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I Utilize the Waste. T?ere is waste in farm and garde ??'mall potatoes, overgrown tab beets, roots of all sorts, table scrap weeds and weed seeds, meat offa .cooked or raw, fish waste, and mau other things. Benefited by Cement. ' The live stock industry has bee greatly benefited since the use of coi crete in farm construction has gor into general use. Its use in ban stable and pig house floors enables a ? ? ? ? .1 ^ 1 ? _ ?.?*<) + U /\ V\ r\ + i r Iiu secure cieauuiiess iuu mc ucm use of disinfectants for insuring th health of domestic animals. How to Wash a Stable Blanket. A stable blanket that has been i use all winter is usually badly soile and heavy, as well as disagreeabl from a sanitary standpoint. To was the blanket is no small task, but b wise means it may l?e cleansed wit little trouble and labor. Simpl spread the soiled and saturate blanket on sod during a heavy sprin rain, and if one rain does not cleanse put it out during another. As soo: as the ijain ceases and the blanke can be raised, hang it up, dry it air *,ake it in.?Weekly Witness. ^ Liming Land. Which is betterto use on land, caus Lie lime or ground limstone? The former is much quicker in ac tion, and if put on in excess-may "ea up"' much of the humus. But ii quantities of two to four tons pe icre it is considered safe. The ground limestone is muci (cheaper, but is slower in its action The coarser grains will graduall; Field lime for several years. It 1 s perfectly safe and should be used a - freely as four tons per acre. If on S ioes not feel able to put on so mucl tiy two tons. The whole questioi 2>f liming land is not well understood On some land crops, especiall; iegumes, respond wonderfully to it ase, while on other land its effect i Qot noticeable and both tracts ma \ lie close together. It is a good plai " so lime one acre or ten acres, leavini wide strips without it. On land need ing it badly it will pay to lime heav lly. Sometimes alfalfa will grow inti i wilderness of luxuriance on limei soil. Lime is best applied on plowei tfind and harrowed in. Advantages of Soiling. In his recent address on the advan cages of soiling in the dairy business Vlason Knox said to a farmers' club Land has increased in value, labo Is higher and more remunerative re iurns are necessary to the dair farmer. To-day we must bring th liiYiiHani erasKPs to our animals th frhole year. In the winter we us jilage and root crops. In the summe we must soil our animals. We hav m intense interest in our business and who keep the lazy cattle, th blacks and whites, must fetch th tood to them. We keep these animal to produce milk, not to wander fo food. And the Holstein-Friesian i not a good forager. When you pu the food before her as you should she will consume it and give you large net profit. The importance o soiling then too depends upon th creed of animals you keep. It is no 30 important to the Ayrshire to prac tice soiling as it is to the Holsteic Friesian man. They can be kept 0 the moss of rocky pastures and d well, so they say. However, I wotil not advocate any such treatment c any dairy animal. The Ayrshire is wonderfuly good little forager an for pasture farming has no equal but to dairy farmers of this genera tion who have the land that they ca devote to raising rotating crops sue animals have no place in our intens: ?ed business. Alfalfa Seed. Alfalfa seed is a difficult thing t buy and make no mistake. 1. It must not come from a warn: er climate. 2. It must be fresh to be best. 3. It should contain very few sma or shrunken seeds. A Tf V, ^ fv.xw* /I i. XL must, uc tictr iium w cvru sue*. You will bave to look sharp if yo catch the dodder seed in it. Thes seeds are so small they suggest t( baflco seed. borne farmers are so careful to s< cure good seed that they write week before needed to a dozen firms fc samples and sprout a hundred seed to study vitality. If eighty-five c ninety of these 100 grow strong the have fair seed. To watch for weec one should spread it on white papt and examine with a glass. On thin soils alfalfa should be pr< ceded by a crop of cowpeas or clove And if the ground is acid it will a most insure a crop to sow two to foi tons of lime per acre. In souther counties below the drift alfalfa neec fertilizing. But there are many sui cessful fields south of the drift. Break in the spring when dam enough to plow mellow. Plow