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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
EARLY CUT HAY.

You paid out a lot of money the
PAST winter for grain in order that the
COWS might give more milk. When
you went to the miller your only ex-
case for so doing, though you may
lever have thought about 1t, was to
get digestible protein. Whether or
no you got it in the cheapest form is
another matter but there are some
things you can do this summer to in
crease your stock of protein so that
less will have to be purchased next
season. Early-cut hay contains twice
as much digestible protein as the same
hay late cut.
Don't wait until your grass is all
ripe before you begin cutting. Get
the bulk of it just as it is coming into
bloom. 1t will be more work, and the
first crop may not be quite so large
but you will have something that has
milk in it when you get that kind Of
hay in the barn. If you had any clover
hay cure it in the heap, so that the
leaves will not dry up, drop off and
be lost.
You are raising some oats for feed.
Do not wait until they are almost ripe
enough for threshing; you will never
get much of the grain when the COW
can make use of it. Cut them so as
to get all the protein in them that is
possible, and do it by cutting them
just as they come into milk.
You have been talking about a silo.
Better not wait until the corn is ready
to cut. Have it all done before August
1. If you have been in the habit of
starting your haying after the Fourth
of July suppose this year you get the
most of it in the. barn before that
date. Then you will really have
something to celebrate.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
HARVESTING POTATOES.

The time for harvesting potatoes is
indicated by the dying of the vines.
The ripening process in the tubers
goes on up to this time, and it is
therefore not wise to attempt to har-
vest before that time. If dug while
immature, the quality will not be so
good as it will be if the tubers are
left in the ground till mature. On the
other hand, if left too long in the
ground, decay is likely to set in. We
have known potatoes left in the fields
too long-till the ground froze too
hard to permit Of digging. This is not
likely to occur, but has occurred some
years when winter came very early
The man with small patch of pota-
toes will dig his by hand, but the man
that has large quantity to be har-
vested cannot afford to do it in the
old-fashioned way He must depend
on some of the first-class potato dig
gers that are on the market. Plow-
ing out the tubers is practiced by
some farmers, but this is hardly a de-
sirable method, as by it great many
potatoes are injured. 1t is better to
invest in a tool made expressly for
the work.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
keepinu Lice Out.

1t is entirely possible to keep lice
out of the poultry yard, just as it is
possible to keep out poultry diseases.
| am aware that the lice are so com.
mon that it is taken for granted that
they must be in evidence, but | know
now from my own experience that
neither lice nor mites are necessary,
provided of course that no fowls are
brought into the flock from other
sources.
| have kept out lice and mites for
years. but my flock is a small one
But | know of a flock of over COO
hens where no lice or mites are tc
be found. They take great precau
tions to keep out birds that might
bring them in. 1t pays better to get
along without some birds rather than
have lice introduced into the flock.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
MILK AND BUTTER STANDARDS

Secretary Wilson of the Department
of Agriculture names the standards
approved, to be embodied in a bill to
be passed by the several states, as fol-
lows:
1.-The standard of milk is fixed at no
less than IL per cent of total solids,
no less than So per cent of solids,
and no less than 3A per cent of milk
fat. Separate definitions and stand
ards are prescribed for plain and
sweetened condensed milks and for
evaporated cream.
Butter is defined and this statement
added: BY acts of congress approved
August 2, 1886, and May 8, 1902, butter
may also contain additional coloring
matter A similar statement is made
with reference to coloring matter in
cheese. based on the act Of June 6,
1896. The standard of butter as fixed
contains rot less than S2h per cent
butter fat and the same as to reno
waited butter, except that maximum
limit of 10 per cent of water is fixed"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
EAT MORE FRUlr.

If people ate more fruit they would
take less medicine and have much
better health. There is an old say
ing that fruit is gold in the morning
and lead at night. AS a matter Of
fact, it may be gold at both times, but
then it should be eaten on an empty
stomach and not as a dessert, when
the appetite is satisfied and digestion
is already sufficiently taxed. Fruit
taken in the morning before the fast
of the night has been broken is very
refreshing, and it serves as Il stimulus
to the digestive organs. A ripe apple
or an orange may be taken at this
time with good effect. Fruit, to be
really valuable as an article of diet,
should be ripe, sound, and in every
way of good quality, and If possible it
should be eaten raw. Instead OF eat
ing plate of ham and eggs and bacon
for breakfast, most people would dc
far better if they took some grapes,
pears or apples-fresh fruit as long as
fall back on stewed prunes, figs, etc.
Ii only fruit of some sort formed d.
important item in their breakfast,
it is to be had, and after that they can
women would generally feel brighter
and stronger, and would have far bet
ter compilations than is the rule at
present.-Ex.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
GETTING A STAND OF CLOVER.

