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v f SOUTHERN . f \ \ TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLAN] *<K* Clieap Feed For Milk and Butter. *" ' H. G. D., of Roanoke, writes: "Please te'.l me the best feed for cows \ to produce milk. Do you advise feeding cottonseed meal, and in what cjuau* tity ?" Answer:' The Very best food for a dairy cow is good fclnegrass. You-can produce milk more cheaply in this way and with less trouble than by any other means. Of course, uiuegrass is uoi available all tlie year, and for tlie winy ter feeding of the' cow some substiJ tute for grass must be found. The / dairy cow gives her best results when receiving a succuicnt ration. For tliis / reason silage is considered one of the f best winter feeds for cows. Silage, as you knew, may be made frouijcorn, sorghum, cow peas, clover or other farm crops. The greater part of the sil&ge used is made from corn. This is because of the large yields obtained.'ami the economy with which the crop can be produced. AYhen the corn is well eared and glazed, and some of the lower leaves beginning to tire, it is in condition to be put in the silo. The silo may be constructed on the same prfticifcle as a water tank. The idea is to exclude the air and prevent fermentation. The green corn is cut Up tine and run into the silo and packed down firmly, and will then keep for long periods, and can be fed to cows as needed. When sil.'ige can not be had. roots are often used, but root crops can not * ? -- : ? n~ <? +t,? ?e proauceu as w?uuunum; ju . M, South as fcii^ge, the cHmate does not favor their growth as much as it does further North. It will pay you V ?to have a silo, if you are feeding a * considerable iiuuiher of cows. If you are without a silo, the question resolved itself into some method of feeding economically at the present time. If you can obtain an abundance of corn stalks to be sbrqdded or cut up, this will furnish a fairly good roughness for your dairy animals, provided jrou feed along with say twenty pounds of fodder, ten pounds of good clover hay besides some wheat bran and cottonseed meal. 'In order to make the shredded stover more palatable, it may be sprinkled with water and the meal scattered over it and the whole mixed together with a fork. This will necessitate the animals eating up muen more of tjie ^uredded stover than they other wise# might do; and the production of cheap milk and butter depends very largely in making tl?> cows consume a considerable quantity of dry roughness, which always provides the cheapest part of the ration. If you cannot obtain corn stalks, you can, of course, feed* your cows on mixed hay ~ie AffA? arnaneSvA sum glUUI. Xtll^ la U1H11 Uii uu. . V ration. If with your mixed hay you can secure some clover or cow pea iiay, It will provide a better variety for the cow. ' As to t!ie concentrates, you may feed wheat bran at the rate of six to eight ' pounds per day for each thousand pounds of live weight, and to this you may add two to four pounds of cottonseed meal. Cottonseed meal may be fed with perfect safety in reasonfble quantity to dairy cows, and as it is so rich in protein, an element which the cow requires for the economical production of mil!: and butter, it furnishes a cjttap and excellent supplementary cmicaatrate to wheat bran. If wheat ^^Aj/rau Tosts you more than $23 n ton. can feed one-half corn and cob meal and one-half cottonseed meal. In this case you would not feed over six to eight pounds of the mixture per day to a thousand-pound cow. If you find It difficult to secure corn meal, you can use .one-third wheat bran, one-third middlings and one-third cottonseed meal to advantage. ? The aiuou.it of grain that should be fed to a cow will depend on her milk flow. If she giving three to live ? gallons a day, she should be fed liberally twelve to fifteen pounds per day. One must use judgment in feediug a cow, and no definite rules can be laid down- Where the cow is giving a small flow of milk, six to eight pounds of grain per day would be sufficient. Corn aud other fattening grains should not be fed as the sole concentrates to dairy cows.?Andrew M. Soule. k < < < ?. Corn Sialic* on Lund, y Now, if you will permit me a small epace, I will give some farm experience. The crops are all gathered and stored away; the harvest was a bountiful one for we who tried to help ourselves, and we should all be thankful to our Lord, the giver of all blessings. ' for such favors. Wheat and rye are 4 sowed, and now Is the time to start out for another crop. If any of you intend to raise corn , on land that was in corn last