dee] Harrow often enough to keep dow weeds till the last of June, then so twenty pounds per acre. It shoul be covcred with a barrow. There is uo use to waste seed an work on ground riot prepared for i li requires linci i:geai enuri xo gro elfalfa.?Indiana Farmer. Cow Stanchions or Chains. We are often asked to give our idc as to the best method of fastenin cows in their stalls?whether stanci ions arc more satisfactory tha chains. This is largely a matter < taste, although stanchions have a< vantages over chain fastenings. Pe haps the stanchions are a little moi noisy, but they give perfect freedoi lo the cows, either while feeding c \ nd . i lying down, and are by no means the ,n cruel appliances some narrow-minded 10 people are inclined to consider tbem. s> We eYen believe that cow chains give lf the cows a little too much freedom. ty We have seen cows tied with chains almost turn completely around in their stalls. We have known of other instances where they have choked themselves to death when fastened in , this manner. The stanchion probibits both of these troubles. There are some stanchions made so that every jj cow may be fastened or loosened at >r once by throwing a single lever. This ' is a time-saving invention which the dairy farmer appreciates. Every minute must be made to count on the dairy farm, so that labor-saving devices of this sort are also money ? savers as well as a protection for the cattle themselves. We know of an e instance where an attendant had an eye put out by a cow throwing her ^ head when he was about to put the chain about her neck. The cow * stanchion does away with this danger. All things considered, we believe that f the stanchions are far superior to the " chain ties and every practical dairyn man is quick to realize the advan| tages of this modern convenience for the dairy farm.?Weekly Witness. Improving the Pig Crop. Many farmers have started out this " spring with the intention of doing better by their coming crop of pigs " than they have in the past. By doing better, I mean giving a closer attention to the feed problem, r and the care problem, so that the pigs, when mature, will have made a favorable growth at a low cost, and l* at .the same time have developed ^ strong frames, especially in the case 3 of those pigs which are intended to be s kept for breeding purposes. ? It will be well for every man who desires to bring his pigs through the 11 season in good form and condition to calculate to supply some of those y foods which are known to have a s favorable influence on the develops ment of the framework of the pig. y It is needless to say that corn alonfe Q will not serve the purpose. While it 5 is true that corn in conjunction with good pasture makes a diet for the growing pigs which can hardly be im? proved on, it often happens that the pasture contains little to attract the pigs. In that case they are sure to lie around the yards and stuff themselves with grain in preference to seeking " the grass and the exercise which they >. on erre<it.iv need in conjunction, which : is so essential to the health and thrift r of the animal. The best bone-building foods are y those rich in protein and mineral mate ter.' Skim milk, perhaps, stands at e the head of the list, and it will pay e to lay in some tankage, shortage, and r possibly some bone meal, as well as e pure mineral matter. '> It cannot be expected, however, e that the feeding of feeds bearing e large amounts of mineral matter, s such as have been' mentioned, will r change the conformation of any part s of the skeleton, or, for example, make t a pig stand straight, if he is otherwise. The improvement will have to a be nlade through selection, using no lf male or female that is faulty. e It might, too, be urged that if care* ful selection were practiced, it would be unnecessary to consider -,the diet, l" since strong boned breeding stock n would naturally impress these good 0 points on their progeny. d On the contrary, it might be said ?f that, men have been trying for years a to breed poor hogs out of their herds d without giving attention to a balanced > food ration problem, and they are L" practically where they started. 