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ing. In this way we are not troubled
by its freezing"
A visit to the courthouse followed.
There corn and oats lay three feet deep
over .ie floor of the large building.
"Just as il came from the machine.
The oats dry out the corn. and SO all
keep. Some years shoveling over might
be needed. Last fall we thrashed one
field-lI acres of corn-without oats.
The stalks have kept o. X, but some
grain heated. We began at IL 80 p M.
and were done AT p. IN. Thrashers
don't enjoy handling shocks Of corn,
but the machine can take care OF
them fast. only one row of concave
teeth was left in the vibrator, but that
was enough TO thrash the oats. We like
to send through shock of corn and
then two bundles of oats. AS the fod-
der comes from the carrier 1t has lost
much of it's bulk. 1t pitches readily"
Messrs. Bartlett stored the fodder
from 90 acres of corn and 10 acres Of
oats, and still space enough was left for
hay and wheat straw.
1.-The beauty of the whole thing is
that the corn crop is handled so quick
ly and economically and by thrashing
oats at the same time fodder and grain
both save nicely. We pay $40 day for
a machine with three men, and the cost
is less than cents per bushel."
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pressure we can send stream over the
40 foot brick chimney at the barn. >
Entering the engine room, Mr.. Cannon
noted the 20 horsepower engine with
belt attached, and the boiler in its arch
near by.
He inspected the stable This has
two rows of stanchions, and the cows
face the feeding alley which runs length
wise of the barn through its center Mr..
Smith Bartlett, one Of the firm, observ-
ed ave know that we are not quite
up to date i'll using 'stanchions We
have in mind to try some sort Of stall. y
The cows stand on concrete-a narrow
gutter behind them and generous path
along the sides of the building. The
COWS were all out for exercise, it being
early afternoon. AT one side of the en-
trance to the barn, built as an l. to it,
is the manure cellar. The COW manure
is wheeled in every day, and the horse
manure is shoveled down from the
floor above through a trap on the side
wall In Mr.. b. S judgment this is far
ahead of the old way.
Milking is done before feeding in the
morning, after feeding at night. This
is handiest here. Returning to the feed
ing alley, Mr.. Cannon found car stand
ing half way down the barn length, and
on il large box from which little
steam was rising. 1--WE are cooking the
night feed" they explained. A small
pipe leads from the boiler, and low
bubbling told the story.
When he went 10 the next or main
floor, he visited the grinding room.
The hopper of the % inch bur had in
its wheat oats and corn. A cornsheller
stands near, also "a grindstone. zone
may bear on as hard rs he pleases and
nobody kicks" That was the keynote
of the whole business-plenty Of power
VIII re needed and when needed.
On the main barn floor the cutter
stands and delivers the chaffed fodder
through a trap into the car below.
Nv hat, straw and oornstalks together"
Eyes we thrash the corn and the
oats at the same time.
Mr.. Smith Bartlett explained how
the machinery is worked. 1--WE grind
and cut at the same time and do this
twice day. A spray of water falls up.
on the cut fodder, and we add meal
from time to time till the bulk is great
enough. At present it takes, for each
feed, about five bushels of meal and
enough chopped roGghage to bulk up 80
bushels after it is cooked When
through cutting, we bank the fire, and
depend upon the steam remaining in
the boiler TO cook the feed We wish it
to cook ] = hours and cook slowly.
Steam will dry things if too much is
let Oh. We use the same pipe to convey
steam that carried the water for spray.
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LAMpMAN sEcT1oN COME CuTTER.

ter in the box about half an inch deep.
Always be sure to keep water in the
box. Adjust shelf in the wooden box
for lamp to rest on. Have the lamp
so it will come close up TO the hole III
the cutter box. Let it get quite hot.
Now sit down with this box directly
in front of you, take a section in your
two hands, have the knife face from
you, place the end farthest from you in
the gauge, then lower the other so it
will come on top of the knife, then
steadily pull toward you, letting it
slide off the top of the knife on the
gauge. When the section strikes the
knife, directly raise that end slowly in
such way as to scrape off any comb
that may be there. all the time keeping
the other end i'll the gauge. Reverse
and perform the same act. When the
wax box gets about half full let it cool
and remove the wax If the residue col
lects on the underside of the knife,
take an old case knife and remove it.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-19
Dairy and Creamery.

