The Exeter Advocate, 1897-7-8, Page 6PERSONALITIES.
Emperor William of Germany is a
practical typesetter.
The Duke of Sutherland owns 1,176,-
454 of the 1,297,846 acres in Suther-
land county, Scotland.
Mr. and Mrs. William Brinkman of
Kokomo, Ind., are both blind. The
husband is an expert piano tuner, and
the wife is an elocutionist.
The Rev, Henry Rupp, the' oldest
active clergyman in Illinois, now in his
ninety-third year, is still strong and
vigorous and preaches every Sunday.
The .Rev. O. W. Hutchinson of Wa-
tertown, Mass., who was recently elect-
ed president of Grant university, Chat-
tanooga, has decided not to accept the
office.
Austen Chamberlain, the eldest son
and heir of the secretary of state for the
colonies, bears an almost absurd per-
sonal resemblance to his distinguished
father.
Baron Krupp, the great ironmaster of
Germany, carries evidences of the trade
with him when he goes calling. His
cards are mac iron, rolled so thin
that they are said to be a great success
for social use.
Count Nicholas Esterhazy, who died
recently at Totis in Hungary, was well
known on the turf in England, France
and Austria. He gave orders that he
should be buried in a red hunting coat,
with all the honors of the chase.
Ex Queen Liliuokalani of the Ha-
waiian Islands has been offered a snug
sum of money to appear in public in
this country as a singer. She has writ-
ten several songs and is said to have a
good and highly trained voice.
Dr. John Lewis Smith is the patriarch
of Methodism in Iudiaua, and he wrote
in his eighty-second year a book of 450
pages, containing anecdotes of pioneer
preachers and their charges in the west,
together with a treatise on.Indiana
Methodism.
All the Confederate officers who
reached the full rank of general are
dead. The number, including Lee, was
eight. There were 19 lieutenant gen-
erals in the Confederate army, of whom
seven survive —Longstreet, Buckner,
Gordon, Hampton, S. D. Lee, Wheeler
and A. P. Stewart.
Captain Joseph Manuel (he followed
the sea for 60 years) and his wife,
Sarah, celebrated recently at their home
in Kennebuukport, Me., the seventy-
seventh anniversary of their wedding.
They are the oldbst people in the town.
He is 101 years of age and she 99. He
was born in Portugal and she in Maine.
England's oldest duke, the Duke of
Northumberland, has entered on his
eighty-seventh year. Though_ he calls
himself Percy, the duke is really a
Smithson, the last male Percy having
died in 1670. He is extremely religious,
and, as his wife was an Irvingite, one
seat is always kept vacant at his table
for the Saviour.
TREES AND LUMBER.
The Norway spruce, well dry, weighs
82 pounds to the cubic foot.
Well seasoned Spanish cypress weighs
27.56 pounds per cubic foot.
Well seasoned red hickory weighs
52.37 pounds to the cubic foot.
All splits and cracks, from whatever
cause, necessarily impair the valve of a
tree for lumber.
Foresters tell us that the best timber
is that which grows from dark soil in-
termixed with gravel.
American ebony is one of the heavi-
est woods known, weighing 83.18
pounds to the cubic foot.
The weight of a cubic foot of cork is
15 pounds. Cork is the bark of a species
of Spanish oak and not properly a wood.
Yellow stains in either timber or
lumber are an indication of dry rot and
are regarded as an injury to the tree or
wood.
Timber is seasoned by the evaporation
of the water, the extraction of the vege-
table juices and the solidification of the
woody tissue.
The. "heart wood" of a tree has
ceased to take any part in the vegeta-
tive economy of the tree. Its only use
is to strengthen the trunk.
Antiseptic preparations may easily be
force .i into wood by pausing them to
fel eee the lines taken by its sap; other-
wise it is eaceediugly difficult fully to
impregnate the wood with them.
The lightest known wood is -that of
the Auona paiunstris of Brazil, which
is much lighter than cork. The heaviest
is the iron bark of Australia, whiob.
