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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
COST q BEEF
PRODUCTION

An extensive experiment i'll beef pro-
duction was recently started at the
Michigan Agricultural college. X. 5.
Show of the college staff outlines the
plan in Michigan Farmer. He says:
During the first half Of October TWEEN
ty high grade Shorthorn cows about 10
calve were purchased by the lnstitu-
ton. In general these are large fram-
ed animals. well graded up with Short
horn blood and as uniform as the re-
stricting conditions of the experiment
would permit in making the purchases.
These COWS have been divided into
Two lots of ten each. The calves of one
lot arc being permitted to suckie their
dams. but not run with them. AS these
calves develop they will receive sup
Elementary food in addition TO that Sc
cured from their mothers and will final
~ be finished for market at about
1O5O pounds weight. During this time
records will be made Of the amounts of
food consumed by each COW and her
calf, so that the actual cost of the latter
can be determined at any stage Of de-
velopment.
The COWS of the other los are being
MIXED and records made Of the amount
CT milk and fat produced by each in
dividual. After the fat is separated
from this milk The skim milk Is brought
back and fed to the calves. In addition,
the calves will receive liberal supplies
Of food. Records will also be made of
The food consumed by each COW, the
revenue from her butter fat and the
cost of developing her calf to the mar
ketable weight heretofore mentioned.
1t is also planned to purchase ten
more COWS of the same class to calve
about the opening Of the pasturing sea-
son in the spring and allow the calves
70 run with their dams on grass alone
until dried off and then take the calves
I'D and finish them to the same weights
as the ether two lots, determining the
cost also.
Because of the fact that this expert
ment would seem to touch upon very
important practical question it has
been planned to repeat the work two
or three years in succession.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
Egg Producing Ration.

Having fairly comfortable house
and hens Of proper age and over their
mott by the end Of October, the fol-
lowing rations, such as used by our
selves and farmers, will be found eff
fective in the production of eggs in
winter. l give first the rations fed to
our poultry during the winter OF last
year. which were as follows:
To ITO hens one to two years Old
in the morning eight pounds OF wheat;
noon, six pounds ground grain, meas
ured dry, made into a mash; afternoon,
eight pounds wheat or buckwheat.
Three times per week eight pounds OF
cut bone were given in lieu Of the
mash. Mangels, pure water, grit ana
ground oyster shells were in ABUNDANT
supply. Sometimes steamed lawn clip
pings took the place Of mangels. The
ground grains for the mash were: Two
pounds of coarse ground cats, two
pounds cornmeal, one pound shorts
A. G. Gilbert, Ottawa Experiment Sta
ton.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
sheen Notes.

It is not a question of how much a
ram costs as how much profit he re-
turns.
Don't house your sheep too closely;
let the mission of the barn be shelter
rather than warmth.
Give the ewes grain simply as a
luxury. High grain feeding is unfa-
vorable TO big lamb crop.
Sheep no more like to eat out Oh
sour. dirty troughs than the shepherds
like to eat off dirty dishes.
Although the ram may be gentle, II
is better that he be Kept away from
the pregnant ewes. n blow OF his head
may mean the loss of one or more
lambs.-Amcrican Sheep Breeder.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02

