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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
DAIRY BARN AND YARD.
In locating Them Care should Bs
Taken to Secure Effective
Natural Drainage.

In locating a dairy barn care should
be taken to have a gentle slope from
the barn in at least one direction, af-
fording good natural drainage for
both barn and yard. If the barn is
already built and poorly located,
draining and grading will do much to
remedy the evil. In most cases it
would take but a small amount of
labor with pillow and scraper, when the
ground is in suitable condition to
handle, to give the surface of the
yard a slope from the barn sufficient
to carry off the surface water. Even
if dirt has to be hauled in from out
side the yard to. accomplish this it
will not be expensive. The drainage
alone under a yard is not sufficient
as the tramping of the cattle soon
puddles the surface, preventing the
water from passing Gown to the tile.
After the grading is done the yard
should be covered with gravel or Gin
ders. By putting the coarser in the
bottom and the finer on top a good
hard yard can be obtained and at a
comparatively small expense where
material of this kind is available. II
this cannot all be done in one year, it
is OF the utmost Importance that 4 be-
ginning be made by grading and grav-
cling a portion, of the yard next the
barn. so that the cows may have aome
place on which to get out Of tina mud
and filth. By grading a part Of the
yard each year and applying e thick
coat OF gravel OF cinders to the graded
part, the entire yard will, in a few
years, be in good condition. When
gravel does not contain enought clay
to pack hard, a small amount Of clay
should be mixed with the top layer.
1t will then form a firm substance.
A portion of the yard should be bed
ded, thus affording the COW a place
to lie in the open air on pleasant
days. If straw is scarce the cleanest
of the soiled bedding from the stable
will answer for this purpose. When the
straw and on this bedded por-
ton of the yard become too deep and
soft it should be hauled into the field
and the bedding commenced again on
the solid yard.-W. J. Fraser, in Farm
ers' Review.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
COOLING FACTORY MILK.
Description of a MIX House Which
Will Prove satisfactory In
All Localities.

We are % receiving milk from 1870
patrons at the Dairy School creamery,
and we advise our patrons to use such a
milkhouse as is shown in the illustra-
ton for keeping of milk from day to
day. Nearly every farm is supplied.
with a windmill and live stock watering
tank. 1t will be a simple matter to
erect some sort of a milkhouse on the
plan of the diagram. The cans.o of milk
may be set in the tank inside the milk
house. and all the water which is
pumped for the live stock by passing
through this tank will keep the milk
cold until it is ready to be taken to the
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
Pure Water for the Cows.

The water for the COWS should be
abundant and pure. Pure water in UNI
limited quantities is essential for the
health Of the COW But it comes bodily
publication. With unclean or contain
mated water the publication cannot be
complete. Water is necessary also for
the best digestion of food, and without
all the water she needs the COW is fed
wastefully. But water is not essential
food. Milk is about IS per cent. water.
Someone has said that some milk ia
very much more than IS per cent. water"
but that is not the fault of the COW or the
pasture. When the COW has insufficient
water she does not make milk with less
water in it, SO that an artificial addition
by the milkman is necessary. she simply
makes less milk.-W. F. McSparran, in
Farm and Fireside.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
GRATEFUL, HAPPY WOMEN
Thank Pe-ru-na for Their
Recovery After Years Of
SUFFERING.

Miss Muriel Armitage, Sc Green
wood Ave, Detroit, Mich, District
Organizer Of me Royal Temnlars OF
Temperance, ID arecentletter, says
II think that a. woman naturally
shrinks from making her trou bles,
public, butrestored health has meant.
so muchto me that / feel for the sake.
OF other suffering women it is my
dutysto tell what Peruna has done.
for me.
CT suffered for ave years with
uterine Irregularities, which brought.
on hysteria and made me a physical
wreck. / tried doctors from the diff
ferent schools of medicine, but with
out any perceptible change in my
condition. In my despair / calledon,
an old nurse, who advised me to try
Peruna, and promised good resultsif
Iwould persist and take itregularly.
l thought this was the least / could
do and procured bottle. / knew as,
soon as | began taking it thatit was
affecting me differently from any
thing | had used before, andso 1 kept
on taking it. / kept this up for six
months, and steadily gained strength
and health, and when / had used
fifteen bottles I considered myself
entirely cured. I am a grateful,
happy woman to-day.n-Miss Muriel
Armitage.
Peruna cures catarrh of the pelvic
organs with the same surety as it
cures catarrh of the head. Peruna
has become renowned as a positive
cure for female ailments simply be-
cause the ailments are mostly due
to catarrh, Catarrh is the cause Of
the trouble. Pernna cures the ca
tarrh. The symptoms disappear.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
Cows Need Gentle Treatment.

