Ligonier Banner., Volume 42, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 December 1907 — Page 2

y ; 1 ON THE TRAIL OF THE L 'AMERICAN MISSIONARY ’ . By WILLQM T. ELLIS S Notables from West Who Do Things in Far East

Shanghai, China.——’l’hese articles engaged to tell of the American men and women who are ‘investing their lives in heathen lands. It is in the fature of the case that these should be pronounced personalities, and full of interest; many of them will get volume biographies when they die. Let me recall, in a paragraph each, a few of those whom I have .met in China, the reader remembering that there are many other hundreds in the fnterior of this immense empire whom I have not had the opportunity to meet. )

_As he is the acknowledged foremost writer upon Chinese subjects, so Rev. Dr. Arthur H. Smith, of the Amfierican board, is probably the most interesting personality among Americans in China. His. books are not mare brilliant than himself; he is a scintillating conversationalist, at a two-hund-red-words-a-minute gait. Yet there is not a more inconspicuous or modest American in Ghia. He has never been

mistaken for a fashion plate, for he is as unconventional as he is learned and original. He probably understands the Chinese better than -any other

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witite man. If the legations and missionaries had listened to his urgings there would have been fewer massacres and no siege of Peking in 1900. At President Roosevelt's nequest, he has just written a book, “America and China.” . ‘ ) - - - " Mrs. A. P. Lowrie, of the American Presbyterian mission, has- been more than 50 years in China, yet the Chinese have not robbed her of her quaint and delightful Americanism. Her tongfi-e is as quick as ever at coining keen, searching and, at times, satirical, apothegms. ~ B .- . - Bishop Roots, of the Protestant Episcopal missionary district of Hankow, seems more ‘like an alert, aggressive professional or business man than an ecclesiastic. His personality (almost to as great a degree as that of his wife, who was Miss McCook, of New Haven) would be characterized as delightful by any company of men

anywhere. He is rich in that quality colloquially called “horse sense,” an there is no better .administered mis-

sion than his. T» his activity for the Chinese he does nu. ~verlook the white community at Hangkow, and half of the time of his clergy is given to the latter. ) -

I have met several missionaries who hold decorations from the emperor, a prize. which, I understand, the commercial community in China covets in vain. A missionary doctor who has been so honored is Dr. R. C. Beebe, of

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the Methodist Episcopal mission, Nanking. His steady, beneficent and selfsacrificing work for the Chinese came to the attention of the palace. An interesting sidelight on missionary infiuence is related concerning Dr. Beebe. He had been invited to an official feast at the viceroy’s yamen one Sunday, and in sending his regrets he explained somewhat the Christian attitude toward Sunday. For some reason the letter did not reach the viceroy until the feast was in progress. The latter read it aloud, and deciared that he, too, was going to keep the first day of the week free from -official cares: and since then the yamen has been closed to business Sunday. .

§one of China’s great women is Dr. Mary Fulton, the head of the Presbyterian Woman’'s - hospifal and the Woman’s Medical college, Canton; the latter is the only one of its kind in the empire and it can never begin to receive all the students who apply - for admission. What is thought of it by the Chinese is apparent from the fact that at the recent commencement three gold watches were awarded as prizes to the students by the viceroy. The most eminent and discriminating natives do honor te Dr. Fulton, for she is a physician, an executive and a woman of unusual ability. : “The Chinese Mother Goose” fis— Prof. Isaac T: Headland or the Methodist Episcopal mission, Peking! This book brought Prof. Headland no little reputation in America; but his more

serious hobby is not nursery rhymes, but Chinese art. He has the finest collection of Chinese paintings owned by any white man, and he is, doubtless, the world’s leading authority on this subject. Incidentally, he is a connoisseur on Chinese rugs. These pursuits are merely avocations; his vocation is that of teacher in the Peking university, where several hundred young men are learning the best that the west. has to give, including its Christianity. . . | o= s - ® ! Two rare men, who long-heqfl,dedly have elected to be inconspicuously great in China, rather than to stand among the many strong men in America, are Robert B. Gailey (“Bob” Gailey, Princeton’s greatest football player), and C. H. Robertson, who are associated in Y. M. C. A. work at Tien-Tsin. Both are statesmen, whose breadth of vision, altruism and nobility of character have won the. confidence of the highest Chinese.. Robertson, like Gailey before him, lives in a Chinese house in the native city, and, considering it the biggest work open to an ambitious man, he has in-

vested p.sz personality as a foundation stone in"the New China over which he is so enthusiastic. Both these men are truly leaders of a constituency, of young Chinese. i Jd

