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THE COUNTY RECROD. I
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Published Every Thursday
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KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, j
LOUIS J. BRI8TOW, Kdltor and I
Proprietor.
By a remarkable coincidence the
first part of Cuban territory which was
lost by Spain in the war 13 the very
region which was first conquered for
her by the invading forces of Diego
Velazquez in loll and lol2. That is
Santiago.
The first bale of cotton raised in
Texas this year went to Washington
with a red, white and blue ribbon
around it, to bo made into guncotton
for the Vesuvius. One of the signs of
the times is this desire of the various j
States to luaKe ttseir cuaraciensuc
products subservient to the work of
the war.
Frantic demonstrations of patriotic
feeling were witnessed when the
* Boundary Commission decided that
the village of Ivutsuphliani belongs to
Turkey. The Creek inhabitants sot
tire to their own homes, and even dug
out the coffins of their relatives and
burned them, to prevent them from
falling into Turkish nanus.
Elementary education in Germany
is compulsory, and it is compulsion of
a kind not yet understood in this country.
It is pertinently illustrated by
statistics compiled by the German
specialist in the Bureau of Education.
In 1886 only 3145 children of school
age in Prussia were uot accounted for
by the school officials; in 1891 the number
was 915, aud in 1S9G had fallen to
4S7 out of a total school population of
6,421,508. Such is the "drag-net" of
the German compulsory law.
A. staff correspondent of the Pittsburg
Dispatch, a conservative and
trustworthy paper, writes from Paris
to say that Americans who declare that
they are not insulted at every turn in
the French capital sisiplv do not under
stand the French language. He says
that he and a friend were jeered at
as "lea cochous Americains" wherever
they went, and were even driven violently
out of a cafe in which they
Bought shelter from a sudden shower.
The proprietor told them he wanted
no American-English customers about
his place. This corresjjondent asserts
what has already been surmised, that
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French newspapers is due to the protest
of certain shopkeepers who are
large advertisers and who do not wish
to lose the good American dollars.
These papers do not represent French
pubHo opinion.
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Five Powers are dividing tie world
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among them, liussia begau the operation,
burrowing in the interior ob
a? ?r
5CUI11Y SJ+ ?. cvuimcui xui vcuiauco uc*
fore it came to light ou the shores
of the Baitic ami Black Seas, reflects
the New York Commercial Advertiser. I
Great Britain, the natural heir of
Spain's decay and France's incompetence.
did most of her work in the full
light of eighteenth century day and
got herself dubbed the great colonizing
power. France began in the seven- j
teenth, failed in the eighteenth and
has challenged fate with remarkable I
success again in the nineteenth century.
Germany began only twenty
years ago, but has carved out 1,500,000
square miles of territory in Africa.
The United States began with a group
of petty seacoast colonies, has cut a
huge cautle out of the North American
continent and established moral do.
minion over all the South American,
and now is looking abroad. These are
the vital peoples. These are the growiug
Nations. The rest are to look on
till their hour strikes.
The rifles used in Cuba, both by the ;
American and the Spanish troops, have
. a small caliber and great penetration,
observes the Chicago Times-Herald.
The Krag-Jorgensou, the Lee-Metford j
and the Mauser rifles carry small pro- ;
jectiles of high initial velocity, and the j
gunshot wounds caused by them differ j
materially from those made by old- i
fashioned fire-arms used duriug our J
great Civil War. l)r. Ducker in exam- :
ing the dead bodies at Guantanamo j
discovered that the bullets made very
small wounds at the point of initial
contact, but after penetrating the body
made frightful wounds on leaving, in
several instances a bullet striking the
" forehead had drilled a small round <
hole, "just the size of the bullet, through |
the froutal bone, but had blown "ut
the entire back part of the head, giving
the effect of an explosion inside
the skull. A soldier shot through Iho
body showed on his breast merely a
small,, clean-cut bullet hole, but where '
the ballet left the body at the back it j
had torn away the flesh and made a !
terrible wound several iuches square.
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I the Captured
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Civilization while you wait would be
an appropriate motto for tiie prison
stockade at Camp Long. The camp is
on Seavey's Island, part of the Navy
Yard, which on tho map appears in
Kittery, Me.,and on official documents
at Portsmouth, in New Hampshire.
Two days before the St. Louis
steamed into the harbor with 6yu
Spanish prisoners of war on board the
camp ground was not much better than
a desert. This end of the island is
bound with rocks which stick up
through the blueberry bushes and j
scrubby grass on knolls and hillsides. I
I Within tliirty-six hours from the ari
rival of the St. Louis in the lower hari
bor the village had been equipped j
i with all the creature comforts dej
mauded by a free born American citi- ,
j Een.
