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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
40 Head on 60 Acres.

Inow maintain herd of forty-three
pure-bred Holstein cattle and six horses
on fifty-six acres, and purchase not one
dollars worth of feed except small
amount of balanced rations used to feed
some of the COWS while being officially
tested for milk and butter fat. Next
year 1 propose to increase my herd to
fifty, and expect to raise plenty to feed
all. The only products sold from the
farm are milk, stock and potatoes; of the
latter l have usually from 300 to 500
bushels to sell, and l have sold $2300
worth of pure-bred stock since Oct. I,
1907. My milk brings me about Sl0O
per month, besides feeding whole milk to
every calf born for at least six months.
Of course this system of farming elimi-
mates all pasturage and requires two, and
sometimes three crops from the same
land each season. The alfalfa, of course,
produces three crops, and we generally
manage to get two and sometimes three
crops for soiling purposes. All animals
are fed in the stable the year round, with
outdoor exercise every day, and all
manure is drawn and spread upon the
land every other day, and it may readily
be imagined that the land is rapidly in
creasing in fertility.-Rural New-Yorker.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
Full Feed Or Half Feed.

The most costly economy one can
practise is to half feed fattening animals
and dairy cows. There may be some
animals about the farm which need only
moderate rations during the winter
months, but fattening or dairy stock
does not come under that head. The
farm teams that are not worked do not
require full feed now, but 1t Is by no
means good economy to trough" them
through the winter. The farm horse
that has used up much Of his energy In
the winter is hardly ft to stand six or
eight months of hard work later on.
do not believe it pays to feed anything
just enough to keep it alive. With fat.
tening stock gain and profit come in pro-
portion to the amount OF food the ami
NAL puts to good use. Fattening ami
mails should have no backset, and the
real money making feeder is the one who
knows when to feed out high priced grain
with lavish hand. The dairy cow re-
quires constant liberal feeding. II she
be allowed to go even for a month or two
on scant feed it will take two or three
months to get her back on to profitable
basis. Regular feeding aud ample feed
are the things which count, and have
vet to find the man who ever made any
money out of fattening stock or dairy
ing on any other basis.-L. G. Brown, In
Tribune Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
Appreciation of Mr.. McKeen.


Among the many loyal Patrons who at
tend the State Grange In Waterville re-
Gently none received more hearty and
heartfelt welcome than did B. Walker
McKeen, the former Secretary OF the
Board of Agriculture In our State, and
always q most acceptable speaker on
Grange and agricultural topics. A few
years ago he was obliged to curtail
his dairy operations at The Pines, owing
to the scarcity of competent farm help.
This difficulty is largely overcome now
BY the return of his eldest son to the
ancestral acres, and the herd will now be
gradually increased. The Jerseys at The
Pines have given way to, the more sturdy
Holsteins and the black and whites will
hereafter be in evidence. Mr.. McKeen is
In good demand as a Grange speaker and
worker, and with his home affairs looked
after BY bis son will be able to respond
more often than he has formerly been
able to. 1t is understood that Mr.. Nc.
Keen will be prominent candidate for
Lecturer of the State Grange at the
election next year, and as 1t is understood
that the present incumbent Is not to be
candidate for reelection again, the
chances for Mr.. McKeen's success are ex-
tremely bright. He would fill the place
most admirably, and one of these days
some one may open their eyes to the fact
that he possesses an unusual amount OF
timber from which good State Masters
are made.-Turf, Farm and Home.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
More of Silage.

Silos we're discussed as never before;
it seemed to be new subject. A great
many additional ones were built the last
summer. Some townships have over one
hundred now. Their value and economy
seem to increase in the estimation of the
people each year. This year has put
them TO the front as source of summer
feed. Cows summer fed on silage did
not seem to have known there was a
severe fourteen weeks drouth. 1t prov
ed to be cheaper feed than good pas
ture. Cows fed some silage daily were
giving round messes with only pound
or two of grain; when those without
silage have been having an eight-pound
ration Of grain ,laily all summer. On the
average farm a bushel of silage day
took the place of two or three acres OF
the usual six acres of pasture. 1t seem
ed as if there Is now a unity of opinion
that ears that 60 into the sil0 are all &C.
counted for in the feed manger, and not
lost, as once supposed; aud SO to dispose
of it is to get best results and escape
husking, cribbing, grinding and after
mixing; and that cows fed the year round
on silage do not "wear out" any faster
than do those who walk out their lives
roaming a barren pasture. - Tribune
Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
Benefit from Farmers Meetings.

