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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
ENGLISH WALNuTS.

The large European, or English
walnut is a native of Asia, but has
now come to live in California in
large numbers. This nut we all know,
SO easily opened at it's dividing line
into perfect halves.
The pretty, curiously shaped kernel
we always try to take out whole from
it's thin partitions, or walls. These
perfect halves we find in so many
tempting places, in and on CONNECTIONS
of all kinds, in and on cakes, in and
through candy, sometimes concealed
to surprise us, sometimes seen
through a transparent coating to
tempt us, sometimes smothered in a
pudding or frozen in a cream.
The shells even are delight. We
can make tiny boats Of them with
d match for mast and a paper sail,
CT we can put in prize Of gold or
silver, then glue the halves together,
either varnish or gid them.
There is double walnut, so very
large that when opened, it will
make box and cover large enough
to hold pair of gloves or any small
souvenir. The French call it noyer a
bijoux, which means the nut for trink-
cts or jewels or any little treasure
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
FEEDING PICS.

l think that in the past two sea-
sons / have solved the question Of
maturing hogs early and with the
greatest economy. The way do
this is in feeding pigs two or three
months old on skim milk and corn
meal, and letting them run on either
clover or rape pasture. They do
about as well on rape as on clover.
I feed them on an average of 5 to 6
pounds of sweet skim milk from the
cream separator, and one and half
to two pounds per day Of corn meal,
and they have the run of the pasture
of rape or clover They grow more
rapidly than / ever saw pigs grow and
keep very healthy and in fine condi-
tion / can take pigs this way and
months old make them weight ESQ
to 300 pounds. Let any one figure out
the cost of such pigs and they will
see how economical a way 1t is to
grow hogs. On such feeding / never
had a sick pig and never heard OF
one fed in this way that had plague
or cholera.
The rape pasture can be- started
early, the last Of April and be ready
for the pigs in a few weeks If you
have no clover field for them. I like
rare anyhow for pigs, for it makes
tho N grow fast and keeps them in
good condition.-W. j. Calvin, in the
Indiana Farmer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
Out Of the Pick-Up workbasket.

Crocheted sachets are dainty and
easy to make at oLd times. White lus.
ter crochet cotton is used and the most
simply stitch is satisfactory.
They may be of any size or shape
round, square, oblong or heart shaped
They are made in Two parts; the edge
Is finished with a border in q fancy
stitch, and after a layer of cotton, on
which sachet powder has been sprin
killed., his been put in, they are threaded
together with narrow ribbon.
A useful safety pin holder may be
made of odds and ends, the odds CON
sisting of one large and three small
brass rings, the ends Of three six-inch
pieces CT fancy ribbon one inch wide.
Cover the rings with crochet silk il
a buttonhole stitch, using a color t.
match he ribbon. Fasten one end o.
each Of the three pieces of ribbon to
the large ring, folding the other end,
to form point and attaching a small
ring to each.
The safety pins are attached to tn,
small rings, one holding large, another
medium and the third small pins il
both black and white.
For the traveller a washrag case il
made Of piece of brown linen twelve
inches long by six wide. Oiled silk i.
used as a lining and the edges are
bound with tape in any color desired
One end is turned up to the deptl
Of four inches and the sides stitched
firmly together. The remaining foul
inches form the flap, which is fastened
with a button and loop. A small
square of Turkish toweling, daintill
overcast with cotton to match the
braid, is placed in the pocket, which il
ready for use.
Shadow embroidery is so quickly
md easily made that it is useful pick
up work and no end of dainty pillow
tops and work bags and other articles
aside from clothes are decorated with
1t.
Some of the prettiest bags on which
shadow embroidery is used are made OF
Scrim, the open mesh of the material
giving the very prettiest effects. With
piece of scrim and some colored sill
and ribbon the daintiest sort of worl
bags may be made at small expense.
For the little guimpes worn by chill
dren with their summer clothes it il
particularly satisfactory. The worh
of identifying such little garments il
implified with the best results.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
A EUaY WOMhn.
Can Do tho Work of or 4 If Well Fed.

