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The Florida agriculturist., 1910-04-01

last cow had been attended to, the hap,
py family gathering was broken up and
the cows turned back into their own
pen.
1t was a comical performance from
beginning to finish, and the first time I
was introduced to a Florida milking
scene I thought that the COWS were not
the only "curus critters Later on I
improved somewhat on the primitive
method by putting leather collar on
the neck of each calf with a short rope
attached Then when it was to be sep
arated from its mother, either I or an
assistant, when I had any, pulled the
calf away and tied it to the fence until
ready to allow it to come to its mother
again found this simple innovation a
great saving of time and temper, and
the four-1egged parties to the new meth
Cd soon got used to it, the COW standing
quietly as the calf was close by.
The Florida agriculturist., 1910-04-01


said tin cup.
1t was worse than useless to try to
milk with both hands and a pail held
between the knees, as [ had been used
to do in the "ould counthry." tried it
once against the warnings of those who
knew better, but never any more-never,
never! I had MIXED three critters in
the mode approved of Florida cows and
men, but the fourth was such a quiet
steady old thing that I discarded the
ridiculous cup and sitting down on a
box took up the pail into which [ had
emptied the milk thus far obtained For,
of course, a pail had to be carried along
to the pen, not only because the tin
cup would not hold all the milk from
the several cows, but because no mixer
waited until the cup was full before CIV
ing its contents into the safer custody
of the pail; for why, the legs of the
Florida cows were uncertain quantities
all the time, and milky shower baths net
at all uncommon Well, I sat down
with the pail between my knees and
took both hands to the work of extract
ing the modicum of milk from Our old
cow. She looked around at me in Il
surprised sort of way, but didn't say
anything, and all went smoothly for a
while until a wicked fly sat down to
supper on her near hind leg-and then
Suffice it to say that I and the pail
took back seat on the sand, Git had
been pretty we'll cowpenned too), and
that I rose up sadder and wetter
man, wiser also. And that madcap
Mollie, who, of course, had to be there
just then, laughed and laughed until
she had to sit down in the grass (not
in the pen, be you sure), to have it out.
The twins, Joseph and Jean, they were
there, too, and helped their naughty
mother to laugh at their poor dad as he
wended his way to the house carrying
the nights milk in his clothes instead of
in the pail Well, had the satisfaction
of having it all to myself and they did
not get a single drop. That sort of
evened things up little, anyhow.
But to go back to the queerities of the
old-time milking process: If the cow
happened to be one of the steady sort,
like my old cow for instance, the mixer
could sit On his heels Or rest on one
knee, but otherwise, and it was usually
otherwise, the approved position was
standing and STOPPING the cup in one
hand, the teats held back by the other,
and the mixer on the alert to save the
milk from threatened danger, and to
move along whenever his peripatetic
milk factory took notion to wander to
and fro
The cow from which the elderly calf
had been ruthlessly sundered as afore-
said, rarely 'gave down" all her milk
at the first attempt, and often had to be
returned to the calf again Finally,
when the mixer was satisfied Cor not),
she was left with her calf until all the
COWS had been attended to in the same
arduous manner. This was necessary to
ensure that all the milk was drawn from
the udder. and the calves could be trust
ed to attend to that part of the business
thoroughly They had lovely time for
a while bombarding their mothers, and
he mothers had fine time, too, licking
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and they were always delighted with its
effectiveness and simplicity. I have
never seen it's equal, for it leaves all the
advertised testers far in the rear. It
requires no 1amp1ight, not even strong
sunlight
It is easily made Take a piece of
dark colored stiff pasteboard and roll
it into tube about six or eight inches
long, although the length can be suited
to ones eyesight, near sighted person
requiring a shorter tube than one of
ordinary sight. It's diameter should be
such that an egg held against it will
just close it in like a lid. It is best to
shape the tube slightly oval rather than
round, making it egg-shaped, in fact,
and tapering towards the end at which
the eye is to be applied.
Having the tester ready, all you have
to do is to go out doors with the eggs
to be tested and examine them one by
one, holding them by the side with the
thumb and finger, large end uppermost
and pressed close against the larger end
of the tube, with the smaller to your
eys.
Now hold the tube in such position
that the light will strike through the
egg. Sometimes this is best attained by
turning it up toward the SUN, and at {,
other times towards the ground, it de-
pends on the amount of light >pnd
shadow This simple tester works we'll
even in cloudy weather.
Those who try it once will never use
any other. Test setting of eggs with
it from he second or third day to the
finish, and you will see wonders that
you never saw before or dreamed of.
You can follow the marvellous growth
of the life of the chick from the first
appearance of the little red spider" as
Mollie calls it, to the fully matured
chick as it moves its head about inside
the air space while chipping the shell
and twisting itself around the circle.
That cred spider" is a very curious
thing. It is the heart forming, and from
it radiate in every direction thread-like
fi1aments, embryo veins. A day or two
later you can see it beginning to rulsate,
while the veins grow larger and more
decidedly red, the aorta showing very
distinctly. Soon the eyes can be seen,
and then the egg gradually becomes
cloudy as the yolk is absorbed into the
growing embryo, this being more marked
in the dark feathered breeds than in the
lighter, as the down gathers on the
tender skin But the process can still
be followed until the fully developed
chick is seen with its head in the en-
1arged air cell, tapping, tapping at the
door" until having completed the circuit,
the lid falls open, and the tiny prisoner
rolls out into the great wide world Of
wonders, of which it is not the least
Such wet, sloppy little thing as it is
at first, and such a dear fluffy thing as
it is few hours later when it has
rubbed itself dry against its proud moth
ers warm breast.
But it is not always that the chick
succeeds in making this triumphant
exit. Often the weakly ones make a
fair beginning, and then grow weary of
we'll doing and fall by the wayside, as
it were. Those can easily be detected
The Florida agriculturist., 1910-04-01
CHAPTER EIGHT.

