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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-01-23
The Jamestown Exposition.

Correspondence of the CALEDoNIAN)
In few months april 26th) the great
Jamestown Exposition will open on
Hampton Roads near Norfolk, Va,
affording an opportunity for all to wit
ness a sight that none should miss. On
historic anchorage, representations from
every naval fleet of the world, displaying
mans genius in modern construction will
assemble. Our own proud navy will do
honor to it's record, and inspire an am
bition for still greater attachments. For
the FIRST time in history the Powers will
parade their regiments in company with
our own troops. These facts make it an
opportune time for all Americans to learn
something of "The Gateway of the
South" and the marvellous development
in progress there.
This exposition will be seen on a spot
filled with pleasing associations, where
naval warfare was revolutionized, where
beauty on shore and on water surpasses
all previous Exposition sites, that can
not failNo charm and interest the hosts
that will attend. Americas wealth of
recourse, material and mental, there
presented, will convince even a skeptic
that the future has in store for this
country an aggregation of means beside
which past holdings will be as nothing.
The scenes there open to study will not
only convince the world that no other
power could safely attack the United
States, land thus ensure peace) but that
the products of her fields, mines, forests
and factories there exhibited sum up
assets too vast for present calculation.
The wisdom and appropriateness of
holding the Exposition on Hampton
Roads will be apparent to the millions
who will see the most unique exhibition
the world has ever beheld, and it will
fasten interest in all that pertains to
Norfolk Harbor-nature' Eastern gate
way for expectation.
From this port radiate 80 per cent. of
all the railroad trackage of this vast ex-
panse of territory, bringing to and ship
ping from its wharves tonnage that re-
turns a wealth of dollars that is making
the port the envy of all the outside world
and the pride of every right minded
American.
ABBOTT MORRIS.
Norfolk, Va, Ian. Is, 1907.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-01-23
Our Temperance Problem.

The state press are taking considerable
interest in the phase of the temperance
question which is just now our most
serious problem, and while some of the
editors treat it with unnecessary sar-
casm, the Others realize the seriousness of
the problem and give the matter more
considerate treatment. The editor of
the Ludlow Tribune, a former we'll
known resident of this place, realizes
that the solution in st. Johnsbury may
be the ultimate solution in other places
and comments on the situation as
follows:
St. Johnsbury's success in dealing with
restaurants and other places where
Eight drinks sometimes recklessly re-
ferred to as "bottled slop''-are sold
will be watched with interest by
other communities who suffer from
the indiscriminate dispensing Of that
sort of internal wash. An amend
ment to the scale villages charter com
pels dealers in light drinks" to take
out licenses. The newly-elected board
of trustees are said to be opposed to tn,
granting of licenses, and at a largely
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-01-23

Those who are familiar with Poultry
know with what eagerness they eat raw
Meat of any kind. This habit indicates
that raw Meat is something their nature
demands. There is perhaps no material
better adapted to the needs Of fowls
especially in winter-than Green Cut
Bone and Meat ground together, 1t is
not only invigorating but it contains in
form easily assimilated the very ele-
ments required for the making of eggs.
1t will make hens lay when everything
else fails.
c. S. Page of Hyde Park, VT, will
send 200 pound barrel of Green Cut
Bone and Meat for $3.50 freight prepaid
to any point in New England or Middle
States.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-01-23

attended meeting of citizens it was voted
to stand by the enforcement of the law
and a committee was chosen to give the
matter special attention. There isn't the
least doubt that this light drink habit,
continuously INDUCED in, leads to some
thing heavier; and st, Johnsbury has
discovered during the past year that
light drinks may become apublic nuisance
and a menace Hence the charter amend
ment the mass meeting, and the aroused
sentiment against "slop, list. Johns
bury can handle this matter effectively
she will do herself and other towns in the
state signal service.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-01-23
For a Greater Vermont.

