troubled sleep, and with an overtired nervous system there is less resistance to over stretching of the cerebral arteries than during the waking hours. Nature, in stead of rebounding, simply succumbs. The fullness of the vessels increases until the final break occurs. Generally the effusion of blood is sufficiently large to be followed by in stantaneous death, causing one sleep to pass quietly into the other. As evi dence of this peaceful ending, it Is often noticed that the patients are found as if in natural slumber, com fortably lying on the side, with bed clothes undisturbed and with counte nances perfectly calm. New York Her ald. . RECENT JUDICIAL DECISIONS. A faction of a political party which is npt and does not claim to be in itself a distinct political party is, in Weaver vs. Toney (Ky.), 50 L. R. A. 105, denied the right to have inspectors at an elec tion. , Information given to detectives In re gard to larceny, stating a suspicion, with a reason therefor, that a certain person is a thief, is held in Shingle meyer vs. Wright (Mich.), 50 L, R. A. 129, to be privileged. Bepeal of an ordinance requiring a license tax for carrying on the business of real estate 'agente ' is held, in Den ning vs. Yount (Kan.), 50 L. B. A. 103, not to operate retrospectively so as to make valid a contract by such an agent which was originally invalid because he had not complied with the ordi nance. Nonresident holder of stock in a cor poration is held, in Howarth vs.- Lom bard (Mass.) 49 L. R. A. 301, to be bound by the action of the court in ap pointing a receiver for the company and determining the amount necessary to satisfy the statutory liability of stockholders for its debts, and liable to an action in his own State by a for eign receiver to whom the statute has given legal title to the funds to be real ized from the stockholders. Killing of a person on a railroad track in open daylight on a straight piece of road, where he could be seen for 150 yards ahead of the train which struck him, is held, in Neal vs. Carolina Cen tral Railway Company (N. C), 49 L. R. A. 684, not to make the railroad com pany liable, although the train was running at a prohibited speed and without ringing its bell, as Required by ordinance, or keeping a proper lookout, where np to the moment he was struck he could have prevented the accident by stepping off the track. Lessons from Sherlock Holmes. The methods used by Sherlock Holmes, the great fictional detective, have so impressed the authorities of Massillon, Ohio, that they have pro vided the police with books telling of the greatest achievements of Holmes. The officers are under instructions to apply the Holmes principles In all cases possible. " Accordingly, when it was reported that a trunk had been broken open and $85 stolen at John Stevenson's boarding-house the other day, Officer Seaman proceeded to investigate along Holmes' line. . He found that the brass hasps secur ing the trunk lid had been severed with a sharp instrument. None was in the vicinity. The landlord was asked if he had an ax. He produced one from a coalhouse, where he said he always kept it. - There were small particles of brass on the blade and it just fitted the cut in the trunk. The officers argued that If a robber had committed the crime he would not have lugged away an ax. Thefefore they decided it must have been the landlord. When they arrest ed him he was so amazed at their line of reasoning that he admitted his guilt He is now in jaii. Pittsburg Post' Negro Colony at Cape May. A rival to Booker T. Washington's Tuskogee institute is to be established on 1,400 acres of land ten miles north of Cape May by Bev. J. W. Fishburn and his associates, who have assumed the name of the Afro-American Equit able Association. They bought the land from State Senator Robert E. Hand and have raised all but $400 of the first nistallment of the $14,000 which they will pay for it. The association also has in hand over $3,000 for beginning the construction of an industrial school and manufacturing plant Farms will be allotted to colonists and only negroes will be allowed to do any work- TOW Folks . Children in Far-Off Spain. In the Spanish city of Seville there are no kindergartens or other places where the busy mother can leave her little children to be cared for while she does the housework or helps her hus band in his little shop. The baby is left to care for Itself and does so very well that is, the baby who has not learned to walk yet. It is placed In a wicker-woven ar rangement which looks like a basket turned upside down, and is just high enough so the baby's feet will touch the ground. He is then set out in the street to take care of himself. He cannot turn over, so he at least re mains in . an upright position. The basket is very light, so he often works his way np the street and far away from home. He will get into the md dlie of the street, so that the donkeys v.