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Water Supply For Farm.

In reply to inquiry made by c. e.
T., on the farm water supply would
say we have had the compressed air
tank in use ten years and it is satis-
factory in every way. The tank
should be placed in cellar, or a room
above ground made frost-proof; then
there is never any trouble. The
elevated tank is usually out Of COM
mission two or three months in the
year, while severe winter weather
lasts. The cheapest way to put in
water works is to buy rejected
steam boiler for your tank; then tho
water can be pumped into same by
either a wind or gasoline engine,
the latter possibly to be preferred,
because it can be operated at any
time and the engine can be utilized
for many other purposes On the farm.
The cost of such an outfit should
not be over $3.50, depending upon
how expensive your boiler is. have
twenty-barrel tank that I bought
for $25. The pump and piping cost
$40, and two and one-half horse
power gasoline engine $75; total,
s12O.-W. w. Stevens, in Indiana
Farmer.
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Cost Of Making Milk.

"A Canadian milk producer figures
the cost of production as follows:
Taking fifteen COWS as unit that
one man is capable of taking care of,
as we'll as the product therefrom,
and assuming that the man is worth
$3.50 day, we must charge up
ten cents day against each cow for
labor. Assuming that each cow
averages five thousand pounds Of
milk year, which is about six
quarts a day, such cow should re-
ceive one pound of grain for each
three pounds of milk she gives, which
would be about five pounds OF grain
day. The cost of the grain would
be six and one-quarter cents a day.
Adding to this the cost before men
toned of producing a specially
pure, clean milk, we have a total OF
at least seven cents quart, as the
cost of its production on the farm.
To this should be added the cost of
shipping to the city, which is an
additional burden to the farmer
American Cultivator.
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SOME GREAT NINE DISASTERS.

immigrants admitted during the year
numbered 1,285,349, exceeding 1906
by 1864. The aliens rejected
numbered 13,064.
The tide of immigration is indi-
Gated by these figures: Austria-Hun-
gary, 33S,452, increase, 1874; Bull
garia, Servia and Montenegro, H.
$50, increase, 6693; France, 9731,
increase, 345; German empire, ST.
S07, increase, 243; Greece, $3.50,
increase, 1901; Italy, including Sic
lily and Sardinia, 2S5,731, increase,
1851; Russian empire and Finland,
25S,943, increase, 43,27S; Turkey,
20,167, increase, 11,257; England.
56,637. increase, TAG; Ireland, 34,-
$50, decrease, 465; Scotland, 49,
TAO. increase, 1874; China, 961, de-
crease, 5S3; Japan, 3O,226, increase.
1881; British North America, 49,
91S, increase, 1855; West Indies,
16, $50, increase, 3033.
While the exclusion laws have rem
dered practically nil the immigration
from China, the immigration from
Japan, although relatively not great,
has trebled in the last year. This in
crease is significant, too, because it
comes in the face Of regulations
which, it was supposed, would curtail
the immigration of Japanese very
materially.
Commissioner Sargent presents eX-
cerpts from officialreports which show
that thousands of japanese landed in
Mexico during the year and ultimate
ly gained admission. surreptitiously,
to this country, and he says that hun
dreds if not thousands of Japanese
still are coming into the country by
stealth.
Commissioner Sargent asks "wheth-
er our ability as race to absorb for
eign elements is not on the verge, at
least, of being overtaXed.'
The total amountof money brought
into the country by arriving aliens
was S25,599,S93, an average of al
most $40 per person.
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FatteninS Hogs.