An energetic young woman living
just outside of N. Y. writes:
81 am at present doing all the house
work of dairy farm, caring for 2
children, vegetable and flower gar
den, large number of fowls, besides
managing an extensive exchange bust
ness through the mails and pursuing
my regular avocation as a writer for
several newspapers and magazines (de-
signing fancy work for the latter and
all the energy and ability to do this I
owe to Grape-Nuts food.
1t was not always so, and a year
ago when the shock of my nursing
baby's death utterly Frustrated me
and deranged my stomach and nerves
so that I could not assimilate as
much as a mouthful of solid food.
and was even in worse condition men,
tally, he would have been rasn
prophet who would have predicted that
it ever would be so.
prior to this great grief had suf-
fered for years with impaired diges-
ton, insomnia, agonizing cramps in the
stomach, pain in the side, constipation.
and other bowel arrangements all
these were familiar to my daily life
Medicines gave me no relief-nothine
did, until few months ago at a
friends suggestion, began che use
OF Grape-Nuts food, and subsequently
gave up coffee entirely and adopted
Postum Food Coffee at all my meals.
To-day am free from all the trou-
bles have enumerated. My digestion
is simply perfect, l assimiiate my food
without the least distress, enjoy sweet.
restful sleep. and have buoyant feel
Ing Of pleasure in my varied duties. In
fact, am new woman, entirely made
over, and / repeat. owe it all to
aGrape-Nuts and Postum Coffee" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Greek,
Mich.
There's reason. Read the little book.
THE Road to Wellville.' in pkgs.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
HoMINY FEED FOR COWS.

Hominy feed, or chop, is the by
product of the manufacture of hom-
my, a human food largely used in the
south. The harder and outer por-
tons of the corn kernel are separat-
ed from the softer or inner part and
the germ by mechanical means, the
former constituting the hominy used
as human food and the latter the
chop used as cattle feed.
The chop varies from the corn
meal in its fat content, which, how
ever, seems somewhat less dlgest1-
BILE. It's protein context, on the 9TH
Dr. hand, is somewhat more digestlble
than that of corn meal.
In feeding experiments carried on
by the Vermont Experiment Station,
the feeding values of hominy feed
were compared with wheat bran, glu-
ten meal and with a mixture of cot
ton seed and linseed meals. In com
pairing with wheat bran six COWS were
used. 1t appears that when two and
two-thirds Of a pound of hominy feed
was substituted for an equal weight
of wheat bran in an eight-pound ra-
ton, containing bran, cotton seed and
linseed meals, hay and roughage, 81
lage being fed, as roughage, there
were made in 115 days feeding 4 per
cent. more milk and 1 per cent. more
Eat.
Since it is fact that hominy feed
and gluten meal are each by-products
of corn, though very different in their
character and composition, it is in
teresting to note the results of the
feeding comparison. Four COWS were
chosen for this trial, three of which
were mature animals, and one was a
3-year-old. Two were fresh in milk
one three months in milk and one
eight months in lactat1on.
The figures indicate that in these
trials when hominy feed was substi.
tuted for gluten meal there were
made per cent less milk, milk OF
unchanged quality, and that to the
unit of dry matter eaten there were
made per cent. less milk and 3 per
cent. less solids and fats. From these
tests it would appear that it would
be inadvisable to substitute hominy
feed for the above mentioned feeds
In q ration for dairy cows.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
prummer. BOWS Romsnce.

'T was a drummer boy in Sherman'6
army" said L. ]. Henry. of Chicago.
"and at the mature age of fifteen fell
desperately in love with little girl
down in Columbia, Tenn, that I
thought as beautiful as an angel, and
who seemed to reciErocate my affec--
tons, even though I was a hated
Yankee.
"All the time that my command
stayed at her home, managed to see
her once every day, and at night
she was ever in my dreams. thought
that death would be welcome if she
did not become my wife; and when
our force left for Washington all that
kept me from utterly breaking down
was her promise that she would ans
wer every letter I wrote to her. But,
alas; though wrote often and loving
ly, never a word came in rePfy, and
for months I went about sick at
heart because of her supposed faith
lessness.
"Well, about six months ago went
back to the South for the first time
in forty years, and though Columbia
was out of my way 1 couldn't omit q
visit to the scene of my first romance.
My wife and grown daughter accom-
panied me, and l told them the story
and that l meant to see my sweet
heart of long ago if she still lived.
I had no difficulty in finding her and
we had a great reunion. She was a
fine looking matron and had daugh-
ter just the age of Washington
Post
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26

