Connecticut western news., 1907-09-19

It is a matter of consolation to many a young housewife that now and then an older woman who has grown gray headed in the culinary department has not mastered all the intricacies of cooking with sour milk and soda.
 An abundance of fresh water and salt should be provided for all of the farm animals. The fact that cows and hogs will drink filthy water should not be taken to mean that they prefer this to that which is fresh and clean.
 1t is pretty safe to say that well ad- justed storm windows will pay for themselves during a period of two years simply in the amount of fuel saved, letting pass entirely the ques- ton of physical comfort involved.
 The good housewife who uses sugar, eggs and four to make a cake in order that she may save a cup of sour cream and later throws the connection into the alley may consider herself eco nomical, but she is certainly not thrifty. ..
 Tn all cases where the floors of the barns and sheds are not earth or ce ment and are raised from the ground a great deal can be added to the com fort of the farm animals by giving such buildings a thorough banking with straw, litter or manure
 Typhoid fever Is a filth disease, usu- ally the outgrowth of a contaminated milk or water supply. For this reason these two sources of supply for the family should be carefully guarded, and should the malady break out they should be most carefully investigated.
 A change of occupation after one has reached the age of forty years Is as a rule a pretty risky proposition. The man who has lived in the city up to this period and has been trained to clerical work usually encounters hard sledding if he starts in farming, while the farmer who sells his broad acres and embarks in the grocery or other mercantile pursuit fares even worse.
 The Pennsylvania railroad is soon to history of the United States. A tract of land has been purchased on the slope of the Alleghany mountains be- tween Altoona and Hollidaysburg, and on this plot of ground seeds will be sown which at the end of forty years are expected to yield an annual har- vest of more than 100000 railroad ties.
 There are scores of communities in the country where through failure to of horsepower In motor force go to waste every year. Water power is at once the most economical and prac- tical motor power, and in view of the ease with which it Is transmitted into electrical energy it is strange that com munities do not more often avail them selves of it. ...
 AS the result of a test conducted by the New York agricultural experiment station 1t was found that in a herd of ordinary dairy cows there were sev- eral members whose feed bill for the year was $28.5O, while they produced milk that sold for just $25. The farm CT in question had his labor for noth. ing and donated S35O apiece on each COW to a slipshod and careless sys- tenn of husbandry.
 While 1t Is true that much of the misery that folks-both men and wom- en and sometimes children-encounteI is due to a comparison of their own lot with that of a more fortunate friend or neighbor, 1t is likewise true that consolation and comfort can often be derived from the contemplation of the lot of another who is not so happily or favorably situated-in short, through realization of the fact that oIfes lot might just as easily be a good deal harder and more trying.
 While cattle and hogs and somesoth- CT animals are subject to the 1nroads of tuberculosts~ft Is a noteworthy fact that goatsAHre. entirely immune: A French authority states that out of over 13O,OOO goats and kids that are annually brought to Paris for slaugh- | ter the government meat inspectors have as yet failed to discover a single case of phthisis. This fact, coupled | with the other generally admitted fact that tuberculQsis can be transmitted to human beings through the milk and | flesh of cattle, Is causing an increasing value to- be placed on goats milk as an article of food. ] -~.~~ -...-