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% * S-v-S_: Scours in Pigs. An Iowa correspondent in Wallace's Farmer says that ho has found a teaspoonful of soda put in a sow's slop before feeding once a day for two or three days to be an effective cure for ordinary cases of scours in young pigs. Value in Disposition. Disposition is indicated very largely in the brain development, and disposition means lots of money in a Horse, wnen l was a Doy we uiuu u think half as much about the disposition of a horse as we do tc-day. Millionaires, people who are looking for fancy teams, are willing to pay for disposition* because they don't want to have their families, their children's lives endangered by having rattle-brained horses, and other men are looking for good dispositioned horses because they don't care to have their fine turnouts, their fancy wagons broken up by a horse that will get rattle-brained.?George McKerrow, Madison, Wis., in The Cultivator, 1 Milk and Cream. Recent investigations among the herds which supply the Pennsylvania' State College creamery with milk and cream, show that on some farms it ( requires nine cows to produce as much net profit as produced oy nve average cows in the herd of grade <lairy cows kept by the college. Some men receive as little as ninety-nine , cents, $1.05 and $1.20 for each dollar's worth of feed consumed, while others receive from $1.50 to $1.80 for each dollar invested in pasture, I hay, grain, etc. As a result of this work twelve farmers are now keeping , records to determine which are the ' least profitable cows. Samples of ,each cpw's milk are tested by the col- ( v lege creamery. ( Early Catting of Alfalfa. Many start out with the erroneous ; Impressions about cutting alfalfa. : They have been induced to put in the crop because of its great feeding value and that some three or four ] cuttings may be taken from the field ( during one season. If you want a j strong, vigorous stand of alfalfa, i don't be in too big a hurry to clip It to get rid of weeds, or don't cut the < crop from a newly seeded field too ; noon. The rrnn should be nretty well matured before it is cut. It is important that the plant be well established and the crown buds set for subsequent crops, before the first \ crop is' taken off. After the first year three or four cuttings may be made, providing each one is done at the right time.?Indiana Farmer. : Light in the Stable. To the absence of proper light in the stable may be attributed many of the ' diseases to which the eyes of horses are liable. It is easy to imagine how < the animal must feel and the conse- < <juences which are likely to be the 1 result, from our own painful sensations on issuing from a dark place to . the full blaze of the sun. A repeti- j tion of this several times during the day would be inevitably attended with most injurious consequences. A stable ought to be as well lighted as a house, so that this source of injury may be avoided and also that any want of cleanliness may be readily detected. In stables which have a & WKAnAw /tMowfifv r\P l?rrV? + v^uauiii; \j L ouut ters may be partially closed when the animals hhve fed properly and lie down to sleep. Many animals ' stand too long and this subdued light is more apt to produce drowsiness, inclining him to repose, during which ' time the food is well known to have the most salutary effect in increasing the muscular fiber and the cellular and adipose substances.?W. R. Gilbert, in The Epitomist. Selling Fertility. Every time a farmer sells a ton of wheat he sells $11.62 in fertility; in a ton of clover hay he sells $8.62 in fertility; in a ton cf alfalfa hav he sells $8.63 in fertility; in a ton of oats he sell3 $7.81 in fertility, and in a ton of corn he sells $6.47 in fertility. If these products be fed -on the farm under proper conditions, and the resulting manure be returned -to the soil, there is a very slight loss <of fertility, for the following products may be sold instead: In selling a ton of finished beef on trie hoot tne iarmer sens but $5.37 in fertility; in a ton of live hogs lie sells but $3.70 in fertility; in a ton of milk he sells but $1.4S in fertility; in a ton of cheese he sells but sixty-nine cents in fertility, and in a ton of butter he sells twen* -ty-seven cents in fertility. The best policy for the farmer to adopt is that :system of corn and crop rotation -which will embrace not only the .growing of grain, but the breeding and feeding of stock, either for sale in the form of beef or pork, or for the production, whether for milk, cheese and butter.?Professor Holden. Growing Good Tomatoes. Any ground that will grow potatoes is good for tomatoes. Plow the ground, harrow, and drag till it is well pulverized, lay off in rows about four feet apart and set plants about four feet in row. When setting, cover ail the stem j to the leaves. This has a three- 1 fcld purpose. It protects the plant fpom drouth, keeps them from breaking down during a wind and gives them more room for roots. Cultivate as for corn or potatoes j ~ * 1 ?aP&^ until vines cover ground and there is danger of breaking them. It -vines are pruae'd and tied up to a stake the fruit will be larger and moro uniform in size, but vines do not yield as many tomatoes as thoso left to spread on ground or on a rack. We find they do splendidly and the fruit keeps clean if they are mulched