RAISING CALVES FOR BEEF The late f.ill js a good time for calves to drop if vv o are prepared to give them good shelter during winter, and after : crate-that Is, the body alone Is cased. wMch remedial properties were at nueh experimentin:? I have come to , with older and larger animals I use a tributed should be collected and the conclusion that a shed with a saw large strong : and heavier .crate, fqjj m some 'place' conveniently tooth or sectional roof with a row of. length of animal, with the animals . , j;i 51;vi j , windows la each section is the ideal j neck placed in a sort of stancLIon ilS r.! for vonn stock in winter sars a made of two hardwood sticks that run manded. The last step did not un plaf f0,r T , r!, ;( , flr to top and are secured at-mediately follow,- however, since writer In Breeders Gazette, Chicago. , . . . Mri . " nmnno- the conditio whiA wptp rniis shed shoald be connected with Uiejbefore the and water will be cow barn, ana tne uarn """" warm enough to prevent the chilling of a young calf which may be born during a very cold night. There must be hay-1 racks and little feed bunks in the shed. also water tank and a gtilranizeil or cement troui in which to feed fres'j skimmed, warm separator milk, but care should be taken that nothing may hinder driving in and turning insice with the manure spreader. This makes It easily kept clean, and if there is no manure spreader at present there sooa will be. TL barn must be provided with several box stalls for the purpose of keeping by themselves for a few days the nurse cow and her calf and the calf she is expected to raise until the calves are strong enough to be turned out into the shed. Clover bay fed in connection with the frrains named and mill feeds should in jure a fairly good flo-.v of milk, but if the corn crop be put in the silo and fed WiiUi LIGHTED SECTIONAL SHED. to the cows also it would increase the milk supply -very much, and if a little silage be fed to the calves it would make tuoni very sappy and thrifty. "With all this ready before the calves are bora they should be welcome at any time, ami such cows as give the richest milk and are easily milked should be milked by hand, and thus-.; with faulty udders, short teats and hard milkers, or with any bad hubits, are belter u.sed for nurse cows, whether they are heifers or mature cows. A newborn calf should draw its first drink from its own mother, and it ;s.; better to keep it with her a few days-, then put it in a sack, hind end first, and let its head stick out and tie the sack ?o as to give the calf no chance to get out; take it to the cow which is to nurse it and lay it on the floor bs fore her. Of course It will struggle and thus excite the cow, but that is what is desired, for call it mother's Instinct, pity or what not the fact U Bhe will soon start to lick the calf's head, and you may withdraw your sack, and the battle Is more than half won, as most cows do not object to nursing It at once, but If she should kick at it a rope may' be tied around her just in front of the udder for n few times to prevent kicking. It is well to have calves of nearly the sanie age on the same cow, but a differ ence of two or three weeks does not hurt. As soon as calves are strong enough she should he turned In tl:. shed after nursing, where she may bv fed a little fine clover hay and a littic cornmeal, and, as they grow, a little ground oats, or speltz with the hulls sifted out, may be added. They should learn also to drink the fresh milk, warm from the separator, and if the" at first refuse It a little may be poured over the grain. Care must be taken to clean the trough after each meal. If only one calf begins to drink they will soon all do it. A little dried blood mea! may be kept on hand to be used in case of scours, and hay, grain, feed auc1. separator milk should be fed in greater C"''r.t"!" r."- th? calves grow, and r little silage may be added if available, but ground speltz, barley and oat5 need not be sifted any longer. The pure bred calves may be raised this way as well as the grades and all should be vaccinated against black leg. They should be ready to be weaned when grass comes. If the grades are for sale they should bring strong prices. The shed should be covered with any of the better kinds of ready-roofing-, which will make good material for gut ters and alleys also. It will cost a lit tle more to raise calves during winter, but if they are handled as described they may be taken away from the cows at five months old and fed sepa rator milk and grain, and If some good calves can be bought the same cows may raise another crop of them on grass. Preventives of Galls. Terfect fitting, hard collars kept clean and the shoulders properly cleansed when the work is done at night form the best preventives of galls. A very successful worker c-f horses who seldom If ever had a horse with a sore shoulder made a practice of bathing the parts with a strong decoc tion of white oak bark for a couple of weeks prior to the opening of spring's work and then keeping it up until the shoulders hni become thoroughly hard ened. Of course he saw to it that the collars were of correct size and shape. Scratches may