OF1AP EK ElOf1 /.
TESTING THE EGGS AND HOUSING THE
CHICKS
And now let us go back and take
peep at the doings of those transp1anted
lens. You will remember that we set
three at the same time, and had lots
Of fun and exercise in ersuading them
to do their duty
"They sot and they sot and they sotY
said little Jean, in spite of the prediction
of their former owner, who by the way,
came one day to see the wonder of the
"dratted fools settin' jist whar they was
putw
In three weeks time two of the hens
were proudly c1ucking to twenty funny
balls of down with beak and two tiny
legs peeping out All were dark in color
as behooved their ancestors, save the
few that came from the local monde
script eggs. The Houdans were easily
distinguished by their fifth toe and the
swelled head that gave promise of the
proud crest to come a little later on.
The third hen had similar happy ex-
perience ten days later, adding ten more
chicks to Our stock, nondescript but sus-
ceptible of Improvement in their off
spring, as we should retain only Our
thoroughbred cocks, Langshans and
Houdans
The reason that the third hen was
ten days behind the others was that she
then received fresh setting of eggs.
Mollie's testing having by that time re-
duced the three original nests to two
full ones having all the fertile eggs
from the three.
All the most vigorous eggs showed
signs of vitality as early as the third
day, and the others came struggling
along up to the fifth day, when all that
were still clear were taken out to be
used III cooking. There were not many
clear ones, however, and the three set
tings were not reduced to two until, as
I have said, the tenth day. BY that
time the weaklings had betrayed them
selves by ceasing to develop, and so
were taken out of the nests and thrown
in among the scraps to be fed to the
hens, for they were not spoiled, only
"muddled" and non-hatchab1e. There
were enough of them to leave only two
regulation settings, and it was then that
the third hen got lot of nice fresh
eggs to tuck under her warm, fluffy
breast
I must tell you about the tester that
Mo1lie used. I never saw its counter
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

He uses q thing like a magnifed plum.
hers blow-torch. and burns OF the
tnornS as the cacti stand. When they
ret the fodder eaten that has been
burnt over. they stop eating. They
have to stop.
It's the only crop that furnishes its
own barb-wire fence.
Now this may sound jocular. but IL .
no joke. Mr. Sinclair says: II would
rather run a dairy on prickly pear
than silo any time. In many parts
Of this country the native prickly pear
is growing In vast quantities. There
are giea; sections where there are
several hundred tons of IL TO the acre.
Where this natural growth is found II
Is very cheap feed. With gasoline
cactus burner. costing SIS. under his
arm, and five gallons OF gasoline. one
man can in a few hours feed 100 cows
ell they can eat"
And just think Of the worlds OF land
in warm climates where IL is too dry
to grow anything else! The time may
soon come when enterprising dairy.
Ten will be fiocking to the fertile des
crit wastes OF the Sahara, and soaring
of tho Numidian lion with the same
gasoline torch with which he feeds
the meek-eyed kline.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