with straw after they are cultivated the last time. If potato bugs get on vines when rhev are small, use naris green, but do not use it after fruit sets, as there is danger of poisoning the fruit. The best way to keep clear of bugs is to keep them killed in the potato patch ?then they cannot travel to the tomatoes. If growing for a cannery, the early fruit pays best as the vines make more fruit per plant and the cannery will not pay any more for the very late ones than for those grown when tomatoes are plentiful. Hints on Breeding Sheep. As the result of several years of experience, the Wisconsin station publishes the following conclusion: From the breeding records of ST "1 A f 1/Nn TT?A CWC5 au LilJO Oiaiiuu rr ^ wu^iuu^/ that, for such animals and conditions as ours, the normal period of gestation ranges from 144 to 150 days after the date of service, and that more ewes will lamb 146 days after service than at any other time. There is no appreciable difference in the period of gestation for male and female offspring in sheep. There is an apparent relation between the duration of the period of gestation and the period required for maturity. Quick-maturing breeds appear to carry their young for a shorter period than those breeds requiring more time to mature. Large lambs are on the average carried in the utero for an appreciably longer period than small or medium lambs. Lambs dropped before the 144th and after the 149th day of pregnancy are lacking in strength and vitality at birth. Shropshire ewes are more prolific than any of the other breeds and crosses, except the fourth cross of Shropshire rams on a Merino ewe foundation. From the data presented it is apparent that twins are the normal increase for ewes of the mutton type. ~ Farm Notes. Decaying food and stagnant water will injure the health of the cow, and the quality of the milk. The hours of milking should he regular, and each cow should be milked in regular order. A good maxim for the farmer is "Always be on the alert for ideas that will serve to better your condition." A surplus rooster is an expensive ornament in the poultry yard. Eat or kill the surplus roosters before they eat double their value. When cows teats are tender and they are sensitive and inclined to be Irritable when being milked, apply linseed oil after each milking. A dairy cow should not be allowed to wander over a very large field, as the energy spent in walking about will show in a reduction in quality of milk. Unsanitary surroundings cause more disease, puny and unhealthy birds, and more general loss in the poultry yard than all other causes combined. >ve agree morougniy wun any proper scheme that may be introduced on the farm that will be pleasant, helpful or entertaining to the women folk. Fowls do not require so much care as an inexperienced person might think, but the care must be intelligent and given regularly and at the right time. Some fowls are better adapted to cold than to warm weather. Corn is a cold weather food. Feed more oata and wheat and less corn as the weather grows warmer. Set your hens in movable nests. One advantage in movable nests is that they may be removed, sprinkled with oil and burned off, if mites become troublesome. The best possible time to separate cream from milk is when first drawn, and while the animal heat is still retained. The- farm separator takes out the cream before the milk cools or becomes sour. No matter how successful you might be, it is a good plan to never feel really satisfied. The man without some high aim in view is more than likely to lose a great deal or ambition which is unworthy of any. one. Unnecessary Noise. Once when Judge Gray, of Chicago, was trying a case, so says an exchange, he was disturbed by a young man who kept moving abput in the rear of the room, lifting chairs and looking under things. "Young man," Judge Gray called Oil!, "you HI'S imiHiiio a gicitt ueai ui unnecessary noise. What are yoq about?" "Your Honor." replied the young man, "I have lost my overcoat, and am trying to find if." "Well," said the venerable jurist, "people often lose whole suits in here without making all that disturbance/ It is estimated that Great Britain spends $150,000 a day on theatres, ... . ; . -ft* - -c-r-. i ';> . v.< * . GETTING WORSE. Doctor?Well, madam, you better tell your husband to give you a list of his property and money as soon as possible. Wife (bursting into tears)?Oh( doctor, is it as bad as that? I thought you said he was getting better. Doctor?That's just it; he's almost well, and I want to find out how he's fixed, so I'll know how much to charge him.?Toledo Blade. Farm Wages In United Kingdom. The British Board of Trade returns furnish an interesting comparison of the amount of wekly wages paid to aericultural laborers in England, Scot land, Wales and Ireland. It appears that In England the highest average wage is $5.Cb. paid in Durham, and the lowest $3.48, in Oxfordshire; in Wales the highest is $5.10, in Glamorgan, and the lowest $3.7G. in Cardigan; in Scotland the highest is $5.32, in Renfrew, and the lowest $3.26, in Shetland, Orkney, and Caithness, while in Ireland the highest is $3.12, in Down, and the lowest $2.10, in Mayo. The highest wage in Ireland is 14 cents lower than the lowest in Scotland, 36 cents lower than the lowest in England, and no less than G4 cents lower than the lowest in Wales. j