63.': iV- Ayrshire breeders for tl:e last fifty years or more Lave been handicapped In .breeding because the . standard of excellence has lacked uniformity be tween the three great breeding section: for Ayrshire cattle, Scotland, Canada and the States. The outlook for tli-i future seems much more hopeful, for all three have practically united on one common scale of points as the standard of excellence, and in future there should be no wide difference between Ayrshires of the different sections. If Ayrshires are to be kept as one breed - and one general family, there must be more attention paid to breeding after the pattern as laid down by the different associations, and these asso ciations have united on a common standard. There is no reason why breed ers may not in all the different coun tries work in unison to a given stand ard, said a speaker at the New England Ajrshire club meeting. The strongest point of the Ayrshire cow. around which cluster all the other points, are-the udder and teats, and this is the same in all countries under the recent revision a large,' square udder with four quarters of equal capacity, held strongly up on the belly, running well forward and behind, up out of the nmmk ! AYltfiHIIiE COW. way of dirt and injury; four good sized teats wide apart on the four corners of the udder, in length froio two and a half inches to three and a half inches, hanging perpendicularly. It needs no argument to show that, other things being equal, a cow with the above udder and teats is perfection, and If breeders of Ayrshires would all aim to produce this stylo of udder on their cows it would iu itself cover a multitude of imperfections in .other parts of the body. The Ayrshire cow here reproduced from Hoard's Daii-y-man is owned by Barclay fam, Bryu Mawr, Ia. This cow entered the ad vaneed registry this year and gave 1,155 poum's of milk, 525 pounds ol butter in oue year. The Separator In Missouri. The hand cream separator is a very potent factor in Missouri dairying. It came slowly at first, but of late very rapidly. It has come to stay and has brought additional prosperity with it. Any man with ten ordinary cows who is where he can patronize a creamery, either centralized or local, cannot afford to be without one. The extra cream saved in one year over the deep can or crock , system will usually pay for the machine, and the machine if treated decently will last for ten or fifteen years. There arc half a dozen makes of separators on the market. Competition has forced them all to become good and stay good. The farm separator Is now to the dairy farmer what the twine binder is to the grain farmer. It Is possible to cut grain with a cradle, but it would not pay to do it in that way. The milk producer can make some money ii the old way of raising cream, but .U does not pay. R. M. Washburn In Kimball's Dairy Farmer. Care of the Cow's Teats. ' The care of the teats should always be oliseweJ by the mil!:er and who: they get hard and rough should be anointed with vaseline, as cracked teat? are an annoyance to the milker, hurt ful to the cow" and have a tendency to lessen the flow of milk. Long finger nails are also a discomfiture to the cow, and the milker should keep them well pared to avoid trouble. Some cows will not give down their milk for some milkers as rejadily as to others, and it is often necessary to Change milkers and try to find onr whom the cow takes a liking to and for whom she will give it down. The holding up of the milk has a tendency to lessen the secretion and consequent ly the flow. , Grow Feed on the Farm. The Massachusetts state crop repor' contains an article by Professor F. S Cooley on "Some Causes Affecting tht Profits of Dairying." On the subject of feeding dairy cattle the professor urges that feeds be produced on t'l; farm as far as possible. Usually thv jbost practice is to purchase only feedr rich in protein and raise the cours fodders on the farm. Cows fed on star vation rations yield no profit, and those overfed with expensive feeds are also kept at a loss. The point of highest profit in feed must be determined by experiment and car"ition and varies .with the locality and circumstances of the feeder. Improving? the Herd. Select as far as possible female! which conform to the standard of ex cellence of the breed. If this Is accom plished it will Insure a uniformity Ir type that is highly desirable. If In ad dition to this it Is possible to select cows and heifers that are similarly ,bred they will be more nicety to pro- 4wpn'formity ta their offspring. ' I A! - v. .