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What the Test Showed.

Prof. e. H. Pennington. in an ad'
dress at q farmers institute in Mani
toba. said:
1t was with the hope of helping
farmers and Of illustrating the con-
dition of some dairy herds that we
undertook, some four years ago. to
begin testing the COWS of the patrons
supplying milk to the Wisconsin Dairy
School. These patrons keep cows and
deliver milk to the factory In the same
way as 10 customary at the creameries
and cheese factories throughout the
state. They do not have large nerds
and 1t was observed during the past
year that the cows owned by one hun
dred Of them were probably similar to
the one million in the state. Only
eight out of the one hundred patrons
kept more than twenty COWS and thir-
ty-five owned from two to FIVE cows
only. This shows that the majority
Of our patrons do not pretend to be
dairymen in the sense of making the
production of milk serious business
and fear that there are many far
mers in .so-called dairy DISTRICTS who
do not allow the cows to make much
Of an impression on their minds: 9TH
er lines Of farming crowd the cows out
SO that they receive only little at
tention at milking time.
The COWS ON one farm were tested
for three years. The average receipts
per COW In 1893, from the creamery,
were $3.50: in 1900. 1920. and in
1901, 1882. The figures do not show
much indication that the owner has
profited by the tests. Two cows that
did not produce milk enough to pay =
profit on their feed were kept In the
herd for three years. and I'VE other
cows produced less than $50 worth OF
butter in year. The annual pro.
duction Of the mature COWS during the
three years shows that the poor COWS
did not improve from year to year. but
continued to give less milk than re-
CURED to pay for the feed consumed.
The one good COW was equally per
sistent In doing we'll. The creamery
value OF her milk for three years was
$780,. This Is $40 more than the cost
Of her feed when we take $50 per year
Is the value of a cows feed. The but
ter produced by the other i've cows
tested for three years amounted TO
only $114 more than the cost Of their
feed during the same time. The milk
Of one cow, therefore. paid tho owner
within four dollars as much profit in
three years as the milk of ave cows
In the same herd for the same length
of time. In another herd the excess
Of butter over cost of feed OF, two
COWS was worth $50. while that Of
I'VE other cows was worth only $5s.
Thus the owner received at the. cream.
cry % fess for the milk of i've cows
than he did for that OF two in the
same herd. The entire herd Of twelve
COWS owned by one farmer only paid
. profit Of SIS in q year and three Of
the twelve cows paid $50 Of this
amount. leaving $25 as the, combined
profit Of the other nine cows in the
herd. Another herd of. twelve COWS
paid profit Of $22S ina year, but in
this herd there was one COW that
earned only 81 profit and another that
earned 331 profit. . difference Of about
400 per cent in the annual butter value
Of those two cows to their owner.
The Meeker herald., 1904-04-30

Potash 10 the dominant ingredient
IN psas. beans. clover. alfalfa and
potatoes
The Meeker herald., 1904-04-30

TN your Bachelors club what is the
penalty for marrying!"
Marriage. Town Topics.
The Meeker herald., 1904-04-30

Don't you KNOW that you could buy
q fine house with what you spend in
fuxuries? u. r Z.
Yes" answered the easy-soing
man. but my tastes aren't SO luxui.
rious az ITO make me want q ;hne
house,.
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His Principle.
This Is my birthday" she said;
guess how old am" -
Excuse me-" he replied, II never
aefibeyately make ,an snsmy.--.s i.
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Dairying 10 profitable because it
brings the farmer the largest return
for his labor and products Of his farm.
1t enables him to get larger gross
and net income from his farm than he
can obtain without 1t. The feed that
will make two pounds Of beef will
make pound Of butter. and the value
Of . pound Of butter is always more
than the value OF two pounds Of beef,
even during the last few years Of relA-
lively high prices Of beef and low
prices Of butter.
The Meeker herald., 1904-04-30

AFTER all, what is happiness!"
"Oh. that's easy"
well. what Is it,"
Happiness is condition that you
don't really appreciate until you reach
a point where you have to look back
10 IT,
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.c.r. Ia F..dlna skImmilk.