In the next two months about oO IN
stitutes will be held by Supt. Mason 5.
Stone to explain to the people the new
educational laws, and about the same
number of institutes will be held under
the auspices of the State Board of Agri-
culture to give the farmers the latest
ideas on scientific farming Specialists
have been secured at these gatherings,
and with them are some of Vermont's
most noted orators to enthuse the people
for a greater Vermont Some OF these
meetings have been already held and
they have awakened much interest along
and agricultural lines. 1t is
an encouraging sign to see halls well
filled, even on cold nights, to hear the
good things that these speakers bring
1t augurs well for the greater Vermont
we are all striving for and we congratu-
late Supt. Stone and the State Board of
on the success already
achieved along these lines of work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-01-23
Athen9uTll.
Current Periodicals in Reading Room.

.urrent Periodicals In Reading Room
DAILY.
Boston Herald
Boston Transcript.
New York Tribune.
WEEKLY.
Harpers Weekly.
Illustrated London News,
Independent. Life.
Littell's Living Age.
Literary Digest.
New York Times Book Review.
Outlook.
Patent Office Gazette.
Publishers Weekly.
St. Johnsbury CALIFORNIAN.
st. Johnsbury Republican.
Scientific American.
Spectator, London.
Youths Companion.
MONTHLY.
American Inventor.
American Monthly.
Atlantic Monthly.
Bookman.
Book Index, Cumulative.
Book Review Digest.
Brush and Pencil.
Camera. Century.
Contemporary Review.
Cosmopolitan.
Educational Review.
Engineering Magazine.
Etude.
Everybody's Magazine.
Harper's Bazaar.
Harper's Monthly.
International Studio.
Library Journal.
Little Folks.
McClure's Magazine.
Missionary Review.
New England Magazine.
Overland.
Periodical Index. Cumulative.
| Photographic Times.
| Popular Science Monthly.
| Review of Reviews.
St. Nicholas.
Times.
Scribner's Magazine,
!, Vermonter.
Vermont Review.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-01-23

During the year 1906 the number of
volumes taken from the library was
22,718. OF these about one-third were
juvenile books, viz. 1881. The distri-
button under subjects was as follows:
Literature 1926, travel 1923, biography
713, history 69S religion 545, science
455, art 4l3, sociology 339, miscellane-
Gus SOC.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31
MAKING GOOD BUTTER.

Knowledge of starters Necessary For
Turning Out the Best Grades.
The creamery buttermaker must be
familiar with starters. They are a ne
cessity for making the best grade OF
butter. Their value cannot be over
estimated, nor can too much care be
practiced in handling starter. In
making a good starter cleanliness Is
the first principle to be observed. and
It is the buttermaker's duty to see that
the utensils used are properly cleaned
and sterilized before the starter Is put
into them They should never be ex-
posed in places where dust or bacteria
of any kind will have chance to lodge
in them. In fact, the value of steriliza-
ton Immediately before use cannot be
too fully realized, and the much to be
condemned habit of wiping the cans
with cloth afterward, though the cloth
is seemingly clean. should never be
practiced.
Neither should the inside of the yes
sells be touched by the KINDS. although
they may seem clean. nor should cold
water be poured into them for cool
ing purposes. but always applied on
the outside. II IS necessary that tht
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31

The following extract is taken from
an address by Burton w. Potter before
the New England club at Waterville,
Me-:
Having fixed our ideal as to size and
dairy qualities, there arises the inter
esting question, How shall we attain
it,. AS the bull is half of the herd. l
will begin with him. The first requisite
of bull to head herd of cows is one
that will sire deep milking offspring
and endow them with vigorous consti.
tutions. In the selection of young
dairy bull we must take into account
his individuality and his pedigree
When he is cid enough to have his off
spring speak for themselves it is rea-
sonably safe to select him upon his
record of performance. But as mat.
ter of fact we usually select him when
he is quite young, and in that case we
are obliged to fall back upon his pedi-
gree and the performance of his for
bears, for it is hard to tell what Calf
is going to be before he is six or eight
months old.
In the beef breeds calf can be judg-
ed by points much easier than in the
dairy breeds. For them a square form
is the chief qualification, while in the
dairy breeds many of the dairy points
do not show up prominently in calf.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31
A Clubbing Offer.

