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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04

asked young Ab. Rislcy.
He has gone back t. his old home
III ireland. : spend tn rcst uv his days
in peace All lUiciudc. lie has ben dec.
grated by III Gar with III Order uv IT,
Fiyin' Eagle an like Admirul Sly. h,
realizes that ihar's glory enough T. so
round. ana he's wilin' t call il suuar.'
G;n'ral Stosscll has retired L his farm
in loway. an is busy kctchin' up with
his appetite. He hal hard time a,
Port Arthur. I hccred that he sc,l III,
ct ny twelve pairs ov boots durin tn
siege
"Whar did this hyuh battle take
place. Mr.. Punkin?" Dinll Herring
wanted To Know.
"ln TIL Straits ov Korea, Dink, jos
"cuth ov cooncy Islam. Thar's mar
rcr place in thar about To- bundled feet
wide. an tn Japs Jest siaid thar an
%aitcd frh en- L como on Adplirui
Togo warn't bern Yesterday; he's IL
bigger man than lawn l.. Sullivan ever
was
I'D like L SEQ him." said Heck
Shamblin
I'm considered very much like
him" returned Mir. punkin proudly
JOHN WEYMOUTH.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04
Sea
:Breezes
ee~~~~e~~~~~~ee>ee 5
Ms. PuNklN ON roeo,s VICTORY.


lis come at last said Mr. Punkiu.
lest rs | expected. Roiyvcnsky mo,
icsa an is hS'n. Roosha has won
anutllcr az her srcai victrics. Admir-.
Ill RnJyvcnsky' Admirul Vulgarsam
an A.itirul Ncvorgcton is allpris.ners.
ihar amt ben scch naval victrv
scncc tn big storm destroyed tn Span.
ish Armada in ljSS,-two years aror..
Crooked Ben Slamhlin was born. TN
Gar Nv Ro"sl'a. is Frustrated by tn
news. Tn loss ov his ieci an tn fact
ov his little sons siltin teeth is 'no,,yh
! prcstrlic any man. amt blicvcd
much in thi:; ftllcr Rojyvcnsliy because
ever srncc lie started cut he's ben toll.
III cvrybody what iIc as .nin' t. do {
IN laps Of he ever got holt oy en-.
is i,,ar any doubt about Tn news.
Uncle ToEc," young Alb Risley asked
recon not, Abby; it's true IN
t"iosrans Is oonlliciin', but they all
purity sin'raly runs one way. Thcv
only differs in unimpurtam pcrticulars
SGmc says Admirul Roivvcnsky was
hiowd up; Cthcrs saws he committed
suicide: others says he swmm t. Toxic
an enc said he WAS in New Yawk. TIL
la:cS' news is that he was hit bv five
shells ut oncct an was in tn hors;:it;.l
III Nailcycornstalk. AT any rate he'll
hardly be promoted fun this fight.
don't sec uothin in prospect iuh him
but { make his Twin wriiin' fuh III
magazines. About mex month cxpcc,
sec an ariiCklc in some ov III, maga-
zir2s by ROXY entitled. I've
Ben In.
twas a great fight. Til Rcoshans
had six adciruls an twenty-five slips
Tia laps had -four admiruls an twenty
eight ships besides thar was Two hun
dCd torpedo Leafs an couple or
lltatin' dry decks Engaged in tn fight.
tn Japs j'ined hands an formed
ring 'arnun tn looslans, m then
pumped lca.i nj 'cm fuh who-last-th'-
longest Admirul Togo stood. at III
wheel CIV III Chou Chou an shouted
his orders through maSgicphonc.
Willie tn ban on IL lurril.in deck
played tn Japanese NatSunal air
"llitti MaSin.' hrftcr they had fiji two
hours tn ammunishun give ont, an tn
J;ns begun { fire bologna sassscs
an sugar cured hams ut tn Roc shans;
an shouldn't wonder al all IF ROXY
wac hit ny ii ham. The noise was tur-
riiic, but above il all yuh could hear III
admirrs girin' Their orders Iii CHI
plSu deuce ace scZ lego 'ItrsbruswxZ
sytrxmtski nrXwSdorf.' seq ROXY. 'Chm
rhn hi Iii chop sucy.' scz Togo 'Isnor.
iniski SiZisupsiN ufIinalanchSki' SCI
Rely. RCoslan sailor goes T. tn
Silc ov his slim an llr spies a Jap an
he draws bead on him an he sez ut
him. sort ov spilCful like
Observation-Disclosures, an
tn lap falls in Il faint. When Il word
Ike that ei'S wrapped round II mans
ncrk tar aint no hope fun him. Now.
it's I'LL right L fight like that when yuil
Happen { br at close range. bIl tn
method Amt no good Il TO hund'od
yards. so ID laps Gits III best ov en-.
Still, SEE tlIa, III /ar is soin' {
keep tn war a-snin'." said l:;lky
Mnars.
res, ihars seven million ov Roosh-
ans crazy T. 30 { war, an 'twnulG
hardly he right { close tn war without
givin' thcm chance & go out L Man
chnry an sec what it's like, an then
turn 'round' en- come home; them ov
en- tIIat Kin git back"
Whats become ov Kuropatkin?"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04
a Strninht Tin

