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Plan for Feed-Box. The illustration of a feed box Is self-explanatory, and with the follow ing list of dimensions should be easy to build: The legs are made from 4x4's 34 inches on the high side, saw ing a bevel at one end of 12 inches; the sides are 2x12 inches; the length of the box is 8 feet. The bottom Is made by joining seven common floor boards, generally using fence flooring clear of knots as possible. The best way to lay the bottom is to take 16-foot fence boards, laying the two end 2x4 cross pieces 4 Inches from the end. Across the center lay two other 8 Inches apart, sawing the bot torn in two to make the bottoms for two boxes. The 2x4 across the center, which is used for supporting the cen ter of the bottom, should be made of hard wood. Clamps go around this 2x4 and over the top of the box. Use a 16-Inch clamp, such as commonly used for building hay racks; bore through the 2x4, place the clamp bot tom side up over the side of the box and draw it up tight. The Jower edge FEED BOX. of the 2x12 used for sides should be planed to a bevel to match the bottom of the box. For feeding meal It would be well to place a corn crib strip 1x4 inches around the top of the box. This will prevent the wind from blowing the meal out, as it projects over on the 'nslde 2 inches. Teeth Should Be Examined. A great many of the troubles of the horse come when the owner thinks he Is treating him the best in winter when there Is little work and the horse Is turned out to pasture, or to an alfalfa stack. There are a num ber of points to keep In mind when disposing of the horse for the winter, says a Colorado bulletin. First of these is the condition of his teeth. Remember, if he has been liv ing largely on chop feed, or other grain that requires little mastication, that his teeth may not be in condition to handle the roughage of the pasture or the poor quality of hay which is usually fed to horses that are not working. He may be parrot-mouthed and not able to bite off the grass. The teeth should by all means be examined by a veterinarian, if the owner is incapable. Rough feed must be well chewed before it can be prop erly digested. Reducing the Meat Bill. In many American families meat Is eaten two or three times a day; in such cases the simplest way of reduc ing the meat bill would very likely be to cut down the amount used, either by serving It less often or by using less at a time. Deficiency of protein need not be feared when one good meat dish a day Is served, especially If such nitrogenous materials as egga, milk, cheeae and beans are used In stead. In localities where fish can be obtained fresh and cheap, it might well be more frequently substituted for meat for the sake of variety as well as economy. Ingenious cooks have ways of "extending the flavor" of meat; that Is, of combining a small quantity with other materials to make a large dish, as In meat pies, stews, and similar dishes. ' Properly Braced Corner Poet. The ordinary braces set in line with the wires do not prevent the corner post from leaning. A brace set in the direction that a post would lean, or a stay wire In the opposite direction, nr- ,n-- J, i i ' . Uli. ,11" aw- BBACINQ FOB THE COB IB POST. are either effective, but both are un desirable. The two posts on each side of and nearest to the corner post should be braced, as shown in the cut. A wire should run from the top of one post to the bottom of the other to tighten the brace, which will throw the strain on five posts Instead of one. C. C. Ormsbee, In Farm and Home. Chlekeae for Market. Old and young chickens to be sold tor market purposes will bring much more it they are confined in close quarters for a week or more and fed heavily during the time. A part of the well-equipped poultry plant, there fore, should consist ot a poultry fat tening pen, provided with adequate feeding and watering devices. Jour nal of Agriculture. How Much Seed to Bow. The question of the proper amount of seed to sow is never Bettled. Two and one-half bushels of average oats, sown broadcast, are not too many on average land, average seasons; and about one-half bushel less when drilled in, is looked upon as about right by most oat growers. Many good farmers differ, however, on this, many thinking a peck will bring as good or better results. There are varieties of oats with a very large berry which would have to be in creased to get the same number of plants to the acre that the very small be"rry oats would give. Still, as a rule, a large vigorous seed will pro duce a large vigorous plant and this would need more room than a smaller one. The season and soil make con siderable difference, too, with the amount of seed. Pasturing grain with sheep or other light stock, tends to thicken it, also to shorten the straw and to prevent lodging, though it fre quently adds to the length of time for ripening. When there is danger of oats lodging, thick seeding tends to prevent it A New Dip for Cattle. The Oklahoma State Board of Agri culture has adopted a new dipping so lution for cattle. The crude oil meth od has been abandoned on account of Its often injurious effect on steers. All cattle shipped in from Texas must be dipped in order to keep out Texas fever by killing the ticks, which carry the disease. The new dip is an arsen ical solution, much cheaper than the crude oil, just as effective and less in jurious. It is made by boiling 10 pounds of commercial arsenic, 24 pounds of sal soda and 1 gallon of pine tar in 40 gallons of water. It is then increased to 60 gallons by adding water, and this solution is enough for 450 gallons of water when mixed with it. The cost Is about a cent a gallon, or about 25 cents per steer in dipping. The only danger from the use of this dip is that a steer might accidentally swallow some of the solution, a quart of which would cause death. THE TBADTOMJ OF UNITED STATES CAVALRY CADETS. Tr in in " 1 "if .ynrnrr 1 iinirmmiwriyf fffmrnt mi umiwn ' n,iim wpiwpupaiwipyipuiiwiy pna m psypiiiiijiiijjjiiijiju,iiiiriri-i.iiiiui i in; 11 nni if --np-pn J"T'irrT"r ' - fl VMM..