Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 August 1899 — Page 3

NEW WATERING DEVICE, j Very liefal Where Goers nnd Other Farm Animals Hare to Be Watered la the Stalls. The cut shows a device for watering stock in the staUs. A V-shaped trough extends along before the whole row of stalls, forming, with its cover, the front of the crib. This trough can be flushed out, the lower end then stopped and the trough filled. The covers can pe arranged so that the cattle can lift Jthem when desiringjto drink, then C

WATERING DEVICE FOR COWS. falling back into place of their own weight. A very little slope to the trough will carry the water from one end to the other. Until one has tried the experiment of keeping water constantly before his cows, thus giving them the chance to drink whenever thirsty--just as is the case when the animals are at pasture—he will not realize how much better his stock will thrive and produce flesh or milk than is the case when the stock is watered but once, or, at most, twice, i. day. In the latter case, if an animal does not happen to be thirsty at watering time,;it must go until the next journey to the trough is made—perhaps 24 hours dis> tant.—N. Y. Tribune.

MILKERS AND MILKING. %tx Co'itm to One Man la About the Rlffbt Proportion lor the Aver<M>e Farm Employe. There seems to be a great deal of discussion among the farmers in different localities nowadays in regard to the subject of good milkers. The remark that it is now almost impossible to find good milkers is quite frequently heard among dairymen. This is a great mistake, says a writer in Rural New Yorker. I thoroughly believe that there^are just as good milkers in this and other localities as there ever were, if not better. The farmer who depends on day hands for his help, as a general rule, is the one who complains most bitterly in regard to this matter. The average man who is hired by the day will not milk even !if he can. Wherever or whenever I find a good month hand, one who stays on the farm continually, one who is not constantly listening for the sound of the six o’clock whistle, one who does hot go to town every night, I find a good milker. A cow should be milked as quickly as possible. A good milker can mUV 12 cows an hour. The muscles of the forearm, wrist and hands of a good milker must be well developed; therefore, as ■ a rule, women are poor milkers. They require, too much time to milk a cow. The evil resulting frotu this practice is that the cows do $t>t, readily give down their milk. Some farmers expect a man to do too mu^h of this work. The number of cows that a man milks should depend on the amount and nature of other labor that he performs. As a rule, I do not believe ihat a man should be allowed to milk more than six cows. PRACTICAL DAIRY HINTS Keep the cow warm and dry. Milk with clean, dry hands as quickly as possible. Feed clean, bright fopd in variety to produce good results. Keep the cow clean by using plenty of clean, bright bedding. Do not allow a cow to drink water you would not drink yourself. Own and milk good cows. If you have poor cows send them to the butcher. Treat cows quietly and kindly; excitement affects the quantity and quality of milk. Never use or sell milk from diseased or unhealthy cows. It is dangerous even to feed it to the pigs. The cornstalk, either shredded or in ensilage, is one of the best feeds for the cow. Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of this feed are annually lost. In freezing weather, sdfeld can covers just before starting the milk for the creamery. The cream will not. stick and freeze in them, Also cover cans.

A Definition of Weeds. ^ Any plant growing where it is not, desired is a weed. One of the most detestable of weeds is rye in a wheat field* and yet such cases are frequent. Even two varieties of the same kind of plants should never be allowed together. If two blades of grass or stalks of corn are growing side by side and do not thrive, one of them should be removed |n order to allow the other the plant food which is being taken by both. One performs the services of a weed to the other.

VALUABLE SUGG2STI02L How Farmers May Help the Country Road* Without Mach Trouble or Expense. It is easily possible for farmers to keep country roads in a much better condition than most of them are at present. The individual can afford to do road mending on the same principle that he repairs fences and buildings, “It pays me." And a land ovVner ought to feel as much shame, even guilt, be* fore the general public over a mudhole that ean oe drained:, or over a choked-up sluice along his premises as he ought over neglected cattle or a display of tilth.

It » not necessary to wait for the road-working season to come. The most profitable, common sense vyork can he put in a little at a time, if at the right time. Drainage is the beginning and the ending of the whole matter, if roads are to be roads and not sloughs. Watering troughs and hillside springs are common causes of standing water, yet it is a very simple matter to direct the water flowing from them in the way it should go. A stone, a loose board, a chunk of soil washed down against the end of a sluice may choke it up till it is worse than nothing. Five minutes’ work would send the water rushing through its proper channel. It is not uncommon to see wate* following the wheel rut for rods, when a man with half an eye can also see that a mere cut through the ridge at the edge of the road would lead the water into the ditch, perhaps down a bank, jr. Dropping into a bad hole or a soft place a few superfluous stones now and then to keep the water out would work a double-headed blessing to all passing that way. Heaving out a few stubborn old stones from the track would work detriment to the blacksmith and wagon maker, perhaps, but a big saving to the farmer.' If all such patching were thus well kept up, the yearly toll of public service would count more and more towarvbthe good roads of which all are dreaming and talking. This view of the subject is no more than one feature ofpractieal farming, intelligent economy, a mere looking out for number one, no matter hovv many others are also benefited.—Orange Judd Farm* er.