doushnut. but you nefer wass fried
done.
So after all we dit not find any pay
dirt On der dromedary, instead OF
finding pay dirt der dirt owed us mon
ey. We looked around outsite but der
only COLT dust we fount wass brick
dust. Adolf tot maybe diss wass DEF
blaze we're dey used TO make golf
bricks. und our mine wass der only
Won left.
We studied der matter Offer I'D I'M
ter ind decidet id wass nod too late
TO be too soon TO dit Something's to
catch efen on der deal by selling der
mine 10 somepody else. Dot wass der
idea | presented 10 Adolf. but he han
Diet I'd back 10 me becoss he hat no
place to kip id.
So we tropped a dead mule in der
shaft 10 kip our eastern infestors from
examining der mine too closeness und
sat down in der shade OF our camp
fire 10 write n prospectus.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27
ClIINCII
Bttss AND
OTHERS.

IL looks now As Il the Sahara desert
inight turn out 10 be the best dairy
section OF the world-price of land all
things considered. II Is right within
easy shipping distance OF Europe. lahl
can be got for little or nothing. and
the Nile river flows right out of the
heart of the burning sands for water
way. And besides the European ma
lions that are acquiring the Barbary
states are building railways down
toward the wastes hitherto devoted TO
the Bedouins and the French novel.sts.
Grass? Shucks. You don't need
no grass"
Such is the verdict OF the new
movement for desert daiging. What
takes tho place q grass? Nhy. Cac
tug. or course The spineless cactus
OF burbank? Not OF all. The best cac-
tus FOR dairying IS the sort with long
spineS--the longer the better. They
cont need fencing. Rabbits Will eat
the Burbankers. but the spiny old tel
lows I'll their noses with thorns. And
you can let your pasture stand year
citer year without any fence and the
stock won't dare touch II.
IL memory serves us right we hayc
told in these columns before of the
agricultural department experiments
with cattle feeding in the cactus coun
Try; but now the thing is an estab
lished fact. A farmer gives his ex
Ireriences in the Rural New Yorker
a paper which would no sooner trifie
with an agricultural fact than you
would toy with the revised statutes
or the ten commandments-and II ~
Hoped you appreciate the compliment
This Texan-uamed VIM. Sinclair
has 100 cows which he feeds on the
prickly pear cactus. Some dairy, that
and no mere laboratory experiment
lie gives them something over 15C
POUNDS a day OF the prickly pear pei
Icow-they have 10 have lot OF Il be
cause Ii is so full of juice. Food and
drink in one feed.
He buys some oil cake and corn
but depends mostly on 'prickly
pear" He grows 30 tons an acre d
year This means that an acre vii
keep three COWS And they do bettel
on IL than on the best hay. Can blue
grass beat that?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

growing dere must be vegetation.
Und so i'd PROCEED. We soon came by
a hole in der grount und we recigniz-
zed our mine. We knew Id wass our
mine becoss Id hat sign notiss on Id:
KEEP OUID-
Nopody else voult spell Id dot way
unless Id wass a OSCAR und Adolf
mine. So we permissi6ned ourselufs
to examine i'd. Becoss Adolf ISIS a
genealoggist. let him go in Id, und
kept him tight init rope.
II dink dere ISIS in here lots OF COLT
he hollered up.
More likely Cherman silfer." ! re-
blied, "chudging from der accent"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

ISIS on our PROPERTY already a claim.
Jumper"
was ferry much disappointed be
coss no COLT wass invisible TO deI
naked eye and cloudet INTELLECT oil
Adolf. go down deeper" I ordert
You may oben vein"
"vot. und maybe bleet to deat?'
wass hiss obese reply.
Fool" | said. der best way tc
mine ISIS 10 dig"
Den better you employ Digger
intian." cried Adolf II wass nod cui
ouid for human scoopshovel."
NO" aswered ispassionably
you wass cut ouid for a ofergrowr
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27
Dey Find Dot Colt Mine
But VOt ISS In Id?

Here ISIS a spring" he said. Il
guess we are near bedrock"
Well. EFF you haf fount a spring,
I reblied. you must be nearly down
10 box mattress. Haf you fount any
ORE"
Here ISIS Something's vich loks like
piece OF sewer pipe" he EXCLAIMED.
Maybe Id ISIS low brow ore.
You mean low grade ore" | CO
regtet.
"Alzo here ISIS bullfrog,' Adolf an
nunciatet I'D seems derefore dot dere
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27
BY FRED scHAEFER.