-.."", v; - ' ENLIGHTEN THE CONSUMER 1 Let Him Know the Vmlae of Mill mm a Food. , Milk is not a beverage, but an easily digested perfect food- It requires no cooking, contains no waste, Is pala table, easily digested and is entitled to be classed among -the economical hu man, foods and ought to be more gen erally consumed. One dollar spent for milk at 6 cents ! per quart furnishes 1 J. pounds of ' protein, 1.3 pounds of fat, 1.7 pounds of carbohydrates and 10,300 calories of energy, while the same sum spent for beef sirloin at 23 cents per poun-1 furnishes .6 pound protein, .6 - pound fat, no carbohydrates and 4,100 calo- iries of energy, or the same amoau': spent for eggs at 36 cents per doze:. furnishes .5 pound protein, .4 poun ' fat, no carbohydrates and 2,600 calo- ; ries of energy, or the dollar spent for oysters at 35 cents per quart gives n j .3 pound of protein, .1 pound fat, -JZ pound of carbohydrates and l,2ro calories of energy. Thus we can show that many of the standard foods are really luxuries in price when compared with milk on the scale of nourishment furnished for a definite sum. Now think you not i the consumer, were made cognizant of these and other favorable facts, if they were thrust before his notice as are the claimed virtues of the so called cereal foods, nostrums or worse, would not consumption increase, naturally making a better price? Advertise the Facts. Suppose you have a folder printed enumerating these and other virtues milk possesses, with younr name and address and business on the margin, this could be printed by your local dairy organization or individually and judiciously, but liberally distributed, and then suppose you paint on your barn the legend, "Good Milk Is a Per fect Food Sweet Clover Farm Pro duces It John Jones, Proprietor," in stead of the lie that the nostrum man will paint on if you allow it. Do you not think that advertising space would be as valuable to you as to the nostrum man? Would it not be possible to do good to your neighbor and to your self at the same time? My experience in this line answers in the affirmative. I am a hearty believer in the Kussell Sage or Rooseveltian philosophy of strenuosity, but muscular application alone must not expect more than the compensation usually paid for such ex ertion; Let us use our brains. It not only pays, but it makes a better world. National Stockman and Farmer. Dairy TaJk of Today A milk sheet should be in every barn and the cows tested regularly and the milkers made known of the results. All these things have a tend ency toward interesting them In their work and are productive of better re sults. The Milk Herd. The time has come for all dairymen to look well to their herds to see that they are composed of animals of con stitution, and to that end production must be placed secondary, and every thing that tends to the development of strength and constitution must be made of the first importance. Given these qualities, from good foundation stock, performance must surely fol low. Breed Testa. The figures given here are merely types. They do not mean that every cow of the breed will yield milk of this grade. Some Jerseys will not go above 3.7, and some Holsteins will do better than 4.6. But as a whole the tests fairly represent the fat content of the milk of the breed: Holsteins, 3.25 per cent; Ayrshires, 3.7; Shorthorns, 3.8; Devons, 4.4; Jersey, 5; Guernsey, 5. Kimball's Dairyman. ' May Be All Cream. When you see a man going to the creamery with one can nowadays it's no sign he Is running a one cow dairy. That may be a can of cream. . Field Weeds and Others. The weeds are not all in the fields. Some are in the dairies, the cows that make us useless workj that reduce our profits, that discount our undertakings, so we cannot get 100 cents on the dol lar from them, says Kimball's Dairy Farmer. Let us get rid of these pull up, cut off, banish the weed, in so far as they affect our success. But the real, universal, hopeless dairy weeds are the cows that make 125, 130, 140 pounds of butter a year, the ones the thoughtless farmer owns, feeds and milks. They are his dairy sinking funds; they sink his labor, his profits and his hopes. What train loads of these would go to Packingtown if we would all weed them out at once. Train the Heifer. Heifers should be taught to "hoist" the first thing, as it puts