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The silver messenger., 1911-05-30
Floor Plan Of Stock Barn.

Tho stock barn herewith illustrated
was planned for a Missouri stockman,
writes j. Z. Bridgman In the Orange
Judd Farmer. The rather odd shape
was adopted for several reasons
First. to have all the stock under one
roof; second. to keep each department
separate from the other departments;
third, to reduce to the minimum the
amount of labor required for feeding
the stock: fourth. to save and eco
nomically use every pound Of manure.
The floor plan Of the structure Is
34x160 feet from east to west, and
34x134 feet from north to south. and
the two ellis for hogs and sheep are
each Boxes feet. The walls are 10
feet to the caves, and the roof is self
supporting, which leaves . clear
space through the entire loft for
storing hay, etc. All partitions are
eight feet, except over the south front,
where they are 10 feet from the feed
rooms to the south front. This is
done to allow Tor driving In a load
Of hay In stormy weather. There are
46 COW stalls. three bull stalls, two
hospital stalls and three calf pens.
The horse barn has eight single stalls
and I'VE large box stalls; the sheep
barn has six sheep pens 11x21 feet
each. and two lamb pens; the hog
house has IL pens ski feet each. also
= feed and killing room 16x29 feet
The south front has a tool room
engine room and a watchman's room
Stairways are located In both north
and south ends of the barn. The feet
rooms for horses and cows are SO ar
ranged that the silage may be dropped
down the small chute In front Of tn.
silos. The door Of this chute Is al
ways closed. 80 that no odors may en-
ter the COW barn. A small gas en-
gine is used for elevating the groun,
feed to six hopper-shaped bins. 10
Gated over the feed rooms. The fee,
is drawn from the bins through small
spouts az wanted.
Bins for storing feed for hogs an,
sheep are located over the sheep an,
hog barns. All feed IL handled witt
feed carriers, and the tracks rul
through all parts of the barn. Al
manure and litter Is also handled wit
carriers, and when not spread at once
II stored In q cement manure house
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30
All cutters are drained to this manure

All cutters are drained to this manure
pit
The exterior and interior are COW
cred with matched sheathing, which
Is stripped with 1x2-inch strips. The
strips are in turn covered with metal
lath. and the lath covered with two
coats Of portland cement. All cell
ings are treated in the same manner,
except the sheathing is not used.
The roof is covered with the best
grade Of asbestos felt roofing, which
makes it practically a freproof barn.
The foundation is of native limestone,
for the reason that stone can be &C.
cured on the farm at a very slight
cost.
The silos, set on cement pits four
feet deep. are built with 2x4-inch
studs, set IL inches on centers; xx6-
inch wooden hoops are bent around
the outside, and are doubled, one be.
tween each door and one in the cen
ter Of each door. The doors are 24x30
inches square, with 12-inch spaces be-
tween. The hoops are covered with
1x2-inch strips. and treated in the
same manner as the walls of the barn
The inside walls of the silos are lined
with hard-burned paving brick laid In
q thin cement
All floors Of the barn are Of cement
with wood Stats for the horses. The
horses have cast-iron cutters, but the
COWS have both the cutters and the
managers made of cement, and the
managers SO arranged that they ma,
be flooded with water. The floors arr
all trapped with drain traps, and thu
entire barn may be washed with ,
hose In q short time. The horses ar,
watered at the cement trough LOCATED
north of the east feed room, and tn
hogs and sheep are watered with {
hose. The barn loft Is supported OF
three-inch gas pipe, and all cow STALL
are of wood. with wire guards on tor
This barn Is doubtless too large TO
many of us, but there are many thing
to be learned from it.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30
Eqqsactinq.

Dr.,J. S. Slack, the English food ex-
pert, said in a recent lecture in Du-
luth:
"The secret Of health is two meals
day with an occasional fast. But
people won't avail themselves of this
superb secret. 1t is too unpleasant
like the fresh egg.
"A gentleman, after cutting the top
of a soft-boiled egg. summoned the
waiter and said:
Waiter, take this egg back to the
kitchen, wiring It's neck, and grill 1t
for me-"
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30
Customers for Farmsrs.

