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COMING TO FORT MYER.
First Squadron Of the 7th Cavalry to
Replace the 18th.

1t is the first squadron of the 7th Cavalry
that has been ordered to take station at
Fort Myer, Va, and not the first squadron
of the ID Cavalry, as inadvertently stated
in the newspapers The I'd Regiment of
cavalry is at Manila. P. I. The 1th Regi-
ment OF cavalry is stationed at Camp G. H.
Thomas, Chickamagua, GA, but the regi-
ment has been taking part in the maneu-
vers near Manassas.
The order issued by the War Department
directs the first squadron of the It'll Cav
airy, consisting of Troops A, B, c and D,
on the completion Of the maneuvers at
Manassas, to march to Fort Myer and
there go into camp, pending the departure
OF the present garrison at that post, when
it will take the quarters thus vacated, The
headquarters band and second squadron Of
the 10Th Cavalry, now forming part OF the
garrison at Fort Myer, will leave there on
the Goth of October and take station with
the other two squadrons of the same regi-
ment at Fort Ethan Allen, VT All en-
listed men belonging to the second squad
ron, 18th Cavalry, in excess of 60 to
troop, and all horses in excess of 60 to a
troop will be transferred to the first squad
ron, 7th Cavalry.
The only explanation given at the War
Department for the proposed movement Is
that the post at Fort Ethan Allen. where
most of the 10th Cavalry is stationed, has
been recently enlarged so as to permit Of
an increase in the garrison, and 1t is the
policy to keep organizations together wher-
ever the accommodations will permit 1t to
be done. 1t was therefore found expedient
to send the Fort Myer squadron of the 18th
Cavalry to Fort Ethan Allen anu to bring
the first squadron of the 7th Cavalry from
Chickamagua Park, where the accommoda-
tons are hardly sufficient for the entire
regiment in the winter time.
The departure of the 18th Cavalry Band
will undoubtedly be source of great dis
osvzkn tn tLn &c IT,,
ton. as its concerts in public parks and the
part taken by 1t in military parades have
made 1t one of the popular institutions of
the District. There is no band with the
squadron of the 7th Cavalry which is to
take station at Fort Myer. and the absence
of music at that post will be undoubtedly
a decided loss to the officers and men Of
the post. Unless the orders are modified
the band Of the 7th Cavalry will remain
with the headquarters Of the regiment at
Chickamagua Park. Its transfer from
there would undoubtedly be vigorously OPP
posed by the principal officers of the regi-
ment and the people of that Vicinity
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FOUND A BOX ON FIRE.
Spontaneous Combustion in a Vault
Under the White House Porch.

Policeman Rotchford while on his beat
in the north areaway Of the White House
saw a small blaze In a box containing
waste materials about 1:25 o'clock this
morning. He promptly stamped out the
blaze and reported to the White House
station. Under the front porch of the
White House is an old wine vault A box
is kept in this vault for waste materials,
and recently there had been dumped into
1t a number of oil and paint cans that
painters had been using. waste material
from the engine room and a variety of
other things.
An investigation by the police officials
convinced them that the fire had probably
been caused by spontaneous combustion.
The place where the fire was discovered is
minutes. No members of the Presidents
family are in the city, and the White
House is occupied by servants only.
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Naval Orders.

