Ligonier Banner., Volume 42, Number 44, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 January 1908 — Page 6

Temagami ; By Archibald Lampman | Far in the grim northwest beyond the lines That turn the rivers eastward to the sea, Set with a thousand islandp, crowned with pines, Lies the deep water, wild {l’emagami; : Wild for the hunter’s roving, and the use Of trappers in its dark and trackless vales, Wild with the trampling of the giant moose, And the weird magic of old Indian tales. All day with steady paddi¢s toward the west Our heavy-laden long canoe we pressed; All day we saw the thunder-traveled sky Purpled with storm in many a trailing trlss, And saw at eve the broken| sunset die In crimson on the silent wilderness.

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Scene: A stockbroker's office in Warnford court. Time: Settling day. Rimer and Bent, the principals, are seated at a table in their private room struggling with the last line of a “Limerick.” In the outer office, the clerks are all similarly engaged. - Rimmer (quoting)—*“There once was a cannibal queen—" : Bent - (fractiously)—For downright common or garden monotony you take the biscuit, Rimmer! Do, for goodness sake, read to yourself. You put me clean out. (To himself—Bean—seen—dean—mean—green— i

Rimmer (glaring)—That's right! Recite the whole bally dictionary through. Don’t mind me. (Puts his ‘fingers in his ears and continues the ‘struggle for a rhyme.) “Who grew most exceedingly lean. Said she, ‘lt is plain I need feeding again—' " Bent (fatuously)—Got it! : Rimmer (looking up)—Got what? . Bent (unctuously)—“Where the deuce is my largest tureen?”

Rimmer (savagely)—How the devil should I know? If you can't find a sensible last line you might let another chap have a go- for the £5O. Crawley (to himself)—"T'm simply not fit to be seen.” “I'm simply not fit—" : Bent ({(gloomily)—Who said you were? (Returns doubtfully to his tureen.) . Crawley (taken aback)—What 1 meant was, I think Tl'll close my Brighton As. They’'ve just come up on the tape 7-16—9-16. s ) Rimmer (dreamily)—“Why are white men so frightfully lean?” (Looks up.) What’s that? Crawley (rather mixed)—Brighton As are not fit to be seen.’ I mean— Bent (vacantly)—“l'm on in this feeding front scene.” Jolly good, I call that! Looks up.) What? Crawley (nettled)—l say, you might pay attention. About my Brighton As? If I can close at— 3 e E . Rimmer and Bent (together)—Oh, go . away. We're busy! (They ignore Crawley.) - : 3 Crawley (aside)—Blest if I don't take my business to Anderson’s. Sound people! One of their chaps won a Limerick prize last week! (Exit, muttering three-syllable rhymes to “seen.”) - Milson (the senior clerk, in the outer office)—l say, Lang,: know anything about protein? Lang (absently)—What market are they in? : Milson — Silly ass! Protein! Rhymes with queen! Something to do with meat? 2

(Enter a boy with a checking book.)

Boy' (to himself)—“Give me bones and I'll pick 'em all clean.” (Aloud)— Foote & Adams sells-you ohe and a half Can. Pacs at 83. ‘(Receiving no answer, he ticks the bargain and exit abstractedly.) . | Milsom (to the office boy)—Waters, just run round to Hardy Brothers and ask them to lend me their Encyclopaedia Britannica. (To himself)—"“What I want is a dose of protein.” (Reconsidering)— “What I want is—" . Waters (aside)—What you want is a motor van, and a dose of brains, I don’t think! (Sits tight, pretending he has not heard.) ] : (Enter a clerk with a slip and a handful of checks.) . - Clerk—Forty-five; 12 six for Marzetti.* (Under his breath)—“My appe_tite terribly keen.”) Finding that no--body ‘pays any attention to him, he reaches for the check book, tears out/ the first check he comes across, and | exit, leaving the door open.) § Collins (glaring over his shoulder)—' ) How can anyone think in a draught like 'this? Waters, shut the door. ‘ Waters—Shut it yourself. (Exul-| tantly)—What price this? “What ho,| slaves! my sausage machine!” (Milsom, Collins and Lang sit up with a start and regard Waters jealously.) : Milsom—You young thief! That's mine'! You've been— Lang—l've had sausage machinez down ever since— L !