11 We generally find that when men k feed little or no grain and do not care i* to hasten the growth of their pigs, the quality of the bone is generally very satisfactory. But there is a good deal of time re0 quired in growing pigs in this manner, and while time is nothing to the . hog, it is to the owner, and when he proposes to force growth, he should plan to force it evenly; that is, that jj the pig is not made fat at the expense of his growth and health.? j R. B. R., in Inland Farmer. SOAP PINCUSHIONS ! How and Why They Were Introj duced Into Hospitals. :s| In the operating rocms of hospi ,r tals and on the surgical carriages in Is the wards may be seen a piece of ,r soap stuck with the varieties of pins y which it pleases the doctor and the 's head nurse to most affect. :r The black headed pin long associated with crinoline dressings, retains -- still an honored place, says the Alr umnae Magazine of Johns Hopkins 1- Hospital. The history of the introduction of the soap into the hospital n is interesting. Three years ago Dr. R. H. Follis operated upon a patient at the Church Home. The patient was a P tailor by profession and chanced to P- reside at Annapolis'. When dressings n were made he observed the difficulty w with which the safety pins were put d through the binder and suggested trying the method the cadets at the d Naval Academy had evolved to help t- in pinning through their stiff ducks, w This simple but most effective device was a piece of soap as a pin cushion, and he further remarked that carpenters applied the same principle to screws. Dr. Follis immedi?A?1. ? ? .3 t V n nlnn IT l" t K Pll f'll t 11 cueiy uicu me yuau, ??wi ouv.* cess that it has been generally adopt^ eel in the surgical service. >f i- The damaged masonry of a Gerr man railroad tunnel recently was re e paired by injecting liquid cement unm der a pressureof seventy-eight pounds >r to the square inch. SCENE IN THE ISLAND OF MAVR1TIU The average student of geography i knows that the Island of Mauritius i |ies in the Indian Ocean, about 600 . miles east of Madagascar, and that it belongs to England, but he might not i be able to tell'whether Mauritius is s notably distinguished from a score of Dther islands lying in the southern ' hemisphere, although the name Mau- 1 ritius calls up before two classes of i minds pictures almost as vivid as 1 does the fateful names of Elba or St. Helena. One of these classes consists of the i lovers of romantic literature all over : the world, to whom the name Mauri- i tius suggests the tender and pathetic 1 idyl of "Paul and Virginia," of which ' this island was the theatre. : The second, and much smaller ' class, are the paleontologists, or students of extinct animal forms, to < whom Mauritius is memorable as the last home of th?' dodo, a grotesque and clumsy bird, with only rudimen- < tary wings, which appears to have 1 been extirpated about the year 1650. : In an elaborate and costly work on I the dodo, published in London in 1 1848, under the patronage of Prince : Albert, is found the following quaint < description of the dodo, taken from Sir Thomas Herbert's journal of his visit to Mauritius in 1626: 1 "The dodo comes first to our de- i scription. Here (and nowhere else that ever I could see or heare of) is generated the dodo (a Portuguize name it is, and has references to her : eimplenes), a bird which for shape and rarenesse might be called a Phoenix (wer't in Arabia); her body is < Fac-simile of a drawing supposed to have made from life*by Zanen. ' round and extremely fat, her slow pace j begets that corpulencie; few of them i weigh less than fifty pound; better to { the eye than stomack; greasie appe| tites may perhaps commend them, ! but to the indifferently curious, J nourishment but prove offensive. I "Let's take her picture; her visage darts forth melancholy, as sensible as nature's injurie in framing so great and massie a body to be directed by such small and complementall wings as are unable to hoise her from the ground, serving only to prove her a bird; which otherwise might be doubted of; her head is variously drest, the one half hooded with downy blackish feathers; the other i perfectly naked; of a whitish hue, as i if a transparent lawne had covered it; her bill is very howked, and bends downwards, the thrill or breathing place is in the mid3tof it; from which part to the end, the colour is a light greene mixt with a pale yellow; her eyes be round and small, and bright as diamonds; ' her cloathing is of finest downe, such as you see in goslins; her trayne is (like a Chynese beard) of three or foure short feathi ers; her legs thick, and black, and 1 strong; her