The Cutters Book (for six years the
Northwestern Sportsman is a monthly
magazine of outdoor pastimes published
at Milwaukee, Wis.,, the subscription
price of which is ST per year. It is de-
voted to stories of truth and fiction, wit
and humor, hunting and fishing, out
door sports, adventure, travel, country
life and stories of nature. 1t is beauti-
fully illustrated, and entertaining and
instructive to those who love wholesome,
healthy, out doors pleasures. Illustra-
tions in colors suitable for framing
appear from time to time.
For limited time we will receive sub
scriptions of S1.50 as full payment for
the Banner and the Cutters Book for
twelve months. Make all remittances to
this Office, either by post order, express
order or registered letter.
IA Any Of our subscribers who have
the Banner paid for for 1907 may take
advantage of this offer as well as new
subscribers who pay in advance.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31
MAINsTAY's aLENwooD BOY.

If we find the color good, the hair fine
and soft and the skin pliable, with in
dicationS of strong constitution, we
are pleased, and if these points are for
titled by good breeding, we are reason
ably safe in selecting him for use In
our herds, but there is always some
chance for disappointment when bull
is chosen in this way. l think we run
more chances in this respect than we
need to.
If we would utilize the services of the
good old bulls more than we do, we
should avoid some chances of disap-
Dointment and improve our stock also.
We have fallen into the bad habit of
sending our bulls to the shambles when
three or four years old and generally
before we know the qualities Of their
offspring, and in this way many of our
finest bulls have been slaughtered pre-
maturely
l think our breeding bulls should be
kept in service until their offspring
have been tested. If their offspring
prove to be unworthy, then the sooner
they are slaughtered the better On
the other hand. if their offspring prove
to be worthy, then they should be kept
in service for many years. OF course
there is danger Of too much inbreed-
ing when kept in the same herd. but 1t
Is not necessary to keep them in the
same herd. They can be sold for use
in other herds, or their owners might
profitably exchange them Farmers
sometimes trade horses, and why should
they not trade bulls also?
The Danes are certainly excellent
dairymen, and they do not sacrifice
their aged bulls as we do here. They
keep their breeding bulls until they
have been tested, and when one has
proved himself of merit as n sire he is
kept until he has reached the maxi
mum age. 4 bull is not eligible to reg
istration as "A pure bred till he is three
years old and has demonstrated his
usefulness as sire. Would it not be
well for us to change our rules of reg
istry to conform to this sensible sys-
tenn of the Danish breeders?
How often we are ready to exchange
the old bull that has splendid crop
of calves to attest his merit for some
young bull with good conformation and
| pedigree, but without any record as a
sire! And how often at public sales Of
pure bred cattle do we see some aged
bull with splendid record sold at a
great sacrifice, while some young bull
| with no record is purchased at big
| price by some one with great expecta-
tons! This sacrificing of good old bulls
is a foolish practice, and it is time for
us to show more judgment than to let
good sires go begging.
The handsome Guernsey bull shown
in the illustration, reproduced from
Country Gentleman, is a son of Glen
woods Mainstay and Jewel of Had
don He is in service in the highly Sc
| lect and very choice Morven Park
Guernsey herd, property of Westmore-
land Davis. Leesburg, Loudoun county,
Va This herd was recently enriched
by one of the most important importa.
lions of pure bred live stock that have
been made into this country in years.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31
Hauekton Teachers Institute.

The Haughton Teachers Institute met
in the high school building Saturday,
Jan. Is, 1907, with the following teachers
present: Mrs. w. B. Love, Mr.. w. A.
Bynum, Misses Annie Mai Henderson,
Bethenia Sneed, Julia Elston and Ludie
Plat.
The meeting was called to order by
the President, Mrs. Love, who resigned,
and Mr.. Bynum was elected in her place.
Miss Sneed read a very instructive
paper on elbow to Teach Songs to Pri-
mary Grades" illustrating on the black
board the song "Tick Tack" Other
very interesting papers, on "The Rec
itation' and Unconscious Tuition"
were read, with short discussion of
EACH.
There being no further business on
hand, the Institute adjourned, subject to
the call of the President.
LUDIE PLATT, Secretary.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31
Plain Dealing Dots.