How many women adhere to the old.
fashioned method of marking linen
with new steel pen and marking mkt
1t is the simplest thing in the world to
mark linen with stencil and a brush.
Each member of the family should
Eave his own stencil. which does not
cost much If only initials are used.
The boy or girl at school will need tbs
full name, which costs more. An en-.
tire wardrobe may be marked in half
an hours time by meanS of stencils,
and the danger of the ink spreading is
reduced to uinimupo
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26

An obvious way to encourage the
application Of brains to science would
be to give handsome remuneration to-
its practitioners who enter into the
service of the State, thinks the Satur-
day Review. Mostly, greater dignity
and esteem attend on higher pay, and
If any profession has great prizes
these attract much of the braiu of the
country to it. Men do not go into the
more intellectual vocations for the
average rate Of pay, which is often
very low; they enter them as if they
were lotteries. The bar is the best ex.
ample Of this. No profession has so
many great prizes; and the conse-
Quence is that there is in it more
brain than in any other, and a great
deal more than IS wanted. Whatever
would check this sacrifice OF valuable
lives. and divert them to some useful
career, would be of the greatest bene.
fit to tho country.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
HURRY! HURRY!

Hurry is word we Americans use
every day-too often, in fact. II we
hurry too much over things we do,
especially when we are young, they
are apt to be pretty badly done.
Do any of you know where this
word came from? Why, just from
the noises made by drivers of mules
and horses to make them go faster.
The Germans say huri while IN
France and Germany arr or harri IS
the form employed. As for the Span
ish muleteer, he shouts all day Ions
to his donkeys, Arr! arri!' It is
said. too, our ancestors, the old Anglo
SaUons. used to speed their horses
BY crying sHarrer!"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26

Keep sheep in comfortable quar-
tiers, especially when the weather is
stormy. Sheep can stand dry cold
much better than dampness.
Under average conditions, mutton
can be produced at less cost per
pound than beef, and the fleece Is
clear additional profit.
Good wool is not produced by sheep
that are starved and fed alternately.
Evenness of wool depends upon even
ness of condition of the sheep.
Overlooking or sudden changes
from poor to very rich food, combin-
ed with want of exercise, If not actu-
ally causes, will greatly contribute to
the development of the loss of wool
among ewes.
Don't let the little chicks get damp
or chilled. A little care for the first
few weeks will save much loss and
worry.
Don't be in hurry to feed the lit
tie chicks. Nature has provided them
with sufficient for fully twenty-four
hours.
Don't crowd too many little chicks
into one brooder or give too many 10
one hen. Twelve now and twenty lat
er are sufficient for a brood.
Don't grease the little chicks, es-
pecially in cold weather. Insect pow
der will destroy mites and do no in
jury.
Don't put too many eggs under the
setting hen. One too many will Of
ten cause half or more not to hatch.
Don't let the young chicks roost in
filthy boxes. Move them around ev.
cry few days and sprinkle lime where
they stood.
Don't let brooder chicks become
lazy. Scatter grain in litter and make
them scratch.
Plan to get rid of the old stock.
The worthless old stuff eat just as
much as the young and growing kind.
There's no sentiment in this, but it's
business.
A stunted calf can't make anything
but stunted COW. And somebody is
to blame for the stunted calf.
Teach the sheep to follow. 1t Is
a great deal easier than to always
have to drive them. Sheep are like
humans
1t is coming weaving time for the
colts. Prepare them for it by gentle
handling and teach them to begin to
eat
Wonder If your finger nails have
not something to do with that kick
ing COW? See if they are not too long
and sharp.
Corn fodder, clover and pea hay for
the sheep. If you have plenty OF
these, or either of them, you are all
right for wintering the sheep.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
FLOWING HIILYLAND.