A good-natured Irishman whose life
had been spent with fractions mules was
once hired to milk some cows and was
cautioned to treat them gently. A loud
$50, there" brought out a reprimand
from the owner, when Pat said with in
nocent sincerityi why sor, / wuddent
HURT the haste" He thought the COW
would register a disturbance the size of
a small cyclone. There are many we'll
meaning cow-herders who never beat or
kick q COW. but who lose money every
time they speak roughly to her. 1t is
not enough that a GOV be treated hui
manely-keep your voice low and be pa
tient. A man who loses his temper with
a cow s worse than the cow-he's a fool.
Rural World.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

factory. Where farmers are fitted up
with such an arrangement as this, we
receive a tirst-class quality of milk.
There is, of course, some danger from
the water getting too warm when the
wind does not blow. On this accountihe
windmill is not the best farm power.
Some OF our patrons have small gasoline
engines, which they use for this pur-
pose and for running their farm ma
chinery, such as a hand-separator, a feed
grinding mill, etc. In such cases there
is no difficulty in always having good
supply Of cold water, provided the well
is ~inexhaustible.
Most farmers in this neighborhood use
eight-gallon cans. These are so small
that the milk is cooled in a very short
time after the cans are placed IN the cold
water. It is a good plan to stir the milk
occasionally in the cans while it is cool
ing. This may be done by soldering a
tin disc to a, long, stiff wire handle with
a loop on one end and pushing the disc
up and down in the can Of milk.
Where larger cans are used, the milk
ought to be cooled IN small cans and then
added to the large cans after it has
reached a temperature near 60 degrees.
All these arrangements and efforts to
coolthe milk are worthless if the cans are
not thoroughly cleaned and scalded each
day. When skim milk is returned from
the factory, it often sours before it
reaches the farm, especially in the hot,
muggy weather of July and August.
This Soul milk should be emptied from
the cans as soon as they are returned,
and the faint which is left in them re-
moved as much as possible by a thor
ough scalding and then airing In the
bright sun. I think a great deal Of the
difficulty farmers have in keeping their
milk sweet from day to day is the result
of improper washing of the
The souring of milk does not interfere
with testing, except as it makes the milk
more or less lumpy, and on this account
is difficult to get a fair sample. Sour
ing does not injure the fat or affect it in
any way for testing. If the milk can be
poured back and forth so as to get a
fair sample of it and it is added to a
test bottle at once, it may be tested as
perfectly sweet milk.-Prof. e. H. Far
rington, in Country Gentleman.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

oNAt fashion for lovers
of good eating to drive for a supper.
Since then the place has had it's vicis-
STUDIES, but the permanent interest OF
it lies in a remarkable bridge erected
across the creek at a height of over a
hundred feet, through which runs the
acqueduct which for many years sup
piled the city Of Washington with wa
ter.
This bridge was constructed by Gen.
NC. Meigs, and is a work of engineer
ing which is hardly surpassed any
where. It is a monument to the skill
Of the engineers of the United States
army. Although it was finished IA
years ago, it remains to-day the
greatest stone arch in the world. and
such it is likely to remain, for stone
construction has now given place to
steel and it is not probable that any
other stone arch will ever spring into
existence to compete.
The bridge was begun when Jeffer-
son Davis was secretary # ra in the
administration of Franklin Pierce. 1t
was completed ten years later, just at
the beginning of Abraham Lincoln's
administration, when Simon Cameron
was secretary OF war. A tablet wae
affixed to the side, high up, comnem-
Grating these facts. butts few weeks
after 1t was put In place Davis became
president of the Confederacy and his
name by order Of Stanton waa chisel-
ed out. The mutilated tablet stiH re-
mains.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