In the experience gained at the
Missouri Experiment Station Pro-
fessor Forbes says that corn supple
mented with wheat middlings and
oil meal makes the best and cheapest
ration for fattening hogs. He says:
For dry lot Or pen feeding of hogs
the cheapest feed is corn supplement-
ed by wheat middlings or oil meal.
At the Missouri station we have
made 100 pounds Of pork from FIVE
parts of thirty-cent corn and one
part of S24 oil meal at cost of
sc.75 per hundred weight. At the
same time we made 100 pounds Of
pork from two parts of corn and one
part of SIS wheat middlings at a
cost of sass. In the same expert
ment corn alone made pork at a cost
of $3.50 per hundred weight"
When pasture can be provided,
pork can be made the most economic
ally on it. The same authority above
mentioned writes: Experiments at
the Missouri Experimental College
show that with corn at thirty cents
per bushel, it costs s2.79 to make
one hundred pounds Of pork where
blue grass is fed with the corn, with
rape and corn the cost is $3.50 per
hundred weight, and with alfalfa and
corn the cost CT 100 pounds of pork
Is but S2.13."
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teen days up to an awful total OF
more than 600 men.
The explosion in the Darr mine,
due, it is believed, to gas, shook the
country for miles around, and many
of the neighboring buildings were
demolished. The number Of men
caught in the disaster would have
been almost twice as great had 1t not
been for the fact that many Of the
miners employed are Russians, and
the day, being the feast of st. Mich
olas, was observed by them as re-
ligious holiday. Following imme-
diately on the explosion smoke be-
gan to pour forth in dense volumes
from all the shafts of the mines, and
for the next five hours the volunteers
who headed the rescue work were
beaten back at every attempt. 1t
was found that the mouth Of the mine
had been wrecked completely, and
the task of reaching the entom5ed
men, if any still are alive, will be one
of the utmost difficulty.
The officials Of the mine, however,
still hold out hopes of rescue. The
mine was regarded as one Of the
safest in the region and was equipped
with the most modern appliances.
Yhe ventilating fans are being op-
Grated at full pressure, and 1t is
hoped the force of the explosion may
not have extended to all the workings
and that many groups Of men may
be found in safe corners. Relief
measures have been prepared on an
extensive scale and physicians, sum-
moned from Pittsburg and neighbor-
ing towns, are in readiness at the pits
mouth. The first thirteen bodies
taken out of the mine We're all so
terribly mutilated as to be almost be-
yond identification.
Joseph Mapleton, pumper,
emerged from one of the side entries
short time after the explosion. He
had left the part of the mine where
most of the men were working and
was on his way to the engine room
for oil.
II was near entry No. 21," he said,
@when I heard an awful rumbling. l
realized what it meant and started to
run for the entry, which I knew was
close by, but before 1 could reach it
there was binding flash and shock,
and I lost consciousness. 1 hardly
knew where I was when I regained
my senses, but managed to grope to
the side entry and work my way out. !"
Mapleton was cut and bruised, but
none Of his injuries we're serious, and
after his wounds had been dressed
at his home he returned to the mine
and joined the rescuing parties. The
best chance OF reaching the victims Of
the explosion is believed TO be
through the side entry through which
Mapleton escaped. William Kelving-
ton, mine superintendent, has organ
lied relief forces with twenty-five
men in each, working in short shifts,
and has set them to work at both the
main and side entries; but about
1900 feet in from the main entry it
was found that the roof had fallen
in for a distance, and as most of the
imprisoned men are believed to be
nearly a mile and ?. half from that
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FROM WEAK HEARTS.
Epidemic Of Grip Given as Cause For
Many Fatalities.

New York City.-The increase in
The number of cases of heart disease,
for the first eleven months of 1907,
in the boroughs of Manhattan and
the Bronx, over the corresponding
months of 1906, was 1246, according
10 figures obtained at the Bureau of
Vital Statistics at the Health Depart
ment. The same proportion of in
crease carried out to the end Of the
year would show an increase of near
ly 1900 over last year.
This would mean an increase Of al
most twenty-seven per cent, an as
tonishing one.
The reason is found not only in the
fast rate of living, but in the cpl
1emic of grip, which is always fol-
lowed by an unusually large number
If deaths from heart troubles. The
grip epidemic itself may be judged
from the fact that sixty-eight deaths
we're reported during the week in
comparison with six deaths last year.
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The Future and Sheep.

