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ROUGHAGE AIDS FAMOUS COW Helen Uilkje Calamity Gained in Milk Production When Switched From Grain Ration. When Helen Ifclkje Calamity 145857 was switched from a grain to a purely roughage ration, it was thought that she might object to this change of diet and drop off in milk production, but she didn't In fact, this cow actu ally increased her flow of milk and surpassed any of her previous years' production records by more than 2,400 pounds of milk. Helen, wh# comes of a good old fam ily, and is a granddaughter of Home stead Girl De Kol-Sarcastic Lad, was sent by the dairy division of the Unit ed States department of agriculture from Beltsville,-Md., to Huntley, Mont., in May, 1918. When she freshened on June 21 lt was decided to run her on a semiofficial yearly test without any grain in her ration. Her ration consisted entirely of al falfa hay, silage, and pasture, and she was milked three times a day. The al falfa hay was'of fine quality, and most of the silage was com silage, although .she received a little sunflower silage in December, January and February. The pasture was an irrigated tame grass mixture and was of good qual ity. At four years of age Helen had pro duced at Beltsville 11,476.6 pounds of milk, 382.05 pounds of butterfat, on two daily milkings, and a grain, hay and silage ration. Again, at six years of age she produced 11,778.2 pounds ?of milk, 3S8.29 pounds of fat, on two milkings and a grain, hay and silage ration. She was eight years and three months old when the test on roughage alone began, and her production for a year on that feed was 14,210.1 pounds of milk and 470.24 pounds of fat. Helen is now being run on a sec ond test, three milkings a day, with the same roughage but with a grain .mixture in addition. She has milked .as high as 91 pounds a day, and prom ises to increase considerably her rec ord made on roughage alone. The .dairy division, in co-operation with the Montana experiment station, will run other cows on roughage alone, and .Cows and Corn-A Good Combination in Profitable Dairying. also on roughage and grain, at the Huntley experiment farm, to ascertain the maximum producing ability of good cows when they are fed on good roughage only, with access to pasture, and also when they are given grain in addition to the roughage and pas ture. RIGHT CARE OF COW'S TEATS One of Most Delicate and Troublesome Parts of Animal's Anatomy Influences Milk Flow. One of the most delicate and trou ' blesome parts of a cow's anatomy is the teat, and the keeping of this right has a lot to do with the milk-yielding part of the cow. The cow is kept to produce milk, and the teat is. as it were, the . "neck" through which it must pass, and the condition of the teat must very much influence both the quantity and the quality of the yield. SUMMER ATTENTION TO COWS Fly Aggravation Can Be Reduced by Keeping -Animals in Stable During Heat of Day. Keeping cows- in a cool darkened stable during the heat: of the day and turning them out to pasture at nights will tend to reduce the fly aggrava tion. All stable doors and windows should be screened, and manure, which is the breeding place of flies, should be kept cles.ned away and either scattered over the fields or kept in a place where lt can be screened. DESIRABLE TASTE TO BUTTER Important. That Utmost Care Be Taken in ?Production and Ripening of Cream. Butter made from sweet cream bas rather a flat taste and isn't desirable on that account In order to obtain this clean, sour flavor In the cream it is important that extreme care should be taken in the producing and ripen ing of the same. EOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOft Borrowed g Plumage 8 By ALDEN CHAPMAN 8 ^joeocosooaocGooooososS (?, 1920. Western Newspaper Union.) In serious family council Joel Tal oon, his wife and the daughter of the house, Ruth, discussed the Important subject of the marriage of the son and brother, Waldron, for two years man ager of a small wholesale mercantile house In the city. " 'Miss Arline Burt,' spoke Joel Tal bott-"a pretty, name." "And pretty herself," volunteered Ruth- spontaneously. "Have you seen her pictures, father?" "I am about to show them to you," Interrupted Mrs. Talbott with a certain severe dignity that was rather omi nous. "Waldron has sent us four-a sort of goddess of the season series," and Mr. Talbott regarded the speaker a trifle