tallons sharp, her stomack fiery hot, so as stones and iron "WOLFE'S MONUMENT ON THEI . " ; ( ' 1 ;: . . " " ' 4'-' Top For Milk Jars. I Two purposes are served by the | combined cover and handle for milk | jars designed by a Massachusetts / 1 ' I New Top For Milk Jar. man, as the name of the device indicate? The cover is a circular piece of flat metal with clasps extending , ' <** HE DO^m fS. THE L.VST HOME OF THE DODO. are easily digested in it; in that an< shape not a little resembling th< A.fric oestricheJi." But one living specimen of th< dodo was ever known to have beei seen outside of Mauritius. This on< was brought alive to Europe by s Dutch navigator, and exhibited ii London io 1G39. The evidence o this is contained in a manuscript ii the British Museum by Hailion L'Es trange, and is as follows: "About 1638, as I walked Londoi streets, I saw the picture of a strangi t'owle hong out upon a cloth and my selfe with one or two more then ii company went in to see it. It wai kept in a chamber, and was a grea fowle somewhat bigger than th< largest turky cock, and so legged an< footed, but shorter and thicker an< of a more erect shape, coloured be fore like the breast of a young cocl fesan, and on the back of dunn o rleare r.nlour. The keeDer called it < dodo, and in the ende of a chymne: in the chamber there lay a heape o large pebble stones, whereof hee gav< It many in our sight, some as bigge a nutmegs, and the-keeper told us shei eats them (conducing to digestion).' A distinctly plaintive note in al the literature extent concerning thi dodo excites curiosity and compas sion. In his introduction to the dod< book, from which these extracts an taken, this feeling is appeuled to b; the author as follows: "We canno see without regret the extinction o the last Individual of any race of or ganic beings whose progenitors col onized the preadamite earth." An analysis of the reason for i specially compassionate interest ii the dodo would seem to show that i is founded on the strikingly gro tesque character of the bird, take] with the fact that nature had beei cruelly unkind to her in the matte o:! equipment for self-defense. Sh could neither run nor fly, but was, a one traveler expressed it, "a spec! men of gigantic immaturity, a per manent nestling clothed with dowi instead of feathers, and with wing anrd tail so short and feeble as to b utterly unsubservient to flight." Of this cruelty of nature the dod< herself appeared to be sensible, am to show it in "'her visage," accordin, to the account of Sir Thomas Her bert. At any rate, it made the ei tinction of the dodo, after the discos ery of the Issland of Mauritius by th Portuguese about 1505, go swift an complete as to give it, to one intei ested, a flavor of tragedy. The las of the fifteenth century and the b< ginning of the sixteenth made an er of geographical discovery, when ever sea was filled with the barks of e> plorers and marauding buccaneers i search of new worlds. To these rutt less food hunters the dodo fell a easy prey, while the domestic animal which accompanied civilization war tonly devoured her eggs:. In the narrative of one of these ej plorers, William van Wert Zaner who visited Mauritius in 1602, h speaks of killing; fifty dodos and tal ing them on board his ship, wher they were salted. Assailed thus, bot .n front and rear, what wonder tha tb^ dodo's visage "darted forth me,' ; .iCholy," or that it gave up the ui equal struggle? The cut here show accompanied Zanen's narrative, an is supposed to be from a drawin made by him. The scanty relics of the dodc amounting to little more tnan rrag ments of a head, a leg and a foot, ca be foand only in the treasured collet tions of nations, while the painting made from life of this despised an martyred bird by Roelandt Saver are beyond price. ? From Youth' Companion. }LAW5~0F ABRAHAM, QUEBEC. downward so as to engage the uppe end of the neck of the jar or bottle. The handle, which is connecte wUk Vion ;+r* Iawam vwlii l ii c luvci, iiaa us junci cuu extending downward so as to forr lock-buttons, which keep the to from sliding off the jar laterally. Tb device can be adjusted in a twinkling but it will not. come off unless th handle is turned at right angles wit! the jar. When a bottle of milk i being oarried by this means it can b swung around with no fear of th top coming off?if anybody wants t swing it around. The improvemen of this device over the