"Say," growlcd the first hobo, "why
didn't yer so Ger dat big house nm git
hand OUT"
"Why. started ter" replied the 9th
or. "bnt minister lookin' guy gimme
tip not ter. He seq: Turn from yer
present path. Yc'rc goin ter do dogs
philadelphia Press.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04
Fewer gallons; wears longer; Deycc
GREATLY REDUCED RATES

To Atlanta, Ga, Via Southern Railway.
June 18th and 9Th. Southern Railway
VIII sell tickets To Atlanta, Ga. account
Master Plumbers Association Convon-
ton in that city. June 9Th to 9th. at
al one fare (pus % ccnts) viz: $1,000
Tor The round trip: final limit June
18th. City ticket office No % CRANKY
street. (Monticcllo lIoteD Norfolk. W.
w. CROXTON, Pass. Agt. G-2-4t
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04
The vnIne Of n Dollar.

There are three ways TO learn the
value of a dollar The first Is to spend
1t ana see what you get for it. The
second Is TO earn ii and see what you
give for II. The third is to save 1t and
ycarn for all the things it might buy.
If you were weak enough to spend it
Troy Q[an.) Chief.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04
Cnuse For srnnnthx

Mabel-Yrs, I'm sorry for poor. dear
Helen; that horrid George said she
must either give him up or her lovely
pug. Maryland she had to give up the
dog? Mabcl-No; she gave up George,
and the pug died next day.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04
a Loony Question.

PA" began Bobby, may ask one
moro question:"
"Um!,' replied pa, without looking up
from hts book.
Well" said Bobby. "if they had
tlocks IN the moon would they be lu-
natics ?"-Life.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04
Aids TO Sncccas.

There are SIX things that bring sue
cess. The first IS the will to work. The
other five are ork.-Chicago Record.
TInrnh
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04
Spring and Mountain Resorts

Summer excursion tickets with lib
cral limits and stop-ovcr privileges on
sale June l.
Low rate week and excursion tickets
Tor heads of families and Sunday visi-
tors. Cliff
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04
MOnCy SnYcn.

Fred (cycitedly on the race course)-
Lend me for three minutes. His
Knowing Friend Wait two minutes.
md you'll not want II.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04

We are never so ridiculous because
OF the qualities we have as because Of
those we affect to have. -. Rochcfou-
cauld.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04
The Clovcn Part.

$50 your gagement with Jack is
broken off,"
Eyes"
"Did he exhibit The clovcn hoof?"
mo. the cloven breath" Houston
Post.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04
Sunday Excursion TO mathcws County

0UTTVTt1y CHCUTsTo1f 10 FTdt1TcWG County.
The Old dominion Line steamer
Hampton Roads" will make special
trip To Mathews county Oh Sunday.
June !. leaving Old Point at a. m.
Fare. round trip. $l.10.
il. b. WALKER NJ r. ,cROWELL,
Vicc.lrcs. 4 =. Nj, General Agent.
New York. Norfolk. Va.
G.S-2t
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-04

There is nothing so true that the
damps Of error have not warped it
rUpner.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-04-15
The Quality of Cows Milk.
ID. H. StOVall.)


AS a student OF a western agr1cul-
tural college the writer learned the
value of testing cows milk, and later
in seeing the test applied to excel
lent advantage in dairy herds. Every
farmer should know the quality OF the
milk his COWS are producing. A mine
manager cannot intelligently direct
the management of his mine unless
he makes frequent assays of the ore,
and keeps constantly informed Of the
worth of the quartz in the lodges. So
it is with the farmer and owner OF
dairy herds. He should test the milk
of individual COWS frequently, that the
worthless ones may be culled out, or
that he may know whether he is feed
ing properly or not.
If you own two or more COWS pur-
chase an apparatus for making the
Babcock test of milk. The apparatus
costs but little and will pay for itself
in a very short time. A set of thick
glass test bottles, graduated into lO
main divisions and each of these dlvls-
ions divided into five smaller dlVls-
ions, the smaller divisions reading 3
per cent butter fat, and the larger oil
visions 1 per cent butter fat. A plpette
for measuring the milk is also need
ed. The pipette should be of a ca
pacity to hold 17.6 cubic centimeters.
A graduate for measuring the acid is
also needed, and a syphOn or wash
bottle. The only chemical required
in making the test of milk is sulphuric
acid.
To test the cream is one thing and
to test the milk is another, therefore,
care should be taken that the milk
itself is thoroughly mixed when drawn
into the pipette for testing. Draw out
17.6 centimeters of the milk and empty
it into one of the test bottles. If the
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-04-15

