Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1902 — Page 2

Chicago, Indianapolis sad Louisville ByRensselaer Time-Table, South Bound. Ko. M-Fast Mail 4:49 a. m No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m. No. 33—Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:48p. m. Ko. 39—Milk acoomm., (dai1y)....... 8:15 p.m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:25 p. m. •No. 48—Local freight 2:40 p.m. . North Bound. Ko. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk aocomm., (daily) 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. tn. •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. iNo. 38—Cin. to Chicago ;.... 2:57 p. m. No. B—Mail and Express, (dally)... 3:60 p.m. •No. 46—Local freight '.. 9:55 a. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) 9:09 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. (Sunday only. < No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Fkanx J. Rkkd, (1. P. A., W. H. McDosn, President and Gen. Mgr, Chab. H. Rookwkll, Traffic M'g’r, CHICAGO. W. H. Beam. Agent. Rensselaer.

Board and lodging. Rates SI.OO Per Day. FRANK COOPER, Indianapolis, Ind. 2024 HOVY STREET. CITV. TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor John Eger Marshal Abram Simpson Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer James 11. Chapman Attorney Hurry R. Kurrie Civil Engineer H. L. (.ramble Fire Chief Biden R. Hopkins COITNCIt.MEN. Ist ward Chas. Dean, H. J. Kannal 2d ward I. J. Porter, C. G. Spitler 3d ward....J.F. McColly. J.C. Chilcote COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Join. F. Major Sheriff Abram G. Hardy Auditor W.C. Babcock Treasurer It. A. Parkison. Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips COMMISSIONKIIH. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd Distric Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioner's court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TRCHTEEH. townships. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan Gillam Lewis Shrier Walker Elias Arnold Barkley Blue Marion John Jordan S. L. Luce Keener Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee Stephen D. Clark Wheatfield Albert J. Bellows Carpenter William T. Smith Milroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Rensselaer G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer J. D. Allman .... Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfield JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney John D. Sink Terms of Court. -Second Monday in February, April, September and November. TOimSHIP TRUSTEES’ CARDS. _ Milroy Township. Wm. T. Smith, trustee of Milroy township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in •aid township on the First and Third Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. Wm. T. Smith, Trustee. Jordan Township. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he will be at his residence In said township on the Second and Fourth Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated (lay. John Bill, Trustee.

£ For me seoson 011902 me sionm Bred Tronino siomon 5 : WILKES ABDALLAH NO. 4645.: Brown horse, 16-1 hands high, weighs 1400 pounds; bred by R. (0 P. Pepper, Frankfort, Ky., owned by T. M. Hibler, Joliet, HL 0) (0 Sired by the Mighty Onward, the greatest living sire with 158 from 2:06 to 2:30 and better; 100 producing sons that have sired 246 trotters and 280 pacers; (0 WILKES ABDALLAH'S Ist datn is Jeanette, sired by Woodford Abdallah, he QH by Woodford Mambrlno 2:21 1-2. he by Mambrlno Chief; 2d dam, Japhet, sired by Bufford's Cripple; 3d dam, Doniphan, sired by Davy Crockett. }>• NOTIQE TO BREEDERS. WILKES ABDALLAH will make the season at my farm known as the old QM "Cleveland Farm." in Milroy Township, at $lO to insure a colt to stand and suck. MO Having put services down to the low figure of $lO we insist that mares be returned regular for trial, and anyone parting with mare before foaling time will be QM held responsible for service. Wilkes Abdallah is a licensed stallion under the •) laws of the state of Indiana and colts will be held for service. Mares will be kept on grass at $2 per mouth and have the same attention as our own, but all accidents and escapes at owner's risk. 0) (• T. M. HIBLER, Ownor. •) . O. Address, Rensselaer. Box 138. D. ART WHITN EY, Manager. AGENTS WANTED ono * n eac h town to ride and exhibit a sample 1902 model ■k M ■sawK- bicycle of Our manufacture. YOU CAM MAKE 910 TO || DMEENfliesidoa having a wheel to ridefor yourself, m 1902 Models Guaranteed $9 to sls #lf Wl firAl l9oo and 1901 Mfldcls >»” $7 to Sil ® 1/raft Ilf \>soo SooondHamf W/ I III) 'i U laUcu In trade by our Chicago retail stores, allwu TO wD B! \ 1 ' < ffigt Kill ' tffl makes and models, good as new ~ MF M Wo ship ttny bic J' cle °" APPftOVAL to anyM without a cent deposit in advance and allow IWlfflwo DAYS FREE TRIAL \ J'V f■ n 0 ris * : * n ordering from us, as you do not need il.'iiß lo P a y a cent tho bicycl® docs not Buit y° u - kllA WL—dM. nn UftT DIIV » wheel until you have written for our ■ / F \ ""I BUT FACTORY PRICES & FREE TRIAL OFFER. Tires, equipment, anndriea and sport Ing goods of all kinds, ab ru W half regular prices. In our big free sundry catalogue. Con1 I Xi tains a world of useful Information. Write for it. MfAJlfr a reliaMe person In each town to distribute catalogues for us In 1 Mff exchange for a bicycle. Wtoday for free catalogue and our special offer. W J. L. MEAD CYCLE CO., Chicago, 111.

