The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 27, 1904, Image 2
" A SERMON FOR SUNDAI
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED.
"GLORIFYING THE FATHER."
trwfhwl by the Re*. Dr. Thninnii B. McLeod,
of Brooklyn, S. V?We Con
Make God Rem), We Can Make the
Gospel Sublime.
Bmooki.vn*. N. Y.?Upon his return to
his pulpit fmm his vacation, the Rev. Dr.
Thomas B. McLeod, pastor of the Clinton
Avenue Congregational Church, preached
?n eloquent sermon Sunday morning on
"Glorifying the Father." The text was
rhoeen from John xv:8: ' Herein ie My
Father glorified that ye bear much fruit,
so shall ye be My disciples." Dr. McLeod
said:
How vital, dear friends, are all New
Txiimpnt renresentationa of religion!
Compare the New Testament with the ethical
teaching, or religious teaching of ali
other bocks in this respect, and you are
simply astonished. There is nothing mechanical
in them, nothing formal, nothing
institutional?every process is a process ot
life. It if no use for a man, or for men. to
claim that they have Abraham for their
father. Iteligion is not a matter of who a
man's ancestors were; it is a matter of
what a man himself is. Jesus has given us
in one pi'.hy sentence His estimate of the
worth of the claim that is based on descent,
on .heredity, on social prestige, when
He says that God could raise up, or make
children, unto Abraham out of the very
stones of the roadside. The concern that
interests God, when it comes to ihe matter
of religion, is whether a man is & living
plant or a dead stick. The hedge, though
it be & hedge of flowers or roses, in which
the stake occurs, does not make the stake
a living thing. The line of descent iu
which1 a man stands, nor the social position
he occupies, nor the church of wnieh
he is an attendant, or a member, is nothing.
The man may after all be nothing
. better than a dead stake in a hedge.
There was a certain line man, a tine man
socially, eligiously, politically?one of the
beat of r\en as men went?came, to Jesus
10 make inquiry* on the subject of religion.
He was fere rent and devout and respectful
and courteous and cultured and learned,
a leader and teacher of the people, a lecturer
on ethics, but when it came to religion,
Jesus said to that man. "Yc must be
born agaiq." The vitality of the representation
we find in the New Testament religion
is its life; "I have come that ye might
hare life, and that ye might have it more
abundantly."
And so of tests. Not simply of the rep'
resentations or descriptions of religion, but
also of the testa, the New Testament test"
of religion. How are we to know that we
are living Christians? How are we to
know tk at others are living Christians?
Why, the New Testament pushes us up to
the point of urgent belief, and insists on
it. that the test is fruit, not Wves, n</t
flowers, but fruit, and that fruittulness is
the only essential thing that shall triumph
under the-t*st. Jesus may endure barrenness
outside of the church, but He cannot
endure it inside of the church. A bramble
--- ; Ko?,-nkln knf n lirnmhlc in
the orchard, that ia intolerable. "Bv their
fruits ye shall know them.. Men ao not
gather figs of thistles or grapes of thorns."
' The man of God is perfect, fruitful unto
11 good works."
How little stress Jesus lays upon 4hose
tests that are so universally adopted and
applied, and admitted to be sufficiently adequate;
attendance upon religious ordinances,
subscription to creed ana statement;
routine observance of rites and ceremonies;
Be makes nothing ?f all that, and He
comes t> "?a, friends, just as He eame to
the fruitless, leafy fig tree by the wayside,
searching for fruit, not for leaves, not for
blossom;, not for florescence, not for esthetic
delight in sacred music, not for fondness
of the literary side of religion, not for
a keen appetite for well digested and presented
truth, but for fruit?fruit, and He
comes up closer to us. friends, than anybody
else can come?than our dearest and
nearest can come?for, after all. these can
. see only outside appearances. He sees realities.
They see things that pass for good
*works in us, born, it may be. of wicked
ambition or of self-conceit. He sees right
* down into the centre of the soul, and He is
looking for fruit. What shall He find in
yon and me? Fruit or leaves, or just bare
branches ?
