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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
Dairy Steer For Beef.

1t really looks as if some of the gener-
ally accepted theories and beliefs regard
ing beef and dairy type steers will have
to be reconsidered and amended. In the
block test at the late International Live
Stock show the carcass of Jersey steer,
three years old, from the Minnesota ex-
pertinent station, occupied fourth place
among seventeen carcasses submitted for
test, all of the others, as We understand,
being of recognized beef type. The
mother of this steer is of very pronounc-
ed dairy type, angular and "pointy" in
the extreme and has never produced less
than 400 pounds of butter year. Ihe
sire was dairy type bull. The breeder
and raiser of the steer knows to a cent
what he cost, and is desirous of compar-
ing that factor with any of the animals
that figured in the same test. The steer
was not even usually good one, it is
asserted, for Jersey, and during the
past summer was given no extra care or
feed to prepare it for this test. =,
In this connection it is pertinent to add
that ar the late show there were no block
tests of animals that appeared in the
show ring. Last year show animals
were tested on the block, and 1T was
found that the opinion of judges In the
ring was not confirmed by the oiocE
tests; in fact, judgments were reserved
in embarrassing number. 1t is asserted
that that result was the cause OF discon-
tinuing the slaughter of show animals
If true, nothing could be more regret
table. For nothing could be more edu'
cational than the block tests as previous
ly conducted, and to discontinue them
indicates that loyalty to old notions
whether true or false, is regarded as bet
ter than education that will disturb
them.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
Feeding Animals.

At western dairy convention DR.. Jor-
dan of the New York experiment station
made an address upon Economies of
Feeding Animals" He said the great
question of to-day is, what is truth?"
We want fundamental information or
facts that are the basis of true success in
agriculture. Ignorance never saved any
one, morally or financially. No farmer
can purchase fertility for his soil or food
for his animals unless he has reliable
knowledge about some things. He must
have some scientific knowledge. Science
is only well grounded knowledge. Some
experiments at our station have taught
us some things. In feeding COWS we did
know what went into them and what
came out. This knowledge is upon what
| base my knowledge of the economics Of
feeding. The subject of feeding depends
largely upon what you can grow on your
farm. For instance, alfalfa is worth a
trial on every farm in this state, to see if
you can grow it. Every farmer should
be an experimenter on his own farm. In
no other way can you obtain so valuable
knowledge. Study your own farm to
learn what you can best do with it.
Some farmers can afford to pasture their
cows wholly, and some cannot. What
you can best produce on your farm is the
important question to you. Farmers
are not good bookkeepers. They do not
know what it costs them to grow their
crops. The cost of the food you grow
cannot always be estimated by what
your time is worth at good wages, for all
farmers could not get pay for their time
in this way, if they did not grow forage
crops. The great problem is how to
make the farm feed the COW. He said
the land at the experiment station used
for growing cattle foods produced food
worth S4S per acre. He concluded his
address by speaking of the adultera-
ton of commercial cattle foods, and
advised farmers to take advantage of the
new feeding stuff law, which compels
dealers to give guaranteed analysis OF
their mixed feeds.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
Raleigh and the Potato.

1t was Sir Walter Raleigh wlio brought
potatoes into Ireland at the same time
he brought the other American prod
uct, tobacco. Sir Walter was busily
engaged in expressing the people about
Cork, so naturally, when he planted
the potato on his estate at Youghai,
near Cork, the people were suspicious
of 1t despite its palatableness. Cob
bett cursed the root as being the ruin
Of Ireland. declaring it device Of Sax
on ingenuity brought into their midst
to tempt and eventually to weaken
them. Sir Walter ate quantities Of po-
tatoes himself before he could assure
the people of their harmlessness. Now,
with commendable gratitude, the tour
ist Is shown the very spot in the gar
den where Sir Walter planted the pota-
to root. Close by it is another historic
al bit Of ground. There, it Is claimed,
Sir Walter rested under the shade Of
tree smoking his first pipe Of tobacco
when his servant deluged him with q
pail Of water under the impression he
was on fire.-What to Eat.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
Orchards for the Farm.

