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A] GREAT MAN’S TENDER HEART. , An Incident of Lord Lawrence's Sea Voyage to India. Lord Lawrence, viceroy of India, was a blunt man of action, impatient of contradiction and thoroughly self-re- dant. Yet, like many of the truly great, he had a heart as tender as & Woman's. The night on which he started from London to govern India he gathered all his family in the draw- ‘ng room and made each child repeat a favorite hymn to him. His youngest son, ten s old, nestled in his fath- uddenly the strong man burst into tea “I shall nev: a child again.” It was not of the hardships before him, or of his own death he thought, yut of the fact that Bertie would net 2e a child to him on his return. On board the steamer with the gov- *rnor general of Indi a lady with ner infant child. She neglected the ‘ - Which revenged itself by crying ‘Ss com- ble than he cried, “see Bertie ge more for , throw that baby over- vas petulanily shouted from aleepless berths. At last Lord Lawrence, seeing that che child was left motherless by its 2wnh mother, took it, showing it his Watch and anything that would amuse t. The child took to the great strong Q and was alw. quiet when he Id it, “Why do you, my lord,” asked one of the relieved passenge: urprised to see the governor general of India ke such notice of that child?” ruse, to tell you the truth,” an- swered Lord Lawrence, with a merry twinkle in his eye, at child is the only being in the ship who I can feel quite sure does not want to get any- thing out of me.”’—Pastimes. a Bottle «About thirty years ago I bought a bottle of Ayer’s Tie j Vigor to stop my hair from falling out. One-half a bottle cured me. A few days ago my J hair began to fall out again. I f went to the medicine shelf and found the old bottle of Hair Vigor just as good 2s when I bought it." — J. C. Baxter, Braidwood, Ill, Sept. 27, 1899. Keeps Thirty Years Ayer’s Hair Vigor is cer- tainly the most economical prep- atation of its kind on the market. A little of it goes a long way. And then, what you don't need now you can usc some other 2 time just 25 well. : It doesn’t take much of it to # stop falling of the hair, restore § color to gray hair, cure dandruff, 8 and keep the hair soft and glossy. f There’s a great deal of good and f aa immense amount of satisfac- § tion ia every bottle of it. : $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. Write the Doctor If you do not obtain all the benefits you desire from the use of the Vigor, write the Doctor about it, Address, Dr. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. ELSE SEREESSEEESSSESSES ESN EPOTATOES 253° SAMPLES. > Vv E R * JONN A. SALZER SEED CO., LA CROSSE, WIS. wau EEDPEPIRFSELESPSDAEDDSRDD' §6$66665 Meat smaked in a few hours with KRAUSERS’ LIQUID EXTRACT OF SMOKE. Made from hickory wood. Cheaper, cleaner, sweeter, and surer than tho old way. ‘Send for cuculare 2, MRAUSER 4 BKO., Milton, Pe DR. ARNOLD’S COUGH a CURES COUGHS AND COLDS. KILLER PREVENTS CONSUMPTION. ‘All Draggists, 25c. D ROP SY NEW discovery: ives quick relief and cures wo-st cases. Book of testimoniais and 10 DAYS’ treatment @REE. DK. H. H. GREEN'S SONS, Box EB, Atlanta, ARTES INK Is THE BEST Ink. Seeds. this notice WRARE FAM SEED Whea Answering Adyertisemeats Kindly Mention This Paper. NU —No. 2— 1900. x WwW ing nurse to a crying baby, “why | § | make the butter DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. This Few How Succesfal Farmers Operate Department of the Farm—A Hints as to the Care of Live Stock and Poultry. Dairy Notes. We are constantly hearing of batches of butter brought onto the market in such a condition that it has to sell far off the regular price to be disposed of at all. Butter poorly packed, poorly salted and poorly worked, is no uncom- mon sight. In many cases the butter would have been good if properly treated. Over it all seems to be writ- | ten the word “carelessness.” To this | word might be added the word “igno- | rance,” and the whole truth would be | out. More study and more applica- tions of the lessons learned are neces- sary if butter is to bring the price it should in the market. In examining the so-called aquatic and hydraulic separators, one is struck by the force of these words as mis- nomers. The great mechanical sep- arators are, in truth, separators be- cause by their mechanical motion they Separate the milk from the cream. But a tin pan is not a separator, for it does nothing. The separation is not accomplished by any quality of the pan or vessel in which the milk and water are set. The cream is not separated by any mechanical agert, but is sepa- | rated through the force of gravitation. The application of the term separator to dishes in which milk is set is un- truthful and dishonest. It is a delib- erate attempt to steal reputation and to reap some advantage from the im- mense sums of money that the real separator companies have paid out for advertising. It is surprising to see how easily some people are annoyed. In certain states the dairymen, or, rather, a few of them, express their