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^ The Auto Question. I nave received several letters from Hartios ask inn as to my plan to control automobiles, control of roads, ?tc. My plan is to form civic leagues and enforce the present laws, p .trol all roads and compel all parties to comply with our existing laws. I mean all travelers, be they autoists *>r farmers, and I mean all travel. If 3'ou or any other man in Indiana can feugyest anything better or more just "write me. This has been my reply to ?.ll private lotters.?J. J. New. If the people are satisfied with the moSont Inws nn.l if ... ... Villi Uu IIIduced to organize, as you suggest, your plan may work, but these are folg ifs. We don't believo either of them can he compassed. Hut let us hear from fillers on this subject.? Indiana Farmer. > P.iishol of Corn and Butter. Cows of fair quality only, such as will make LV>0 to 300 pounds of butter per year, when properly fed make three pounds of butter each bushel of corn : i .'when the two grains arc ground touether and fed. Surely that is a i < : market for corn than wnen sold r.s grain is sold on the market llefcrring to this matter Hoards Dairyman says: "There never was a time when it paid a.- : iotl profit as it does to-day to feed a eow well. Think ot it. Three pounds of butter in a bushel of j corn. That i.- nearly $1 worth of j butter. What kind of a farmer must a man be that will not turn prain into butter at that price? One great trouble is that these farmers have not taken pains to breed good cows tliat it will pay a big profit to feed well. | If ever a farmer led well he should uio it now." {'o . ? I.- "... I The Sow in Farrow. No thing Is so certain to produce a I small and unprofitable litter of pigs 1 .ns to liave the sow in farrow to share ' "to?!r lot or bed with a pen of half ' grown shoats or with other sows. In ( summer she will go off to some so- 1 -eluded spot to make her bed and thus 5 <?seape the danger of crowding. In ' winter or early spring, however, she cannot overcome the habit of hud- ' tiling up with the lot even up to her time and thus endangering her off. spring. '' thrifty farmer will provide ' Bepai'ato pens, or lots, and plenty? 1 not too much?of straw and shelter ' from rain. After the pigs are a week ' old two or three sows may ho run together. Of course, it takes more time ' to water and feed the sows separated this way. but it pays to do it. " YEt is a great disappointment and a real loss of time and feed to have ' your promising brood sow turn up ^ with only one or two pigs. If it is ' your fanlt you cannot make it up this season, and by another the , golden opportunity may have passed. ( ?Farmers' Hnmr> Tnnrnnl r^. "" :"! " -A 1 w.' Prevention of Disease. ^ 'One of the greatest causes of disease among fowls is from lice and not disinfecting the poultry houses properly. I have never had a contagious t.iiftoase among my fowls. Eighteen \y?-flTs ago I lost quite a number from limber neck. I did not know the cause then, but by sad experience .Teamed a lesson that has been worth a. great deal to me. I never allow any dead chickens or any other'kind of flesh to lay about where the chick ens go. It is sure death to them if they n;et maggots from any kind of .flesh. * ^ ."vr destroying lice and mites I fu"'ffliga'to my poultry houses with tobacco and sulphur, usually do this on damp days, and is better if done Mice a week. Wo not only believe It Is ^ooil for the fowls, but for people. We have not had a spell of fever alnco wo have been fumigating with tobacco, while so many of our neighbors have fever every year. This promises to bo the greatest year in poultry business, yet in my experience have never known eggs as high ** they wero last winter. I have never had such a demand for eggs and chickens; can't near supply the orders for the last five or six weeks. If you want every mail to bring in orders n.nd lnquJries advertise in Farmers' 'Home Journal and y>u will have all the work you arc 1 1 nk for.?Mrs. Emily Gibson, in the Fanners' Home Journal. C leanliness in ll<><? Feeding. Tlio hop r< spot as readily to cleanliness and care 1.-? any other animal <ni the fnrin. Not long sinco I vas greatly impro >ed with flic lack jf sanit iry conditions around the yards an ! Iioli es <>f a m.'m who has been growing h ir.