All who keep up with the trend of
the live stock industry agree that the
demand for sheep will go on increas-
ing for many years. In referring to
the matter the Shepherds Criterion
has this to say: ..... g.
Farmers as class do not yet un-
derstand sheep we'll enough to pro-
duce them successfully, though the
majority of them raise other things
that require more care and effort and
produce poorer results. While it Is
true that many are going into sheep
for the first time, and hundreds have
been converted toNthe right way Of
thinking, still, relatively speaking,
comparatively few of The small farm
ers carry sheep. 1t will take a long
time to educate some that sheep are
the best live stock they can raise
Jest for the land and for the bank
account. In the meantime mutton
consumption will continue to grow
very rapidly. and in our opinion the
time will be far distant when the sup
ply will again overtake the demand.
The great grazing areas of the West
are practically filled to the limit, and
So there cannot be much expansion in
that direction. The chief increase
must be on the Eastern farms. Here
the dog and the stomach worm have
TO be contended with, and there are
at the present time very serious
handicaps to the small farmer. If a
man can raise enough sheep to war
rant his special and constant and
special attention, then the dog nuis-
ance can be effec;ually eliminated,
but the stomach worm is an enemy
in the dark that cannot be easily con-
quered. All things considered, it is
by no means likely that sheep, hus-
bandry will advance fast enough to
make the business Improbable for
the next twenty years. AS long as
there is a sensible protective tariff
on wool sheepmen will have strong
encouragement, but even if they had
to depend on mutton quality almost
entirely, they are now we'll enough
fortified to go ahead on profitable
basis. 1t is estimated that fifty per
cent. more mutton is consumed in
this country than twenty years ago.
The annual receipts at Chicago are
more than a million more than in
1897, while there has been a corre-
spending increase at most Of the
other Western markets. If under
these circumstances mutton can be
sold at record price, then it follows
that it has strong grip on the Amer
lean appetite, which is bound to en-
duTe. The slaughter Of sheep and
lambs, particularly lambs, is going on
so rapidly that producers are now
much behind the requirements, and
that is why prices are so high. Chi
cago for the first nine months this
year falls 100000 head short OF last
year, in spite of the fact that more
people have gone into the sheep busi-
ness. A supply of 50,000,000 sheep
IS not large enough for a country
with over S0,0o0,O00 people, with
million foreigners landed every year.
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Stag and Saltpetre.

;i1le cheapest way to supply lime
to the soil is to use basic Stag as a
source OF phosphoric acid for the fer
tilizers. Stag carries from thirty to
fifty per cent of lime, and the value
Of the phosphoric acid it carries will
cover its whole cost.
In regard to nitrate of potash (salt-
petre) which cost me about $50 per
ton, $3.50 per hundred pounds, the
exceeding richness CT the chemical
makes It the cheapest source for pot
ash and nitrogen that I know. Each
one hundred pounds carries forty.
four pounds of potash, in which form
it cost me this season, delivered,
about $40 cents per pound. This
forty-four pounds at $40 cents comes
to S2.28, which taken from $3.50
leaves $2.22 for the value of the four
teen pounds of nitro zen contained
in one hundred pounds Of nitrate OF
potash, or Is Ct cents per pound
for the nitrogen which Professor
Goessman assured me is equally valu-
able with the nitrogen derived from
nitrate of soda which costs me de-
livered this season s5S per ton, or
$3.50 per one hundred pounds; one
hundred pounds of nitrate Of soda
contains about fifteen and one-half
pounds Of nitrogen, making the cost
of one pound of nitrogen in nitrate
of soda sulphate of potash.-Monrce
Morse, in the American Cultiyator.
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point, and there Is no means OF know
ing how frequent the falls may be
along the route. progress from this
side, it is feared will be slow.
The mine is on the opposite side or
the Youghiogheny River from that on
which the miners have their homes,
and the only means Of crossing the
river is by Sky ferry" a basket
like car suspended from 4 cable, in
which the men pull themselves back
and forth. This car accommodates
only six persons, and there is almost
a riot every time it starts, but the
comparative inacCessibility of the
mine indirectly has facilitated the
work of the rcscuers greatly. as it
has prevented the wives and children
Of the entcmbed men from crowding
around the entrances and has caused
4 noteworthy absence Of the harrow
ing scenes that usually attend such a
disaster.
There is much drunkenness here,
many Of the men who had been TAX
ing part in the holiday continuing
their carousal in celebration OF their
escape.
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ADMIRAL BROWNSON OUT.
Metcalf Denies Criticism OF Depart
ment Affected Veteran Officer.