The test is fruitfuiness. Now that ought
to be aa easy test to apply, and it surely.
friends, is a sate test to appiy?ior you ana
me to rpply to our own selves. But then,
some one may say, "Well, what constitutes
fruit fulness? I am ready now to lay bare
my sou; before God: I am ready now to go
down on my face before God and apply the
test; I am ready now for heart-searching,
and to measure myself by this standard,
but I want to know what constitutes
fruitfulness." "What are the fruits that
-Jesus expects and that I am to look for
and by which I am to measure myself?"
"Why, the Bible is simply full of that. It
Las set the whole^ thing so plain. , and so
fuliy, i.nd so "variously that a wayfaring
man though a fool need not mistake as to
-what fruitftrtneas in -the Christian life is.
Tesua sn.y?, "Blessed are the poor in spirit."
Come now, we are examining ourselves
About the fruits. "Blessed are the poor in
spirit; blessed are -the meek; blessed arc
the nnrciful (the good heartedl; blessed
are the pure in heart; blessed arc the
peaeetrakers; blessed arc they who have
not simply a relish now and then, but a
hunger and a thirst after righteousness?
tightness. These are the fruits that the
Christian man i6 expected to grow in his
character.
An apostle says, the fruits, or the fruit
of the spirit, is love. joy. long suffering,
jiatien^e, meekness, faith, temperance. The
fruit that the Christian is to develop, that
will be developed, that Jesus will expect if
there be life?love?the heart of all goodness?love
to God and love to man. "Who
loveth not his brother whom he hath 6ecn,
how shall he love God?how can he love
(?<xl whom he hath not seen?" Fruit; love
?joy. Joy in fellowship with God; joy in
fellowship with believers; joy in service
and ministry. Love?joy?peace. Contentment
of mind under all circumstances; the
harmony of conviction, of thought and affection.
Long suffering ? patient endurance
not only in affliction, but patient endurance
of wrong and provocation; and
meekness and temperance and all the rest.
What does fmitfulness mean? It means
simply the development or achievement of
character that will approve itself to God.
But this growth of character does not exhaust
the expectation of Christ concerning
us. It does not exhaust the fruit which
he Christian hasj to bear. There is other
triut. xou reaa tnat passage again ana von
will see that the teror of it has to do with
fellowship? fellowship with Jesus, fellowship
in His purpose to redeem this world
from sin. Jesus is not thinking altogether
of the good His disciples are to get through
fellowship with Him. hut He is thinking
also of the good which His disciples arc to
do through fellowship with Him. Not altogether
of what His disciples are to receive,
but of what His disciples are to achieve.
"Except the branch abide in the vine it
bringeth forth no fruit. If ye abide ii Mc
and My words abide in you, ye shall bring
forth much fruit."
Oh. friends, we limit the range of the
Christian life, and our hearts and minds
are so set npon getting, getting, getting?
erjoving. enjoying, enjoying?that we are
deaf to the words of Christ concerning doing,
doing, doing. Apart fron tiie vine the
branch can bear no fruit: apart from the
branch the vine cannot bear fruit. And
here, friends, we come up to something
that oueht to bring you and me very lowly
ecfore God. Lowly, not so much with the
sense of mortification and penitence, but
with a kind of exultant joy. It befits us to
loofess always our dependence upon Christ,
but here we have Christ confessing His dependence
on us. Marvelous thing! "The
branch cannot bear of itself except it abide
in the vine." and the vine cannot bear
fruit without the branches. The Apostle
Paul puts that thought in another form
when he says: "Ye are the body of Christ,
and members?each severally?members of
that body." Apart from the body the
members perish. There is no power in the
hand, no vision in the eye, no power in the
ear to hear the voice of God apart from
the body. We are the body of Christ; we
arc the organization through which Christ
works; we are the organization by which
Christ builds up His kingdom on the earth.
We are the hands of Christ. Christ wants,
Christ desires to feed the hungry, and
clothe the naked, and visit the sick, and
build homes for the homeless, and open
prison doors for those in captivity, but
I supposing the hands of the Lord he pArI
alvzed. how can He do these things? We
are the voice of Christ. Christ wants to
publish a?*-oad to the end of the earth the
message of Cod's love and the way of salvation,
but if the voice be silent, how can
He do it?
