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The Worlds Record Cow.

When on a recent trip in the Chenango
IN. Y. valley went to see the worlds
best record cow, owned by Clayton
Sisson, who lives on large farm on the
Chenango River. When l saw Mr..
Sisson's COW, she had finished her sixty
days. test. She seemed to have passed
through the strain of this test in ap-
parently good condition, without loss of
appetite and vitality. She is six years
old and weighs about fifteen hundred
pounds. Neither COW nor udder is re-
markably large for Holstein. She is
in fair flesh, and her eye and general ap-
pearance indicate strong vitality. Her
recuperative powers are shown BY the
fact that she put on flesh rapidly during
the six weeks she was dry. She fresh
ened the last of March and the test was
made in April and May. Her name is
De Kol Queen La Polka I'd 1926. Her
sire was Pietertje Madge De Kol Prince
3OS6O. Her dam was De Kol Queen La
Polka 51937. The sire is from a dam
with large record and the cows dam
was heavy mixer, but no record was
kept of her performance. The record OF
this COW, which is now the worlds best,
is one days milk, ia TO-; seven days
milk, SAL. s h.; thirty days. milk, 1916 8
10. seven days. butter, S5.3S lb.; thirty
days butter, las. Is ID.
She shows she is capable of many
years of good service in milk production,
but her greatest value, if the COW is
rightly treated. will be in transmitting
her valuable characteristics to her of
spring. The cow should be we'll kept to
produce sires that can transmit hel
valuable qualities. Investigations show
that the average cow in New York pre-
duces annually only 1900 pounds OF milk
but the production of larger yield OF
milk from food consumed should be &C
complished along the lines of increasing
vitality and vigor of constitution ano
not by these forced tests, which subject
the animal to great strain, and must de-
crease her vitality and that Of her of
spring Country Gentleman.
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CORE OF THE EARTH.
One Of tho Enismas Of Nature That
Science Cannot Solve.

Ono Of tho Enigmas OF Nature That
Science Cannot Solve.
Human beings know only a mere
skin of the surface Of the earth. not
more than thirty miles deep. while the
globe is 5000 miles In diameter. There
Is probably no oxygen at all below
thirty miles. and 1t is difficult to guess
what are the elements within. Prob
ably the heaviest elements form
dense core near the center.
It is in some respects astonishing,
most alarming, that we are 80 COM
pletely devoid of any direct knowledge
of the constituents Of the vast mass
Of globe beneath US and really only
know the merest flm. A skin or mem.
brane one-twentieth Of an inch In
thickness rhe thickness Of kid or
brown paper spread over a ball a 1T
tie more than foot In diameter repre-
sents the proportion between the
the known crust of the earth thirty
miles thick and the great globe itself.
We are dependent on inference and
speculation for our notions as to the
constitution Of all that Is beneath the
mere skin Of thirty miles thickness
on the globes surface! Even what II
thrown up by the biggest volcanoes
does not come from below this depth
or tell us what lies hidden there.-Ex-
change.
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NUMBER 40.

famed into the miners eyes, Petellin
FASTENED to observe: But you can't
get there. It's across the straits-Shel.
ikof straits"
What Of that! We can hire sail
boat and
II amt got any sailboat. lost my
sloop last year hunting sea otter"
I'VE can hire q small boat Of some
sort. can't we, and get the natives to
put us across? There must be plenty
Of boats here"
Nothing but skin boats, kyaks and
bidarkas. you know. Anyhow. you
couldn't cross at this time Of year
it's too stormy. These straits is the
worst piece of water on the coast.
No; you'll have to wait"
Emerson stared hopelessly at the
fire.
The disheartened man started at this
juncture as II sudden thought i'm
PEELED him and followed Bait out into
the cold. He turned down the bank to
the creek. however, and made care
full examination Of all the canoes that
went with the village. Fifteen min
utes later he had searched out the dis
gruntled fisherman and cried excited
ly:
1--WE got 1t! Wen catch that boat
yetw
How growled the big man sourly.
There's large open skin boat. an
oomiak. down on the beach Well hire
q crew Of Indians to put us across to
Uyak."
Cant be DONE" said Big George.
still gruliiy. ITS the wrong season.
You kn. ~ the Shclikof straits Is bad
place even for steamships at this time
Of year. They're like that pass up
yonder, only worse"
But It's only fifty miles across"
Fifty miles of that kind Of water
in an open canoe may be just as bad
as 5OO-unless you're lucky. And l
amt noticed anything so darned lucky
about u.s."
"It's our only chance. Are you
gamer
Come on" cried Big George; "let's
find Petellln"
That worthy uttered shrek Of de-
NAL
I'm summer, yes. but now-you can't
do 1t. 1t has been tried too often. The
straits is always rough. and the
weather is too cold to sit all day In
an oomlak; you'd freeze"
"We'll chance IT,"
mo, no, no! IL 1t comes on to storm
you'll 90 to sea- The tides are strong;
you can't see your course and
"We'n use a compass. Now. you get
me enough men to handle that oomiak;
that's good fellow. I'll attend to the
rest"
"But they won't co." declared the
little fat man. They know what It
means. Why
Call them In. III do the talking"
And accordingly the storekeeper went
In search OF the village chief, shaking
his head and muttering at the mad
ness Of these people.
But 1t all proved useless. The ma
tiyes would not risk It. Desperate. the
three men fitted up boat themselves
and resolved to make the attempt
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Making Converts.
FROM THE POOREST FARMERS ARE MADE
THE BEST.