when we remember the old farm.
there is nothing that comes to our mind
bearing greater sense of pleasure than
the old orchard" says the Review. sit
was the orchard that filled the air with
perfume in the spring, thrilled us with
promises in the summer and kept its
promises of good things in the fall.
What stronger influence is there binding
the sons and daughters of the farm to
their old home? Every farmer that owns
a farm and expects to live upon it in the
future should have family orchard.
This orchard is not the one that is to
supply apples and other fruit for the mar
ket, but for the family only. The COM
mercial orchard must contain only few
varieties of fruit, but the family orchard
should contain a great many different
kinds. 1t is desirable that the family
have apples from midsummer to the next
spring. A few trees of early family ap-
Piles should be set out. Then others
that ripen at the end of summer and in
the early fall. More should be grown
that will keep till midwinter and some
that will keep till the next spring. A
great variety of fruit will prove pleasing
to the family rather than few kinds.
Then, too, it is a matter of education to
the younger members of the household,
for the fruits and the lessons concerning
them learned in childhood will never be
forgotten. The grower should know
the name of every fruit that grows on
his grounds, and this will add to the
interest the children show in the orchard.
Lastly, the well-kept orchard will add
immensely to the value of the farm, if
it ever has to be sold. The value of
such an orchard will not be estimated in
the value of the amount of fruit it will
produce, but to large extent in the
sentiment connected with it. The
prospective buyer sees in the orchard
not only so many bushels of apples, but
he sees it in certain element of pleasure
to his family. He holds in his minds
eye mass of bloom in the spring, the
waving of fruit-laden boughsin the sum-
mer and the glistening of dew-brightened
fruit in the fall. He is generally willing
to pay something for these. By all
means, create an orchard for the family.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03

He became cnamOrCd " u tdir deUOteC.
of his erratic pilgrimage he had tena-
ciously clung to until its exterior pre-
sented confused mass Of scratches
and dents, indicative Of hard usage.
Despite all that, curious as 1t may
seem, by some mysterious means Its
rich tones had been preserved in their
original purity and depth.
On the evenings of Kansas incom-
parable Indian summer, during the
early part of which season he was liv-
ing in his cave near Council Grove,
the hermit priest. seated on a project
ing ledge at the mouth Of his rocky
and isolated retreat, would sweep the
strings Of his treasured instrument
with a touch as light deft and sorrow
fully tender as maiden whose pure
young heart has just been thrilled by
its first breath Of love.
To those who were fortunate-and
they were very few-to be invited to
spend an hour with him his vesper
hymns, rendered in his exquisite tenor
voice, were as soul inspiring as the
gentle earnestness Of young girls
prayer. His sometime Neapolitan songs
and soft airs Of his native isle were as
sweet as the chant Of the angels he
invoked when in a deeply religious
mood, and his heart feeling tones min
gled sadly with the gentle soughing of
the evening breeze in the dense foliage
on the margin Of the placid Neosho
that flowed near by. Thus In the calm
enjoyment Of his self imposed solitude
he lived with
The moss his bed. the cave his humble
cell,
His food the fruits, his drink the crystal
well.
Among the various languages neces-
sary for the communication OF ideas
between the motley crowd comprising
the civilization of the then remote re-
gion there was none that Matteo Boo,
calini did not understand and speak
fuently, so liberal had been his educa'
ton in that particular.
Once when a stabbed and dying Mex
lean, the victim of some gambling
quarrel among the drivers Of the bull
train to which he was attached, asked
a service for the repOse of his soul
Father Francesca FASTENED to the anx'
ious mans side. There he admins
tered In the MeXican's own language
the last sacrament Of the church to the
expiring creature, who died with re-
signed look upon his face as he listened
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
Fertilizing Fruit Trees.

One of the essentials for the successful
growing of an orchard is the presence OF
an abundance of plant food and we see
many orchards sadly in need OF renewed
fertility. There are few soils that Will
not be benefited by an application OF
manure after the trees come into bearing
and if the land is heavily cropped II VIII
generally be desirable when the trees are
two or three years old. From fifteen to
twenty loads to the acre applied broad.
cast once in two years will provide food
for the growth of the tree. If the trees
alone are to be manured it will not be
desirable to cover all the land with ma
nure until the trees have reached the
age of ten or twelve years. The amount
used should depend on the size OF the
trees and should be placed over circle
with a diameter of about twice that of
the heads of trees. The banking OF the
manure about the trunks is unwise' as
the feeding roots are for the most par'
several feet away. Upon bearing trees
it is generally as well to leave CONSIDER
able space about the trunks without ma
nure and it is better to have the ent'rs
amount outside the circle OF the oranch
es than to have it packed about the
tree.-Exchange.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03