There is class of farmers who never at
tend agricultural meetings, and will say
of the neighbors who 60 that they might
better be at home at work. There may
be exceptions, but nine times in ten, the
man who cultivates the wider range of ac-
quaintance and knowledge is the one who
will win, other conditions being equal.
For instance, when I attended farmers
meeting short time ago, one man asked
how much cottonseed meal it was safe to
feed dairy COW. The reply was that
five or six pounds might be fed for short
periods, but three or four pounds for
long periods would be sufficient. He said
he had been feeding eight pounds day
to every cow this year, and the cows
were giving lots of milk. He did not
know cottonseed meal fed in too large
quantities will injure dairy animals.
That one point picked up at the meeting
ought to more than pay for his trouble
in going.-G. C. s., Massachusetts,, in
New England Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
Line Breeding.

Two men were met who were making
phenomenal success with their dairies.
Both had selected a breed and type and
were staying by it by line breeding their
stock, retaining the same sire for TWO or
more generations, both claiming that
judiciOus line breeding is essential II the
type and productive qualities are to be
maintained and improved upon. AS one
man expressed it, it does not require half
the skill, and success is far more certain,
to blend blood by line breeding than it
does by the constant outcross plan to
concentrate it by uniting families. 1t
seems impossible to organize group of
families of breed or even sift out their
better qualities and blend into a "one-
ness" that "like will beget like" and
stay prepotent. They cannot succeed
like Hart, Wetmore and others, who
practise line breeding to establish tpye
and prepOtency all the time with better
ing herds, and that without loss of size,
vitality or health. Our out-cross breed
ing has shown it to be about an impossi-
bility to bring together and into har-
mony variety of cold and unrelated
bloods without great complications aris-
ing to defeat the breeders efforts. Each
new out-cross brings in new complications
more relatives-to increase the crop
of variations. Breeding back to the sire
cuts out this diffusion of blood process
and concentrates, until the third genera
tion is 81 per cent one blood, and pre-
potency is then a fixed fact, as in the
case of Gentry's Berkshire pigs = the
world beaters = just Longfellow blood
over and over, until they have no rela-
tives; just one relative, old Longfellow.
The matter with several million of the
dairy cows is mixed, Heterogeneous
breeding of all types aud conditions,
with the influence of their-as worthless
mixed up relations. Thousands OF
cow breeders are unloading what some
Que in rational way attempted to do.
Prepotency cannot be fixed as type
until concentrated with close, similar
types. Getting new sire every year to
head the herd simply defeats the very
thing that prepotency is supposed to
establish. Wasn't that quite q sermon to
try to remember at an institute? -
Tribune Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12

get mixed up In her answers to me
once or twice. She said 1t was very
difficult to understand English people
on account of their not opening their
mouths much when they spoke, and
their accent being so strong. l found
this odd, because we always feel as II.
the English language having peeh
started by us. 1t is Americans who
have All accent, but 1t seems that
great many people in the States dislike
the way we talk very much and con
slider It extremely affected.
After all the trouble she had taken
I felt dreadfully not to buy anything
Of her, but the sunshades were too ex'
pensive. though she said they were
marked down. took japanese ian
instead. which pops out at you like a
Jack-in.the-box from a fat red stick
and even that was $1.25 when
thought 1t would be sixpence. On the
way to meet Mrs. Ess Kay and Sally
at the notion counter, inquired the
price of good many other superlative
ly beautiful things. but they were al
superlatively high rs well, and by the
time very dashing young man. wht
said he was a 'foorwalker." hat
steered me to the notions, felt as Il
were the only cheap thing In tht
whole shop. To be sure, there wer'
some embroidered collars and Ameri
can flag headed hatpins and foweret
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
Early Flowing and Water Supply

l asked q successful farmer recently
why he never had any difficulty in start
ing his crops. He replied that he always
secured and perfect seedbed; and the
perfect seedbed l always get BY early
plowing and by repeated workings, using
the disk, the peg-tooth harrow and the
roller" Early plowing gives weeds. and
grass, and other debris time enough to
rot and decay and become otherwise in
corporated into the soil. By the time
the top soil and the undersoil have been
knitted together again, capillarity Is at
work sending water into the seedbed-
just where newly planted seed can GET
the advantage Of it.-C. W. B., In New
England Homestead.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
tcoNTINuEp.]

