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Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
FACTS ABOUT GEESE.

Raising geese for market and the
summarized by the Department of Ag-
riculture. The statement is made
that geese are probably the hardest
of all domestic fowl, requiring less at
tention than COWS or hens, and little
or no outlay for buildings. The old
geese do well in all weathers, often
times disdaining even a shed, and they
do well on wet or marshy land, where
hens and turkeys will not thrive
They, however, have their pecuiiarI-
ties. If they are changed often from
one place to another they are not apt
to breed well. They breed better the
third season they are in a locality
lest to pick, and are white when
dressed. The Embden-African are al
so easy to pick and larger than the
White-China. These two breeds,
crossed, produce vigorous, quick grow.
ing goslings. The Embden-Toulouse is
regarded as the most satisfactory
cross for large geese for Christmas
and New Years trade.
Old geese lay a greater number OF
larger eggs and are more reliable than
young birds and lay more fertile eggs.
Breeding geese should have consider.
able exercise and be kept moderately
thin in flesh through the winter by
light feeding and free range, or ia.
cilities for swimming. The Toulouse
geese lay well, but often do not sit
The Emblem gees lay fewer eggs, but
make better mothers. Geese are not
grazers, and too much grain is not
good for them. To insure fertile eggs
they should have an abundance of
green food and constant access to
drinking water; also, if possible. to
pond.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
HORSE FEEDING.

In making up rations for horses we
must remember that the digestive or
gans of this animal differ materially
from those of the COW, the former hav-
ing but one stomach while the latter
has four, three of which are used, in
the main, to prepare the food for the
fourth or true stomach, which corre-
spends to that of the morse. For this
reason horses cannot assimilate as
much from a bulky or coarse ration as
is noted for the ruminants. Conse-
1uently when a horse is being heavily
worked intelligent care must be given
to the feeding. For instance, from
thirty-five to forty-five pounds of sill
age can be fed daily to the COW, but
less than one-third of that amount
should constitute the daily portion for
the horse.
When feeding COWS it is generally
considered best to have the grain or
concentrated part of the ration form
about one-third of the total dry matter,
whereas, in the case of feeding horses,
heavily worked. the proportion OF
grain may exceed one-half the total
amount of food. One reason for u.s.
ing so much grain is in order to be
sure that we have in the ration
generous amount of protein, so essen
tial to the successful feeding of the
horse.
In alfalfa sections so much protein
can be supplied in green and cured
alfalfa that much less grain is re-
CURED than is necessary when the
roughage consists of cereal hays only.
Bulletin 1872, University of Cali
fornia.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
COWS THAT ARE THIEVES.

IF the man behind the cow in
Kansas would do his part, no unprofit-
able animal would masquerade under
the fictitious appellation of 'milch
cow and she would either go to the
butchers block or be made to return
profit by more intelligent care and
management" says Secretary Coburn
in the quarterly report of the Kansas
Board OF Agriculture. 1T passeth un-
derstanding why theft by cow
should be tolerated more than theft
by human. In effect, the result to
the loser in either case is the same.
Our government has found it wisdom
to study and establish far-reaching
methods for the detection and the re-
preston of the latter; and by the
same token why should our farmers
and dairymen be less vigilant in re-
gard to this possible proclivity in their
cows-beasts described as dumb, vet
outwitting their owners? So long as
cows Of this class are permitted In
the dairy herd, so long will there be
dissatisfaction and failure. Improve
ment is the route to success, whether
by breeding, better management, or
other ways, and intelligence in our
cowmen is the power that will force
advancement in the right direction.
"Dairying has come to be one OF
the most important factors in Kansas
agriculture, and rightly conducted is
one of the surest money-makers OF
our varied industries. 1t is incompar-
ably more rational than any one-crop
system, or even general farming, as
its practice tends to rotation of crops,
maintains or increases the fertility
of land, and affords steady employ
ment with returns remunerative ac-
cording to the brains mixed with the
business.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
THE RELATION BETWEEN BAG
TERRA AND SOIL.