= Whole milk Is the best Of natures
foods. but whole milk is seldom fed.
Id the operation. OF skimmjng the fat
Is removed, which changes the char.
acter of the food very materially.
skimmilk ID rich in bone and desh.
forming material, but owing to the fxf
being removed. 1t ia q very onessided
ration, having what Is known as
narrow nutritive ratio! II has great
tendency to be constituting when fed
alone to- young pigs. Many farmers
have suffered much loss by feeding
too much skinned milk to young pigs
when shut mp in pens. where they
;co,ild not get to the ground or succu,,
lent food, such as grass and roots. The
pigs. usually look fat and well. until
sonic morning. when being fed. some
Of them will take what is commonly
known ~ at and may die inside of
an hour. If they do recover, and the
food is not changed, they and their
companions will show dirty, scurvy
appearance on the skin about the
eyes, back Of the ear and back of the
shoulders, and the hair becomes, curly.
and the pig will have tendency to
go around with his bacG bumped up.
This is owing to q deransed condition
OF the digestive organs, which should
be remedied by giving the pigs dose
OF raw rinseed oil. and then follow by
giving plenty OF succulent food, such
as roots or grass, and plenty OF exer-
else. do not wish to be understood
to condemn skinned mink for food, It
is one Of the best Or feeds, but 1t
should not be fed In great quantities
to young pigs. A little ground aaxseed
is an excellent thing to. add. to it.,
Henry Glendenning.
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Knew His Business.

SNOW" said the beautiful girl.
when you go in to ask papa's consent
face him like man."
Sure WILL" rejoined the wise
yonth. Hell not get a chance to ap-
ply shoe leather to my person, tell
you those"
The Meeker herald., 1904-04-30