"Say. let's run her over TO Coney
Island" he said.
"Oh. my dear boy" exclaimed Mrs
Ess Kay. Not for anything. The
duchess would have a fl mean. she
would be Mortified"
But when l heard that Coney Island
was like a kind of glOrifiel Margate
(Which I've never been to. but only
heard about, with switchbacks AMI al
sorts Of shows. said that mother
would consider 1t chapter in the lib
eral education Of respectable British
tourist. and it was decided that we
should dine there. Mrs. Ess Kay had
to do lot of things before she could
go on TO Newport. so we were to shop
all the morning. lunch at Sherry's. rest
in the afternoon and spend the evening
ut Concy Island Next day we were to
go to West Point. where Mr.. Parker Is
stationed. and stay there all night for
cadet ball.
Just as we had got this programme
settled. and were making up our minds
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12

muslin wrappers which ! could have
had without running myself II / had
wanted them. But didn't, and what
I should like to know is. what does a
girl do, If she's poor and has to live In
New York? Mrs. Ess Kay had said
the shop was a cheap shop, SO there
must be others where even the flow
cred wrappers and collars and hatpins
are more. And, besides, girl couldn't
90 through life dressed entirely In
such things. However. Judging from
the girls l have seen so far, they are
all very rich, except the lower classes.
and Of course it's much simpler to do
without things If you can just be poor
and give up to 1t comfortably without
thinking of appearances, like US.
AS soon as l saw the notion counter
knew why they had named 1t that,
only it would be still more expressive
II 1t were called the Imagination coun-
ter. 1t was lovely, and looked like
thousands of little Christmas presents
spread out for every one.
There were great m1ny pretty peo-
pie buying things at 1t, and in most Of
the other departments where ! went
with Mrs. Ess Kay and Sally, but
when | admired them, and the sweet
blouses they wore and the way they
carried their shoulders and hips, Mrs.
Ess Kay shifted and said there was
nobody In New York now-nobody at
all who was worth looking at and
wouldn't be till October, except those
who were just In the city for day
or two of shopping, like us. When
suggested that these charming beings
in white muslins and summer silks
might be here in that way, she did not
think it at all probable.
"How can you tell?" asked. "They
look just as nice as we do"
Indeed. thought some Of them
looked nicer, but I've been much too
we'll brought up to make such remarks
as that.
81 can tell, because don't know
their faces" said Mrs. Ess Kay decid-
edly. in a tone that gave capital let
ter to her last word, and yet lntimated
hat the poor. unknown (by herr things
couldn't possibly be worth glance.
Now. mother and Aunt Sophy are
rather like that. It's almost terrible
when they say "Who is she?" But l
shouldn't have expected 1t to be the
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
Dairy Notes.

Look after the water supply for your
herd Impure water is source OF i'm
pure milk. Cows never do their best
whom compelled to drink water from q
staguant slough hole.
Do not allow the cows to become
frightened. A dairyman says that from
actual experience he has lost over one
half the butter fat when the fright had
not lasted over three minutes.
Remember that q good flow Of milk
means first plenty OF good pure water
FLOR the cows.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
Common Colt Difficulties.

The Horse World makes the following
timely suggestion as to the care OF colts
in recent issue.
Colts should be looked after carefully
through the winter months. The two
most common causes for poor condition
will be found to be lice and worms. A
thorough spraying with some Of the coal
tar lice preparations once week will
keep the first trouble in hand. For
worms remedies are common enough;
the trouble is the owners are prone to de-
lay their use until the colts get in bad
shape. A teaspoonful of pure spirits OF
turpentine in little milk in the morning
before feeding for three or four morn
iugs, followed by dose of raw oil will
usually do the business. If not, an in
lection of tea, made by boiling quassia
chips in water will be almost sure to af.
ford lief.-Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
Orchards Mnst Be Fertil zed.