A late bulletin of the valuable series
issued by the Michigan Agricultural
college is entitled the Feeding of
Dairy Cows 1t is by Professor Clinton
d. Smith and contains much useful in
formation for dairy farmers. Tables of
experiment rations with many kinds of
COW feed are given, with the results We
have not space To quote from this valu-
able bulletin, but the dairyman or
creameryman may procure it for him.
self by writing to the secretary, Agri-
cultural College, Michigan. This
pamphlet, like all the bulletins of Mich
igan Agricultural college is for free
distribution. Dairymen everywhere will
be repaid for sending for the pamphlet
and studying it leisurely. 1t contains
also description of improved COW barn,
with cut of stall.
We have seen some alleged records Of
2.year. old Jersey heifcrs that just beat
all creation. When the butter and milk
figures their owners gave came TO be
added and divided by the rules OF cold
and heartless mathematics 1t was found
that one of these heifers gave milk con-
tanning 1916 per cent butter fat, another
Ia. 3 per cent butter fat, while the third
ones milk contained l0.2per cent The
owner of those sweet young things evil
IDENTIFY thought he would tell good one
while he was at it. Most dairymen
have thought hitherto that even old
cows did something wonderful when
their milk was to 8 per cent butter
fat, but 3 per cent--ye gods
The Canada blue field pea, sown two
bushels to the acre and plowed under to "a
depth of three to four inches, makes an
admirable soiling crop for cows, espe-
cially when planted with oats Ii takes
the peas longer to sprout than 1t does
the oats. Therefore the peas should be
planted as above directed five or six
days before the oats. After that time
has elapsed SOW broadcast upon the
same ground three bushels of oats to the
acre and harrow we'll They will then
mature together and can be harvested
together green by the moving machine.
The first crop should be sown the LIST OF
April, then another ten days later. Sue
cessive paintings of the two grains may
be made ten days apart until June. The
same crop is excellent as pasture IN
which to turn hogs.
A good way to prepare butter for Gus:
toners is to put it into square pound
prints, wrapping each separately IN tbs
sue paper. Then, with the butter good
and handsome, set out to find private
customers. IL pays even the larger
creamery to bother with picking up
private customers for its choicest fresh
butter.
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SECTION COMB CUTTER.
A Homemade Device For Leveling or Cut
ting Down Honeycomb.

ting Down Honeycomb.
A correspondent of The American
Bee Journal describes for the benefit of
all who want to make and use it de-
vice which he has arranged for cutting
or leveling down combs in unfinished
sections of the previous year. 1t will
be seen by the construction Of the cut
ter that whatever residue of propolis
there may be- is entirely separated from
the comb. leaving it perfectly clean.
Before cutting the combs down they
must be perfectly dry and entirely free
from honey.
The cutter is made altogether Of tin
and one bolt. The size, OF course, each
one will have to regulate according to
the size of the section used. The size
for "A by 4 "a section is by 10 by 3
inside the box, with fiange ut each
side to form the gauge. Cut hole two
inches in diameter, four inches from
one end and in the center. Put rim
one inch high around the hole inside.
Take piece of XXX tin four inches
wide, fold it together and draw to an
edge, using file TO finish up with. Cut
a piece like the end of the cutter knife
with a slot hole near the top of this end
piece, so you can raise or lower it, and
form the knife around it. Put hole on
each side little below the gauge on
the box. Put the knife in, then quar-
ter inch bolt through all, with thumb
nut to clamp all together.
To use it get a box that will be about
right for you to sit at comfortably in a
chair, cut hole in the end about four
inches in diameter, place the cutter on
so the hole in the center will come in
the center of the one in the box, fasten
with screw at each end. Now put wa
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-19
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Facts Concerning the Course IL Takes and
"A Practical Remedy.

Facts Concerning the Course IL Takes and
"A Practical Remedy.
That familiar and ancient foe of the
gardener popularity known as "bean
rust" represents one of the most de-
structive of the bean fungi, for which,
however, spraying is claimed to be an
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New Jersey station presents some i'm
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about this fungus and its prevention, as
follows:
The fungus infests all parts Of the
plant, but on account of its greater con-
spicuousness upon the pods it is very
commonly called the pod spot. F"
The fungus consists of many fine
threads which run through the tissue of
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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-31