-- more or less successfully for ten years. His feeding troughs were foul with decayed food, tho Hoors were damp and f ill of mudhoies that good drainage would have prevented. All fixtures In a hog house should movable. It Is advantageous to the troughs where they may be wn! or scalded out TnVt least. " ' ./ t?r<*Oiat id (/a v yiay ? A Ipkriki /cWk mmm verted Into worms. Damp floors maj be overcome if the house is well aired and windows enough are in it to lei the sunshine in on the floors. It is never best to allow dust to accumulate on the partitions and in pens used for feed. It is always injurious to the health of the hogs. Those who are in the habit of feeding their hogs grain scattered in the mud or dust of a dry yard should build a feeding floor and use it. (% into any herd that is fed in the dust from thrown-down grain and much wheezing ami coughing will ho hoard. This is bad on all hogs, and especially those kept for breeding purposes. In building a feeding floor it should he set off the ground four to six inches and built solidly of good timber. A two by four piece should bo nailed around the whole edge, which will prevent lots of shelled or ear corn being pushed off into the dirt and dust. The floor should he swept off each time before feeding.?W. II, Underwood, in the Indiana Farmer. Scrub Cows Don't T'nv If any of the great throng of farmers who are blindly adhering to scrub cow breeding were asked why he does not keep pure breds lie would reply that it cost too much to start, and that the purchase of a new hull every two years would oat ui a eood sham of the profits. Here are two fallacies that require some attention. Thero are many farmers who will not allow themselves to think beyond the first) cost of a pair of registered calves.' They can not "see" $100 in a holfcr calf, and wonder how any one can bo so foolish as to "throw away" so much money on a calf that the butcher would think dear at $10. But tho buyer of such a calf is not viewing tho question from the butcher's standpoint. lie does not propose to mako meat of a registered heifer, but ho ooks ahead to the time when he will Have a whole herd of registered 'ovvS. anv nnn nf whlpli will no n-nriii nore than double as much as tho ;cruh, whether for dairy purposes or ,o sell. This question of beginning rl^ht is i very important one in all walks of life, but especially to the breeder of ive stock, as the Increase in the herd 500n grows by leaps and bounds and .he first outlay is as nothing compared to the increased returns in tho not llclmt Tl, ? ? - Mwvuttv &UVU1C. 1UU M 1 KIT IV11U >V? Jl lalry fnrruer who figured out a dead loss from scrub cows?practical experience and no guess work. Ilo made a study of the official butter records of the different dairy breeds, and on tho strength of that knowlfdgo ho Invested $700 in three heif3rs that were closely related to tho best cows of the breed, and that avoriged less than thirteen months old. rhat was less than five years ago, and ho now has a nice little herd of purei t>red cows. His cream checks aro apening tho eyes of his neighbors, and he has sold more than $soO north of registered stock at prices very much lower than he paid to get Ids start. He is booking orders for heifer calves before tfcey nre born at ?7") oaeh, aiul future prospects aro bright for nice profits from cream and calves. lie reminds bis friends that tlio man who pa\s $150 for an ideal ear) of corn is not expecting to feed it to the pigs, but that he coolly computes its worth as a brood or of high-class corn, and he is far-sighted enough to seo its lnlluenco on future crops. Doubtless there aro many farmers who take a similar view o? the grain and livo stock problem. They aro thoroughly convinced that it pays to have the best, but they aro just too timid to make the start. They may bo brave soldiers, they may be hcroea In many places of danger; but they have yet to learn that there is such a thing as cool, business bravery. There aro places for bravo men be siaes upon name neius. i iua la 1101 a pica for the reckless expenditure of money with one's eyes shut, hut for a judicious expenditure after carefully >nsldoring the probable returns, not within six months but within a reasonable time. Regarding the outlay for bulls, there are some wrong views entertain "1. It is not always necessary to buy a new one every two years. If he is of good vitality and freo from und'-lrablo qualities, his choice belli s may be bred back to him with no ( nr of bad results. When th^ time <"mo8 to dispose of him, ho will bring enough from the butcher, if in pr .per condition, to pay for a bull calf; y? that the total cost of bull*. mnv >,.