The lauding of the Spaniards was
' without ceremony or display. Two
. black, Hatirou shaped barges were
| brought up, one after the other, from
! the big liner, about a mile away, and
! made fast to Lieutenant Greely's land
i ing place, at the foot of old Fort Sullii
van, now used as a reservoir. There
| were a few workmen anil a few ladies
! anil children from the post on the
; shore, and a cordon of pleasure boats
! on the water, but no official demonstration
of any sort. There was not
an officer, nor even a marine, in sight,
and no indi- ations that the island was
garrisoned.
On the first bai'^e Lieutenant Catfin,
a survivor of the Maine disaster,
! brought with him Captain Moreu, of
the Cristobal Colon, to act as interpreter,
ami about ,a dozen American marines
to take care of a bootload of four
hundred Spanish prisoners of war.
Lieutenunt Catliu had a navy revolver
in his belt instead of a sword, but
went at his work without any fuss or
feathers. When six marines had
scrambled ashore and were strung
: along the bank, the gangway was
j opened to the prisoners, who went off
the barge in an irregular straggling.
They were defeated and shipwrecked
sailors, and they showed it. Bareheaded
and barefooted, with straggly
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QUARTERS OF ADMIRAL CERVERA AND HIS '
OFFICERS AT THE ANNAPOLIS NAVAL '
ACADEMY.
j beards, and only a couple of dirty garments
in most cases covering legs and
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| bodies, tney passively ooeyeu me aiders
of Captain Moreu, and were
: gathered in ship's companies by the
calling of the roll. Hardly had a hundred
men been landed before the sick
begau to drop groaning upon the dusty
roadside.
After the mustering was over the
first shipload of prisoners was sur- i
rounded by marines from the garrison i
and. marched into the stockage, the <
barefooted ones being chiefly anxious 1
to avoid the nettles that lurked in !
some of the grassy places. 1
After one day in camp these same
hungry looking prisoners could hardly j <
be recognized. The day's rations of j1
beef, bread, coffee and pickles were I j
/lArAnvA.l of r\r\ck mnnl mnn Aftfillfr | '
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more than a pound of meat. They <
found hammocks, comfortable hair ! 1
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(JSVherc thy rank ami liio ol the S]
mattresses and government blankets , 1
provided for them, and after a few 1
puti's from borrowed cigarettes the t
well Spaniards slept long and sound- i
ly. More meals followed with snr- i
prising abundance and regularity, and f
great v.agon loads of clothes were t
hauled over from the Navy Yard and (
dumped at the feet of the prisoners. (
The few industrious spirits volun- ; 1
teered for camp work, and their work- I
ing made a pleasing spectacle for those , i
who were not industrious. "With 1
warm, new clothes and a comfortable }
fulness under one's belt, it is asn'ee- i
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as or was, 1;
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Has Opened the Eyes of ?) ]
1 Spaniards. <?> j
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able to sit in the sun, or at least out 1
oi xue ruin, anu uiscuss wny it whs
that Admiral Cervera did not utterly
destroy the American fleet. To be :
sure there are sentries and deep water i
in front, aud sentries with a high
board fence, backed by barb wire and
Gattling guns, in the rear. What
would you? Shall sane men runaway
from good food, good clothes and a
good company to lose themselves in a
strange country and starve?
The lauding of the prisoners aud the
establishment of the camp was aclilll
m iftsa-N,
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(Tbo cartoonist of the i?ew York Herald give
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eomplished without the slightest hostile
demonstration on the part of the
Spaniards. Some of the men passively
object to being clean, but they can
ptit up with cleanliness if only they
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Colonel Forney has in i-'-* barracks
at the Navy Yard and on duty at the
stockade about two hundred men, but
Surgeon Parsons says that if the
Spaniards only understood that they
were to have their three square meals
a day a marine guard would be required,
not to keep them on the island
but to drive them away from it.
Two Spanish chaplains, two surgeons,
an apothecary's steward and
five junior lieutenants have had a
building built for their special accommodation,
and have been fitted out
with sailor's clothes from the navy
yard storehouses. Their wardroom is j
fitted out with bunks and abundant
furniture.