Let it not be supposed that this lace is
simply an imitation of the Italian model
At first the stitches were few, but with
time and practice some hundred new ones
have been invented and these so compli-
Gated that it is almost impossible to rip
them. Consequently this lace, which looks
light as gossamer, has great dura bility
and grows more valuable with the lapse of
time. 1t stands wear and tear and can be
washed and made up without detriment.
1t is often compared to the finest old Brus.
sells point which it more nearly resembles
now than the italian point, from which 1t
sprang. But what between the number
of new stitches invented by the lacemak-
ers, the variety of designs and the perfeo-
tion to which the work has been brought,
the Irish point has right to its name as
an original fabric, though "it only came
into existence as an Irish industry within
living memory.
1t is made entirely with the needle and
demands the greatest skill and care The
finest is very costly, rising to $50 a yard
for deep flounces, $50 for a handkerchief
and $50 for a fan.-Chambers' journal.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-31

During the Crimean war Lord Raglan
was most conciliatory in his conduct and
language to the French but unluckily
from old peninsular associations he was
now and then betrayed into speaking of
them rs "tho enemy" "If we are placed
here aad tie enemy are posted there''-
Good heavens, my lOrdr' Lord de Ros
would cry, what arc you sayingY" He
was also particularly dosirous of establish
ing cordial relations between the English
and Turkish armies and was much dis
turhad at n quarrel which took place be-
tween some of the soldiers When the COM
batants were dispersed, one or two Turk
ish soldiers were left lying dead
Lord dc Ros was sent to the grand vizier
TO express Lord Raglan's concern and to
promise that every effort should be made
to find out and punish the guilty persons.
On his beginning to lament an unfortu-
nate occurrence the Turk looked anxious,
but on the matter being broken TO him he
exclaimed with great relief: "Is that ALP
What CAN'T matter if they arc killed or
not?" Lord de Ros returned to Lord Rag
Ian, and in answer TO his anxious inqui-
ries he replied at is all right, Our
follows are welcome to kin as many of
thom as they please. '--Spectator
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-31

We havo ground for expecting that in
England about three times in the century
the Thames will be frozen over at London
bridge but that cGnsummation is syn
onymous with an intense degree of contin-
uous frost which will not be confined to
Britain, for of late years 1t has become
patent that these areas of extreme temper
ature are very extensive and that when
there is an excessively cold winter in Eng
land and France, even Italy is often in
cluded / can rocollect in the winter Of
1881 seeing tho Arno at Florence being
skated upon, and cicles like prodigious
portcullis hanging from the Ponte Vec-
chic, some of which We're Z and feet in
length. l have known Cannae and Pom
peii smothered in snow and the entire
lemon crop of Amalf and Palermo de-
stroyed by frost Nevertheless 1 have new
er experienced anything approaching to
the following, which is related by Bembo
in his "Storia Neneta," !. l.;
"In 1891, through the severity of the
season, the (salt) water of the Grand canal
was frozen, and the Stradiots Greek ner-
cenaries of the republic) held their tourna-
ment on the ice, horse against horse, with
their lances. - Notes and Queries
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-31
Sub Rosa.

Sub rosa means literally "undcr the
rose. " Tho phrase dates from Ar b. c.,
when Pausanias, the commander of the
oonfederatud fleet of Spartans and Athe-
MANS was engaged in an intrigue with
XerXes to betray Greece to the Persian
ruler and to obtain in marriage the hand
of the monarch daughter. Their negOti
ations were carried on under a roof which
was covered with roses and were matured
literally "under the rose. " Pausanias,
however, was betrayed, and, to escape ar
rest, fled to the temple of Minerva. The
sanctity of this place forbidding intrusion
for violence of any kind, the people walled
up the ediilce with stones and left the
fugitive to die of starvation. His own
mother laid the first stone, 1t afterward
became n custom among the Athenians to
wear "a rose when they had confidential
compliments to make, the flower implying
strict secrecy. 1t was also customary
among the ancient Germans on the occa
sions of festiyity to suspend rose above
the table as a token that whatever was
said during the feast should be kept secret
among themselves. In 1926 rOsc was
| placed over cOnfessionals In Roman Cath.
Ollie churches
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-31
The Umbrella Conscience.