> -^wl I., IK, prion i aid for the first one plus the oo.ct of food thereafter. This maj bo r(Mliicod by tho service foes fron tho neighbors who are willing to pa> for tho uso of a good l>u 11. This coat of bulls may bo alto gethor eliminated by breeding to r neighbor's bull if there should be onr of tho right breed and valu< within convenient roach. Comfnunit) breeding, that Is, nil the peoplo ir one region deciding upon one breed will very materially lesson expenses; but this Is too large a problem to con sider hero.?W. II. Underwood, in th< .Indian^^Armer. L^ J^L ??????????? ?? ^ (TEXERAL D. PORFIRIO Di; Calculating Rule ami Pencil Holder. I For the benefit of the engineer and draftsman who is required to liialie liastv calrMilntinns n rnmhlnoil pencil holder and calculating rule lui3 i recently been devised. The calculat ~r Calculating L'ule and Pencil: Holder. : ing rule Is of tubular form, and Is fitted with a slide indicator, formed in the shape of a cuff. On? part of I | the tube comprising the rufe is proj vided with a slide member, which is ; graduated and used in the manner | of the ordinary slide of a calculating rule. Within the tube a pencil may be fitted. By thus combining the rule I \ and pencil, the danger of mislaying ; the rule is avoided, and the coinj * bined instrument is of convenient form to carry in the vest pocket.? Scientific American. A 1'bint Watering Scheme* Persons engaged in rearing hous\*i bold plants are often in a quandary when it is desired to leave the house temporarily without neglecting the lilnnts. ) An arrangement ran be readily rigged 11 p so that the necessary \\;\tor will be supplied to the soil automatically. Take a bowl of water and raise It well above the lorel of the plant to be watered by means fit' a box or a pile of books. Twist several o # ??o n/lf a t* f>Arnmon /i n ruin,* nether to form a long thread and soak them In the water. If one end b?> hung over the bowl and the other end left In the water a steady drip, drip will commence and continue until the bowl ia empty.?London Globe. The Vicious Circle. When Donald came in from school his face showed unmistakable si^ti* of tear^, and at the ilrst symptoms of maternal affection they started to flow again. "Now, Donald, boy, toll mother all about it. What's tho matter?" "Zo teacher she scolded me." "Well, we'll try and forgot that. won't we? Never mind." "But, nmz/.er, zat's jos' what she ecolded nie 'bout. She said I never did mind!"?Youth's Companion. THE NEW SKIRT AND T ^ Kffii M Edith (breaklug into a hop) ? I *h? *-~jn if you keep on trying to ru m. L. 0 I v/M x iviikji lj i'j *> i VJ r LLU. ItoilennuluT licst Lawyer. In spite of the fact that Vincent J. Thompson, a young boilermaker, arrested on a charge of moving mortgaged property from Michigan City to Gary, was opposed at his trial by two of the ablest members of the bar at Hammond, Tnd., he pleaded his , own case so well' and ballled the prosecution without the aid of a lawyer ifi.it a Jury in Judge Ames' court found him not guilty, Thompson compelled one witness to swear that in? tlld not know the difference between a kitchen table and a cabinet. ATI the oratory of the lawyers availed rothlng against Thompson's clevur cross-questioning. A Liovifojncter. Science is slowly killing romance. The latest invention is an Instrument called a plethysmog^aph, for scientiflcarty testing the warmth of lovers' affections. The person whose feelings are to be weighed1 in the balance puts his or her arm into a rubber tmg, whfMl lo Mirw.i H?>.? o .. .1 <111-1 wfcih water. Namw of young mon or young women, jus the case may*be, are Introduced, and if the name stirg the heart tho pulse Discs and the indicator mounts up. If the name leaves the subject unmoved the pulse remains stationary.?Gentlewoman. Ilook-Mnckiiig System. Among the recent inventions is a very ingenious-- book-marking system designed for use by teachers, students and others who have occasion to read from or commit different parts of a book. The- scheme consists of a scries of target-shaped cards of graduating width and of sufficient length' to rest across the page and* protrud? from tho edgtns of the loaves. Tho I extending end of this is marked with | figure, fetter or other i?to sultiisg the convenience of (he one having occasion to consult the hook. Tho other pnd of the slip is fitted with a ; rubber band, which is of sufficient j proportions to lit around the volume from top to bottom. The fu*yMon of ttiis is to hold the marker ii\ place i and to permit of an arrangement of : markers in such a w.ty that one will not overlap another .?nl hide it from view. For a lecturer having occasion to refer frequently to tho different I iiOl'ia t\f *? K<?/^h <1 ii i?( tt * lv am.. i i !