Although the principal object
growing clover is to increase the nitro
gen of the soil, land should be seeded
to clover for this purpose long before
1t approaches condition of actual
poverty. Although the poorest field may
be the one most in need of additional nj
trogen, 1t is not the one that will re,
ceive most benefit from the clover
crop, as 1t does not contain humus
enough so that good catch of clover
may be expected. The poorest fields
should have a good large share of the
barnyard manure plowed under, SO
that they may be ready for clover
seeding another year The clover
seeding should be confined to lands
with sufficient supply of humus, so
that good catch may be obtained.
There are several definite reasons why
soils rich in humus give the best
clover catch. These soils retain more
moisture and in capillary way They
are in better physical condition, and
plant food is not only plentiful, but
available.
Suitable preparation OF the seed
bed is of almost equal Importance
with humus. The most common prac-
tice is to seed clover after grain in
ordinary cultivated fields, but the plan
only succeeds well on comparatively
new land, rich, mellow and crumbly.
Ordinary grain fields are rather unfit
for the tiny clover seeds. Unless
these are scattered on a smooth, we'll
pulverized surface, many will fail to
lodge at depth permitting germina-
ton, and many will be covered too
deeply. Also, poorly pulverized soil
does not permit the rise of the needed
capillary moisture. The field should
be planked and dragged to a good seed
bed and uniform covering Rye makes
the best nurse crop as the clover gets
the sun the quickest; and the stock
should always be kept off the first
year.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
TREE 5000 YEARS OLD.
Cypress at chepuItepee Assigned That
Enormous Ace.

The distinction of being the Oldest
living thing undoubtedly belongs TO
one of the giant trees. and many at
tempts to locate it and determine its
age have been made. A century ago
De Candolle found two yews-one at
Portugal, in Perthshire, and one at
Hedsor, in Bucks-that were estimat-
ed to be respectively $500 and 3,240
years old. Both are still fiourishing,
and the older tree has trunk ~ feet
in circumference. A gigantic baobab
of Central America, with a trunk 29
feet through, was thought by Hum
boldt to be not less than $3.50 years
old. Mexican botanists believe they
have now discovered life-span even
greater than this. and from the an
nual rings cypress of Chepultepec,
whose trunk is 11S feet in circumfer.
ence, is assigned an age of about 600
years.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
Stimulating Appetite.

1t is astonishing to what extent the
.dea prevails that the use of stimulants
in the food of poultry is beneficial.
There are numerous people that al
most constantly dope their fowls with
cayenne pepper. 1t is wonder that
the fowls do not quickly show the
effects of such unnatural methods OF
feeding. A healthy bird has no more
need of such irritants in its food than
does healthy person need big doses
Of red pepper. Moreover, when bird
is fed red pepper the person that gives
it does not usually consider the great
difference in size between a human
being and a barnyard fowl. With
full grown man or woman very small
amount of cayene pepper in the food
goes long ways, but with bird that
weighs approximately five pounds the
dose should be correspondingly small.
IL cayenne pepper is to be fed at all
Ii should be fed in a scientific manner,
but such is not the usual mode OF
feeding. When the appetite OF the
bird is dull it indicates that the diges.
tive system of the fowl Is out OF con-
dition. Matters cannot be improved
by inducing the bird to take more
food to be turned into the already
sluggish digestive passages. Stimu'
lating the appetite at such time may
result in increasing the complications
in the digestive tract.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
An Infant Prodigy.

Even Ireland has its prodigy. Par
ticulars of wonderful infants accom-
plishments are given with all reserve
in The Tattler. Three and q half
years old, a Kinnegad boy reads the
newspaper, sings about fifty comic
songs, and dances 4 sailors hornpipe
in a regulation Jack Tar suit. He has
a wonderful memory, and a keen
sense of humor not often found in
one SO young. He can sing any song
he once hears with scarcely a mis-.
take, either in words or music.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
Large Poultry YARDS.

On the farm there is not a
great demand for poultry yards
during much of the year. yet
yards are almost always found
necessary at some time of year. If
the yards are to be used much in
summer they should be large ones
that the fowls may have an abund-
ance of room for exercise. The large
poultry yard does not become con-
taminated with droppings to the ex.
tent that a small one does. This is
a great consideration in warm weather
and also in wet weather. The ground
in the crowded poultry yard is soon
worked into a fine mud by the feet
OF the fowls, while if the yard is
abundantly large the ground will not
be broken up except immediately
around the door and not there IL
gravel is placed to extend a few yards
from the entrance.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
Bran. Corn and Oats.

