SKI M MI L K VALUABLE Skluniillk I* by fur the most impor tant byproduct from the duiry und the best adapted to varied aud protituble uses. A promlueut dairyman says that sklmmilk as u human food is un appreciated by most furmers. but it has been tested under various condi tions by food experts and has proved a useful portion of an everyday diet for muuy people. Tile use of skimmiik ought to be encouraged. livery dairy should be equipped with a goi d separator, and farmers would Bud city markets for a large amount of this valuable byproduct. Sklmmilk has all the protein and half of the full value of the whole milk aud Is In most localities the most eco nomical source of auimal protein. The food elements In skimmiik are equal in physiological vulue to those of meats and are fur less expensive. As uu article to substitute for water In the preparation of various dishes us well as for others that are made mainly of milk there Is no waste, but a decided gain in food value. In mak ing bread sklmmilk will add to the weight and nutritive vulue of the loaf. Used In place of water, sufficient flour may be saved to pay for the milk and yet produce a loaf of equal weight and of m . e actual food value. Milk bread is richer in fatty matter nnd superior in flesh forming elements, which Is scientifically explained us be- lug due to the casein of milk being In corporated with the flbrln of the flour. The sule of skimmiik to bakers and confectioners should be encouraged and is cupuble of lieing largely In creased. Used in this manner. It may be made to net the consumer a dollar a hundred ixmttds, or more than a large per cent of the farmers nnd dai rymen realize for their whole milk. As a food for domestic animals skim- tnllk occupies the most conspicuous po sition of any foodstuff, especially us a fetal for young and growing animals. It gives the best returns when fed to very young animals, constituting the larger part o f their rations. It Is next best for animals making rapid growth, but which need other feed than milk, mainly of u carbonaceous nature. E x cept for very young animals skimmiik gives the best returns when used in combination with other foods, gen erally grains. No class of live stock will give larger returns for sklmmilk than poultry of various kinds. If a premium were offered for the most rapid gains in pig feeding my opinion would be that some man skill- than others. nniTIt Is weTT fo study The capacity of each calf uud lit the amount o f milk to suit each animal, Some dairymen feed sklmmilk to tbelr cows mixed with grain and And It has It Is o f more or less value. also been fed to lambs, horses and CO ltS W i t h SUCCeSS. Do Not Exercise In Cold. The cow that is making from two to three pounds o f butter eneh day should not be turned out In a yard in the cold to exercise, else her butter yield wll drop. HOW TO CLEAN LACE. Method of Keetoring Fine Handmade Fabrics to Original htate I.ace which has become soiled may be restored lo Its original state aud rendered equal to new If proper cure and attention are besiowt-d upon it. Very line handmade laces should nev er he cleansed by washing In tbe ordinary way If they are only slight ly soiled they could he very easily cleaned by rubbing powdered chalk or calcined magni*sla well into ilietn This method of cleaning Is credited ti the late Mine ModJesUa. The luce should he neatly spread out iiisiii a soft white doth or tine white paper nnd thoroughly covered with the eliulk or magnesia: then tins should be cov ered by another cloth ot paper of a similar nature, and the whole should be laid away for a few days under a heavy weight. At the expiration of the allotted time the lace should he tukeu from Its wrappings and should receive a gentle hut thorough shaking. Another method Is to take a quart or less o f corn meal. Put it Into a howl or pan: then (lip and squeeze and work tile corn meal into the mesh of tile lace without straining any of the threads After this treatment and a good shaking it will look as fresh and attractive as new Very line lace which has become quite soiled may he cleaned by wash ing It carefully In benzine. The luce should be put Into a bowl and covered with tlie iiest und purest benzine that can be procured* and be allowed -to soak for a short time, occasionally re ceiving a gentle shaking, but it should never be rubbed with the hands. If necessary, when the benzine is poured off it should lie replaced by a fresh supply and the lace allowed to soak again for a time. After Ii has become perfectly clean It should he pinned while still quite wet on a flannel cov ered hoard to dry. It is important that tills should be done with great care. Plenty of small pins should be used for the purpose Each point must be fastened down securely with due regard to the pattern of the lace so as to keep It even and correct. If the lace dries before the task has been quite completed It should he moistened again with a sponge wrung out of benzine and then he exposed to the sun, where the fresh air may