Ever the Way.
But they expostulated. this is
really none OF your business"
That's why it's SO interesting she
replied. 80. u.
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The Amateur Hunters Success.
He went out for days sport"
And was he successful"
We'll, rather. He crippled two
guides and shot COW"
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put, and, so far as can see the way, the
whole OF it,
ITO me he has always seemed as ten
der as woman" says Mr.. Riis, in COM
batting the idea that the Presidents brute
strength is one OF the dominant forces OF
his personality. "Once his friend, you
are his friend forever. To the lntalllble
test he rings true: Those who love him
best are those who know him best. The
men who hate him are the scalawags and
the self-seekers, and they only dlstrust
him who do not know him. He never
lost friend once made" He is por-
tr&yed as the despair of politicians, the
man who has deied Wall Street and the
trusts and is fighting 4or the people. Mr.
Rocsevelt's mistakes are virtues In the
eyes of his historian. Here is Mr.. Roose-
velt's own maxim ON mistakes
The only man who makes no mistakes
is the man who never does anything"
Mr.. Riis says: He has made fewer than
most people, because he has taught him
self from the very start to think quick
and straight. He makes sure he is right
ard then goes ahead. The snags, II
there be any in the way, do not trouble
him. Dodge them he never does, but
shoulders the responsibility and goes
ahead. That is one reason why he has
been able to do so much in his brief life;
he never has to be on the defensive, to
cover his retreat, but is ever ready 70
go ahead, to attack.
He is always fair. That is a cardinal
virtue in a fighter of Anglo-Saxon blood,
Tor we all have the love OF fair play in
us. He never hits man below the
belt"
Throughout the book Mr.. Riis makes
this maxim of Roosevelt's the battle cry
of the Presidents life:
ut is better to be faithful than ia
NOUS
80, to this man, who had been tried
and found faithful in much, came the call
to take his place among the rulers Of
The earth,' is the way Mr.. Riis tells of
Roosevelts tragic accession to the presi-
cncJ.
There has never been such a fulsome
biography since the world began. Its ex-
travagance and absurd laudation is equal
TO a comedy, because the author
takes himself seriously. He actually
believes that Roosevelt is Caesar, Napo-
Icon, Gladstone, Bismarck, Wellington,
Washington Hamilton, all in one. Mr..
Riis has been hypnotized, but he cannot
hypnotic his readers.
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position that would let him have that
feeling toward any man born of woman.
But Mr.. Riis has the continental idea.
He cannot help it. He was born that
way. 1t is we'll to understand this defect
In his early training before reading many
Eies in the book, otherwise, the reader
WI be apt to be Disguised with what he
will call the stopping over" When he
lett his old home in Denmark, he never
dreamed it possible ne would dine with
President or a King. He thought the
suit impossible. Whan it actually hap
rcns, all the inherited falling down be-
fore royalty and power oyerpowers him
and he is again the denizen of coun-
try where they have no concepton of
the American idea of the proper way to
tleat a public officer.
Even a judicial person, imbued with
American ideals, would find it difficult
to write life of living man without
offending the canons of good taste. There
is something radically indecent in writing
biographies of living men and the good
taste of the community should protest
against such a gIaring offense to pro-
pIiety'' is the rather extreme view of a
critic. Mr.. Riis is writing of "a live
man of strong feelings, strong prejudices.
positive views, and strenuous action and
original methods. He is largely crea-
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT; THE CITI-
ZEN, by Jacob Riis. Price So net.
Publishers: The Outlook Company,
New York, N. Y.
Boswell made Johnson. Some people
think that Boswell was a greater man
than Johnson. In truth Boswelfs Life
has given Johnson a much higher place
in the world than he would have occu-
pied without it. biographer of the
right sort is essential to preserve the best
things that man in high place has said
and done.
MIR. Riis, in his sketches of Theodore
Roosevelt" shows that he has one essen
tial requisite, sincere admiration and en-
thusiasm. Indeed his enthusiasm rather
over-leaps all bounds and his praise is
so beyond all discriminating judgment as
to make the book defective. Mr.. Riis
was not born in America. His early
training in a country where men pros
tTated themselves before high public off
Gals has untitled him for making an
American estimate of the President,
though he has written a charming and
appreciative story about the President
as a man. Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt has
been for years the patron saint of MI.
Riis and he has invested him with all the
attributes of which he could conceive the
perfect man possessed. To show his feel
ing toward Mr.. Roosevelt, let us give
his own story of how he felt when he
was ushered into the presence of the
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Roosevelt he continues, who through
many a fight in which hard blows were
dealt never once proved unfalthful to
them; who, going forth with young
mans resolve to try to make things bet
ter in this world, even little better, be-
cause he had lived in it, through falr
days and foul through good report and
evil (and of this last there was never a
lacII), sounded his battle cry, Better
faithful than famous and won. A hun
Gred times the mercenaries and the spolis-
men which he fought had him down and
ruined in the fight. At this moment, as
write, they are rubbing their hands with
glee because at last he has undone him
self, by bidding orgaized labor halt where
it was wrong. Last winter. when 1T was
right, he killed himself when he made
capital stop and think. They were false
prophets then as they are now. Nothing
can ruin Theodore Roosevelt except his
proving unfaithful to his own life. AMI
that he will never do. If l know anything
of.him, know this, that he would rather
be right than be President any day, and
that ne will never hesitate in his choice. .
The baby Theodore. as Mr. Riis shows
him, rs, or was, a marvellous baby. We see
him with a curl right on top of his
head, toiling laboriously along with a fat
volume under his arm, David Livingstone's
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Chief Executive as he himself tells 1t:
We had been summoned tothe White
House, my wife and 1. l say summon
ed on purpose, because we had carefully
avoided Washington; it was enough for
us to know that it was there. But he
would not have it, and wrote threaten
ingly that he would send posse if we
didn't come. So we went. l do not think
l over saw prouder woman than my
wife when the President took her in to
dinner. / heard her ask him if her smile
reached from ear to ear, because she
felt like it. And 1 was proud and glad,
for so il seemed to me that she had at
last come to her rights, and / where
there was nothing more to wish for. But
withal l felt bit unhappy. l had
thought to do him the highest honor
could by wearing the cross King Chris
tian gave me, but it turned out that
among the dozen diplomats and other
guests, no one wore any decoration save
myself land l didn't like it. The Presi-
dent saw, 1 think, that l was troubled,
and OWNED the reason in the way he
has. He slipped up behind me at the
first chance, and said in my ear: L am
SO much honored and touched by your
putting it on for me- So he knew, and
it was all right The others might
stare"
New no man born in America could
write such gush as that-he just simply
couldn't get his mental attitude in a
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turc of mpulses-sometimes noble and
g nervous; often vindictive and unrelent-
ing; and often reckless and wild. How
can a biographer write of such a man
without himself running away" And
this Mr.. Riis has done. Indeed that is his
gait all through the book. But it is fresh.
original, sincere. The pages glow with
the authors intense admiration and the
continental spirit of adulation. The book
contains many stoDies and incidents
some commonplace and dull. Who. for
eXample, cares about what Mr. Ris gives
Us in the following, though the writer
cCnfesses that he rather thinks more of
Nh. Roosevelt because he hates a stove
pipe:
THE President hates a stove-pipe hat,
and so do I: but L thought to honor him
che day, when 1 was going travelling
with him, by putting on mine: and all
l got Tor it was, when Gen. Greene got
into the carriage with a straw hat on,
deep sigh of relief and an oh, l am so
Giad you didn't come in a top-hat, with
a malicious CLEAN toward me. Next time
leave it at home
Miss Agnes Repplier has written spicy
review OF this book in Life. Commenting
on that review. the New York Evening
Post has this Illuminating account:
Dropping tear, in Life. over some or
the excruciating ineptitudes of Mr.. Rlls
biography of President Roosevelt. Miss
Agnes Repplier asks if our sense OF hui
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HAWTHORNE AND EMERSON.