-ho take the places of horses and wagons there must go around him. This they always do, and it looks queer to see a long line of -donkeys going but of their way to go around a baby in the narrow streets of the old Spanish town. Chinese Children's Garnet. It is interesting while American boys and girls are playing their games and enjoying their sports to read of the en joyment the children of other countries have. Chinese boys, and girls, for in stance, have their games that they play with just as much' enthusiasm as do their American cousins. One of them is "the hawk catching young chi.ckens." The children stand one behind the oth er, having the largest boy to protect them' from the hawk. The hawk, f:ae child who, as we sap in most games Is "it," comes to cachthe Chickens, but the line swings back and forth, and the protector keeps between the brood and the hawk. Another game is "pointing at the moon or stars." The children form themselves into a ring, with one of their number blindf olded in the cen ter. The ring moves around, the play ers singing. The ring stops and the boy in the center points. The person toward whom he points must .take his place blindfolded in the center. Another game is "kicking the mar ble." The players have two marbles an inch or more in diameter, one of which is put upon the ground and shoved with the foot. The other is put down, and one boy tells the other to put it a certain direction from the oth er. If he shoves it so as to hit the other and still go in the desired direc tion he wins double and is entitled to two kicks. If he simply goes in the po sition indicated he wins and is entitled to one kick. - The White Honae. Why is the President's mansion at Washington, D. C, called the White House? It has been so called for years and years, and now no one thinks of using any other name, although "Executive Mansion" is the official term. The name White House is a reminder of the second war with Eng land. August . 24, 1814, the British army captured Washington and burned the public buildings, the President's mansion being among those to suffer. It was damaged to some extent and to hide the fire stains was painted white, and white it has been painted every year or two since. The home of Washington's mother was called White House, and this may have suggested the name, but the fact that the man sion was so assiduously painted white after the war of 1812 doubless brought the term into popular use. Boy Wanted. A various establishment Is kept by World, the millionaire. From errand boy to president, - . His clerks are swarming everywhere Yet every hour (they say it's true), He's looking for a boy or two. The World himself has lived to learn -The worth of struggle here and tnere, And in his wise way can discern The boy who wills to do his share. From door bo to proprietor, He knows what each one's fitted for. The boy is blind who passes by . His dazzling windows any day, And cannot read, with half an eye. The sign, "Boy wanted right away." But he's the boy that's bound to Win, Who hastens to inquire within.' - Normal Instructor. Why Girls Cannot 1 brow Straight. The general idea as to why girls can not throw as well as boys is that they have, not acquired the knack by prac tice as their brothers have. Another ex planation is given by a medical man, which tends to show that girls could BABY AND ITS BASKET. never learn the knack, however much they tried. ' When a boy throws a stone he crooks his elbow and reaches back with his forearm, and In the art of throwing he works every joint from shoulder to wrist The girl throws with her whole arm rigid, whereas the boy's arm is re laxed. The reason of this difference is one of anatomy; the feminine collarbone is longer and is set lower than in the case of a male. The long, crooked, awkward bone interferes with the free use of the arm. This is the reason that girls can not throw well. "Cinderella" the First. Under Article 68 teachers may be ap pointed to elementary schools on satis fying the board that they have at tained the age of blooming eighteen, and that they have been vaccinated, says the London Express. The results are often humorous to the onlooker, but unfortunate for the children. An "Article 68 teacher" stood up the other day and announced: "Now we will have our history lesson. We -will take the Queens of England first be ginning with Cinderella. Find your place." Little Chronicle. Sunflower Seedp Raising sunflowers is a paying enter prise in Russia. The seeds are salted and regarded a fascinating edible. At street crossings in all the provinces of Russia there are stands where peddlers with big baskets sell the salted product of the big sunflower. A good crop of sunflowers as it stands in the field is worth $25 an acre. "AULD LANG SYNE." The Old Fen Broke the Crust on a Grief-Hardene 1 Heart. Outin a Western forest, where a little log cabin had stolen a bit of ground for itself in the very shadow of the forest trees, a lady traveler found herself be nighted. The dwellers in the cabin were simple, kind-hearted people, who had lived so long in their primitive sur roundings that they missed neither the world nor its conveniences. Everything looked as if they were contented and happy, but the visitor, by what seemed like an accident learned that one heart was sad. Ella Higginson tells the story in the Seattle Times. , After supper the traveler, who had observed a little old-fashioned melo deon In one corner of the room, went over to the instrument and was about to open it The action was arrested by the movement of a young girl, who came 'hurriedly to the stranger, and with a look of fear on her face whis pered: "Oh, you mustn't play! Grandma don't let us touch the melodeon since grandpa died. She says music is only for happy folks." For a minute the lady hesitated; then with a pitying glance at the old, bent figure by the fireplace, she opened the melodeon, and touching the yellow keys began to sing in a low, sweet voice the words of "Auld Lang Syne." Each word as it dropped from her lips quivered through the silence that had fallen upon the room. The child stood beside the visitor, awed and frightened, but the old white-haired woman by the fire only leaned forward and listened. Presently, as the full meaning of the simple, tender words stole in upon the narrow, grief -hardened mind, her hands began to tremble, her head sank upon her breast and tears fell from