DOGS AS WATCHMEN'S HELPERS. j Easily Trained and Often Show Considerable Sagacity. "Training dogs to assist the watchmen and police is a very simple matter," said an old private watchman of the city, who formerly walked a beat In the South End. "Tv>o-e liUo tho work. Then eniov prowling around through alleys and back yards and nosing into corners and behind barrels and piles of boxes, and their wonderful sense of smell often enables them to locate an intruder so securely hidden that his presence would never be suspected by a watchman. "When I was walking a beat a large Newfoundland dog began following me of his own accord. I didn't encourage him at first, but let him go along on my rounds as much for company as anything else. That dog watched me like a detective and seemed to understand everything I did; followed me into every yard, and in less than a week knew every house that I was employed to watch. "In ten days he was doing a large part of my work. Of course he could not try the doors, but after the first round, when I tried all the doors and saw that everything was right, all I had to do was to send him in to search the yard, and he did it thororoughly. If anything was wrong he barked and I ran in to see what was the matter. Once a back door was open. The gentleman of the houso had come in late, left the door unlatched and the wind blew it open. Tne dog Knew 11 was wrong ana vain.ed for me to come. "Another time I heard him barking in a back yard, and running in, found he had cornered a man hiding behind a pile of boards. The dog worked with me for nearly three years. Every evening, no matter what the weather that dog was on hand at the patrol box where I reported. On cold nights we would go into an engine house to warm, and while the dog enjoyed the warming hour as much as I did he was no skulker, but whenever I was ready to go he was ready, too. "I lost him because his owner moved out of the city, but as soon as it became known among the dog population that he wasn't working his plage ^as taken by a hound that I had often noticed following us in a furtive fashion, as though he -would like to be of the party, but didn't want to intrude, and the new dog seemed from the first to understand everything that ought to be done and did it as well as his predecessor."?St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. PUTS THE "GINGER" IN. The Kind of Food Used by Athletes, A former college athlete, one of the long distance runners, began to loss his power of endurance. His experience with a change in food is interesting. "While I was in training on the track athletic team my daily 'jogs became a task, until after I was put on Grape-Xuts food, for two meals a day. After using the Food for twc weeks I felt like a new man. My digestion was perfect, nerves steady and I was full of energy. "I trained for the mile and the half-mile runs (those events whicl: require so much endurance) and then the long daily 'jogs,' which before had been such a task, were clipped of! with ease. I won both events. "The -Grape-Xuts food put me ir perfect condition and gave me my 'ginger.' Xot only was my physical condition made perfect, and myweight Increased, but my mind was made clear and vigorous so that I could get out my studies in about half the time formerly required. Now most ail of the university men use GrapeNuts. for they have learned its value, but 1 think my testimony will not be amiss and may perhaps help some one to learn how the best results can be obtained." There's a reason for the effect ot Grape-Nuts food on the human body and brain. The certain elements in wheat and barley are selected with special reference to their power for rebuilding the brain anu nerve centres. The product is then carefully and scientifically prepared so as to make it easy of digestion. The physical and mental results are so apparent after two or three weeks' use as to produce a profound impression. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a reason." * A Prehistoi THE DIPLODOCUS SKELETON 11* PITTSBURG?MR. CARNEGIE E LICA TO THE GERM A Pie Cutter. A California man thinks that the common method of dissecting pies by the aid of the ordinary knife is too slow and also too inaccurate for these days of hustle and bustle. He came to the conclusion that a specially designed pie cutter was necessary for the purpose, and consequently concluded to devise one, the result of his work being shown in the illustration. This pie cutter comprises a I base adapted to support a pie 01 tne common size and shape.. Hinged to the back of the box is the cutter proper, consisting of a lever and the knife blades. The latter are suspended from the lever directly over the place designated for the pie, and are arranged to divide the pie into six or more pieces at ouc operation i: i of the lever. Families containing many children would find this novel pie cutter invaluable. As the pie would be divided into pieces of ex- j actly equal size, there would be no | possibility of showing partiality, and petty quarrels over who was to get the biggest piece would be eliminated. Too Hasty. Governor Harris, of Ohio, said in an after dinner speech in Columbus: "This matter is a serious matter, and it must be taken seriously. Haste is a bad thing. It surely always causes error. "I used to know a manufacturer. He was a good, honest man, but rather strict, rather close. Furthermore, - ' ' I 1 li.il - V He was mcimea 10 De a niue uaoij. "He had instituted in his mill a system of fines?fines for lateness, fines for mistakes, fines for spoiled work, and so on. "Well, in the rush season, happening to awake one morning very early, he wen: to the mill a little after starting time. As he got out of his automobile he saw a pale, haggard, hollow-eyed man walk wearily through the gate. I " 'Aha, Joe Harris,' he shouted an-' grily, 'ten minutes late, eh? Well, - you're fined fifteen cents. Not a word ' now. That's the rule.' " 'Take you're time, boss,' Harris answered. 