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FARMS FOR SALE. BY Dalton Hinchman REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind. No. 989. Two hundred and forty-five acres, level, new two-story frame house, Keren rooms, well and cistern, two tenant houses; two orchards, fair sized barn, 80 acres timber, good soil, Can be bought for $35 per acre. No. 290. Two hundred and elghty-two acres, two houses, one and one-half storle each, barn 50x00, cattle barn with crib 10x50 feet, horse and cattle barn combined 50x70, 6 corn cribs 8x24 feet with driveways, granary with capacity of 2,000 bushels, running water, three fine wells; two windmills; large orchard of all kinds of fruit at eachhouse, 77 acres wheat, 135 acres timothy, three and onehalf miles over pike road to town of 7,500 population. Price SII,OOO, $4,000 cash, balance six per cent., five years. No. 291. Three hundred acres, 220 acres cultivated, 40 acres timber, 170 acres bottom, 80 acres tiled, on pike, four wells, cistern and live water, two large barns, corn cribs, granaries, sheds and wagon scales, medium house, level, yielded from 40 to 70 bushels corn last year per acre. Price S3O per acre. Correspondence Solicited. References: Judge Willard New, Ex-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants: S. W. Storey. N. DeVersy, Jacob Foebel, Thomas & Son, Wagner Bros. & Co., .Nelson & Son, J. H. Maguire & Co., W. M. Naur, Herbert Goff and Wagner's plow factory. Anyone that wishes to look over the county, would be pleased to show them whether they wished to buy or not. Read The Democrat for news. Don’t forget The Democrat when you have a legal notice to be published. I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand. W. B. Austin. Tell your neighbor to subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, The Democrat. It gives all the news. Have You Seen? The New Machinery at the Rensselaer Steam Laundry. It is the best and latest improved in the United States. No more pockets in open front shirts. Our New drop board Shirt-Ironer matches every button hole perfectly and holds the neck band in perfect position while ironing. Do you realize you are working against your own city when you send to out of town Laundries and indirectly working against your own interests? We CLAIM THAT WITH OUR present Equipment and Management our work is Equal to any Laundry in America. Our Motto: Perfect Satisfaction or no charges. We make a specialty of Lace Curtains. Send us your rag carpets, oc a yard. Rates given on family washings. Office at G. W. Goff’s. Phone 66. Prompt work. Quick Delivery.