her eyes. When the song was finished, she was sobbing like a weary child that in its sorrow no longer refuses to be com forted. . The Beefsteak Was Good. It may be a question whether Thack eray cared very much for the pleasures of the table, but at least he wrote as Jt . he did. Take the following reminis cence from one of his essays, and judge whether it could have been more lov ingly composed if the subject had been a romantic one, and not merely a beef steak. He says: After the soup we had what I do not hesitate to call the very best beefsteak I ever ate In my life. By the shade of Heliogabalus! As I write about it now, a week after I have eaten it the old, rich, sweet, piquant, juicy taste comes smacking on my lips-again; and I feel something of the exquisite- sensation I then bad. I am shamed of the delight which the eating of that piece of meat caused me. G. and I had quareleld about the soup; but when we began on the steak we looked at each other and loved each other. We did not speak; our hearts were too full for that. But we took a bit laid down our forks, looked at each other and understood each other.. There Awere no two individuals on this wide earth, no two lovers . billing in the shade, no mother clasping her baby to her heart more supremely happy than we. : As you may fancy, we did not leave a single morsel of the steak; but when it was done we put bits of bread into the silver dish, and wistfufly sopped up the gravy. I suppose I shall never in this world taste anything so good again. His Length of Service. Visitor to Country Town (who has been shown over the church) And how long has your present vicar been here? Sexton Mr. Mole, sir, has been the incumbrance here, sir, for nigh on forty years, sir! London Punch. " - ' Not Play to Him. Briggs (taking up a book) Ah! You have Dryad's play here. ' : ; Griggs What was his play has been my work. I have tried to read it Boston Transcript A woman is very apt to have misgiv ings about a man who is addicted to the free and unlimited coinage of compliments. New Fertilizing Apparatus. Among all the numerous devices and schemes to Induce plants to grow the idea which is illustrated below is prob ably a novelty, and It Is not unlikely that it -will serve its purpose to some advantage in the forcing of shrubbery, plants, etc. The inventor is Gardner M. Sherman, of Springfield, Mass., and he claims that the arrangement is not only of great utility and value in accel erating the growth of plants by giving them with the utmost directness the most suitable fertilizing ingredients which they are known to require, but In experimenting, In series modifying or varying the constituents employed, with a view to the observation and compari son of the results. The device is a hol low, porous receptacle, with a vertical tube at the top. The device is buried when the plant Is set out leaving the end of the tube exposed above the sur face of the earth. Then the Ingredients of the fertilizer are mixed and poured In through the tube, being absorbed through the porous vessel by the roots of the plant In this manner the roots PROVIDES FOOD FOB PLANT BOOTS. and eventually the whole shrub are stimulated and made to mature rapidly. It would seem that even an application of warm water at intervals would be of advantage, In that it would warm the ground and moisten it at the same time, which could not help but stimulate plant growth. Lighter Horses Setter. Farmers who have watched the ease with which the large draft horses han dle heavy loads on good roads or city pavements have been led to think that a heavy horse must be the better ani mal in all cases, and we see many farm teams that are far inferior in the amount of work they can do in plowing or In drawing a load upon soft ground than a much lighter team would do easily. Then the heavy horses . are driven over ouf hilly roads often at a rate of speed that causes them to pound the earth so that the legs give out, and they are quickly lame. , It certainly requires more food to sustain a 1,600 pound horse than one weighing from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds, and when not constantly employed drawing heavy loads the amount of work done by the heavy horses does not compensate for the extra cost of maintaining them. As farmers will have next spring to buy horses or many will we advise them to turn their attention to the smaller horses from Canada if they can be found rather than to the Percherons and Shire horses that have been so pop ular lately. They will cost less prices, cost less to keep, do about as much work and endure much longer. Ex change. Felf-eeler for Poultry. This poultry self-feeder is simple In construction and may be of any size de sired, but for thirty or forty hens it should be about 1 foot wide, 3 feet long and 1 feet high. The ends (a a) should be cut as shown, then a board as wide as the ends and as long as the feeder should be nailed horizontally between the ends as they stand upright and four inches below the shoulders. Cut the sides (b b) and nail in position; next make a V-shaped trough as long as the feeder and invert between the lower edges of b b to keep the food from run ning out too much at once. Nail-on strips (c c), -which should be four Inches wide, and put on a cover with hinges. Value of Roots for Feedlnc. According to the tables sent out by Professor Henry in "Foods and Feed ing," the artichoke is the most valuable root for feeding, as -while It has but twenty pounds of dry matter In one hundred pounds, while the potato has more than twenty-one pounds, it has more than double the amount of protein that the potato has. and Its feeding val ue is reckoned