China is full of Boxer stories, tragic and amusing. One of the latter concerns Dr. W. H. Park, of the Southern Methodist mission, whose long service in and for Soochow. has made him one of. the city's prominent and. honored citizens. He was riding in a closed sedan chair one day-du:igg’:’the turbulent times of 1900, when, [the cry was raised: “Here comes: a foreigner! Kill him! Kill him.” The mob took up the refrain, rushed the chair, opened it, 4nd then fell back foiled,- for, as the leader said: “It's not a foreigner; it's only Dr. Park.”

‘lt is rather something unusual to have a whole warship or two in love with you, when you already possess a husband. But that is the unique experience of Mrs. C. A. Nelson, of the American board mission, Canton, and Mrs. W. H. Boyd, of the Presbyterfan mission. In case of trouble, the United States government keeps a warship up at Canton, which is hard lines for officers and men. These two young ' matrons .open their homes weekly to officers and men, and both are the belies that their gifts and graces entitle them to be. Incidentally, the lonely American has a jolly trme, and is kept from the power of the lure of the east. The government has given medals for less worthy

work than that which is done by these two ladies. Mrs. Nelson, by the way, conducts a girls’ school which is so superfine that Wu Ting Fang, after inspecting it, promptly asked to' be permitted to send his daughter to it. -

Canada probably knows little of one of her noblest daughters, Miss Annie H. Gowans, of the Presbyterian mission, Pao Ting Fu, who went through the Boxer troublés heroically, and who is still, undaunted ip spirit, spending her life beautifully for a people whom, she clearly realizes, may demand her life any day. Miss Gowans’ labors under the delusion as to the sentiment of the Chinese, or to the possibilitiés which: the future holds, but serenely, sweetly, sunnily, she moves ministeringly among the Chinese, gazing at life all unafraid, through clear gray eyes that have seen deeply into great things of existence.

Twao associates and friends of Miss McGowans are Miss Grace Newton, of the Presbyterian board, and Miss Luella Miner, of the American board. Both are survivors of the Peking giege, the latter having written a book upon that great experience. Both are engaged in female education, with regults tha. would rank them in the class of the foremost women educators in Amercica. The fame of Rev. Dr. W. A, P. Martin, China's .oldest missionary, is known wherever men read thoroughly

about China. He was long head of the Imperial university; he is author of standard works in Chinese and upon China in English. His magazine contributions have been legion. Withal, at 86 years of age, l}e is as fresh and zealful and busy as ewver, and still looked up to for the Jast word upon obscure Chinese subjects:.

.Another veteran, a type of New England at its best, is President D. Z. Sheffield, of the North China Union college, Tung Chow. - To tell of his literary labors, ranging from his universal history through a long list of publications "to his present work of Bible translation, would -be to out line a great life work for any man. Yet, these have been a mere phase of his educational andl direct missionary effort. At once a dry Yankee and a cultured gentleman and good eompanion, Dr. Sheffield is worth traveling a long way to know. In the same group with him must be classed the famous Timothy Richards, of the Christian Literature society, an overflowing Welshman; Drs. Wherry and Mateer, of the Presbyterian board; Dr. Sim mons, of the Southern Baptist board. The romantic story of Bishop Schereschewsky,: the famous ~ Chinese scholar who died a few months ago in Tokio, demands a page, and not a paragraph. When I saw him recently, although paralyzed and scarcely able to speak intelligibly, he was working on a complete set of references for his Chinese Bible. He was 74 years old, when he died in the chair where he sat for the 25 years of his,paralysis; during which time he had translated the whole Bible into easy Wen]j, or Mandarin, which is the written langnage of three-fourths of all the people in China. His Old Testament Mandarin is issued by both the Bibla societies. For seven: years he worked eight hours a day, seven days in the week, on the translation and revision of this clagsical version. He called. it his “two-fingered Bible,” because he had laboriously written.it on a type writer with only two fingers on his paralyzed hands that he could use ‘at all. Not alone for his splendid bat tle against affliction was Bishop Schereschewsky famous; his ability as a Chinese scholar, and as a linguist generally, was almost uncanny. He was a Lithunian Jew, and when past his majority he went to America, where he became 'a Christian and’a clergyman in the Protestant .Episcopal church. Even before he was accepted as a missionary he had determined to translate the Bible into Chinese. During the six months’ voyage out he learned enough Chinese to be able to write it acceptably when he arrived .at Shanghai. Twice he declined the bishopric, which he was finally obliged to.accept. When I saw him he said, after outlining some .translation projects which he had hoped to undertake: “But Fam weary. I want to go. home, and I hope the good Lord will sex:;%ffor me soon.” Not many days laté¥ I was shocked to learn that he had quietly passed away while at his labors. BoL * - o® h‘ f_. American Churchmen Abroad. Just now the west seems to be flooding the east with missionary authorities and rengious leaders. The tour of President Charles Cutherbert Hall, of Union Theological seminary, New York, through India and China, has been a notable triumph. Dr. Hall seems to possess a rare genius for impressing his personality upon people. Mr. Charles Alexander, the famous singer -of the Torrey-Alexander evangelistic combination, has been in the east for his wife’s health. During a yvisit to- missionary relatiyes at Pakhoi he demonstrated the power of a winsome personality over even people of an alien tongue. At Hongkong he held the largest religious meeting in the city's history, and at Manila he spoke in both the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. A week later, as my ship was entering Hongkong harbor by night a launch passed, full of men singing lustily, “The glory song.” Considering that this was Hongkong, the incident was a notable echo of the Alexander meeting. . Nor® were the singers Y. M. C. A. men; the working force of that organization has gone to Canton, to attend the marriage of Secretary C. C. Rutledge, of Philadelphia, to Miss Edmunds, of Baltimore.