IN CAMP AID OUR COLT MINE
Today-Hip. hip. hullabaloo, We hal
fount i'd ad last-our COLT mine. Und
aind we so habby, yess7 No. Colt ISIS
nod eferydings. Id ISIS nod sissages
und id ISIS nod Pilsener. We find our
selufs so far from civilization dot We
can nod borrow money from i'd
Some miles after leaflng der desert
we fount sage brush. und decidet we're
anydings so sage as diss brush wass
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

9TH end seat hog sometimes fur
Their shows his animal nature by
eittin' full as goat an riding home
on a owl car grum as bear"
A southern Negro has been in jail
for three months with no formal
charge against him. Of course he
might be lynched on general princi-
pies. but It's pretty warm weather to
get q mob togeather.
There was a decrease OF about s25,.
100000 in tile value OF alcohol bever-
ages consumed in the United King
dom last year, as compared with the
year before.
Whats the good Of riches?"
What indeed? have four new
automobiles and the doctor says
must walk to and from the Office"
II looks now as though that fight
would be a peachereno.
A bill has passed congress requiring
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

II was in the editors Office, or sane
tum, as IL is called
Pegasus PeriwinlSle. the poet. was
presenting his masterpiece TO the
editor. IL was called 'Porkopolis, or
Where Pigs is Put Away"
"One moment, please" said the
editor, depressing a shudder.
He deftly pushed the button. re-
leasing the trap door to the dungeon,
(The End
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27
Two Killed in Auto Wreck.

PITTSBUHG, June 1.-TWO per.
sons were instantly killed, three DALI
gerously injured and two painfully
hurt when a large automobile was
struck near Charleroi yesterday after
noon by one of the heavy suburban
cars Of the Pittsburg Street Railway
company. The dead ere: William r.
Hamilton. an undertaken, OF Roscoe,
and his son Roy, aged % Mrs. Ham.
ilton, aged 40, a daughter Annie. aged
"a. and Miss Blanche Mathey, a
cousin, aged 10, are in the hospital
with injuries which may prove fatal
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27
Joyous Mental Exercise.

A lot OF people nowadays are plan
ming perfectly grand summer vaca-
tons they know very we'll they are
not going TO take.-(From the Wash
ington Herald)
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27
One Reason.

Seems to me the president is away
from the capital good deal"
He is, that's a fact. But they play
better ball In some other towns. -
(From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27
DAIRYING IN THE DESERT

Probably the eastern farmer thinks
this rather u tough and painful crop
- handle, thinking of barley boards
and blackberry thorns and Canada
thistles; but the Texan has trouble
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27
From Another Point of View

Congress praise God. has adjourned
As further inducement Detroit has
That st. Louis team showed all Alright right
lost in the chickens by thieves
><he neghbohood ~
year in Huron county which
~ for the lightning. " ~ "
-
OF having three wives ia nrob
y >Qimply for safe keeping 49, " '
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

IN nro.D suASr PoxG YOU AUST NItp ~
N ~ s' - To-, Law c7.r sets Feo. ~oesH AMI
cu,ywarr q so~sS DISPOSITION
~ = a.s a, sreoxr staeeH IHt VICTIM 70 scr
We us 1ss T1t v,.tes VITA TO pan. " 9oes on 49,
" rs ~ Yoo oIat NtSt NOTIFY 7EE polNt
Ssss Ss 1850 Ioe TAG pocror toy 70 Hsf0 '"t
ecosn sec.A sIAND ON THf FeAToetS eNo o'sa
Pee1s o. Y.r VICTIMS AmATo~H oslooSIS e's eo..'"
nNp nryr o sppay.se lsiS erET WITTY piStSFEcThI
.RrA4oys AIS .s@oIs 70 oft'tW IsI psIss9S -"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

| had pet duck that languished
and died at the age CT twelve Ard
no wonder, since from the earliest
period Of infancy 1t persisted in gett-
ing It's feet wet.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27
Now We Know What
Taft Could Have Zone
Had He Only Wanted To
Ne Can Get Angry; He Can cuss
end He Can Pound a Desk.
But He Forgot He Could
When the Tariff Bill
Was Up.