dissatisfaction at being “annoyed” by health officers prying around to find if they use pre- Servatives in their milk, and also in- quiring if their cows have tuberculosis, | and if they wash their cans in well water that is contaminated oy sewage from closets that have received the “stools” of typhoid fever patients. One would suppose that all men would want the public health preserved, but some are certainly in favor of the pub- lic health being preserved to the point | only where it does not interfere with business, The most discouraging thing about this is that these men often succeed in stopping such investi- gations, being able to bring about con- certed action because of a community of interests, The advent of the hand separator greatly lessened the burdens of many people that were milking cows and raising cream by means of the old pan system or were hauling the milk for many miles to some creamery. It has been a blessing in this way, but it is also proving to be a blessing in an- other way—it is making it possible for people to do dairying who never did dairying before. Many farmers live so | far from the creameries that it is quite impracticable for them to attempt to produce milk unless they expect to themselves. Now, however, the hand separator is being quite extensively used by farmers liv- ing a long distance from the cream- eries, who separate their milk at home and send only cans of cream to the creameries. If this has to be sent by rail or other paid conveyance it is not such a matter. Also a man with a coi- lecting route can make a much larger | circuit, as he has so much less weight to carry. Reports from some of the great but- ter centers indicate that storage butter is selling well up to the price of fresh butter. This is due to one or two very important facts. The first is that much of the stored butter is June butter, and is superior in color and quality. This butter, though stored, has not to compete with fresh June butter, but with fall and early winter butter. The | June butter is made largely from fresh | pasture grass, while the fall butter is | often injured by the weeds that the cows eat on account of the shortness of the pasture grass. The butter that is made from milk just after the cows have their first feedings of hay is fre- qently affected by the taste of the hay. Every one has noticed this taste in the milk just after the cows are “put up” in the fall. The stored butter is con- stantly receiving more attention at the hands of the men that store it, and it is therefore being kept today in a more perfect condition than it was possible to keep it a few years ago, Where a farmer’s wife is dependent on the grocer at the neighboring sta- tion or village for the marketing of her butter, measures should be taken to establish a reputation for the prod- uct. It is often that the good butter ells as low as the poor butter, and this is largely due to the fact that buying butter in such places is some- thing of a lottery anyway, and the buyers do not propose to pay more than the price that is going. “What is butter today?” is a common query, just as if there were some fixed price at which all butter must be sold. In every little village, as well as in every large town, there are sure to be some that are willing to pay a good price for butter they know to be fifst class and of uniform quality from week to week. Therefore have the butter marked in such a way that there will be no doubt as to its source. The old butter print, if used, should have a mark or name on it that will call at- tention to the maker. Candling Eegs. The aforetime egg-buyer, sitting in the cellar of his store with a lighted candle, before which he holds up an egg af a time to judge of its soundness, has been superseded, writes a Sedalia correspondent of a St. Louis paper. He would never come to the end of the 33,935,000 dozens which the Missouri farmers’ wives now bring to town in twelye months. The average price paid to producers for eggs is about 10 cents a dozen. That was the rate in what are known as the months of greatest egg production—March, April and to the 10th of May. After that there was a brief period when prices ran as low as 6 cents. It was the time of the highest percentage of bad eggs. In June and July the life of an egg han- dler is not a happy one. It is the sea- son of nest hiding. Hens will be secretive. June and July are months in which the egg-buyer would, if he could, gladly take a vacation and go to Alaska, where the only egg known is the one frozen solid. In August the harvest of bad eggs is over. The qual- ity is again restored to normal. Prices are now 11 and 12 cents a dozen to farmers’ wives. Aside from this brief depreciation, prices of eggs haven’t varied 2 cents a dozen the past season, which speaks exceedingly well for the new methods. The surplus of eggs of last April went into cold storage to await the demand next winter. “Candling” is still thé name of the process of testing eggs, although the candle.has gone out of date. In the darkroom of the poultry and egg house hangs an electric light. It is in a