paper top used on milk jars is readily apparenl It costs more in the beginning, bu in the long run it will outwear, thou sands of paper tops and has the addi tional advantage of providing a han die.?Boston Post. A P.ttsburg widow wfto was com pelled to sell her beautiful hair i order to keep her children fror starving received an offer of marriag from a rich man in Oklahoma. To Carry Medicine Bottles. Tit-- ??a? Iitllka 1 lie WUIIidU W UU uaicio v,?u I an old hot-water bottle by cutting off the neck, sewing brass rings to the top of the bag thus formed, and drawing a stout ribbon through the rings. This forms an admirable receptacle for small bottles, which can thus be carried in hand bag or suit cai-e without fear of damage from leakage.?New Idea Woman's Magazir.e. j Save the Hands. ; Housekeepers can thus save the appearance of their hands, so they need a net wish they could leave the? at ^ heme when they go visiting: Have ? plenty of thick, sofit holders near the [ stove, with which to take hold of the j pets and pans.. Keep a pair ?f gloves j hrndy to use when putting wood in j the stove, or to work in the garden, or pick over coal ashes, or to put on when you sweep. Rub the hands at j night with a mixture made of equal 5 parts of glycerine and rose-water to . which add one drop of carbolic acid. " - - - J :?u j I After scruDDing or wasmng uiauco g bathe the hands Id vinegar or rub t with a cut lemon; and when you sit 5 down to your sewing, if they feel like j a nutmeg-grater, rub them with camj phor, which will make them soft and . pliable.?Farm Journal. r " The Real Test. ! The kitchen is where the real test 7 comes. Here is more prose than* poef try, and it takes the best efforts of all 3 concerned to keep order and harmony s in this domain. System is the key to g the situation. Plan your work a day > ahead?see that wood, water, and 1 food are all at hand before you sleep, e Then know at what hour you need to . l-ise; set your alarm clock, and obey 3 its earliest summons. e In summer there is no better / y breakfast than coffee, fruits, melons, t Gutter, eggs and cream, with good f old-fashioned buttermilk and honey . in the comb. All these are available, - too, on a well-regulated farm. Dish-wa3hing is an item, so prea*"pare for it. Have a big boiler of hot i water, and an abundance of cold, t plenty of clean cloths and drying - towels. If you have no sink, use a a ten-gallon pan or basin set in{p a a hole to fit it, on the kitchen table, r Some really good soap and a willing e mind are all that is needed to make s "dish-washing endurable. ? Progres liive Farmer. a Linen Closet. s To one house with large rooms and e plenty of dlosets there are a hundred apartments so cramped for space that o a good-sized linen closet is an und heard-of luxury. But, /since linen 6 closets are a necessity to the careful - housekeeper, there is nothing to do but to make one. A practical closet may be made of e packing cases, one, two, or three, as d one needs them and has room for them. Fasten the lids with hinges it and line the sides and bottoms with : unbleached calico, in which, if dea sired, might be stitched pockets to y hold sachets or sweet lavender. The > lids should be padded outside with n horsehair and a permanent rough i- cover stitched on. Over all i3 fitted n a neat cretonne cover, with a flounce S hanging around the sides. If possi'* ble, it is best to have three boxes, one for the. sheets, one for the tablet cloths, napkins, doilies, etc., and the i. other for pillow cases, bolster cases, 0 j and towels. > Shirt-waist boxes may be con* 6 J structed in the same manner.?Philab delphlai Telegram. I s ? Polenta Dabs.?Scald a pint of In* ^ dian meal in boiling water. Mix toy gether one tablespoon of butter, two 8 beaten eggs, two tablespoons of cream and a pinch of salt. Stir tms Into the cornmeal and drop from a npoon into a buttered pan. Bake in ii moderate oven. Boiled Black Beans. ? Let the beans soak in a basin of water for .three hours. Drain and boil in fresh water for three hours. Drain again and put into another saucepan with a little stock, a tablespoonful of chutney and a teaspoonful of mushroom catsup. Cook for another half hour and turn onto a dish garnished with boiled rice. Bread Omelet.?Soak a teacupful of bread crumbs in a cupful of hot milk. Break six eggs into a bowl, stir gently until mixed, then add the bread and milk. Season with salt