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The Brussels Post, 1894-11-30, Page 7OVRMDER 9Q, 1994 PRACTICAL FARMING, Hanging a Stable POOP, In windy climates some other way of hanging the stable door than ewiligfng Om ]tinges is greatly desired. A device to do this is shown in this engraving end can be nttado from the following description. For a. doorway snake a batten door in the usual manner, weigh it, and procure two square sash weights that together will jut balance the door, or make the door to balance the SECURELX HIM— STAEL.t DOOR. Weights. Purchase about eight yards of sash cord and two large mash pulleys. Placo ip position a frame made of two by eight inoh'plank having the pulleys near the top, and fib the door so that it will slideup and •down without wearing the cord. Fasten the sash cords to the bottom of the door near the batten. On each side of the door fasten to the frame strips of inch square pieces to bold the door in 'position. The weights may slide up and down on the sides of the frame, which may projectout far. .enough for the purpose or be boxed in to protect them and the cord from the weath• er, This method costa lees than She cern- mon overhead hangers, is vary'durable eau be used for eburs or shutter,. and any farmer who is handy with toolsole can easily put it into praotice. The. Disagreeable Cowey Odor in Milk. Professor C. D. Smith has been studying some phases of the milk question and is of the opinion that much of the talk which has interested many dairymen in years past, about the gases in fresh milk which give it the peculiar " cowey" odor (which. has been considered unavoidable) is 'ex- aggerated. He eases that by preventing milk from coming in contact with the air, by milking through rubber tubes lute clean air tight vans, milk will keep a consider- able' time and while the oharacteristic flavor and odor of milk are present, when opened, there is no objeotionable odor or cowey" smell. • The keeping qualties of the milk thus treated are as good as if not better than the remainder of the milk which had been thoroughly aired. All this goes to show, what the Farmer and Homes have fro. quently urged, that much of the troublewith milk, wnioh has been attributed to feed and other causes, is really contamination which the milk hue received in the stable after it was drown from the cow. Too much stress cannot be placed on the importance of pure air, at milking time especially. It has been known by dairy students for some time that all kinds of fermentation and dotty are due to the minute bacteria float - mg lntie air almost everywhere, and it is alto known that the air in the stablesand dairy rooms is laden with many of these organisms. A foreign investigator found more bare teria in the air in the barn than in the air of a schoolroom stirred up by the children leaving the room. Avoid raising a dust just before milking. The air ot a barn. may bestirred up so much and so much dust raised by the feeding of bay to cattle just before inilking that the milk will be. come seriously contaminated by bacteria. It is best not to feed until after the cows have been milked and the milk removed from the barn, • One of the diffiodit things for the teacher of dairy science to meet is the fact that so much depends upon such a simple and homely affair as cleanliness and pure air. There are many farmers who will go to a dairy meeting .Or an institute .t0 receive information on methods of feeding, the .chemical composition of feeding stuffs, nutritive redone, etc., but who feel provoked if the speaker deals in such a commonplace and petty of air as cleanliness. Yet it is something which needs to be con- tinually enforced and about which too muoh cannot be said. We have read an interesting article with- in a few days by one of the best dairy authorities in the warld,in which a chapter a was devoted to the cleanliness: of clothes on the part of persons milking cows, and recommended that in order tO secure the highest possible dairy product rho men ebould have. overallsand jumpers mad° of ;fl ; some washable fabric winch oould be kept fl ,r clean, and that they should put these on wheuever they are milking. Dust:dropping from unclaimed udders is a fruitful cause of short lived milk. There would be less sour milk returned by the city contractors :l if taken werenth more painso o farm. p�. The Milking Stool. Overhaul the cow stable and put in com- plete order for the winter feeding. Enlarge the feed bin if necessary, so that it will hold a big pile of meal. By buying ground feed at ton mime a 1 saving wilt be made. And by having feed on hand in ton lots the cows will be surer to be well fed. When feed is bought a email,quantity at a time, the natural result is that it is ex - peeled to x.peeledto last just soalong and very often the oows are scrimped so as to make the feed "hold out." We don't want the feed "hold out" but "held in" good sows. The best way to regulate the consump• tion of feed is to feed the cows' all they re- quiro,to do full work, and before the feed bin is near empty, fill it up. Feeding oowe is like. manuring