milk of more than one cow is tested,
use a separate test bottle for each
COW. Measure out 17.5 centimeterS OIL
sulphuric acid and pour 1t carefully
into the test bottle; then place in
Whirling machine which, though not
mentioned, should be included In the
apparatus. After the bottles have
been vigorously wnirled for some time,
remove the cover OF each and hill with
hot water; then close and Whlrl again,
after which they may be removed ana
the test observed by holding the bot
tie up to a level with the eye. The
difference between the highest and
lowest limits OF the tat column repre-
sents the per cent OF butter fat in the
milk.
A good cow will test from to q
per cent. Many COWS give "scads" Oh
milk. as the farmer brags, but II the
milk was tested it would be found 10
be poor in quality. Some COWS mat
give IL quarts OF milk at one milking
will make no more butter than another
that gives only half as much. The
milk of one will probably test per
cent, and of the other, 4. The dairy
man, VINO deals only in milk, and VINO
has pride in the quality OF the prod
uct he gives his patrons, should test
his COWS frequently, for plenty OF
cream makes good milk and pleased
patrons.
1t is worth a good deal to be able to
tell a good cow when we see one.
Many rules have been laid down for
the guidance of the man who sets out
to buy, but after all the best ana
safest guide is the word of an honest
man. the man who wants to sell.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-04-15
What Is Standard Milk?

The word STANDARD" as applied to
the minimum per cent OF lat In milk
allowed by law has regrettably mis-
leading sound and is too often accept
ed in the same meaning as when we
speak about standard books. Con-
sumers should have this clearly In
their mind and understand that II our
large milk companies sell us stand
ard milk, testing only 3 per cent. tat
for cents they in reality sell milk
from which, on an average, ABOUT Il
per cent of the fat-the valuable part
of the milk-has been removed.
No doubt the authorities have the
right, under the law, to condemn, as
adulterated, milk which originally
tested 3.S per cent. but which mas
been reduced to per cent. by skim
ming; yet this power is OF but little
avail because it is rather difficult 10
prove the "adulteration" though not
more so without standard. Com
mon sense must be used in enforcing
laws as in any other work and ii we
should not be allowed to skim Jersey
milk down to Holstein grade, then
neither should we be alloWed-under
the present law-to add cream to Hol-
stein milk to bring it up to Jersey
grade or even to the standard of 3
per cent.
Hence we presume we must accept
the partially skinned per cent. milk
until we reach the ideal time when all
milk and cream will be sold with
guaranteed per cent. of fat at cores
ponding prices.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-04-15
Value of Feeding Silage.
&C. p. Goodrich

Silage is excellent food, as part of
the daily ration, for all kinds of stock
kept on The farm. In winter all stock
do better to have some succulent food,
fed in connection with their dry for
age. This succulent food can be pro-
vided cheaper by making corn silage.
il. parts of the country where corn
does well, than in any other way yet
known. More food can be raised per
acre, consequently more stock can be
kept on a given farm, and the food
can be prepared for feeding and pre-
served with less cost of labor.
Perhaps there is more benefit de-
rived from silage by feeding it to mich
COWS than by feeding it to any other
kind of stock. At any rate it is used
more, and thought more of, by dairy
men than by any other class of farm
ers
You all know. that green, succu-
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-04-15
THE DAIRY
License for Retailing Milk.