Craft’s Distemper and Cough Cure £ for DtaUmpsr, G>a«h«, Colds, Hsavsa, Flak and all Catarrhal diseases of honsa. I>toa. 00a. Sl.ae par botUa. Sold by A. F. Long.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

Should Listen to Mr. McKinley. Republican editors who seek to justify the cruel practices in the Philippines would do well to read the messages of President McKinley during, and immediately prior to, the Spanish-American war period. These messages are full of denunciations of the practices in Cuba, which practices were not so I rutpl as recent revelations would indicate the practices in the Philippines to be. In the message of Dee. 1, 1897, Mr. McKinley referred to the concentration system, then established In Cuba by Spain and nbw maintained by the United States in the I’liillpplnes, as' *a cruel policy.” He said that this was not ‘‘civilized warfare,” it was "extermination;” and lie referred to this policy as "an abuse of tlie rights of war.” And In bis message of April 11, 1898, Mr. McKinley reiterated the statements of Ids 1897 message, and, referring to this concentration system, declared: "The only peace it could beget was that of the wilderness and the grave.” In his message of Dee. '(>, 1897, Mr. McKinley denounced Spain's policy in Cuba as a system of warfare that tended "to drive the Cubans to the horrible alternative of taking to the thicket or succumbing to misery.” He referred, in that same message, to “the policy of cruel rapine and extermination that so long shocked the universal sentiment of humanity.” He referred also to the Spanish commander "whose brutal orders inflamed the American mind and shocked the civilized world.” He denounced "the horrible order of concentration.” In his message of April 11, 1898, Mr. McKinley referred to Spain’s policy in Cuba as “the horrors of strife of a new and inhuman phase, happily unprecedented In the modern history of civilized Christian peoples.” He denounced I policy wherein "the farms were laid waste, dwellings unroofed and fired, mills destroyed, and, in short, everything that could desolate the land and render it unfit for human habitation or support.” In the same message Mr. McKinley said: "The prospect of a protraction and continuation of the present strife is a contingency hardly to be contemplated with equanimity by the civilized world.” He spoke of tlie United States acting “according to tlie large dictates of humanity;” and as the first ground for intervention, he proposed: “In the cause of humanity and to put an end to the barbarities, bloodshed, starvation and horrible miseries noiv existing there, and which the parties to the conflict are either unable or unwilling to stop or mitigate.” It has not been forgotten either that in the preamble of the war resolutions, it was said that "the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than throe years in the island of Cuba so near our own borders, have shocked, tlie moral sense of the people of the United States and have been a disgrace to Christian civilization.” ; When Spain did things in Cuba slm- 1 liar to the things we are now doing ir* tlie Philippines, these things were bit terly denounced. No attempt was mad<> to apologize for them; and yet to-day when American citizens protest agalns; these evils in the Philippines they arc arraigned as enemies of their own government and as assailants of tho American army! What special dispensation can there, lie that would justify a wrong commit ted in the name of our own government which. If done by the representatives of any other government, would call foi prompt and vigorous protest in every section of tills country ?—Bryan's Commoner. Roosevelt and Jackson. A correspondent who claims that he is very near to the heads of authority nt Washington says that lie learns from "the highest sources" that there will be no war on the coal trust. According to tills source of information Attorney General Knox was asked Is there was to be no prosecution of tlie coal trust under tlie Sherman anti-trust net. Tlie curt reply was: "No complaint lias been tiled, no evidence has been brought to our attention.” Thin, is tlie President's explanation through tlie Attorney General. But tlie coireaiMindent says fids ex planation Is not sincere. He adds that "the actual reason is that President Roosevelt Is afraid to start any inoru trust prosecutions lest he got too much of h reputation as a trust buster. H<» has all tho fame of that sort he cares for Just now.” It is also addl'd that Pierpont Morgan Is buck of the railroad and other corporations forming the coal trust. Amt "there never was a President bold enough to desire the undying hatred of so powerful a man as Pierpont Morgan.” • This Is tho worst Impeachment that could be brought against President Reesevolt—tlint he Ims not the courage to fight the coal trust, behind whlct. Pierpont Morgan stands. It Is n fills-hood, however, that ns President ever dared hivite the “m# flying hatred” of a man as powerful nj Pierpont Morgnn. In 1830, according to the wealth and resources of the country and In comparison with Its business, moneyed and Industrial interests, Nicholas Biddle Wan a man of ns much power ns Pierpont Morgan wields at thia time of