u VI SoAAcA oAAooS- - ~ iihiS eoi
yelopment of other OF War
departments the war department sank
into a subordinate place, and in the
whole history Of the United States
there are only two war secretaries who
had great regulations in office prior to
1898-Edwin M. Stanton and Jefferson
Davis.
Davis as secretary conceived and ex-
ecuted the plan of seacoast fortifca-
tons which, for that day, was the most
complete and up to date Of any country
in the world. He did a great work
which ought not to be altogether for
gotten in the later treason. Stanton
was, of course, a real war secretary
with all that the title implies. But
with those exceptions, up to 1898 the
secretary of wal was regarded as
of the minor positions in the cabinet,
so far as work and influence were con-
cerned. 1t was a position where very
thing went by routine and where there
al little for a secretary to do except
occasionally to assert his dignity and
prerogative against a commanding gem
era1. Among the later presidents 1t
grew to be the practice that the poll
tician of the administration was put
at the head of the war department be-
cause his official duties were less likely
there to interfere with his political
work than in any other place.
The war with Spain changed all this.
The enlargement and reorganization of
the army, the acquisition of distant.
possessions requiring a certain degree
of military supervision, and the thrust
ing forward of the United States into
a position among nations where she
was more likely to become an object
of envy and attack have combined to
make it essential that the secretary of
war shall be a man of the very highest
ability and that he shall attend to busi-
ness. Root has filed the bill.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
Another Use for Honey.

In a little valley bordering on the
Rhine the cutting of agates furnishes
employment for a number OF persons.
Before cutting these stones they are
soaked ia honey for eight hours, and
then in sulphuric acid for three hours.
This operation gives to the stones a beau
tiful cloudy appearance which is great
~ admired in the finished product. The
grape sugar contained in the honey, by
its combustion inthe sulphuric acid. pro-
daces this discoloration. Every agate
cutter uses every year about 100 pounds
of honey in his workshop.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
Butter Ms Quick Fuel

The first instance of where butter has
been used for fuel that we have heard Of
is reported from the Edgewood creamery
in Siskiyou county, California. A fire
broke out in the neighborhood Of the
creamery that threatened the plant
which VISA only saved by hastily getting
up steam to operate the pump. This
was done by throwing so pounds OF but
ter intothe boiler, which resulted in get
ting the pump in motion by means Of
which the flames were extinguished-
Daisy and Produce Review.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
AZ, com~panionable and good-natured

big, companionable and good-natured
while Root is slight of figure, and in
clined to haughtiness and reserve, ex
mately. Taft is a mixer" Root Is
the reverse. But Taft is a master OF
the law, as Root is, and he is an indie
fatigable worker, as Root is.
It is safe to say that If Taft becomes
secretary of war he will get along
swimmingly with every officer, high
or low. who understands his business.
for he has consummate tact and has
a faculty of getting all the work out OF
a mar there is in him without causing
any heartburnings. That has been his
record in the Philippines. and it was
his record when he was in Washing
ton during H%arrison,s administration
as solicitor general of the department OF
Justice.
It was as solicitor general that Taft
first had an. opportunity to distinguish
himself. He was a young fellow then
in the early thirties and ne had. not
benin Office six months before he was
one OF the best known and best liked
officials Of the government. He had the
faculty ofmakingfriends in an extraor-
binary degree and yet at the same
time he was winning his way among
tho leaders and establishing himself
as a lawyer Of unusual promise. The
promise he displayed then he has
more than fulfilled.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

sonality and dearest intellect. He was
all that with Mckinley and perhaps
more, for Mckinley leaned on him even
large measure on his initiative and ex-
e~cutive ability.
1t is a striking circumstance that two
presidents Of dispositions SO different
should have placed dependence on the
same man and that both should have
found. in him just the qualities which
appealed to each. No matter what
view may be taken of Roots policies
and politics nobody will deny him the
possession of intellect of a high order
and a capacity for accomplishment
which has been possessed by few. -.
A fact not generally known was re-
vealed a few nights ago by Postmaster
General Payne at a dinner party given
to the retiring secretary at the Country
club near Washington. q The postmas-
ter general. who vas very close to the
inside of the campaign of 1900, de-
clared and produced the documents to
show that he was right-that when re-
publican leaders. were looking around
for a candidate for vice president to
run on the ticket with Mckinley their
choice fell on Root and that it was the
presidents desire that Root should be
selected, but that Root refused to let
his name be used, as he preferred to
stay in the war department and COM
plete the work there he had begun.
-. n@ " .H4-
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
GOOD THING TO HAVE.
Chute for Lowering Pail Where Pigs
and Calves Are to BE Fed in
n Basement. +.