1t pays to go down to the city and
work up trade for the farm produce.
Hunt up customers for the butter,
eggs. apples, potatoes. cabbage and all
such stun. Have = regular market
day when you can always be found
there. Folks will expect you and de-
pend on you. They will pay you cash
and a. good prices ~ they would have
to pay at the store. because they gel
better weight and measure and fresh
or produce
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30
tuberculosis In Japan.

Japan is not tagging behind in the
fight against tuberculosis. The
Japan Health association has over
100000 local members. and carries on
a campaign of lectures in the cities
and towns Of the country. Tubercu-
losis is increasing in Japan, due
chiefly, Prof. s. Kitasato of Tokyo
says, to the rapid development of the
factory system Of industry. the in
production of modern methods and
manners of civilization and the in
creasing acuteness Of the struggle for
existence.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

The csar Of Russia has ordered an
opera to commemorate the deeds of
his ancestors. Possibly the music
viii b. interpreted with bomb explo-
sions.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30
Moissant's ComparIson.

"The late John B. MOissant was =
genial as we'll as a skillful airman,"
said a Chicago editor
II remember we'll visit he once
made me, with drawings Of an aero
plane Of his own invention under his
arm. l joked him little about the
machine-it certainly had heavy.
awkward look. But he said with q
laugh:
"'Oh, don't Judge even an aero
plane by its outside. What IL the man
who discovered the oyster hadn't
stopped to pry open the shell?'"
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

There has been introduced In the
New Hampshire legislature measure
providing that people who eavesdrop
by means Of the telephone may be
dned. Some people will be unable to
understand Why anyone should have
! telephone in tho house II 1t is no.
q b permissible to listen while rtf
oyu are talking.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

! Out in Washington \ woman Jury
dnsd . man for swearing. Well. what
u man going to do when he swings
shovelful Of coal and misses the
furnace door?
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Three men in New Jersey. disguised
In hobble skirts, caught highwayman
who had been terrorizing women. res
ldents of tho section. This Is another
good word spoken for the much-crit-
lcised garment.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

States is O,o0o. 900, or an average
profit Of 1856 per COW. II more at
ing it should be easy to increase the
average profit per COW to at least ono
tenth Of the profit made by Sophie
Nineteenth Of Hood farm. which would
raise the total to 1920. .000. 900, an in
crease Of 10000, 900.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

4 learned professor has discovered
that men prefer blond women. But
he needn't expect husbands with bru-
netts wives to help him prove it to
the public.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30
Ration for Mich Gown.

Bran has been found an excellent
feel to combine with corn fodder and
timothy or wild hay. as a ration for
the mich eow.-Minnesota Expert
nent Station
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Travel to Europe this year will be
heavier than ever before. Also the
passing through the custom house.
when the autumn leaves begin to fall.
will be done much more carefully than
In the past
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

A Baltimore paper publishes an ar
ticle half page long about an actress
because she ia able to make 4 good
salad dressing. Yet the London Times
uuerulously asserts that some Amer
lean newspapers are given up to triv-
(alities.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Automobiles are becoming 20 com.
mon that our social leaders are think
Ing OF adopting the aeroplane. Whom
the aeroplane has become common
probably they will adopt submarines
After that, the Lord only knows
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Massachusetts proposes imposing \
tax on all bachelors of good standing
and correct moral habits. How many
will Il reach7
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

The most polite man on record hid
tho fact until his death. He was a
New York man, who apologixed In his
will to his wife for not leaving her
more money.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

"A man who allows his wife to have
her own way" says . Boston profes-
cor. ''is . philosopher and a diplo-
mat" We might add that he is doing
the only thing 1t II possible for him to
DO.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Inventor Johnson, who discovered
Portland cement, is still alive and
hearty At the age of 100. Maybe in
venting II more conductive to longev-
lty than F1etcherixing after all.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