II. NJ. Hodges has been commissioned a
commander In the navy.
w. G. Miller has been commissioned "a
lieutenant commander in the navy.
Lieutenant Commander c. p. Eaton. from
duty as inspector Of machinery at the
works of Babcock & Wilcox Company,
Bayonne, N. j., to course of instruction
under bureau of equipment. in this city.
Lieutenant Commander " s. Nelson, to
duty at the bureau of equipment, Navy De-
partment
H. G. Sparrow has been commissioned a
lieutenant in the navy.
Surgeon N. H. Drake. from the Lancaster
to the Hancock.
Passed Assistant Surgeon NJ. 8. Guest. to
the Lancaster.
Passed Assistant Surgeon C. NJ. DeValin,
to duty at the Naval Hospital, Phila delphia
Pa, and unexpired portion of leave re-
voked
Paymaster G. c. schafer, from the Mar
blehead to the Ohio
Assistant Paymaster T M Hancock from
the navy yard, Boston Mass. to the bureau
OF supplies and accounts, Navy Depart
ment.
A, Rettig has been commissioned chief
D0atswaln In the navy. tG52e u
Lieut.. d. M. Garrison, from the Cincin-
natl to the San Francisco. ~
Ensign +; b. McCrary, from the Villalo-
DOS 10 the San Francisco
Acting Warrant Machinist c. Johanson,
from from the cavite station TO the San Fran
IL Lie e,to s. E. Moses, from the Wisconsin to
% Lieut. leu Wv g: W: Laws. frpm the Cincinnati
ca First lie Lieut. !. c. Heanm3ht, Marine
hama Hospital for treatment.
surgeon v. G, b.. MEANS, from the San
Francisco to his home II -
Acting Boatswain n. Drake from COM
mand of the Gardoqui I'd: the Cayite station.
Acting Acting, Boatswain B. y. Grsene. to the
to Acting eth g VIBRANT Machist Heidelberg.
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FAIR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY.
Warmer, Light to Fresh East to South
Winds.

Forecast till pm. Sunday-For Mary
land. fair. warmer tonight and Sunday;
fresh east to south winds
For the District Of Columbia. fair tonight.
Sunday fair. warmer; light to fresh east to
south winds.
For Virginia. fair tonight, warmer in
western portion. Sunday fair, warmer in
central portion: fresh east to south winds.
Weather conditions and general forecast
A low area of pronounced proportions is
moving over the northern portion of the
country. causing comparatively high tenn
peratures. but yet no precipitation 1t
Is followed by high area with much lower
temperatures in the northwest.
During the past twenty-four hours there
have been local showers in New England
the middle Atlantic states. eastern Florida
and the Michigan peninsula: elsewhere the
weather has been generally clear.
The weather will be fair tonight and Sum-
day in the east and south, except in the
lower lake region and eastern Florida
where showers are probable Sunday.
1t will he warmer in New England and
the middle Atlantic states and cooler Sun
day i'll the Ohio valley and lower lake
region.
On the New England and middle Atlantic
coasts the winds will be fresh east to
south: on the south Atlantic coast fresh
northeast to east; on the east gulf coast
light and variable. and on the lower lakes
fresh 10 DTlSk southwest 10 northwest.
The following heavy precipitation On
inches) has been reported during the past
twenty-four hours: Jupiter, LOO.
Steamers departing today for European
ports will have fresh east to southeast
winds and partly cloudy weather to the
Grand Banks.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition of water at 6
Z m: Great Falls, temperature, &c; condi
ton. 36. Daiecarlia reservoir. temperature.
70: condition at north connection. Sc: condi-
ton at south connection. %. Washington
city reservoir, temperature, 70; condition
al influent. SO: condition at effiuent, SO.
Tide Table
Today-Low tide, 2:13 am. and 2:34 pm ;
high tide. s:04 am. and 1927 pm.
Tom orrow-Low tide. 800 am. and 1923
pm; high tide. S:55 am. and 9:1S pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rises, 5:35 am; sun sets, 6:1S
Pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises. $3.50 am.
Moon sets, 1855 pm.
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset; ex-
tinguShing begun one hour before sunrise.
All are and incandescent lamps lighted ttf-
teen minutes after sunset and eXtinguished
forty-flve minutes before sunrise.
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Mrs. Mckee to Succeed Mrs. Mills
Johnson.

Mrs. Harriet Mills Johnson has retired
from the musical profession and has APP
pointed Mrs Henry Hunt Mckee her sue
cessor Mrs. Mckee will begin her course
at Mrs. Johnson's old STUDIO. 939 Pennsyl-
vania avenue northwest, on September Is,
in both vocal and instrumental music Mrs.
Mckee is organist and choir director at St.
Michael and All Angels Church, and has
won for herself an enviable reputation for
excellence and thoroughness In her work.
In addition to the old pupils of Mrs. John
son, Mrs. Mckee has already augmented
her class by many new asprants for must.
cal Quotations.
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Bids for Cement Paving.