'I ain't knocked off from yesterday, vet.' "?Washington Star. A Judge's Sharp Tongue. ^ Many "\aint sayings of Lord t Young, a famous Scotch lawyer who > has just died, are being recalled by the English press. Once a iittle adr vocate who was slightly misshapen i iioptiorj thp ereat lawyer beyond i what his patience would stand, and t finally pinned him on the exact meani lng of a mark of interrogation. "I y would called it," said Lord Young, ! fixing his eyeglass in his eye, * a little crooked thing tha.. asks questions." l It -ras not long ago that, looking I HOW MODERN PROGRESS BREAK! A RAILROAD ENTERING PE ?ik- ;t't. & - -fi i ic Reptile. * J THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM AT 1ECENTLY PRESENTED A REPlN GOVERNMENT. across the table at a public dinner at the over-rubicund cheeks and fishy eyes of his opposite neighbor, he inquired who the owner of the vinous countenance might be and was told he was the president of a water trust. ~Aye," said L<ora loung, -wen, he looks like a man that could be trusted with any amount of water!" Some one told Lord Young that the House of Lords had on appeal affirmed a decision of his. 44 It may be right, after all," was his lordship's reply.?Bellman. The Happy Reign. Happy, it has been said, is the people that has no history. Yet more happy the kings who are in the same case. Recently Oscar II. of Sweden visited a Stockholm school. He questioned a pupil, the best of the class, they had told the King. "My little ?friend," said Oscar, "tell me some remarkable fact of my reign." The child reflected, hesitated, was greatly puzzled, then broke into sobs. "Why do you cry?" said the King gently. "It is?it is, sire, be-cause I do not know any remarkable fact?of your reign." "No more do I," responded the descendant of Bernadotte."?Le Cri de Paris. Collector of Baby Pictures. x utr x~xixluo ui vv aica yet sions, next to shooting, are smoking and stamp collecting. Another queer hobby is collecting babies' photographs. The more comical the face of the baby the better its portrait pleases His Royal Highness. He even colj lects pictures of babies published as advertisements by proprietors of in: fants' foods. His collection of postI age stamps is worth at least ?20,000. So keen a philatelist is he that on several occasions collectors have had to thank him for throwing light on uncertain scientific points concerning the study of stamps.?Tit-Bits. To Make Pencil Sharpener. How can I make a simple pencil point sharpener??B. K. Take a paper dip, A, and a piece of emery cloth, B. Fold the edges over as shown. The pencil point is \ Pencil Sharpener in Use. placed In the crevice and moved up anci down, resulting in a point as lino as may be desired. If tne pencil Is revolved between the fingers while sharpening a round point will be the result.?Technical World Magazine. Italian Submarines. It is reported that, in consequence of the success which attended the recent trials of the Italian submarine 'Glauco in the open sea off Thranto, at a depth of twenty-two fathoms, the Italian naval authorities are disposed to establish there a station for ? .i ? a n 11 awt suDmannes. uwmg lu mc ouauunness of the local waters, Venice is far from being a satisfactory base for carrying out trials with submarine boats.?Engineer. It has been calculated that the cost of a muddy day in London is something like $25,000. 3 DOWN THE CHINESE WALL. ' ^ jj,. | ' I KIN NEAR THE SOUTH GATE. ?W. Burnham. :^r ' : KIDNEY TROUBLE i Suffered Ten Tears?Relieved In Three Months. MR. C. B. FIZER, Mt. Sterling, Kj., ~d writes: 441 have suffered with kidney and other trouble/or ten years past. 44 Last March I commenced using Peruna . % and mntimjfid for three months. I have not used it since, nor have I felt a pain. . "I believe that I am well and I therefore give my highest commendation to the cura- tive qualities of Peruna." Pe-ru-na For Kidney Trouble. Mrs. Geo. H. Simser, Grant, Ontario, Can., writes: "I had not been well for about four years. I had kidney trouble, and, in fact, felt badly nearly all the time. "Tnis summer I got so very bad I thought I would try Peruna, ?o I wrote to yet: and began at once to take Peruna and Manalin. "1 took only two bottles of Peruna and one of Manalin, and now I feel better than 1 have for some time. "I feel that Peruna and Manalin cured 6 ; me and made a different woman of me al- $g together. I bless the day 1 picked up the j little book and read of your Peruna." It is the business of the kidneys tov ' f:% remove from the blood all poisonous materials. They must be active all the time, else the system suffers. There are times when they need a little assistance. Peruna is-exactly this sort of a remedy. 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