A Whatcom county reader asks If 1t
is necessary to "get permit to sell
milk in town to be retailed out" The
question is not entirely clear, but, TAX
ing it literally, we presume the cor
respondent wants to know if man l1v-
ing outside the city limits, keeping
COWS and selling milk to dealer or
peddler in the city, must have per-
NIT to do So So long as he furnishes
milk to one party and does not attempt
to peddle it out himself he need not
secure a permit. The man who takes
the milk and sells it from house to
house must secure a permit or license
from the city before he can proceed
legally.
The same correspondent asks if
there is state dairy inspector in
Washington. The duties of such an
official have devolved upon the state
dairy and pure food commissioner
heretofore, and the present incumbent
is E. A. Mcdonald, whose office is at
$3.50 Downs block, Seattle. II our cor
respondent will write him and state
fully what he wants to know, Mr.. Nc
Donald will be glad to give all in
formation regarding the law pertain
ing to the Office.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-24

ton, to the disregard and neglect of
the vastly more important problem of
building men at home, and creating a
citizenship which will be an enduring
national foundation forever, and en-
larging our home markets, which will
be unaffected by any foreign complica-
tions or trade disturbances.
The attention of our people of late
has been so much absorbed by the
problems of our export trade, that we
overlook the fact that the United
States today manufactures annually
product aggregating in total value the
combined manufactured product of
the three other greatest manufactur-
ing nations of the world. England,
France and Germany, and we con-
sumo ninety-two per cent of our entire
annually manufactured products at
home.
Create Farm Homes.
And if every farm in the United
States were cut in two, and a new
home created on it so that the number
of farm homes, and the capital in
vested in, and labor devoted to agri-
culture throughout the entire United
States, We're thus doubled, the result
would be an enlargement of our popu-
ldllOH, our nome market IOr manu-
factures, and our power as a nation,
almost beyond the power of the imag-
ination to picture to the mind.
1t is to the development of its vast
agricultural resources and the creation
of closely settled population of far
mers and gardeners, who will culti-
vate the soil by the most intensive
; methods, that the Middle West must
look if it is to achieve its full destiny
in wealth, power and population.
The resources of the great territory
extending westward from the crest of
the Allegheny Mountains to the one
hundredth meridian-the edge of the
arid region-and from the sources OF
the Mississippi River on the north to
its outlet to the Gulf on the south, are
so largely agricultural that it offers
the ideal section of the earth for the
development of a nation along the
lines of japanese development, with
a preponderating rural population.
There is no other section of the
worlds surface where latent agricul
tural resources of such inexhaustible
richness and extent lie practically un
developed.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-24

fifty million figure; it has stacked up
gold in its treasury, has created a
great merchant marine, has captureda a
growing share of European commerce,
has already outmarshaled commercial
America on the Pacific, has crowded
it's cities with roaring factories, and
has given costly and triumphant equip
ment to its aggressive fleets and regl-
ments. And it has accomplished all
this out of the profit Of harvests
cleaned from a farm area scarcely
large enough to afford storage room
for the agricultural machinery in use
in the United States"
Could there be a more striking proof
of the oft-quoted words of David Starr
Jordan, that
stability of national character goes
with firmness Of foot-hold on the
SOIL"
Comparison of Areas.
Now compare Japan and it's devel-
opment with the possibilities of devel-
opment in the Middle West.
The area of all the islands compris-
ing the Empire of Japan is 147, $50
square miles; of this only 10000
square miles is available for agricult-
ure, for every available acre in that
country is cultivated.
The total combined area of Wiscon-
sin, Illinois and Indiana is 146,360
square miles, and it is safe to say that
considerably more than half of this
probably more than two thirds
is capable of as close a cultivation
and of sustaining as dense a popula-
ton per square mile as the cultivated
area of Japan.
The water with which to irrigate il
now runs to waste. The water which
Chicago turns into her drainage canal
instead of producing agricult' 'raI
wealth by irrigating the lands of Hi
nois, produces law suits with st. Louis
because it runs to waste past thai
city to the Gulf of Mexico.
The time will come when irrigated
agriculture in the Middle West vii
absorb every drop of water falling
within that territory.
And when the irrigation canals an6
the irrigated farms of the Middle
West will dry up the Ohio and the
Mississippi rivers, just as irrigation
in the West has dried up Tulare Lake
in California, and is rapidly drying uI
the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the
Amador ledger., 1905-11-24