That Ohio Judge who ruled that a
wife may annex q husbands cash
without his knowledge or consent evi.
IDENTIFY has no desire to lead the bach
elors away from their race suicide
tendencies.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Ex-President Eliot of Harvard
thinks six or eight children are the
proper number for the average fam
tly. Does DR.. Eliot forget that chill
lren of the present day do not wear
copper-toed shoesf
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Wellesley girls are to be taught the
art Of raising onions. We should
think the art of eating them would
b more important.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Telephone girls In Denver marry in
IL months. In New York the av.
erage IL % months. Go west. young
woman!
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

A Cleveland man Is suing for q d.
vorce because his wife has hardly
spoken to him In years. Some men
do not appreciate their blessings.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

A Wilkesbarre Alderman has decid-
I'd that face paint IL = necessity and
not = cause for divorce. Since when
have Aldermen been given jurisdic-
uon in divorce cases In Wilkesbarrs?
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

A New York dentist was lately sent
70 Sing Sing for forgery. He evident
" lost his pull"
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30
Much Easier to Handle.

Much Easier to Handle.
Mabel-Father's SO glad you're
Z poet.
Scribbler-Ah, like yourself. he
adores poetry?
Mabel--Oh, no. But you see poets
can't fight. The last. lover Of mine
he tried to throw out was football
player!
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Professor Salisbury of-the Univer-
city of Chicago. OF course. says the
world II still growing bigger and some
day will be twice its present size. 1t
will need to II Chicago's dreams Of fu-
tre greatness are realized.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

The per capita circulation has
reached the sum Of $34.43. but = good
many people retire at tho end of the
week with less than 43 cents each to
the good
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Harvard is after 81 200. 900" Many
Of u would like to do the same thing.
but what's the use?
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30
Cruelty to Horsas.

The man who puts a frosty iron bit
into a horses mouth IL criminally
thoughtless or cruel.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

What we are doing speaks with
greater force than what we are say
ing.-Royston.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Ensilage is one Of the cheapest sue
culent feeds that can be supplied to
farm animals during the winter. 1t is
good feed, handy to deal out and very
much relished by all classes Of stock
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Titled husbands seem to think they
can train American heiresses when
caught young.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30
A Real Treat.

'What are ye eatin'?"
"A dimes worth O. salt wild some
peanuts in it."-Judge.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Constipation causes and seriously aggra..
Yates many diseases. 1t is thoroughly cured
by Dr. Pierce's Pellets. Tiny sugar-coated
Rranules.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Garfield Tea purifes the blood, eradi-
Gates rheumatism, gout and other diseases.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

A suspicious woman raises large
crop Of doubts.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

It IL safe to predict for the harem
skirt Z abort life and an exciting one.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Six Haitien generals have been q
ecuted. But there are others.
The silver messenger., 1911-05-30

Comic opera without comedy has
produced one without music.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
GENERAL.