An account of some interesting ex-
periments made at the Agricultural In
stitute of Bonn-Poppelsdorf upon the
nitrifying bacteria by DR.. Wohltmann,
contains the following:
"All plants require nitrogen, but al
though an abundant supply exists free
in the atmosphere, most of them are
unable to use it, and depend upon
what is found in chemical combination
with other substances in the soil. If
the soil is poor in heterogeneous COM
pounds, there can not be a luXuriant
growth of vegetation upon it. But
peas, beans, and others of the family
of leguminous plants contrive to form
partnerships with certain kinds of bac-
terra which, in some way, act upon
free nitrogen and change it chemical
ly into compounds that can be used
by the plants, and also change nitro
gen compounds that are not available
into compounds that can be used.
These bacteria form nodules about as
large as pin heads on the roots of the
plants. On account Of this character
istic, poor soil is often planted with
peas, beans, etc., in order to enrich
it by the compounds Of nitrogen
formed in this way"
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
THE BREAKING PLOW.

am the pillow that turns the soil
That has lain for a thousand years;
Where the prairie's wind-tossed flowers
nod
And the wolf her wild cub rears.
| come, and in my wake like rain,
Is scattered the golden seed:
| change the leagues of lonely plain
To fruitful gardens and fields of grain
For men and their hungry breed.
A thousand summers the prairie rose
Has gladdened the hermit bee,
A thousand winters the drifting SHOWS
Have whitened the grassy sea:
Before me curls the wavering smoke
OF the Indians smoldering fire.
Behind me rise-was ii God who spoke p
At the toil-enchanted hammers stroke,
The town and the glittering spire.
Exchange
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
ALL ROUND BUTTERMAkERs.

If a buttermaker is to accomplish
the greatest good for his creamery
and win an enviable reputation among
his patrons, he cannot be altogether a
specialist. He cannot devote all his
energy to an effort to get his butter 10
score one point higher, but must use
some of this energy in furnishing his
patrons first-class pasteurized skim
milk. He must be an expert in run
ming the separators, for one point lost
in Swimming amounts to more than
one point lost on score. He must be
careful fireman, and careful ma
chinist for waste in fuel and extras
are an absolute loss, while It is la
mentable but true that, under present
conditions, butter that scores SO
brings but little If any more than but
ter that scores 81. He must be
good-natured critic, but not crank,
who can refuse unwholesome milk
without giving offensc. Deliver us
from the one-sided Pathfinder, and
chronic grumbler, and give us the
broad-gauged, all-round, general pur-
pose buttermaker
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
THE SCUM OF AGRICULTURE.

Agriculture is given low rank by the
urban populace because it is judged
by the false standard which many OF
its uninspired followers have estab>
lished through miserable and inexcus-
able failures. Everybody who knows
much about country life is familiar
with that class of careless farmers
who represent the scum of agriculture
and whose lifelong failure to make
more than a cheap, mind-starved liv-
ing affords an unreliable index to the
alton of modern husbandry. BY their
works the greatest productive indus
try is grossly misjudged. These hap
hazard farmers are not typical of the
farming population as a whole, yet
this compliment is often paid them.
Nearly every rural neighborhood
has its coterie of young men who be-
come, largely through their early free
dom from parental discipline, an OBJ
jectional element in agriculture. Off
springs in many instances of a no.
madic ancestry, devoid of fixed pur-
pose in life and blind to their oppor-
tunities some of them apparently are
doomed for a lifetime to the lot of
small renters or hirelings. Yet by far
the larger part of their kind, born
perhaps of industrious, honorable par
ents, actually train themselves during
a thoughtless boyhood to become the
offsl of an occupation which they
should glorify rather than disgrace. 1t
is the work of these unfortunates that
lowers public estimate of the farm
ers vocation. To translate them into
successful agriculturists is not within
the power of any human agency,
though material Improvement might
be effected in several ways.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
MILLET FOR HORSES.