be in large measure pre vented If the legs and heels are wei. cleaned and dried before the animals are put to bed. The mud should be wiped off the extremities b soon as the horses come In at night and the dirt and dust thoroughly brushed out A stitch in time will save the prover jbial amount of trouble and money la these aev iilin'i iiiiiiil fir SHIPPING CATTLE. Some Fotnta on Cretins and Stalling; by Ezpreu and Freisjbt. Express is always preferable to freight where the expense is not too great. Express companies require the animals to be crated, and generally I use a short, light slat crate for little calves, -with head protruding from the given dv tne express company's neoDie. In shipping by freight It is generally 1-1 t V H : .L l. 1 1 necessary for some man to accompany the stock as. an attendant, and then ! feed, bedding, etc., are supplied for the trip and the attendant is expected to care for, feed and water . the stock. The animals can be placed in stalls that are made in the car or in stan chions which run the length of the car. These are made by taking two four or five inch pieces at top and two more at bottom and ' at regular intervals place an upright which is securely fas tened to these pieces and also to the floor and the roof of the car, then in between these pieces or uprights place a piece that reaches from floor just to the top of the frame, being pinned at the base so that it will move enough at the top to allow the animal's head to enter the space, then close the space and put in another pin at the' top-to hold it there firmly. The animals, of course," stand side ways in the car and unless exception ally large will have ample room in the ordinary eight foot wide car and leave a space in front of the stanchion for feeding. Hay in small bales can be carried over the animals by building a sort of floor over them. Water can- be carried in barrels near the door ways to be used in case of necessity or haste. Where only one or two ani mals are to be shipped by freight they can be tied in the end of the, car or a cheap stall made. Almost all railways require the presence of an attendant and generally give free fare at least one way and sometimes both ways. Wing R. Smith in Rural Xew Yorker. -O THE HORSEMAN Henry Exall, the leading breeder of trotters in Texas, issues a warning to horse breeders iu which he says: The rapid increase in the value of all good, useful horses will very material ly stimulate the breeding business. Hundreds of people will start in an en terprise that promises such great re turns, and the tendency will be to breed almost every animal that will reproduce itself regardless of quality, soundness and general desirability. Breed Them Riffht. As a consequence a great many horses of nondescript character will be raised at a loss alike to those who breed them and to the state, while, oil' the other hand those who choose wise ly and breed and raise only the best, using stallions and 'mares that are deeply bred in the best blood lines of the breeds that they Intend to raise and who by proper care and attention raise really serviceable horses, useful for the purpose for which they are In tended, sound, kind and beautiful, will not only make a great deal of money for themselves, but will greatly benefit the section of country in which they live. There Is practically no- limit to the demand, at rich figures (which will grow larger each season for the next eight or ten years), for the horse that Is bred right, raised right and trained to be good In his class, whether It Is as a trotting race horse, a fast speed way horse, a park -horse, a reliable, well mannered, sound, handsome fam ily 'carriage horse or a sturdy draft horse. Breed them right, raise them right," educate them properly, nd the product of a small band of well bred mares, with the right kind of stallion at their head, will make their owner rich in the next ten years. ' Notes For Breeders. Oats are a natural and nutritious horse feed. The stall ought to be nine feet Ions and five feet wide, says Kimball's Dairy Farmer. " . Scrub horses are neither profitable nor satisfactory. v In training young colts drive them with a fast walker. Do not whip a frightened horse. It only adds to his fright. Some people curry 'their horses dur ing the shedding season only. A horse naturally feeds from the ground. Avoid high mangers. The mare that is suckling a colt I? doing double duty and should not bt required to perform . as much hard labor as the other horses. V All trouble in kicking, rearingvand stubbornness generally arises from im proper handling or not sufficient nan dling to adapt horses to usage. Ton can better afford to starve your horses any other time than during the first year of their existence. A stunt ed colt seldom makes a well developed horse. Treatment that may entirely break one horse of a bad habit may entirely fail on another. It Is hard to lay dowr. rules that will work well In all cases. Horses are classed in " the Chicago market as . drafters loggers and . feed ers, " chunks," expresses, - farm mares, light drivers, actors and ' coachers. The last' class brings-' the besV,ino$ if'j' ? Light Jdrivers'r conienextry Bit