Weighs nearly 100 pounds to the cubio
foot. --St: Louis Globe -Democrat.
NOVELTIES.
Greens, purples and reds are all rep-
resented in the leather novelties.
Russian enamel is of frequent occur-
reuce on chatelaines and buckles.
Paper racks and paper cutters of brass
are overlaid with enameling in colors.
Bill folds for men are out in smooth
morocco, monkey skin and seal and
have small silver clasps.
Velvet and leather chatelaine holders
for eyeglasses and spectacles are mount-
ed with gold or enameled silver.
The oandelal*rum is to the fore as a
dinner table decoration. The lights,
softened by colored shades, enhance the
beauty of the shining silver and glitter.,.
ing 'glass.
Novel fittings for the writing table
are out in orystal with gilt mounts. A
pleasing example is a block of crystal
entwined by a gilt serpent, which serves
as an inkstand. -Jewelers' Circular.
TROTTERS "AND PACERS.
Page, 2:09%, has recovered from hit
lameness
Carya, 2:15)4, will be in Lestex
Dore's stable.
Break o' Day, 2:11X, bas been bred
to Axtell, 2:12.
William Penn, 2:07%, is loon,-ine
good and strong.
A fast Woodbrino paper has been
sent to Jook Bowen.
McShedd, 2:17, has been placed in
Jack Curry's stable.
Larrabee, 2:12%, will make his first
start of the season at Cleveland.
Lord Clinton, 2:08%, will be raced
this season over half mile tracks.
It is announced that Jupe, 2:18%,
will make but one start this year.
Limerick, the 8 -year-old, by Prodi-
gal, has been a mile in 2:86 and a quar-
ter in 87 seconds,
A starting machine is soon to be tried
with the trotters and pacers on one of
the eastern tracks.
J R, 2:29X, by McAlister, recently
stepped a quarter in 32% seconds at
the Cleveland track.
Agitato, 2:09%, the crank California
8 -year-old of last year, met defeat in
his first race this season at Denver.
Hopples will again this season be
barred at the matinees held by the Gen-
tlemen's Driving club of Cleveland.
The Grand Rapids Driving club of
Grand Rapids, Mich„ will hold its an-
nual meeting this .year, July 27 to 80.
Daisy C, 2:22; Fleet, Ernest Reed
and Half Interest are doing some good
work at Comstock park, Grand Rapids,
Miob.
Klamath is indeed racing. He defeat-
ed a bunch of fairly good pacers at Col-
orado Springs, his fastest mile being
2:17%.
Rare Avis, the brown gelding that
was recently bought at auction in New
York for $1,050 by F. D. Gibson, will
be shipped at once to London.
Notwithstanding the failure of the
state legislature to pass a betting law
in Pennsylvania, lovers of raping at
Coatesville are contemplating making
a half mile track.
Twelve trotters and ten papers for-
merly in the list have reduced their rec-
ords, and with the new performers the
new and reduced records within stand-
ard lines now number 64.
GOWN GOSSIP.
Guimpes made of tucked muslin are
popular for summer wear.
Belts are worn with almost every-
thing, ,but the buckles are worn at the
back.
An eton jacket with points and s
single button over the bust is one of
the popular styles.
Insertion and material in alternate
strips are used to form skirts, sleeves
and waists. Another style has the in-
sertion set on over the 1abrio.
A. basque waist has collar, very wide
pointed revers shoulder caps, wide bell
and cuffs of the most elaborate embroi-
dery. The waist is of black velvet.
A model suit for the wheel is made
of tan colored cloth with facings of
cloth of a lighter shade. One of the
fancies of the hour is the mixture of
two sorts of cloth.
Printed muslins in sprigged figures
and spring colors are to be special fa.
vorites. They resemble taffeta silks in
effect and are exceedingly pretty and
stylish when worn over silk slips.
A reefer for a little girl is made wit.:
square fronts, slightly curved back, ful:
topped sleeves and a sailor collar.
Above this is a small turned over collar.