The following communication has
been received from subscriber Mr..
w. n. Ferguson:
I'm reply in a recent issue to Mr. j.
H. G.. you say that millet hay is in
furious to horses. | do not agree with
you there. | have fed it for the past
seventeen years to horses and cattle,
thirty to forty head each year, and
have never lost an animal or even had
a sick one from feeding. l think it
ahead of timothy. | give them all they
want of it at night and let them run
at straw during the day If not at work,
but | always cut my millet before it
too much, for that spells it's feeding
value. | SOW from twenty to thirty
acres every year."
We are glad to quote the experience
of Mr.. Ferguson, and would especially
call the attention of our readers to the
fact that it is his practice to cut
millet early and to get it inside with
out allowing it to bleach to any con-
siderable extent.
When we called attention to the
fact that millet hay sometimes results
injuriously to horses we had in mind
experiments conducted at the Dakota
station, where the health of animals
was seriously impaired by feeding
continuously on millet hay. 1t is just
possible that by feeding only once a
day, as is the case in this instance,
danger Of injury is lessened
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
THE SPLiT-LOG DRAG.

The good roads question is one that
is being agitated extensively and in it
the split-log or King road drag is
figuring extensively. Many localities
are using them, from twenty-five to
thirty of the drags being in operation
in one immediate community.
The commonly known split-log drag
is an inexpensive implement. 1t is
either made of the halves Of a log
fastened few feet apart and pulled
over the road with the fiat side fore
most at an angle Of forty-five degrees,
or it is made of timbers or planks, and
the effect in leveling of the roads and
keeping them smooth is marvellous.
The cost of these machines is but
trifle and well worth the little ex-
pense and trouble of building. Each
farmer should have one and spend
few hours leveling off the road that
borders his farm. II each man were
to do this the good roads problem
would be solved in greater part. Not
many of these drags are in operation.
in this community, but those in use
are doing good work. The little
chuck holes are filled up and the
bumps leveled off. Try a split-log drag
and then interest the other fellow in
one
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
FOUND SECRET OF GREEKS.
Hungarian Professor Knows How to
Make Mortar Imperishable.

wake MoTtdT ITUPcTiSudpics
A Hungarian professor and chemist
Of the Brunn university claims to have
rediscovered the secret of the ancient
Greeks by which they were able to
render mortar imperishable. The rea-
son for the remarkable preservation
and hard texture of the sealing ma
terial of the Acropolis at Athens,
which is as good to-day as it was
when first laid centuries ago, has
always puzzled scientists and archae-
ologists. This Hungarian some twenty
five years ago procured piece of this
nintlike mortar and ever since has
been engaged upon ascertaining the
secret of it's manufacture. He has in
vented a chemical compound, liquid in
character and yellowish color. The
claims Of this inventor are that by the
application of this compound the den
Eity of nearly every description Of
stone, including granite. is doubled,
and is rendered absolutely impervious
to water; it imparts to all metals the
POWER to resist rust and is a great.
powerful germicide. These properties
are not transient, but everlasting.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
How Owls CAUGHT Chickens.

When | was chunk of boy shot
a horned owl, the spread of whose
wings was Az feet, and to the sur
prise of the boy who had carried it for
several miles the weight was only
four pounds.
They were rather numerous at that
time in that section of the country,
and were troublesome about carrying
off chickens, which mostly roasted in
apple trees about the farm buildings.
The belief that they could carry away
full grown hens was a common one.
1t was also commonly believed that
an owl never picked a chicken off the
roost. but, alighting on the limb,
crowded the chickens off, and as 1t
few toward the ground caught it on
the wing.-Forest and Stream.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
BATTLE WITH TEN-FooT SHARK.
NAVIGATING Dog of Ocean Fights
Fishers on BAY.


A ten-foot man-eating shark en-
gagged in fierce battle with two ltal-
ian fishermen yesterday afternoon In
the bay, says San Francisco dis
patch. The contest lasted two hours,
and the Italians were exhausted when
the fish was vanquished. They towed
1t to Meiggs' wharf, where it is now
on exhibition.
Jose and Pietro Carniglia had their
net set off Angel island yesterday
morning, when they felt the boat
start The speed increased In rapid
rate and they realized that shark
had become entangled in the net. They
started to haul 1t in, but little prog
ress could be made. Forward and
back the boat was hauled, and after
more than an hour the struggles OF
the shark ceased. The net was hauled
in, but when the man-eater came to
The surface there ensued a terrific
struggle.
With oars the fishermen hammered
the head of the shark. At times the
tiger of the sea leaped from the water
and threw itself against the boat. The
side CT the boat was partly crushed
and the water started to flow in.
Finally the shark ceased to struggle.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Churches Turned Into Inns.