play upon It In order to dispel the disagree able odor arising from the use of ben zine. ___ ____________ the gate- It wITI keep Hack aTT fhe TTsh that are too large to go through. This all done In good shape, you can let the water run through the pipe while you are building your dam proper. At the right of the spillway of Charles M. Call’s dam near my home is a square box connecting with the NOTES FROM BUXTON ROY HAPPENINGS By the Special Correspond Chronicled by the Field Re porter of the Press ent of the Press Mont Griffin leaves this week Mrs. Jessie Beard is very ill for Southern Oregon. with pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. P. Killen visited Mrs. Schneider was a Banks with friends in the Grove Sunday visitor, Wednesday. Louis Roy has been enjoying Mrs, J. P. Via was a Forest a visit with his daughter o f Ta Grove visitor yesterday. coma. Wash. T. B. Perkins was in Portland Miss Mattie Griffin has been the early part of the week. compelled to quit school on ac Miss Bessie Howard will short- count o f her eyes. I ly go to Inche’s camp for the Sunday school this sabbath at i summer months. 3 o’ clock and preaching by Rev. A basket social will be given Stewart at 4 p. m. by the ladies o f the Catholic Miss Marvel K ing attended church Saturday night. the closing exercises o f Miss Miss Hazel O ’ Donnell has re & '- 'ê ' s ï •••• k ; ~ -. # **• m u & W fry Nettie Phillip’ s school last Fri turned to Buxton from a visit m m * ‘ - , ' -A,- day and reports a delightful w. ■ . ■ ,S -A80' - j with her sister in Oswego. time. Mrs. Simpson is visiting at Mr. Bidwell o f McMinnville home for a short time. She has D itO O K U A H ON A FA RM . the piano man was in our vicin | been in Portland fo r the past sewer pipe just described. This spill , month. ity last Friday. He left one of way Is thirty-two feet wide, and the his fine instruments with Mrs. Ira Watson has accepted a pos piers each side stand about four feet M. King. above, having been raised about two ition with Mr. McKusick, former mSL feet for safety after Mr. Call bad hotel man o f Buxton, in Astoria, seen tbe water almost get over his bank the previous spring. Too much and will leave for that place this care cannot be taken in having ample I Friday. und safe spillway to take nil tin* water John Lee was severely burned that can possibly come down. With such adequate spillways dirt dams are on the foot recently. The injury about the best und cheapest a farmer | was caused by two blazing logs con construct, as almost all the work can be done by Ills own teams and rolling together and catching the scraper Below the spillway on the foot between them. lower side o f the dam is a good place Messrs Hancock and Bagley to dump stones if you have them on the farm: If not nnd the bottom is were in Buxton yesterday for the not of hard material you must finish purpose o f selling the mill, but with cement grout so it cannot under for some reason the sale was i mine There Is a little power bouse contain postponed until May 20th. ing the water wheel and the little dy namo of ulmui six horsepower which furnish-s II .ht for Mr. Call's bouse and buildings The machinery requires lit tle attention, lieing oiled once n week Tulips will bloom better In the house ami stopped and started from the if lliey are left unti. after New Year's hou-'e by a wire connected with a sim to make roots. ple attachment to tile gate of the w a A sensation In pointo growing lias ter wheel. Here are city comforts right In tbe home o f the farmer. W illi lieen created In the neighborhood of anvil a power he can churn, run u Ridgely. XU., or nt Richardson, a sub washing machine, saw wood, run a urb. by the discovery that potatoes grown in a barrel yield enormously. feed cutter A white duck owned by C. W . Wlnt- Lots of farmers during the dry sum mers draw watei some distance for zler of Bridgeport. Conn., is normal In stock who need not have done so if nil respects save that It has no breast they had made a pond and retained the bone and over Its breast feathers have flood water Such a poud would lx* never grown. The skin at this point Is thin nnd nlmost transparent, nnd valuable even If not used for power I have today a letter from a friend underneath this shallow protection one who made a darn In a brook passing can see plainly the fow l's heart action. Making bulbs blossom In tbe house through his Imck yard which Is dry fi r several weeks every summer, thus In wtnter is one of the easiest process making a iiond which stored flood w a es in the world nnd adaptable even to ters. on the bank of which he set up city apartments, which Is saying the last word about house plants. Hya ii gasoline pumping engine, by means Expert Urge* Farmers to Store Up of which he Irrigated his orchard on cinths will bloom within a month In a Water For Various Usee. Tye glass or n bowl o f pebbles. Y'ou land above By E IiW A Iti) R. T A Y L O R . can buy the whole thing ready to till Mr. Farmer, what are you doing with water nnd set on your