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Tombstone epitaph., 1915-04-25

and pile up the straw at threshing time under cover, without the aid of i human stackers.
 Many details of construction in con- nection with this barn are well worth careful consideration. In the first place the framework is built of two inch stuff. Plank frame construction is the term applied by carpenters to this style of building. The first advan- tage is that the material may be bought at any lumber yard, because only stock lengths are called for. In the second place, the cost is less than when the dimension timbers are ordered, and there is saving in the delay caused by ordering timbers of special lengths or sizes. The only heavy timbers in the barn are the girders. which are supported by col umns over the COW managers, and these girders are built by bolting together two-inch blanks, enough of them to make the desired size and length. Sixteenfoot plank works in we'll for this purpose. The blanks are cut in such way as to bring the abutting joists four feet apart, so that always a girder is three blanks thick for a length of four feet without a joint, and it makes a continuous girder the whole length of the barn.
 The sills and plates are light, but they are built up in the same manner. Otherwise the framework is construct ed on the truss principle, each pair of rafters forming truss. This brings the trusses three feet apart, which in the average makes a very strong roof. The building is tied together cross wise by the floor joists. These floor joists are 12 feet in length, butted to- gether on the girders and the joists spliced by short extra lengths and well spiked. The joists also are spiked into the studding at the sides of the build ing, which makes a very substantial tie to receive the end thrust of the first set of roof braces.
 The lower rafters are IS feet in length and the upper rafters are F feet, which gives natural easy angles to both the upper and lower pitches of the roof.
 The COW stable part of the base ment is very carefully constructed to make a stable that is warm in win ter, cool in summer and well ventilat- ed at all seasons. The concrete floor includes both gutters and both man. gers in one solid monolith concrete slab which reaches across the stable from one concrete foundation side wall ta the other. Also there are heavy concrete supporting piers at in- tervala under the managers to form hSses fog the columns which support
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Colorado.

At Montezuma the concentration mill on the Silver Princess mine is being put in shape for steady opera ton.
 The Cripple Creek district Is rapid ly nearing the 5000 O00-a-month mark. The March production totaled 77,61S tons, with a bullion value of s1,9S6. 6.49396-a new high mark
 Two giant electric centrifugal pumps have arrived in Leadville, which will be used to unwater the large mining district known as the downtown district" comprising the Penrose. Coronado, Star and other well-known mines which have been flooded and idle for the last ten years.
 In Cripple Creek district, Fish and Harris. leasing on the Portland near the lines of the Dillon, have put on a night shift and henceforth a much heavier tonnage will be broken.
 The Golden Cycle mine has made a heavy production and earned large dividends for its stockholders for a number of years. Last year the net profits were in excess of ss00.00O.
 Grand Junction reports the dis coyery of platinum. a rare mineral at present quoted near $40 per ounce, or twice as valuable as gold. The dis covery is located in Nothorofare cafion
 The leaser is doing his full share to develop Cripple Creek and place California's gold output so far in the rear in 1915 that Colorado's champion ship will be as secure as Willard's and as honestly based. Colorado's gold mark for 1915 may safely be placed at $25.000,000. At the present time Boulder. Gilpin, Lake, Park, Dolores and Ouray show handsome gains over last year, with the Breck- enridge dredge boats recording an early start.
 The regular quarterly dividend of the vindicator Consolidated Gold Min ing Company will be paid April 25. ac- cording to an announcement made by the beard of directors at Colorado Springs. The total amount to be dis tribated will be $i5.O0o. being cents a share on the outstanding stock of 1,5O0,0l0 shares.
 A g ipment of a carload of dump matter was made a few days ago from the Zenobia property, portion of the S.ratton estate. and returns running around $20 a son In gold were realized in settlement.
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EXCELLENT RATION FOR COW
h Farmers Would Depend More on SiI3ee and Less on Pasture Herds
 Could Be Doubled.

A good ration for COWS giving milk is silage twice day, corn fodder once day and all the bean forage they will clean up, with about one pound grain or concentrate to every three pounds milk the COW gives. If the beans were pulled before becoming too ripe and secured without much rain falling on them, the forage makes good feed Roots are valuable to increase the flow of milk.
 If we would depend more on silage and less on pasture. our dairy herds might easily be doubled and the farm enriched accordingly. Many farmers have been slow to awaken to tho fact that dairying brings excellent returns. Many unprofitable crops are still raised where the land might better be growing feed for live stock.
 Permanent pasture is a waste un- less the land cannot be plowed. Every acre should be made to raise feed for stock to the limit of its capacity. and this should be fed right on the farm, returning the fertility to the soil.
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C0TTONSEED MEAL FOR COWS
ate Amounts Along With Variety of Other Feeds.