> < ti> <? iiiii IMK lliu imil ?U U1 I his remarks tho convenience of this I scheme will he readily appreciated.? Washington Star. HE POETRY OF MOTION. "Hurry up, Mabel; you'll never catch n."?From Puuch. I. i % dj?tS0]& ISofl&S ? "*y ? ? "?*.?'*!, ? ?^.?^? ^ ?-^? ^?-^.?^yW "CaStlo and City Ilaildcrs?RoadMnkers." In hts recent address upon "Tho World Movement," at the University of Berlin. Theodore RooKGvnlt an nlyzed in the following striking phrase the activities of thoso early rulers upon whom devolved the task of laying the foundation for the civilization of Germany as well as Western Europe: "They were castle-builders, city- j founders?road-makers." To-day the first two qualifications have been modified into commercial and industrial variants. The last is absolutely unchanged. Road-making underlies the sheer existence, in an intensified degree the progress, of the entire social fabric of our day, as decisively as it did the first faint stirrings of civilization in Western Europe or the splendid structures reared by the Greeks and the Romans?still further back, tho ; Egyptians. At every stage wherein humanity hao recorded an advancement, whether in the stone-age or In the twentieth century, road-making has walked nana in nana wun mo irau-mazers, hand In hand with those that followed In their steps and amplified the work begun by their endeavors. Europe has not been slow in realizing and materializing the principle. The highways of practically every old-world country are the delight and j the envy of the American tourist, who watches the swift touring car | glide by the wagon in which the peasant is transporting his product , to the city market. That is one radical respect in which Europe takes precedence of the lusty and intelligent new world. The small anil large farmer of the old countries pays no ruinous tire tax, no exorbitant tribute to mud and the i god ol aeiay. Ilia products, measure for measure, i are worth often twice as much as i those of the American farmer, because? He can got them to tho buyer, or j to the railroad, at expense beside | which the similar item In America is mountainous. In another direction, also, tho good roads wisdom of Europe has given its people superiority over America. With negligible exceptions, the old world is thickly settled. There are i fpiv wnjtnnlnniw IJ" ?" > ? ? * l""1, ' fiiguratlvely speaking,. Is occupied. Thero are few wide, vacant, fertile ! areas clamoring raini'j for the hoo and' the plow and the reaper. The reason 13 elemental. Good j roads is a paramount issue in Europe, i They take it as a matter of course, j as they do the government, or the > coming of Sunday, or t:ho necessity oC j buying coal and clothing and food. | Trunk lints bisect kingdom and j empire, republic and. duchy. Good roads and their building is a ' fine science in Europe. It has been so since civilization unfurled it_a- pennants. War, pestilence, famine, panic have not been allowed io inierier.e witn its steady main- I fcenance,. for the reason that the peo pie and their leaders knew that the issue was the lifebitxxl of any people, | any country, any system. Tho ripened wisdom of Europe re- ; proaches the short-sighted neglect of I America, and calls to us for revolu- . tionairy change. In America, arur forefathers built staunchly the foundations of civilization. Since then we have strengthened each separate stone, but one? i inn iftruuuy we nave ignored ;ood roads! To-day, in every American State, tho wholo population, farmer and j I city man, pay blackmail to mud, to ruts, to imi>assability?to no roads at | all! Wo enhance the cost of living, wo ; paralyze development, we perpetuate the waste places and stunt the national wealth by making highway construction dependent upon haphazard and casual practices, rather ilian upon systematic, generous and continual appropriations and methods. In Georgia, we have recorded an awakening. But we are yet a long way, hero and throughout the Nation, from what that mature philosophy which gives stability to the civilization of Europe and which rebukes our own boasted supremacy.?Atlanta Constitution. To Avoid as Well as Cure. The crusado against consumption Is not undertaken chiefly to save consumptives?that must come later, but to prevent youth, infancy, ignorance, i poverty and to prevent you and yours and me and mlno from catching It. The burnt child iln>n/U ?l<n ?