at $2.44 per ton. while potatoes are but $1.66. and are not equal to parsnips, which are $1.82. Next comes the sugar beet at $1.42, the com mon beet at $1.38, rutabagas at $1.22, fiat turnips at $1.16, mangel-wurtzels at $1.10, and carrots at the bottom of j- POULTRY BBLF-FBBPBB. the list at $1.06. Never having grown artichokes we have not known much about their value for feeding. All the others we have used, and our experi ence would rank them about as in the analysis, unless It were to change places with flat turnips and mangel wurtzels. American Cultivator. Education in Farming. Horace Greeley said that he left the farm because there were no books or papers treating on the laws on which the science of agriculture was based, or something to about that effect We have no doubt that he often thought he would have stayed on the farm If he could have had some of the knowl edge about farming that used to have a place in the Tribune in after years, but we are not so sure about it Even In those days there was more theoretical teaching of farming than of any prac tical knowledge that would reduce ag riculture to an exact science, and we think if he had been on the farm and tried some of the methods advocated in the Tribune his language might have been as emphatic as any that he used In political campaigns. But since that date agricultural colleges" and ex periment stations have done much to educate the farmers and the farmers' sons, theories have been practically tested, methods have been so well studied that, under certain conditions, the results are almost as certain as mathematical demonstrations, ma chines have been invented to do much of the hard labor, and plants or the farm animals can be fed as scientifical ly as the machinery, and is sure to pro duce certain effect from certain expen diture of power. Exchange. Butter Makine. If the war between milk producers and contractors drives some of those who used to make butter a quarter of i century ago back to trying it again, many of theniwill find that they can not make butter of the same quality as they .have been buying since they began to sell their milk, or of such flavor as they think they used to make. Their taste has been educated up to a standard that but few could reach then, and most of those only in June and September. But we think this trouble is likely to be the cause of the starting of more co-operative creameries, cheese factories, and perhaps condensing fac tories the coming season. And we fear there are not enough graduates from our dairy schools to take charge of them alL When they can be found they should be given, good wages. American Cultivator. Sugar Beet Fnlp for Cows. At the Watsonville (CaL) factory su gar beet pulp sells all the way from 25 to 50 cents per ton. As it can be held a long time in the silo and is fed to best advantage when old, it is available the entire year. According to notes, col lected by R. A. Pearson, of the dairy division at Washington, published in a recent bulletin, the fresh pulp is piled or placed in a silo. This silo is very crude. It also costs very little. The pulp Is very soft when first put in and general ly settles considerably. Of course the top layers decay, and after' a time the entire mass is covered with a protecting layer three to six inches thick. In a few months the individual pieces of beets, originally two or three inches long and quite slender, are broken down, and the material reminds one of cold mush, grayish brown in color. Three tons of the fresh pulp make about one ton when cured. Smut in Grain. The treatment of seed grain by dip ping for about ten minutes in a solu tion of one pint of formalin in twenty five 'gallons of water, to prevent smut has proved so effectual and so cheap that no farmer has an excuse for fail ing to try it The above amount should be enough to treat about fifteen bushels of seed, or more if after a bushel has been soaked it is allowed to drip into another barrel or tub while the next lot is being soaked. The formalin is not dangerous or disagreeable to handle, though not safe for animals to drink. The same treatment is advised by potatoes to prevent the scab. Corn in Po-k. One of the great problems In profita bly carrying on the hog industry is to secure the large gains from a bushel of corn that at one time it was thought impossible, but is uow being proved al most daily. While ordinary good feed ing is eight to ten pounds gain, superi or feeding brings fifteen pounds. We find the report recently made by C. G. Neff, of Ohio, that by careful feeding he made an average on a bunch of 500 hogs of fifteen pounds eight ounces gain for a bushel of corn, and after the second period a gain of fifteen and three-quarter pounds per bushel was made. American Swineherd. Preserving Butter. When husking corn save a number of the soft inner husks. Have your but ter thoroughly washed free from all milk, worked and salted to taste. Scald and cool the husks. Make the butter in long rolls the size of a fat ear of corn, inclose with the husks, tie tightly at each end and drop In brine strong enough to bear an egg. The brine will not penetrate the but ter, and when taken out it will be as sweet and well flavored as fresh but ter, and cut in half prettily fluted on a plate. How to Tether a Hon-. Fasten the rope to ankle of front foot, and horse will never get hind feet caught In rope, or otherwise hurt himself. A wide strap to buckle about ankle Is best as It will not rub or chafe skin. Have broken quite a num ber of horses to stand tethered that way and never had one get tangled or hurt; After they get used to be ing picketed out they may be fastened by bead or neck.