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DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS For OUR
BURIAL READERS.
8ow Successful Farmers Operate This
Department. of tho Farm-A Few
Hints AS to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
A Milking GLOW. Tube.

In Australia there has been brought
into use in the diaries what is called
milking glove tube. A valve fits over
the teat and from the valve extends
long narrow tube, which conveys the
milk from the teat into covered pail
The orifices in the cover of the pail
are just large enough to receive the
tubes. We illustrate the general idea
herewith. From an American point
OF view the device does not seem prac-
ticable. From Australian reports we
take it that the invention is supposed
to be substitute for clean
illness in the dairy. A paper
in that country says: Many of the
troubles of dairying are caused T. the
injurious microbes that are carried br
dirt into the milk, and it has been rec
commended by various authorities to
groom the cows and wash their udders
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(fruit) are in good condition. ex

(fruit) are in good condition. e1-
cept the peach, and these are not in
jured, except in the southwestern part
of the state, where tender varieties
have had their flower buds killed and
some injury has been done to the
hardy sorts in many townships.
Benjamin Buchanan, Central ILL
nois: The prospects for peaches are
gone. Very few strawberry plants are
left. Other small fruits promise an
average crop. The same may be said
Of apples, pears, cherries and grapes
Calculations on crops of apples, pears.
cherries and grapes at this time of
year usually do not amount to much,
Tor the critical time comes later, when
spring frosts, rains in blooming time,
insects and fungi get in their work.
Prof. Chas. A. keffer, Tennessee:
The freeze OF two weeks ago injured
the peach buds very much in this vi
cinlty. Fully 80 per cent were killed.
Pears also were injured, but not Sc
riously. Japanese plums suffered less
than peaches, but seriously. l have
no returns from other parts Of the
state, but as the freeze was general,
think the injury widespread.
Prof H. J. Waters, Missouri: Pros
pect for apples good, except on trees
that bore heavy crop last year.
Plums, cherries, pears, splendid pros
pect. Peach fruit buds were killed in
nearly all parts of the state by severe
cold in December. In a few specially
favored localities in the Ozarks. it is
estimated that there are sufficient live
buds to produce almost a full crop.
In one or two OF these localities some
of the largest commercial peach or.
chards of the state are located.
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Breeding Pens.

At this time of year many breeding
pens are being made up. What are
the fowls used in them? We believe
they should be birds that have proven
themselves excellent by more than one
year Of existence. Mature females
and mature males selected as the re-
suit of known qualities should and
will produce eggs that contain strong
embryos. These will give vigorous
chicks, which will develop rapidly IN
der skillful feeding. The birds kept
for breeders, even though there be
but five Of them in yard. should have
a considerable area devoted to them.
! he writer was pleased to notice while
at the North Carolina. Agricultural
College last year, that the yards devot-
ed to the breeders were so large that
the birds had an abundance of green
grass, with no prospect of rendering
the ground bare. In addition to the
grass. plats of oats were sown. 1t GER
tainly is not advisable to confine a
breeding pen"-a cock and four hens
in a little yard not more than five
by five feet, as we have seen them
Exercise induces fertility in eggs.
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Corporal punishment in public
schools may or may not be good
thing, but there are times when a
teacher feels that to spare the rod
will spoil her temper, at least In
such cases they have been known to
violate the non-whipping rule
Some time ago an energetic city
teacher lost all patience and, after
using moral suasion until it had no
effect. gave the boy good sound
spanking. OF course he told his par
ents and his parents told the prin-
cipal and the principal came down to
demonstrate with the teacher. He ex-
pounded the law and she explained
until she was getting pretty mad.
Finally the principal asked:
Where did you strike the bow.
Miss C.?''
Where the Lord Almighty made
him to be spanked" was the irate an
swer.
That closed the Observation-Disclosures
kee Sentinel.
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Siberian Butter