There are three special reasons for the presence of so many ' American churchmen in the orient at this time; the Methodist Missionary Jubilee in India, at the end of last year, the World’s Student federation convention in Tokio in May and the centennial celebration of Chinese missions in April-May. I have chanced to meet personally, or to strike the ftrail of, Bishop Cyrus D. Fess, of Philadelphia; Secretary Lloyd, of the Protestant Episcopal mission board; Secretary Barton, of the American board; Secretary Fox of the American Bible society; Secretary Mac Kay of the Canadian Presbyterian board; John R. Mott, of the International Y, M. C. A.; _President Goucher, of the Woman's university, Baltimore; two Methodist editors, Dr. Parkhurst, o? Zion’s Herald, Boston, and Dr. Rader, of the Western Christian Aévocate; John B. Sleman, of the Washington Y. M. C. A., and dozens of other friends of foreign missions, clerical and lay, The missionaries are now having a foretaste of the visitation they expect when that committee of 50 Ameriean business men, arranged for in connection with the recent celebration of the American board, comes out to make an independent stady of foreign missions. This i 8 one e several signs, apparent out here, of a remarkable increase of interest in foreign missions. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

Astoßears | - Being the | Reminiscences L of a . ? Nature Fakir y. John Kendrick Bangs. |

~ (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) There was vonsiderable exeitement in and about the post office. The humdrum placidity of life in the village of Mousam had been subjected to a very material distirbance in the scandal.ous behavior of an alleged. bear that, taking advantdge of a beautiful moonlight night, had come down to the rock-bound edges of the sea and without waiting for the formality of an introduction had hugged one of the “lady boarders” at the Inglenook, who was sitting thereon gazing out upon the restless waters of the ocean, and doubtless filled with romantic dreams of what might have been. Miss Susan Weevil, the heroine of the escapade, was & woman of many angles and an uncertain number of years. Her age varied from 37 to 43, according to the temper of the various sewing I;:irc]es on the hotel piazza. . “It’'s curious though how it could be,” said the postmaster, when the news reached the Nature Fakirs’ circle. “They ain’t been any bears seen around here for nigh onto ten years.” “Maybe it wasn’t a bear at all,” put in Si Wotherspoon. “I sort of has my

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suspeecions that some one o’ them Willieboys up to the Inglenook done it “Ever seen the lady, Si?’ asked the captain. “Don’t know as I have,” returned Si. / “Well, if ye had ye wouldn't suspicion no man o' havin' done it,” said the captain. “She’s. one 0’ these here wimmen as makes ye think some human bein’s had ought to be pervided with a safety face so’s it won’t cut ye, like them new fangled hoe razors they're sellin’ up t’ th’ hardwafire store. I believe it was a bear just as they says it was, because I don’t think nothin’ but a bear would o’ hugged jest that kind o’ a lady.” : ~ “Then ye don’t think bears has intelligence?” asked the postmaster.. “I ain’t sayin’ they ain’t got intelligence, Joe,” replied the captain. “But I sort o’ questions in my own mind if the dern critters .has taste. Ido know they've got a great deal of humor, and it may be that bear done that huggin’ jest for a joke. I don’t know ‘but that bears is most as full o’ fun as monkies. Remember the time when the trolley first came through, Joe, how six of ’em got aboard the front platform one night an’ in the dark the motorman thought they was a lot o’ farmers with their fur coats on?”’ 2 ;

“No, I don’t,” said the postmaster.