The collar and cuffs are trimmed with
braiding.
Tucks, ruffles and insertion are used
on skirts of various materials. A new
model is covered from hem to waist
line with bias folds set on around the
skirt. These folds are about two inches
wide and are headed with a piping of
contrasting material.
Tea jackets are pretty and popular.
They are made somewhat after the fash-
ion of a matinee, the fullness of the
back being shirred in at the waist line
under the belt. The fronts are gathered
in a similar way. The trimming may
be very elaborate.—New York Ledger.
STAGE GLINTS.
John H. W. Byrne has been engaged
for "1492" to play the king and tramp.
Denman Thompson will play the pari
of Joshua Whitcomb in his play, "The
Old Homestead," next season.
Marie Shotwell will be Fanny Daven-
port's leading lady next season. Henry
Jewett also will be in Miss Davenport's
company.
John. W. Dunn has secured from Mc-
Kee & Hoyt the rights to "A Milk
White Flag" and will take it through
the country next season.
.Fanny Davenport has decided to ig-
nore the syndicate next season and book
her attraction directly with managers
of the theaters where she wishes to play.
Charles E. Blaney has engaged Frank
Karriugton and P. Aug Anderson for
his "The Electrician'' company and
Raymond Finlay for the "A Boy Want-
ed" company.
William Blaisdell has been engaged
to take Joseph W. Herbert's place in
'The Girl From Paris." Mr. Herbert
has sailed for England, where he will
join Mr. Daly's company in August.
Francis Wilson has secured a release
from his engagement in the autumn at
the Knickerbocker theater, New York.
Instead George Edwardes' London Gai-
ety company will open the season there
in "In Town" on Sept: 6.
L. J, Rodriguez, who has been treas-
urer far Richard Mansfield for the sea-
son just passed, has bought from Mr.
Mansfield the English rights of "A So-
cial Highwayman" and will sail for
England on July 10 to make arrange•
wants for its protluotion,
A PARODY FOR THE PRESENT.
What though a lassie don, the breeir.
Wi' bloomers brave and a' 'that?
We bend in adoration meek
And are her slaves for a' that.
For a' that and a' that,
Tho wheel bestrid and a' that,
Blythe Cupid's eyes heed no disguise.
She shall be wooed for a' that.
The warld may tremble at her call,
Wi' bonnet doffed and a' that. •
Ser voice may fill the coeuicil hall,
She bides a lassfor a' that.
For a' that and a' that,
Our duns usurped and a' that,
The one who warks to pay the gored,
Ho is the man for a' that.
—Washington Star.
THE LOVE OF A WOMAN
It was early spring, In the sunshiny
corners of the snake fences and in sheltered
hollows the young grass had begun to
sprout. Patches of snow still lay on the
bleak sides of the hills that encompassed
the little Canadian town. of Cartersford,
but these would speedily disappear with
the coming of the spring rains, which
would swell the river Trent to twine its
present size and cause it to rush angrily
away with the great hummocks of ice that
just now floated lazily down toward the
dam.
Diok Downing stood on the bridge that
spans the Trent above the falls and con-
nects the east and the west sides of ram-
bling little Cartersford. Just then there
was a rumble of wheels on the bridge,
and he turned to see what was coming.
In an instant his insignificant face was
aglow and his eyes shone, Ellen Adair
was driving toward him. Natty Tom Far-
revs
arrers was beside her, but Ellen was Ellen,
Ferran or no Farrers, and Dick's heart
gave a bound at sight of her.
"Good morning, Miss -Adair," said he
as the light wagon passed.
"Oh, good morning," she responded
lightly, with the faintest possible toss of
her head. Then, glancing back over her
shoulder, she called with a smile, "Don't
forget the choir rehearsal tonight."
"No; I'll surely be there," responded
Dick, with a pleased flush. Then Ellen
and the dapper Farrers were gone.