the udder hi a better position to be handled. Cows that have not been taught this, when they come to develop large udders and are heavy milkers, are quite an annoy ance to the milker, especially with cows that do not carry the udder we!! forward. . Careless Dairymen. Nine-tenths of the dairymen are sti! mixing breeds, housing cows In bara that are about devoid of sanitation, re fusing to believe that what gets into the milk after and during milking is what injures it and sends it to; "the dogs," that it does not pay to read and become dairy wise, that It is economy to ship or transport raw uncooled Uillk in old, battened, rusty cans, and K U sometbloe to be proud of to esvrsy uLL boot wfaer back. Loco in the iassfe and bsaave a rTsiaoacsjitp rc taMMveoucnroDtof PASTURING CATTLE. Change of. Field Should Be1 Avoided. "Winter Feeding;. - There is an old saying that change of pasture makes fat calves, but, like many another wise saw,' this has more sound than sense. Cattle never gain flesh when in" a field new to them. Three or four days pass before they become -accustomed to their new sur roundings and settle in their regular round of habits. If moved from one field to another adjoining, the same restlessness will . appear j although if a gate between the two fields be lef! open they, will pass from one field to the other without the sign of uneasi ness. Introducing strange animals in to a field occupied by herd will cause the same disturbance. The social posi tion of each newcome must be settled by much fighting and more, threatening before the chief business of their lives can go on quietly and comfortably. Having got a herd together, it would be advisable as far as possible to avoid changing from field to field and sud den changes of diet Such changes are almost certain to "throw the cattle off their feed" or lead Uani to overeat with more disastrous results. If .the , intention is to feed cattle in the winter months, attention. should be given to providing a feed, lot in which they may be fed comfortably and prof itably, ' Much will be gained by pro viding shelter to prevent, them from shivering away the - flesh they have slowly gained. -Less of food is needed for merely keeping, up the animal heat. and the animal will eat ..' and drink more when sheltered . from cutting winds and warmed by the sun's 'fays. It is especially important that the sunlight should reach the stock early in the day, for, even when there' is lit tle ', perceptible warmth in the rays, there is in them that " which enlivens the. spirits of beast as well as man. It has been found that , cattle fatten bettor in an open field, exposed to the winds from every point of , the com pass, than they do in fields In the 'midst of timber, where the sun's rays seldom or never reach them. Salt should be placed where every beast in the herd can easily' reach it. By" this plan th3 crowding and fighting will be avoided, and the animals will be much' better for It W. J. Grand, Cook County, III. Care of Breeding Ewes. , We feed our breeding 'ewes liberally with roots and plenty of clover hay, says a writer in the American Agri culturist. We have large, well venti lated sheds and let the ewes have plen ty of exercise, keeping them out of all storms. It does not do a sheep any good to get wet. We aim to haye our ewes in a good healthy condition,., &-, ways use the best rams we can,;secure and mate them with the ewes earlyr In the season.. We find that early lambs do far better than late ones, yovided they can be cared for properly. . We cull our lambs and flocks carefully each year, sending all inferior animals to the butcher's block. It is demonstrated by all experiments that in the making of pork at low prices the various species of pasture grasses are the most beneficial, cheap est and most useful of the many foods on which the hog subsists. The ani mal which can make the best use of them is therefore the most suitable for general purposes. To Load Hoa-s. . Handy devices for loading hogs are numerous. Here Is the best one I know, says a writer In Kimball's Dairy Farmer. I have tried the portable cjiute, the hog yard chute and some others, but this beats them alL My hos house i built on a slight side hill. The hogs go in on the ground level. I back the wagon up to a door on the opposite side and drive tha hogs in v. Itliout jiut chute. It is much easier to drive a hog on a level floor than up an incline. If you have a low wagon this can be