doors Of their rude adobe huts in the
valley below the huge hill that cast it's
shadow over them.
Notwithstanding the hermit priest
lad found class congenial to his
souls demands, his eccentricities still
clung to him. His persistency in living
apart from his chosen people enforced
them to always speak Of him as Eel
Solitario."
He would visit among them to solace
and nurse the sick and give absolution
to the dying, but he would never break
bread within their hospitable doors,
preferring and insisting always upon a
crust and cup Of cold water outside.
Nor would he sleep upon the soft
woolen colchons which even the poor.
est of New Mexican homes afford, but,
absorbed by devout thoughts, wrapped
himself in his coarse blanket and laid
himself on the bare ground or in some
clubhouse with the sheep and goats.
This, of course, was part Of his self
imposed penance, from which he never
deviated, rigorous as it was.
One day after his familiar and be-
loved face had been missed for some
time by his devOtees sorrOwful party
went out to seek him. They found him
dead in his cave, his beads infolded in
his delicately shaped fingers and his
countenance wearing saintlike eX-
preston. A poisoned dagger in his
heart by the hand Of an assassin had
accomplished the foul deed, which for
q whole lifetime, during every moment
of the unhappy mans active and
dreaming hours. was continually dis
turbing anticipation.
Thus passed away, as he had pre-
dicted in his youth, the eccentric but
holy Matteo Boccalini, hermit priest
and the "El Solitario" of the New Mex
leo mountains, man Of sorrow and
grief, yet with as much repentance anc
as many penances as sins, one Of those
ethereal beings who might become
physically unclean, but never spiritual.
ly impure.
For years after his departure from
Council Grove the hermit priests cave
was an object Of much interest. Until
within very short period, when the
quarrymen tore down its last vestige,
upon it's time worn walls could be trac-
ed, rudely carved, his name, Matteo
Boccalini, a cross, "Jesu," Maria" and
Capri" all so dear to the lonely and
sad mans heart.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
A SiIk,yorm of the Sea.

Silk is obtained from the shellfish
known as the pima, which Is found In
the Mediterranean. This shelltish has
the power of spinning a viscid SILK
which in Sicily is made into regular
and very handsome fabric. The silk Is
spun by the shellfish In the first In
stance for the purpose Of attaching II.
self to the rocks. 1t is able to guide the
delicate filaments to the proper place
and there glue them fast, and If they
are cut away 1t can reproduce them.
The material when gathered (Which Is
done at low tide) is washed in soap and
water. dried, Strengthened and carded,
one pound Of the coarse filament yield
ing about three ounces OF fine thread,
which, when spun, is lovely bur-
nished golden brown color.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
A Pope Related to a sultan.


We learn from Swiss writer Of the
seventeenth century that Pope Alexan-
fer VII, whose pontilicate extended
from 1865 to 1867, was related to the
sultan Mohammed w. The connection
between these two contemporary SOW
ereigns is traced to one Of those occur.
rences which in the times Of Moslem
invasion and predatory aggression Of
ten led to strange blood relationships
between representatives OF Christian
and Mohammedan houses.
The story is told by Wallichius,
contemporary of Alexander VII. and
Mohammed ". Some Turkish corsairs
attacked and pillaged the castle of the
Marsils in 1928 and carried off Mar
gherita, the daughter of Mani Marsili,
and this fair lady was reserved as a
present for the Sultan Solyman. who
made her ole of his wives. BY this
union she became the mother of Sclim
H., ancestor Of Mohammed ~.
From the same noble family AlcXan-
der VII. was lineally descended on the
maternal side. LEONARDO Marsili, broth
er of the captive MarGhcrita, had 4
son, Cesare. whose daughter. Laura,
married into the Chigi family and be-
came the mother of Fabio Chigi, known
on the roll of pontitfs as Pope Alexan-
der VII.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
Settling n Bill.