Dick was not a favorite with the girls
at ,Cartersford, a few of whom did not
hesitate to let him know it—a waygirls
have sometimes when a man offends them
by being small and slight and plain. But
as for Dick, he had his work at the cloth
factory—where he was bookkeeper—to oc-
cupy his mind, and he did not care a straw
about the girls. They might do es they
pleased—all except one, and how he wished
that she would please to think him good
for something better than to bo snubbed
and tensed and laughed at.
Presently Dick stopped dreaming and
went bank to work. The shadows grew
longer and the river and the blue distance
more blue, and before Cartersford knew
it night had come and the eleotrio lights
—Cartersford has electric lights—gleamed
in the streets. But the stars did not oome
out, and the moon that was due at half
past 7 failed to make her appearance.
By these signs and tokens any one with
half an eye can perceive that Dick was in
love with Ellen. And she—well; Ellen
thought, or believed she thought, Tom
Wallace, who sang in the Presbyterian
church choir on Sundays and clerked for
Mr. Collier, the village lawyer, the rest of
the week, was the embodiment of manli-
ness and chivalry. Tom's preference for
the doctrines of Calvin was a pause of se-
cret regret to Ellen, who went to the little
English church in the hollow. Here, also,
:Dick might have been seen and beard any
and every Sunday, warbling forth hymns
and responses in the sweetest of tenor
voices.
Diok glanced uneasily at the biaok sky
es be hurried on his way to choir rehearsal
and predicted within himself that there
would be rain before morning- and hoped
it would not come until after he had seen
Ellen Adair safely to her home. But the
fates were kind and held off the rain, and
Dick lingered a moment at the gate before
bidding her good night, making soma
feeble reference to the weather—to the
probability of a storm.
"Yes," she assented with a shiver, as a
cold blast swept up the road, "it does feel
like rain. Good night"
"Good night -Ellen"— And Dick put
out his hand and took hers, holding it for
a moment and then letting it drop as a
sudden sense of his temerity overtook him.
"Good night, Miss Adair."
The ligh., flashed in his face as the girl
opened the door, and then Dick hurried
down the road.
Next day it rained, and the next and
the next. .And the timid grass in the
sheltered corners was drenched and sod-
dened, and there was not a patch of snow
left anywhere at the end of the second day.
.As for the river, it swelled and rushed
and foamed. It ran into the cellars of the
people who lived on its, banks. It parried
away part of the railroad bridge a mile
above the town. It uprooted trees and
whirled them along its over widening
banks. It bore great cakes of ice, loosening
from calm, deep places, and hurried them
without ceremony to the, same destination
it hurried everything else—the rapids.
And after the rapids? Well, the ice oame
out churned into small bits and the trees
bereft of their branches.
For three days and nights the rain fell
in torrents. The fourth day broke glori-
ously fair and mild. Spring had really
Dome. The sun shone down warmly upon
the mischievous, turbulent river and tried
to dry the wet roads and the sodden bills,
and every one in Cartersford was happy.
Ellen Adair was out bright and early.
So was Dick Downing, so was Tom Far-
rers, so was everybody. Tom Farrers
would be busy all day, but he was sure to-
morrow would be fine—would Ellen go
for a drive with him. then? And Ellen
assented with a blush.
Tomorrow would be a half holiday,
Dick said a little later. Would Miss Adair
let him •drive her up to see the broken.
railroad bridge? But Miss Adair replied
coldly that she had a "previous engage-
ment;" so Dick, who did the blushing
this time, turned away with a heavy
lace rt.
Shut tap in, his little office in the factory,
he pondered upon the strangeness of hu-
man nature in general and of feminine
nature in particular.; He had actually
thought the other night that Ellen did not
dislike bio, and hero, this very morning,
she had coldly and unsmilingly listened
to his invitation.-yes—and had seemed
quite pleased to refuse it.
"What are those : people doing on the
bridge?" asked Edwards, the foreman,
who stood at Diok'e window'.
"Watching something coming down the
river, I suppose," replied 'Dick drearily,
looking up from the task of erasing a
cipher he had placed where a two should
have been. "By. Jove—" with sudden
alertness—"they are shouting to some one
en the river Como."