man aged with almost any hog house by digging two trenches for the rear wheels, thus letting the hind end of the wagon down to the level of the door. A neighbor has one pen with a floor about a foot higher than the rest of the noose. There is an outside door in this, and he backs the wagon up to it and loads in fnat way. By feeding in this pen several times it is an easy matter to handle the hogs.' There is an easy .Incline leading from.the other house to this, so the hogs do not have to climb around any. Anything that makes it possible to load fat hogs with little dis turbance, is worth considering. Housing; tho Pigrs. t In a paper read at the Iowa swine breeders' meeting WT Z. Swallow, .-a swine breeder for forty years, said: v "I have had lots of experience with p:s iu Utile houses and big houses a--.i with stoves. Now I use no stoves am no big houses. I did not find any ad vantage in farrowing houses. They al ways get too cold. It is hard to keeii artificial heat even. Where you keop five or six sows, and litters together . Is hard to keep them all warm and nor get them stirred up. One in a place ia a good deal better than the other way. With a small house covered with straw except a door on the south side, with wings on each side of It so that when the door is open the breeze cannot get in, you will have better luck, and the heat of the sow will be warmth enough in the house. "They will get -plenty-of air and sunshine from the door. Willi houses like this I have, had sows far row sevsa and eight pigs la liM cold Vaaftar sad W ail rX $Suy are cbsttwa ttftui thOi &s a' ntet baoBiB sost vW X-asnfc" O C THE SWINEHERD 6 , 6 A HORSE'S HARNESS, The Exact Way It Should Be Fitted t the Animal. ; To fit a harness to a horse is the simplest of operations, and only neglect and tEe good nature and pa tience of the animal allow any de parture from exactness. -Few brow bands fit as they should, but are so loose that the ears are painfully pinched. Blinkers carelessly kept become warped out of shape and se riously obstruct vision, while if they flare or the check pieces ' are too loose they lose their effect in the one case and are dangerous as af fording glimpses of the following vehicle in the other. Bits are gen erally too wide rather than too nar row; bridoon bits too thin and sharp, curb chains are often sharp eded or "roughed" through careless ness or too tightly drawn. Collars aie often too much bent at the'top. Our ; horses are rather straight shouldered as a rule,! and sore or chafed necks are very frequent in consequence. ' -. Pads are usually broader in the tree than is best, especially if a horse is light in flesh, and the ridge suffers . unless a housing is worn. When placed well back, as they should be, however, they generally lit better, and the girth does not. chafe the thin skin at the elbows.. Breastplates generally are far too loose, dangling aimlessly about, whereas they have vitally important duties to perform in handling the load. Backhands, if tight, are al ways dangerous, as inciting to a kicking scrape, especially" if . the crupper is not thickly padded. Tight girthing is never necessary. The breeching should hang in the right placevand be just tight enough to come into play when traces slack, without that length which leaves it dangling about, and stopping the vehicle with a sudden jerk. Iole pieces should, while controlling the pole head instantly, not be drawn so tight that the horses are jammed against the pole, nor should they dangle loosely about. No strap ends should stick up or out, but every thing be snugly billeted. As a rule backhands are, made long enough for a dromedary and .girths' . big enough foran elephant, with from four to six holes "each, that are nev er visited by a buckle tongue. Nose bands should have a lot of holes, close together, and be used wnen needful to assist bitting. At all events they should fit' snugly. Throatlashes should always be quite loose. Coupling reins should be long, with several holes at bit ends. The hand reins should have more holes and rather closer together than usually punched. -F. M. Ware in Outing Magazine. t How Houdon Was Saved. During the reign of terror David had Houdon, the sculptor, arrested and wished to have him guillotined, as he had declared war against all the artists, his colleagues. Mme. Houdon went to Barrere and urged brm to save her husband. "I see no way," Barrere 6aid. "But tell me, for which of his works has he