>"? tr most children did not get slightly burnt, and so learn the teachments of the law of natural consequences, then they would be burning up themselves and everything around them all the time. The day draweth nigh when no man can say, as so many-now can, "Ignorance of this diseaso destroyed me, ate me, consumed me, burnt me up alive." "Certainly, physicians, for all their knowledge, catch consumption and other diseases and die of them," some will say, "so what's the use?" But considering how much they are exposed, they fare far better than doctors formerly did. i ?Tip, In the New York Press. Wash Day Monday. Scott?"It Is really a problem when to change one's winter underwear." Mott?"Once a week, I should eay."?Boston Transcript. I Knocked Out. "What mado Agatha quit hefng a suffragette candidate?the attack on her past lifo In 'The Dally Knocker?'" "No, it wasn't that. Sho's fearlesB." "Was It tho caricatures of her In 'The 'Morning Pitchfork?'" TCn ullii to Mobloaa nnco. Rut "The Weekly I^adies' Magazine' said that her Paris gown looked as If It wore made of 8-cent calico by the village drc'3B maker."?Cloveland Leader. Heading Off Old Age Pensions. The Massachusetts State Savings Bank Insurance League is going about its enterprise in a businesslike way. It i? attempting to furnish safe and good insurance at. low cost, and is stimulating a discriminating knowledge of what It has for sale. Cheap, saro insurance, providing for the wage earner's declining years, is a necessity In every industrial community. In place of the German pension system, which divides the burd.-n among the state, the employer and the employe, and which means compulsion, and Instead of the English scheme of old-age pensions borne by general taxation. which may mean charity. Massachusetts hns set up a working plan bv which her wage earners mav pro vide their own old-age annuities?ft characteristic American plan which means independence.?Tho Survey. Foli's Irish Supporters. The great baritone, Signer Foil, when singing in grand opera in his native* city, Cork, had to sing one of his songs from a stage balcony. Tho arrangements were not very perfect, and the manager, fearing tlie carpenter had not made tho balcony strong enough to sustain tho weight of tho big man, told two of his assistants to hold it up from beneath. Tho lengUiy signor was only Half through his song when 0110 man said to tho other: "He JaberB, Mike, this Oltalian is moighty heavy f" "Let's drop him, Pat; he's only an Oltalian, afther alff" Voice from the sigr.or above: "Will ye, ye divlls, will ye?" "Tara-an'-ouns! Tat, but he's an Olrlshman: hould him up for tha lolfe of yez."?Strand Magazine. tn Corfu. Corfu, where a magnificent marblo palnce belonging to the German Emperor has just been purchased by an American millionaire, can boast of tho most peculiar land laws fn the world. The landlords aro nearly all absentees, and their tenants hold the land on a perpetual lease in return for rent payable in kfnd and fixed at a ^er' tafn proporticm of the prodnco. Such h leimui is couaiuereu n co-uwnyr of tho soil, and ho cannot be expelled, except for non-payment of rent, bad culture, or the transfer of his lenso without the landlord's consent; neither can Ms rent bo raised without. his permission. Attempts have been made to alter the law, but both landlords and tenants are apparently fratlsfled with a system that, dates back to the time of Homer.?Tit-Bits. Back to the Farm. With the wheat banrest only a few Weeks away, the usnal grist of harvest stories are being put on the boards. This rather new one is circulating around Kansas Just now, though Jt is a safe bet that ft was written by Home Atlantic seaboard fnnntf ? V?... ?/? ? > luuu; uiuu iui <1 i-?cw riUKIUIUl mugR* zlne. A college lad came to a Kansas farmer and got a Job. About 3 o'clock a. rn. by was aroused and told to get up. About half an hour later he came down, fully dressed, and his nackf'fi SllltC?9? in hin linnil "You don't need to take your vallso out Into the fields," Bald the farmer, seeking to give encouragement. "I'm not going to the fields," ho replied. "I'm going out to find n place to spend tho night."?Kansas City Jrti"*n?l. After His Day of Practice. "Do you believe In Sunday has* hall?** asked the bookkeeper of tho shipping clerk. The latter tragically held aloft a puffy forefinger with a distorted secimd Joint. "I bellevo," he answered, "that If Bunday baseball is played at all It should bo confined exclusively to professionals."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Pleasing Combination Post Toasties J tviih Cream and Sugar. , Adding strawberries or any kind of fresh or stowed fruit makes a delicious summer. dishl The crisp, golden-brown bits have a most delightful flavour?a fascination that appeals to the appetite. "The Memory Lingers" Sold by Grocers, Pkgs. 10c and 15c* POSTtTM CEREAL CO., LTD., bfttthe Creek, Mich.