almost immeasurably greater commercial Interests. Relatively as between the condition of affairs seventy-two years ago and the present condition the United States bank of Mr. Biddle was a greater money power than all the trusts which Mr. Morgan has organized. But President Andrew Jackson "was bold enough” to Invite Mr. Biddle’s “undying hatred” and was successful in the encounter Which he invoked. If Mr. Roosevelt is sincere in his fight on the trusts he will study and follow tlie example of one of his most illustrious predecessors. In Jackson's history he will find the best precedents. But he will not find a case in which Jackson feared the "undying hatred” of any trust mag nate or the chief of any monopoly.— Chicago Chronicle. The Demoralized Navy. The ruffianly behavior of officers and men of the United States cruiser Chicago, in Italian waters, is only a reflection of the demoralization of the American navy. The leniency shown the Chicago’s brawlers in Venice has been rewarded by repeated rowdyism at Trieste. It is disgraceful to a navy of the ancient honor of ours that officers wearing Its uniform should have to be put in irons to compel them to respect the laws of common decency. The Italian episode will be a foul blot on the log of an American warship. Washington politicians and favorites have demoralized ‘me navy of the United States. The •dishonorable course of tlie administration toward hoflored veterans of both army and navy could not fail to exert a malignant influence upon both branches of the service. Trusts and the Tariff. Any Democrat who talks about making trusts tlie great issue of the approaching congressional campaign multiplies words without knowledge. Great Issues are not made to order. Not to speak of that, however, what sort of an issue can the Democratic party make of trusts when the Republican President Is posing effectively as a Jack the-giant-trust killer? The oaJy thing the Democratic party can do to prove that it is the real enemy of tho hurtful sort of trusts, while the President Is not. is to make war on those portions of the tariff which shelter such trusts and give them their power to do harm. That would be to make the trust isacie subordinate to the tariff issue, as It Is in fact. The Chicago Chronicle gays it would not be very sensible to put the little Issue in place of the great one. Let us have no kangaroo issues. Giving Trusts a Broad Hint. The beef trust does not seem to have Often shaken tnuc-h by the injunction against it In Chicago. But the injunction may serve the purpose of the administration in fooling stupid people Into Relieving that its “war” on the 'trusts is anything but false pretense. These proceedings are likely to be dragged out until after the congressional elections, and then in all probability they will end in a fiasco, as some similar “wars” have done. Incldentallly, the President may succeed in convincing the trusts that if they do not want to run up against the real thing they would better make quick decision in Ids favor as against the wily Hanna. —Johnstown, Pa., Democrat. It la a Difficult Undertaking. If the Evans policy is to be rigidly continued the ordinarily sensible citizen will wonder why Evans was not kept in office to continue it. We do not wish to question the President’s sincerity in this transaction, but we confess It looks so much like a backpedallng policy as to call for some very prompt and pronounced demonstrations that a genuine Evans administration is possible witli Evans removed from the throttle of the machinery.—Atlanta Constitution. Trusts May Aid Reciprocity. Were it not for the rising storm of revolt against the exactions of the trust made possible by the protective system, the French treaty and every other one of tlie reciprocity conventions would probably have died without report from tlie Senate committee. The reciprocity treaties may never be ratified by tlie Senate, but tlie favorable report of the committee upon a large majority of them is a distinct cause of encouragement to the friends of tariff reform.—Rochester Herald. An Eminently Fair Proposition. It would seem like a just proposition to give the Filipinos a chance to lie heard. There Is nothing fair In invest! gating ‘lie conditions of the islands and not allowing those who are most vitally affected to present their views. The natives would undoubtedly feel more friendly disposed toward this government If they felt that they were not denied the opportunity to present their grievances, either real or imaginary.— Butte Miner. Republicans and the Beef Trust. It is noted with interest that no Republican statesman rises in his place to move the abolition of tlie tariff tax on Jive stock and meat products. Attorney General Knox meanwhile Is busy frying fat and fooling the folks who want to bo fooled.—Johnstown Deiuoerat