I have found that mixture OF bran,
ground corn and ground oats in equal
parts makes a very good soft food.
simply place what | wish to use in
big wooden pail | have and cover ii
with boiling hot water, stirring it up
let the mixture remain for at least
six hours. BY that time 1T is thor
oughly cooked, provided the pail has
been kept covered | think it is un
necessary to cook such food by put
ting it in tank with fire beneath. We
have only to keep the vessel in which
is the mixture tightly covered to have
the latent heat in the pail do the work
In feeding bran | get a large amount
of bone and muscle-forming materia,
both lime and protein. BY feeding
corn I get some of these and more
of the fat-making ingredients. By
feeding the oats | get large quantity
Of easily digested food that is bal
anced about as perfectly as it can be
There is also stimulant called
"avoin" in oats, which is supposed &c
greatly increase the vigor of fowls an6
farm animals using oats. l have oh
tanned good results by feeding this
mixture once a day, as it keeps the
digestive organs of the fowls healthy
and in good .-Estella Har
per, Carroll Co., ILL.,, in Farmers Re
view
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

The extent to which mules are bred
in the south is illustrated by the rela-
tive numbers of mules and horses re.
spectively, in the state of Missouri.
The value of the horses in that state
is estimated at s42,O00,O00. The value
Of the mules is estimated at s16,500,
900. The value of mules therefore in
Missouri is more than one-third the
value of all the horses in that state
thus important in Missouri, there is
surely room for larger number of
the same in the American Northwest.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

The stomach worm is about the
most troublesome parasite that preys
upon sheep. There is probably a
larger number of lambs lost from this
cause than from any other disease.
Our readers are of course conversant
with the fact that the remedies usual
ly recommended are benZine, creoline
and turpentine. DR.. Wheeler of North
Carolina now comes forward with the
statement that these remedies are of
no account We learn from the report
of the Minnesota Live Stock Sanitary
Board that he claims the only relia-
BILE means of treating sheep for these
worms is by penetrating the fourth
stomach and injecting creoline through
the canula directly into this organ.
Creoline is a non-irritating coal tar
product.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

The value of the mule in the United
States is likely to increase continually
In no other country in the world are
mules bred to anything like the same
extent as with us. The wars of re-
cent times have still further accent
uated the great value Of the mule. If
the present war between Russian and
Japan continues for any considerable
period, we may expect tnat American
mules will be sought for. In connection
with the building of the Panama
canal they will also find a mission.
The breeding of mules, therefore, is
likely to continue profitable bust
ness for at least an indefinite period
in the future.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
Roasting Closets.

BOOSTING closets are new
thing in the poultry world. but
they are doubtless of value. One
of the greatest causes of colds in fowls
has been drafts that have fallen on
the birds when they were sleeping.
Roasting closets can be made of al
most any material including canvas
BY them the fowls can be kept free
from drafts, while the air in the poul7
try house Is disable for breathing. We
would like to hear from readers of
the Farmers Review that have given
this arrangement trial. II is worthy
the careful consideration of our sinh.
scribers that have ventilators in the
tops of their houses, which are as
sumed to be cause of some of the
troubles we have had in the past
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

The farmers of the East and South,
It is estimated. are paying no less
than 1000 900 a year for fertilizers.
Think of the army of middlemen this
amount is supporting; of the vast
amount of hard labor that must be
expended to produce it, Unless this
everlasting cropping of our western
prairies without making any return
fertilizers will all too soon be pouring
into the West, and millions of our
money will be going east to pay for
them
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

While Cheviot sheep are making
fairly good progress in the United
States they do not seem to have been
introduced as yet in large numbers on
the ranges of the West. We have
often wondered that 1t is so. They
are hardy breed. are of size that
should pretty well suit range condi-
lions, and should therefore stand
well the exposure which they would
have to face. They are active on foo,
and can stir about nicely in gathering
food. They also furnish a good car
cass for muttor
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
Novel Life-Savina Invention.

A poor laboring man in Denmark
has made a new invention in life-sav-
ing. He impregnates clothes with a
substance which will keep a ship
wrecked person afloat for several days
without losing its property. A coat,
vest travelling rug-in fact, any
piece of wearing apparel impregnated
with the stuff is enough to keep any
one above water. The invention has
been successfully demonstrated
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

The consumption of food for heat is
increased with the increasing size Of
the body. More internal work must
also be performed to add increase to
large animal than to small one.
The younger animal eats more food in
proportion to its size, hence has a
greater excess above the food of sup.
port, and its organs of digestion and
assimilation do their work better.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
Farm Notes.