Washington, D. C. - President
Roosevelt received and accepted the
resignation of Rear-Admiral wizard
H. Brownson, retired, as Chief OF the
Bureau of Navigation, which has had
to handle the question of the cruise
of the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific.
The President then designated Com
mander Cameron McC. WinsloW to
act as chief of bureau.
Coming Immediately upon the pub
lication of the Reuterdahl criticisms
of the navy, which are widely be-
lieved to have been inspired by high
naval authority, the resignation OF
Admiral Brownson at once gave rise
to the report that it had grown out OF
that publication.
That was denied vigorously by Sec
retary Metcalf, who declared that the
criticisms had nothing whatever TO
do with Admiral Brownson actlon'
which was entirely personal matter
between him and the President.
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Rye Cllaf.

can buy from a local hay press
rye chaff at 81 per ton. Will it pay
to cart this two and one-half miles
and put in the barnyard for manure?
1 have only two COWS. Quantity would
probably be 100 tons year, dry ma
teTial. How can 1 best turn this
chaff to turn hogs on it? Farmers
who cart rye TO the press are over
run with wild radish. Should be
running a great risk from this foul
seed? Would the heating of the
chaff prevent the termination of the
radish seed? Farmers who previous
ly bought this chaff say that they
have had no trouble with the wild
radish on their farms. f. NJ. D.
The rye chaff would contain in a ton
something like fifteen pounds of nj
trogen and nearly the same amount
phosphoric acid, with perhaps
seven or eight pounds Of potash.
When decayed. the phosphoric acid
and potash will be there, while part
of the nitrogen will have disappeared
into the air. Rye chaff is very poor,
if not dangerous. feed for cows, be-
cause of the probable presence of
ergot, poison to all kinds of live
stock. There would also be no small
danger from these weed seeds. Cru
ciferous plants produce seeds which
are unduly hardy and can withstand
hardships. 1t is true that the neigh
bors have not reported introduction
OF radish by reason Of the cnaff, but
there is still danger. II the chaft is
bought, it ought to be we'll rotted be-
fore spreading on the fields. At the
price mentioned, it would not seem
an attractive bargain.-Country Gem
tleman.
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TRINIDAD SHOWERS HONORS
ON THE AMERICAN FLEET
Cordial Greeting Extended by
Governor to Visiting Armada.
SEVEN THOUSAND GO ASHORE
Holiday in the Flcet-Rowing Races
of Crews-Battleships Decorated
Torpedo Boats Sail For Para
After Making Repairs.

After Making Repairs.
Port of Spain, Trinidad. - Rear
Admiral Evans, Rear-Admiral Emory,
commanding the second division Of
the battle feet; Rear-Admiral Thom-
as, commanding the third division,
and Rear-Adimarl Sperry, command
ing the fourth division, together with
the members of their stats, went
ashore and proceeded to Government
House, where they paid the usual for
NAL call to Sir H. NJ. Jackson, Gov
crnor of the colony.
The battleship fleet under COM
mand of Rear-Admiral Evans reached
its first port of call in its 14,00O-mile
voyage to the Pacific a full day
ahead of schedule.
The ships entered the harbor in
four divisions, and steaming past the
city came to an anchorage in the Gulf
of Paria about four miles from Port
of Spain. The feet made fine spec
tacle as it swept through the Dra-
CONS Mouth and down the harDor:
The ships came to anchor in splendid
form, all the anchors dropping ST.
mulatneously with splash.
The usual port ceremonies followed
at once. The harbor master and
health officer of the British colonial
city called and pratique was granted
without delay.
The holiday spirit pervaded the
American fleet, but it was more like
the celebration of the Fourth of July
than that of the Christmas which the
men had known in colder climes.
Decorations there were in plenty,
wreaths of holly and evergreens
which had been brought along to
keen alive the remembrances OF the
day, and there were special dinners
in the mess rooms for the officers and
turkey and other good things for the
men.
1t was not given to the men Of the
torpedo boat fotilla to spend Christ
mas ashore, for in the early morning,
with flags flying and the firing or
salute to Admiral Evans flag float
ing on the main truck Of the battle-
ship Connecticut, they steamed away
to PARA five days journey.
Not fewer than 5000 or 1000 OF
the bluejackets were allowed on
shore, and they entered into the
spirit of merry-making with the
townspeople, whose geniality and hos
pitality have known no bounds.
The feature of the festivities was
a regatta, in which many of the bat
tleships had crews. There were
plenty of exciting finishes, and en-
thusiasm ran high. Admiral Evans,
with his staff, watched the struggles
of the competitors from his launch,
and big crowds occupied points of
vantage along the course.
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GREENE AND GAYNOR Lose
Federal Supreme Court Denies
Petition For WritS.
Sentence Of Court of Four Years I'M
Drisonmcnt and S575, 40 Fire
Stands Against Contractors.