directly in front OF the academy and
along Il stretch of country nearly as
smooth as the top of billiard table.
The rock cruSher. which is the impor-
faint machine of the outfit, is located
midway of the work At the time the
construction began great hill of hard
limestone was deposited near the
crushcr. From the cruSher the rock is
carried to Il revolving screen, when
snDarates il into the three classes used.
The power is supplied by an ordinary
traction engine. \ 20.000 pound steam
roller passes over the road constantly,
smoothing down the surface until II is
nearly as hard as solid rock. Inc
pressure is equivalent to about 40
pounds TO the square inch.
D. G. HARE, the expert in charge or
the construction. says that any county
whose land is worth from $50 to $40 an
acre can afford good rock roads.
1.-THE permanent road is the cheapest
road" said Mr. Hare. "At the outset II
looks like a tremendous expense when
compared with country methods OF
building highways, but in the long run
the rock road will pay for itself over
and over again. In some sections
where we have built such roads the
advanced price of land has nearly paid
the expense i'll one year. A FARMING
community to be prosperous must De
able TO reach the market in bad wealth
or as well as good. The well construct
ed highways make it matter OF indlf-
ference whether it rains or not. An
other thing, and it is an important one,
investors from the east will hardly look
at a country where the highways are
full of mudholes They have been used
to good rock roads and would not feel
at home without them"
The first mile of country highway
constructed according to government
plans may cost anywhere from $4,000
to $1,000. The expense is governed by
the distance Of the quarry from the
road. the price of labor, etc. The Sec
ond mile, however, can be built cheaper,
because by that time the men and
teams are more familiar with the work
and can accomplish a greater amount
in less time. The method employed by
the government in its object lesson
roads is as follows:
In the first place, a smooth, hard sub
grade is prepared, with solid shoulders
at the side to hoI1 the grading material
firmly in place. The subgrade is of the
same contour that the completed road
will be. The rock is crushed and
screened in three different sizes, the
largest from two to two and half
inches in diameter, the next about an
inch or an inch and quarter, the third
fine pieces, known as screen dust.
This latter is used for filling and bind
ing the surface The largest rock is
laid Oh the bottom, the intermediate
comes next and the dust goes on top.
1t is hammered into all the spaces be-
tween the larger rock. Each course is
rolled several times by the large steam
roller. Water is used freely when %
plying the fine stone. A sprinkling
cart precedes the roller, which follows
along creating a wave of cement. The
finished road is nearly as smooth and
hard as solid stone and as the sub
grade is impervious to water it is prac-
tically indestructible. Twelve feet is
the average width Of government
road.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
Poultry Points.

Eggs being IA per cent water, the
hens need plenty Of this article every
hour in the day.
Peas and oats are good all around
food. Oats furnish gimp; they make
horse troS, hen cackle and a rooster
crow to beat the cars. This food con-
tributes to the albumen in the white.
Have plenty of oyster shell grit. and
a dish Of alaked lime should be set
near by.
South Carolina rock is a good louise
exterminator and disinfectant. Inc
hens like to burrow in it, and with the
dressing it makes valuable fertilizer.
Kerosene combined with carbolic acid
should be used every Saturday TO clean
the roosting devices.-American Guilt
yatOr
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
MACON'S MODEL ROAD
CONSTRUCTION OF FIVE MILE HIGH
WAY IN A MISSOURI TOWN.

The ROadbed Is Nearly as Hard as
Solid stone and Will Stand Years
of Heavy Wear The Cost Nearly
$4,000 u Mile.
The model road building at Macon.
Mo-, by government engineers prom
!ses to revolutionize country highway
building in this part of the state, says
Il Macon correspondent Of the Kansas
city Star. Steps have already been
taken to add several miles to the road.
BY the middle of next summer the
town will have five mile stretch or
continuous roadway from north to
south The point selected for the
model road is just south of the paved
boulevard which extends nearly down
to Bees Military academy. The gov
eminent work begins there and passes
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
JEWISH HUMOR.
It's Flavor of Bitterness and It's Sat-
ire of Judaism.

