The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-08

drained so as to eradicate all foul air /
The floors are all OF asphalt and slope |
into flushing sewers below. The man
gers. which are triangular metallic pans, |
ntted In supporting brackets, may De mt
ed out and cleansed each day. All or
the cattle are fastened by a patent tie,
so arranged that by the turning of levers
all of the animals may be liberated at once
or each separately. But the most inter-
esting feature of the stock barn rs me
milking apparatus. Agricola never allows
his COWS TO be MIXED by human hands.
All of the stalls are connected by an end
less tube, lined with porcelain. In eacn
apartment a rubber hose branches from
this main pipe. The free end Of the hose
branches into five or six eXtremltes, each
tipped with a cup of thin rubber made
to mt tightly over teat AFTER ali OF
the cups have been fitted on by but one
man, he sets in motion a large air pump
at one end OF the tube line. This causes
in all of the tubes uniform sucking pulsa-
tions of about forty-five strokes TO the
minute. In this way all of Agricolas one
hundred or more cows are pumped dry
in less time than IL takes to milk one
fluid flows from the long tube into yes
sells. Cream having been separated into
the creamery, butter can next be rapidly
made in the electric churns.
AgricOla Novus dispenses chemical FOODS
to his hens and thereby makes them lay
with abnormal rapidity. he hatches all
of his young chickens In electric incubat-
ors. Before being placed in these how
ever, and during the stages OF Matching
each egg is viewed several times through
a tester. This is tube Whlch holds the
egg in the center, having an eye-piece
at one end and an electric lamp at tho
other. After having been Matched out by
the hundred I'm these incubators the young
fowls are transferred TO electrically heat
ed brooders, which act as mechanical
mothers, offering warmth food and pro-
lection.
That this enterprising agricultural sci
enlist is a genuine hustler Is all the more
evidenced by his method of defying the
elements. He has found the specification
for an American patent granted not long
ago for a rain-making machine. RMS IS
balloon-not to be exploded with fearful
report by an electric spark, but to serve
simpler and cheaper purpose IN producing
rain. The balloon is a very large one ci-
gar-shaped. and enveloped with durable
material, easily repaired, In the stead OF
a car il carries up a small aluminium tank
to be filled with water. The tank is stud
ded with small spouts like the sDoutS OF
watering-pots, pointing downward and out
ward in every direction When his crops
and lawns need watering Agricola sends
this vehicle aloft allowing it to float high
above his fields and gardens. a long rub
her hose serves as the cable and supplies
the water as well. While an electric pump
is rapidly forcing water into the tank, the
liquid continues 10 escape IN delightful
shower upon the earth below. Since the
hose holds this rainmaker captive II may
he flown above any portion Of the farm.
On hot summer days it is often operated
over the Novus mansion causing all within
to feel as refreshed as though nature were
furnishing genuine rain.
Mr.. NoVus is not burned TO the hue of a
boiled lobster nor does his neck resemble
the unsmoothed complexion Of the alliga-
tor. He does not trouble himself to travel
about in the fields all day He eXerts his
executive ability from his luxurious office,
where may be heard the click of the type
writer and the scratching pencil of the
stenographer. The industrious proprietor
| is engaged during the busy hours of the
| day with his correspondence.
His farm is about five miles wide by ten
| long. The ground is divided into plots ky
| broad paths of asphalt, in the center of
| which always runs u wife fence An cleo
trio light pole now and then takes the
place of an ordinary fence post. The
or telegraph line. At every mile or so is
a small tenant house occupied by the
manager of that particular section. He
receives his Instructions by wire. The
whole fence system is also connected with
the main line running into the city. and
hence by using the long-distance phone
the proprietor Is always in reach of his
men, no matter whether he be summering
at the seashore or wintering in New York.
All of the farm hands use bicycles, IA
special style of bloomer-over-all having
been designed by Agricola for that pur-
pose. This mode of travel is easily used
in going to any part of the farm because
of the asphalt paths described.
Indeed when he rides out with his fam
lily In his automobile victoria, upon the
boulevard connecting his great estate
with the nearby city, there isn't a grand
er looking parsonage than Agricola No
vus, the most wealthy man whom agri-
cultural science has yet produced