of an the Masses the drafters' i're.tbe mostp'rofitable because they can be put on the market cheaper. ' It's bis proposition to fit up a team of light drivers or coachers that win MO for a toppric. MEDICINAL PLANTS. They Were Cultivated In Garden In the Eider Pliny's Time. . - After the discovery of the med ical properties of plants it must have followed in course of time that representatives of - the species to earlier . supposed to . influence the Wotiot f Tnariimnai imrk- 1 V . . cality in which grown and the mys teries attending". : their collection were of the ' greatest importance. The first authentic record of the in troduction of medicinal plants into cultivated plots of ground dates no farther back than the , time of the elder Pliny, 23-79 A. D., who writes of the garden of Antonius Castor, at Borne, in which' were grown i a large number of medicinal plants. This step may have been taken much earlier - by the Greeks, Chi nese or Mexicans, however. : : Later the Benedictine monks of northern Italy paid, great attention to the growing of remedial herbs and devoted an important propor tion of the monastery gardens to this purpose. This practically was also carried beyond the Alps, and in 1020 a garden was in existence at the monastery of St. Gall, in Swit zerland, a few kilometers distant from Lake Constance, which con tained sixteen plots occupied by medicinal plants. A garden of this character was founded in 1309 at Salerno and another in Venice in 1330. In 1309 the . Benedictine monks founded an academy called "Ci vitas Hippocratiea" ... at -r Monte Cassino, in Campania,: which ap pears to the writer to be among the earliest schools, if 'not the first school, of medicine and established in connection with it a "physics garden." Coinmaking. ' "; Coin of all descriptions is manu factured, by dies which cut from a metal rod the exact diameter of the coin disks of suitable size; which are called blanks. These are afterward passed on to a machine which 6tamps them with the devices em ployed on obverse and reverse and mills the edges. The milling , ma chine is considered to be the greats est improvement in the manufac ture of coin, since, by its uae, coins cannot be chipped as they were be fore it was employed. Such wonder ful accuracy is shown by the stamp ing machines that for a coin to vary in. weight even a single grain is very rare. Every coin is weighed in balr ances so delicate that they detect the slightest variation and are so adjusted that if a coin is too light it is thrown to one side, if too heavy, to the other, and if exactly right it passes, on to the receptacle provided for the perfect coins.. '- - : I Wasting Time. ' They were' dining - off fowl in a restaurant. --v.-.-. a --.-:';. 4You see," he explained, as he Lshowed her the wishbone, "you take hold there and 1 11 take hold here. Then we must both make a wiSh and pull and when it breaks the one who has the bigger : part -of it will have his or her wish gratified." - ! "But I don't know, what to wish for she protested. ' "Oh, you can think of some thing," he added. . " -: "No, I can't," she replied. ' "I can't think of -anything I want very much." ' " "Well, I'll wish for you," he ex claimed, v ' "Will you really she asked. . ; "Yes." --. ; . - - ; "Well, then, there's no use fool ing with the old wishbone," she in terrupted with a glad smile. "You can have me." . Tennis. Tennis was first ; played, in the pft-rlv -nft-rh of t.hft sixteenth reirfrnTV in England and trance. Matches for considerable wagers were fre quently held, and rather than give up the game many men played for parts of their wearing apparel after their money was gone. In England toward the last of the century cov ered tennis courts were erected, and nearly all the nobility played," in cluding the women. -Henry VII. was a devoted follower of tennis, and Henry VIII. was also fascinated by the sport. The first royal tennis match was played between this mon arch, with the Emperor Maximilian for a partner, against the Prince of Orange and the Marquis- de Bran denborow.. Charles II. was the first person to adopt a tennis costume. , rt-'i hf:'. - i,JUibbli;lt:I.Bk;i5-j?t f t'.f 5Whyt ithafc .ampiVso raging -ifHe picked up & lost package and when he opened it found nothing but bottles of patent medicine 'fox that full felinmr." Harper. Weekly..- - A De a.dbe aLt ' . OriginaLl - ' " One summer night, or rather morn ing, & cabman nodding on his box drove slowly up Broadway, New York. Pass ing old Trinity church the chimes In the tower above rang out, followed by the stroke of 2. V: "Hello!" cried a voice. T : The cabman, ever mindful of a fare, roused tknself ': and, turning, saw , a man standing in the iron gateway be fore the church.. There was little of his face or figure "visible, for the former was shaded by the brim of a singular three cornered hat, the latter wrapped in a long cloak. The cabman drew up at the curb. The stranger opened the cab door and stepped hastily in, giving a hurried order to drive northward along the river bank. On reaching a point opposite ; Weehawken the stranger called upon the cabman to stop, alighted and walked toward the river. . . " . , ;.. . f It