mantel with tile brook on your farm? lo t piece for 30 cents. ting It have its own sweet way in a Handy Horseless Vehicle Gradually On account o f the starch they con hurry (and sometimes In a great bur tain potatoes are valuable ns food. Coming Into Agriculture! Uso. ryi to get Its waters into yonder One of the latest developments Is The potato tuber consists mainly o f a river? Why not curb It and make the automobile truck for heavy haul mass o f cells tilled with starch and eu- goed use o f it 11 s it passes? John T. ing on the farm. The accompanying clrcled by a thin, corky rind. The McDonald of Delhi. N. V.. some ten I'.'ostration shows oue of ti.cse big chief value of the potato as ¡in article years ago Is-gan making good use of gasoline driven vehicles doing heavy of diet consists in the sfarch it con Ills brook—lights Ids house ami build uuty on n Virginia farm where until tains nnd to a less extent In the pot lugs, runs saws aud various machines a few years ago the patleiil ox learn ash nnd other salts. The quantity of In a little shop In winter and on rainy drew the big loads. Thai the auto nitrogen In Us composition is small. days and lias enough power In addi truck Is penetrating the byw ay* o f the There was never a farm touched by tion to heat Ills house If he titted up south is a significant sign of the times. an lnteruiban trolley line but that Its for It. Why don't you do likewise? For some years the horseless dray has value was greatly increased. Farm The dam Is made from stones and earth been at work on uyiuy o f the great lands on Interurban lines Lave ad from the nearby Held*, costs lint little, western farms. Now It Is becoming vanced to ns high as $200 per acre. The securing a pond of about throe acre« known in older communities trolley converts a country home Into which abounds In hcaialful trout and The auto truck where the roads are a suburban home. Thousands o f peo other flsh. and from the pond Mr. Mc fairly good is o f Inestimable service ple move Into the country with their Donald cuts 300 tons of Ice per year families, where they live the year for himself and nclghlmrs. round, while their work ta In the city. It Is really the most valuable land I f the young men who are brought he has. Did you know If you have the up on the farm s do not want to stay only pond on your stream all the lar there It is up to them, but there are gest flsh will make It their habitation, 200.000 pi re farms In the country now and If you make a spillway in con T $ i than there were ten years ago. and nection with your dam large flsh from there are 0.000.000 of them now. with below will cotne up and settle In your 30.000.000 people making a fine llvell- pond, and you and your boys nnd girls hi'i-d thereby. W e cannot find It In our will go Ashing there for the profit ns hearts to pity the "poor farmer.” II* well a* for the fun o f It? Make a is getting along all right, and if hls safe place and teach the children to son Is wise he will stay by him. swim. Besides, It Is stimulating and CURIOUS FARM FACTS. Mrs. Giggeai and family were the guests o f the W alker’s Sun day. It being Messrs Walker’s and Giggear’ s birthday and the hostess served a delicious dinner. Ago of Apple Trios. A good four-.vear-old apple tree. If well grown and dug carefully, is a de sirable tree U r u town lot or the vil lage garden, but is not to be recom mended for orchard planting. It Is too expensive, as the grower must have a big price for It to pay him for use of lard and labor to glow , dig nnd pack such a tree. It la too large to handle properly and plant In the or chard. a n j the shock i.i too great for such n large tree to be removed after grow ing four years In a crowded nurs ery row. The chances are all against the tree being of desirable shape, and (here Is but litt’e chance for the plant er to get It i"to the desired shape o f the mi dern orchard tree. The very best tree to plant in the orchard is a gtx d o re y nr tree. fi eh a tree should be from three to five feet high, accord ing to variety, come varieties making much more growth than others In the same soil. The roots o f this e ra yeffr tree are read'- to take right hold of the fi and ■ i ntnen 'o to grow. The top of this i •* yonr tree is easily form ed to any dor,¡red height and shape that suit the owner nnd Is to he pre ferred to an " other size or age of tree. Set side by side. It will bear a crop o f fru{t before the older aud larger tree * r POWER FROM BROOK DAM. AUTO TRUCKS FOR FARM. WOltKINti A II INI) SKI'AIIATOK. ed lu feeding Nkiiumllk with other foods would carry off the prize. Sktm- udik is rich In bone building and blood luakiug constituents, nnd when we consider its use for these purposes and ulso remember ita easy digestibility and that by adding a variety It makes other food articles more palatable aud assists lu their digestion we must hold •kltuinllk us occupying a high place in the list of foodstuffs available on farms. Authorities seem to differ as to the merits of sweet und sour milk