When Andrew Jackson lived at Sails
bury. y. c.. he once attended court at
Rockford, then the county seat Of Sur
ry. and left without paying his bill,
which was duly charged up against
him on the hotel register, which seems
to have been the hotel ledger at that
time, and so stood for many years.
When the news Of the victory. OF the
Sth Of January, 1915, was received IN
this then remote section the old land
lord turned back the leaves Of the reg
ister, took his pen and wrote under the
account against Andrew Jackson, set.
tied in full by the battle OF New Or
loops "
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03

Prof. Curtis of the Iowa station is one
of the authorities among the animal in
dustry workers of the great interior
farming states. He contends that the
right kind of cow will produce calf
which raised on skim milk will be worth
substantially as much at a year old, for
feeding purposes, as the calves that are
raised on the cow, and in addition the COW
will also produce butterfat in the same
time worth as much or more than the
calf. The Professor seems to be getting
on to the eastern idea Of economies in
stock growing.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
FEEDING THE CALF.
A Simple Suction Feeder Easy W
Use and to Keep Clean.

Use and to Keep Clean.
Here is one convenience we have
found very simple and satisfactory In
this line, says an American Cultivator
writer. We take two pieces or half
inch steam pipe. each fifteen inches
loug. and thread with die both ends
of one piece and one end Of the other,
then join the two with Il threaded ell
bow and coupling turned on to the
other threaded end. Then a close
fitting rubber calf nipple, that can be
bought most anywhere, pulled on over
the coupling till it closes i'll behind II,
completes the feeding tube. All that
is needed now is to drive a staple OF
right size for the pipe to slide easily
through, so that when the pail i'll which
the milk is placed is where it is want
ed the end of the pipe extending down.
ward from the staple will just reach
the bottom of the pail. Then the nip
pie end will swing freely from one side
to the other, while its relation to the
bottom of the pail will not change.
You have now one of the best suction
feeders to be found; nothing compli-
Gated. but little trouble to keep clean
and practically indestructible. With
good sized hole in the nipple you can
feed cruel in addition to milk if de-
sired, and we have seen good calves
raised ON the cruel alone.
Good Calf Feed.
1 will give here the recipe for max
ing a feed that will be richer by anal
ysis than new milk and fed careful
ly will make big calves without Il gal
Ion of milk after the first three days
Take twenty pounds of wheat flour
middlings, ten pounds corn flour, one
pound flaXseed meal, one pound fine
salt. one and half pounds fine bone
-four and 40 pounds (tifty-live quarts
water, warm enough 10 make 1t loo
| degrees when ready to feed. This can
be fed through the calf feeder we have
described by thoroughly stirring and
| being sure the hole in the nipple is OF
\ reasonable size. AS this is richer than
new milk, care should be exercised in
| feeding not to scour the calf. 1t can
be successfully used at any age up to
six or nine months and then, if desired,
| fed dry. 1t is genuine pusher. Our
directions when the calf is in normal
average condition are: First two weeks,
morning and night, two quarts each
feed; noon, one quart; third and fourth
weeks, three quarts morning and night;
noon, handful of hay and small hand
full of cornmeal or oats. dry; fifth ana
sixth weeks, three and half quarts
morning and night. hay and meal or
oats at noon or runs in shady grass
lot; seventh and eighth weeks, four
quarts morning and night, Win what
cornmeal and oats he will eat at noon
with hay or grass.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
Somcthfnx BETTER.

Doctor, week ago you gave me
something that you said was good for
dyspepsia"
"Yes."
"Well, now, suppose you give me
something that's bad for 1t. It's been
humored enough, SIR" Baltimore
News.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03

tho sappillo, where he at last found .
humble class and his coveted cave on
the summit of the mighty mountain de-
scribed at the opening Of this chapter.
There, cohtent after SO many years
of unsatisfed wandering, he COM
menced that life Of religious ministra-
tons and exercised those unselfish acts
of kindness and love whose remem'
brance is imprinted so indelibly on the
hearts of his devoted followers, for
Through suffering he soothed and through
sickness he nursed.
There again, under the consteliations'
which nowhere else shine more bril-
liantly, were the strains Of his mando
lin and the rich notes OF that magnin-
cent voice heard by the enchanted peo'
Die who listened each evening at the
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
more at ease with them in their skin
lodges than he would have been in the
gilded halls of the Vatican.