“You ain’t got a very good mem’ry,” said the captain. “It was right up there back o’ my farm where the line runs through the woods. It was a terrible cold December night, an’ the car was a boundin’ along at about ten miles an hour, with the conductor.an’ motorman -inside tryin’ to keep warm. These six fellers made a jump for it as th’ car passed through the woods. They was seven inj all, but one 0" 'em slipped on the snow an’ got left. Th’ other six landed all right, an’ stood in a row along the front o’ the dashboard with their noses . sniffin’ in the. cold air as they spun along, an’ their backs turned to the front door o’ the car. As soon as he sees ’em, the conductor opened the deor as p’lite as ye please an’ says: ‘Come inside, gentlemen., It’'s agin’ the rules o’ ‘th’ comp’ny for passengers to stand on the front platform.” The bears didn't pay no attention whatsoever, but jest kep’ on sniffin’ the cold air. Then the conductor hollers out: ‘Fare;, please,’ through the little hole in the door, eelicitin’ no response from the parties in front. This sort o’ made the conductor mad, an’, callin’ on the motorman for assistance, he' went out on the platform to collect or to put ’'em off. He walks up to the middle one as cool

's ye please, an® tapped him on his shoulder. ‘See here, young feller,’ he begun, but he didn’'t say no more, for just then the bear turns around, and the conductor seen how it was, an’ with a yell o’ terror he jumps back into the car, slams the door to, leavin’ the motorman out in front with the bears, and makes a break for the rear platform, goin’ a mile a minute, leaps over 'the back dashboard, an’ landin’ in a snow drift up to his neck.” “Gee!” cried Si Wotherspoon. “That motorman had his hands full.” “He would ha’ had if the bears had been in a fightin’ mood,” said the captain. “But ye see, they wasn’t. . They ‘was jest out for a trolley ride an’ was as good natured ’'s a jackass in a thistle patch. All they done was to grab the motorman around the waist when he tried to shove 'em, an’ chuck him-overboard. Fortunately for him the snow wasn’'t very hard packed, an’ when' he landed it was like fallin’ into 'a pretty derned damp featherbed. 2 ; “I'd ha’ thovght the bears might ha’ bit him,” said the postmaster. “Well maybe they would have,” returned the captain, “but ye see he had on a big bear:skin overceat an’ a cap an’ gloves made o’ the same material pulled down over his ears an’ on his hands, and I guess they thought he was one 0’ their party tryin’ to get fresh. Anyhow they chucked him overboard into- the snow, and went boundin’ merrily along on their way to Portsmouth.” . “Warn't there no collisions?” asked Si Wotherspoon. : : “No,” said the Captain. “They only run one car after midnight, an’ this was" the last trip until mornin’. For that reason they wasn’'t no serious dammidge done.” ' :

. “They must of ended - up somewheres,” said the postmaster. -“They did,” assented the captain. “They run along without no interruption whatsomever until they come to the dock down by Kittery where the

Gobbled It Down, Hook and Line.

trolley ends. . About that p’int the track havin’ exhausted itself, the car left the tracks, bounded. over the wharf, an’ jumped down onto the ice in the river ‘an’ slid half way across to Portsmouth, where they found it next day. What become of the bears I don’t know, but the details o’ this story as I give 'em to you is exactly as they was given to me by the conductor and the motorman.” _ “Well, I'm glad they didn’'t come foolin’ round me,” said Si. Wotherspoon. “I should hardly know what to do in case I got into a muss. with a hoear”