PEDDLER WITH POETIC TASTE.

Blind Man a Devoted Worshiper oﬁ Shakespeare’s Writings. ‘

A peddler by day and a student of Shakespeare by,night is the strange and - seemingly incongruous combination of vocation and avocation as discovered in one of the members of the library for blind readers. Blind people have a fondness for Shakespeare'’s writings. No other author is so universally “out.” One young man recently declared his determination to read no other books until he had read everything of Shakespeare's. . ‘, The most devoted worshiper at the shrine of Avon’'s bard, however, is a blind man who earns his daily bread selling notions on the street. The blind man has no family and no place to call “home.” At the eclose of a long and not very remunerative day of patient endeavor he returns to his hall ceases to draw books from the library.

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5 Colins—The first thing I thought of! (Grabs at Water’s slip.)

| Waters (dodging)—No, you don’t! | (The -three make a rush at him. In the scrum that ensues Milsom slips up, bringing Lang and Collins down with him. Waters jumps the counter and eludes them. The window communicating with the private room is jerked open, and Rimmer’s head appears.)

| Rimmer—Damn it! What do you mean by all this row? - -

| Milsom (picking himself out of the t}replace)—Sorry, sir. ' Young Waters upset the seccotine and—

{ Rimmer (with sudden inspiration— Seccotine! (Aside) “Said she, ‘lt is slain 1 want feeding again. I think 5 will try seccotine!’” (Shuts the window and fills in another coupon.) | (Enter Ashwin, a client, ir a hurry.) i Ashwin (going to the tape)—l want to buy 20 Crown Deeps at a half. Where Rimmer? -

! Milsom (gazing into space)—What was that last line of Water’'s? Hanged if I haven’t clean forgotten it! “Mince é slave in-a red hot machine!” No, that wasn’t it. .

!" (Enter Philpotts, another client, in a hurry.) .

é Philpotts—They’re dealing .in Mysore Cold in the street at 13—15. Tl'll let mine go at seven-eighths. { Ashwin—urry up, Milsom, I can’t wait. 2 e

| Philpotts ;(feverishly)—lsn’'t anyk)ody in? - | Milsom (pensively)—“lt's an age since a shipwreck I've seen.” “I could do with a tender marine.” :

| Ashwin ‘to Philpotts, wearily)— That’s how he’s been going on for a week! They're all dotty in this office! What are we to do? :

- Philpotts (with decision)—l know ‘'what I'm going to do. I'm off to an impoetic firm where they attend to business! (Hurries out, followed by ‘Ashwin.) : e : 3 - (Enter Rimmer and Bent from private room carrying unsealed €nvelopes.) : . - Rimmer (to Bent, complacently)— Jolly good, that seccotine one of mine. A corker, I call it!

- Bent (grudgingly)—Not bad for you. (Enthusiastically.) Now, ‘Her menn ‘'was not fit to be seen’ is worth a dozen of any of yours! It’s a stone-blind cert! Let’s go:round to the London ‘Wall office and get postal orders. (The exeunt jubilantly.) - Lang (with a dazed look)—Thought I heard somebody talking. My mistake, I suppose. (Subsides into deep thought.) ! (Enteir an official from the Capital and Counties bank.) i Official |(excitably)—l say, do you know <youre three thousand overdrawn? | “Collins (looking at him abstractedly) — Sardine — glycerine—vaseline—obscene— .