Z To feed a pig or calf in a basement, do
not, pour the milk down a spout, for the
inside of the latter will soon become
very filthy and hard to clean. Make a.
chute like that shown in the cut, and
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

days ago as
John J. PEshing
U. S. A., on leave
until October 90"
That is the descrip-
ton Of Capt. PERISH
ing, the young Off
Ger who has done
such brave things
in Mindanao where
he has brought the
fierce Moros into
subsection. What
Pershing did in
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
Weakness is Pelvic
Catarrh.
Always Half Sick are the Women
Who Have Pelvic Catarrh.

Catarrh of any organ, if allowed to
progress, viii infect the whole body.
Catarrh without nervousness is very
rare, but pelvic catarrh andnervousness
go hand in hand.
Whatiss so distressing sightas a poor
half-sick, nervous woman, suffering
from the manyalmost uni symp-
toms of pelvic catarrh? She does not
consider herself i'll enough togo to bed,
but she is far from being able to 10 her
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

has a history. but
which is one of the
Q strikingly
beautiful spots to
be found anywhere.
The place is called
Cabin John because
many years 6
there used to be q
cabin on The spot,
owned and a
aged by a pictur-
q character
named John where
it was quite the
fn rLs-- 60 0--
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
CHUTE FOR LOWERING PAIL.

lower the pail down. inside. When the
pail is in place, raise the front by a
cord running UP to the first floor. A
slide, to be operated by a cord, would
answer as well. Without the slide or
raised front, the animal would heal the
pail descending and would stick it's head
into the chute.-Farm Journal.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

made such a rec
ord as to convince
the administration
that he is Just the.
man for the place
in the cabinet
which requires es-
pecial executive
ability. Taft is a
very different kind.
Of person from
Root For one
thing he is 90
y e a s younger.
Reot has already
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

has come to be
again IN Of the
three great mem
bers OF the cabiz
net. The other two
are the secretary
of state and the
secretary OF the
treasury. It. was.
the origina al scheme
of the government
that this should be
so. but in the
course OF time with
q and de-
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

is none Wnlcn is
likely to have a
greater; influence on
it's fortunes h a
the coming retire.
,ment of Secretary.
Root, which will
take place at the
beginning Of the
new year. Outside.
the president HIM
self the secretary
ofwar has been the
strong man OF the
administrator, the
~ n.-1 1917
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

RoOt's ProbabIe Successor.
Z When Root goes out his position will
be filed by Governor Taft. who has
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
John Bridge.

: Eight miles from Washington. up the
Potomac, is Cabin John, which not only
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

Regafns Lost Prestige. J.
Owing to developments since the war
with Spain the secretary of war
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11
EVENTS
Coming Retirement of Secretary
:. Root Is of Great Importance.
STRONG MAN OF THE CABINET
Has Restored the War Department. to
Prominence-AbIe Successor Will
Be Found in Gov. Taft
.Datto PershinR."

Westinghouse all the happenings
Of the Roosevelt administration there
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

If you do notderive prompt and satis--
factory results from the use of Pernna,
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving a,
full statement OF your case, and he will
be pleased to give You his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus.
Ohio.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

sition at the New York bar, while Taft
Was Just graduating from Yale, Taft liz
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

work without the greatest exhaustion.
This is q very common sight and is.
almost always due to pelvic catarrh.
1t is worse than foolish for SO many
women to suffer year after year with a.
disease that car be permanently cured.
ii Perunacures catarrh permanently. 1t.
cures old chronic cases as wellas aslight,
attack, the only being in the
length of time thatitshonld be takento.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

A modest hero whose name has mot
been equal to his deserts. registered a
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

One Great kdvnntnEe.
A loafer is never inte,rupted.--Wash-
ington lIa.l Democrat
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-11

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