~“lt's a queer thing about that,” said the captain. “Th’ instinct of self-preservation will ~almost allers tell yve what t' do when ye get into a tight place. I remember the first time I run onto a bear: up Mount Agamenticus. I didn’t have no weppins with me other than a fish-rod an’ my Junch basket. We'd just had a pretty hard winter an’ it sort o’ lingered in the lap o’ spring, an’ all the bears that had been sleeping in their holes through the cold spell, hibernatin’, was hungry enough to eat the head off an iron hitchin’ post. I got kind o’ thirsty for trout one mornin’, so I done up my lunch baskit, filled her full o’ doughnuts, an’ a big hunk o’ beefsteak, an’ a bottle o’ cold: coffee, an’ started for a day’s fishin’ up in Bill Durkin’s brook. Everythin’ went all right till I got up near the top o’ the mountain, when what should I see comin’. towards me, walkin’ on his hind legs, an’ growlin’ like a trombone at a band concert, but a great big black bear. His eyes was red an’ glitterin’ like them otter-mobyle Ilamps, an’ he was wavin’ his paws in my direction’s much as to say, ‘I gorry that feller looks like my breakfast.’” “Well, sir, my heart stopped beatin’ Runnin’ was out of the question, because I had on big rubber boots comin’ up to my hips, an’ what's more, a bear havin’ four legs can run twice as fast as a man havin’ only two.” “Stands to reason, don’t it, Cap?” put in the postmaster.

. “Twice two ain’t never less 'n four,” agreed the captain. “Realizin’ that fact, I didn’t try to run, an’ I knowed that climbin’ a tree warn’t goin’ to do me no good, because tree climbin’ is a hand full o’ trumps for a bear. I tell you I had to do some quick thinkin’; he was gettin’ nearer all the time, I've allus had a feelin’ that when the time comes I want to.lie in a cemetery, with a nice slab o’ Vermont marble speakin’ o' my virtues laid a’ top o’ me, an’ bein’ buried on th’ inside of a bear ain’t never appealed to my sense o’ the fitness o’ things.” “You wouldn’t have no trouble’lyin’

anywheres,” said Si Wotherspoon. “That’s-as it may be, Si,” grinned the captain. “All the same, just at that p’ticular minute I wasn’t hankerin’ to be stowed away ‘inside that animile’s stummick. As I says, I done some quick thinkin’, and I done it well. Havin’ nothin’ but my fish-rod, hook an’ line and my lunch, I had to use them agin th’ intruder. Whiskin’ open the baskit I grabbed up the piece o' raw beefsteak, an’ fastened it to.the fishhook, backin’ slowly away

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postmaster. “Might have broke the hook if he had.” .

-“Go on,” said Si Wotherspoon, breathlessly. “What 'd ye do next, Captain?” : ' - “I played that feller like’s ye would a sammon,” said. the captain. “Soon’s he’d swallered th’ steak I reeled him in t#ght, and jumped behind a tree. The line bothered him some, an’ he gave it a° couple o' wipes with his paws, an’ then, seein’ me laffin’, he gave a growl like a clap o’ thunder an’ made for me at full speed. I gave him line enough around the tree and then when he come up , by-it I played out about three yards, an’ run around him. By slow degrees I got him all tangled up, an’ after a half an hour’s manooverin’, tackin’ this way, an’ tackin’ that, I had him bound up to the trunk as hard an’ fast as a papvose to a board on a squaw’s back. 1 don’t .know, but I guess that was th’ only time a 700-pound bear was ever caught with a trout line loaded with raw beefsteak.” Sl

“What ye do with him?” asked the postmaster. .

“I came back later with a gun an’ dispatched him,” said the captain. “We fed on bear for two months th’ follerin’ summer; an’ tk’ overcoat I wear in th’ winter is the very same one he wore when I got him.” “Well, with proof like that I don’t guess we need go no further in satisfying ourselves as to the ‘truth of the story, Cap,” said the postmaster, wearily. “Nevertheless, as the local rep’sentative of th’ administration, I ain’t committin’ mysef on the subject. I'll have to write to the postmaster general an’ find out what my duty is in the matter.” % :

+“Ce ahead,” retorted the captaig “Write to the president himself if y¢ want to—only I wouldn’t if I was you He'’s sore on the subject o’ bears.” ‘“What makes ye: think so?’ demanded the postmaster. ; “Well, I'd be sore if I was him,” said the captain, rising to leave. “If I was th’ most famous hunter in the wold, an’ after chasin’ grizzlies all through the.Rocky mountains, savage cinnamons in the northwest, an’ handlin’ poler beafs in the arctic cirgle, I only had a small plush thing stuffed with sawdust like-them Teddy bears named after me, I think I'd be kind o’ sensitive about bears, an’ I'd discharge any gol-durned officeholder that so much as mentioned the critters to me.” e T Much Money From Liquor Sales. The New York state excise depart ment receives from the saloons of Manhattan and the Bronx boroughs $17,808 each day in the year. 3

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Kindness and dairying go hand in hand, or at least should. | S

Change of feed is good for the horse as well as other farm animals.