Rosa Pendleton Childs, in Review of
Reviews for November, explains the
process of winning over an unsuccessful
farmer:
An agent goes into a territory and
seeks hard working farmer, who, like
his neighbors, fails from year to year in
his crop. he persuades this man to
sign contract to work a small portion
of his farm, usually an acre, according to
Government directions. This plot is
called demonstration farm" and the
farmer who cultivates it according to
agreement a "demonstratOr" or "co-
operator"
Once month the local agent visits the
demonstration farms" to advise and
explain, aud the success of the work,
when the final yield is known, is such
that the man who has co-operated with
the government has respect for his ma
tive land bounded only by his conception
of the miraculous. His self respect also
increases in proportion to the congratu-
lations of his neighbors and the price
paid for his seed. A brilliant though,
flashes across his mind; he need no
longer be plodder, and his children
but why depict the detail of the vision?
By his own work on an acre OF ground
under the scientific instructions OF the
government, the mans life has been
transformed, the lives of his children
lifted to higher plane, and conditions
controlling the industry he represents
made new for all time. The reason is
plain. The acre which during the thirty
years of his farming it, has never before
produced more than fifteen bushels of
corn, or one-fourth of bale Of cotton,
has now produced seventy-fiv bushels
of corn, or bale of cotton. In some
cases the sale of seed from this one acre
will finance his entire crop the follow
ing year.
Still, as has been stated, the farmer is
doubter and not fully convinced at first
that the object lesson of one acre means
that his whole farm can treble in value
if he applies the lesson to the remainder
of it. Conviction comes, however, as he
puts more soil 70 the test, and in about
three years, when his whole place has
become a demonstration farm" no
power could move him from his settled
belief in the absolute value of govern
ment methods. Moreover, he is now
fired with the zeal of crusader, and in
advising his neighbors, both privately
and in public assemblies, helps to extend
the good work.
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the money. but If you will build a
cannery on 1t III turn in the ground
for an interest"
Emerson meditated moment then
replied. IL can't say yes or no. us
pretty big proposition-s2OO.O00. you
said!'
"Yes. It's big opportunity. You
can clean up 100 per cent in a year.
Do you think you could raise the
money to build plantY'
~ might" he said cautiously.
"At least you can tryT"
"But don't know anything about
the business"
T've thought of all that. and there's
way to make success certain. be-
lieve you have executive ability and
can handle these men,"
"Oh. yes. I've done that sort OF
thing" His broad shoulders went up
as he drew a long breath. "Whats
your plan:"
There's a man down the coast.
George Bait, who knows more about
the business than any four people In
Kalvik. He discovered the Kalvik
river, built the first cannery here and
was its foreman until he quarreled
with Marsh. Bait isn't the kind Of
man to be disciplined, so. not having
enough money to build cannery. he
took his scanty capital and started a
saltery on his own account Marsh
broke George in a year. ruined him.
utterly wiped him out, just as he In
tends to wipe out Insignificant me.
Thinking to recoup his fortunes. George
came back into camp. but he owns a
valuable trap site which Marsh and
his colleagues want. and before they
would give him work they tried to
make him assign 1t to them and con-
tract never to go In business on bis
own account. Naturally George re-
fused. He's been starving now for two
years.
mo man dares to furnish food to
George Bait; no man dares to give
him q bed; no cannery will let MIN
work. he has to take a dory to Dutcn
Harbor to get food. He doesn't dare
leave the country and abandon the
meager thousands he has invested IN
buildings. and every summer when
the run starts he comes across the
marshes and sinks about the KalviS
thickets like a wrath. watching from
afar Just In order to be near 1t all
He stands alone and forsaken. barking
| to the clank of machinery. every boil
of which he placed, watching his
enemies enrich themselves from thai
cleaning silver army. which ne con
siders his very own. he is shunnee
like a leper. Some time l believe hf
will kill Marsh"
"Hm-m! One seems to be forever
crossing the trail Of this Marsh" saie
BOYD, who had listened intently.
"The man who beats Marsh VII
have done something" She paused
then said deliberately. "And / believe
you are the one to do it"
They had reached their desinatiol
1.-The mouth Of a deep creek, up which
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CHAPTER III.
@1HE girl darted swift look at
Ill Boyd. but he fell to brooding
again. evidently insensible to
~ her presence. At length ne
stirred himself to ask:
Can hire guide hereabout? Wen
have to be going on in a day or So"
Constantine will get you one. l
suppose. of course. you will avoid the
Katmai pass"
avoid It? Why%
Its dangerous. and nobody travels
1t except In the direst emergency. It's
much the shortest route to the coast.
but 1t has q record of some thirty
deaths. | should advise you to cross
the range farther east. where the di,
vide is lower. The mail boat touches
at both places"
On the following morning Cherry
told Constantine to hitch up her team
and have 1t waiting when breakfast
was finished. Then she turned to EN-
erson, who came into the room and
said quietly:
~ have something to show you II
YOU will take q short ride with me-"
The young man. impressed by the
gravity of her manner. readily con
sented. Constantine freed the leader.
and they went off at mad run. They
SKINNED over the snow with the fight
of bird
The young man gave himself up to
the unique and rather delightful ex-
perience of being transported through
an unknown country to an unknown
destination by charming girl OF
whom he also knew nothing.
yesterday you seemed to be taken
by the fishing business" she finally
said.
81 certainly was until you told me
there were no cannery sites left"
"There is one. When | came here
a year ago the whole river was open,
so on an outside chance | located a
site, the best one available. When
Willis Marsh learned Of 1t he took up
all Of the remaining places. and. al
though at the time had no idea what
| was going to do with my property
l hung on 10 it."
~ can't buy your site"
Nobody asked you to-" she smiled.
"I wouldn't sell 1t to you II you had
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them just zone year more" and serious
ly injure the permanent trees.
SHALLOW PLoUGHING IN SPRING.