ti0n from Japan has not vet been
learned, and when President Roose-
velt fails to see it,and demands only
more battle ships, as the lesson of the
great sea fight which has just been
fought, he unfortunately diverts the
minds of the people of this country
from facts Of supreme and overshad-
owing Importance, whicn should be
burned into the public mind as by d
stroke of lightning from every victory
won by the Japanese.
That lesson is the profoundly i'm
portant fact that the Japanese man,
the unit of her national strength, is
the product of a mode of life and an
environment which combines the
physical strength which comes only
from the rural life-from living next
to nature-with the mental activity
and keenness which come from CON
slant contact with his fellowmen-the
community life.
A Nation of Gardeners.
The japanese are not nation Of
farmers, as we understand the word
They are nation of gardeners.
There is neither isolation nor conges-
ton in their life. They dwell, the
great majority of them. not i'll great
cities, but in closely settled rural COM
munities. The ranch and the tene-
ment are alike foreign to the life of
the Japanese.
The greatprinciple that mustcontrol
our own national development hence
forth is that the land shall be subdi-
vided into the smallest tracts from
which one mans labor will sustain a
family in comfort, and that every
child, boy or girl, in the public schools
should be SO trained in those schools
that it will know how to till such a
tract of land for livelihood.
In other words. let US reproduce in
this country the conditions so well
described in an article from the Book
lovers Magazine for August, 1904.
from which we quote the following
while Japan is cannonadingitsw way
to rank with Christian powers as
Amador ledger., 1905-11-24

Guilty in the way of it is mere Gus
tom or habit, easily modified.
The terms of school of all city
schools should be changed. There
should be a short winter term, dur
ing which the time should be given to
instruction from the books and in
handicraft within doors.
There should be a summer term of
equal length during which the schools
would be transferred to the suburbs,
and work in summer school gardens.
The children should be taken back
and forth to these summer school gar
dens at public expense, as they are
now taken to and from the consoli-
dated rural schools ON the trolley
lines in some of the New England
states.
The vacation, which would not need
be so long, should be divided between Il
spring vacation and a fall vacation,
intervening between the winter city
erm and the country summer term OF
each school.
Building Strong Citizenship.
OF course, many will hold up their
hands and say this is impossible.
England finds it impossible, as the
result of her system of great landed
estates, to provide her people with
homes on the land, and in conse-
quence her ruin as a nation is only a
question of a comparatively brief
time.
Japan, on the contrary, put forth
her hand and solved the very problem
which, to England. seems impossible.
and behold the results in her strength
and power as a nation.
1t is only question with MS. as q
people, whether we will follow the
lead of Japan, and profit by her les.
sons, or follow the lead of England
and share i'll her eventual ruin.
The influences which are DESTROYING
England are at work steadily and in.
sldiously in this nation, and Though
1t will take longer for them to WORK
our rum, 1t is sure to come if we do
not hnd way to root the great
majority of our people to the land in
homes of their own, as japan has
done, and as we can do, unless We
are as blind and as impotent in deal
ing with our national problems as
seems to be the fate of England.
In the carrying out of this great
patriotic purpose of building a strong
cltlzenship by building rural homes
on The land, We are. at the Same
tlme, doing that which will create
tne greatest possible commercial
prosperity, and develop to the high
est attainable point, not only the re-
sources of the Middle West, but of
our entire country.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-24

first-ciass fighting nation, it is not neG-
lecting its fields of rice, genge, millet
and muji, its groves of mulberry and
bamboo, its priceless plots of tea and
mitsumata shrubs, and its multi-mil-
lion gardens of berries, vegetables.
fruits and flowers. The thousands of
patriots that have marched to the
front have not thinned the ranks of
the mightier hosts tilling the soil.
Thirty million farmers are gathering
ample harvests in the diminutive fields
of Japan.
Husbandry Dignified.
''For twenty-five centuries the Sun
rise soVereigns have dignified hus-
bandry as the most important and
NEST honorable industrial calling i'll
the empire, and now more than sixty
per cent of the Mikado'S subjects till
with incompatible skill the limited
soil of his islands
''The same diligent genius that ena-
bles a landscape gardener in Japan to
compass within few square yards of
land forest, a bridge-spanned stream,
q waterfall and lake, chain of ter
raced hills, gardens and chrysanthe-
NUNS, hyacinthS, peonies and pinks, a
beetling crag crowned with a dWarfed
park meandering paths, with here a
shrine and there dainty summer
house, has made it possible for the far
mers of the empire to build up on less
than nineteen thousand square miles
of arabic land the most remarkable
agricultural nation the world has
known. If all the tillable acres of
Japan were merged into one field a
man In an automobile. travelling at the
rate of fifty miles an hour, could skirt
the entire perimeter of arabic Janan
in eleven hours. Upon this narrow
freehold Japan has reared a nation OF
imperial power, which is determined
to enjoy commercial preeminence ovel
all the world of wealth and opportu
nifty from Siberia to Siam and already
by the force of arms. is driving from
the shores of Asia the greatest mon
archy of Europe.
Roots in the Soil.
The secret of the success of the lit
tie Daybrsak Kingdom has been 6
mystery to many students of nations
Patriotism does not explain the riddle
Of its strength, neither can commerce