Keep a record of your cows -and make a test of the milk every seventh week. - Tl e

Don’t try to keep too man'yzbreeds, Gét a good strain that you like and then stick to it. T

Cold rains are not good _for“ the colts. House them and feed ther~ so as to keep them growing. | =~ '

Breed only from healthy ewes. You cannot expect vigorous I§mbs from animals which are in poor| condition.

The time is coming when the farmer with a few scrub ' cows and dirty methods will not be classed as a dairyman. ; b, -

Feed well during the | moulting period. If you get your floc&( through in vigorous condition, yo'ui will get eggs most -of the winter. | - ‘

— \ 2 It is easy to “get rich bfi a litge figuring on paper, but realization is slower work. To gain the goal one has to get out and dig for"?vhat he gets. i 2 :

Select your seed potatoes now, Take the best potatoes, and treat them for scab just before planting’ next spring. Remember the best potatoes come from ‘the best seed. - . |

Do not startle. suddenly the kicking horse. A quietly spoken word| as you enter the barn and a gentle touch before entering the stall will quiet the animal. In many cases a hérs kicks: through fear, ; e Peg

Colic in horses may be checked by a powder made up of one-half|ounce of powdered charcoal, one-half ounce of ground ginger, and one our}ce‘ ‘of bicarbonate of soda. Give two powders a day until the ’conditiondhs- under control. e _ b d

~ All skim’ milk hauled - from -the creameries to the farm should -be pasteurized. In Jowa and some other states this is required by la_w.! Experiment has dqmonstrated _that unpacteurized milk fed to hogs results in tuberculous animals. - e ;

In Hawaii even private .:rancis 4n forest are sometimes administered by the territorial board of agriculture and forestry. Some of the lessees of public land within the Koolan reserve have turned over to the board for administration both their leased and their private lands amounting in all to 27,000 “acres. Sl

. The best type of dairy cows weighs about 1,000 pounds, has a lean head and neck, eyes clear and large, indicating health and temperament, body narrow over the shoulders and broad at the hips and rump, large chest, indicating vitality, pouch or belly large, showing capacity, for large amount of rough feed, large branching milk veins leading to a well-developed udder having four good-sized teats. The! cow should carry little flesh, and should be a big feeder. = 4

After numerous experiments ezitending through several seasons there has been developed in Wisconsin a strain of white dent corn which grows|on a very short, thick-set stalk and which matures a good-sized ear; and the ears run remarkably uniform.. The g?owth centers in the ear rather than in producing a big stalk at the expense of a small ear. After four years .'ofT?\Ca.reful, persistent work, there are numerous corn fields in southern and central Wisconsin which, it is said, will yield from 60 to 80 bushels per acre, and 100 bushels have been rectgorted several times. Such results coming from a state, which a few- years ago was considered out of. the -corn belt, demonstrates what corn 'bre‘ediq‘g will accomplish when carried. on |along sensible lines. .- = oo

Western dairymen might well follow the example of the dairymen of New England who have aken definite steps for the formation of cow testing associations. At a recent conference of gentlemen interested officially and’ otherwise in the advancement of New England dairy interests, a committee was appointed to further the [establishment of these associations among New England dairymen. To that end the following statement, couched in the form of questions and answers is presented. The plan outlined is extremely simple and inexpensive, yet capable of affording fairly reliable results if not carelessly conducted. The committee invites correspondence, It has mnothing to sell and nobody to sell. It is simply concerned in the} fulfillment of its mission, that every opportunity be afforded New E'ngl'an%l dairymen to know the facts as to their dairy cows. What are cow tes%ng assoclations? Voluntary associations of neighbors desiring through tioopegative effort to detect unprofitable. cows in their herds. What does it cost to belong -to such an:association? - Initial cost of scales, etc., $3.50- »flo $4.50. Fees nominal or none. How much work and skill is involved?: fairly. accurate knowledge of the actpal milk and butter production of eath- COoW, thus leading tv the detection or rejection of unprofitable cows. . | =