GARDEN AND FAEM

VALUE OF FERTILIZERS. Farmers should keep in view that when they purchase fertilizers they are really purchasing the active ingredients of manure. Tnere is really no difference between fertilizers and manure so far as relates to plant foods except in bulk, as a bag of fertilizer is sometimes more valuable than one or two tons of manure, and entails less cost of labor in hauling and applying to the land. What the farmer should do is to endeavor to buy the kinds of fertilizers needed on his land and for his crops, and this he must learn by observation. Many farmers know no more regarding the quality of their barnyard manure than they do of fertilizers, but they know that manure gives good results, ana they will soon learn that fertilizers will also prove satisfactory and that their cost depends largely upon the crops to be grown. PRUNING RASPBERRIES. In reply to inquiry from D. D. Cressman, as a rule it is best to cut back the canes of young rasperries early in the spring so as to make the branches as nearly self-supporting as possible. The young shoots should be nipped back when they have reached desired height, not allowing them to get two or three feet long. If pinched low, the plants will soon throw out strong, vigorous branches and make a well-balanced, self-supporting bush. If allowed to grow higher and then cut back, only weak buds are left and the result is they do not develop so rapidly. Only three or four of the upper branches start at all, producing a topheavy and unsatisfactory plant. Sheep shears are convenient for summer pruning. One clipping is usually sufficient, although it is necessary at times to go over a patch two or three times, as the shoots do not always reach the desired height at the same time. Canes eighteen to twentyfour inches are about the right height. Usually five or six young canes to a hill should be left to develop. Good results have been gotten where only two or three canes have been left. As soon as the fruit has been gathered, cut out the old canes and burn them. This gives a good opportunity for thorough cultivation and cleaning out the patch. It Is not desirable to leave the old canes, as they afford no protection for the younger growth. There is always a tendency to leave too much wood and allow the plants to overbear the first year after setting. They are but partially developed at that time and should produce a light crop. The canes are usually long and straggling and need severe cutting—American Agriculturist. APPLE ORCHARDS. * A strong plea for scientific culture of apple orchards comes from the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station and some of tne experiences recorded in the bulletin are of practical application to every state where apples are commercially raised. The orchards need cultivation and fertilizing wherever a big crop is expected. This is well illustrated in the claim of the bulletin that a crop of apples will take from the soil as much plant food as a crop of wheat, which is probably the main reason why so many have small crops of apples. Not realizing that trees need fertilizing as well as grain crops, they continue to leave the orchards to take care of themselves and starvation results. Another fruitful reason for this starvation of the trees is the practice that has grown up in many places of raising grass and hay in the orchard and cutting it for stock or other purposes. The soil is not only robbed to produce a crop of apples, but it is made to contribute to the proauction of a crop of hay and grass. There cannot be other than one result. The soil degenerates, the trees grow old while still young, the fruits fail to mature and become of salable size, and failure all around follows. The orchards require cultivation, and, if grass or green plant food is raised it needs to be turned under or allowed to decay on the ground. We cannot raise hay and apples in the same orchard and hope to keep up the strength of the soil. There is one good point emphasized in the bulletin which should be heeded by all. The orchard will do better if provided with some good covering or mulch for winter. This can be best supplied by stopping the cultivation of the lanji by middle of summer, and planting some crop which will keep green through the winter and form a surface covering to protect the roots of the trees from the sun and extreme cold. There is no better crop for this in the Northern States than winter rye, and in the South cow peas or some other good plant food. Such a winter covering should then be plowed under in spring.—Prof. S. N. Doty. In American Cultivator. FEATHER EATING FOWLS. Many experienced poultrymen contend that want of sulphur is the cause of feather eating; this seems plausible when we consider how largely sulphur enters into the constituents of feathers. Fowls must have sulphur in some shape or form. Wnen free they find sulphurous foods in beetles, insects and worms; also green stuffs such as cabbage and grass, which contain sulphur in small but sufficient quantities. Remedies prescribed for feather eating all tend to the same end; for the provision ol a supply of «i'inhuro”'i food I wool i advise that more employment be found for the feather eating fowls. Let all grain be scattered in a quantity of loose straw