Official (shouting)—Don’t you hear? You're overdrawn! Nothing’s been paid in to your account to-day. Haven’t you collected your differcnces? Milsom (inattentively)—Go. away. Don’t you know it's settling day? ~ : Officially (apoplectically)—Do 1 know— (Controlling himself; What are you going to do? It's past four! (Waters bursts in, flushed with excitement.) s ] Waters (fortissimo)—l say, you chaps, we've been hammered! . “ Official (aghast)—What? Waters—Straight! Heard it in Shorter’s court. Rimmer & Bent have gone bust! . (Official dashes off with the news to Threadneedle street.) - : Collins, Lang, Milsom (together)— Sixteen — demean—miocene—canteen —French bean—rural dean—Peak Frean—lch dien—benzine—sulpholine ——tgrebe’ne — kerosene — seltzogene—bile bean— ' - <k

- Waters—Go it, ye cripples! (Stealthily empties the petty cash drawer and exit to invest the proceeds in 6d postal orders.) : : ,¢

The first envelope ever made is kept in the British museum.

the intellectual treasures concealed in rows of dots on embossed paper,

Creeping into his cold bed in the darkness of winter night, of friendlessness and blindness, the reader becomes a dreamer. He rehearses in his loneliness the royal pageants and dramatic episodes which have delighted him, awaiting with the characteristic patience of the -blind the coming of spring which shall once more warm his heart and his hands and:open unto him again his treasure house. : el e v Knew Its Habits. : Explorer—Yes, I have decided to make my dash in an automobile. Reporter—And you think your chances of locating the pole are good? Explorer—Sure! If I get within a thousand miles of it, this machine of mine will run into it—Puck. But Not to Pay Back. automobile. I didn't think he had sufficient means to do that. Winks—Oh, hé has all sorts of as many means of spending it.—Judge

(R ; ot CHA s o ):" i "‘ w 0 \ i ;::f%,vy}?’ g S ;‘ AL ,‘m;‘o ’y/“%“ YaE e ség@%"’%@'w o i R e ? > % BR 1 [ il Joog e g R & M % f‘ R S N e s, i ﬁ‘ eR O R R R R o R M%""\ s‘,";,{ﬁ}iﬁ%‘f@sﬁwf u f’}" ~ o s IO sk & i ~,g,,ﬁ;,g{&""&\é% § ,\ s L i ) ; : : ey T B ‘ :@%%ﬁ s o) A el L G i Bk . i . G . iy L b i . G g S, ¢ £ > R S G »'{ & The wrestling craze is at its height on the other side of the Atlantic. The field of giant competitors has practically narrowed down to two, George Hackenschmidt, the Russian lion, and Zbysco, the Galician. By defeating Ivan Padoubny, the Russian, in a recent match, Zbysco won the right to meet Hackenschmidt for the championship of the world at a later date. Like Hackenschmidt, Zbysco has beaten Madrall. The Galician is 26 years old and is a giant in build, weighing around the 250 mark. He stands five feet nine inches tall. His chief measurements are: Chest, 55 inches; neck, 22 inches; thigh, 30'% inches; calf, 18 Inches; biceps, 18!4 inches.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STILL HAS SOME PITCHERS

Major Leagues Overlooked Some of the “Live” Ones and Also Got ‘ w Some “Dead” Ones.

~ In spite of the fact that the major leagues went over the pitching staffs of the American association with a fine tooth comb, there are capable men left in the organization. In nearly every case the best men in each club were. snatched, but in some instances live ones were overlooked and dead ones grabbed.

Toledo lost Chech and Lattimore, although it is very probable that the Texan will be returned after the Naps return from the south. West, Sutthoff, Gillen and Eels were left, and they frame up into a likable kunch. They form a good nucleus.