The civilizing influence of a short J
piece of rope is still to be seen 111 |
Camp Long. In the olden times the !
rope was used to cow starved and ill
treated prisoners. To-day it serves a
different purpose. The members of
the officer's mess hardly got new 11
clothes before they began devising i j
amusements, and jumping rope has !
become very popular. Two of the! i
more sedate officers swing the rope j'
while the others take turns jumping. | j
The horrors of war already seem | j
faraway, and the most important things j 1
in the world seem to be the delights of ;
good living. Admiral Carpenter, who ' \
is in temporary command of the Navy ! j
Yard, has closed the island to curious (
visitors, who are not annoying when
they get long range views from the k
New Castle and Kittery shores.
The scene on shore of the prison
front on Seavey's Island on a recent
afternoon between five and sit o'clock
presented a most novel and interesting
picture. The prisoners had just
finished their aiternoon meal and had
swarmed to the water's edge to wash |
their bowls, plates and spoons. The
clatter of the dishes and the laughter
and animated conversation ot tne prisoners
made sucli a babel of noises that
they could plainly be heard on the
Newcastle shore on the other side of
the Piscataqua River.
Hundreds of boats gathered in front !
of the Spaniards on the beach and i
watched them at their work and enjoyed
the animated scene, for the "Pons"
seemed happy as larks and J
svideutly greatly pleased at the atten- c
:ion shown them. Many ladies in the 1
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punish prisoners are conflned.) ! <'
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mats had provided themselves with s
todaks, and hundreds of pictures were c
akeu of the prisoners that will prove t
raluable souvenirs of the American- r
Spanish war as time goes by. The 1
Spaniards enjoyed having their pic- n
ures taken, and many of them gath- ]
?red in groups and posed iu pictur- t
:s(jue attitudes and waited their turns
or the camera. i j
A colored prisoner, black as Erebus, c
vaded out into the water up to his t
cuoe3, and, striking bis bowl and
date together #to attract attention, i:
)laced his hands by his side, rolled i I
the whites of his eyes heavenward, co<
ind stood expectant. Scores of ko- ha
ilaks snapped, and the colored sailor a s
triumphantly rejoined his comrades wa
an the shore. A lady in one of the ho
boats threw a bunch of flowers into oti
the water near the shore, and in- qu
stautly twenty or more of the prisoners
struggled for the possession of
the trophy. The Spaniard who captured
the bouquet was generous, how- Ge
ever, and divided the flowers among
bis comrades, who proudly held aloft
the mementos, bowing and snnling pe<
to the lady who threw them into the mi
water. is
After the dishes had been washed
many sat in groups on the bank, some
of them singing the songs of their
native land, some playing cards, others ,
writing letters home, and all of them vy
apparently pleased with the situation.
It was a scene never before witnessed
in the Harbor of Portsmouth, but its
repetition is likelv to happen every \
pleasant day in tfie weeks to follow, j
So much for the humbler prisoners. jr
Those of higher rauk, Admiral Cer- .U
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5 his idea of how the prisoners will be sent j at|
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vera and Lis captured officers, are
held at the Naval Academy, Ana- wc
apolis, Md. 4*^.^
Admiral Cervera would be taken for ^
au English merchant by ninety-nine
out of a hundred persons who didn't
know who he was. He is prosperous- Nf
looking, well-made, and wears a gray
beard. His son, Lieutenant Angel on
Cervera, is tall and handsome, and tre
wears a coal-black beard. Altogether, ita
the Spaniards are quite a distiu- ?
guished-looking group, and when
they are fitted out in appropriate garments
will doubtless make much
social progress in Annapolis, as nearly
all of them have given orders for
visiting cards.
The parole signed by all the prison- '
ore *iT/?Anf Admiral pAffArft wlin \
waved it aside when presented, with
the remark that his sword of honor
was sufficient, and Captain Eulate, of
the Vizcaya, who declined to sign it
because he declared the other officers
should be permitted to give their
word as well as the Admiral, is as '
follows:
"I do pledge my word ot honor
that during the period of my retention
at the United States Naval Academy
as a prisoner of war I will not go beyond
such limits a3 may bo pre- *
scribed by the Superintendent of the ?
Naval Academy, and freely agree to
abide by such regulations as said
Superintendent may from time to
time establish.
"The limits now established will be
the grounds of tho Naval Academy
ind the city of Annapolis from 8
rclock until sundown." ou
Admiral Cervora's house, which is it i
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l group of spanish prisoners on sea- hu
vet's island. figl
mown as No. 17 Buchanan row, is an
>ld brick painted a dark drab, with 1
irown outside shutters, and its front J*1
vindows overlook the oak-shaded , 0
{rounds of the academy. The comnandant's
house is two doors distant t .
it the corner, and diagonally across
he lawn to the left is the superin- a c
endent's office. A fine marine view ma
s obtained from the rear windows,
villi the parade grounds in the fore- 1
ground.