and pepper and turn into a hot frying pan containing a spoonful of melted butter. Fry the omelet slowly, and when brown on the bottom cut in half, turn and brown on top. Tapioca Jelly.?Let half 'a cupful ~ of tapioca soak for two hours in a >r cupful of cold water, standing the dish in a basin of warm water and d keeping it in a warm place. Pour s two more cupfuls of water into a n saucepan, add a cupful of sugar and p the rind of half a lemon cut into e shreds. Squeeze in tlic juicc of a lemon. Boil for five minutes until e the sugar is dissolved, pour in the h tapioca and water and cook gently s for twenty minutes. Pour into a e mould and serve when cold with e whipped cream. o Turkish Rice.?Put into a saucct pan a cupful of stewed and strained 6 tomatoes. Add half a pint of stock, ? one chopped onion and salt and pep* per to taste. When the mixture * comes to a boil, stir in a cupful of well washed rice. Stir lightly until l" the liquor is absorbed; then put in a cupful of butter. Steam over a slow fire for twenty minutes. Rei move the top, stir gently and covcr n with a cloth untli the steam has esn caped. Add a cupful of cold choppcd e meat. Cook for another three minutes and serve very. jiot. A Palpable Hit. Senator La Follette said of a n torious financier the other day: "He got rather a setback in a ta ho Vinrl lnef- rps?1oti with one of O men. " 'Money?' he said. 'Bah. The are thousands of ways of makii money.' " 'Yes, but only one honest wa: our man remarked. " 'What way's that?' " 'I thought you wouldn't knc It,' was the reply."?Washingt< Star. In the Dark. A story Is being told about a ce tain European sovereign who paid visit to England two or three yea ago. He attended a bridge party o: afternoon, and, as darkness began fall, his hostess said to him: "S if you'll allow me I'll call for lighi I can't distinguish the king from t knave."?London Daily News. , ; . From Singapore over $13,000,0' worth of goods are annually shipp to the United States, yet, of the tol number of 29,234 vessels enter there in 1908, only one small crt was American. Mine lUAUG WELLAND STROM By Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound Jefferson, Iowa.?"When my ba | was j ust two monl JjWteHfc, v? old I was co pletely run do1 :?ML- and my internal gans were in tei :V^ /?ole shape. I beg 1114? ^ Bp taking Lydia iStH BM Pinkham's Vege l>\ ?-p? j|p| ble Compound, a * rW mother wrote a ^#i^S^SplStold you ^ust hoi! 7; nWP was. I began to gi / /. / / / at once and now -/if km real welL" .Mrs. W. H. Bttbgeb, 700 Cherry ? Jefferson, Iowa. Another Woman Cored* Glenwood, Iowa. ? 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Guaranteed t mamvhirk. 92 GLENN'S TL Sulphui For Soap' Clears the complexion, Skin w itens the hands and is a time-tested remedj for skin diseases. Sold by HUTi Hair aid Wkuktr Dy?, druggists., Uuk ar hiws. 59c. v fllTEIITO Wat?oDE.Colpm?n,W PS I KM l\ IngtOD.D.C. Books free. E 1 H I Ball I Uot reference*. B?a; res E^isTbompson'sEyeWal The Crick. One need not take the crick seriously. Every Londoner has it; some badly, others only sligh One does not say? much about it cause one pretends that it is there. Of course, if aeronautics i aviation were to remain long in tb infancy, and the crick were to beco chronic, one would have to take si in the matter. But before very lc the news that an airship is to be 3< moving over the metropolis will ] be received with more notice tt the information that a motor bus v be seen in the Strand. At the r ment, however, the airship and 1 aeroplane are a sort of mechani Halley's comet. A thing to be stai at, even if one has to wait hours do so. The crick means all that. A more. With some people it me< climbing out of skylights at the 1 of very high buildings, walking pe ously along the dizzy leads a mounting the ultimate chimi stack. Before one gets the cTick tl way one has to become eligible the Alpine Club. With other reo it means standing in Piccadilly Ludgate Circus, wheeling incessan this way and that like a spinning t With everybody the crick m?ans I complete dismissal of business the best part of a day. Whether j see the aerial object or not, you i the crick and even then you do i '-omplain of the pain in your ne You glory in it.?London Globe. The known petroleum areas of I country cover 8850 square miles a :he natural gas areas 10,055 cam miles. 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