Hawthorne and Emerson were neigh
bors, but no intimates. When they walk
ed together in Concord they discussed
the weather and the crops, but not phil
oGophy, nor religion. nor politics Oftener
they were silent, as great men, who know
each other as such, can afford to be.
Tennyson and Carlyle once sat together
of IL evening for three hours, smoking,
and neither uttered a word, except Car
lyie's goodnight: Come again, Alfred;
we have had a grand time" This aloof-
ness from men, and at the same time
that power OF dragging to light the hid
den secrets of their souls, is the inexpl-
cable gift of genius; it has an eye of its
own one glance and it looks the man
through and through.
Had Hawthorne lived anywhere where
conscience and law had full recognition
and sin was possible, heswould have writ
ten in the same strain-as in The Marble
Faun, where Donatello serves his pur-
pose as well as Dimncsdale. The crime
and it's effect in each belong to the gem
erai field of ethics, where sin reveals its
nature in soulexperiences that are com
men to all men. Indeed, he has but one
deep and permanent interest; the play
OF conscience under sin. He is a student
of the soul He watches its play as a
biologist watches an animal under vary
ing conditions but in each case 1t is the
study of a soul-not degraded, but only
wounded, as it were, and while it is keen
TO feel, and while the good and evil in
1t are full of primal energy.
Rev. Theodore T. Munger, in the April
Atlantic.
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NOR has departed 'in company with our
lost reticence. and our misconception of
the dignity of office" This vivacious lady
cannot be aware of the new court man.
ners that have been introduced in the
White House. What would she say of
al ctiquet which compels the inmates of
that household nclrIng tie chance guess,
to rise reverently and remain standing
while the president is in the room? We
have heard many a mirthful tale of the
awe produced by the announcement.
Ladies ard gentlemen, the president,
with hurried rising by all hands, even
the irrepressble little Roosevelts pulling
grave faces and dressing front in the pres
ence of the awful dignity that doth fiedse
their w-fighting father. General
Washington consulted Hamilton and
Adams about the details of presidential
etiquet in public, but these private agonies
of greatness never swan into his ken.
They are well fitted to make the ungodly
laugh yet they have their serious side.
They seem to be intended as a sort of re-
tort to the charge that the president is
undignified 'Undignifed? Don't l make
my family and guests present arms to
me?'
Mr.. Riis starts with Mr.. Roosevelt as
the splendid knight of the young. himself
yet young man filled with the high cour-
age and brave ideals that make youth
the golden age of the great deeds forever.
''And 1 want to show them the man
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THE DRUDGE.

Rs0ose upon her soulless face,
1J1g the grave and leave ne;
ut breathe a prayer that, IN his grace
He who so ioveo this IoIling grace
TO eud:css rest receive her.
Oh. can Il be the gates alar
Wait not her humble quest,
whose u1c was but Datient war
Against the death that stalkcd from far
With neither haste nor rest;
wo wnom were sun and moon anu cioud.
The streamlet's pebbly call.
The transient, &ay-ho''nd, featt2red
crowd
The storms frank fury. thundc: proved.
BIZ. witness Of her tne':
Wnose weary feet knew not the :';ss
cf dance bv iocunG reed:
who never danied at C. kiss?
II heaven refuses her. i;se ~
4 tragedy indeed!
John Charles Mcneil. of LaurinbUrg,
N. c., in the Century Magazine.
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o make it clean, if swept must be with
pains rough broom of thorn!
Ane quiet impose, so straining ears with
world-din racked and torn
May catch what God doth say.
(The author of this poem is Mrs. Town
send. Before her marriage she was Mrs.
Pearl Arnold, daughter of Rev. ]. D.
Arnold, prominent Methodist minister
EGitorl
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r:ter advertising John D. Long booI
by refusing to admit it TO the naval
Inraries the Navy Department has given
Il another boost by admitting 81. Still,
some contend that republics are un-
grateful Washington Post
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SPRING IN THE SOUTH.

(By Henry Van Dyke.)
New in the oak the sap Of life is yelling,
Though to the bough the rusty Collage
clings
New on the elm the misty buds ale swell
ing;
See how the pine-wood grows alive with
wings!
Bluejays nuttcring, yodoling, and crying;
Meadow-larks sailing low above the
withered grass;
Red birds whistling clear, silent robins
flying
Who has walked the birds up? What
has come to pass?
Last years cotton plants, desolately bow
ing,
Stand in the fallows, rugged and for
lorn.
Red are the hill-sides Of the early plow-
ing,
Gray are the lowlands, waiting for the
Earth seems asleep still; but It's only
feignipg;
Deep in her bosom thrills sweet I'M
Look where the jasmine lavishly is ram
ing
Jovc's golden shower into Danae S
breast.
Now on the plum the snowy bloom IS
drifted;
Now on the peach. the glory of the
rose;
Over the hills tender haze is sifted;
Full to the brim the yellow river no"S'
Dark cypress boughs with VIVA Je"oi'
glisten.
G1eener than emeralds shining IN the
Who has wrought the magic! biS'eii'
sweetheart, listen!
The mockingbird is singing; spring n"'
begun
Hark, in his song no tremor OF mlssi'lns
All of his heart he pours lnto M i'y.
Love, love, love, and pure ueiiei' VI