season, I will tell you how I treat stalk lanjl if you wish to get rid of the stalks. Do not burn them, as the manner of some Is, but take a good sized one-horse turn plow and run two furrows in centre of tniddle, turning the dirt each way toCurrent Events. Henry H. Rogers, who worked for fi.it> a day, is tco most poweriui siugie ? individual In the world of finance and jjL commerce. He ?s a little fellow, iO l^^much larger than Jay Gould, has a cow-lick on each side of the part In the middle of his hair, wears an Iron gray mustache with cow-horn curls, and takes off his hat whenever he enters a broker's office. Just as an ordinary servant should do. ^ * r i ? . r ' ' * . > ^ ' J' ' V" ?r?*d; ARM [iOTBS. TER, STOCKMJtANQ TRUCK GROWER, p | ward standing stalk (I moan second i furi^jv in bottom of first furrow) as (lee$?s one pood mule can pull well. Then cut stalks down with hoe or scythe and lay each row of stalks and all weeds and grass in this furrow. Thou turn on one furrow from each side with a large two-horse plow. Then lot it stand until planting time, while the high ridge stands up and a small bar between and the furrows open. The cold, nard freezing will reach deeper in the ground than if plowed level. At planting tiqie. use a long, straight plow with twd mules drawing it. Him ot^Krrow on each 'ide of ridge where stalks were buried, but do not turn them out. Then with two mules turn out remainder of old ridge. Now lake cutaway harrow and out down the ridge to the desired height. Plant on or just beside of stalks and you will make corn if you cultivate well. Now as to the inoculating material sent out by the Government last spring for cow peas. I received a package and used it on black cow pens on land that was in rye. Turned stubble, harrowed and sowed with drill, some treated and some untreated, and found no improvement by inoculating, but the dry weather caused rather late sowing. Now I sowed land in wheat; win notice tue same piars 01 ia?u iu see if any benefit to wliea* crop or not. . Hope to liear from some others who' used the inoculating material.?R. C. Whitener, Burke County, N. C., in the Progressive Farmer. Reclaiming T.and. A considerable per cent, of the best , arable land in the South Is to-day al: most entirely unproductive. It is those lauds lying along rivers, creeks, branches, that have been cleared of their forest growth and have been cultivated but for some reason have been allowed to grow up iu weeds and bushes of one kind or another. Nearly all of this land is rich and if put in tirst-class shape would produce a bale of cotton or fifty bushels of corn with' out any manuring. Most of this land, all, is set in Bermuda grass, and if nothing else, but if it had possession there would be a most magnificent pasture or meadow capable of producing $o0 worth of beef, pork or mutton to every acre of it. If used only as a meadow it would yield from two to five tons of the best bay in the world. It is a pity these lands are not put in condition to do their best for they would be the most profitable part of the farm. It is true it would take a lot of hard work to got thorn back iu perfect shape, a lot of mowing, grubbing and chopping that the average farmer is not able it seems to bestow upon it It would pay well to clean up all patches eveu along the branches and creeks. Such as are not set iu Bermuda could be used for sugar cane, if desired. There is so little good land on the farm to-day the best should certainly be reclaimed with as little delay as possible.?Florida Agriculturist * Tlio Market Fowl. Mr. P. H. Jacobs, editor The Foultry News, crowds a large amount of sound common sense into a very short article as follows: The market fowl is an insignificant object with those who advocate the standard, and they boldly proclaim their dc-stestatioa of any mongrel grade, or breed that is not recognized by what they term the "infallible guide" to success with poultry. Our standard friends may be sound enough on the standard requirements, but we will say to them that when they begin to build up the breeds according to the standard by pulling out the pillars that support the poultry structure the falling ruins will crush them as well as those whom they despise. Like Samson, they will die with the Philistines, for the foundation of the standard breeds is the market poultry. But for those who "keep chickens" the fancy breeders would have no markets for their productions, and admitting that they displace the scrub altogether they must create newer kinds or Cud the markets all supplied. The question as to the profitableness of a breed,and its use as a "thing of beauty" must be discussed in its-plainest sense. To retain the standard and keep up the purity cf the breeds it must be demonstrated mat profit is sure to result, anil unless that is done the labor will be but thrown a war ~ , The Best Pallet.' If/a pullet has been early and carefully reared, its most prolific seasou is its first winter.