case with two bright eyes. The egg-testers sit on either side of the electri¢ light. They raise two eggs at a time trom the cases in which they come from the buyers, and hold them for a moment between the electric eyes and the hu- man vision. The decision is instant. The movement which follows is s0 rapid that it is hard to follow. Exam- ining two eggs at a time, the tester must conclude at once in which of five directions each egg shall go. There are three grades of merchantable eggs. But there are also two tubs to receive eggs of a fourth and fifth classification. If an egg is sound and whole it may be a “Western extra,” a “small and dirty” or a “second.” But there may be a crack in the shell. The wear of transportation means the cracking of a great many eggs. The moment the tester detects a crack his hand goes toward one of the tubs. With a deft turn of the wrist he completes the fracture, empties the contents of the shell into the tub, and tosses the shell to the second tub, Then there are the bad eggs. They go into the other tub as quick as the tester can drop them. The economies of the business have not yet developed use for a spoiled egg. Shells of the cracked eggs and bad eggs are hauled away and thrown on the ground. They have some fertiliz- ing value, but not enough to pay for the cartage. The egghouse pays for the removal and disposition of the bad eggs. $ “Extras” hardly need explanation. They are the large, clean and sound eggs. When it is stated that they are worth 1714 cents a dozen, their superior character is indicated. The “small and dirty” speaks for itself, But there is this to be said, the “small and dirty” must be perfectly sound. The size and the dirt on the shell make it worth only 9 cents to 11 cents a dozen. Then come the “seconds,” which betray signs of age. The “seconds” is an article of commerce at from 7 to 9 cents a dozen. It is the egg that is only a little off, and passes very well where tastes are not too critical. The extras go into new cases with perfect packing. in them the dealer finds his profit. In the Sedalia egghouse there is a man who has been “candling” twelve years. He confesses frankly that he is | all the time learning something new about eggs as he turns the electric ray on them, and he admits that he has gathered some additional experience in the detection of rotten eggs the present season. This man says that an aver- age two dozen of eggs as they come to the central depot from buyers at the Missouri railroad stations will classify into one cracked, two rotten, six sec- onds, two small and dirty and thirteen extras. French Coachers in France. We are indebted to Messrs. Me- Laughlin Brothers of Columbus, Ohio, for a translation of the comments made by the great French critic of horses, M. Louis Baume, on the government purchases of French coach stallions at Caen, October 21, 1899. Out of fifty- seven animals submitted for approval, twenty-five young stallions classed as trotters were chosen and purchased for the aggregate sum of 245,000 francs ($49,000). The collection included many sons and grandsons of Fuschia, Cher- bourg, Juvigny, James Watt, Harley and Reynolds. M. Baume says, among other things: “I believe if the reputa- tion of Harley as a great stallion is to be saved in the future, it will be by alliance with the daughters of Fuschia, who will bring to him the qualities which he lacks.” Sans Gene, a son of Hercule Normand out of Olivette by Cherbourg, who had a record of 1:35 per kilometer (one-third of a mile) was purchased by the government for 12,000 francs; Rocambole, whose record was 1:36, and who is a son of Juvigny out of Lutine by Serpolet Bai, was pur- chased for 13,000 francs; Rouges Ter- res, a four year old chestnut, by Fuschia out of Pierce Neige by Cymbal, who has a record for 1:36, was pur- chased for 14,000 francs. Messrs, Mc- Laughlin Brothers write that they were fortunate enough to secure the best horse shown at Achats de Caen this year, and that their recent importa- tions are the best lot of French coach- ers they have ever had. They are nearly all the descendants of Cher- bourg, Fuschia, Reynolds and other stallions representing the best blood cf France. A little copperas, mixed with the salt supplied to the sheep, will be found beneficial. Forming and Fixing Types of Sheep. Prof. John A. Craig, in an address before the Kansas state board of agri- culture, said: . The type that has been characteristic of each breed has risen from a variety of causes. In all in- stances the breeder’s skill in selecting and mating has been a controlling fac- tor, while other influences have more or less assisted. In some instances the function of the animal, or the work it is called upon to do, has had a strong influence. This is evident in the in- stance of the running horse, the trot- ting horse and the dairy cow, where the form or the type has developed from the function. In other instances the environment has aided man in his work of selection, and this is notably true of sheep. The adaptability of | sheep for different altitudes of land enables us to divide