Dick was out of the office in a jiffy and
rtishang up the street with a crowd of
people.
"It's poor littlo Jennie Seymour," he
heard a than pant, as he ran. "She got
into a boat higher up shore to fish somaa
thing up that had floated out of the cellar,
the boat swung loose from its moorings,
and the current's carrying her down
stream. She'll go over the falls. There's.
no Chance for her."
On the bridge there were 40 or 50 people,
some running .distractedly hither and
thither, others helplessly standing at the
rail, looking up the river. Dick pushed
his way among the latter and looked too.
Not 100 yards away, borne on the current,
was an upturned boat, with a little figure
clinging desperately to the keel. Dick •
could see her white, frightened face and
hear her frenzied cries for help. There
were people on the river banks running to
keep pace with ".the swiftly moving boat
and shouting useless directions to the poor
creature clinging to it. A woman behind
Dick was struggling to get to the rail.
"Oh, don't, Mrs. Seymour—don't lot us
go thorn. We can't do any good. Come
away, do," said a voice that he reoognized
as. Ellen's.
"But I must, Miss Ellen. I have a feel-
ing somehow that it's my"— She had
reached the rail and stood by Dick. For
a moment she gazed with blanched face
and drawn, white lips, then in a voice
whose agony pierced to the very souls of
those who heard it she cried:
"Meroifui God 1 It's my Jennie, my girl
—my girl I"
The girl on the boat heard the cry and
answered it with a shriek of "Mother!
Mother i"
On came the boat, sometimes caught in
an eddy and whirled about until the poor
girl, who clung to it for dear life, grew
dizzy and well nigh lost her hold, then
swept away again, steadily, surely, down
to the rapids. And the people on the
bridge and on the river banks waited dazed
and helpless.
"A rope—if we had a rope," said Diok
hoarsely to the men near him. "There's
just a chance that she might be able to
catch it as she went under the bridge, and
we could draw her up."
"Poor gerrul, she couldn't get 'old of
it with 'or numb 'ands," replied one man.
Dick looked intently dawn into the
black depths of the water. He was think-
ing that once, when he was a boy and the
river low, he had jumped off the bridge
and swam to the boom, dared to the feat
by some reckless companions. Could he—
A sudden crash—a stifled cry—an ex-
clamation of horror from the crowd. The
boat had swept against the boom. It
grated on it for an instant, then the keel
went down, and the boat righted and float-
ed on. For amoment the girl disappeared
The next, they saw her clinging desperate-
ly to the boom, her drenched black hair
hanging over her wild face.
Dick had pulled off his coat and shoes
by this time and was standing on the
bridge rail.
"Fetch a rope, Bill," he said to the man
next him, "long enough to reach from
here to the boom. Run for your life and for
mine and for that poor creature's yonder."
Then his wiry little body shot out into
space. A woman on the bridge called his
name; after that there was breathless si-
lence. As Dick rose to the surface, a few
yards from where the girl clung, a wild
shout rang out from the crowd.
Would the current bear him down or.
could he stem it? For awhile the chances
seemed equal, then he began very slowly
to gain upon it. But the girl's bold was
evidently relaxing, and she was being
drawn away from the boom. He saw this
and strained every nerve in bis sinewy
body in a last mighty effort. A little near-
er and a little nearer, until, panting and
exhausted, he grasped the boom and, fling-
ing his arm about the girl, drew her to-
ward it, .And there they hung, the current
tugging and tearing at their two bodies.
"If that rope doesn't come soon, it will
be precious little use," thought Dick, des-
perately tightening his hold on the now
unconsoious girl.
Ile glanced at the bridge and the eager,
frightened faces looking down at him.
One face ho saw, above all others. It was
Ellen Adair's. Her anxious, glowing eyes
were fixed upon his own.
"Dick, dear Dick, brace Dick," sbe said
in a low voice, "bold on a moment more;
the rope is here."