- The second year, as a whole, is quite as profitable, however, because the fowl eats less than when growing, and the first half of its first y^ar there are few or no eggs, while laying is maintained all through its second year.?Professor Thomas Shaw, Odds and Ends. The Rer. Dr. Augustus L. Braebner, professor of church history and dogmatics in the Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Seminary, at St Louis, who has just died in that city, gave Instructions that after his death a post-mortem should be held In the Interest of science, as he believed his disease was not understood by the specialists who attended him. mu,:' ,i Sharps and Flats# Men tvho serve GcW to escape Hell would serve any devil who promised tfcem Heaven. It's a good deal easier to catch the preacher's errors in pronunciation than his appeals for the collection. When God has buried your sins it is a sin to dig them up agaip, even though it be only to show them to your friends. The man who made the biggest fool of himself at election will be the first to denounce the excitement of a revival. THREE YEARS AFTER. Eugene E. Lnrio, of 751 Twentieth avenue, ticket seller in the Union Station, Denver. Col., says: "You are at liberty to repeat what I first stated through our Denver papers about . wX Doan's Kidney Tills In the summer of 1S99, for /jfeSPk I have had no reason in 8^^* the interim to change my opinion of the remedy. I was subject to severe at- 'PSB? tacks of backache, al- MM ways aggravated if I sat long at u desk. Doan's Kidney Tills absolutely stopped my backache. I mU have never had a pain or a twinge since." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box. Story of Terrapin's Memory. That Br'er Tarrypin has memory is proved by a story told by Young D. Kance, who owns the birthplace of Chief Justice Taney, on Battle creek, in Calvert county. Mr. Hance keeps a small boat under a mulberry tree on the shore of the creek, and- on going to the boat early one morning he noticed a dry land terrapin busily engaged In eating a few mulberries which had fallen. Mr. Hance, wishing to assist Br'er Tarrypin in getting his breakfast, gathered some mulberries and pitched them to him one at a time. In a very short time the terrapin began to catch the berries in his mouth exactly as they were thrown to him. Every day afterward a slight knock on the side of the boat would bring the terrapin out for his mulberries, and Mr. Hance often took bis friends and visitors to see his pet. On one occasion a fresh young man threw a piece of tobacco to the terrapin instead of a mulberry. Br'er Tarrypin retired at once in disgust, and for days afterward refused to come when called. Although Mr. Hance I unaiiy lnuuccu mui ii? tviuc ag<uu 1UJ j his mulberries, Br'er Tarrypin remembered the tobacco and would never approach unless Mr. Hance was alone.? Baltimore Sun. DOG HAD NOT FORGOTTEN. , Stung by Bee In Puppyhood, He Cherished Resentment. "Something must have stung your dog," said a resident of this city to a suburbanite, whom he was visiting a few days ago. as he noticed the antics of a large collie which, after snapping frantically at a flying insect, lowered his head and carefully licked his right forepaw. "No," replied the owner of the dog, "that is only a little delusion of his. When he was a puppy a bee 6tung him on that foot you see him attending to, and ever since he has cherished a standing grudge against flying insects. Apparently the sight of one not only arouses his anger, but recalls most vividly his first experience with one, for each time after running after one, whether he catches it or not, he stops and tenderly licks the place where he was stung two years ago. As far as I know he has | never been stung since then."