1t is not well for a driver to trust q
young horse too far, no matter how
cuiet he may seem ordinarily.
Fattening sheep should not he al.
lowed much range to run over but
should be kept reasonably closely con-
lined.
In selecting young animal for
breeding purposes one with a gentle
and tractable disposition should he
chosen as nearly as can be Judged
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

1t never pays to make a scavenger
out Of the milk COW. She should be
treated as the lady boarder who pays
a fancy price for her board. If farm
scavengers are wanted, let the hogs
and the sheep do the work. Give the
colts and the steers the lee side of the
straw stack and the rummaging over
the stalk field, and the dairy COW the
warm barn, the well-balanced and
abundant ration. The better her
board the more she is willing to pay
for it.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02
Mishap srouoht brothers Tooetber

A curious story comes from Chicago
concerning two men, each of whom
spied collar button on the sidewalk
at the same moment. Each, acting on
simultaneous impulse, stopped to
pick it up. and each got good bump
on the head for his pains. In the con-
versation which followed each sim.
ultaneously discovered that he was
the others brother. They had been
separated for twenty years.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

II has been necessary for the gen.
eral manager of the Cleveland street
railway system to issue general or.
der forbidding girls from sitting on
mems laps while the cars are in mo.
ton. Have they eliminated the curves
In Cleveland?
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

A Buffalo woman recently got mar
ried to her second husband on the day
of his predecessors funeral. She
must have been determined to be the
central figure on a gala occasion for
once in her life.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

A flying machine projected by a
gasoline engine is the device of a Chi.
cago man who promises to make
Washington from Chicago in ten
hours. While he stays up those be.
low can avoid the smell.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

The enthusiasm of scientists is well
illustrated by DR.. Kirkland's story of
how he spent six hours in a tree one
night for the observation of the gypsy
and the brown-tail moths.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

Reginald Vanderbilt has become
captain of the Newport polo team.
How proud the old commodore would
be now if he could behold his illus
trious descendant
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

The fact that an insurance official
Las been discharged for talking too
much will be likely to meet hearty ap.
proval from people who. after saying
no. are robbed of valuable time and
deprived of patience by insistent sole.
itors.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

A London cabman has invented an
automobile that can be drawn by a
horse. What the world wants is an
automobile that never has to be drawn
by horse.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

Tom Lawson warns young men that
as a business proposition speculation
is as bad as playing the races. There
are times when Tom as guide, phil.
osopher and friend is simply great.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

1t is proper to remark at this point
that the battleship Missouri, by exhib.
iting it's heels to the other vessels, be.
comes rightfully the show ship of the
navy.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

A mouse on the stage of New York
theater stopped the performance the
other night, the chorus girls fleeing in
terror. Why should chorus girls be
afraid of mice?
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

Pierpont Morgan already has the
walls of one room covered with pic
lures valued at $4,000 a square foot"
but he is always ready to buy few
more yards of pictorial art when he
finds pieces of the right size.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

New York is threatened with a sec.
ond insurance scandal. Skeletons
seem to take up most of the closet
room in that town.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

That wealthy New Yorker who re-
fused to buy food for his starving
mother was not sent to prison, the
court probably reasoning that his
proper place was in an anthropological
museum.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

Not all the bomb-throwers of Europe
are directing their attention to the
grand dukes. Some of them are en-
crossed with Sultan Abdul Hamid.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

vania says Quay was greater states
man than either Webster or Clay"
This ought to hold the country for
awhile.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

At his own request Paul Mortons
salary has been cut. He will have to
worry along somehow on only $4,000
a year.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

All in vain will be Burbank's efforts
to protect the potato until the average
cook learns how to boil it right, and
then get the water out
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

An aged negro in New York went to
sleep on a third story fire escape and
fell off, but fortunately landed on his
head and suffered no injury.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

Baron Komura deals in $40 tips and
works all night sometimes. There is
no doubt that the Japs are civilized.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

Italy's Dowager Queen is coming
over here next autumn for visit. She
is fond of autoing, and will keep the
elite awake.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

The war is costing the mikado a
million dollars day, or enough to
enable him to live at a fashionable
New York hotel.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

If it were as easy to find gold as ii
is to discover graft, one might find
a mine almost anywhere.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

We know husbands so mean that
they won't even permit their wives to
quarrel with them.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

The editor of the Atlanta Journal is
in earnest in his efforts to reform the
Georgia legislature. He has begun the
task of whipping the members, seri-
atm.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

mfr. wiagg invites contributions OF
any new ideas tnat readers of this de-
partment may wish to present ano
would be pleased to answer correspond
discussed. Address NJ j. Wragg. 800 Good
Block Des Moines. Iowa.l
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-02

Chemist Wiley has gone over to
Scotland to test the whisky. There's
a foreign mission for you.