.And Dick gazed at her as in a dream, a
half smile on his lips, and tried to grasp
the boom more firmly with his numbing
fingers.
Exactly how be caught and tied the
rope under the girl's shoulders he never
knew, but he saw -her drawn safely up on
the bridge with a sigh of intense relief.
It seemed an age before the rope was in
his hands again, but he was conscious of
slipping the loop around bis body, of cling-
ing to it with a viselike grasp, of being
hauled through the water for a little space,
of being lifted into the air, of a wild shout,
of a woman's face bending over him and
then—a blank.
Next time Dick took Ellen home from.
choir rehearsal, which happened the fol-
lowing evening, he caught the hand she
extended to him at her own gate, and held
it as if be did not mean to let it go.
"And you really oared, Ellen," said be,
"and would have grieved a little if I had
gone over the falls?" And though there
'was no moon it was quite light enough
for Ellen to see that his eyes were brim
full of love and longing.
"Yes, dear Dick, I really cared. I think
I should have died if you bad been
drowned." And, emboldened by her look
and tone, Dick took her in his arms and
kissed her. — Frances A. Schneider in
Denver Republican.
What causes the Gulf Stream.
About the middleof the century, Lieu
-
tenant M. F. Maury, the American hydrog-
rapher and meteorologist, advocated a
theory of gravitation as the chief cause of
ocean currents, claiming that difference
in density, due to difference in tempera-
ture and • saltness, would sufficiently ac-
count for the oceanic circulation: This
theory gained great popularity through
the widecirculation of Maury's "Physical
Geography of the Sea, which is said to
have passed through mom editions than
any other soientifio bookof the .period, but
it "NILS ably and vigorously combated by
Dr. James Cron, the Scottish geologist, in
his "Climate and Time," and latterly the
old theory that ocean currents aro due to
Ibo trade winds bas again oome into favor.
Indeed very recently a model has been con-
structed, with the aid of which it is said
to have been demonstrated that prevailing
winds in the direction of the actual trade.
winds would ; profluoe suoh a current as
the gulf stream.—H. S. Williams, • M. D.,
in Harper's Magazine,
' A Sardonic Suggestion.
"
Ian sure„ said . the girl who is . en-
gaged, "that Herbert is a prize."
''Yes," replied Miss Cayenne, "but in a
cage of this kind it's so difficult to tell
whether you've won a first prize orabooby
prize." -Washington Star.
FEED RACKS.
They Are For Cattle, Are Portable and
Very Convenient.
In the southern belt of this country
cattle need little shelter in winter. In
the middle belt they need a stable for
severe weather, but for their own health
should be allowed outdoors when the
temperature is.moclerate.
That is the leading idea of the Kan -
las stockman who devised the feeding
PORTABLE RACK FULL OF FODDER.
ranks in the illustrations. They are
portable, so that they can be conveyed
anywhere in the feed lots and from one
shed to another according as the feed
stored in each becomes exhausted.
In addition to corn the Reuses stock-
man feeds his cattle hay, roots, sorghum
and alfalfa, thus giving the variety so
necessary to man or beast.. '
In The Breeder's Gazette the manager
of the Kansas stock farm describes the
raok as follows:
We named it an ark because it looked
a little like a boat and can be moved
from one place to another. By hitching
a team of horses on one end it can be
moved very easily. The 18 foot ark
holds 1,000 pounds of hay or one ton of
sorghum. We make them 16 and 18
feet, but prefer the 18 foot, as it can be
made cheaper, We send you drawing
-• ni.�j��'l111�1-
•
FRAMEWORK or RACK.
complete of the ark and also the frame-
work. The framework is made mostly
out of 2 by 4 plank, except the runners
which are 2 by 6. These racks have been
used at Sunny Slope for four years and
have been the most satisfactory of any
we have seen. We have given the plaus
to nearly every breeder that has been on
our farm.
Relative Value of Forage Plants.