?Philaj delphia Press. Woman Shot Deer from Carriage. Tbe other day Mr. and Mrs. Daniel .ott of Houlton drove up to B plantation and while Mr. Iott was a short distance in the woods after partridge. Mrs. Iott, who was sitting in the carriage, spied a large buck deer at the edge of the clearing and Immediately brought' her rifle to bear upon Mr. Deer. He dropped after receiving one cartridge.?Lewiston Journal. HABIT'S CHAIN. Certain Habit* Unconsciously Formed and Hard to ilreak. An ingenious philosopher estimates that the amount of will power necessary to break a life-long habit would, if it could be transformed, lift a weight of many tons. It sometimes requires a higher degree of heroism to break the chains of a pernicious habit than to lead a forlorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady writes from an Indiana town: "From my earliest childhood I was a lover of coffee ''Wore I was out of my teens I was a mis... , 'vspeptie, suffering terribly at timco my stomach. "I was convinced that it was cofie* that was causing the trouble and yet 1 could not deny myself a cup for breakfast. At the age of 30 I was in very poor ueuuu, luueeu. xuy oisier ioiu me I was in danger of becoming a coffee drunkard. "But I never could give up drinking coffee for breakfast although it kept me constantly ill, until I tried Postum. I learned to make it properly according to directions, and now we can hardly do without Postum for breakfast, and care nothing a* all for coffee. % "I am no longer troubled with dyspepsia, do not have spells of suffering with my stomach that used to trouble me so when I drank coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." v. 1 V'T Lift of the Heart. Wher. we stand with the woods around us < And the great bonghs overhead; When the wind blows cool on our forehead; And the breath of the pines is shed; When the song of the thrush is ringWonderful, rich, apart? Between the sound and the silence Comes a sudden lift of the heart. When we seek with the clearer vls|on That grief the revealer brings For the threads that are shot together In the closcwrought web of things, And And that pain is woven Into love and Joy and art? Between the search and the solace Comes a sudden lift of the heart. And when life's farthing candle Gutters and flares and sinks; Whar the eye no longer wanders And the brain no longer thinks; Whgn only the hand plucks idly Afk the sheet till the spiHt partDoes there come between living and dying A sudden lift of the heart? ?Atlantic. The Censor in Italy. A most amusing incident took place last week, which shows the absolute absurdity of the censorship in Italy. The great actor, Ermete Novelli, now in South America, has a son who lives in Florence, to whom was born a bouncing boy. The young Novelli, in haste to let his father know that he bad made him a grandfather, tele graphed: "Ermete Novelli, Buonop Ayres: Boy. Enrico." Several hours later he was called to the telegraph office, where the following conversation took place: "You know wo could not let j-our dispatch pass." "Not let it pass! But why, L you please?" N, "You know you said it was a boy? ' "And if I did, what then? Is it not true?" "Well, that is what we do not know yet." "What! Are you crazy? I know it'" "Well, anyway, public order demands that it should not be made public." "Made public! Am I making it public by telegraphing to * my father? And, In any case, what has the birth of my son got to do with public order? Excuse me, have you all taken leave of your senses?" "Your son?" gasped the other. "We thought you were telegraphing about the queen!" Oov oil the war correspondents says that he and his associates spent most of their time at headquarters reading novels. We suspect that their favorite book was "Forty Liars, and Other Lies," says the Washington Post P?jrcl?o"ojy of lite Setting Hen. The hen patiently "sets" only through the overpowering pressure of ^mysterious creative impulse that masters her restless impulses to be outside scratching and cackling, instead of workiDg for posterity.?Boston Herald. % f 9100 Reward. 91O0. The readers of this paper will be pleascdto learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all itsstages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Ls the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, require? a constitutional treatment. Hall's CatarrhCureistakeninternally.actingdirectly upon the blood and raucoussurfaces of the system, thereby destroyingtha foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by buflding*up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in Its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Chenet <fc Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation Lofty SUtae. A huge statue of the Virgin has been successfully placed on the summit of the Dent du Geant. a mountain in Italy 10,000 feet high, near Milan. Divine service ivas performed on the summit in celebration of the event by the vicar of Oourmayeur. fBnyt we are purist i is lightj. thin other GoodLud Luck is no country* 1 the high q? 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