While Upp has gone from Columbus, Clymer has a fair brace of flingers left. Hall, Robertaille, Geyer, Wicker and Townsend look better on paper than they do in actual conflict, but, at the same time, most of ' them did good work at divers times this summer. When Robertaille had his

“spitter” working he was one of the hardest men in the league to- beat. Hall looks good. Geyer is developing, and should show stronger the next time out. Wicker and Townsend were disappointments, because they were not consistent. In spite of the fact that Louisville «did not have a pitcher. who was entitled to major consideration, Jimmy Durham was promoted. @ While one man has gone, the general strength of' the pitching staff is not greatly lessened. Puttmann, Louis Durham and Walter Frantz are left, and all three are good enough for this company. [lf Puttmann had greater ambition pe would not remain long, as he has sufficient stuff to hold down a situation up above, The loss of Summers to Detroit and Briggs will hurt Jlndianapolis. These two jmen were Watty's best performers. - The addition of John Eubanks and the new men Watkins may secure will prgbably plug : the holes. Slagel and Chenault are about the only men left, as Win Kellum is to be sold or traded. Slagle is all right. Chenault has a lot to learn. Minneapolis’ twirling outfit needs much strengthening. Oscar Graham comes back, and will have Kilroy, Manske, Thomas and Jim Freeman to help him out. Kilroy, Freeman and Graham -are there ‘with bells on, but Thomas has gone back ‘and Manske lacks courage. . Kansas City doesn’t lose anybody, but the staff is not heavy enough to keep a club up around the top. Tebeau has Crutcher, Swann, Egan and Brandon, but the little southpaw and Egan are the only ones who have any class. The Kaws need four good men to keep them in the fight. " The loss of Farris and Criss is a blow to St. Paul. They were the best of the lot, although Minahas, Essick and Leroy are not. the worst heavers in the circuit. With a good team behind them this trio’ would get along fairly well. Doughkerty, Schneiberg, Goddwin, Curtis and Wilson are ﬁod men, and Milwaukee will not hase to do much filling in to get together a high-class staff. . : :

The result Qt the row among athletes over the appointment of Matthew P, Halpin as manager of the American team, which will take part in the Olympic games at London, may result in the selection of a large number of college athletes for the team. Several of last year’s Athens team announce that they will not go to London with Halpin as manager, and the committee declines to remove him. The recent suspension of Ralph Rose of San Francisco, the great weight thrower, on charges of professionalfsm, leads those interested in athleties to believe that the Amateur Athletic union is going to be stricter than ever before in enforcing the rules against professionalism, and several other well-known athletes are believed to be slated for suspension. It is sald that the colleges are prepared to raise sufficlent money to send their athletes abroad, and the men naturally having more time at their disposal than athletes engaged in business it.is the general opinion that fully twothirds of the members of the team will be college men. ‘ :

SPEED OF HORSES IS NEAR THE LIMIT MARK

Harness Racers and Running Cracks Smashed:-Few Records the Past Season. SRy

It looks as though the horse had pretty: nearly reached his limit of speed, for each year it becomes harder and harder to lower world’s records. There were tén new harness records and only two new running records made last year, and the majority of these were either age or half-mile track records.

The best performances of the year were made by the trotters General Watts and Trampfast and the runners Charles Edward. The General Watts and Trampfast performances were age records. Charles Edward broke a longstanding record on the turf, running one mile and an eighth in 1:50 3-5. Two long-distance records were cut down considerg,bly, and this is the only end of the world’s records where there is much chance for improvement. Ed Bryan trotted five miles to wagon in 13:03, while Los Angeleno ran four miles in 7:16 15, : The pacers, except in one almost forgotten branch of the sport, failed to touch any of the former records. The only new pacing record for the year is Kruger’s mile under saddle in 2:12. The new trotting records included the following: Three-year-olds, in race, General . Watts, 2:063%; two-year-olds, in race, Trampfast, 2:12%; against time, half-mile track, George G., 2:063;; half-mile track,; for mares, Sweet Marie, 2:07; half-mile track to wagon, Sweet Marie, 2:081%; half-mile track to wagon, driven by amateur, Sweet Marie, 2:09%,; two-year-old fillies, racing, Helen Hale, 2:13%; three-year-old stallions, two heats, General Watts, two races, 2:06% and 2:09%; for record, three-year-olds,‘ on, halfmile track, Ruth Dillon, 2:15%; five miles to wagon, Ed Bryan, 13:03. Only two running records were broken during the season of 1907. Los Angeleno set a new mark for four miles at Oakland last spring, running the distance in 7:16 1-5. The other record-breaker was Charles Edward, who ran one mile and an eighth in 1:50 3-5. Another good performance of the year was made by the plater Charlie Eastman at New Orleans last January, when he equaled the record of 1:05 1-6 for five and a half furlongs.