- BLACK HORSE TROOP FORDING A STREAM ' 1 -"W "5 fc' ""N't., 'A...: ., ., . . . m Vain ot Oalaea fowl. The guinea fowl Is growing In favtor as a market bird, the flesh coming Dearer to the flavor of game than any f our domestic poultry. A Novel imect Catcher. Only people who have had crops or plants destroyed by insects can appre ciate what a pest these little things are. Always except ing, of course, the victims of the vora cious mosquito. In the country all sorts of homely de vices are used to catch the bugs and kill them, and an Ore gon man, who prob ably had his apple orchard overrun by some destructive species, patented a trap for the pests. A barrel has pieces cut out of the up per portion and is half filled with rot ten or bruised apples or some other odoriferous fruit. On top of the barrel Is placed a pan partially filled with water, oil or some poisonous liquid. From the apex of a tripod that keeps the basin from falling oft the barrel hangs a lantern. In the daytime the Insects will be. attracted by. the odor of the fruit, and in flying up to feast many of them are likely to fly into the water. At night the lantern is lighted and bugs will come from afar to flut ter against It and meet their death in the liquid below. Hlnta About the Farm. Avoid extremes in everything. Refill the salt box in the pasture. Give the horses a bran mash twice a week. Money invested in land cannot eas ily be lost A good swing stanchion la not un comfortable to the cow. Gratifying the appetite adds great ly to the thrift of the flock. No ups and downs in care and feed, but keeping everlastingly at it. Set the strawberries in rows four feet apart and two feet in the row. If the pump bucket leaks, take it to town with you. ,The tinner will fix It while you wait. The plan ot hay farming with chem icals has Its attractions, especially for the oldish man, who desires to get rid of the care of live stock, and to cut down his labor outgo to the lowest possible amount Milk from unhealthy cows is not safe to use and only cows in good health can make profitable use of the food given them. The herd should be inspected at regular intervals by competent Veterinarian. A garden of an acre, well tended, will produce vegetables enough to sup ply an ordinary family year in and year out as well as to teed a flock ot fowls whose eggs may be traded for groceries at any country store. The man who puts the finest pro ducts on the market is the one who reaps the bountiful rewards. Be sure your products are In the most accept able condition before marketing if there Is a desire to win new customers. Bolated. "I understand that Frallman has come to the conclusion to contest hli wife's will." "Well what is there courareoua about that? She's dead, Unt sher Although the United States Govern tnent supports but one national mill tary academy it encourages military training in a number of other schools and colleges by detailing to these Insti tutions officers of the army and navy. These subsidiary military schools are of three kinds. There is, first, the state school which receives financial aid from the state government and is re garded as a part of its military estab lishment. A notable example of this class of schools is the Virginia Mili tary Institute, famous as the West Point of the Confederacy, and now en joying the distinction of having more of its graduates in the United States Army than any other school or college. The second class comprises the agri cultural and mechanical colleges which have received donations of land from the government and which under the terms of these grants are required to give instruction in tactics. Private military schools may be considered as ., , llf M fry If': -'-sms A COH8ACK HIDING EXEUCISE. forming the third class. These schools use military training because of its value as an educational instrument. The course of instruction in the classi- rA4 ,Vr;v:l vh - J PYRAMID OF CADETS. fled schools varies from the two or three -hours per week of drill or lec tures in schools and colleges with mil itary departments to the daily routine of the essentially military institutions In which the cadets live in barracks under constant discipline, . march to classes and to meals, and receive a course of theoretical and practical mil itary training which takes as its mod el and approximates as closely as can be done in a private or state institu tion to the superb course' of training at the National Academy at West Point. Even in colleges in which the course is most limited a large number of young men receive each year at least a general idea of drill, discipline, and the art of war,- while. from thi essentially military schools some hun dreds of cadets are turned