Hilly land ought never to be cult
waited but kept in grass. Sometimes
a farmer has nothing but hills and
If he raises crop of grain it must
be ON this kind of land. In blowing
hilly ground one should never pillow
up and down the hill unless he wants
his soil carried away with the flood
and great bitches washed in the field.
Always pillow around the hill, begin
ming at the base and winding up the
land to the top. In this way the soil
is thrown SO that it acts as barrier
to the water and will not wash away.
The other, day / saw a hill that had
been plowed In an ideal manner. 1t
had been in grass and the farmer had
commenced at the base and plowed
thick inverted sod down the hill and
leaving a space at the corners of his
land that drained the hill nicely. A
recent heavy rain had not damaged
1t in the least, for all the water had
drained off from the corners of the
land. The corn should be planted in
the manner the hill was broken. Never
plant corn up and down the hill, for
a dashing rain will wash it out. Then
if the corn is planted the way the
land was broken there will be no
harm done the land in cultivating it.
If you have to cultivate the corn
planted up and down the hill it SIM
ply makes matters worse for the soil
is loosened up to be carried away
w. D. Neale.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
- ~ THEN,~
EDlCNREANS
}ecORNEp -
G--zzzzzss9

Macaroni and Eggs-Cook macaroni
until tender and place in a small bak.
Ing dish. Beat together two eggs and
half cupful of milk, add salt and
pepper and pour over the macaroni
Bake in the oven until the top is nicely
drowned.
Sweetbreads with Scrambled Eggs
Parboil and cut up one sweetbread
Beat four eggs, add one-fourth tea.
spoonful salt, dash Of pepper, half a
eupful of milk and the sweetbread
Put two tablespoonfuls butter in hot
.hafing dish and add the mixture, stir.
ting until it is of a creamy consist
ency.
Eggless Feather Cake-One cupful
If sugar creamed with two tablespoon
nls of melted butter, one cupful of
nilk with a tablespoonful of corn
starch dissolved in it, little less than
me and one-fourth cupfuls of -four
with two teaspoonfuls of baking pow.
Ter. Use judgment in regard to -four
Cherry Pudding Mix together two
npfuls of -four. two teaspoonfuls OF
saking powder, two tablespoonful OF
mgar and milk enough for soft
Tough. Butter teacups and drop in q
little dough, some cherries, then dough
enough to half fill the cups. Steam fol
IN hour. Serve with any kind Of
auce or sweetened cream.
Oatmeal Gems-One cupful Of oat
neal soaked over night in one cupful
IF water. In the morning add one cup
full Of sour milk, one cupful Of -four
three-quarters tablespoonful Of soda
half tablespoonful salt, one tablespoons
.ul Of melted butter, two tablespoon
luls of sugar. Mix and bake in hot
well-buttered gem pans. One cup Of
sweet milk and one teaspoonful OF
baking powder can be used instead Of
sour milk and soda
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
AMERICAN GOLDFINCHEs


Though poets sing Of seasons when
lilacs and other blossoms are in
bloom, the happy little goldfinch finds
an pathological paradise when the
tall purpling thistles keep careful hui
mans on the other side of the fence.
With golden-rod trying Its best to
put on more gold than Mr.. Goldfinch,
the scene is indeed a royal one as to
color. This bird, who evidently studies
tints best suited to his complexion,
may often be seen, as you see him
here, perched on thistle and making
luncheon from the fluffy seeds Of
the thistle blossoms. Or he may
swing merrily on purple aster or a
towering green and yellow mullaia
stalk.
Though rather drab in the winter
months, Mr.. G. becomes the gayest
Of cavaliers in the springtime, when
he bursts into torrents of glad song.
The name of his species, tristis, comes
from the sad note that wells along
with the rest from his happy little
heart.
He's slow about marrying.
A cautious bird, he has no idea OF
being responsible for little gold
finches before they are plenty 0 tasty
flowers in bloom. Indeed. he and
Mrs. G. do not set up housekeeping
until July.
While he wears his gorgeous gold
and black from March till September,
Mrs. G.. Isl never allowed such splen-
dor. She wears the fashionable olive,
with a front" Of a rather pale, al.
most dull yellow.
Some simply set her down as a
sparrow!
These interesting little birds, which
measure an inch less than the SPAR
row, are very Clearly In habit They
battle persistently in shallow pools.
Mrs. G. is the architect.
She builds in fOrked twig, and
cozily lines her home with softest
plant down. In this she lays four 70
six bluish-white eggs, and while she
broods them the gallant Mr.. G. sings
to her and fetches bill after bill full
of choicest seeds.
No wonder she's in love with her
handsome husband
Look for them next time you're in
the bird house in the Geological Gar
den, where you may not know, is
housed one of the most complete col
lectionS of birds in the World.-Phll'
adelphfa Record.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
Not Booming, but Growing Steadily

A business with steady and solid
growth is better than for it to boom.
Good insurance has saved many bust
ness men and many homes. The Mis-
sissippi Home Insurance Company has
81 years solid growth, has paid out
millions in the South, and with ample
resources is great favorite in this
part of the South.
Ask for the agent in your town.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
QUEER WAY TO PAY FOR PIC.
TURES.