At Great Easton, three miles from
Rockingham Station, there is a Yves
leyan chapel which is now an inn
When built stone was placed over
the entrance with the words inscribed
ITO the Glory of God" and the inscrip-
ton still remains over the portal of
the licensed premises.
At Observation-Disclosures a chapel
was built in 1S49, in the time Of the
Wesleyan reform movement, which
after a time became too small, and n
larger building some distance away
was bought from the Wesleyans, the
smaller one being sold. After passing
through various hands the former
building is now a licensed house and
a music hall.-London Daily News.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Hints for Building
and Improvements
plan of Grain Barn.

The above cut shows the plan of a
barn, which combines capacity with
cheapness. The upright supports may
be either Axe posts, or round poles.
and where large, fiat stones are not
available may be set in holes with
concrete In the bottom and all around
the posts well up and beveled at the
top. so as to shed the water. The barn
is AZ feet wide by any desired length.
the side posts to be set feet apart.
On account of the double angle OF the
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Salad Grown az Table.

The experiment of serving a dinner.
party with salad grown under the
guests own eyes was recently tried
in Berlin. Here is the recipe: Take
good terminating lettuce seed and
soak 1t in alcohol for about six hours,
SOW it in an equal mixture of rich soil
and unslaked lime, and place 1t on the
table. After the soup water it with
lukewarm water. whereupon il CON-
mences to sprout Immediately. The
thing worked like a charm, and the
lettuces when plucked and prepared
for eating were the size of Barcelona
nuts.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

A good way to ventilate your stable
is to place four or six inch tiles I'M
derneath your wall, in the shape of a
u, having the end outside the wall
high enough so that no dirt or drain
age can get in. Cover it with a screen.
Have the end on the inside of the wall
reach a few inches above the floor
This makes a better fresh air intake
pipe than a tile straight through the
wall, as it creates more suction. Have
these intake pipes in the feed alleys
ii possible in front of stock Then put
in air fiues made of one-inch boards
about eight inches square, or galvan-
lied iron pipe will do, running from
the roof of the barn down the gable
ends or the center perline posts
through the floor of the barn to few
inches below the under side of the
joist. These fues will take off the
heated air and thus draw on the fresh
air pipes to fill the stable with pure
fresh air. You can use as many of
these fiues as you require The aver
age number for a barn 40x56 or &C.
feet is four of each kind. In severe
weather some of the intake pipes may
be covered If the stable is too cold.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Humus has three distinct physical
effects upon soils, all due to increased
porosity, namely: moisture, capacity,
entrance OF air and temperature. 1t
also causes certain chemical activities
which are the base of all fertility;
activities without which a soil would
be dead, and of no agricultural value.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Two wealthy Pittsburg families
have gone to law over a game rooster
that is owned by one of them and
has disturbed the other by early
morning growing. If they don't watch
out they may not have enough left
when the lawyers get through with
them to buy titled husbands for their
daughters.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

If the spots on the sun are RESPONSE
bic for the heat, as some of the scien-
tifc gentlemen assure us, a total
eclipse of the sun ought to be about
the hottest proposition that ever came
over the weather pike.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

A New York girl who after being
jilted vowed that she would find hus-
band within month got him in fif-
teen days. She must understand,
however, that she has not broken any
records.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

The chorus girl who after being
married to an old gentleman a year
became a widow with a fortune of
100000 is probably convinced that
skill in the matter of choosing Is more
important than luck.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

A Pittsburg heiress has been disin-
herited for marrying young attorney
of that city. Her parents probably
knew of an earl or marquis whom
they could have got for her at a bar
gain.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

