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mt\ mm . t/iEm MAKING A PROFIT IN CREAM Many Dairymen Are at Loss to Know Which Ts Most Profitable Way 1 to Dispose of Product. <By G. L. MARTIN. Montana Experiment Station:) ' -The rapid development of the ice cream business within the past few years and the increased call from city trade, hotels and restaurants has cre ated a large demand for sweet cream. For these trades it is desirable that the cream should test about 20 per cent, but often the test may vary up to 40 per cent, depending greatly upon the method of operating the band separator. When selling cream to creameries, the price is quoted per pound of butterfat, but for ice cream and hotel purposes it is customary to pay by the gallon. As a' consequence many dairymen are at a loss to know which is the most profitable way to dispose of their cream. The follow ing general rules may serve to de termine the relative market pri?e per pounds of butterfat or gallon of cream: To find the value of a gallon of cream when butterfat is a certain price per pound, multiply the percent age of fat by 8 (the number of pounds In a gallon) and the product by the price per pound. At 30 cents per pound ior At, 20 per cent cream would be worth 48 cents per gallon; 25 per cent cream, 60 cents per gallon; 80 per cent cream, 72 cents per gallon; 40 per cent .?ream, 96 cents per gallon. At 35 cents per pound for fat, 20 per cent cream would be worth 53 cents per gallon, and so on. To find the price per pound for but terfat when the price per gallon of cream is known, divide the price per gallon by eight times the per cent of tat At 40 cents per gallon, 20 per cent cream would be worth 25 cents per pound of fat At $1 per gallon, 40 por cent cream would be worth 31% cents per pound of fat. CONVENIENT AS MILK STOOL Lard Tub or Large Candy Pal! Can Easily Be Converted Into Handy Device for Dairy Barn. (By G. A. RANDALL.) The cut shows a handy milk stool and one very easily made. From a lard tab or large candy pall, with a key bole saw cut out the wood at the top, aa shown. One may thus make three or more legs, as desired. I find four* are best. The top hoop must be re moved to do this. Remove .the side handles or ball and cut in the center of the bottom two semicircular open ings to fit the hands as desired, these for a handle. This stool ls stout, light and the right height: for an ordinary person. i . i/ Most Profitabie Cow. The dairy farmer realizes that the comfortable cow is the most profitable ?ow and that induces him to look after the comfort of all his stock. Naturally he gets better returns from them. Cleaning Dairy Pallu. i . In cleaning the dairy palls, special attention must be given the ears and seams, else dirt and milk will be lodged there, souring and tainting the milk as soon as drawn. ; Unprofitable Cow. There Is no longer an excuse for the unprofitable cow, the Babcock test and a pair Of ssa'les, anti ft fs easy to ascer tain whether or not she ls "delivering tba goode." DAIPY NOTTS To have your cows milk long, milk them clean. . . . Uneven salting and working malee ?treakV butter. . . . Good, cows are the first essential of profit?We dairying. . . . It pays to please and satisfy a cow. 'SL happy cow is a profitable cow. . . * Use the curry comb and brush on th? dairy cow every day. It pays. "i . . . ' To feed economically, cows should bo fed as individu?is, not as i* herd. ? . * Cream that is being ripened should be strained several times belora it li ready for churning . ? . There is more money In feeding a steer than In feeding a poor dairy cow, and much less work. . . o Protecipij? cream and milk frern be ing contaminated by stable air by fcgeplQff tho cana, covered. Oomel?uifl THelpsT BUILT AROUND A DEAD TREE Summer Rest Seat That Is Not Expen sive, and an Ornament to Any Grounds. The fact that summer rest seats do not have to be expensive to be at tractive is demonstre.ted in the seat I s sen in the accompanying illustration. The seat has been termed the "Tree Summer Seat," from the fact that it is really built around a tree which was at one time growing at the point where Attractive Summer Seat and Shade Built About the Trunk of a Dead Trot. it now stands. Upon finding that the tree had lost.all signs of life, the gar dener in this park devised the novel idea of turning the dead trunk into this artistic seat rather than dig it out bodily. Suiting the action to the decision he cut the main limbs off about six feet from the ground and to the top of these he fastened a pretty roof, which is made of palin branches. This done, the seat, which runs all around the trunk at a distance of about a foot and a half from the ground, was made out of sections of palm branches. In addition to being inexpensive, this seat is one of the most attractive in this very elaborate park. This suggestion might well be fol lowed by others. It is not an uncom mon sight to see unsightly dead trees in public parks, which might be con verted into useful and ornamental ob jects fcLstead.