Washington, D. C.-The Supreme
Court of the United States denied
the petition for writs of certiorari
bringing to that court the cases Of
Benjamin D. Greene and John f.
Gaynor, who are under sentence -
pay fine Of $575,749 and to undergo
terms of Imprisonment Of four years
each on the charges of embezzlement
and conspiracy in connection with
Oberlin M. Carter, then captain of
engineers of the United States army,
to defraud the United States in con-
nection with the harbor improve
ments at Savannah.
Carter has served a term Of i'm
prisonment on these charges. Greene
and Gaynor were tried by the United
States District Court for the Southern,
District of Georgia, and on April II,
1906, were found guilty on the two
charges of conspiracy and embeZzle-
ment, and both were sentenced Oil
the same day, the amount of the fine
posedsrepresenting the sum which
is charged to have been appropriated.
uSy dpuGdlGu luS CdoS W IHe ShiIeA
States Circuit Court Of Appeals for
the Fifth Circuit, and when that
court affirmed the verdict Of the trial
court, they presented their petition
to the Supreme Court for writ of
certiorari bringing the entire case to
that court for review.
This petition went at length into
the question of the extradition from
Canada, and urged the fact that, be-
cause the case involved "the relations
IF this Nation to foreign nations,
the Supreme Court was bound under
the Federal Constitution to take cog
nizance of the matter, notwithstand-
ing the case had been passed upon
by the Court of Appeals. Many I'M
portant questions were presented by
the case in addition to that Of extra
iition, including the one as to wheth-
ar person charged with embezzle-
ment in one State New York; can
he legally tried in another State
(Georgia), as Greene and Gaynor
were, and also the question as to
whether a man charged with an Of
Tense in two districts, as Greene and
Gaynor were, can be regarded as a
fugitive from justice when he le-
mains in one of them.
The effect of the denial Of the petit
tion for a review by the Supreme
Court has the effect of leaving in
force the decision of the District
Court.
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<DEza$fsT dTff2p >

measure of all is to keep the houses,
yards, troughs and everything con-
nected with the poultry yard strictly
clean. 1t Is probable that the drink
ing water Is the medium through
which the gapeworm most often
comes, and, therefore, the greatest
care must be taken to keep the foun-
tains clean, when conditions are
specially favorable to the propagation
Of the gapeworm.
The water supplied should be pure
and fresh. 1t is strongly advised
that house, floors, perches, coops
and hatching-boxes should be thor
oughly cleansed with boiling water,
and then limewashed; that food
should never be thrown on the
ground; that access to polluted water
should be prevented: that the rearing
ground should be disinfected during
the winter season if it is to be used
the following year; and that the
bodies of all chickens that die of
gapes should be burned. 1t is also
advisable that affected chickens
should be removed from the healthy
birds as soon as the symptoms Of
gapes can be observed; but this is
hardly practicable where chickens
are reared by hens alone, as chicks
of tender age, if removed from their
mother, would not survive for want
Of care and brooding. Where incu-
bators and brooders are used, there
Is, however, no difficulty, as one Of
the brooders can be temporarily
turned into hospital for the affected
chicks. III. D. c., in Farmers Ga
zette.
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Keep q Few Sheep.

Professor F. B. Mumford. of Mis-
souri, experiment station, shows that
tests have proved that sheep produce
more meat from a pound Of grain
than any other farm animal. 1t was
shown that pound of mutton can be
produced from about half as much
grain as a pound of beef. Even the
mortgage lifting hog requires more
grain to produce a pound of human
food than the sheep. With the COM
bination Of corn and clover hay for
food and dry shed for shelter
sheep will always give good account
of themselves and respond readily
to the care given them.-Farmer's
Guide.
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Tho Labor World.

The London (Canada) Labor Parry
has pronounced in favor of old-age
pensions.
A majority of the musicians of
Santa Cruz, CAL, met recently and
organized union.
A select committee of the House OF
Commons is inquiring into the sweat
ing evil in London.
Organized labor in Seattle, Wash,
has carried out it's proposed plan OF
obtaining coal mine.
Employment was given to 500 men
when work was resumed In the steel
Trusts mills at Bay View, Wis.