' or litter, so they will have to work to pick up. Also let cabbages be hung in the run suspended at such a height that the birds can Just reach them; then they can peck at the cabbage instead of at the feathers of their companions. 1 think the best plant of ail is to dredge all soft feed with flowers of sulphur, or make a liquid sulphur and place a tablespoonful for every six hens in the water used for mixing the morning rations. To make liquid sulphur put three lumps of fresh burnt lime into a thick iron pot, and slack with boiling water; then stir in from four to six ounces of flowers of sulphur add two quarts of boiling water, stir- ! ring all the time, and boil gently for 'an hour; pour off the clear liquid, i which should be the color of dark tea; bottle and cork well. Give the liquid each day in the proportion above stat ed for the first week, and afterward , every fourth day. If nerserved in this will soon stop feather eating.—The Epitomist. MILK AND GRAIN FOR HOGS W Skimmilk fed with grain is a valuable food for hogs at ail periods of their growtn, but particularly so during the ‘ earlier periods. Mixed milk and grain ■ make a better ration for hogs than either alone. Fed in combination with grain, skimmilK. has about sixty per cent, more feeding value than when fed alone. About one uundred pounds l of skimmilk will take tne place of twenty-three pounds of grain in the former case and fourteen in the latter. Hogs fed on milk and grain ration make much more rapid gains than either those fed on milk or grain alone. Hogs fed on milk alone gain very slowly, and do not keep their health any too well, and in some cases they are off their feed so frequently that it is necessary to make a change in their feed to tempt them to greater eating. The appetite falling off at such a young age it practically interferes with their growth for all time. Hogs brought up in this way, even if a change in feed is made whenever they show a falling off in appetite, do not make as heavy a weight as those fed milk and grain right along. Milk and grain-fed hogs without exception keep in excellent health. In the same way hogs fed on grain and no milk do not do well, and make a rather poor showing for the amount of grain eaten. Experience has shown that hogs fed on grain alone require three pounds of digestible matter to make one pound of grain, and as they grow older this proportion does not differ much. Young hogs that have not been doing well can be fed regularly on skimmilk and grain, and within a short time a marked improvement will be noticeable. A good proportion for a ration Is two or three pounds of skimmllk to one pound of grain. The gain is not only good for both the grain and milk, but pound for pound the milk and grain are converted into a good profit. SILOS AND ENSILAGE. I have used three kinds of silos one 14x28 and 20 feet deep, one 12 feet wide and 45 feet long and 22 feet deep. These I have discards! because of the difficulties in getting the ensilage out and the loss at the corners and sides. I now build a low wall; it of stone, not over eight inches high; if of brick, three thicknesses of brick, using cement to fasten it together. On this, what seems to be a fragile wall, I put staves, using 2x6, twelve and -ourteen feet long. I make the botton on the inMde in the shape of a saucer out of clay, letting the earth reach up about two or three inches at the lower end of the staves. I find that clay is better than cement for the bottom, because it will accommodate itself to the surface, against which it rests, and fill all the openings and interstices, which a hard substance like dry cement will not do. I put on hoops and fasten the ends with pieces of galvanized Iron, and put in the doors like a plan sent out, and for the last two years I have not lost an appreciable amount by decay or in any other way. The silos seem to be practically airtight. Two of the silos have Jointed edges, the other two are grooved, and a thin strip put in the respective grooves in the adjoining staves. The planing mill man where I had my staves dressed said that he would as soon cut the groove in as to merely joint them. I find that my cows did better on ensilage than on any soiling crop that I could give them, and It is much cheaper than any other feed that I could raise. I plant three different kinds of corn, so that I can put it in the silo in the same aegree of ripeness. I prefer my corn almost ready to cut and shock just as the ear comes out of the milk state. I have raised corn on the farm that I am running nine years, and in five of those years I have measured off from ten to twenty-five acres of land, to see what the yield was, and in each of those five instances these measured tracts of land yielded over one hundred bushels of shelled corn to the acre, and one year 110. While most farmers would think that there would bo a good deal of grain going to waste by putting it into a silo, I find that in no way can I get the same value out of my cornfield as I can by putting it in silo.—T. E. E., in Hoard's Dairyman.

What Machinery Has Done.

Twenty years ago It took thirty-five and one-half hours of one man's time to make a ton of hay and bale It. By the aid of modern machinery the work is done tn eleven hours and thirtyfour minutes. Friends may be fickle, but most of them will last as long as your money.