We talk about the marcv of God having;
no limitation. We talk about the boundless
pity of Cod. and we do well, but the
pity of God and the mercy of God have
their limitations. Not according to the distorted
Calvinism which our fathers believ- j
ed. God's mercy is infinite; God's pity is
boundless; His love extends to all men?
that we believe; in that declaration we
glory; we count it the very flower and coronation
of our religion. And yet God's
mcrcv is limited. His compassion is bounded,
His pity is shortened by us?by us. According
as we are willing or unwilling is
the limitlessness of the love of God.
Let us take a homely illustration. Here
is a friend?a man whom you have always
known, a classmate it may be in school, an
associate in business?and he has fallen
upon evil times, and everything that he
spent his life in accumulating is gone. You
are rich, you are perfectly able to put that
man on his feet again: to give him a second
chance and another start: you are
I God's elected minister for that purpose,
j But you don't do it. God is kindly disposed
to that man; God would help that
man, and He has put you in a position to
help him. You are His hands; you ar<God's
ministering agency, but you limit
God's goodness, don't you?
j God is very pitiful, very pitiful. Rich
men can feed poor men, but they don't do
it. No manna falls from heaven to feed
those poor men. They starve. Gou is
wondrously pitiful, and there are strong
people wno are penecuy amu w> hciji ?im
| comfort weak and $ickiv people, but these
j sickly people die for lack of help No min|
is ter m g angel comes d:>wn to cool their fever
and heal their Don't yon see that we.
God'* hand. God's voice, the branches and
twigs of the vine, limit the fruitfulness of
the vine, limit the power of the Almighty?
"Hccin is My Father glorified, that ye
be-.r much fruit, so shall ye be My disciples."
Friends, the thought is appalling;
it oppresses me. When I look at that
from one side I am terrified to thiuk that
the thing that God wanted done yesterday
is not done through my neglect.
And yet there is encouragement here for
us all. Apart from the vine the branch
withers: it can do nothing. Abiding in the
vine, the branch bringeth forth much fruit,
and we mav abide and we may glorify our
Father. Glorify Him. Make Him shine
with radiance and beauty in the eyes of
man. Make God manifest. We can make
God real; we can make the gospel sublime
in the eyes of those who are living without
it. We can so tell the story; we can so
live our religion; we can so manifest the
grace of .God in our lives; we can so let
our light shine that others?our neighbors
and friends, our children and relatives-*
shall glorify our Father in heaven.
God Only Is Perfect.
Perfection, in every absolute sense, cannot
be found among men?it abides only
with God. Man. at his best, is not free.
An heir of immortality, he is imprisoned
into time. Candidate for sainthood, he
has a heritage of sin and corruption from
the generations of the past. Called to do
all things through God strengthening him,
he finds that the spirit is willing but the
flesh is weak. Countless perils menace the
voyage of the perfectionist. Presumptuous
sing often have dominion over him, when
he thinks it is not robbery to be equal
with God and share with the absolute the
attributes of divinity. Spiritual pride
leads him to moral ruin when he is persuaded
to forget the hour of prayer because
of his conceit that with him every
breath is a prayer. The Man of Nazareth
was so far from this vanity that He sr>cnt
whole nights in communion with God on
the mountains and in solitary places apart
from His companions. The perfectionist,
again, is deceived when he materializes the
things of God, by asserting for the saints
below an earthly empire over disease and
death and by claiming a part in the political
rrle of the quick-coming Christ in a
millenial reign at Jerusalem.
Inertulni God's Opportunities.
Some one has said .that "each-human life
is another opportunity for God to display
His grace and power." So it is, aad the
thought will grow upon you as you medi
tate upon it. Just think, "I am God s opportunity!"
Isn't it wonderful? Isu't it
glorious? When wc look at others whom
God has richly blecced and honored i:i service
we can aee how it is. but do we ever
think of ourselves as God's opportunity?
Every one that responds to God's call,
"Come!" gives God a larger place in the
world.