Right Rev. OH w. Whitaker, bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Pennsylvania, died in Philadelphia.
Charles H. Markham of Chicago.
president of the Illinois Central. was
elected president of the Central of
Georgia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyman Berkowitz and
dominating gas in their home in the
Ghetto in Philadelphia
The condition of Miss Clara Bar
ton, founder of the Red Cross, who
has been i'll with bronchitis at her
home in Glen Echo, Md, suburb OF
Washington, is greatly improved.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton announced in New York that the
untitled steel tonnage on the books Jan.
81 last amounted to 3,110,919;, against
2,674,757 tons on the books of the COM
pany Dec. 81.
Thomas j. Ham, one of the oldest
newspaper men in Pennsylvania and
probably the last survivor of the din
rer given to Charles Dickens in New
York in 1852, by newspaper editors
and publishers, died at Lakewood.
New Jersey, following a stroke of par
alysis. He was seventy-five years old.
The Roosevelt dam, part of the Salt
River Irrigation project, has been COM
rleted, and will be opened March 18th.
The exercises in connection with the
opening will continue three days. For
xnrf1l
present, with Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss
Ethel and his son, Archie.
The high cost of living received a
setback when eggs in the Kansas City
market declined two cents dozen
and hog prices went twenty cents a
hundred pounds lower. Eggs were
fourteen to sixteen cents wholesale,
which is sixteen cents lower than at
the beginning of the year. Hogs are
selling SLIPS lower than last year; cat
lie fifty cents to one dollar lower, and
sheep 80 lower.
Milton ]. Durham. former comptrol-
Ter of the treasury and former con-
sressman from the Eighth district of
Kentucky, died in Lexington of pneu-
monia. Judge Durham was eighty
seven years old. He was leading
Odd Fellow, having once served as
grandsire of the order in the United
States.
Shortly after midnight Frank Cof-
fyn broke the worlds record for alti-
tude in Wright biplane in Augusta.
Ga. He rose 500 feet. The previous
night record was held by the late
Arch Hoxsey, with $50 feet.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
SPORT.

Outfielder Frank Schultz of the Chi
cago National league baseball club,
champion home-run batsman for 1910.
has signed a three-year contract with
Chicago.
The Tommy Burns bill' to permit
ten-round prize fights in the state OF
Washington has been introduced in
the House by Representative Wray, of
Seattle, and referred to a friendly
committee.
Frank Work, the veteran sportsman.
who for nearly seventy years has been
known throughout the country as an
owner and campaigner of fast horses,
celebrated his ninety-second birthday
at his home in New York.
The Denver Athletic Club boxing
and wrestling tournament closed in a
whirlwind of classy work. 1t ended
the most successful tournament ever
conducted by the club. Winners were
ricked as a result of the finals and
the prizes distributed.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
Race for American Supremacy.

Greleey.-A race for American su-
premacy in tunnel driving through
granite is being run by Contractor
James McIlwee of the Laramie-Poudre
tunnel, against the work of engineers
in driving the aqueduct of the Los
Angeles water company through the
Sierra Nevada mountains. The Colo
RADIO men are in the lead, having
made 609 feet of tunnel last month,
against GOA feet made by the Los
Angeles workmen. 1t is expected that
during March the Laramie-Poudre tun-
mel will be driven at least 720 feet,
which will be worlds record. Sew
eral hundred men are at work on the
east portal and as soon as snow melts
work will be resumed on the west
lortai.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
Good Roads Movement.

Canon City.-The good roads move
ceived a wonderful stimulus recently
by a visit of number of prominent
men of the state identified in the good
roads movement. The visit was of
special Importance to Canon City and
Fremont county, inasmuch as it was
for the express purpose of inspecting
the proposed extension of the roadway
from this city to Salida and other
roints in the state.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
Cornerstone Is Laid.

Denver-The cornerstone of the
magnificent Denver postoffice was
laid at the corner of Eighteenth ano
Stout streets. The new structure.
which, it is said, will without eXcep-
ton be the handsomest public build
ing in the world, occupies the entire
block bounded by Stout, Champa,
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets.
The contractors say that the building
will be completed in schedule time, or
hy December l, 1911. The corner
stone was laid by the Grand Masonic
lodge of Colorado under the auspices
ci the Denver Chamber of Commerce.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
Big Irrigation Company.