Daring the drought of 1895 the wri-
ter, feeling the want of a good forage
plant, determined to experiment in that
line in 1896. We decided to try corn,
sorghum and rape. Just at that time an
article appeared in The Stockman and
Farmer stating that corn could be out
and bound with a binder. Upon that
article we decided to sow with grain
drill all hoes at work at rate of two
bushels per acre. Beside the corn rape
was sown broadcast at the rate of six
pounds per acre, and beside the rape
sorghum broadcast at rate of 25 pounds
per acre. All were sown the last of
May. Corn came up almost immediately,
grew rank and well all season. Rape and
sorghum were slow in germinating and
growth was rather limited at first, but
later the sorghum made rapid strides,
prod -acing so much feed at a time when
the drought clid not show itself that the
question arose as to what to do with it.
The rape apparently was sown too thick
and slid not make the growth that it
otherwise would, yet it was sufficient
to test the merits of the plant. We com-
menced cutting sorghum when about 18
inches high, stock eating it well and
with a relish, but as soon as the stalk
of the plant became any size sheep re-
fused to eat anything but the blades.
The rape was the ideal forage for sheep,
cattle and hogs too.
The corn was tested also as a green
feed, with results similar to the sor-
ghum. If anything, sheep ate the oorn
better than the sorghum.
It seems to be undisputed that the
second growth of sorghum is poisonous
at certain times, and when we cannot
tell when these conditions exist is it not
wisdom to discard it entirely?
In sowed corn we have this advan-
tage, that in case we do not need the
green feed it is not difficult to save and
cure for winter feed. In our case the
oorn grew quite rank, having lots of
nubbins—in fact, small ears. in the fu-
ture, when in need of roughage for win-
ter or soiling for summer, we shall make
rise of corn in preference to sorghum.—
;. C. Sidle in National Stockman.
Questions and Answers.
1. I threw some rubbish containing
stove " coal into the hogpen, and the
pigs ate it greedily. I have frequently
thrown som0 in since to see flow greedy
they were for it; Do they need some
hard sabstauce to keep their teeth right
and is coal good for them or otherwise?
2. I can sell rye straw at $10 per ton
and timothy hay at $15, but can't spare
both. Which shall I sell or feed to milk
cows when I am feeding wheat bran
and buckwheat middlings at $12 each
per ton and crushed corn ears at $9 per
ton?
Answers.—We have often fed coal
screenings to bogs. They are particu-
larly fond of soft coal, and it will help
them, So will ordinary charcoal. Char-
coal, wood ashes and salt are excellent
for hogs. Probably tons of such a mix-
ture have been sold as "hog cholera
pure." 2. Neither timothy bay nor rye
straw is profitable . for feeding cows.
Of the two, we would sell the straw.—
Rural New Yorker.
THE HORSE'S FOOT.
A Horseshoer Ought to Be a Sian Scion-
• tlilcally Educated.
When we consider that 50 per Dent of
all ailments and diseases affecting the
horse arise'from the limbs and feet, the
subject must Dover a large portion of
the field of veterinary surgery.' Still,
what branch of science does this cover
when. 80 per Dent of the cause of the ail-
ments and diseases arise from an un-
balanced foot?
The great need of today to the horse-
shoers of this great country, not only
individually, but as a body of men, is a
college to obtain a higher trained skill
in the science of horseshoeing. A spirit
of harmony and enthusiasm, should in.j
spire the mind of every horseshoer to
make an immediate effort to acquire a
higher standard of technical education.
This we all know—the blacksmith or
horseshoer of today is but a repetition
of the shoer of 100 years ago, and if no
steps are taken the shoer of tomorrow
will be but a sample of today's. We
have only to look into our streets, and
what do \ve find as a result? Lame horses
everywhere we turn our eyes. This ex-
tremely common effect, "the unbalanced
foot," causes more damage and destroys
more horses than ail the other causes of
disease put together.
Then, if the pause be the lack of that
proper understauding how to balance
and shoe the foot, the remedy must be
sufficient comprehension of the proper
.method of symmetrizing and leveling
the foot along with a proper shoeing.