WINTER BASEBALL NOTES.

Minneapolis is making an endeavor to get Congalton from the Boston Americans. - g

The close of the big league season next fall will be October 7, one day later than last year. . It is good betting that Denny Sullivan will play with either Providence or Montreal this year. The Boston American club intends to let him out. “Take my word for it,” says Owner Charles Murphy of the Chicago Cubs, “the champions will be returned pennant winners again in 1908.” :

The salary limit in the Southern league is $2,700.

Frank Selee may buy the Denver club from George Tebeau. The club is appraised at $50,000.

Billy Keister, at one time a big league star, is signed to play with Toronto next season. I

Toronto is to hold Jim McGinley for another season. He was the leading pitcher in the Eastern league last year. e ;

- Jessie Stoval is playing on the San Diego team in California this wintes This team is not in the outlaw coast association. ;

Maddox, the pitching sensation that Pittsburg got from the Central league, won but 13 games and los! ten before he went to Pittsburg. “For the first time since I have played with the St. Louis team, I will start south next spring eo close to playing weight that training will be a picnie,” says Pltcher Jark Powell. Blankenship May Quit Game, The Washington Americans will lose the services of Cliff Blankenship, perhaps the star of the local catching staff: In a telegram to a friend in Washington “Blank” said he had severed his connections with Cantillon to go in business in Fresno, Cal. Not only is Blankenship a good catcher, but he is fast on the bases and a good hitter. i e

GENUINE WILD HORSES

BOOK ABOUT BEASTS DISCOVi ERED BY PRJEVALSKY. :

Captives from the Gobi Desert in Asia Studied Carefully by the Russians Proved to ‘Be a Distinct Species. :

New York.—There was little prospect 30 years ago of the discovery of a genuine wild horse. There are, to be sure, the so-called wild horses of the Americas, but they are the descendants of horses that the Spanards brought to the western world some centuries ago. While evidence existed that wild horses were' probably as'abundant in prehistoric times in the south of Europe as zebras are to-day in British East Africa, most naturalists believed that true wild horses with an unbroken line of wild ancestry were extinct.

Then, in 1879, the Russian explorer Prjevalsky reported that he had discovered a new and quite distinct horse in the Gobi desert to the west of Mongolia, Two years later Poliakof published a description of the horse to which he gave the name Equus prjevalskii. Then the brothers GrumGrjimailo saw the horses in the desert and learned many new facts about them. .

The Russians were greatly interested, and it was decided to capture a number of the animals and bring them to Europe. These efforts were successful, and five years ago a herd of about 30 of the Prjevalsky horses, after no end of trouble, were landed ‘n Europe.. Most of them are still m Russia, but a few were taken to England, .where they are kept on the estate of the duke of Bedford: The English naturalists did not make a scientific study of the animals in that country because the Russians have had a most thorough investigation in progress, with the advantage that nearly all the captive horses and a number of skeletons are in their hands. Very few of the English naturalists believed that they were true wild horses, but looked upon them either as a kiang, hybrid, the kiang being a™Wpecies of the ass, or as the offspring of escaped Mongol ponies. : :

The Russians, however, have settled the question. They have proved by the methods of comparative anatomy and in other ways that the Prjevalsky horse has no relationship with Mongol ponies or the kiang but is a

wih | / e },/ /l ..:; ,/;‘:,4.% i :T;’,V';"‘: e e The Prjevalsky Horse. ' valid and distinct species of the genus horse, without relationship to the ass, though it has some features that remind one of the Asiatic ass; but even in these features, as the tail, for example, the resemblance is closer to the horse than to the ass. The results of the investigation were prepared for publication by Dr. W. Salensky, ‘director of the Zoological museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. The book has just been translated into English and . published in London under the title “Prjevalsky’s Horse.” ; It contains a number of pictures of the captives, one of which is reproduced here. The frontispiece shows a three-year-old stallion and a two-year-old mare which are the property of the czar. The animals were mere colts when they arrived 151 Europe and were not prepossessing, for they did not take kindly to the novel conditions, were out of condition and had ragged coats and awkward gaits. = They have now reached maturity, have been well cared for and are good looking ani. mals. RAEAE e