The whole house except the hall,
vhicli is approached by a flight of ,
itairs from the road below, is heavily !
arpeted. The parlor is supplied;
vith comfortable furniture. Opening
nto the parlor by broad doors is the ]
lining room, which is carpeted like
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et. The passage chamber, which
ommunicates with the bed room, is
he Admiral's private office. It is
trovided with a desk, chairs, good
ights and writing material. All the
nail matter sent and received by the
trisoners goes through the office of C
he superintendent, and is censored. \
The Spanish officers are not being
tampered with luxuries. They are re- J
eiviug the same food that is given to "Si
he naval cadets. yer
Admiral Cervera has a house which but
s occupied by three or four others tell
tesides himself and hi3 son. The yer
)k and the steward of the Santee
ve been placed at his disposal, and
lervant to attend to his personal
ntc. The last occupant of the
use was Lieutenant Gove. The T
ier prisoners occupy the old cadets' a
al ters on Stribling row. f
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COOKING FOR SOLDIERS. 1
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rman Ariny Inventors Pay Much At- a
tention to the Subject. {
The interest shown by all classes of t
ople at present in the matters of
htary manceuvring and equipments
so great that a recent exposition of ^
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SMALL BATTALION.
hit and camt) furnishings was a gi- f
utic success, as demonstrated by t ho a
rongs of people wliicii llocked to the j
ice day after day. Evidently the n
rmau inventor has been working on ^
e theory that a full stomach is the jj
st equipment for a tighter, and j
aking implements were displayed j
the greatest variety. A clever s
oking outfit is shown herewith. 0
le stove for a battalion is designed c
use in the open. It is formed of j
veral iron cliests arranged in ma ^
apo of a cross, with a chimney in ?
e middle. A smaller one fs built <
accommodate a squad of about
irty men, and for use where there
e no ge'neral cooking provisions
ide for the men, each one looking 0
:er the preparation of his own ra- *
?ns. -a r- >T. 'IIMW'H1."" Ik
ijs gratifying to note that the sub- Y
;t of caring for the dead and J
lunded has received a great deal of c
:entiou at the hands of army and 1
vy inventors. A large variety of n
vices was shown, having for their f
ject the care and comfort of the }
innded warrior. ~ i
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^ People Who Live in Xreia.
Of all the islands of the South Seas f
sw Guinea is in some respects the a
>st peculiar. With its towns built t;
the water, its native castles in the R
ies and its strange native inhab- j
nts, who have been steadily dying v
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A TKEfi TOP HOME. f(
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t since the advent of the white man, ri
is an intensely interesting bit of the f(
)rld. The natives are gifted with ^
ch remarkable powers that they can ft
j into distances far beyond the vis- ^
i of the white man; they can track s
3 wild beast by signs that the white n
,u cannot learn; they can tind food
d drink in deserts where white men t,
uld perish of thirst and starvation, jj
The accompany picture represents fl
e of the tree houses built by na- e
es of the island. Among the sav- a
i tribes are warriors who are kno.vn s1
the "head hunters." The aerial j
uses are built as refuges from the a
id hunters. When the cry is raised ^
it the head hunters are coming the ^
ble and the women flee to the tree tj
ts and the able men arm for the a
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A Natural Sun Dial.
In immense sun dial, certainly the
gest in the world, is at Hayon r>
roo, a large promontory extending tl
10 feet above the Aegean Sea. As a
i sun swings around the shadow of p
s mountain it touches, one by one, if
ircle of islands, which act as hour s1
rks. n
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Magnanimous. r<
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irnmy (the terrible scrapper)?
ry, me youug friend, I could cliew 'j*
up an' neberknow dat I had fed,
I'll refrain! An' now go home an' t
yer beautiful sister dat I spared J fti
fov lnro nf Iiav'''
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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS
Sooty FungiU on Apple*.
To prevent tlie sooty fungus 011 ap?
iles, there is no question that bordeaux
pplied at intervals of about two weeks
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rorn trie miciaie 01 juue uuui luemiu*
lie of August will prove effectual.
Jnder favorable conditions tbis fun;us
attacks most varieties of apples
nd pears, but on all lit may be conrolled
by the use of bordeaux mixure.
Rape For Poultry. A
Green foods for poultry are advised
nd among them rape. For a supply of /
;reen food for summer use, rape should
ie sown at any time up to the middle
f July. Prepare the ground as for
oot crops and sow the seed broadcast
r in drills thirty inches apart. Cover
bout the same as turnip seed and culivate
until it gets a fair start. It will
row rapidly and may be cut and fed
o fowl, although if sown in rows by
he drill the poultry may be turned
nto the patch once or twice a w;eek.