The constant return to orchard soil OF
all vegetable matter produced, will keep
up an adequate supply OF nitrogenoui
material, which will be annually in
creased if the application of acid phos.
phate is kept up in liberal way. Few
orchardists realize the amount of these
mineral matters taken from the soil to
produce great tree, or in the produc
tion of apples.
A good crop of apples will remove
from the soil three times as much potash
as crop of wheat on the same soil, and
while in the decaying vegetable matter
we can get what nitrogen the trees need
the supply Of the mineral matters mus,
be kept up II we expect to get large and
perfect crops of fruit.-Farm Progress.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
fro BE coNTINUED.l
Times Chances.

"Before we were married you said
you'd lay down your life for me-" she
sobbed.
81 know IT," he returned solemnly
"but this confounded fiat Is so tiny
there's no place to lay anything down y
-Harper's BaZar.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
The Magnet.

. "Yes, she advertised for husband
and got 2.700 replies"
"Gracious! She must have adver-
tised herself as very beautiful"
"No, she didn't. She just said she
had 500 in the bank."-Kansas City
Independent.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12

In figuring dairy profits do not over.
look the real value of the skim milk and
the manure.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12
AMONG THE FARMERS,
"sPEKD THE PLow."

Correspondence on practical agricultural topics
is solicited. Address all communications In
tended for this department to HENRY ID
HAMMOND, Agricultural Editor Oxford Dem
ocrat, Paris, Me.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12

Buttermilk is said TO be great health
giving drink.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12


Such institutions as the Naval and
Military Orphan asylum at Bath, tho
Maine Industrial School for Girls at Hall
lowell. the School for the Deaf. and the
School for the Blind at Portland. and
the State School for Boys at South Port
land are excellent examples OF well d.
rected public philanthropy and merit
the outlay Of money required from the
state for their proper support Some OF
these will require larger appropriations
this year. both for running expenses ana
for needed Improvements. The State
School for Boys at South Portland has
undergone an entire change the past
ten years. and when the new stable IL
completed, for which an APPROPRIATION
will be asked at this session Of the legis-
lature, here Is one institution. At least.
that will be absolutely complete, and
for which ] can conceive OF no further
requirement In the near future.
In connection with our philanthropic
work In Maine. I wish 10 call your at
tention to the Maine sanatorium al Heb
ron, for the treatment OF tuberculosis
Of the lungs. Today. this sanatorium'
which is largely endowed by private phil
anthropy, is obliged TO turn away many
patients for lack Of room. The results
obtained there are surpassed In point OF
recovery by no other institution In the
country. I recommend the merits OF this
institution to your consideration In the
way OF appropriation and with H. also.
a consideration OF the grave issues OF
tuberculosis as matter OF general leg
| islation II may be that it rests with us
! In this generation TO stamp out this dis'
ease before Il Is too late have no hesi-
fancy in calling this subject and the
Maine Sanatorium at Hebron to your at
tention and to urge upon you a cohsid'
GRAFTON Of the same.
SO far as cursory examination VI
the condition OF the Maine state prison
can go I find evidences Of good manage
men. and a spirit OF cooperation ana
harmony among It's officials. A bill VIII
Continued on page fourr
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-10-29

me, and wanted me back, and l shot
her."
From the time of his arrest Sunday
night until he broke down under the
questions of the detectives, Gebhardt,
although he admitted that he commit
ted bigamy when he married Anna
Luther, denied all knowledge of her
death.
@How about this letter?" asked Cor
oner Savage, and he began to read a
note mailed Sunday to the German
Consul and signed Otto Mueller.
~ am the husband" it ran, with
out doubt, of the woman, Anna Muel-
Ter After we arrived in New York
from Germany, in April of last year,
we stayed in Newport ten days. Then
we went to Florida for the health of
my wife, and settled there for the time
being.
In Jamaica, where | formerly lived
with my wife, she had received a WIS.,
lIOI WuOn SuS ISpi OSSnI0u W AhO W
by a Mr. Bradley, of Denver. From
Florida we went to Denver, and this
Mr.. Bradley called again. In Septem-
Der, 1908, my wife disappeared, after
l reproached her for seeing Bradley
when l happened to be away for two
days.
"This man Bradley is about feet
high, with light hair, smooth face, and
claims to be a real estate dealer. l,
Mueller, will at once go to Germany to
see my parents-in-law, and will then
be at your service"
The same inexplicable impulse
which had prompted Gebhardt to
write this fatal letter had led him to
give to Bradley, who does not exist
outside of his imagination, his own
personal description. AS soon as he
saw the letter again, his jaw dropped,
he grew white and began to SILVER,
and before the reading was completed,
exclaimed:
"Oh what's the use, any way You
have me and might as well own up.
l killed her."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-10-29
Re Sociable Anyway.