Pueblo.-An irrigation project which
will cost 100000 to $5,OO0,OOO will be
started within ninety days on land ad-
joining Pueblo on the north and east.
The new company will be known as
the Pueblo, Fountain, Chino & Scuir-
rel Creek irrigation Company. Arti-
cles of incorporation have been filed
The company will secure water from
the Chino and Squirrel creeks and
three reservoirs will contain more
than 100000 acre-feet when filled.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
WASHINGTON,

Col. Enoch II. Crowder viii become
Judge advocate general of the army,
with the rank of brigadier general.
The Senate committee on interstate
commerce, after a spirited contest, de-
cided to give additional hearings on
the House bill to prevent speculation
IN cotton futures.
President Taft's reciprocity agree
ment with Canada was ratified in the
House through the support of an al
most solid Democratic vote. The Nc
Call bill, carrying the agreement into
effect, was passed, 221 to 92.
Postmaster General Hitchcock. in
asking Congress for an appropriation
Of $1,000,000 for the establishment of
500 additional postal savings banks,
declares the forty-eight banks already
established have proven entirely sue
cessful.
AS the result of many conferences
the friends of the resolution for di-
rect election of senators determined
upon decided move forward. Sena-
tor Borah voiced his purpose in a
formal notice that he soon would ask
the Senate to sit until a vote should
be reached
Claiming that Russia has violated
the treaty of 1882 with the United
States by denying Jewish citizens OF
this country the privilege extended to
other American travellers Representa-
tive Parsons of New York introduced
a resolution in the House calling upon
President Taft to declare the treaty
void
Through the injection OF the race
question into the hitherto compare
lively commonplace discussion in the
Senate of the resolution providing for
the election of senators by direct
vote, Senator Root of New York and
Senator Bacon of Georgia lifted that
controversy to a plane of almost sen.
sational interest.
Carrying forward his campaign for
Canadian reciprocity, President Taft,
at Columbus, Ohio, made a direct ap-
peal to the American farmer on that
issue. He declared that the impress
] SlOH lHdl ltIlBlONllg Win INC DOlllh-
ion would injure the farmer was with
out foundation and by statistics he
sought to lend actual proof to his as
sertions.
Secretary Dickinson has given no.
tice to the Pacific Mail Steamship
| Company and the California & Atlantic
! Steamship Company of the termina-
ton of the existing arrangement
whereby those carriers are allowed 20
per cent of the total freight charge
on goods transported between New
York and San Francisco via the Pana-
ma railroad.
The Mccall bill carrying into effect
the Canadian reciprocity agreement
reached the floor of the House and
probably will be passed before ad-
journment Immediately. When the
voting began it became apparent that
the lines were being tightly drawn be-
tween those favoring and those oppos-
ing the trade agreement. AS finally
corrected, the vote to take up the bill
vas 1877 to 120. The bill will be
passed, it is said, by even a large ma
;ority.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
To Start Stanley Lake Job.

Denver-Contracts and relinquish-
ments have been signed which as
sures the commencement of work on
the Standley Lake irrigation project.
Immediately northwest of Denver, in
side of ten days. Final word was sent
to Paris by cable which will release
a portion of the $2,O0O,OOO which will
be furnished by the French bank to
finance the completion of the project.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
To Water More Land.

Montrose.-C. T. Pease, project en-
eineer of the Gunnison tunnel, an
nounces that work is to begin i'm
mediately upon the new canal, which
will be taken from the south canal
end conveyed along the side of the
Uncompahgre valley as far as Delta,
to water large amount of land above
the present irrigation system. This is
made possible by the recent appropri-
alton of $1.5OO,OOO for the Gunnison
project.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.
Would Pay 100000.

March 2-3-Colorado Stockgrowers AS
sociRtion Convention, Denver.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
Farmers own Coal Mine.

Eaton.-Through the work of the
Farmers Union, fifty Eaton farmers
have taken an interest in the Farm
Crs' Union coal mine at Erie. The
farmers shipped in their first carload
and laid it down for $3.35 ton.
The coal is said to be of excellent
quality.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18
Triple Tragedy in Denver.

Denver.-William McCrary shot
himself through the head and the bull
let, continuing on it's course, struck
the head of Arthur Knowles, his
friend, inflicting mortal wound.
Mrs. Julia Sohn, said to have been Nc
Crary's affinity" drank carbolie acid,
after hearing of her lovers sui
eide; and she is at the county hos
pital where she is expected to die.