ly inJure the permanent trees.
SHALLOW PLoUGHING IN SPRING.
should recommend shallow plough
ing in early spring, followed by cultiva-
tiou of the ground often and thorough
enough to prevent the loss OF moisture
and the destruction of all weeds. In
midsummer SOW the ground with a
cover crop. If the trees are bearing
heavily, such crop should not be put in
until quite late, say the early part OF
August. If there is no fruit and the
trees will bear little checking, II may
be sowed two OF three weeks earl or
What the crop shall be depends wholly
on the growth of the trees. If they are
growing very rank, 80 that the foliage is
dense and the sun cannot penetrate,
fungi will flourish. | would then not
SOW a leguminous crop, but buckwheat,
oats, rape and turnips or rye. All out
the last named will die before winter,
but the last will provide green crop,
which is in itself desirable, but 1t must
be ploughed in the spring, at least by
the time the rye begins to head, or 1t
will do more harm than good.
II tree growth is desired, then should
use peas or clover. We are feeling quite
confident that the winter vetch Is going
TO be an ideal crop for this purpose, al
though it is little difficult to get it
established. We frequently use what
might be called combination made up
of pound Of rape, pound Of cow horn
turnips and two pounds of red clover an
acre.
AGAINST THE SOD ORCHARD.
want to go on record as most en-
phatically denouncing the sod orchard.
have some myself in which there has
been no plough for more than thirty
wears, pastured with small stock and
they have been exceedingly profitable,
but they belong to past generation,
and without question the profitable OF
chards of the country over are those that
are cultivated from their youth up and
continue to be so until the end of the
chapter.
FERTILIZERS.
should never put any manure or
fertilizer of any kind about the roots of
the young trees when planted. A mulch
of coarse manure above the ground may
be very good thing. Just enough ma
nure to keep the trees growing thrifty
until they come into bearing, and then
usually it may be applied with liberal
hand. OF course, there can be too
much to induce the rank growth spoken
of above, but of this there need be no
danger if one will observe his trees and
refrain from applying the manure when
there are indications that there is too
much wood growth. 1t ought to be
needless to say that manure, or in fact
any kind of fertilizer, ought to be ap-
piled not about the base of the tree, but
at least as far out as the branches ex-
tand
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Tho Attraction.