been imprisoned?" "For a statue of St. Scholactica," said Mme. Houdon. "What does she look like?" "A fine woman, with a scrap of paper in her hand." At that moment- entered Collot-d'Herbois. .Barrere said to him : "Houdon has made a statue of Philosophy meditating on the revo lution. You must have it bought by the assembly and placed id. ie room m front of the assembly room and declare that Houdon has de served well of the country." This was done, and Houdon was saved. Etiquette at Church Wedding. : The order in which guests should leave the church is a question fre quently put. It suffices to say that the bride and bridegroom leave nrst and the bride's mother follows im mediately afterward, next to her the bridesmaids and the relatives and guests as they best can get away. The guests provide their own car riages save in the ' country when they attend a wedding from town. The bridegroom provides the car riage for himself and bride in town. The bride's father does this in the country, and in both town and coun try he provides the carriages for the members of his family residing with him and for himself nn3 the bride. , Paradox of a Buried Treasure. Buried treasure is not always apoc ryphal. An. instance occurred in the last century at Washington, ly ing seven miles north of Worthing. In that village for many generations a tradition had lingered that, just before the battle of Hastings, a great v treasure, had been hidden. From 1066 to 1866 it lay undisturb ed. In that latter year, at the Wasa-anga-tun (settlement of the sons of jWasa, to give the village its Saxon name), 3,000 pennies of the coinage of Edward the Confessor and Harold were unearthed, which proved for once -the truth that -may underlie an "old wives' f ablfc London Chronkla. : The Lawn Mower.'.'" The lawn mower is generally much abased by the majority of those who' use it. When nicely adjusted and in t good working order it may be kept so by a hair's breadth turn of the adjust tag screws or bolts, and no one should be allowed to meddle with these parts unless he fully understands them. The blades of the lawn mower strike the cutting bar in such a manner as to be largely self sharpening, and no ma chine, if well oiled and adjusted, will need sharpening unless it is run into stones or other hard substances that may dull or bend the knives. The or dinary machine oil used upon larger machines than the lawn mower, on wagons, etc., 'is too heavy for the lawn mower, except in -very hot weather, and should be thinned with an equal amount of kerosene. V Ko machine will keep in perfect working order for a great length of time without cleaning, and the lawn mowef, which is run through so much dust and dirt, should be taken apart once or twice every sea son, each part carefully cleaned and wiped and then freshly oiled. The ma chines with large wheels and'ball bear ings run more easily than many of the older patterns, but the latter if kept in perfect order will run -with compara tive ease and' will do good service for many years. Suburban Life. A Cne For Chicken Pox. Chicken pox is usually the result of the fowls being allowed to roost Id damp, filthy quarters. Bathe the af fected parts ' with warm, soapy water until the crusts can be removed with out bleeding, after which apply a solu tion of sulphate of copper (biuestone), a dram to one-half pint of water. CliicUen Wisdom. The molt tests the color quality of the white breeds. If the prize cockerel shows brassiness after getting his new : feathers, he will, be very likely tc transmit this failing to his chickens. Study your individual birds, save the steadfast thoroughbreds for years and gradually develop whole flocks of them. It certainly pays both in satisfaction and in silver. . Do not allow the drinking watei to be exposed to the sun. Give fresh w,ater twice daily. . , . ... For a soft crop nothing Is better than a gill of strong vinegar in a quart ol drinking water. Broad roost3 not over two feet from the floor are the most comfortable and most sensible. j Shavings as Scratching- Litte. A reader asks if shavings would make good scratching litter, and as the answer was not very positive in its favor I will venture to speak from sev eral years' experience and say that I have always used them with the best of successs and prefer good, clean shav- j Ings to any other material, saya L. B. Hudson in American Poultry Advo-1 cate. They will not pack down so j much as straw, and as most shavings . are from dry lumber they will absorb, more moisture than other material.; They will also last longer. With ; to ten inches of shavings on a good floor you may depend on your fowls getting proper exercise. The Vsefiil Doug-las Mixture. Douglas mixture is made as follows: Sulphate of iron (common copperas), eight ounces; sulphuric acid, one-half fluid ounce; one gallon of water. To prepare this tonic, place the gallon of water in a jug or crock and add the copperas. When the latter is dissolved drop in the sulphuric acid, anfl when the compound clears, it is ready for use. A less quantity may be made in a small bottle in the same proportions. The mixture is a tonic, which may be given to fowls in drinking water at tha rate of a gill to twenty-five head every other day. The Kind You Have Always in use for over 30 years, and Jl srvssi . s7 i r j- jC'" fjrP-f huuiti ss. -Allow siooiio to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations sad " Jnst-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle "with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. at is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare gorie, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotie Rubktance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms tir-C allays Feverislmess. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation ass -Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving IsealUiy and natural sleep -The Cl.ii-l.-tw& Panacea The Mother's Friend - QBHUIH'B CASTORS A ALWAYS S3 Bears the The KM You Ha?e Alip BougM 3 Use Foi Over 30 Years. ; . the umui EE There it no Rcs-on. " : v. ' , Why you baby ehoul.l b thin, and rmful daiiti the night. 1 rm8 are the ; " win, fi-iy biw. It is natural fat s Dealt hy bnbv should le fat and IWD IF vnnr kak. 1 - .Vw' IIIXO MVfc maill iooo, own't expa-iu.e..! wuh coli cures and other medicine, bu try a bot tle of VV hire's Cieam Vermifuge, aad vou will won se your bUy have colori and lanvh as it should. Sold by Graham. & Worthanj. S. P. and 0. R. & N. THE TIME SAVED Cfefrn k 17 Priiro Ncorpr'tii wu wug-u iu if IICU'O M'JUIUl U This Popular Coluffibia F iver Route -Frauklin' visa right when he eaid, "Lost time is never found aaain." The O. - R. . & , N. in addition to giving yon 200 miles along,the matchless Col, umbia' River, saves you 57 hours to Chi cago. It is the Short Line to LewiHon. V t . Short Line to Palouse country. ShortLine to Spokane". Short Line to the Gouer d'Alene coun try. v- ShortLine to Salt Lake Gity. . ' Short Line to Denver. : Short Line to Kansas City. Short Lire to Omaha. , - wv 'VStl'VUgl. Short Line to all points East. Three trains east daily,. 9 :15 a. mM 6: 15 p. -m. and 8:1s p. m. The "Chicago Portland Special" is as fine as the finest. Every comfort of home. For particular-ask aijy agent of the Southern Pacific Company or write V . Wh, McMURRAY, General Passenger Agent, Portland, O-.. Always Was Sick. . When a man eays'he alwavs was sick toubled with a cough that, lasted all winter what wouk you thh)k if he should eay he never was sick sinco using Ballard's Horehound Syrup. Such a man exists i Mr. J. C. Clark of Dpnvpr f'nWon writes : "For some years I was troubled with a severe cough that would las 5 all winter. This lnni)h loff rrto. in o mScn. - - " ' ' 1 v. jit n ill icci able condition. I tried Ballard's Hore hound . Syrup and have not had a sick day since. That's what it did forme."" Sold by Graham & Wortham. See Zierolf for Economy Jarp.74t W Jacobeon of Elk City met with a terrible accident last Sunday. He let a shotgun slip through his hands in such a wav that the weapon was discharged, the contents passing through the wrist nd hand teari tfa d m.M , .. . , . -"eles ontU only portion of the skin cnn?cU:d the hand and wrist The hand ! ds savea tnougn it wni be terribly crippled and the thumb is nearly dea- troyed. ' The Dairy nrn. The work of the milker can be made more Interesting, by making the stable more attractive, and partly for this reason should be well lighted and ven tilated and made cleanly by dusting and whitewashing; also the use of land -plaster and some absorbent in the trenches, like cut or shredded corn fod der, ror tne purpose or Keeping xub table sweet and pure, some pictures of some prominent cows of the breed you are keeping hung on the walls. Bought, and which has been lias borne the signature of has been made under his per- ix. if superwsiBU since its uiuuivy. Signature of. I '"v