)ne or two pounds of seed will sow an
ere, drilled in, and will supply green
ood for a large lloek of fowls until
ate in the fall.
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The Street Pea. *
A beautiful flower is the sweet pea.
ts exquisite fragrance has made it a
avorite, while its beauty and grace
re of the highest kind. Cultivation
ms increased it in size, and it has
Iso developed its variety in color. At
he same time, experienced florists
mve discovered short methods of givng
it various tints, so that it is almost
inpossible for a person not a profe3lional
to determine whether a bunch
f these lovely klossohis has taken its'
olor from nature or from the chemist's
!ish. The difficulty is complicated'
>y the fact that nature and art can
aciT give at least a dozen different
lyes.?New York Mail and Express.
Slicep For Cloarlnc Land.
Wherever woodland is cleared a flock
f sheep is extremely valuable to keep"
he cleared soiljfromjieing oyergrown
rijh _the bushes, "weeds and shrubs'
fhicn usually come up iu ioiigwiug
cars. It is desirable to get the1
leaved land in grass as soon as possible.
WheiTTrTrZifibe seeded down it
aay be~p*astured with sheep all through
he summer, not only without injurng
the grass, but positively benefitug
it, as the sheep will devote most
f their time to trimming down the
mskes alid eating the leaves which
liade the land. To make more
borough destruction of the shrubbery,
n excess of sheep should be put in
he cleared lot, and these must be fed
ome grain, so as to make their browse
iet digest better.?American Cultiator.
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__ Caring For TuHpg. ^
A correspondent of the Practical
'armer tells how she manages her tuip
bed. For several years sh& toolT
p the bulbs annually, but found it J!
oth laborious aud rather nnsatisfacory.
Finally she planted her bulbs
1 a long bed,ayard wide,setting them
ve inches apart each way. When the
ilips faded and the foliage began to
ie down, instead of lifting the bulbs
he left them in their places and set
i the center of each square, formed
y the bulbs, an aster plant, started
l a cold frame. In cultivating the
oil during the summer, care was
iken not fo go deep enough to injure
iie tulip bulbs. After frost killed the
sters she pulled them up and tilled
Lie holes with fine mauure from
iie barnyard. The next spring her
ilips were larger and handsomer than
ver before. "?i
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Tcctlins Until resiled Oats. .*
Oat straw, it is conceded, has a
alue ars food too great to permit of
:s use as bedding. If the practice of
jeding oats unthreshed was more
eneral a still greater saving would
esult. Cut the crop several days be>re
the grain ripens, which will leave \
tie straw in better condition, and save
loss of the grain from the heads in
andling. If cut with a mower they
liould be cut greener than when put
p in bnudles. The oats may be kept
1 a stack out of doors if properly projcted,
but it is best to put them up
1 bundles and stack them ou end in
ie barn. In feeding, the coarse butt
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nets or trie status snouia oe cut on
nd used for bedding, the rest of the
talk being run through a cutter,
loth horses and cattle seem to relish
nthreshed oats, and fed in this way
re tendency, on the part of horses, to
olt the grain is overcome and tho
lorough mastication of both grain
nd straw will keep the animals in
ood condition. -
Taints in Milk. *'
Many users of ensilage and certain
)ot crops complain of the taints of
lese foods absorbed by the milk. As
rule, there is nothing in the comlaint
so far as ensilage is concerned
the precaution is taken to feed only
veet ensilage. Decayed ensilage is
ot only worthless as a food, but will
lint the milk and often produce irjgularities
iu the cow. Examination
f the structure of a cow's digestive
rgaus and close observation of the
ition of foods in the stomach, dispose
the fact that after eating anyliug
likely to taint the milk it is an
our or more before the effect of such
>ods would be noticed in the milk
ren as closely connected as are stomjh
and niilu ducts. On the other
and, the danger of taint is likely to
>main for many hours, usually about
tu, after the food is eaten. A simple
ay, therefore, to avoid all danger
0111 possible taints is to give such
?ods as roots so that at least ten
ours will elapse after feeding before
lilkiug is done. For this reason the
eding of turnips, carrots or auy other
>ods likelv to taiut the milk is done
night after milking. Atlanta (tia.)
ourual.
Belgium, 11.000 square miles, is
)OUt the coml)ine<l size of Massachu:tts
anil Rhode Island