us a feed for swine Calves are next In fa vor as ptoflt.ible consumers o f skim- tullk. and some feeders think that they can feed,their sklmmilk to calves and derive more profit from It than by feeding It to swine, but this de|<eiuls to a large extent ui*m the gissi quali grateful In summer weather. ties i ¡' the a ii n ils Is-.i g fed I almost think you are really Inter ■ il :• di ; St.li.mdlk lo eulves a ested. and perhaps an* thinking now ■ it’s iv. ith of o lite t i will lake the where you have the best site for the I Mec cl .; poll' d o f butter fill that has dnvn. Begin the work by laying down li ti n i ¡ o í d t.o ii the milk, lie sewer pipe two or more feet In diam cides, wkiii ilio milk 1 1 led warm It Is eter aud twenty, thirty or more feet tu ttcr f -f i|>e calves than milk that Is long, according to the size o f embank I I ' d r-.d sour ment yon must bnlld. This can be In I A y in UU I iiluul that Is f sl oil nkltli- the lied of the stream, diverting the nii'ti with mill fc si or grulli, may be water for the time by a little dam i. s* i* to in v ) almost us much as oue ■bore On the upstream eml o f this p t similar breeding, but fed on whole pipe build a square box o f plank as milk, with the same kind o f grain, at high as you wish the water to lie in >ne your of age. In feeding sktiumllk the pond It will take aw ay lots o f to calve« overfeeding 1s dangerous nnd water safely In fl.»*!* Near Its bot moat be avoided. The digestive o r tom on tbe apotreom side fix a gate |ans o f calves are more easily derang- o f plank whl'-h you can open to than those o f tbe pig. and care drain the pond In summer far repairs Bt be exercised In tbelr feeding. If you put a grating made. say. of w ill take B u m skimmiik vjd stripe o f wagon tire In front of The Baldwin npple first grew as a chance seedling on the farm o f a John Ball In eastern Massachusetts and was In hauling produce to town and In later brought Into prominence by a conveying machinery or building ma Colonel Baldwin. These facts are stat terial from one part o f the farm to ed on a handsome monument which another. Some farmers who have ac was a few years ago erected on the quired this convenient vehicle help to spot where this first seedling tree pay for It by hiring its services to grew, nnd the millions of Baldwins their neighbors upon demand. which have been grown since the O f course the cost o f a farm truck birth o f this first tree In about 1740 Is too high at preseut for tbe small are direct descendants o f It. farmer to flud It a paying proposition, but each year the price I* decreasing, Multitudinous Details. while It Is said the serviceability of “1 supiMwe life in the suburbs re the trucks Increases. quire* atieutiou to many details.” "Y e «." replied Mr. Crvesiots. “ 1 bare A Heavy Watch. ofteu annoyed my w ife terribly by for A watch earned by the Emperor getting to take dowu this 'For Sale’ Charlea V. In 1330 weighed twenty- sign »lii'u we had invited company.”— eeven pounds. Washington Star At TO TRfOK FOR FARM nATRINO. ,> , . . - „... 0 YCU COXEY C AD G E ! 1 don’t near u Carne-p,- Oi.-il.i., Though 1 in Drain as the most nt men — indecii. I v - done t>u many bntve deeds I ahoiffir fi-ea'r a barrel or thorn 1 don't ee:o it da ,lie rrom congress. t didn't nnd tnai old north pole. But I've lO'.cd lor mail) a congressman And fedpen r*im our of a hole 1 never navi- won a peace prize. Thou ,h i've run from many a tight. I tune n n • itoKod toy olo woman. Thoo,;h Itioi would serve her rtgnt. But t have a bad.te that’s u dandy. I won It tn no war Nor it I Carnexie present It For nrggina a railway car It's a had«r or the nonest toller Yon can see that at a stance it's a dandy, you net mv Coxe.v bodge I wear on the seat ot my pants C M. BARNITZ. The Mark of the Hand. XX hen the u.iud touches anything it leaves upon ihc object touched u rep- reseuriHlou o f that part w ho ii came In cnu;m-t w u b the object, sion is not i In* iuipres- visible to the eye. It Is me le by tbe uclii of moisture exuded tnn u Hu* s .i u . I f you place tbe palm o f y o u r ban d fiat on u sheet o f blank l'u pat you uuty uol see the fulutest I t a ie ot i.i,- li.iini. aud uiuuy people Will be d i.p iy a( iu.* suggestion that there is au,i i :.uiiai.ou—ibe.r u.ti.ds ure pertavtly u ry ; ttiey uo Uoi saaci Horn perspirutiou. N e v -i tlien s* if ;1 metal pm ie i d l e r d with u rerium eh m kal p rep aran ou Ire passed over the paper the r -p r e s e u atiou of the hand becomes Visible in g leet detail. Tha Electric Eel. The electric organ of iff,, electric eel U lu no sense a storage battery, but a coutrtvauce by which eiecytc energy Is liberated nt the moment when it 1» required. At rest the organ shows 9» small an electromotive force that a good galvanometer Is required to de tect It, but a sudden nervous impulse from the eel’s spinal cord raises a po tential of many volts with very little heat and so small an exiienditure of matter as to defy the most expert vhemist to weigh it.—Youth's Compan ion. A