‘Whitewash the barn. It {s an inex pensive agent of sanitation. : Have the poultry house free from drafts, but get the fresh air in. : One advantage of fall. plowing is that it kills many injurious bugs by freezing. . £ Remember a. laying hen will eat nearly double the food she will when not laying. : : . Take the shoes off the horses during the winter if the latter are. not being used much. ! " In the sections of the country where the winters are severe fall planting of fruit trees is risky. == . . Treat the cows right and they will do the right thing by vou. If they do not better get rid of t};em. . Corn stalks-sent to market as milk épd cream will prove far more profitable than plowing them under next spring: v - = e One point in favor of dairying over beef raising is that butter is easier to ship than beef, and brings quicker and more regular returns. : ‘ -~ The fall dropped colt {s mor,e~/petfectly fed by the mare as the work at that season is lighter .and she can tnrn her feed into milk instead of energy. e ‘““When do, you break your horses?” I asked a ranchman. “Pardner,” was the solemn answer, “pardner, we have no time to break horses in Texas; we just climb on and ride .them.f’ : e “Barbed wire fencing is dangerous for ‘horses and colts: Many good colts ‘have been killed from cuts received from barbed wire and many others have received scars that will disfigure them for life. o - Pure water is absolutely indispensable on the farm, especially is this so if it is a dairy farm. Do you know what the quality of water is which you are drawing from your well? The water may look clear and good and still have iflpurities in it. ‘ " There i money in poultry raising, but it requires the right methods ta get it out.. Many 'a novice finds that all his money gets into his poultry and neyver discovers the secret of getting it out again. Persistency and hard work are two important requisites’ to’ success. - - The highest possibilities of horticulture in the United States have not begun to be realized yet. Some kind of fruit will grow successfully in every corner of the republic. Be sure and pick the variety which will do well in your. soil and- climate, and then raise some fruit and increase the profits from your farm. : :

. Test the bed you suspicion having damp sheets .on it by putting a bright looking -glass "between ‘the sheets and covering it up. In a few minfites examine it. If its surface is dimmed there is. cause for uneasiness. If a bright looking glass is not at hand a tumbler. warmed and turned upside dc;:wn will answer the same purpose. %‘Sort‘the stuff you are going to market. Put the poor grades together, as a little poor stuff will queer the sale of the products that are really good. The poor stuff will bring less, to be sure, but the good will bring more and you ‘will find that the average price received ‘will be more, the sales will be made more readily and the purchaser will be better pleased. Many a farmer and fruit raiser forfeifs his standing in a good market by trying to smuggle inferior goods in with the better grades. - i =

‘The Ohio experiment station in a recent bulletin gives the record of two cows for three years which is interesting and profitable reading. One cow yielded 5,754.9 pounds of milk a year, containing 330.2 pounds of butterfat. The profit of that cow over cost of food was “$50.72. The other cow yielded 7,365.1 pounds of milk a year, containing - 231.4 -pounds butterfat. ‘Her: profit over cost of food was $24.82. Is it likely one man in ten thousand would ‘have selected the first cow in preference to the second if they had kngwlédge of the two only as farmers usually get it? _

The injury to the horse’s foot should be looked after carequy, however insignificant it may seem at first, as serious results may follow careless handling.. Many a horse has been permanently: injured and in some cases lost by neglect in the early stages of an insignificant injury. Prof. E. L. Moore, of the South Dakota Agricultural college, reports the case of a mare which sustained a nail prick of the frog, involving the underlying 'sensitive structure.. No attention was paid to the case until thé pain had become sO exquisite that she was unable to bear any weight upon the affected leg. Examination showed that the frog had become under-run with pus and that the region of the fetlock was very badly swollen. On removing the frog a relatively large amount of pus escaped. The foot was trimmed out, cleansed and bandaged in a bichloride solution, the application of tar, however, being omitted. The owner was directed to give notification if any further attention seemed necessary. Evidently not being satisfied with the way the foot was doing, and probably largely influenced by outside opinions, the owner kad the bandage removed and a cow-manure poultice ap‘plied to the entire foot. Within a 'few days after this a telephone message was received to come immediately, as the horse was very much worse.” The symptoms showed a well *developed case of tetanus or lock-jaw, from which the horse died in two - days. Tetanus is not frequent in this local ity, and the cHnical history ' would ‘seem to support the theory that the -wound was inoculated with tetanus bacilli contained in the dirt and filth “of the cow manure poultice. This fur nishes one reason, and a strong one, for absolutely condemning the use ooi such a poultice. R