Bids were opened at the District build
ing at noon today for laying cement pave
ment in the District. The bid of the Gran
ford Paving Company was the lowest, that
company proposing to lay payements in
the city for SO cents a square yard and in
the county for s1O6 a square yard.
The other bidders were the rColburn Paw
ing company, the Brennan Construction
company and Drew & Shehan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10
Naval Movements.

The cruiser San Francisco left woosung
yesterday for Hong Kong. on her way to
the United States. through the Suez canal.
The General Alava left Woosung yester-
day for Cheefoo.
The Massachusetts has arrived at New
London, the Topeka at Newport and the
Wasp at Pensacola.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10
THE COURT RECORD
District Supreme Court.

CRIMINAL CCURT-Justice Anderson.
United States agt James Heard, robbery;
recognizance, $500, with Henry c. Scrivener
surety.
PROBATE COURT-Justiee Anderson.
Estate of Livingston Browning; order adj
hitting will to probate and record and
granting letters testAmentary to Mary NJ.
Browning; bond, $1,000; attorney, P. M.
Brown.
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Going to the Pacific Coast.

Brigadier General George F. Elliott, COM
Of Marine Corps. and Colonel F. l..
Denny, quartermaster Of the corps, WE'LL
leave in short time for an inspection of
the Marine Corps barracks on the Pacific
coast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10

Joseph Polk, a negro, aged forty years.
was shot and killed Thursday night by
Delany Maddox, another negro, because he
objected to Maddox's attentions to his
daughter. The murderer escaped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10

Walter Stevens and Luther Townsend.
farmers, fought at Hazelhurst, Miss,
anuasaay, with shotguns. Townsend re-
Immediately. Stevens surrendered.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Roofs Need Attention.?

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pairing and Painting. All work guaranteed.
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For financial ads. see page II, part l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10
OTHER SERVICES.

COLORED EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN SCI
ence Church.-At Gray's Hail. in Odd Fellows
building, on NJ st. bet. 18th and 18th SITS. NV,
at pm, Elder Roland B. Hazard Will deliver
lecture on the subject Of Divine Healing"
All invited. It,
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SPIRITUALISM.

SPIRTrUAIISM-MR. TERRY WILL GIVE TEST
seance at Spanish Veterans Hall, ID floor 'front.'
10 eth st. NV, Sunday evening at y o'clock.
Good music. All welcome. it,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES HALL. 721 9Th ST.
NV, Sunday night; service in memory Of Presi-
dent Mckinley; tests and messages by Mr. and
Mrs. Noble. Good music. All welcome
Silver collection. 1ts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10

ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND COMPARATIVE
Religion, 1922 18th st.-Lecture Sundays, pm,
teal instruction Wednesday evenings, '.Esoterie
Standards Of Living" Practice In telepathy. lts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH.
Scottish Rite Hall, LOOT ST. ,n.w.-Seryices IL
am. and pm: Subject Of morning lecture BY
BISHOP OLIVER @. SABIN,
"Reaping and Sowing" Subject Of evening lee
ture by Bishop Sabin, How to Live" Quiz
meeting Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock
Commencing on Sunday, October 2, at II an,
BISHOP SABIN will deliver q series Of fifteen
free lectures each week, teaching how TO
heal the sick through divine methods All who
desire to learn should come. Hall centrally To-
Gated; seats comfortable, free; all cordially In
vited. lie
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SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN.

THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 10TH
and G SITS. NV. Rev. S. NJ Newman. ID. D.. pas
tori am, public worship, with sermon, by
Rev. Peter Mcmillan of Boston. Music by quartet
and chorus choir. led by DR.. J. W. Bschon, or
ganist. Sunday school. $50 m. Christian En-
deavor. pm. No evening preaching service. 1t
Mt. PLEASANT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,
Columbia road and 18th ST. NV, Rev NJ. Ross
Fishburn, pastor.-9:3O am, Sunday school; IL
am, public worship with sermon; Pm, Chris
tian Endeavor meeting. 1t
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
The Ounces i'm q Pound of Butter.