The Siberian butter is looming up
as strong competitor with the butter
from all other lands. The railroads,
being controlled by the government.
carry the goods at such low rate
that the butter is brought to tide
water on the Baltic at small cost
Moreover, the Russian government
Gently a conference was held in ST.
Petersburg between the makers of but
ter and government officials that have
duties more or less touching the ship
ment of butter. The secretary Of
transportation reported that go re-
frigerator cars for butter had been
provided and cold storage plants at all
stations likely to be used for consid-
cradle shipments of butter. Arrange
ments were also entered into for the
shipping of the butter to England by
steamers not touching at Danish ports.
The Russians are evidently determined
that no more Siberian or Russian but
ter shall be shipped to England from
Denmark and labeled Danish butter
This is a wise step. by which an old
trick is made impossible of working.
Dairy schools are to be established. L
is also urged that a central laboratory
be equipped for the purpose OF analyz-
ing suspicious lots of butter and pre-
venting their expectation. 1t is claimed
that Siberian butter badly adulterated
has appeared on the English market.
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CTarmers' Review Special ReportD
j. w. Stanton, Southern illinois:
Tree fruits promise good crops on
trees that were not full last year.
Prof. f. A. Waugh. Vermont: The
general outlook for fruits was never
better at this time of year than it is
now.
o. NJ. Lord, Minnesota: Plenty of
fruit buds, and they are entirely un-
hurt. Season opens ten days earlier
than usual.
E. A. Riehl, Southern Illinois: So
far as can be seen now all fruits eX-
cept peaches are in good condition and
may give good crop, if favorable
conditions are maintained throughout
the season.
Geo. n. Parker Eastern Illinois: The
present outlook for apples is good.
The peach crop will be very short. We
will have over 10000 barrels of apples
for sale in this county (Crawford)
next fall, If the present outlook is veri-
fed.
Prof J. Troop, Indiana: The outlook
for peaches is bad The buds are pref
ty generally killed. other kinds seem
to be in fairly good condition. 1 do
not look for a heavy apple cpep, ow-
ing to the dry weather last summer
and fall.
Prof. John Craig, New York state:
The prospects at present are excel
lent for a full crop of apples, peaches
and plums. This applies especially to
the western part of the state, but l
think Is true OF most OF the fruit
growing sections.
Prof. l.. R. Taft, Michigan: All trees
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FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRi-
CULTuRiSTS.
Some up-to-Dats Hints About Guilt
walton of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures, Vfticulturs and
Elortculturo.
Potato Growing.

Professor c. D. Woods, director OF
the Maine Experiment Station, in his
talk to Wisconsin farmers at the re-
cent convention at Oconomowoc, laid
special stress on the great value of
the potato crop. 1t is valuable because
1t does not exhaust land as do some
other crops. Its starch Is made out of
carbon. and this has been gathered
from the air by means of the leaves.
So it does not come out of the ground
at all. The man thai grows potatoes
is not taking from the soil a great
mass of fertilizer that is to be sent
away never to return. The tops are
not sold off, but are permitted to lie
on the ground or in the ground and
decay.
There is no best way of growing
potatoes. Place and circumstances
must dictate methods. To grow po-
tatoes successfully man must be suf
ficiently intelligent to understand the
soil and other conditions on his own
farm. No man can afford to follow the
methods of public speakers or his
neighbors without first finding out
whether they apply to his case. The
selection of seed is important, because
from the tubers. The tubers from
which the cuttings are to be made
should be ripe and should have been
kept over winter in temperature of
from 3S to 40 degrees. 1t is, however,
a mistake to select seed potatoes from
those that have lain in the ground
too long. The potatoes for this pur-
pose should be dug while the tops are
still green, SO much so indeed that the
potatoes on being cooked will be what
We call "watery." In the planting. po-
tatoes should be put in deeper in clay
than in sandy land. This may appear
unreasonable, but if the potatoes are
planted near the surface in clay land,
they will. as they grow, cause the clay
to split open and this will let in the
sun. The result is a sun-burned po-
1ato, which is of no value for eating.
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Disposal of Inferior ErnitA

From Farmers Review: In reply
to yours will say that it would be i'm.
possible to give you any idea in the
way of figures as to what extent the
different varieties of fruit in Illinois,
Indiana and Michigan are disposed OF
in the dried form. but as a guess we
should say that perhaps % per cent Of
the green fruits are either dried or
canned. The largest quantity of dried
fruit in the way of evaporated rasp-
berries and apples comes from New
York state. There are also a good
Michigan, and good many apples
evaporated and sun dried in Indiana
and Illinois. The fruit that is dried
and canned is not first quality, it being
usually marketed green, and the sec,
ond and third quality are canned and
dried. This refers to apples more than
berries, as berries, that is strawberries
raspberries and black berries must be
of good quality to go into the can, al,
though of course. they are not selected
as closely as they would be if they
We're put on the market in the green
state, and take for instance apples,
if they could not dry and can this
quality of apples referred to above,
they would probably have to throw
them away, as they could not be put
on the market green.-Miller & Davis
Co, Chicago, III.
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Prof H. L. Russell says: The mold
ing of cheese is, of course, a biological
phenomenon due to the development of
mold spores on the surface of the
cheese, a condition brought about BY
the proper temperature and moisture.
Mold will invariably occur when the
degree of saturation in the atmosphere
reaches the maximum point, and under
these conditions at ordinary tempera-
lures at which cheese is ripened you
have more or less trouble from the
molding of the cheese. We find that
when cheese is cured at 30 degrees or
Whereabouts, these molds will not de-
velop. They cannot grow to any con-
siderable extent because the temperS-
ture is too low for them to develop, SO
that those losses are to a large extent
obviated by the use of these lower cur
ing temperatures.
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Weak LAnh0.