Many naturalists have held the opinion that the domestic horse . of to-day was mainly derived from three | wild species, which have been named | the steppe, forest and plateau varieeties. The Prjevalsky horse is a representative of the steppe variety. | - The Mongolians. have made lany attempts to tame the wild horse, but in vain. : All efforts to tame the animals that: have been brought to Europe have also failed. : Thus far the horse will not submit to man, is afraid of him, and 'can. not be rendered serviceable. Though now accustomed to the sight of human beings, the captives are very badly frightened if a person approaches nearer than within two or three rods of them. . 3 Still some facts are known which indicate that there is hope that those horses may eventually be tamed. The explorer Koslov about 40 years ago: saw a colt of six months belonging to a chief in the Gobi that had been so far tamed as to walk peaceably in a bridle. It would permit itself to be led up a stairway to the floor above, and even allowed the seven-year-old son of the chief to sit on its back. It is ractically impossible to capture adult animals on their native: plains. The Russians followed the: comparatively simple Mongolian method of getting possession of some of the horses. ; : : From time to time they could see from afar that young colts had been added to the herd within a day or two. They thereupon pursued the herd of horses until the colts became so exhausted that they could travel no‘ further and then it was easy to cap-

Not Much Under Cultivation. Of the total area of Korea, about 52,477,000 acres, only 8.5 per cent., or 4,441,000 acres, are yet under cultivation. The soil is fertile and much of the unused land is arable,

ADMIRAL DEWEY 70 YEARS OLD. Hero of Manila Bay Still in Splendid - Health. Washington. — Admiral George Dewey celebrated his seventieth birthday anniversary the other day. He is in splendid health and robust in physique. As is his custom, he spent the morning at his office, with the exception of an hour during which he attended a meeting of the Naval Relief association, of which he is president. At the meeting of the association the admiral was presented with two handsome silver inkwells and a_ pen

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Dewey was in . command of the Asiatic squadron when it tackled Admiral Montojo’s fleet in Manila harbor, May 1, 1898. He smashed the Spanish fleet in the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar. He was promoted to be rear admiral on the receipt of the news and was made full admiral March 2, 1899. He is president of the general board of the navy. - - REMEDY FOR SPOTTED FEVER. Believed to Have Been Discovered by Dr. Simon Flexner. : New York.—The announcement that John D. Rockefeller had given to his institute an additional $2,600,000 is generally understood to. mean that a remedy for cerebro-spinal meningitis has been discovered. A The discoverer is believed to be Dr. Simon Flexner, chief of the institute, who has ‘been

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Dredged Up Five-inch Shell. A fiveinch steel shell, loaded and rusty, weighing about 40 pounds, which rests on the desk of Col. Wil liam L. Marshall in the Army building has attracted much attention from visitors with in the last week. Col. Marshall of the corps of engineers is in charge of the dredging of Ambrose channel. Several weeks ago while one of the government dredges was sucking up sand from a point near the extreme easterly end of the channel there was & pounding heard in the dredging tube, and the five:inch shell was thrown into the dredgings. Later a plece of twisted machinery found its way through the tube and lodged in ‘the sand bunkers. The shell is thought to have been fired from one of the light batteries at Fort Hancock. The fact that the shell did not explode as it shot through the tube is surprising.—N. Y. Tribune. ;

Plan Great Engineering Project. The plan of the proposed Henry Hudson memorial bridge at New York calls for a reinforced concrete span of 710 feet and represents one of the boldest engineering projects of the time. The plans have been very carefully worked out and it is probable that the engineers will be able to meet every criticism advanced against the proposition. F