In the official report on the Farmers Insti-
tutes of Canada last year, the dairymaids and
farmers wives were told-what they doubtless
knew before-that a pound of butter contained
sixteen ounces; but when it came to the charac-
terization of each of these sixteen ounces, we be-
lieve that most of them learned something new.
This is the way the ounces were described:
1. One ounce of wisdom.-Let us show wisdom
in selecting and demanding only the best.
2. One ounce of precaution.-We will take the
precaution to properly prepare our utensils, and
leave them in good condition when we are through
with them.
3. One ounce of your
mind ON your work and you will make no mis-
takes.
4. One ounce of cleanliness.-This is the dairy
mans motto, and needs to be exercised in the
whole process of b~utter-making.
5. One ounce of will help
us to overcome all difficulties.
6. One ounce of prevention.-The science of
buter-making is made up almost entirely of
preventive measures.
Z. One ounce of forethought.-Which is needed
at every stage.
s. One ounce of prevision.-What are the
requirements of the market for which this but
ter is being made? We will consider this, and
develop flavor, add salt and color to suit our Gus
toners.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15

8. One ounce of is need
ed to distinguish favors. It is also needed in
choosing parchment paper, salt, etc.,
10. One ounce of accuracy.-By making use
of the scales we shall know how much b. liter
there will be in a churning, and thus gauge the
coloring and salt, so that we may have uni
formity.
II. One ounce of judgment.-We need to have
good judgment in choosing the temperature at
which to churn, and for making conditions favor
able for churning at a low temperature.
-. One ounce of common sense.-f we use
this, we will stop churning when the butter is in
granular form.
13. One ounce of ratience.-We must have
patience in using the thermometer, in draining
the wash water off the butter, and in giving the
salt time to dissolve.
IA. One ounce of experience.-This will help
us in knowing when the butter is worked enough,
and not over-worked and greasy.
Is. One ounce of neatness.-This applies to
person and product, and especially to the print
ing and wrapping of the butter.
16. This is the ounce of honor.-We will do our
best, use what is best, and give such weight that
the butter will be full sixteen ounces when it
reaches the consumer.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
cOWPEA Hay FOR HORSES.

There is a good deal said in recent years about
the cowpea plant. That it can be grown North
and East, and throughout the Middle West, is
now proved beyond a single doubt. Its merit
lies in its value as a short summer crop, it's soil
improving power and feeding value.
AS a cattle food, we know it is good; but not
much is known about its value for horses. A few
notices have come to view in the agricultural
PRESS about it's superior feeding value, but there
have been few, if any, actual experimental tests
to prove statements of it's admirers.
The writer began a test some time ago, the same
being extended through a period of three months
"A time sufficiently long to give facts with at
tention. Two high-grade Percheron mares were
used together as a team during the period, and
both were under the same care, shelter, and
worked side by side.
RATION rBRAN RATION.
Ten pounds of bran.
Twelve pounds corn and cob-meal.
Two and one-half pounds gluten meal.
Fifteen pounds corn stover.
Cost, $50 cents daily.
RATION n-oowPEA HAY RATION.
Ten pounds cowpea hay.
Twelve pounds corn and cob-meal.
Two and one-half pounds gluten meal.
Fifteen pounds corn slower.
Cost, 23.9 cents daily.
1t will be noticed the only difference between
these rations is the substitution of cowpea hay
for bran, the other feeding stuffs remaining the
same in both. The result of three months feed
ing is seen in the table following, where the
weights of each horse are given.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
Wintering Horses.

~SS AO
Messrs. Editors: The average farm horse is
worked too hard in summer and given too much
idleness in winter. All through the planting and
harvesting season his work is ceaseless and labo-
rious, and then when snow and frost close the
country roads the animal is shut up for most of
the time in the stable. There are occasional
drives with him when the weather is good Or
when the ground is frozen hard, but these drives
are irregular and not the most conducive to the
animals best development. This wintering of
horses is a problem that the breeder has to face
as we'll as the farmer. He realizes the danger
probably more than the man who has one or two
farm horses to carry over. The breeder and
trainer has enough horses to make it an object
to give them regular daily exercise, and his men
are employed for this special purpose. In this
way the animals are kept in excellent condition
through the winter, and in the spring they come
out with fine sleek coats, good round bodies, and
well knit but not over-developed muscles.
Nearly every farmer has a few horses which he
hopes to sell at a fair bargain when the market
is good. He makes it a part of his business to
breed a few colts every year for extra sales. Now
a good many of these farm horses are nearly
ruined through the unwise wintering which they
get. 1t is not that the owner is not willing to do
the best by them, but because he thinks that a
good winters rest will do them good. No animal
needs such a long rest. They all do better with
a fair amount of exercise. There should hardly
be a day in winter that the horses do not have
the freedom of a yard or field to run about in if
it is impossible to drive them. Farm horses
turned loose in this way will do much better than
those stabbed carefully all winter. It will harden
and tougher them to come in contact with the
fresh air, and their whole systems will be better
for it in the spring. They will be prepared then
to enter in the spring work with more vim and
vitality than if stabbed all winter. The feeding
is also an important. question with the horses in
winter. They cannot be put on a slim diet of hay
and less grain without suffering therefrom. Let
the diet be a fairly liberal one and then give
them all the daily exercise they want.
WILLIAM CONWAY.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
Why the Show Fowls are White.