sus ne ro'sot ne ooo nce right Of the
Wa. I'd president every day since he stepped
down from would have had
helpful upon Taft himself and his administration
say may simply coincidence but there has been more doing
Washington especially White House since the recent arrival
in New York than at any departure from New York s
months ago.
Possibly that the poman brought Taft and signed
ct r. which got IN am boat with Roosevelt
At any rate pep last both ends of Pennsyl
vania-ave
course consideration the fact that there
is election this fall
And consideration the further fact that Taft
and regulars Washington little apphen
t its outcome.
Congress hadn't done much up to beginning spend
money of campaign argument for the party
power figures showing expenditures
millions beyond the billion point
something be done but what compelled
sit up and changed temper president
Dispatches actually angry
he smoteh his desk with his fist.
hat do you of that
Could the desk have expressed ITSELF it
when did HE get back
you imagine those
the immediate viciniyi
Can you not see canary clock
exchanging gances Of deep and wonderments
startled the private secretary and
the stenographer working with the soft pedde
Fortunately the blow apparently heard the street.
nobody n good call for the police
The next thing presidents
gang" unless they passed that postal savings bank bill
He capitol everybody wonder
ing had the president that unless did things
he done, would stay Washington all summer.
They appreciated right president serious
Mr. Taft he will Washington for stated period
hours certainly mood to be triAaed with
President congress adjourn that ne
holds power threatened unless congress
behaved md fell in line with his program.
whupon partisan Republican press pointing the spunk
vigor o Taft % what he has accomplished
Let's what that is:
COMPROMISED Cannon a railway BILL of
which he himself said in Detroit:
"Not good as might be but progress at least"
He COMPROMISED with them this BILL the he obliged
compromise with them the bill taxing corporations
bill providing the publication Of the Of con-
buo passed. but publication to be made AFTER election
says exactly what the pays plat
form promised but 1T A STEP RIGHT DIRECTION"
postal savings passed
appropriation his after
Michigan that the coun greatest Socialism
you follow usi
previous postal savings passed
bill
president forgot get angry forgot
pound his forgot power
We could get a bit way acted
last week wasn't for the fact that just begin forgive him
grocery bills begin coming
No doubt he has tried could SOME
GRESS" and "STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION"
But though he has succeeded getting postal savings
bank bill through have nothing bank-it
to live
Perhaps president just right way
Perhaps the New York predecessor
the right way
He has proved vgOr goes way" is
him.
And there yet be hope
But from wondering WAS and WHY IT
WASN'T MORE IN EVIDENCE the early administration
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

all ocean-going vessels carrying more
than fifty passengers TO be equipped
with wireless telegraph apparatus.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

-, = =. ..o., psRscv rstops KNOW or ', ~ os
ONE oF 1Hs ~osn osppe e M rAvoesvF as n.o0 o. DAYS
az srs r@ aO1 ~eets IS re ss ssss AND "ssees
~ solvI,oa Gearfo soS' ssap AND essDAss
NseA .sss osse sos sAs, AVOID
s.Ae o, sso, . ssss@c 1s soar osDts .o".s o.,.
Al, rrerrr~rsr Aso STAY 'r Doe,se 1,,,. pts,op ,.
os JOm .JVlS e"p a.o aeoostp FOOD A. IS MO
5g ss1 sss1 ~ se.e. . .ss.
IfsptsNn'N ~ coop coAD1'oh AND o'' S
plo"eiAd 70 ~ .nayrre psJ,se 1Hstu rAosooe''.'
GaAOt Q. sessss1 erssss 70 a'Vs ny s"s AS asr1
e Sns ON TAI resr st0Trsets Sf~'" a,s ns
sr|a a caResNvLss elANe AND AETt $3.50. 1,ep or
49, l,vte can VENTURE to4rS ~'Ao'' ''N "
sCas7sosf. Gsg
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

II when Roosevelt handed the pol
icies over to Judge Taft, ne really
and truly believed his successor was
the man to hand them to, II is too
bad he ever went hunting.
Unless what we have observed has
been simply a coincidence, the pres
ence right here at home of the ex-
president every day since he stepped
down from Office would have had
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

The Coliseum at Rome was built
for the accommodation CT 100000 spec
tators
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Monday. June 27,
1910
OBSERVATIONS


OF
a
he he
o 10 = to catch a few OF tre hnchbu
Is
TO after
y the has o infected
chnchess field
Easy,is nt
in
Of
germs common honesty
and
10 ou 'cinch" hugs, wouldn't II be?
!
thenG Wickersham
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-27

J All he has TO do
and send them TO the
DE Infected with a dis
TO cLirch bugs. Thel
uthe farmer has 10 do