Every one who obeys Cod's command,
"Go!" assists God in gaining a larger piace
in the hearts of men. Every regenerated
heart and life is a new garden in which
God plants His seeds of love and grace, a
fountain out of which How constant
streams cf healing power.
Take it home, dear young friend, and
say to yourself, "I an God's opportunity."
Be that and your life wiil become unutterably
grand and your experience unspeakably
sweet.?A. W. Spooner, D. D.
One Thing We Can Do.
Each one in any given place has a responsible
share in every other's good work
in that place. In some things we do our
part with our hands; in other matters we
do our part with our hearts. What the
Apostle John said about evil deeds is as
true of good deeds: "He that giveth him
greeting partaketh in big * # works."
By our well wishing we become partakers
in what others do. John said the same
thing in the next Epistle: "We * * * ought
to welcome such, that we may be fellowworkers."
What we speed on its way, and
wfcat we welcome in our hearts when we
^ ?n n'l fhio tro Imvp .1 flh.lPP.
I lira* ui ib?in ? *? * i?v ?
How* wide reaching, then, are thcopportunitics
of even the most secluded! How
great is the work in which even the least
can be engaged! As we hail any good incoming,
or speed any good outgoing, we
enter into the prophet s work, and shall
receive a prophet's reward. Let us take
heart and do our share.
Ever Onward and Upward.
We are commanded to be perfect, to
love God continually, to rejoice evermore,
and in everything to give thanks. And |
reason is in accord with revelation in enjoining
this duty. Man's.patlnvay is e?*er
onward and upward. Larger and seemingly
infinite possibilities of future achievement
invite him to press on with unwearying
footstep.
Those on Trial.
"Are these masterpieces?" asked a tourist
in a Florentine gallery, adding, "l must j
admit that I do not see much in them myself."
"These pictures, sir," was the an- !
swer, "are not on trial; it is the visitors
who are on trial." It is the critics who are
on trial, not the Scriptures.?New York
Observer.
Humors/
Today
Persistency.
Lives of babies oft remind us
That our lives would be less rough,
And we'd win our heart's desires,
Jf we'd holler loud enough
?Cleveland Leader.
Identified.
"Fa. what is repartee?"
"Oh. merely an insult with its dresa
suit ou, my sod."?Puck.
I Taking a Straw Vote.
Canvasser ? "Who is Mr. Henpeck
going to support?"
Mrs. Henpeck?"Me."?New York Sun.
At the Concert.
Ida?"How did your Uncle Hiram enJoy
the classical program?"
May?"Not at all. Why, I wore out*
shoe prompting him when to applaud."
?Chicago News.
... Uoparilo? hie
Mrs. Cppson?"Is yonr new neighbor
ft society woman?"
Mrs. De Swell?"Mercy, no! Why,
she actually calls her kitchen maid a
hired gil l."?Chicago News.
Cat Him Up None Too Soon.
First Physician ? "So the operation
was just in the nick of time?" Second
Physician?"Yes; in another
twenty-four hours the patient would
have recovered without it."?Harper's
Bazar.
A Recipe Tor Extravagance.
"Old man Growler has found a great
scheme for doing away with auy necessity
for dying rich."
"What is it?"
| "He has just married a woman who
I isn't a third of his age."?'Cleveland
j Plain Denier.
Whei? They Quarreled.
It's not &1I sweetness?courting. Ce- |
cil and Queenie have just had a serious j
difference of opinion.
He (to wind up)?"If you ever see
me again it will be in a dream."'
She?"It would be a nightmare."?
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Sorry He Spoke.
Reggy?'"Bah Jove, there are a lot of
people who sing songs these days and
don't even mean what they sing."
Miss Rose?"You are right. Reggy.
Last night you sung 'Good-bye, My
Lady Love' at 10 o'clock and didn't
leave until 12."?Cb'cago News.
Appropriate.
Rodrick ? "Now they are thinking
about bringing out the life of Raisouli."
Van Albert?"Well, it would be rathf^er
expensive." ^
Rodrick?"How so?"
Van Albert?"It would have to be
bouud in Morocco."?Chicago News.
Then She Sighed.