ire of Judaism.
Renan said Of the Jews, 'The Sem
tic peoplc are almost entirely without
tho mower TO laugh Surely had he
looked for traces of Jewish humor in
the light which Heine casts back upon
its dark tradition he would never have
made so sweeping statement. For
eight years Heine lay upon his mat
tress grave in Paris suffering excru-
eating agony. He deserved, he said,
TO have awarded to him 1.-The grand
medals of pain and misery" Leopold
Zunz said almost the same words Of
the whole Hebrew people, IF there are
ranks in suffering, Israel takes prece-
dence of all the nations" The humor
of Israel is favored with bitterness and
plays round the greater subjects Of
thought and of speculatiOn; plays like
the humor of man in Gin.
Listen to the lament OF satirlst
born nj Aries in 1887 who finds the
works of the Jewish law an intoleraDle
burden and seems to have come, like
ueine, to the bitter conclusion tnat
Judaism is not religion, it Is mis-
fortune"
Oh, hapless sire. dstraught with cares
Whose wife to him male children bears,
For all Of them, or rich or poor,
Have only suffering to endure
This is caused by the Jewish creed,
Whose yoke is hard to bear indeed
Its many laws and regulations
Which are unknown TO other nations
Every Hebrew must observe
With watchful eye and straining nerve;
Fen though he shares in public functions,
He still must follow their injunctions
The Bible is not half enough;
Closes there are and other stun
In which he erudite must be,
Especially in theology,
In all the Talmud may relate,
In authors quarrels and debate,
in things particularly small,
OF no significance at all.
One more medieval quotation, this
time from the pen of Barcelona Jew.
The lines can hardly perhaps be called
humorous, but they illustrate with q
certain terse comedy the great value
set by the race upon three things
money. knowledge and domestic hap
piness. If a man has none of them the
poet has no better advice to give him
than to hold his tongue or to hang him
SELF
What is the most useful thing to any
man in life?
knowledge or wealth or good and low
ing wife.
But If none of these commodities man has
ever got
Then by keeping golden silence he might
improve his lot.
And If he cannot do SO. that poor and hap
less knave,
Then let him go away at once and dig
himself grave.
On his deathbed Heine made his last
joke, and it is typically Jewish. re
viewing his by no means irreproacha
BILE past" he hoped that God might for
give him, "for c'est son metler'-(that !:
his trade). Another story illustrates
yet more perfectly the bitter humor o.
the Jew. 1t is the story of a dying
rabbi "who had been all his lifetime
extremely religious, but had likewise
always suffered much want and mis-
cry. DO you know he said to those
in the sickroom, If after all the sad ex
periences 1 have had in the past there
is no future life 1 shall be great!
amused ".-London Spectator.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
cottou.eed Meal For Hens.

! Do not overlook the feeding value OF
cottonseed meal for closely yarded
fowls. This meal is an almost perfect
substitute FOR meat scraps, which are
so highly recommended by all VINO
have grown fowls under close confine-
ment. An ONCE day is good feed for
a grown fowl. 1t should be mixed with
cornmeai or some porridge or dough-
Farm and Ranch.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
A Farm Convenience.

A is q rivet; B is an eye; D is q
socket. Pass a four foot rope Co
through eyes: make knot on end OF
rope. Take an old broom handle and
fit end loose in the socket. The jaws
should be large enough when closed to
hold hogs leg firmly without slipping
out. 1t is a difficult thing to 60 into a
pen of porkerS and catch them, espe-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
Mash For Fowls.

Mash composed Of 100 pounds corn.
meal 100 pounds wheat middlings ana
fifty pounds wheat bran, charcoal as q
regulator, if needed, tea enough or al
falfa clover to mix what they will eat
up clean IN fifteen or twenty minutes.
No succulent food beats lover-Amerf
can Cultivator.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
The Sheep House.

Sheep quarters ought to be cleaned
up sometimes-often enough not TO
cause the escape of odors and gases.
Sheep are naturally neat animals ana
everything should be done TO keer
them clean.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02

cially if one wants to single out one
animal. Take the catcher by handle
In the right hand and the rope in the
other hand. Hold it to the hogs hind
legs, pull by rope, and you have the
animal fast. The cost is small, and the
farmer will find it saver of time and
temper many times during the year.
Farm Progress
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
THE VETERINARY