The evilwill then be corrected.
The secret of the problem has long.
proved itself, for the poor horse on en•
tering the shop to be shod will immedi-
ately place himself and stand with his
feet in the various positions pointing
directly to the seat of the trouble. The
poor dumb creature stands there in hope
that when the shoes are removed and
replaced, he will be relieved of his pain;
but. on the contrary, what do we finds
Instead of the pain being relieved by
proper paring, symmetrizing the foot,
it is left in the same old way. This goes
on until the axis of leverage and the
center bearing have been altered. Com-
pression on ohe or more of the various
bones comprising the various joints
takes place, resulting in exostosis of
some kind, perhaps a spavin or a ring-
bone, or in other cases the soft tissues
composing the various ligaments and
tendons give way. The animal being no
longer able to stand such burdens, the
tissues of the soft structures being con-
stantly overtaxed, lameness results, and
then the animal falls into the hands of
the veterinarian and is too often sub-
jected to firing and repeated applica-
tions of blistering. For the want of
what? Simply proper paring and bal-
ancing the foot. I am sorry to say that
some "veterinarians" are as ignorant
upon this question of facts as the horse-
shoer.
How absurd it is for one to think itOr
unnecessary for the horseshoer to have
an anatomical knowledge of all the • eAs.
structures constituting the foot and i.
limb! Without a perfect knowledge of
the normal structures composing those
parts, how eau it be expected one is • to
understand the abnormal? Why is it
that we can scarcely find a sound foot on
any horse? And a perfectly balanced foot
is as scarce as stars at midday, To cor-
rect this evil I can but repeat the ne-
cessity of a higher standard of educa-
tion for our horseshoer. The questiou
so often asked is, "Doesn't the horse-
shoer pare my horse's feet too much?"
To answer this, I will say how can any
one pare a horse's foot in a proper
manner when he does not know where
to commence and where to stop? Be it
henceforth remembered by my readers
that God in constituting the horse's foot
placed therein a"mark as visible as the.
light of the sun which was to be the
universal guide for paring all feet,
knowing as he did it was utterly impos-
sible for any one to pare two feet alike
without some guide, realizing and rec-
ognizing the usefulness and faithful-
ness of that equine servant to his peo-
ple; -also the hardships they would ha
forced to undergo. It can be readilyc,n-
derstood that if the foot be not pared
equal some part is called upon at all
times to do more work, this being done
at the expense of some vital structure
which enters the composition of the leg
and foot, lameness in its various forms
resulting. —Exchange.
Live Stook Points.
There is a profit of from 84 cents to
$1.87 in buying up in the markets lean !K"
mutton sheep from the far western and
southwestern ranges and fattening "them
for city markets. This has been demon-
strated by Professor Thomas Shaw at
the Minnesota experiment station.
"Sheep and sugar" seems to be the
watchword of a lot of agricultural en-
thusiasts in the northwest at present.
The farmer is to work out his salvation
and lift the mortgage from his farm by
raising fat .mutton and sugar beets.
Very well, We know there is money iu
raising good fat mutton and lambs, and • •
we believe there is money in raising
sugar beets in the right locality, with
proper knowledge of beet culture,
With spring lamb 80 cents apound at
retail in the large eastern cities it looks
as though there ought to be a profit in
sheep raising for somebody.
Young pigs are more lively at "hog-
ging rye" than the old swine are. Rye
sown upon billy land needs never to be
harvested, So soon as it ripens turn the
hogs in on it.; Many grains will rattle
out, fall to the ground and sprout, mak-
ing a green forage for the young pigs
before the old ones are done with the
ripened rye. This "rye hogging" will
hist, if properly managed, till time to
begin feeding green corn. Feed the
swine their usual slops regularly while
they are on the rye. A slop of mid-
dlings and bran is excellent. It is a
good plan to sow glover in among the
rye early in the spring. The ryefieid
will likewise make excellent pasture
for the hogs through the fall and win-
ter, when the. weather is, suitable to
kuru them out.