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Demoss
on the 10th instant, boy.
Mrs. j. H. Herndon is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. John Herndon, of Walnut Hill,
Ark.
Mrs. S. H. Cochran and her mother.
Mrs. John Allen, spent Tuesday in
Shreveport.
Mrs. Mary Smith, of Little Rock, Ark,
came in Monday night and will spend
the winter with her sister, Mrs. G. w.
Davis.
Rev. Holiday preached at the Metho-
dist Church Sunday and, in spite of the
extreme cold, had a very good congre-
cation.
Mr.. Willie McClenaghan, who has a
position with C. G.. Hartman & Co., of
Shreveport, came up Tuesday night to
see his mother.
Mr.. Ed Logan, of Benton, came up
Sunday night, and the following day
did some surveying on the Halt Caldwell
tract of land, the timber on which has
been sold to Northern capitalists.
Quite crowd of fox hunters were in
town Tuesday and made the welkin ring
with the blowing of horns and baying of
dogs, but your correspondent has learn
ed that they bagged no game that night.
Mrs. Bernard Pinson, of Texarkana,
Ark, spent Saturday and Sunday with
her nephew, DR.. w. F. Bell. She left
Monday for Alden Bridge, where she
expects to spend some time with her
cousin, Mrs. Beatty Smith.
Mesdames. Rabb, Clark and Stroud
went to Benton Saturday to be with their
brother, Mr.. l. H. Martin, who on that
day celebrated his sixty-sixth birthday
anniversary at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. F. B. Ogden, of Goat Island"
Judge Lynch, the Cotton Belts Con-
struction Superintendent, who is at
present experimenting the building OF
the new bridge at Shreveport, was in
Plain Dealing Tuesday night and
Wednesday went over on the river on
business.
Married, at the residence of Mr.. EN-
NETT Demoss, on the 9th instant, Mr..
George Gleason, of Plain Dealing, to
Miss Elmer Allen, of Red Land, Justice
]. P. Gleason officiating. The groom is
son of Mr.. Wash Gleason, and the
bride daughter of Mr.. Green Allen, Of
Red Land. This was Runaway match
Plain Dealing, La, Jan. 80, 1907.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31

The gang Of workmen who are en-
gagged in putting down the new steel on
the Shreveport branch of the Cotton
Belt reached this place Monday and are
now working beyond our town. 1t is
thought that the construction of the
new railroad bridge at Shreveport and
the laying of 75-pound steel indicates
that fast through service is to be in
augurated, and that the road will later
be extended into New Orleans.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31
The Parish Institute.

To the Teachers of Bossier Parish:
The teachers of the parish will please
take notice that the State Institute for
Bossier Parish will be held in the Court
House at Benton from the 18th to the
18th of February, inclusive. The men,
beers of the Parish School Board and the
local trustees of the various schools are
earnestly requested to attend on Thurs
day, the 14th prox., during the week Of
the Institute, as State Superintendent
J. B. Aswell and perhaps DR.. T. N.
Moss, President of the State School
Board Association, will be present and
address the people on the subject of
school laws, school finances and educa-
tional topics generally.
Jos. E. JOHNSTON, Parish Sup't.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31
Need Of Nutritiou. Food.

In all pure breeds the original scrub
blood at the foundation is ever seeking
to reinstate itself. In short, there is
tendency in all pure bred animals to
degenerate or retrogress toward origi-
nal and less perfect types, and nothing
will more surely and speedily stimu-
late this tendency than lack Of nutri-
tious food. In the absence of sufficient
nutrition the possibilities of perfection
inherited from pure bred sires or dams
but partially materialize or wholly fail
to assert themselves.-Wis Ex-
pertinent Station.
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The North Bossier Levee Board.