Thare never was a road yet that
didn't run in two directions, and I'M
loss Won stand still you've got to travel
one way or the other. There's a con-
siderable crowd goin both ways on
this highway of life, and that bein
the case it's just as easy ana Wnole
LOT pleasanter to have company
whether a mans goin' to heaven or
ooin' TO the devil it's better to be So
ciabIe. never did have any use tor
the fellow who 6ocks by himselt 10
practice either his virtues or his vices
Now. take 1t for granted that you
want TO go in the right direction, ana
n so. you'll find the only real crowu
that's goin' your way is in the church.
THEY'RE in the church primarily l
guess because of its promises. but
anart from that they're In 1t because
Jordan. as the old song says, is
hard road to travel, and they need
fbc help Of the church to get them
over the stony places. That's just
wbv Won need It and just why you
,an,t afford to go along without It.
Don't get In the habit of lyin' in BED OF
Sunday mornin's. Colonel John sneed'
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-10-29
MRS. HAYES ASHES
GO TO RICHMOND
LAST RITES OVER DAUGHTER OF
JEFFERSON DAVIS WILL BE
HELD THERE.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Oct. 26.
The ashes of Mrs j. Addison Hayes,
the late Daughter of the Confed'
eracy," are en- route to Richmond, Va,
for final interment beside the body of
Jefferson Davis, President of the Con-
federate States, and his wife, father
and mother of Mrs Hayes.
The urn containing the ashes was
accompanied by Mr. Hayes, Jefferson
Hayes Davis, their son, whose sur
name was changed by authority of the
Legislature to perpetuate the Davis
name, and the other children.
Mrs. Hayes died July IS and the
body was cremated in Denver, tenn
porary interment being made here
with the intention of later removing
the ashes to the old Confederate Cap
itol. Services will be held in st.
Paul's Cathedral, Richmond, Friday
and public homage paid the departed
will be in Hollywood Gene
terry. made famous by many historical
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-10-29
TOO MUCH TOBACCO. u

In that'll promote matrimonial har-
mony like good cigar smoked at
home. You never heard of man
with a cigar in his mouth breakin' up
the furniture or draggin' his wife
around the room by the hair of her
head, did you? No. l guess not! Nor
it don't induce him to sneak out into
the kitchen and kiss the cook, either
Its influence is always In the direc-
ton of virtue. Many a crisis, domes-
tic and otherwise. has been prevented
by the contemplative restraint OF a
good cigar. You needn't smile. little
girl That's no joke. OF course you
can always get too much of a good
thing. Too much tobacco will work
harm in time, but so will too much
ham and eggs, and the man who
smokes at home isn't half as likely to
overdo 1t as the man who has to go
out in the woOdshed or to the corner
saloon or to the club.
"And that brings me around to the
main point that | want to press into
your pretty little head You've got
your hair fixed mighty nice this even
in, honey New style, amt it? Uh.
huh! Looks fine But, as was about
to say the best place for a man to
smoke his cigar is at home. Now,
you've got Bill out there in the back
yard tryin to get some satisfaction out
of his smoke, and he isn't gettin it,
Smoke. for the most part, is mental
process. and its enjoyment is meas
ured good deal by the surroundin's.
Bills putin away out there and won
derin' why it burns so slow. All the
time he's thinkin', and you oughtn't to
blame him If his thinks amt the kind
you'd like to have workin around in
his brain. He ought to be sittin' here
and lookin' at you just as am and