CBy E. G. WOODWARD, Nebraska Ex-
 pertinent StationD
 A Nebraska subscriber writes: "Is the feeding of cottonseed meal harm full to dairy COWS if fed right along?"
 If cottonseed meal is fed in moder- ate amounts along with a variety of other feeds, there are no harmful ef- fleets.
 Ordinarily COW should not be fed more than two pounds daily of cotton seed meal. As usual thing it will not take this amount to properly bal ance a ration made up of com mon dairy feeds.
 At present prices cottonseed meal is a very cheap source of protein and should undoubtedly be used much more extensively by Nebraska dairy men than it now is.
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PAIL OF GREAT IMP0RTANCs
Top Receptacle Is Necessary to Exclude Bacteria.

The United States department of agriculture has this 10 say about milking:
 Tn modern dairies where clean milk is produced the small-top milk pail is a necessity as such a pail pre- sents only small opening into which dust and dirt may fall from the air or from the cows body. It has been found by experience that the use of the small-top pail greatly reduces the number of bacteria in milk from aver age dairies. Many types of milk pails are for sale, but any timer can con vert an ordinary pail into a small-top pail by the addition of a hood. as shown herewith.
 Mixers should be allowed to milk only with dry hands. The practice of wetting the hands with milk is a filthy habit and is liable to cause the
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Wyoming.

The Grass Creek district continues to be the center of interest in the oil fields of Hot Springs county. although other sections are being worked and the field extended.
 Beall brothers, who have succeeded in securing filing on a portion of the extensive coal lands adjoining the townsite of Manderson, have com menced operations for the opening of the mines and will rush the work as fast as possible
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cows teats to chap in the winter time. Milking should be done quick. ly and thoroughly. with no violent jerking of the teats. After each COW is mixed the pail of milk should be removed immediately to the milk house.
 The milker should remember al. ways that he isehandling a human food which is very easily contami. mated. Soap. clean water and towels must be readily accessible. The hands should be washed after milking each COW.
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MUD HOLES IN COW PASTURE
Clean Shore ls Blessing to Fiy-Pes- tered AnimaIs-Many Annoyances
 Are Avoided.

A COW pasture mud hole is a yer itable nuisance. To get away from the flies the COWS will wade in the mud until their legs and even their udders become completely plastered. Then added to the annoyance of stamping and kicking at flies at milking time we have the added annoyance of being obliged to milk COWS with chapped teats.
 A clean lake shore or river or brook in the pasture is blessing indeed to the fiy-pestered COWS. but the mud hole should either be drained or fenced out of the pasture. Foul in the foot with cattle. and grease heel with horses, is the result of tramping back and forth from mud holes to dusty grounds.
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placed directly on the wooden sill of the building. This is a compromise between a wooden side to a stable and a wall that extends clear to the cell ing. The amount of wall around a COW stable varies usually with local conditions. If materials to make con. crete are comparatively cheap it is customary to build a concrete wall eight feet high above grade and to start the wooden framework at the ceiling of the COW stable. This is a detail of construction that must be known before hand
 Dairy stables are finished carefully on the inside to make them as smooth as possible for easy cleaning. Every year dairymen are raising the stand ard until competition is becoming very keen in the furnishing of high grade milk, to get higher prices. A stable constructed on this plan has every ad. vantage, provided the work is care fully and thoroughly well done. All inside surfaces, including side walls, ceiling posts, girders, windows, stall partitions, etc, are required to be made smooth In a well-kept stable all these inside surfaces are gone over with cleaning mops or brushes at fire quent intervals, to remove all dus, and dirt.
 The gutters are made with a slight grade, to drain at the most convenient end of the building. After the stables are cleaned the gutters are washed with water from the hose. The COWS are kept clean and the milkers wear linen duck uniforms and are required to keep themselves particularly clean The COWS in a well-kept dairy are cur ried and are otherwise as carefully cared for as a high.priced horse.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-04-25

A dairy barn to stable 22 COWS and six to eight horses is shown in the accompanying perspective and detail floor plan. The barn is 36 feet in width by "A feet in length. which makes colvenient-siZed barn for a farm of from forty to eighty acres. The size of the barn is better appreci- ated when the elevation is studied.
 This plan gives a distance of about forty feet between the concrete stable floor and the peak of the roof, or more than thirty feet from the threshing floor to the peak. This space is used almost exclusively for the storage of alfalfa, clover hay and straw, and it makes roony now. free from beams, posts or Instructions of any kind Such a nov usually is filled with hay by means of horse fork, and it is a pleasure to turn the muZZle of the separator straw blower into one end
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IOA|RY BARN 0F
 | LATEST DESIGN
Constructed to Stable Twenty. Two Cows and at Least Six
 or Eight Horses.
INTENDED FOR SMALL FARM
Built on Scientific Principles, With Large Storage for Roushase-Ma- teriai May Be Bought at Any Lumber Yard-cow Stable
 Alright.
By WILLIAM A. RADFcRO.