was now early dawn. On com ing to tHe water's- edge he looked about him as, though expecting some one, ;: then up and down the river, glancing . impatiently ut. ' his watch. The cabman continued to eye him wonderingly,t though: h was tired and sleepy. Was it drowsiness that, made the queer figure seem, to flutter in the wind? . A boat fouched the shore pulled by two men in .the me garb as the stranger. : He stepped in and was rowed away straight across the river. Then It seemed to the cabman that he had lost consciousness for a second and the men pulling away in a boat had been a dream. , He looked about for the stranger, but he had indeed disap peared.. .. Suddenly the stillness was broken by a distant crack, or, rather, it was two cracks so near together as to be scarce ly distinguished. . Just then the leaves of the trees were stirred by a light breeze", and it seemed to the cabman that something uncanny was in the wind. Indeed, though it was a warm July morning, he shivered as if he had been struck by a cold" draft from a tomb. . ' v The next ' thing . the vcabman knew the two men who had taken the stran ger away, were pulling rapidly down the river. The stranger himself 'was nowhere to be seen, but the men seem ed to be regarding anxiously something in the bottom of the boat invisible from the shore. ; The cabman, bent on hold ing to those mysteriously linked with the man who owed him a fare, whipped up" his horse and followed them down along the shore. It . was a hard chase, but he managed to keep them in sight, and. finally they turned toward the shore. " When they landed, cabby was there to meet them. The stranger , was stretched in the bottom of the boat," Taking him upy his companions carried him ashore and placed him inside the" cab. The cabman, all in a flutter,, mounted Jthe box and was about to drive awaywhen he remembered that In 'his excitement he had hot , asked for Instructions. Looking back to do so, not a ghost of. a man who had been there was to' be seen. ' As soon as he could sufllcUsntly ? recover from his as tonishment he bent over to ask the question of , the man inside. The face was ashen and had taken on a ghastly glare.:";" v). J. ;K r ';' ' . ' ' ' .-'.' ." r "Drive,'' moaned the sufferer' . r; "Where?" :vv'.'' : xTo the churchyard." : - The cabmfln lashed his horse, his cab swaying from curb to curb, its driver swaying as well, oh the box, the people rushing to get out of the way. Now and again a policeman dashed into the street. ta stop him, but he was driving too fast for them and left them all be hind;'; . ' "Fajster!" called the passenger in a dyinz voice. "I'll, be caught in the maelstrom." ' The cab at last drew up at the gate way of 6'd Trinity. The cabman was about tp get down and help the man out when he saw him flit rather than walk or run In through the gateway, pass right through an iron fence and Into - the churchyard. v ; Down jumped the cabman and dashed after him, call Ing for nls fare. Passing around an end of the fence, making his way through the headstones, he managed to keep the man, or, rather, ghost for by this time it resembled a dissolving buff cloud in sight. " There is a monument on the southern side of the churchyard partaking nei ther of the style othe seventeenth nor of the nineteenth century,' but, a pe riod betwixt ; the two. To this monu ment "the fading object floated, and thither the cabman staggered. But on reaching it not a sign cf a living being was to be seen. Dazed, he tried to steady himself against the tomb, but the-gravestones, the high buildings surrounding the churchyard., the spire, all'begap to rock as if they ; were tow ers on 3Jie gigantic vessel, and well, that's all the cabman knew. Indeed, he, sank down on the graVe with his head resting against the monument. There he was seen by a policeman standing on the narrow street border ing, the churchyard. v The next sign of consciousness that came to the cabman was feeling a grip nn his arm. Opening his eyes, he saw the poUceman bending over him. . "My fare," gasped the cabman. "Your fare I Do you expect to get fares out o tombstones?" The cabman rolled his eyes about to assure himself where he was, and they finally rested on an . Inscription cut on a slab-in tbe-monument beside him, It read:--!; is.l-:-- .? ?; i-. : xs. T.ubi'i IN MEMORY OP ALEXANDER HAMILTON. THE' POULTRY HOUSE. "Winter Quarters ot Fowls Should Be Prepared For Occnpaaey. " ' It is not too soon to begin prepara tions for next winter, says Farm Jour nal... Too soon to do the work Is not to be considered unless' there is nothing to do. It is surprising how much one will have to do when winter comes on and he is unprepared. . ' The poultry house may require over hauling in -various ways or a new one may be built. It will be found that a new house will be less damp if built soon enough to allow the wood to sea' son before winter. Earth floors that have been saturated with the drop: pings of the fowls should be removed to the depth of six inches and fresh material used, and the roof should be carefully examined while made tight on the bid house. Another point is that it is only after one has built a poultry house and used it a year that he knows what he wants. No man ever built a poultry house that he could not see something to improve about it, and it is this experience that is assisting to get more eggs in winter. Then there are the roosts and nests. Those who have spent hours per forming the work of cleaning out the poultry houses will appreciate any' la bor saving contrivances, and the time to adopt them is before the winter be gins. .