“:" "(“Eb‘;:;"'/.\ %l ]”f » 1; 2 < g 2 P n',." N\ & g LSS ¢ \ '§=\4-4 3 ‘(‘/\/’ >y .v/’ - & e <. A e A‘d p % Loud and boisterous talking should never be allowed in the cow stable. Hard wood ashes are fine for the hogs. : Impossible to get the ‘poultry house too clean. » § : Clean out the feed racks each time before refilling. s The hen is in a peck of trouble when she has nothing to peck. = = The sheep pens should be dry and well covered with litter. Buckwheat is not as good as wheai for hogs. Apt to make soft pork. A pooi' practicé to water the swine through the medium of thin swill. The farmer is his own boss. Who is to biame when things go wrong? Keep the hens busy scratching these cold days. It will put the laying spirit in them. . - Skim milk will make pigs' grow. Used with ground feed it is the ideal ration. : Have §t arranged so that the stock gets some chance for outdoor -air and exercise, except on the stormy days. A haif pound a day' gai‘,nvshoulld be showed by the pigs. Are yours doing it? e lgisease flies before God’'s blessed sunshine. Give all of it you can to the live stock and poultry. . Is the money which the . farmer gets for the corn he sells to the distillery tainted? . e At the time of weaning fhe colt‘ use great care that the animal gets no set - back. e Home-cured and home-salted pork tastes good most any time in the year. The snow bank is a poor range for the poultry in winter and will' not put any egs in the farmer’s bas_ket. - : Keep only as many fow]s_é.s, ydu have room for. Crowded poultry never do well. A 3 A bone cutter will help secure the winter eggs. Nothing like green. bone to make hens lay.

Look out for holes in the floor of the hog pen. Hogs will gnaw and sometimes :get holes big enough to get their leg into and break it. - :

- If you economize in feed and check the growth of the young stock, yours has been a false economy which you will appreciate on market day.

Use a bushel basket in carrying straw to the pig pen, then you will not leave an unsightly trail of Straw from barn to pen. . Tl e

Whitewash the inside of the stable twice a year. It will make the place lighter and will sweeten up the atmosphere amazingly. S

Wash the udders of cows affected with cow pox with warm soapy water in which a few drops of carbolic acid has been placed. :

The judicious feeder is the man who studies carefully his stock and ihe respective results obtained by the rations fed. : Ao

Make a study of those agricultural problems which you met with during the’ past season. Winter is a profitable season for the farmer if he uses his time right.

There are millions of acres of waste land throughout the country which might profitably .be planted to fauit trees. Are you doing all you can with your land? : o S

Most dairy men think that prairie hay of a good quality is fully as valuable, if not more so, as feed for dairy cows, as a good grade of timothy

In buying a buck lamb with view of raising for breeding purposes remember that close, thick-set wool is better than that which is thin and coarse. : L ‘ et

To eradicate worms in horses place a lump of rock salt where the horse may lick it at will. Oil of ‘turpentine, one-half ounce, to be followed by the raw oil purge, will dislodge the parasites. e <

Filthy hogs come from filthy quarters made so by a careless farmer who. does not realize that he is work~j ing against his own interests by neglecting the hogs. » ‘ The separator not only gets all the butter out of the milk (that is, it does if it is run right), but it saves hauling the milk to the creamery and back again. - : Manure plowed into the soil not only supplies plant rood, but adds humus to the ground which lightens the soil and makes it more congenfal en-