"You may bank on guilty conscience
almost every time when an umbrella is in
question" said II New Orleans drummer
"You see this oneY Well, it came into my
possession quite recently by what they call
the right of conquest in a protocol
was caught out in the rain after lunch and
wondering what the deuce / would dc
when l noticed IA chap under an awning
trying to raise an umbrella. Ii was clear
he didn't understand the fastening, and as
the umbrella itself was not new the cir
cumstantial evidence against him was con-
elusive.
$50 Iwallled up and said firmly, That S
my umbrella, sir. At the same time l
took it out of his hand Icwiltcd at once,
stammered something about a mistake
and sneaked off, whilo l walked away
proudly, sheltered from Il very moist show
er. That's what nerve win do. Wonder,
10y the way, whose it really is. New Or
leans Times Democrat.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-31
A BRITLsR GuARDsMAN.


The actual surroundings Of guards
mans daily life are simple. II qaartcrod
| in London, unless at the Tower, he will
/ live at the Guards club, as the mess at the
/ Tower is the only one maiutNinCd by the
Foot guards in London, and his expenses
at the club will compare favorably with
the expenses of any other club in town
If the battalion to which he belongs is
quartered at Chelsea barracks, he may
very possibly have "a room in the barracks
If his people live in town, as is often the
case, he may live at home, or he may pre-
fer the freedom Of "a couple Of rooms in the
neighborhood Of Jermyn street or St
James.
The entrance fee to the Guards club Is
30 guineas, and he will have to pay an an
nual subscription of El1 a fair average
of the living expenses of the club may he
taken rs some ego month, though, if Of
extravagant tastes, it may be much high
er, and the rent of his rooms will depend
almost entirely on what he chooses to pay
So that it is clear that the necessary ex-
penses of life in the Foot guards are not
nearly as prohibitory as is generally sup
posed. The guardsman receives the same
pay as officers of corresponding rank in
the line, with the addition of 97O u year
guards pay, so that it is possible for a
youngster of an economical turn to live i'm
the guard on an allowance of E3OO year
In addition to his pay
AS we have just shown, it is possible
but l must admit that it is not often done.
The young guardsman is very seldom con
tented with one club or even with two,
and the brigade will be found to he fairly
strongly represented at the Bachelors
Whites and the best service clubs. The
lovers of cricket and tennis proper are
mostly habitues of Princes, and the ma
jority belong to the principal racing clubs,
such as Sandown Park and the horsy,
or rather pony" clubs of Hurlingham
and the newer Ranelagh.-A British Oil-
Ger in HnrDer's MngnZine
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-31
IN 4 BRITISH REGIMENT.
The unwritten Rules That Guide the Of
flcers In Matrimonial Affairs.


This rcgimental family is, as a rule, by
no means an Evoless Eden. Several of the
officers will probably be married men, and
the ladies are usually recognized as mem
bers of the rogimcntal family and are
quite Us keen rs thuir husbands to main
tain in every way the honor and credit of
the corps. The regiment likewise feels
that the married ladies belong to it quite
as much as do their husbands, and out
siders are occasionally mado to repent an
action, possibly unintontiunal, which has
been construed into "a social slight on one
of these ladies.
In some regiments the ladies all dine at
mess with their husbands brother officers
on Christmas night In others other little
friendly customs exist, Identifying them
with the corps, and in the case of all regi
mental entertainments the wife of the son
I ior officer will, as IA matter of course, re-
Ceiye the guests.
IL view of what ] have said above the
reader must not run away with the idea
that matrimony is at all encouraged in the
cavalry. Very far from it, 1t is recognized
that human frailty is such that some al
( lowance must be made for senior officers,
but the married subaltcrn is not likely to
find himself popular and unless n very
good chap may receive u strong hint to
remove himself and his bride to some 9th
er regiment.
The feeling about matrimony may be
summed up as follows The colonel should
| he married-a bachelor colonel in the mess
/ is not alway joy forever; majors especi-
ally If grumpy and livery in the morning,
may be married; captains should not be
married, and subaltorns must be bachelors,
though, sad to say, they often prove quite
as susceptible as their seniors.
The chief reason for this feeling against
matrimOny is that it is bad for the mess.
Married officers only pay half the usual
mess subscriptions through their agents,
and as they seldom dine in the mess the
cost of maintaining proper establishment
being divisible into fewer parts, falls more
| heavily on the bachelor members Also
the sociability of the mess suffers, and,
though this is strictly between ourselves,
the addition of a new lady to the married
roll of regiment is not always found to
increase the harmony of its regimental
| life. In some corps would be benedicts
have to pay fine of G1O0 to the funds of
the mess as a compensation for their in
| tended desertion "A British Officer il
Harper's Magazine.