Tourist--I must confess that ] can't
see why so many people want to come
here-uo scenery. no amusements. no
good things to eat. absolutely no At
fractions Innkeeper-Ah. signor. zey
come because we ave re gran label
to stick on re luggage. Mexican Her
old
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Civilization.

The upward sweep OF civilization u
not unlike the rising of the Incoming
tide. Il advances and recpdes. but each
advance carries humanity to Il higher
altitude than Il had reached BEFORE
B. o Flower.
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An essential to the hens comfort In
cold weather 10 floor where no drafts
are felt. While you are repairing the
chicken house, bank 1t up we'll on the
outside, and II the fooris Of earth, make
sure to have II higher inside than the
ground without.-Farm Journal.
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There should now be an extra allow
anoe Of corn given to hens at night
Corn furnishes heat to the body, a. It II
slow to digest. For comfort during win
ter, the crop should remain practically
filled during the entire night.
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chance. That's why we leave tomor-
row and 60 by way Of the Katmai
pass"
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A Reliable
Remedy
Ey'S Cream Balm
Is quickly absorbed.

6Hes Relief at Once.
Il cleanses, soothes,
heals and protects
the diseased mem-
brsue resulting from
Ca,arrh and drives
away a Cold in the
Head quickly. Re-
stores the Senses of
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CAIARRh

Iaste and Smell. Full size 30 cts, at Drug
gsts or by mail. In liquid form, 75 cents.
Ely Brothers, so Warren Street, New York.
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AMONG THE FARMERS.
"sPEED THE PLow."

on practical agricultural topic
is solicited. Address all communications L.
tended for this department 20 HENRY ID
HAMMOND, Agricultural Editor Oxford Dem
ocray, Paris. Ne.
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CHAPTER w.

C7URING the evening Emerson
I'M left the two other men in the
IID store. and, seeking Cherry out
u in the little parlor. asked her
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CULTIVATION.

When one sets an orchard he mus,
register vow to care for it according to
the laws of trees and of nothing else, or,
in other words, one cannot expect re
suits and make the orchard a grain field
or meadow. do not believe 1t neces-
sary to give up the land entirely to the
trees during the fruit years OF the or
chard's life. Hoed crops, such as corn
or potatoes, may be planted between the
rows, keeping a good distance away from
the trees. The ground can then be cui
tivated early in the season and the grow
ing crops shade the land later on. This
| believe, is better than "hllers' for the
ordinary man who Is carrying on bis or
cbard work In connection with ordinary
farm operation. He had better take a
little more land and set only the trees
for the permanent orchard. rather than
to attempt to set filters to be taken out
later on. The average man will leave
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By REX BEACH
CHAPTER III.
COPY RIGHT. 1909. BY

CHAPTER III.
|1HE girl darted swift look at
TIL Boyd. but he fell to brooding
IL again. evidently insensible to
. her presence. At length he
The Detroit times., 1910-11-22
III nv

Martin Luther and Ills Works. Ar
thur a. McGifert ~ Love Were
Always Laughing Annie Johnston
Grim Coles Engravings OF french
Masters. Timothy Cole, The pweHeL on
the Threshold. Robert Kitchens, The
Educa ton OF French Children Anna
Bowman Dodd. Mark Twain as Our
Emissary. George Ade. The Widow
Chaperon. l.. Frank Tu-oker. Beautlfu l
club for Women, Anne OHagan; What
Dim Arcadian Pastures. Alice .Coroin .
Town and Country A Conversat ION.
Maurice Hewlett. Chailapine the Rus
sian "Mephistopheles." u T. Finck; The
Christmas Strltagem; Under the mis-
tletoe, r. ". MIlet. Tie Christmas fld-
die. Mary Austin. Mac Burnie Gets En-
gagged. j. n. stafford. Reflection. SergL
Kendall. The Trade of the World, Ar
thur stanley Riggs; Poe's Cosmopolitan
Fame. Brander Matthews; The BTavest
Deed Z Ever Knew" James Barnes. To
a Roman Doll. Mahlon Leonard FISHER.
The Surprising Madame DubosC, LINE
Hamilton French: out OF the Depths.
Charlotte Leeoh lgnacio Zuloa "a :.
MotherinE on Perilous. Lucy Furman .
The House or Governors, william q.
Jordan. l. Congressional Oratory Lost
Art? Champ clark
The Detroit times., 1910-11-22