but annual ly who are thoroughly disciplined and well instructed in the care and hand ling of troops and who will in time of war prove thoroughly competent officers of volunteers. Thus somewhat the same results are obtained from the military schools, though, of course, on a smaller scale; as from the compul sory military training of European countries. Great attention is paid to horsemanship. Indeed, there is noth ing that could be more delightful for a boy than to have a horse of his own and to be taught all sorts of feats such as these pictures illustrate. Suez canal has proved to be one of the most profitable commercial under takings in the history of the world, and the Manchester ship canal is now accomplishing all and more than was promised at first. Engineers and scientists are making exhaustive studies of the recent floods in Paris, to devise a system which will prevent a repetition of the disaster. It is planned to keep the Seine within its channel either by constructing higher embankments or by carrying the surplus waters around the city in a by-pass channel. That the steel car is of great value as a protection to passengers, in the event of collision was demonstrated in a recent clash of two trains in the Hudson tunnnel, New York City. There was no telescoping, as would prob ably have occurred with wooden cars, and the injuries were merely such as resulted from the passengers being thrown down by the shock of the col lision. ; The latest report of the Geological Survey shows that the value of the me tallic products of the United States for 1908 was $549,923,116, as against $903, 802,244 for 1907. The'only increase was in the case of gold $94,560,000, against $90,435,700. Yet in the case of copper the quantity was greater In 1908 than in 1907942,570,721 pounds, against 868,996,491 pounds. The value of the non-metallic products also showed a falling off from $1,167,705, 720 in 1907 to $1,045,497,070 in 190a. The unspecified mineral products, how ever. Increased from $100,000 to $250, 000. Petroleum showed an increase in both quantity and value 179,572,479 barrels, against 166,095,335 barrels, and $129,706,258, against $120,106,749. A tew petroleum field is being de veloped on the northern slopes of the Caucasus, about fifty miles from the seaport ot Touapse, on the Black sea, in the district of Maikop, South Rus sia. It Is reported that the thickness of the oil series indicates that the district will take a prominent place among the world's oil regions. The oil is found in Oligocene beds of Tertiary age, and a fact of great interest is that the oil beds are everywhere associated with a vast abundance of fish and veg etable remains. In one cliff no trace of petroleum is found except in a layer of sandy clay, which alone is full ot ancient fish remains. This is regarded as making the inorganic theory of the origin of petroleum inadmissible so far, at least as the Maikop district Is concerned. At least two Brazilian travelers have described an extraordinary phenom enon connected with the nests ot white ants, or termites. Dr. J. S. da Fonseca, who saw the exhibition on the head waters ot the Rio Verde, describes the COMBINED B ALIO ON-AEROPLANE. SI V llillisiiiillllliili ' ' .' .'Jr. 1 NEW FRENCH DIRIGIBLE-BIPLANE IS 'CONSIDERED ABSOLUTELY ' "A series of aeroplane trials which have been taking place at Issy-lea Moulineaux, the well-known aviation center in France, have been marked by the novel feature of a combination of the dirigible with the gas bag, and the trials are being watched by aviators with the keenest interest The above illustration shows the tandem biplane belonging to M. Cesar making a flight. It has a cigar-shaped envelope and is fitted with a 50-horse power Prissi and Bertahud motor. London Sphere. appearance as that of tiny stars, giving the nest the look of a miniature tower brilliantly illuminated. When the nest was struck with a stick the lights went out, only to reappear again little by little. Castelnau, in the middle of the last century, beheld a similar specta cle near the city of Goyaz. He says that the lights were produced by an immense number of small phosphores cent larva, which withdrew into the galleries of the mound when an at tempt was made to capture them. Prof. J. C. Branner of Stanford University remarks that this exhibition Is prob ably confined to some particular spe cies, or to some special occasions or conditions of termite life, since be has lived and traveled ten years in Brazil without seeing It HOUSE OF CEMENT. Bfalae Maa Made Himself a Ham After aa Entirely New Pattern. In Belfast Me., there Is a house, built by Frank Hoag, believed by the builder and citizens of that place to be the only one of the kind on earth. Aside from the blasting and digging for the cellar, the house was built by Mr. Hoag himself. The entire outside, the Boston Globe says, is ot cement the mixing of the component parts being undertaken after long Btudy of the subject Mr. Hoag finished the inside of the house first This being done, he lathed the whole outside with wire screen stuff, such as Is used for fencing chicken pens. This was firmly fastened. The studding was close, and when the wire was on it gave a rigid surface on sides, ends and the slopes of the roof. Over this layer of wire he spread a first coat of cement. It was well pressed on. so that It oozed through the meshes of the wire for a clinch ing