Tail rot does not kill pigs, but may
knock several dollars off the market
price of a high bred, fancy hog, says
farm Progress. This disease is gener-
ally caused by damp or foul bedding
and is found usually among the first
litters that come. The first thing no.
ticed is that when the pigs are four or
five days old their tails begin to crack
open in places. If neglected these
cracks will soon encircle the tail. 1t Is
then too late for remedy, but If the
disease Is treated in time the tail can
be saved. Take warm soft water and
CASTLE soap; battle the tail we'll and ap-
ply olive OIL Repeat twice daily for
several days, and the trouble Will dls-
appear.
Worms In Hogs.
Hogs affected with worms in the In
testines run down in condition, become
very thin and lank, back Is arched,
ewes dull refuse feed. walk stiffly and
appear lifeless. The worms may be
very numerous. in bad cases completely
filling the intestines. The pigs die If
not treated. TO secure the best results
affected hogs should receive Individual
treatment. TwentyfOur hours before
administering treatment very little
feed should be given them. Then give
the following medicine as a drench to
each hundred pound hog; larger or
smaller hogs should receive a dose In
proportion: Oil of turpentine, four
drams liquor ferri dialysatus, one-half
dram: raw linseed oil, six ounces. Ii
necessary repeat the dose in four days.
After worms have been removed give
tonic to put the pigs in condition.
Farm Journal.
Scratches In Horse.
First procure some thermofuge. At
night wash the limb with water as hot
as the hand will bear and make quite
dry with a cloth, then apply a thick
paste Of the thermofuge and put on a
light bandage over it. Take off in the
morning and wash off. Then use lit
tie carbolized raw linseed oil on it.
Continue until good healing Is made.
Feed largely Oh wheat bran mashes
and give daily exercise.-NatiOnal
StOckman.
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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
LEARN TELEGRAPHY
AND II. Il ACCOUNTING

AND II. Is ACCOUNTING
We furnish 70 per cent Of the Oper"
RS and tation Agents in America Gu.
Xix schools are the largest exclusive lie.
graph schools IN TIE "uRLD. +
.ablished 20 years ana endorsed bv al
iradi z Railway Officials.
" e execute $3.50 bond tn every
q to surnis. him or her poslli'
aging from $40 to $50 month il sl'I,
.aSl of Rocky Mountains, or from =
H. 800 IA month in states west OF /
ockes. Immediately upon gradual
tuden,s can enter at any time
acatons For full particulars iegard''
any of our SCHOOLS write direct 10 ~.
Aecutive office at incnna'i. q
,gue free.
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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
strnagles or Distemper.

Comfortable quarters, good care.
plenty fresh water, moderate feed Of
easily digested, nutritious food; a bis
ter to the throat If necessary and little
tonic, as nux vomica, gentian, etc., II
appetite is bnd.--Farm and Ranch.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02

Education begins the gentleman, but
reading, good company and reflection
must finish him.--Locke.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
Enfsing Turkeys.

The breed of turkeys raised does not
make so mitch difference as the breed
of chickens. Any kind of turkey win
bring the market price if it is plump
and fat, although the Bronze seems to
be the best all around breed, and the
blooded stock will fatten more quickly
and at less expense than the commGn
run of fowls.
The Dust Heap.
The dus heap is absolutely neces'
sary for fowls. 1t cleanses the feath-
ers and ski from vermin and impure
ties, promotes the cuticulos or skin Sc
cretions and is materially instrumental
In preserving their health.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
E000 Te'egraphers
ilUUU NEEDED

annually, to fill the new positions Great
d by railroad and ielegraphy ON
panies We want young men and ladit
If good habits, to
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
A Universal God.

God is the God of the humble, the OBJ
scurc, the commonplace. While ne IS
concerned with all the intellectual prob
lens of Africa, China and the Philip
pines. lie is wholly interested in you
and me.-Rev. DR.. Landrum, Baptist,
Atlanta, Ga.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
A Vital Factor In Life.