Nervous Youth (to charming girl, who
has been trying to set him at his ease)
?"He, he! I always?ha?feel rather
shy with pretty girls, y'know, but I'm
quite at home with you!"?Punch. -
The Turrlble Boy.
"Johnny," said young Spoonamore,
"your sister must look charming when
she lets her hair down."
"Yes." said Johnny, with his mouth
full of chocolate creams, "but she looks
a good deal better when 6be puts It M
again."?Chicago Tribune.
? i
Her Statue.
"Ob, that ray son should wish to
marry an actress!" shrrieked the proud,
patrician mother.
"Now. ma, don't take on so," beseeched
the undutiful heir, "she ain't
really an actress?she only thinks she
is."?Pitsburg Post.
. K* i
Kiting.
"They have come up in the world,
have they not?" asks the friend of
other days.
"Indeed, yes." says the friend who
has kept track of them. "Why. they
have reached that stage where they
correct your pronunciation of their
.. T...1? , "
name. ?juujsc.
The Thlnr to Do.
"I don't know what to say to this
man," mused the agricultural editor.
"He asks: 'What shall I do with my
hens? Every moruing I find several
of them dead.'"
I "That's easy," replied the Snake Editor.
"Tell him to bury them."?Philadelphia
Ledger.
Definition*.
Young Hopeful?"Father, what is a
'traitor in politics?' This paper says
Congressman Jawweary is one." 1
J Veteran Politician?"A traitor is a |
man who leaves our party and goes j1
over to the other one." I!
Young Hopeful?"Well, then, what la
a mau who leaves the other party and
.*omes over to ours?"
| Veteran Politician?"A convert, my I
?ou."?Boston Transcript. i
SNAKESTONE A MYTH.
Muppoieil Medicinal Value M a Polsoa
Antidote is False.
South Africans, as a rule, trouble
themselves but little about snakes, althought
it is well known that a few'varieties
are particularly deadly. Among
the natives the properties of the
"snakcstone" have for many generations
formed a centre of half super
stitious credulity, and, even by people
who might be expected to know better,
have been supposed to effect the most
surprising cures of snake bite. An
investigation of its properties by the
government bacteriologists of Natal,
who submitted an Indian snakestone
to the test of applying it to animals
infected with snake venom, has shown
conclusively that its properties are
quite mythical and that it does nothing
that is claimed for it. According to
tradition the snakestone, which has
absorbent qualities, and which there
is some reason to believe is frequently
artificially prepared, is placed on the
wound inflicted by a snake bite. There
it is believed to suck out the poison,
and It has been said that if afterward
placed in a bowl of milk the venom
will exude and the milk turn blue.
In certain experiments narrated in the
British Medical Journal ail these directions
were followed. To the two
rabbits injected respectively with the
venom of a black mamba, a very deadly
8outh African colubrine. and- with
puff adder venom, the snakestone was
at once applied. The stone, by virtue
of its absorbent nature, adhered to the
wound, but here its adherence to tra-'
dition ended. Both rabbits died, and
what was more disappointing, two
other rabbits, used as a "control experiment,"
which were injected with
the same amount of venom, recovered.
Nor when the stone was placed in milk
J1A mill- ahonoo r?nlAP tllAllffll fl
U1U IUC JUiia wewe, .. .
small quantity of it was absorbed.
The amount of absorption that the
stone could possibly effect would be no
more in bours than ordinary suction by
the lips could achieve in a few min- ?
Utes; and its only possible usefulness
might be that of improving the physical
condition of the patient by im- i
pressing him with the belief that a
valuable remedy was being applied.South
Africa. , WORDS
OF WISDOM:
The way to be nothing is to do noth- 1
ing.?Howe.
i
Much bending breaks the bow; much
unbending the mind.?Bacou. ,
It is always the biggest craven who ;
gives the dead dog the heartiest kick.
When a man gives to be seen of men 1
he generally has a good deal to hide
from the Lord. i
For pebple who five happily together I
the real secret is that they shall not 1
live too much together.?English Proverb.
The darkest hour in the history of 1
any young man is when he sits down 1
to study how to get money without
honestly earning it.?Horace Greeley. 1
Never compare thy condition with
those above thee; but to secure thy j
content, look upon those thousands (
with whom thou wouldst not, for any
interest, change thy fortune and con- f
dition.?Jeremy Taylor.