PLAIN DEALING, LA, Jan. 81, 1907.
Pursuant to the call OF President Sen
tell, the North Bossier Levee Board met
in the Plain Dealing Bank building at
3 o'clock pm. Present: Messrs. Sem
tell, Nattin, Caldwell and Burgess. Alb
sent: Mr.. Stinson.
The minutes of last meeting were read
and approved.
The committee to report on the prog
ress of the Long Prairie work made a
favorable report, saying considerable
work has been done on that levee since
our last report and they deem the pros
poets bright for more active prosecution
of that work at an early date.
On motion, the partial report was re-
ceived and the committee directed to
make further report at future meeting.
On motion, duly seconded, it was
unanimously agreed to issue 100000
bonds, and. that the Secretary, advised
by the President, take the necessary
steps to have same engraved at an early
date.
On motion, properly seconded, we ask
the Board of Engineers to make us an
early survey of the levee line.
The following was introduced as a
motion, properly seconded and unani-
mously adopted:
Whereas, it is a fact that many OF the
land holders in the North Bossier Levee
District have considerable land which
will be outside the levee when same
shall have been located; that many OF
these property holders have paid the full
assessed rate of levee taxes and that we
may define our position toward these
and all those who may pay,
Be it Resolved, That we pledge our
selves to refund to all such tax payers
the amount which they thus shall have
overpaid.
On motion, the Board then adjourned.
NV. SENTELL, President.
E. D. BURGESS, Secretary.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31

man handling starters should wear
clean clothes, so that dust or other
foreign matter will not drop into them
while being propagated Many times
can be seen the practice of dipping
unsterilized vessels into the milk after
1t has been pasteurized, or finger
will be stuck in for quick estimate
of the temperature, thus inserting I'M
desirable germs and defeating the OBJ
ject sought.
Skill In Finishing the Product.
When it comes to the finishing of
the product skill means much, for the
more neatly it Is done up the higher
will be the score and the price. There
are quite few important points to be
observed in the process of manufac-
turing butter. First, Of course, is to
have the cream properly ripened and
cooled to the desired temperature.
Next is to stop the churn at the right
time, get enough salt and color added
to suit the market get the butter
worked just right, for a good body
means q higher score; put 1t up as
neatly as possible and in shape that
will be most desirable for the market,
and finally to observe as much santa
ton as possible from the beginning to
the finish. The grade of butter de-
ponds somewhat upon the style Of
churn In use, but it is expected that
most creameries will have one Of the
more up to date and improved styles
installed. They are a little more COM
plicated than the box or barrel churn,
and. it may be said, they are consider
ably harder to keep clean. They must
be kept clean from the beginning, and
it is the butter makers duty to see
that they are.-F. A. Jorgenson, Illinois
Dairy School
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31

Cows are more sensitive and suscepti-
bic to cold than most other animals. on
account of the double drain upon them.
There are two extremes in caring for
the cow-negligence and overpamper-
ing. Avoid both.
pensive, and it is certainly labor
saving device.
Each individual in the herd should be
studied and given the care that she re-
quires for best production.
Two sisters stood side by side in q
herd. One required bulky. light food
to cause her to do her best; the other
required more concentrated food with
less bulk.
A separator If not properly looked
after is source of many disagreeable
taints Take it apart every time after
use and clean it thoroughly, and finish
cleaning with boiling water or steam If
possible.
Scrub brushes are the best articles
for use in cleaning dairy utensils
~
but they require more care in keeping
them clean. The same method for
cleaning utensils should be followed
for cleaning cloths.
To produce heavy mixer continue
to milk up to within few weeks Of
the cows second freshing; then before
she has had her third calf dry her off
for two months. After the third calf
you will have a well developed COW
that will continue to be large mixer.
Mrs. Addie HOWE to Connecticut
Dairymen.
Experiments show that COW when
in full flow of milk drinks from 1,5OO
to 1000 pounds of water per month,
the average quantity determined by
testing a herd being 1000 per COW.
This fact shows the Importance of I'M
limited supply of water at all seasons
Of the year. says the American Guilt
vator. In every 100 quarts Of milk the
farmer sells about S8 quarts of water,
and when the COW cannot procure wa
ter at all times she will fall off In
yield. Milk cows should always have
plenty of pure water to drink. The
best water comes from good well,
| with the surroundings clean and right
A clear running stream that is not con.
taminated is all right, but one never
knows for certain about the contain
| nation Ponds usually become foul
and stagnant and altogether unfit fol
cows to drink from.