-. ; .- - -, -. ., v' , It is suggested that the house have plenty of windows, so as to secure sunlight and warmth.' 'Nothing is so repugnant to fowls as darkness during the day, and they will frequently re main in a storm , outside rather than keep within the walls of a dark house. Begin the fall right and prepare for the winter early so as to have the hens and pullets laying before the cold weather sets in. Rye For Pasture and Soiling. Rye is not half appreciated by the American farmer. It is very hardy! will grow oh the poorest land, makes good winter and spring pasture and if sown early enough makes good falJ pasture.' It is a good early , spring sail ing crop. It makes a fair quality oi hay if cut in bloom or before, .and n always sells at good prices and makt.: the best of bedding for cattle ano' horses. It is also an' excellent greeu manure crop for turning under in earlj spring. While it does not add nitrogen, as the clovers do, it makes a greaf deal of humus, .and thus improves the texture of .wornout stila. It will grow in any section that -can grow any of the small grains. Where corn or potatoes or cowpeas are grown af tar corn, rye may be sown in the corn at the time, of , "laying by" or may be sown on the stubble after the corn is cut and be plowed under in the spring for any of the crops mentioned. W. J. Spillman. . ' , Melon In tbe Corn Shock. If when cutting corn you will place In. one of your largest shocks about a dozen of your choicest watermelons, at Christmas, when the snow Is on the ground and the 'frost is on the pane you can sit by, the roaring fire and eat one of your melons, which has kept all that time in the shock of m corn. Farm Journal. Sheep Notes. ''; " : Sheep require a clean place to eat and must have it or else their health will be impaired and food wasted. ' ' Regularity is perhaps more important' ia- feeding sheep than Is the case with other animals, for sheep are naturally regular In their habits. While a small bunch of sheep can 'be kept on any farm to good advantage, they serve a double purpose, as they enrich the farm and bring a cash to' come at the same time. The Kind You Have Always "Bought, and whieli has been. . in use for oyerv30 yearsj nas borne the signature of and fcas been made under bis per ; jC4&7fyzj? supervision since its infancy. &uzzsM 4cL&i6 Allow no one to deceive you in this." All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTOR! A Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare gori Drops and Soothing Syrups It is Pleasant. 16 contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Uarcotio substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and FlatnTcncy. It assimilates the Food, regulates the .Stomach ivAd Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The C en;ii Fanacear-The Tdother's Friend, v Bears the m Mm 9 M ...... . . BBBaaBHBnaaa' In Use For Over 30 Years. FIRST NUMBER. To te Given in the Corvallis Ly i ' ceum Course.' Lulu Tvter G'U Co., opera I house Tuesday Nov. 13, iqo6. : Box office opened 'or benefit of j season ticket holder-, Saturday, 8 a. m. No person is allowed to re serve more than five seats at one time. Season tickets on ' sale at Graham & Wort ham's. ' 92-3 Econrrny Ftiit Ja t Zierolfs. 74t ( lioolc Oat For the Mitea Now. By cleaning the fowl house and painting the roost with some good liquid lice killer at least once a week, being careful to reach all nooks, cran nies and corners or roosts and nest boxes, one may prevent mites. As in every other evij. the thing to do is to prevent. Let mites once get a foothold in your house and you have trouble without end getting rid of them. "Sporta" Anions; Pnre Breda. ' The Silver Laced Wyandottes, like any other standard variety of fowls, are liable to throw "sports," but do one can tell what the percentage would be to 100 chicks. In fact, therei might not be one to 1,000, and there might be sev eral to a hundred. All varieties of poultry are more or less difficult to breed to standard requirements. Dry Bran For Young Fowla. One poultryman scattered dry bran about where the chicks could pick at it and found that it worked wonders in Checking bowel trouble in chicks. Dry bran is most excellent fpr both young and eld fowls and" acts as a sort of stimulant to egg production. Give It a trial if you have not done so already. - Know What Yonr Hens Are Doing. A careful account of income and ex penditures is one of the first steps tc successful poultry culturel To know what one's fowls are doing is of vital Importance. ' ' . -1 A Wise Merchant ALWAYS USES THE BEST, STATIONERY Up-to-Date IS NECESSARY FOR A DESIRED EFFECT '''' The Gazette Is the only of f ice In G or vail is that can deliver , the goods. We Can Show You Signature of - ; Printing V. Jk. MXXCHELb 3