If you cannot afford a manure spreader, why net join with three or four of your neighbors and buy one? The spreader will do the work for all of you and the cost to each one will be merely neminal. = e The late colt can be permitted to suck its dam all winter without harm. Many- well-meaning farmers injure their mares by trying to dry them off when they are giving a full flow of milk. It is contrary to nature. . The clipped horse should «be always carefully blanketed when left standing. There is 'no particular objection ‘to depriving the horse of his natural coat if another is provided for him. e “No horse was ever born balky, but may be made so by the driver,” is what a horseman says who has made a- business of dealing in vicious aniimals and then by patient effort reforming them. - : "The horse that starts off with a jerk and -breaks into a fast ‘gait at once is not the safest animal to drive. Better train to start with a walk. Many a serious accident is caused by .the quick starting of a ‘horse. o ‘ _ ‘Diarrhea in horses, brought on by overfeeding or exposure:to inclement weather, is a common trouble and should be checked at once. Parched flour, rice meal gruel and boiled milk are all excellent correctives for this aiTment. : Have all the roosts im the poultry house as nearly on a level as pos--sible and so prevent crowding of the fowls on the upper perches. ‘lnstinctively. the hens will seek the highest perches and hence suffer from overcrowding where the perches are not all on the same level. : The secret of success in dairying is to know what a cow ought to do, and then make her do it. is the way Hoard’s Dairyman puts it. And we might add that the cow that won't do it ought to make room for the cow that will. Time is wasted on irying to increase the yield of some cows. On orchard soils only moderately rich it is necessary to keep up the sup- ‘ ply:of fertility. What the crop of frauit takes off should go back ea_g:h Jear ir the form either of barnyard manure or of chemical fertilizers, so that the roots of the trees need not seek in vain for the material out of which to make new products. Never allow flax which is to be used for seed to become wet, for the dampness causes disease spores to germinate and fthe mold filaments grow into the seed coats, and seed treatment will ‘fail to Qestroy this internal fungus. The young plants from such seeds must eventually sicken and die, and will introduce the disease into the soil wherever they fall. : - The best means for protecting the orchard trees from mice is to keep the orchard free from weeds, particularly at seeding time. A mowing machine will not do this. It takes cultivation and a hoe. If a space 215 or 3 feet about the tree is kept absolutely clean of weeds little if any damage will be done by mice. Remember this next season.: . : it ey i - Secretary Wilson speaks this word of caution to'farmers on the subject of making denatured alcohol on. the farm: “My advice to farmers is, first, to try and learn the technical processes of fermentation and distillation, and then to proceed cautiously in regard to the waste materials which they ‘may have available, namely, potatoes, refuse of the Indian corn cannery, waste apples, waste melons, ete.” : s Potatoes require an abundance of available plant, food to make ' large vields. Sometimes thorough preparation and tillage of the soil will render available 2all the crop can use. Usually however, the crop responds well to dressings of manure or fertilizer, and this is especially true in case only ordinary tillage is given. Therefore, unless the soil is known to be in fertile condition, it is good policy to’ provide liberally for the requirements of the crop. The potato usually brings ‘a Targer cash return per acre than )most farm crops and therefore war‘rants a relatively large expenditure for manure or fertilizers. Where there is danger of winterkilling, it will pay to cover the rasp‘berry plants. This is best done by ‘plowing a furrow on each side of the row, then begin at one end of the row and then bend the first hill from you over the second hill, the second hill over the top of the first one and pin down with a stick made of the old canes cut 6ut. Continue this pro‘cess to ‘the end of the row. After ‘the patch is pinned down, with a twohorse plow run threée or more fur rows on each side of the row, throwing the dirt toward the canes. If ‘any bushes are left uncovered, com: plete the work with a shovel. During ‘the winter give the patch a good ap‘plication of barnyard manure. The canes should be ‘uncovered early in April before the buds begin to grow, ‘yet late enough so they will not be damaged by hard freezing. Here is a supposable case which ought to make the dairyman think: “If by weighing and testing the milk of -each cow at regular intervals during ‘the year a dairyman should discover that 12 cows of his herd produced only 133% pounds of butter-fat and returned only 77 cents profit per cow per year, like the lowest onefourth of the 564 tion, how much woul R%”uﬁ | dsnwal incuim LR Mot WO Y T, *?““**%g iha YE Rl e Taats easael i good cows would retur :3 B Ahe yaar. 34 S & Diw e