hold. When this first coating was thoroughly set another and a heavier one was spread over the surface. Shingle effects were fashioned on the gables, and on the roof the cement was shaped and lined, to give an ap pearance of slating. Then over the whole outside was laid a finishing veneer of cement paint . The house Is as tight as a bottle. It is impervious to heat or cold, or leak of rain; and, as its foundation is a solid ledge, it can defy the front t rwrestle with it Mr. Hoag says the cost ot building was about the same as wooden construction would have been, but he says there is no great number ot repairs Top (who has dined off hashed mut ton) Bill, waiter. Walter What did you have, sir? Top (sarcastically) I haven't the faintest idea. "Did you get in without your wife hearing you last night?" "No, and I didn't get in without hearing her, either." Houston Post. "Who is the gentleman seated in the large touring car?" 'That is the poet laureate of a well known biscuit factory." Birmingham Age-Herald. "Do you think there is really any such thing as platonic love?" "Yes. It exists between most husbands and their wives."-HChicago Record-Herald. 'Papa, what is faith?" "Well, my boy, they say your baby brother sleeps, but I've never seen him do it Yet, if I believe he does, that's faith." Life. She (as they dance) I'm afraid I'm tiring you rather. -He Oh, not at all. I used to be attendant in the elephant house at the zoo. Meggendorfer Blat ter.''";".,;;';:'' ;-;;"';; .-; Knicker Jones is all the time want ing more money. Bocker No won der; his father was a college president and his mother was a woman. New York Sun. "Do you really believe this aviator will come back to the starting point?" "He won't dare do otherwise. His wife is waiting for him there." Flie gende Blaetter. Vicar And what .induced you to send for me, Mr. Russett? Russett What's 'e say, Betty?; Betty 'E says: "What the deuce did you send 'im for?" M. A. P. " . ' "Why don't you teach your son a les son by making him live without his allowance for a while?" . "Goodness! I can't even make him live within it!" Cleveland Leader. ; -- Lady My cooking always tastes so good to you, and it never suits my hus band at all. Beggar Well, why don't you get a divorce and marry me? Meggendorfer Blaetter, .. . "I am a plain-spoken man," said the applicant for a job. "I'm afraid you won't do," replied the railroad official. "We are advertising for an experienced train announcer." Philadelphia Rec ord. "Father," said little Rollo, "what is an epigram?" "An epigram, my son, as modernly propounded, is any sen tence containing less than two con junctions and three commas." Wash ington Star. "Does she seem to take kindly to so ciety ways, now that her husband has made such a pile?" "Oh, yes,. indeed. She was the loudest talker at grand opera the other night. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "John," queried her husband's wife, "If some bold, bad man were to kid nap me would you "offer a reward ? "Sure thing," replied the wrTS-S-'fius-band. "I always reward those who do me a favor." Boston Courier. Inquisitive Lady And what is this little box for? Nerve-Racked Clerk Oh, for odds and ends! Inquisitive La dy But it has two compartments. Why is that? Nerve-Racked Clerk One for odds, madam, and the other for ends. Harvard Lampoon. : "Would it be any harm to deceive her about my age?" inquired the elder ly millionaire. - "Probably "not. "I'm sixty. How would it do to confess to fifty?" "I think your chances would be better with her if you claimed seventy-five." Kansas City Journal. "How nicely you have ironed these things, Jane!", said the mistress, ad miringly, to her maid. Then, glancing at the glossy linen, she continued in a tone of surprise: "Oh; but I see they are all your own!" "Yes," replied Jane, "and I'd do all yours just like that if I had time." Central Christian Advocate. ; "My brother, my poor brother!" she moaned, as a halfback was carried un conscious from the field. "Ah, but how thankful we should be," her escort, an old player, cried gay ly. "Thankful! Thankful for what?" , exclaimed the girt. : "Thankful that It wasn't a full back," said he. ' "We haven't a decent fullback sub, you know." Minneapolis Journal. . .. Friend So yours was a case of lovo at first sight? Mrs. Getthere Yes, in deed. I fell desperately in love with my dear husband the moment I set eyes upon him. I remember it as dis tinctly as if it were yesterday. I wag walking with papa on the beach at Long Branch, when suddenly papa stopped, and, pointing Kim out said: "There, my dear, Is a man worth tea millions." New . York Weekly. ' "Jane," said a lady rather sharply to her cook, "I must Insist that you keep better hours and t&at you have less company in the kitchen at night Last night you kept me from Bleeping because of the uproarious laughter of one of - your woman friends." "Yis, mum, I know," was the apologetic re ply; "but she couldn't help it 1 was' a-tellin' ot her how you tried to make cake one day." Ladies' Home Journal. Trapped. The perpetually clever man listened solemnly to the tramp's hard-luck story. "That's the same old yarn you told me last week," be said, winking at his companion. "Maybe it is," admitted the weary one aa he started on. "I'd forgotten having met you. I was In the peniten tiary last week." Success Magazine. Many a girl passes for a beauty cause her feet -don't ahow '