CONVENIENT BARN. It I* Fitted with I.nbnr-SnvinK Method* for Feedins Horses, Celtic nud Other Farm Stock. This barn is intended for horses and rattle, and special attention is called to the convenient methods of feeding1, llorses and cattle face the alleys with a partition,in front of the horses which forms the back of manger. The horses are fed throtigh small drop doors in the partition. The hay chute and feed spouts open into these alleys, thus sav« V '.v swaj

COW AND HORSE BARN. !ng many steps. Spouts from an o4t bin on second floor, which bin is in center of the barn over left end of driveway, come down into alleyways. „ Spout* from feed bins on second floor are at right of alleys; these extend to ground floor, as feed does not run well through spouts. Grain and feed aro carried up by an elevator which is in the center of barn and which dumps into spouts leading to the bins.—Laurence Doolittle, in Farm and Home. THE CHERRY TREK It Needs But Little Priming-, Rat Requires Heavy Doses of Miu- : eral Fertilisers. When a cherry tree gets into full bearing and is regularly picked each year, enough twigs are broken off during the harvesting of the crop to prune the trees sufficiently. But if the tree grows oh low, wet ground it often runs too much to wood, the fruit either does not set qr rots, because it is too much shaded by leaves, which are caused by too luxuriant growth. In such cases severe root pruning and cutting out the center limbs while in leaf will sufficiently check growth, so much that the tree will both blossom fully and will also b(Sr fruit. After the cherry tree begins bearing, the wastage of twigs broken off in harvesting the crop checks wpod growth sufficiently to make the tree bear full crops thereafter. But it must be remembered that

so much of the cherry is in the stone, which requires heavy doses of potash to perfect it, that if the cherry tree is not liberally supplied with potash and other mineral fertilisers it will soon begin to die. The cherry tree never fails to bloom and set fruit so long as any part of it lives. It prunes itself ay letting enough of its limbs die so that what remain can produce as much and as fine fruit as they ever did. Most of the larger fruit trees stop bearing as they grow old. The chei*ry tree keeps on besting so long as any part •fit la alive.—American Cultivator.

II EL KING REINDEER. HCliM ilie Herd la Inclosed the Cows Are Lassoed and Tied to Trees. “The People of the Reindeer” Is the title under which Johns Startling describes a visit to a Lapland camp. A picturesque account is giv,en of the milking of the reindeer: “Placing ourselves on both sides of the entrance to the inclosurc, at some distance, we stopped to wait ior the herd. Looking in the direction from which the barking was heard, we observed On the summit of the nearest mountain ridge* against the horizon, something like a moving thicket, carried, as it were, by a swift current down the mountain side. Soon we distinguished the graceful forms of hundreds of reindeer, as they, with elastic motions, leaping and bounding, came tearing down toward the camp, the dogs stretching like ropes along the ground on each side of the herd to keep 1 it together. We crouched bshind j stones and bushes so as not to frighten j the half-wild animals. With a good i deal of running, gesturing and shout- • ing, the herd was finally brought into i the inclosure, only a few of the widest animals escaping over the fell, past some of the little children. Rushing into the inclosure in an unbroken

! stream ci more than a thousand ani- • mals, the herd did not cease running'— , the reindeer is always on the move, \ cept at its regular resting times—but j continued in a circle against th6 sun. | The reindeer in these circular motions ; always runs against the cun; if it runs j with it, it is a sign of disease of the I brain. In the midst of the reindeer, leaping, bounding, and butting in a friendly way, while giving out their ; peculiar grunting sound, the picturj esque figures of our Lapponiamfriends j were seen, surrounded by a thicket cf , horns. Our hostess, having hung her j baby to a birch in the middle of the in- ! closure, stood, like a number of other j women, mostly girls, with a wooden scoop in her hand, ready to milk the j first of the female reindeer caught; ; while at the outskirts of the inelosure ; stood a number of children with large pails to receive the milk from thes scoops, the smaller children either running about playing outside the camp, or giving salt and angelica to some of |he tamest animals. The most important actors on the scene, however, were the men moving about slowly in the midst of the herd, holding the lasso behind their back in the right hand; and looking sharply at the runI ning animals. As quick as lightning f a lasso whizzed through the air, the frightened animals recoiling and then increasing their speed. When the lasso hit the mark, the cow was hauled i in, and tied to a birch while the milk- | ing was done. So they kept on for nearly two hours. The quantity of milk yielded by each animal is very small, at the most about a teacupful, but it is of very high, nutritive quality. The milking, which is by no means regular, is done, if possible, once a day. In winter time there is of course no milking. To prevent the calves from sucking their mothers, pieces of bone are tied into their mouths, or the udders are besmeared with tar. Some of the Lapps consider it sinful to milk the reindeer and thus deprive the calves of their food.”—Century. /