more at ease with them In their skin
lodges than he would have been in the
gilded halls of the Vatican.
He then came to Council Grove, as
stated-came as the tramp has since
come-unheralded and unlimited, but
not to beg bread at the doors Of its
residents. as the latter now does, nor
did he come to tell off his beads in the
presence OF the vulgar curious, but
went upon the hillside beyond the
town to seek the solitude and retire
mCnt of Il natural cave in the lime
stone rock Of the region. troubling no
ona--an cniEina 10 the world and q
subject for Idle gossip.
There for i've months he lived. access
ible to but few. with whom, when he
felt and rec, gniZed in them the quick
eneG glow of Il soul that believed in
the fathcrli ID of God and the broth
erhood of u.dn. lie would talk in ten
dcrest strains of everything that was
GOOD. true and beautiful.
The hermit priest. as he was now
called. had OF earthly possessions so
little that he could have We'd with the
lowly Nazarene in the splendOr Of his
poverty. OF crucitiXes. devotional me-
mentos and other religious trinkets
sweetly suggestive Of better and hap
pier days he had preserved a few.
His greatest solace was in half dozen
well thumbed small volumes, between
whose covers none peered but himself.
He was ever regular at his devotions,
for Notwithstanding he had grievously
sinned as he declared, he was con-
stantly striving to outlive its horrid
memory and to repair the injury he
had done his Masters cause.
He possessed one article Of property
that tinges his sojourn at Council
Grove with delightfully."- romantic
remembrance among the very limited
number now living there who knew of
the vagaries of the remarkably strange
man; these were sometimes his coll
fidants and friends within limited de-
gree. 1t was a rudely constructed
mandolin. which during all the years
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
ooicL Change Artist.

Maria" began Mr.. Stubb, last night
played poker, and
"Played poker" interrupted Mrs.
Stubb. How dare you spend your
money gambling, sirT
"As was saying, played poker and
won enough to buy you
"You did? oh, John, you are 80 good!
I knew those sharps could not get the
best of you"
"And Just as l was about to quit l
dropped 1t all and fifty more
"You brute. To think should have
married a gamblerw-Chicago News.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
Arttsflc Education.

Artistic education, whether by the
direct teaching which develops the
power of creation or by the indirect in
fIuence of surroundings, which improve
the taste and ennoble life, Is not lux
ury and should never be so regarded.
Luxury pampers the body, art glad
dens the soul; luxury seeks for dainty
food and soft raiment, art seeks for
the beauty which ennObles the mind
and uplifts the heart; luxury weakens
the powers; art, on the other hand
strengthens them; luxury debases the
ideals Of life, art inspires and eXalts
them.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03

Terence with the hOd)-ier not work
in, Dinnie. Are yez out of job!
Dennis-Surc. OF fell off nine stho
ry buildin' Yesterday, an Oi got mat
an quit.
Terence-Aw, go on! Yer too sinsi
tive!-Judge.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
One Thing She Hadn't Seen

"And now," said the country couslI
to the city girl. 81 have shown you ev
erything on the farm"
"Oh, George, you haven't done any
such thing. Why. heard father sa!
before | started that you had mort
gage OH it that covered nine-tenths o.
the ground"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
The WfdOwer.

"a widower," remarked the elderly
female, always reminds me OF
baby"
"How's that" queried the young girl
During the first six months he cries
good deal, the next six months he be
gins to take notice. and the odds are
against his getting safely through hi
second mer."-Chicago News.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-03
HOOD FIRM
Condition P0Wders
The Best Conditioner.

Make horses eat, e1pel worms, when fed 81
directed, increase the milk supply In COWS
make stock healthy, prevent sickness and
distemper, keep young stock on the gain
prevent and cure Indigestion, make hens lay
By increasing the appetite and aiding the
digestive and assimilative functions tne!
enable all kinds Of stock to get the greates'
possible benefit from feed consumed.
down. gave him Hood Farm Condition
Powders and noticed change for the pet
ter in a few days" A. A. COVE, Montpe
lier, VT. os =. ho,
sells for S.. Prepared by G. !. Hood Co.
Lowell, Mass. For sale BY +. A. sHuRr
LEFT 4 Co., South Paris, Me.