Let us rightly search our lives that, ]
if there be any evil in the day gone, ,
before the angel closes his book we j
may repent, and the fair white page (
of holy deeds and genuine repentances ^
be our only record.?John E. W. Ware. (
Life our battleground, death our re- 1
lease; cares and sorrows upon earth, i
repose in heaven?of these we'all have 1
heard. But do we really grasp the 1
thought that in our death and judgment
we are confronted with new op? 1
portunity??Isaac Ogden Rankin. 1
Awed by Sight of Wealth. .
'A Southern planter employed a man
to work some of his land during the (
ohoMo On account of
pusi jreai Vfu ouu>v?.
the high price of cotton the employe's
half of the proceeds amounted to ?1G00. j
The planter knew that it would ruin ,
any such man to get such a sum of
money, and decided that half of it I
would be enough. Upon further reflection
the conviction grew upon him
that $800 would ruin any such man
in the world, so he cut the sum in j
half again, and, piling up 400 shining
silver dollars on his desk, sent for the .
negro and brother, and said that he .
was ready to settle. The man came in (
and fairly gasped at the amount of
wealth in sight.
"Land, boss," he said, "is that money
all ours?" ,
"Yes." **t"
"Well, then, divide it In two piles ,
and you take your half aud I'll take ;
mine."?Minneapolis Tribune.
Oar Willow Ware.
In ten years Maryland has jumped
from fifth to third place in the willowware
industry in *he United States,
now ranking next to New York and
Pennsylvania. Baltimore is one of the
three willow-ware centres which only
have shown any actual growth In the
" ' T" Vn.rlon^ (ho /ifltltr* of
UUSlUt'S?. Ill .uai;mim
the willow district lies In Howard
County. In the neighbo.hood of Elkridge
alone the output of willow exceeds
$5000 per annum, while Anne
Arundel County contributes $2500.
Jap Advertising.
The Japanese advance in advertising
as in all else. Here Is au illustration: "Our
wrapping paper Is as strong as
the hide of an elephant. Goods forwarded
with the speed of a cannon
ball. Our silks and satins are as soft J
as the cheeks of a pretty woman, as t
beautiful as the rainbow. Our parcels i
are packed with as much care as a \
young married woman takes or -ner c
lusband." ^
i
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The Hospital states that 2,289.578 pa- ^
L!;nts arc treated annually in London :
5 wpitals and dia^ensaries. I
SOUTHERN */
\TOP/CS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANT
rv
Corn and Cotton Seed Meal For Cattle*
- L. J. C., Gainesville. Flo.?Please
give me the relative value of corn and
cotton seed meal for fattening cattle,
and also that of cotton seed and cotton
seed meal. ,
in experiments maae on tne lenuessee
station farm fo^ several years past
a ration consisting of two-thirds of
cotton seed meal and one-third of corn
meal has been fed with great success
to beef cattle after the following
method:
In the early stages of fattening beef
cattle It is desirable to obtain as much
growth as possible, therefore the grain
ration consisted largely of cotton seed
meal, a food stuff rich in protein, or
muscle building elements, tending to
produce rapid growth. As the feeding
period advances the amonnt of
cotton seed meal fed was gradually reduced,
and at the end of three months
the cattle were receiving two-thirds of
com meal and one-third of cotton seed
meal. This ration was continued for
the next sixty days and the cattle made
uniform gains throughout the period
of five months.
The cattle receiving this meal ration
made about 2.4 pounds gain per day for
the whole period, which Is a very satisfactory
gain. When cotton seed meal
alone was fed the cattle only made a
gain of 2.15 pounds per head per day.
It is evident, therefore, that the addition
of corn to the ration In the finishing
period was a great advantage. Cot.-i
? 1 K?? frt Koaf not.
lun StftfU tlit'tti ICU UJ nouu iv vi.v& vu?
tie does not make as satisfactory a
ration as when combined with a small
amount of corn, for the reason that It
Is too one-sided a food, and therefore
the cattle do not fatten as rapidly as
Is desirable. Of course, when cotton
seed meal is cheap, say $20 a ton, and
corn fifty to sixty cents a bushel, it is
better policy to feed a larger amount
of cotton seed meal, even though some
waste results, than to purchase highpriced
corn to go with it.