We have recently received several
complaints from shepherds to the ef-
feet that their lambs come weak, sea-
son after season, and are again show
ing similar and even worse symptoms
this year. They say that the lam bs
can scarcely stand when born, ana
even although they try to suck IL
seems a difficult undertaking and they
fell to derive strength from the nour-
.shment taken. Invariably is added
the fact that the ewes have been fed
apparently well upon coarse folders,
such as clover hay, timothy hay, corn
fodder, wheat or oat straw. This ID
one of the explanations of the trouble.
1t has been noticed that unless ewes
when pregnant are fed additional con-
centrates such as bran, crushed oats,
oil meal or oil cake they tend to
become constipated and in this cond1.
ton there is either trouble at lambine
time or weakness among the lambs
The weakness is due to the fact that
the ewes merely manage to derive per
sonai nourishment from the food given
but an insufficiency of surplus from
which to build up a strong. we'll
formed foetus. 1t is also reported In
the same connection that many Of the
lambs come into the world showing
engagements of the glands of the
throat. The engagements are of thu
thyroid glands and constitute "goitre,"
trouble that always indicates debil-
ity and lack of uterine nourishment
1t also bespeaks a lack of mineral mat
tiers in the food of the ewes and il
the milk first furnished-a lack o,
such salts as lime and phosphate
minerals which are always freely inn
parted to the blood circulation in braL
and other grain foods of the nitrog
enous class. In addition to the ag
gravating causes Of weakness in
lambs may be mentioned in-andis
breeding, or too seldom changes o.
breeding stock. The ram is used yea;
after year, and at last there is toe
close connection in mating. with thu
result OF loss Of vitality, constitution
and strength OF bone. To preven'
weak lambs from troubling in tn,
flock the following measures conse
quently become necessary: Use OF
new rams of strong constitution and
If possible, from a higher altitude,
and generous feeding OF concentrate,
to ewes before and after service and
during pregnancy.
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Not the least among the advantages
OF this invention is the being able to
determine the laying period of the
hens. A fowl that begins to lay in
November and produces her eggs
during the period when eggs are high
in price is far more valuable than a
fowl that begins to lay on the first of
February and drops most of her eggs
in the spring and early summer, when
eggs are being disposed of at very
low price. The phenomenal winter
layer. unless discovered by the trap
nest, stands a good chance of having
her head cut off at the end of the lay
ing season, when, in fact, she should
be kept as a breeder. The trap nest
makes it possible for the breeder to
become personally we'll acquainted
with each member of his flock.
No invention of this day has in 1t
greater possibilities for the poultry
man than has the trap nest. The
drone in the flock of hens has always
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Press Bulletin 40. New Hampshire
Station: a curious sign of the preju-
dice OF fertilizer buyers for name
was shown by the brands put on our
market by one large company. THIS
corporation had in our state fourteen
different brands guaranteed to contain
per cent OF nitrogen, s per cent of
available phosphoric acid and 3 per
cent of potash while ten more of its
brands differed from the above lot by
each having a guarantee of is per
cent of potash instead of 8 per cent.
In other words. this company had
twenty-four brands to represent only
two different formulas. because fertil-
izers are bought by name instead of by
composition.
The last census states the value OF
fertilizers bought in New Hampshire
in 1900 to have been S36S,000, making
an average for each farm of sl2.
The most common fertilizers sold in
the state were those costing $50 per
ton. For the average sum per farm
there was purchased Of such mixed
fertilizer S37 pounds, containing IT
pounds of nitrogen, 67 of available
phosphoric acid and rs of potash, or a
total OF LOG pounds of plant food. By
buying the highest grade of chemicals,
including nitrate of soda, dried blood,
acid phosphate and sulphate of potash,
and paying cash, s12.55 could have pur-
chased 500 pounds of chemicals con-
tanning 20 pounds of nitrogen, So of
available phosphoric acid and so pot
ash, a total of 15S pounds of plant
food or one and one-half times as
much as by following the usual method
of buying. Long credit and commits
sions 10 agents make fertilizers costly.
In the past year the trade in ashes
has taken up an inferior grade. which
is sometimes sold under the name of
Iime-kiIn or lime ashes. They contain
much less soluble potash than good
hard wood ashes and their value is
predetermined on that account because
the availability of insoluble potash is
unknown.
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Capt. Ahern of the forestry bureau
says he saw large tracts of virgin for
ests in the Philippines with 10000 to
20 600 cubic feet of magnificent lumber
per acre, where the trees were more
than $50 feet high, with trunks clear
OF branches for so feet. Fifty va1u-
able hard woods are now offered to the
world.
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sheep Raising in New Mexico.