them into lowland breeds, upland or down breeds and meuntain breeds, and it is connected with the subject of breed type, for the environments of such land develop the type that does the best upon them. The lowland breeds are large, square and strong framed, and are heavy Producers of wool and mutton. The down breeds are smaller, but rounder and more compact, with fleece, frame and mutton of better quality. The mountain‘breeds must have more vigor | and agility than those previously men- | tioned to earn subsistence under rougher cenditions, so that the posses- sion of a rugged constitution, active disposition, with strong limbs and muscles, are of more importance than the other features that are character- | istic of other types. Man seeks to fix the type that he has found character- istic of the breeds by elaborating | scales of points representing features of the types desired, and toward the production of those ideal types all | breeders bend their energies. s The type of the breed having been decided upon by all the breeders, it | should be the aim of the breeder and | the judge to recognize it, for, aside from an acknowledgement of the wishes of the breeders, it is a point of direct value to do so. When a breed has been uniformly bred to a type for a period of twenty years or so the type has become so fixed that it is uniformly transmitted. Two of the most powerful factors aiding the fixing of the type of a breed are the breeders | seeking to produce the animal of ideal | type as represented by the scale of Boints and the judges conforming to it in the show ring. The result is of value to the breeding interests, as it assists in making the breed prepotent or able to transmit its characteristics with a greater degree of certainty. Poultry Notes. | There are a number of ways of se- | lecting eggs to send to market. The | best of these ways is to pass each egg before a candle held on the. other side } of a box or board through which a | hole has been made. When we say | candle of course we recognize the fact that an actual candle is not necessary —any kind of a light will do provided it be powerful enough to send its light | through the egg. Only fresh eggs | should be sent to market, especially if | private customers are being supplied. | The size of the windows has much | fs do with the comfort or discomfort of the fowls in winter. Sad to relate, most of the poultry houses owned by farmers have but small windows, though we believe that the idea of | having large windows is growing. The poultry house that has to accommodate | say fifty hens and has a single win- dow two feet square is an abomina- tion, and it is nu wonder that in flocks so kept diseases are frequent and de- structive. If but one window can be put in a poultry house, it should cer- tainly be a large one, but it is better to have a number of windows. Improved Ranch Horses. The class of western horses that are now being put on the market is very different from those close descendants of the cayuse and bronco mares which were scattered over the country a few years ago at low prices, says Texas Stock and Farm Journal. These half- breeds were as unreliable as their wild dams, and made life a burden to their | owners, whenever they did not kill their owners outright. ue modern western horse does not differ from the farm-raised colt except in the iraining which his life on the plains has given him to be on the alert against danger and to quickly avoid it. This habit forces a driver to be careful, but aside from it most of these horses which are from good, well-bred mares and finely bred horses are as kind and safe as the average horse and have as few vicious tricks. The ranchmen who shipped to the west good mares and sires several years ago, are now reap- ing their reward in quick sales and good prices, and these horses have been numerous enough to keep prices from going out of sight as soon as the brisk demand began to spring up. Goat Mutton.—That goats are killed and sold on the Chicago sheep market for mutton is quite true, and the yearly aggregate of such sales runs up into tens of thousands, but for the most part these goats sold for mutton are culls from the grade flocks of the northwest and southwest, many of them not at all calculat- ed to feflect credit either upon their kind, or the mutton for which they are sold. The Angora kid, young doe, or young wether, are equal in flavor and delicacy of flesh to the best lamb or young mutton, and the day is not distant when they will be mar- keted, killed, sold and consumed under their own name and without the make- shift of a reprehensible disguise. The ala wether or bill goat meat is only fit for hogs and savages, but the flesh of : §. SENATOR ROACH Says Peruna, the Catarrh Cure, Gives Strength and Appetite. Hon. W. N. Roach, United States Senator from North Dakota. Hon. W. N. Roach, United States Senator from North Dakota, personally | endorses Peruna, the great catarrh cure and tonic. | Peruna Medicine Company, at Columbus, Ohio, written from Washington, D. 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