-r-Wwld's Adyanee. SCREEN OF GOOD APPEARANCE Has Durability and ls Distinguished Looking, ls Claim Made for New Idea on Market. The attitude of the average person toward screens is expressed by the epigram, "Screens is Screens." When the fly fooler is in need of repairs, the man who is doing the work gets a few yards of screen with no regard to its nonrusting and wearing abilities. A western concern has invented a rust-proof which, acording to the man ufacturers, is finished with ten coats composed of three different materials. The copper coats are put on first; then the zinc coats are applied, and lastly a finishing material of lacquer ls put on, which protects the zinc and also adds to the rust-resisting qualities of the screen. All these coats are applied to the wire cloth after weaving by an elec tro-galvanizing procesa The color after finishing ia a dull aluminum, making a handsome, dla* tlnguished looking screen. Billboards a Public Nuisance. Billboards are a pabilo nuisance. The*- are dangers to human beings who have to live near them. They present real perils from the stand point of public health, fire protection, police protection and reasonable safe guarding against accident. This ls the new and practical prin ciple upon which the city council is now asked to amend Sections 706 and 707 of the present building code. It is a weapon against the billboard nuisance forged out of the perfectly definite practical rights of the citizen instead of from that newer metal known as his aesthetic rights. We may not nave reached feilte stage mhea we have established the fact that a citizen has the right to be protected against eye-sores, but we' certainly long ago reached the point when we recognized that his sanitary welt be ing, the protection of his life and prop erty were charges of .the state.-Chi cago Post. Barter? Soul for Lump of Boll. The vice of earth eating ls spread ing through, tropical parts of the Americas, the natives being from in fancy addicted to the fatal habit, known scientifically as geophagy. lt Is always fatal, producing dysentery in adults and dropsy in the very young. Native mothers inculcate the vice into their children by giving them chunks of soft clay to eat. Once fastened on a person, the vice of geophagy becomes insatiable, and tbs victim will barter his Immortal soul for a lump pf soft, white clay. Established 1894 BLACKSTONE COLLEGE FQR;G!RLS . JAMES CANNON, Jr., A.. M., p." D^P.reiic?ent;.. ? .;. Faculty of 33; 427 Students, from 20 States. Accredited by Virginia State Board of Educa tion. Hundreds of graduates now teaching. $160 per year iri Academic Dept.; $200 per year in College Dept. The Leading Training School for Girls in Virginia Where can parents find a College with as fine a record, with as experienced management, at such moderate cost? For catalogue address G. P. ADAMS, Secretary, BLACKSTONE. VA. FRESH AIR BAKING MEANS BETTER COOKING "VT'ES ! I am doing all my baking in X a NEW PERFECTION Oven on a NEW PERFECTION Oil Cook stove this summer." "It bakes bread so richly browned-such delicious biscuits - such light, fluffy cake," The secret is the current ef fresh hot air passing continually over and under the food -drying out the steam and preven ting sogginess, an exclusive advantage of the NEW PERFECTION Oven. With a NEW PERFECTION Oil CookstoveandaNEW PERFECTION Oven you can have a cool, clean kitchen all summer. No wood to cut; no coal to carry; no smoke or ashes. The NEW PERFECTION is like a gas stove. 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These pianos are used in over four hundred schools and colleges in the United States. The workmanship is the highest, and all instruments are fully guaranteed. Sold on terms of easy payment by J. A. Holland Greenwood South Carolina J. C. LEE, President F. E. Gibson, Sec. and Treas. FARMERS, MERCHANTS, BUILDERS, If you are going to build, remodel or repair, we invite your inquiries.. COMPLETE HOUSE BILLS A SPECIALTY. We manufacture and deal in doors, sash, blinds stairs, interior trim, store fronts and fixtures, pews, pulpits, etc., rough and dressed lumber, iath, pine and cypress shingles, flooring, ceiling and siding. Distributing agents for Flintkote roofing Estimates cheerfully and carefully mane. Woodard Lumber Co. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Corner Roberts and Dugas Streets. Our Motto: SSS For Sale by STEWART & KERNAGHA EDGEF1ELD, S. C. ARRINGTON BROS. & CO. Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Corn, Oats, Hay and all Kinds of Feeds Corner Cumming and Fenwick Streets On Georgia R. R. 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