Cassel Is perhaps the only town in
Germany with distinctly American
chapter in its history and yet it IS
seldom visited by Americans.
Once upon time there lived IN
Cassel the Landgrave Frederick II.
Of Hesse. He seemed to have been
! very amiable sort Of prince, with a
level, practical head on his shoulders.
He loved his capital city, lying in the
mountain-cradled plain. and he could
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
.k3EQR YOUNG ~
FOLKS 5
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION.

RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION.
When / was just tiny child,
They say I used to be quite wild!
Sometimes. it seems, I'd raise row;
OF course. I've learned much better
now.
But If you'll promise not to tell,
Here's what they say ! did once:
Well,
A lady came to visit US
She was the kind that makes a fuss
She patted my old foolish curls,
And said, II just love little girls!"
was as mad as I could be!
| went outdoors and kicked tree!
- Ohm Adamson in st. Nicholas.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
URgfIzRD = and
alAz|=llARDEN
BE KIND TO YOUR HORSE.
%

WISH l could only Write my SenJl-
ments on this important subject as
/ feel them. I live in nice little
country town of about 400 inhabitants
Often l see men sitting on goods
boxes and hear them tell what times
they have had with their horses when
they would balk, kick or bite, or do
something they have been taught to
do by cruel treatment from their
master. And how he would grab a
club, and beat the poor creature un-
til he would break his harness and
cause smashup in general.
Some men tell things like this and
think it is an honor to them to let
people know what good CD horse
masters they are.
I think more of a horse than most
anything else on earth; and 1t only
makes me think less of man to hear
him tell stories of this kind.
Your horse will generally do all
he knows to do, especially if you are
kind to him: Let your horse know
what you want him to do in way
that he fully understands. Let him
know he will receive kind treatment
IL he does it and will be corrected
IL he does not.
When you do start out to make him
do anything, make him do it thor
oughly before you quit him. This
treatment will produce most satisfac-
tory results.
Society owes to the horse debt Of
gratitude a thousand. times greater
than it does to thousands of men
who abuse him.
He has ministered to progress; has
made social intercourse possible when
otherwise it would have been slow
and occasional, or altogether lmpos-
sible; he has virtually extended the
strength of man, augmented his
speed, doubled his time, decreased
his burdens, and becoming his slave,
has relieved him from drudgery and
made him free.
For loves sake, for the sake of So
cial life, for eminent moral reasons,
the horse deserves to be bred, train
ed and cared for with scrupulous
care.
The teaching of how horses should
be treated has been left too long to
men who look upon the horse as an
instrument of gambling or of sordid
financial gain. What can be more
touching than the submissive conf
dence-the humble obedience with
which man is appealed to by those
animals that contribute so much to
his support and pleasure?
There is no such thing as balki-
hess in a horse that is kindly treated,
and gets an occasional apple, potato
or lump of sugar from his masters
hand
Intelligent horsemen have learned
that kickers, biters and bakers are
natural results of abuse; that not
one horse out OF hundred is vicious
until made so by cruelty; that whip
ping horse is as mean and senseless
as whipping a baby, and that the
most useful, obedient and long-lived
horses are those treated from birth
with kindness and common sense
Joe Hoskins, CentretOwn, KY, in the
Farmers Home Journal.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26

Dun's averages of commodity prices
show a three per cent. increase in the
cost of living over last year. That is,
the consumer is paying the interest on
Government bond-for what? Better
food? DR.. Wiley says not. material
benefits of any kind? They are not
apparent.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26
Household
Matters!


Globes and chimneys crack readily
In cold weather. The sudden expan-
sion in heating is more than they can
stand. To tougher them it is only
necessary to boil them for couple of
hours, after putting them in cold, salt.
ed water in kettle having a false bot.
tom. In lighting gas jets or lamps the
light should be turned low, then grad
ually higher.