being without any Inconvenience eX-
cept 10 the swallowed His teeth, Of
ten 30 inches long, match the cavity
of his mouth and they never stop
growing. One REGULARITY Of this ami
NAL is that his teeth keep gettinh
larger and larger until he dies. With
these teeth nothing is too strong or
thick for the hippo 10 bite He likes
grass. and II YOU had n tame hippo
around your house he could NOW
your lawn as nicely as a lawn mower
can do II and in a very few minutes
It's food consists OF plants that grow
in the shallow waters and on the mar
gins of lakes and rivers. Hippos are
most active at night.
The hippo must have great deal
of food. and TO find room for all that
food. nature has given it stomach
so large that boys and girls will hard.
ly believe il possible. Imagine q
stomach IL feet long with a curvature
of Is feet DO you wonder that they
are always hungry? The stomach nils
nearly the entire length of the body
and is divided into three distinct com.
partmonts. II Mr.. and Mrs. Hippo
should ever be troubled with indiges-
The Detroit times., 1910-11-22
10000 HUNTERS
IN NORTH WOODS
Game Warden Pierce Believes Nun.
Der of Ninrods This Year Will
Break All Records.

LANSING. Mich. Nov. 2l.--(Spe.
den Charles Pierce is anywhere near
correct there will be over 10000 deer
licenses issued IN Michigan this year.
Comparing the number OF licenses
issued so far this season with the total
OF 1909. Pierce is or the opinion that
his figures will not cary a great deal
from the final reports that will be re-
ceived at the close of the season. Last
year there were s,2s2 licenses issued
In the upper peninsula alone. and as
many were secured in the various
counties south OF the straits
AT the present time II Us estimated
that there are about 1900 nimrods
in the north woods. Resident hunters
pay a fee OF $3.50 for permit TO hunt
deer. while nonresident hunters are
required 10 pay s25. In 1909 the deer
hunters paid in a total or $4,000 for
licenses. Since the opening of the
season Game Warden Pierce has is-
sued l27 permits 20 hunters who want
10 ship deer out OF the state. and judg-
ing from the large number OF requests
for permits he is OF the opinion that
more deer will be shipped from Mich
igan into other states than ever be-
fore.
The purser on the boat that carried
the hunters across the straits has In
formed Mr. Pierce that he has counted
$500 SO far and many nimrods have
gone by way OF Chicago and entered
the upper peninsula across the Wis
consin border. As usual the deputies
have discovered a number OF viola
tions OF the game laws and number
OF prosecutions have been registered
Robert Snowman. of Liberty county,
PENNSYLVANIA was convicted in Hough-
ton county for hunting with resi-
dent license.
Snowman is - years old and on
account OF his age was released with
a small fine. c. \. Bird, Pttsburg
hunter. was convicted and fined $50
last week for violation committed
year ago
The Detroit times., 1910-11-22
WAGE STUBBORN FIGHT
TO STAMP OUT SMALLPOX
Public Schools In Gladwin Are Closed
And Everybody is Being
Vsccinated.

GIADWIN, Mich. Nov. 21.-The
smallpox situation in this city is we'll
in hand. The disease has claimed one
victim. Mrs. Roy PARCEL recently from
! Saginaw There are several who. IL
is supposed, have been exposed. bur
the local board OF health has quaran
tined those and are otherwise taking
every precaution 10 prevent the
spread OF the disease
The public schools are closed and
everybody is being vaccinated. The
latest order issued by the local board
of health is to all owners of dogs
that the animals be shut up immedl-
ately and the order is being obeyed
10 a man No one from the known
smallpox districts are permitted to
come up town from the trains unless
they can produce certificates Of
health The boards OF health in the
vicinity of Gladwin are also taking
steps 10 prevent an outbreak I'm
Sage township. proclamation has
been issued 10 the effect that all
school children will be given free
vaccination