If you should happen to drop in at a poultry
show the coming winter, and this should be the
first time that you were ever present at such an
exhibition, you will see some of the most beautl-
full white birds that you ever laid your eyes on.
Your admiration for this snowy whiteness may
lead you to purchase some of the fowls, and if
you should do this you would naturally expect the
progeny to be like them. But next season, when
you rounded up the young stock, you would not
find one of them a match for the parents in color.
The last of August the writer made a visit to
a poultry plant, where White Wyandottes are
bred exclusively. In making the rounds of the
place we discovered a dozen or more birds shut up
in lime pens about four feet square. The win
dows to these pens all faced to the north. These
are the birds with which the owner will make his
record as a breeder of prize winners next winter.
They were shut up in these pens the last of June,
and not a ray of sunshine has fallen on them
since. Sunshine dulls the color of the plumage,
and the new coat of feathers must be grown en-
tirely in the shade. These birds are fed on white
corn, as yellow corn tends to give a brassy tinge
to the feathers, and they receive every attention
which will in any degree compensate for the i'll
effects of the close confinement. Their ration is
apportioned with a view to supplying them with
a due amount of feather making material, and the
utmost cleanliness is observed with their pens in
order that no stain may be communicated to the
immaculate plumage.
We are thus giving away one of the secrets by
which the superb appearance of show birds is OBJ
tanned, and, perhaps, making it plain to some
body why his birds are not so s~potlessly white as
the parent stock was when they bought it. Peo-
pie who buy the birds which have been prepared
for the show room in the above manner pay for
all this puttering work and time consuming at
For one-half the money the owner would
sell them others which for all purposes except the
show room are just as good, and, we incline to the
opinion, somewhat better, for this restriction of
the liberty of the birds throughout the summer
must in some degree lessen their vitality
and vigor. Show birds are all right in their place,
but their place is not in the poultry house of the
farmer who keeps chickens for what he can make
out of them in the way of meat and eggs.-Wal-
Farmer.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15

COMPARING BRAN AND oowPEA Hay.
1t will be seen by the table that Daisy on the
bran ration, after the first weighing, held her
own throughout the period. 1t is true she lost in
weight the first week, but after that her weights
were more or less stable. This shows the ration
was satisfactory in every way. The average
weight for the period was 1,14S, or slightly under
the weight of the beginning.
The table also shows that where ten pounds OF
cowpea hay were given to Doll, they proved as
valuable for feeding as an equal quantity of
bran. In fact, by glancing at the several weigh
ings it will be seen that Doll really weighed at
the end of the period more than at the begin
ming, which shows beyond a doubt that the ration
was satisfactory.
The cowpea ration was also five cents less in
daily cost. This is a matter of considerable Inn.
portance, and. as a fact, is much in the favor OF
this feeding stuff for farm horses.
Both of these rations we're thoroughly satlstac-
tory, and both were almost wholly homegrown.
HAS. W. BURKETT.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
Live Stock and Dairy

CONDUCTED BY CHARLES VIM. BURKETT
Professor OF Agriculture, N. G. A. d M. College, and Azrt-
culturist North Carolina Experiment Station.
Inquiries OF Progressive Farmer readers cheerfuly an
Hwer0d.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15

This trial covers a period of the year that is
ordinarily the hardest because of the strenuous
effort necessary for spring planting.
COMPARING BRAN AND oowPEA Hay.