Mir. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF -OST on all subjects pertaining 10 the ,ubjeoi Of building work on the farm, for he readers Of this paper. On account of lis wide experience as Editor. Author and Manufacturer. he is, without doubt. the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Rad Ord. No. ls21 Prairie avenue. Chicago, Ill.,. and only inclose two-cent stamp for .eply.
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w ERIN MINING NEWS IN a RIFF
.ern Newspaper Union News Service
Prices Quoted for Metals.
IN 6 R | E E

Prices Quoted for Metals. New York. - Lead, $412ha4.20. London, f21 15s.
 Spelter-London, G43 los. Bar silver-50Ac. Copper Electrolytic, $1e.121 1925; casting, s15.62dI5.s7. St. Louis.-Spelter-$
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FOREIGN

The British government has de. eided against placing cotton on the contraband list.
 rope Benedict has sent to Cardinal Mercier s5,000 for the Belgian sui. ferers from the war. An accident in a coal mine near Shimonoseh resulted in the loss of 2Se lives, according to information re- ceived in Tokio.
 The British government during the last fortnight has bought wheat in Argentina to the value Of see. .Ana, : poo, according to the London Daily Express.
 Fifteen persons were killed y an explosion in an illicit alcohol dis tillery al Nolkhova. a suburb of Petro- grad. Serious damage was caused by the fire which followed
 The Alaska Senate passed a bill submitting territorial prohibition to the voters at the November election in 1916. If the voters approve pro hibition. it will become effective Jan. |, 1918
 Demos Lermos, one of the most no torious outlaws Of the Arizona Sonora border, was hanged with three com panions forty miles east of Agua Prieta by border patrol of Gen. P. Elias Gales forces.
 The chief of the Rumanian sanitary co-. IS has discovered cholera baccilli and other infectious disease germs in the waters of the River Pruth, which for part of its course flows along the boundary between Rumania and Rus sia
 Four men and boy were blown to pieces, forty persons badly injured and the big city herring market gutted by fire in a mysterious explo- sion at Lerwick. capital of Shetland, according 10 wireless message re- ceived in London
 The British government has con sensed to allow two cargoes of dye stUffs which the American textile al- liance secured in Germany in pay ment for cotton before the allies or der-in-councii placing an embargo or exports from Germany came into force, to pass the blockade.
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SPORTING NEWS

Rnbe Marquard pitched a no-hit game in New York and shut out the Brooklyn Nationals, to 0.
 Charles Wittmer, for many years the undisputed champion heayyw eight wrestler at the Graeco- Roman style. died at his home in Cincinnati He was fifty-five years old.
 President McGn of the Denver Western league baseball club pur. chased outright John Dell. an out. fielder from the Columbus Club of the American Association, and two other players
 Al Reich and Jim Coffey, two of Jess Willard's foremost challengers, will get together in the ring with the champion as referee some time in May, if statements by their respective managers issued in New York count for anything.
 Rube Smith, light heavyweight Of Denver was knocked out in the twelfth round Of bout at Cripple Creek by George Coplan of Cripple Creek The fight was staged by the Cripple Creek Athletic Club and a crowd of I,I00 attended.
 Bob Fitzsimmons. the former heavyweight champion. was married in Washington to Mss Temo Zillen, who has been associated with him for some time in theatricals The brides gift from the bridegroom is said to have been ss5.O00 in jewels
 President Wilson. several members of his cabinet and a huge crowd saw Washington defeat New York by a score of to in the opening game of the baseball season at Washington. The President began the game by throwing out the first ball to Umpire Billy" Evans. With Secretaries Bryan, Lane, Daniels and Garrison. he remained throughout the game and warmly applauded the best plays. GENERAL
 William l.. Miller, 10I years old. an- nounced his wedding at Joplin, Mo. to Mrs. Nancy B. Pike, sixty.
 Seventy thousand milk bottles, worth, empty, sS.500. have been cen demned and seized in the last two weeks for being short measures by J. E. Harshman, sealer of weights and measures, at Los Angeles, Cal.
 Chief Gunner's Mate Frank Crilly went 2ss feet under water at Hon. olulu, T. H., and walked along the top of the submarine F4, which dis appeared March 25. The depth is said by naval officers to be a worlds diving record. He found the F-4 lying on smooth sandy bottom with no coral growths to impede hoisting opera tions.
 Japan has 1000 men and five war ships in Turtle Bay on the Lower California coast and a Japanese naval base is being established there, &C., cording to reports of American news paper men at Los Angeles who have visited the harbor. It is rumored there that the grounding of the Japa- nese cruiser Asama was merely a ruse to enable the Nipponese to establish a station on the Pacific coast
 Gen Sauio Navarro, second in com mand of the Villa forces before Mata- moros, died at Brownsville, Tex. of wounds received in the Carranza sortie.
 Villa forces have been defeated with a loss of 5000 killed in the bat tie of Celaya, according to meager reports reaching Fl Paso. Texas. from Mexico.
 The bridge over the Colorado river at Yuma, Arizona. the last link of the southern transcontinental highway from the Atlantic to Los Angeles and San Diego. has been officially opened.
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Unperturbed.