MAN-EATING LIONS. Tricks of the Savage Beasts in Taking Their Prey in Their native Jcngles. - I “When lions become maneaters these inert and treacherous brutes take no unnecessary trouble to catch men, and while human beings are plentiful none of them undertake perilous enterprises or proceed on any haphazard expeditions. They know what to do and where to go that prey may be procured with the least amount of risk or exertion. Such a lion is well aware of who tills this cornfield or that mealie pateh. He has informed himself of how many men accompany the village herds, where any outlying camps are situated, and how they are guarded. There is no route by whieh travelers proceed or traffic is carried on that such animals have not studied with reference to the facilities for attack they afford and their own bodily powers. If otherwise good strategic positions present natural difficulties the lion not only considers how these can be overcome, but perhaps practices his part beforehand. At all events, he has been watched while engaged in exercises that can only be explained in this way. “So puny a ereature as a man is when unprovided with effective implements for offense stands little chance against such a foe—an assailant having 40 times his strength, backed by marvelous activity and an intense passion for carnage. Under these circumstances savages can only shut themselves up or assault their enemy In large masses. On the other hand, those precautions taken by a murderous lion might not seem to comport with that bold and often reckless temper attributed to this species. But such a discrepancy has no real existence; it only appears when a judgment is made without taking all the facts into consideration. This animal’s intelligence, developed in maneaters to its highest point, together with an organic stealthiness of nature and stratagems, fully accounts for everything a lion does in the way of guarding against failure.”—Outing.

FROM EARTH’S FOUR CORNERS i s ---i London's city directory weighs 11% pounds. f Iron mining gives employment to more than 17,000 persons in England. The natives of Hawaii still feast on taro, raw fish, and poi, tmd are still the careless, lazy people they have always been. It is estimated that ai the beginning af the new century England will have £2,000,000,000 tons of coal still unused and available. There are? just as many physicians, dentists and lawyers in Honolulu as there are in any city of the same size In the United States. A great auk’s egg, four and threequarters inches long ajnd one of the largest known, was sold jin London lately for $1,560, though it was slightly cracked. In New Zealand, late legislation provides a state system of pensions for all persons over 65 who have been unable lo secure themselves against want, by means of a general taxation of the country. This relief d<bes away with workhouses, refuges and other state sharities. Leipzig is to have a new rathhaus, costing $1,600,000. It will stand on part of the ground covered by the old Pleisenberg, where Luther held his disputation, which has been torn down. \ tower of the old castle still stands, nnd will be worked info the architectural design of the city hall.

SOUTH CAROLINA TEA. fProm a report to the secretary of agriculture by Charles U. Shppard, who Is 1ft charge of the experimental tea garden at Summerville, S. C.] A school for the education of negro iliildren in tea picking has been established. The fact that the tea plants lived through last winter when the most intensely cold weather ini the history of the section was experienced is a guarantee that the weather conditions will prove satisfactory. There are gow about $0 acres of land under tea cultivation aid 3,000 pounds were sold last year at a profit of 25 per cent. It is estimated that when all the plants now growing arrive at maturity they will yiield 10,000 pounds anaualiy. The qualitynjjf the tea has proved satisfactory. pjWypfie black tea he says: *It has a IStPinctly characteristic flavor, and like some of tho choicer oriental teas, its liquor has more strength than its color indicates.” The ifreen tea, he says, has attracted keen interest in th® trade and among consumers, and he adds that “oriental teas can hardly furnish the like in this country.” A Cheerful Outlook. There is so much in daily life to try one's nerves and temper that it is no; always easy to preserve one’s cheerfulness. Moods are contaigious; one un« happy person in a family without any active effort can destroy the pleasure of all the rest. „ M'e do not always remember this and so U’e give way tq causes for depression, land w*e do not bear oiirselves as bravely as we might when things are going [wrong with us. It is a good rule to keep one's troubles in the background of life, in the background of thought, bknging to the front only that which is cheerful and sunny.—Detroit Free Press.

A Pair of Innocents. “Mamie,” said the father, who looked as innocent as he could; overheard some of your conversation with that young man in evening. Why didn't down on him when he begin economizing by both using the same chair?” “I did, papa,” and she innocent as she could.Press. ‘I accidentally the parlor last you sit right said you could also looked as ■Detroit Free

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