There is fear of another Boxer up
rising in China. When people once
get to figuring in the headlines it is
hard for them to settle down again
and be good.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

A Butte preacher won 1880 at faro
one night. When parson starts out
to fight the devil with fire he rarely
fails to make big enough blaze
Florida Times-Union.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Magazine writer's are discussing this
question: rs it sacrifice to take
great Officer" 1t may be, but if 1t is,
1t only shows how self-sacrifcing the
average American can be when called
upon to accept a public trust to which
there is attached a salary.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Now it is the nebular hypothesis
which is discredited by the iconoclas-
tic scientists. The theory of gravita-
ton will get black eye one Of these
days.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Sir James Crichton-Browne thinks
that we might live to be a hundred
years old if we would sleep fifty.
What's the use of being alive if you're
asleep?
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Judging from Rockefeller's case, a
man has to be a Millionaire before he
finds out that the best medicines are
sunshine, water and fresh air.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

If sand is used in making the &C.
ment blocks, it will take two barrels
of Portland cement to one cubic yard
Of sand. If fine gravel is used it will
take one and one-quarter barrels of
cement to one cubic yard of gravel
and would make as good a block. A
continuous air space as described is
generally sufficient, but if strapped.
lathed and plastered it would be sure
to make a thoroughly dry wall.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

A New York policeman is said 20
have lost his sense of smell. No
reason, however, to believe that he
has lost his sense of touch
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

The man who told his rich relatives
that thenceforth he would be as one
dead to the world went to Philadel-
phia.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Inp VIEW
Side View
ventilatina a Damp Basement.

c. B-I have a barn 40x56 feet, with
underground stables, which are very
damp. Three feet of the wall are of
of wooden work, which reaches the
ceiling. How could this basement be
ventilated?
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16
Material for Cement Blocks.

j. r. FL intend to build a house
OF concrete blocks. How much cement
will be required to be mixed with each
cubic yard of sand in making the con-
crete? 2. If the wall has an air space
in the center is it necessary to lath
and plaster on the inside to prevent
dampness?
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

The statement that "bald-headed
men never have consumption" should
be soothing to the bald-headed men
who think they have it,
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Korea is ready to testify that being
called "protectorate" does not make
the process of political determination
any less painful.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

1t is, of course, difficult to get any
one to believe the absurd criticism
that Alfred Austins poetry has de-
Perforated.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Whisky has gone up on account If
the high price of corn. Is that a bluff
to make us think corn is used in max
ing the stuff?
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

To show how careless some of us
are it may be mentioned that lot of
us had forgotten that the Ziegler party
was lost.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Paterson. N. j.. has offered $4,000
for her lost mayor. This high price is
explained by the fact that he took
100000 If the finder returns the
money. they will let the mayor go.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Fortunately it is not going to make
any difference to the solar system
what theory the college professors
evolve about it.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Seats on the water wagon look at
tractive after one has been reading
the testimony in the Taggart case.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

The good old sedan chair is still in
use in certain corners of the world.
1t is about the same kind of furniture
that royalty used in Queen Elizabeth's
days. Recently, during the Passion
Week. King Alfonso of Spain was car
ried around in sedan chair just as
the fine ladies were when all the world
saw high society at Tunbridge Wells
and Bath.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

The English have taken to the bicy-
Gle Always ready to adopt a worn
out American fad.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Japan disclaims all responsibility
for the honorable earthquakes that
are disturbing China.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

1t is predicted that this years crops
will be the biggest the world has ever
seen. Cheer up.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

The formula for estimating the
horse power of an engine by the brake
test is as follows: The diameter of.
the wheel to which the brake is an
piled, multiplied by II to give the
circumference; this multiplied by the
number of revolutions per minute dur
irg the test; this again by the differ
ence between the weight hung to the
FREE end of the rope below the av-
wheel and that indicated by the spring
balance at the other end of the rome
above the fiy-wheel; this continued
product divided by $4,000 will give the.
horse power.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-09-16

Americans will be glad to hear that
Mary Anderson has a new baby, her
second born.