That poem of yours about spring had some hard lines to scan. The feet were difficult to manage"
 Well, in spring you must expect to have hard lines and take extra care about your feet"
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-04-25

After a man gets to be about so old the insurance solicitors give him a rest.
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CBy E. G. WOODWARD, Nebraska Ex-
 pertinent StationD
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-04-29

New Yorker Who Has Tried Scheme
More Than SATISFIED With
Results Acfil1ved.

A Broadway business man was talk
ing to a friend who was looking for a
good Office boy
Cut out the boys" he said with
confidence, ''and get an old man who
is willing to work for les than a
mans wages. l began it atHt year
ago and never did beftHF thing.
Il got the suggestion from a man
not In business, but physician. He
had ordered some article or other
which had not come promptly and he
came in person to see about it. |
told him, which waS true, that had
been bothered so by changing my Of
fee boys that couldn't get it to him.
Then he blew out at me and asked
me why didn't get an old man to do
Office boy work and ! wouldn't have
any more bother.
1T looked SO different at first that
laughed at him, but he insisted SO
that it was the only cure that / con-
cluded I would try It, knew of an
old chap, honest and living with his
son, doing small jobs and helping all
he could for his keep, and asked him
how he would like to be office boy for
me. He laughed just as | did at first,
but insisted on his trying it and he
agreed to come and do the best he
could but wouldn't guarantee that he
would be satisfactory.
"He came the next day and though
he was a bit slow at first he was al
ways ready and willing and in a week
or so ! was so well satisfied with him
that | wouldn't have traded him for
all the boys had been bothered with
for five years. He isn't perfect, nor
is anybody, for that matter but he is
reliable and honest, never soldiers on
me. doesn't smoke cigarettes or read
dime novels. isn't fresh around the
store, is always polite and is always
on time.
81 pay him 81 a week and he is glad
enough to get 1t. and he isn't so old
but that he is good for at least ten
years Of duty, which will also be ten
years Of comfort for me and the entire
store | don't say that any old man
viii be as satisfactory as this one. but
I do say that nine-tenths of the old
fellows will make better office boys
than the average we have TO put up
with.
"Try an old man for an Office boy
and see II you can do any worse than
you have been doing. Several OF my
friends are doing it and SO far they
are all pleased with the change"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-04-29
Bad Cold Quickly Broken Up.

Mrs. Martha Wilcox, Gowanda, N.
Y. writes: Il first used Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy about eight years ago.
AT that time | had a hard cold and
coughed most Of the time. It proved
to be just what | needed. 1t broke
up the cold in d few days, and. the
cough entirely disappeared. / have
told many of my friends Of the good
| received through using this med
icine, and all who have used 1t speak
of it in the highest terms" Obtain
able everywhere.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-04-29

Women of sedcntary Habits:

Women who get but little exercise
!arc likely to be troubled with consti-
patton and indigestion and viii find
Chamberlainfs Tablets nighly ben
cficial Not SO gopd las a three or
-four mile walkyy day but very
much better than 'ft5 ALLOW the bowels
to remain in constipated condition
They are easy and pleasant to take
and most agreeable in effect. OBJ
tainable everywhere.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-04-29
German Ships.

The German merchant vessels in.
termed in the harbors of the United
States are kept there by internation-
al law and not by decree of the Unit
ed States government alone. To per-
NIT interned ships to arm and depart
for the high seas is prohibited by the
same law. 49,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-04-29

Should Italy so to war the women
OF that country win take the 47tNe
Of men i'll Industry and comfii fae
anil Viii be paid the same wages as
now received by the men workers.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-04-29

The Delaware State Senate has de-
feated a bill which would amend the
ten hour law for women so that they
could work. longer hours daily. pro-
vidod 8thty were physically fit
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-04-29

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