uneasily, for his wife's tones were tinged with something of sar casm and bitterness'. He wondered why, and was soon enlightened. An envelop containing four photographs was handed to him. He inspected them with curiosity and admiration and made the sprightly remark : "Pretty as a picture, Isn't she?" "That is a question." remarked Mrs. Talbott rather snappishly. "I am not the woman to criticise or Interfere In my son's private affairs, but I am bound to think of his welfare." * "Why, what are you talkinp ahout, Martha?" Interrogated her husband in vague surprise. "If you have eyes, can't you see for yourself?" challenged Mrs. TSlbott. "Those four pictures tell the tale, don't they?" "I think she Is the most charmingly dressed being I ever looked upon," said Ruth. ",Why, yes," nodded Mr. Talbott ap provingly. "Oh! you do?" flared forth the wife and mother. "And let me ask. have you considered what those clothes must cost? Why, the girl simply has the latest and costliest gowns that Paris can make." "Well, even so," suggested the tol erant Mr. Talbott, "she's fitted out for a whole year, Isn't she?" "Yes, and oh! hew I would like to see those lovely dresses," cried Ruth. Mrs. Talbott was for writing at once to Waldron, exhorting him to think twice before he took to himself a ruinously extravagant wife. There her husband set his foot down hard. It was not their prov'nee to Interfere In the heart affairs of Waldron. Per haps he was wedding an heiress who could afford to wear what she liked. But this Idea Mrs. Talhott scouted ut terly by alluding to a letter written In the past by Waldron, in which he had stated that his fiancee was poor, worked for her living, but was good /as gold, and would make him a helpful, economical wife. "Economical !" shrugged Mrs. Tal bott, and looked desperate. "A sister-in-law to be proud of, any way !" whispered Ruth to herself. "I don't blame Waldron for falling in love with such a dream of a beauty," soliloquized the old man. In a couple of weeks the news came informing the family of the weddin?. It was a modest, unpretentious affair. The happy wedded pair were to come to the Talbott home for a week and due preparations were made to re ceive them, although Mrs. Talhott went about her duties under protest. She feared that the bride was likely to ap pear as a capricious, overdressed crea ture, vain and extravagant, a sort of human doll, with finery and display the leading characteristics of her shallow nature. It was upon a Tuesday that the wed ded pair were expected. Ruth, at the gate on the tiptoe of expectation look ing for them, was surprised to see a cab drive up In front of the house dis charging a sinple passenger, a plain, but neatly dressed lady with a suit case, whom she immediately recog nized as her sister-in-law. Arline was wondrously pretty and graceful and there was no affectation. ? but eager, pleased delight as she was welcomed by Ruth and her mother. "Waldron had som* business to at tend to at Wyndham," explained Ar line, "and will be on with the trunks tomorrow. How homelike and cozy lt ls here. Mother, dear, let me help around until Waldron comes, won't you?" She reappeared from her room clad In a simple gingham gown, wearing no Jewelry but her wedding ring, and pre senting not the slightest tract of arti ficiality. Mrs. Talbott was disarmed by her simple, sensible ways, bub Ruth awaited the arrival of those trunks with joyful anticipations. "There certainly is no flash and glit ter about her," admitted Mrs. Talbott to her husband. "She seems anxious Rnd pleased to fall right into our home spun ways and help all she can." "I never was so disappointed In my life!" pouted Ruth to girl friends the next day, when the expected treasure house, the trunk, arrived. "Why, I've got as pretty a gingham frock and a pink organdie and a white lawn as she has. ' "Dainty but economical," voted Mrs. Talbott, and blurted out the Indica tions of magnificence the pictures had fixed In their minds. "Oh! did you think all that finery helonged to me?" smiled Arline. "In dued, no! You see, I was working for a garment house as camera girl. That ISL I posed for their fashion plates in their newest and finest frocks." "Arline needs no gay plumage to make her prettier than she Is!" de clared Waldron. "She certainly does not!" said his father admiringly, and with entnu si as m,_. ROAD BUILDERS STUDY SOILS Highway Engineers Expected to Ob tain Important