Cotton seed meal cannot be fed with
satisfaction to beef cattle for long periods
where large amounts are usedsay
as much as eight to twelve pounds
per head per day?unless it is combined
with silage or roots or some other
succulent food.
If hulls are fed to cattle, the meal
and hulls should be mixed in the proportion
of about one to five, and tho
cattle should not receive more than six
to eight pounds of cotton seed meal
when on full feed. Where sUcculeht
roughness is used, from eight to
twelve pounds can be fed with safety.
A ration containing cotton seed meal
as the only concentrate should be increased
very gradually, or else the digestive
system of the cattle Is likely
to be deranged and they will be thrown
off feed.
Cotton seed does not make a very satisfactory
ration for beef cattle; it contains
too much oil, and therefore is too
laxative. If you can buy the cotton
seed at from $8 to S10 a ton you can
nmhnhiv nffrtrd to feed them to beef
rattle even with the disadvantage mentioned,
provided some; other form of
dry roughness is used. If you can obtain
as much as $15 a ton for cotton
seed and buy cotton seed meal for $20
to $25, it is better to sell the seed to
the oil mills and buy the meal.
When corn can be purchased for forty
cents a bushel it will be profitable
to feed a considerable quantity of it
with cotton setfl meal. It is impossible
to give directions for some time in advance,
because the crop season influences
the prices of various concentrates,
and one in order to be successful
in feeding beef cattle must study
local conditions very carefully and utilize
the food stuff that is cheapest and
best suited to his purpose.?Professor
Soule.
Sitae* aa a Companion Food.
One of the best ways to feed alfalfa
* 1? A rArrinn
bay IS WlUl SlJage, umeao iu a 1C51VJ
where alfalfa Is very cheap, a contingency
that is not likely,to arise in
the Southeastern States, because the
crop will hardly grow with the luxuriance
characteristic of it in the West.
Alfalfa hay in the Southeastern
States, by reason of its higher price, is
a foodstuff that must be utilized more
carefully than in the West, where it
can be fed in the most wasteful fashion
and still give profitable returns. It
is a great advantage to feed alfalfa or
any other of the leguminous crops that
may be substituted for a portion of
the concentrates in a ration of the
dairy cow with some such succulent
and palatable food as silage. By
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cuuppiuj^ iuc uiiuiii* -r,
tlced in our experiments, and sprinkling
it over the silage with the meal
fed. the whole ration was readily
consumed. If the alfalfa hay was fed
by itself, eveu in larger quantity, it
would not be so completely consumed,
and the waste would be much greater
and its effectiveness in the ration reduced
to that extent. In our judgment
the gratifying results following
the substitution .of alfalfa and cowpen
The News of the Day.
Thirty-four years ago France was
uled by the government of the nationil
defence, which consisted of twelve of
he best known members of the Opposiion
under the Empire. Among them
vere such famous names as Leon Gametta
Jules Simon, Jules Favre and Gen.
Trochu. Eleven of the twelve are dead
sow and most of them are forgotten,
["he last survivor is Henri Rochefort,
vho in his time has been journalist,
onvict, member of the Government and
ioulanglst. _
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2
ER, STOCK MAM AMD TRUCK GROW EM,
r
I bay for a certain amount of concentrates
were due in a large measure to
the feeding of these crops with a fine
quality of silage which is generally admitted
to be the best form of roughness
for the dairy cow. Of course, silage
by itself is not so satisfactory as
when fed in conjunction with a small
amount of dry roughness.
Another peculiarity was noticed in
these experiments, namely, that the
ration containing the largest amount
of protein was eaten with the greatest
relish. In other words, the best results
were obtained in the experiments of
1902 and 1903 when cotton seed meal
was fed in conjunction with cowpea
and alfalfa hay. It is difficult to giro
a satisfactory reason for this peculiarity.
unless it is that the larger amount
of protein acted as a tonic to the
nerves and the system generally, and
kept the animals in a more perfect
condition of health. The other rations j
were altj eaten with relish and the
animals were in - good condition';
throughout the experiment, but in both
years the best results have been ob?
tained from the high protein ration, f
Gripe Tine* In the Bade Yard.