New Mexico is a great sheep coun-
try. There is but one other state or
territory which excels in sheep rails
ing. That is Utah, where there are
5000, 900 or 100000 sheep. New Mexi-
co has about 100000. The industry
was never SO prosperous as at pres
emit.
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been the factor that has kept down

been the factor that has kept down
profits. II q man has herd OF COWS
and some OF them are poor mixers
it is easy to detect the poor ones and
dispose OF them. Up to the time the
trap nest was invented, the poultry
man had no way OF finding out which
Of his hens were the drones and which
were the good layers. With the COM
ing of the trap nest, all is changed.
The poultryman can now eliminate
the Improbable birds.
One man that has tried has found
the trap nest very serviceable. 1t
showed him that some OF his most
worthless specimens were those the
most perfect in form. Some OF the
kinds that scored high in competitive
exhibits proved to be almost worth
less as layers. At least 20 per cent
of the fowls so tested proved to be
losing money for their owner, while
as many more " ere shown to be bare
ly clearing expenses. A few OF the
birds showed themselves to be per-
sistent layers, and these were kept for
breeders.
The trap nests show not only how
many eggs the fowls lay but the kind
of eggs. 1t sometimes becomes de-
srable to know what hens lay eggs
with certain colored shells. This is
particularly so in breeds that have
been created by the crossing OF other
breeds. as such produce eggs varying
all the way from white to dark brown.
The trap nest enables the breeder to
determine what kinds lay the eggs OF
the desired color. Then, too the pre-
potent birds can be distinguished and
those whose eggs are habftually fer
tile. This is a most important point.
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From Farmers Review: I would
like to have the experience of some OF
the readers of The Farmers Review AS
to the planting Of old seed corn VIII
1t sprout and grow as well as new
corn?-J. S We hope our
readers will send in their answers at
an early date, as complaining time is
approaching.
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Fancy butter from Canada and Ire
land has recently taken high place in
the English butter market. French
butter and also colonial butter (butter
from Australasia) has been to some ex-
tent crowded out Butter from Siberia
and Russia is reported in such guam
titles that it has sometimes deterio-
rated before being disposed Of
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with soap and clean water, and wipe
them with clean towel; to require the
mixers to wash their hands and heads,
to brush and trim their nails, TO wear
clean clothes, to put on white overalls
and caps at the time of milking, TO
construct the floor of milking yard and
shed of asphalt. and to wash or sweep
1t after each milking and to frequent
ly tar and limewash both it and the
woodwork of the shed; also to disin-
feet the shed occasionally with chlori-
mated lime. 1t has also been advised
not to feed the COWS III the milking
shed. All these are undoubtedly i'm
portant steps, and if they could be car
ried into practice would result in great
Improvement in dairy work. But how
far are they practicable? Farmers who
have heard these recommendations
have expressed the opinion that if
dairying is to require all this they had
better give up dairying at once" We
do not believe that any device can
take the place of cleanliness in the
dairy; and, moreover, Z device Of this
kind will be very difficult to keep
clean.
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Professor Crookshank, a governor OF
the Royal Veterinary College of Eng
land, says that Koch is wrong in az
firming that tuberculosis has never
been given to bovines by human virus.
He believes that it is a mistake for sci
entists to send abroad the idea that it
is right to sell tuberculous milk His
remedy for tubercufous milk is a rigid
inspection of all dairies.
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chicken COOP With inclo.ed run.

but generally the one-inch mesh will
be found best, as that stops the egress
of the chicks and the ingress OF rats.
The whole may be moved from place
to place with ease, especially where
strongly huilt
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The coop and run here illustrated
are very serviceabe where it is de-
sired to restrain the chicks till they
become fairy we'll grown. The wire
can be OF one-inch or two-inch mesh,
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are shining
and dark cop
/. perry or bronzy
in a p p e a r
ance. When
first laid they
are whitish.
but change in
color. They
are fattened
on three sides
a n d W b e n
viewed from
the ends are
tri a n & III a r.
Egg masses
are deposited
usually on the
lower surface
of a leaf, but
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Each tree presents a separate prob
lem to the primer, who should en-
deavor to get the best disposition OF
branches, both in circumference of the
crown and in attachment to the trunk.
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The influence of a well-ordered
home makes better boys than curfew
ordinances.
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In Ashantee grows tree resembling
the English oak, which furnishes ex-
ceIlent butter.
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The church that scatters its money
Will gather its members.
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Better not write at all than write
that which is not right.
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Put WORKOUT pie tins in the sink
cupboard and use them to set crocky
kettles in.
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very often also on the upper surface
and on the stems. The nymph makes
its escape by forcing a hole through
one end of the egg, as shown at 3D. OF
the illustration.
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Eggs of Common Squash Rug.
The accompanying illustration shows
the eggs of common squash bug. They