Prayer brings into personal relation
shin the soul and God, actually meet
ing and actually giving and receiving
each to and from the other. Goa De-
comes real, vital, active, PERSONAL
Rev. Columbus Polk GoOdson, Presby-
terrain, st. Louis.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
Living For others.

Ambition was implanted within us
as spur to great achievements, but
ambition uncontrolled may yet us into
great trouble The love Of money
weakcns the sense Of moral obliga-
tions, it poisons our business and pol
itics and turns municipalities and halls
of legislation into pools of corruption.
Money is not everything. The greatest
manhood is above money. knowledge
is power, but it may be dangerous.
Goodness Is the essential element OF
true greatness. We are to make the
most of ourselves and increase our ef-
ficiency as much as possible. but let 1t
be for the public good. God has so
construed society that we cannot &c
along without serving one another we
best serve God by serving those with
whom he is identifed.-Rey. d. j. +.
e. Humber, Presbyterian, Washing
tOu,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02
A Iac0h,S adder.

The religious life is jacobs LADDER
upon which rise and descend mans
messages to God and Gods angels TO
man. whereby he is beckoned to guide
his footsteps up the heights. Onward
and upward is the motto OF the true
religious life, so to act that each to-
morrow finds us farther than today.
rabbi Alexander Lyons, Brooklyn.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-02

Preserving Christian Religion.
The preservation of the Christian re-
ligon depends upon the maintenance
of the Christian Sabbath. SO interde-
pendeut is each upon the other that II
either falls the other falls with it.
Rev DR. w. ID. Bradfeld Methodist,
st. Louis.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-25
Ogden Briefs.

John c. Davis left for Malad, Ida, yes
t7rday.
J. B. McCracken is in Rock Springs on
legal business.
DR.. J. T. Critohlow of Salt Lake was in
Ogden yesterday.
Mrs. c. A. Hartley and two children
of Scranton, Pa. are visiting with Mr..
and Mrs Reese Howell.
X. Burnett forfeited his bail of SO and
the cases of Richards and Smyth,
charged with fast driving, were con-
tinued.
bad Eye otherwise known as John
jackson, a gentleman of color with po-
lice records both in Ogden and Salt Lake
was given a thirty-day sentence yester-
day for vagrancy.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday
to William S. Smithen, aged p, and Miss
Eva Edwards, aged 49, both of Salt Lake,
and Frank NJ. SOderberg and Miss Clara
Slater. both of Ogden.
Three special cars carrying over 200 peo-
pie who are to attend the ball Of the
Union Pacific railroad conductors tonight
at Evanston were attached to the
freight train that left Ogden at 1890 D..
m. In the party was Assistant Superin-
tendent Hilliker of the Oregon Short
Line.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-25
Tantalum Hardest Substance.
(Chicago Tribune.)

Tantalum cuts tantalum. Diamonds
cannot cut it. The only effect produced
by diamond drill, worked day and night
for three days on a sheet of pure metal
lie tantalum one twenty-fifth Of an inch
thick, with a speed of 5000 revolutions
per minute, was a slight dint in the sheet
and the wearing out OF the diamond.
Tantaium differs from all other known
substances in combining extreme hard
ness with extreme ductility. When red
hot it is easily rolled into wires ana
sheets or drawn into wire. 1t is scarcely
affected by the oxygen of the air even
at a red heat, and not at all at ordinary
temperatures, and it is not dissolved by
the strongest acids, nor does it amalga-
mate with mercury. It melts only at the
highest attainable temperatures, and is
therefore well fitted for filaments in in
candescent lamps, being much stronger
than carbon. If it can be obtained in suf-
ficient quantity it should prove most use
full 1t will furnish better boring tools
than the diamond drill, cheaper electric
lights than carbon, and as a plate or a
wire harder Ihan diamond, yet strong ami
tough. it suggests almost limitless uses.
Every other hard substance is brittle, a
fact which has hampered the engineer
for centuries.