There has been much interest manifested
in the improvement of the back
yard. Cleanliness, of course,.jtotnes
first and that is a matter of dimy attention.
Plants for the back yard
ought to be of economic valne. Hedge
plants, without thorns, along the fence
line or bordering the walk. serve *
good purpose dally.
The pot, sweet and medicinal herbs,
such as parsley, thyme, sage and rosemary.
do well, and are convenient, la
back yards.
Rose bushes as rose vines are^
thorny, and therefore not well suited
to the part of the premises nsed for
hanging and sunning household linen,
riant roses in the front yard.
Grape vines need a good foothold.N
They will climb freely. It is not the
approved method of cultivating grapes,
but for shade over the kitchen window
or porch, a vigorous Concord or Dels- >
ware, or Catawba grape vine, answers '
the dual purpose of shade and of
yielding grapes. Plant ou the eastern
side and train the vine around to tfie
window or porch. The root in a run- _
ny place, the vine will stand a western
or northern exposure.* .vi'Jjf
Scnppernoug vines cover arbors. An,
arbor of roujjft construction, extending
from the baftjr dooy. say, toward the
garden, with fust one Scnppernong
grape vine, will "be green aH.sammer
and full of grapes in Septemoer. um vine
will spread an indefinite number,
of feet, twenty, /forty and more.
Grape vines feed on bone greedily.
Every bone from th^ kitchen can to
utilized by burying at the root of the
vine. Sweepings from foe yard make
a rich mulch. Waste witer from the
kitchen is no longer waste^nrater when
applied to the grape vines.
Grape vines subjected to thH^ntf1W>tive
mode of treatment shonld first be
cnt away to two branches, trained op. j
oud then two collateral branches allowed
to each of the main branches.-*
G. T. D., in the Florida.
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Seeding Sorghum''end Cowpeaa.
E. A.. Hume, Va., writes^ Please |
let me know what kind and how much,
sorghum to sow with cowpeas, and how
many cowpeas to the acre, and the
best time to sow?
We believe the Red/Head sorghum
to be one of the best varieties to sow
for silage purposes. It is best sown in
drills'about three feet apart, using
about eight to ten pounds of seed per
acre. You may sow about a half
bushel of peas with the sorghum. The i
most satisfactory way to. do this is to
use a two horse corn planter, filling
one hopper with peas and one with
sorghum. The plates for the respective
hoppers should be adjusted so as
to put the sorghum down ev ry four
or five inches and the peas about
eight to ten inches apart in the drill
row. By reversing on the rows the
corn and peas are planted together. ,
The peas should be planted the same
as the sorghum and not later, as the
sorghum grows rapidly and will overshadow
the cowpeas and prerent their
making a very satisfactory growth. We '
have never been able to get a large
per cent, of peas in either our corn or
sorghum for silage purposes.- Fifteen
per cent, is the largest amount ever
obtained and the average has been be
tween five and sir. If you now the
corn and sorghum thinner and in wider
drill rows, you will get a latfcer per
cent, of peas, but this will so reduce
the yield of the silage crop as make
the small amount of peas obtained unprofitable.
It is better, in our judgment,
to sow the cowpeas and soy
beans by themselves and make into
hay to be fed along with the silage or
mired with the crops as they are run J
into the silo. The Whippoorwill is undoubtedly
one of the best varieties of
peas to sow with sorchum for ?ilag?
purposes.
*dde and Ends. _
The present Secretary of War, whoM
dignity equals that of any Judge on th<
Supreme Bench, is known as "Bill"Taft
to all his intimates. In his cats
the nickname would seem to be a token
of general good will aud friendly feeling.
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John Welsh, the man who fired the
first shot under Dewey in the battle oi
Manilla, is at present In Mllwaulpe on
recruiting service He was with Orldley
in Japan when he died and took his last
message to his wife if $rie, Pf. * J