Information by Investigation. An investigation which promises to place at the disposal of highway en gineers important information regard ing the relation of soils to highway durability has been undertaken by the bureau of public roads, United States department of agriculture. This work includes taking samples of soil '. at spots In the subgrade of a highway where the road has begun to fall, studying surrounding geological con ditions to determine how moisture ar rived In the subgrade, thus destroy ing its value; making laboratory tests to determine the physical char acteristics of soils, and obtaining a scientific measure of the bearing value of soils. In this investigation it ls pro posed to obtain as much co-operation as possible from the various,'-state highway departments. The bureau??? soils Is co-operating with the buJES' of public roads In this work. Jm Preliminary Investigation has b?en started in Maryland on the Wash?r?g ton-Baltimore road, and will be ex tended beyond Baltimore and on .other roads In Maryland. Progress has been made in the matter of laboratory tests, a number of samples of subgrade material and other samples already having been examined. The federal highway*engineers point out that soils differ widely In their ability to support loads, particularly when they are wet. Just why this ls true and just what are the character istics which make them different] ls little understood at present It ls In x-::,:.:- y : .y,y,.-,.>y. :,.;.<:,:.,:v,:,v,:vx >,y.-Mm^MM Improved Highway Near WaaVT^j ton, D. C. this field of Investigation, of increasing Importance because of the growing vol ume of heavy traffic, that the federal investigators expect to secure Impor tant information. POOR ROADS ARE HINDRANCE Farmer Made Unable to Take Ad. vantage of High Prices-Cost of Market News Wasted. Today the farmer has wire communi cation' facilities unsurpassed In the history of the United States. He knows, day by day, the fluctuating prices which prevail for his produce at the marketing points and knowing these things he can arrange to get his goods to market on the day when the price ls the highest if the road Is good. If the road ls bad or impassable then much of the effort which has been ex pended jn getting the news of market conditions to him is lost. MONEY TO IMPROVE HIGHWAYS Counties and States Appropriate $1,000,000,000 for Improvement of Local Roads. ? Our counties and states have recog nized the economic Importance of road construction by appropriating more than $1,000,000,000 to local Improve ments. It ls the nation's part to build and maintain hlg^'^ys, which are of national Importance and which will serve to effect economy, facilitate In terstate commerce and strengthen the common defense. WEEDS ARE VEXING PROBLEM One of Principal Reasons Is That Farmers Have Permitted Plants to Spread Over Land. One of the principal reasons why weeds are such a serious problem on many farms these days Is that' farmers and land owners failed to keep a close watch of fields for new weeds and to have them Identified before they had spread over such large areas as to make their eradication costly. - Joy Riders on Farm* . The day when the city dweller cotHd be looked on as a joy rider and could be accused of wishing roads for his ' personal benefit and enjoyment^ has passed, for there are more joy riders living on the farms than In the cities. 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Below are extracts from some of the many letters received by the Extension Service of Clemson Col lege showing how those who have had the benefit of an official cotton grader feel about it. "I have just sold a lot of 55 bales of cotton that the cotton grader, Mr. R. C. Banks.graded and stapled for me at a premium of from $47.50 to $65 per bale over what I have been getting for my cotton. This was the bad end of my cotton. I believe that it has been a means of saving the farmers in my neighborhood this year between $75,000.00 and$100' year between $75,000.00 and $100,000.00." -R. .M. Spearman, Piedmont, S. C. "By having my cottongraded and stapled, I have sold the bad end of my crop for a't least $2,000.00 prof it."_M. M. Bagwell, Piedmont, S. C. "I have had about one hundred and fifty bales of cotton graded by the Government Cotton Grader here This work was worth from two to five dollars per bale."-B. W. Hei lams. Laurens, S. C. 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