land, bout require' just so much to show best • results ; if a little more feed or manure is given, the lose:is lees than if a little less is given. Frothy nights °all for little meal in the manger and a lot of straw on the floor. De you know which are your best Sows f Ifiyou do they aro the ones, from whtah to get the calves to improve the herd.' Have you a feed cutter? When forage is scarce the cutter will enable you to epono• mice in feed. A feed nutter is useful even when forage is plentiful and cheap; sub food will help to. snake a variety in feeding, If the meal be sprinkled on ant hay it will prevent the oowe from eating the meal too rapidly,, Corns and nodi groundlogothsr will snake a gond butter ration if fed With clover hay, expensive bran need not be purchased. Try some linseed moat with the fodder and corn meal. Linseed meal le s healthful food; it keeps the cow's system in order. Butte' is gradually advauoing in prloe, The beet butter rarely falls below the cost of production, From the cow bo the consumer should be the aim. And the time • that elapses from the cow to the eenemner should not be long. And the man who own the sow should be the ono who deals with the ono who oats the butter. In trading for butter the storekeeper gives an average price for all he takes ; if your butter is gond it eufibrs in price on account of the bad butter ho is compelled to receive. I3y hunting up customers you may get from five to ten cents a pound more than you get in trade... Then you can bay your groceries ohaaper for Paoli and make a double saving. , If you get five cents more for your butter from private easterners than you can in trade, you gain three cents on the. price of butter and ,probably four or five Dents more by buying your groceries for cash. WISE' INDIAN ELEPHANTS: Au Incldont 'or the Great Intelligence of These animals, One day, ,says a writer of English mili- tary experience, a heavy gun steak in the muddy bottom of a stream, and the tandem elephant was unhooked to shove behind, or lift the muzzle of the gun with his trunk. But he would not ; he only bellowed and swayed uneasily, shifting from ono foot to the other in the sticky mud. At last,with piteous,; shrill trumpeting, he touched the zitarppointoftheironrigitt on the muz "fie. says he Is afraid of hurting. himeelf, .sahib," explained the mahout.: "Well,". answered the officer in jest, "tell h m. to spoke the Wheel." "Promise him backsheesh, and hewill." "Very well." The elephant narefully found a scourer footing, curled his trunk round a lower spoke, and made the wheel revolve • then the 'shaft elephant put in his ponderous weight and the gun slowly rose out of the mud and rolled Isp the opposite banir. The triumphant mahout demanded book. slneesh for his Hooshiar Hetti (wise ele- phant).' "You scamp 1 You want tate backsheesh for yourself." "No, sahib, I dare not cheat him,' and if you don't give him backsheesh he will. remember you are no gentleman aud will never work for you again." "All right," said the officer, tossing the man a -couple of rupees in succession. "How shall .1 know you don't cheat him?" "Come and see him fed thie evening,. sahib." That evening by moonlight theofficer was summoned to see Hooshiar Hattneat hie supper. ' The elephant was swaying to and fro, fanning himself with a branch, and round the fire stood huge ohupe ties—flat cakes of flour,bubterand sugar --purchased with the backsheesh for the Hooshiar's supper. The mahout took up one of these' cakes and offered it to the "wise one," who weighed it carefully in his trunk and then deposited it with a satisfied smack in. his mouth. "Now, sahib, this second chupattie is. light weight. See him Ind it out. The elephants are accustomed to a pertain ration weight, and when the Hooshiar took this cake by the edge an angry twinkle came into his wioked eye, and quick as lightning, he slapped the mahout in the, face with theleathery mass. "See sahib," cried the man in glee. "1 dare not cheat him!" And he got up and offered a larger chupattie. " Here, you foolish one 1 Did I ever cheat you ? This one is overweight." The elephant understood, and ate in forgiving tranquillity. China's Finances. The London News says that the finances of China are an excellent condition. That country " have not coutraoted the fatal agility of piling up foreign obligations." About 20 years ago China borrowed u England about 112,000,000 at 8 per cent., and paid it when due: In I804 57,500,000 was borrowed at 7 per Dant. and $19,950,000 at 0 per cent., and this loan has been gradually paid oWuntil only $3,500,000 is due, and will pro- ably be paid next year. These loans were contracted on a silver basis, and the fall in the value of that metal has practically doubled the rate of interest, but there has been no hint of repudiation nor delay in payments. A portion of the Ons - toms duties are by contrast set apart to pay theseloans, and none of this portion seems to have been devoted to outer pur- poses. The Ohinese'revenue is from import and' exports duties, tonnage and transit duties,theopium teas', land tax, and taxes ou rice, salt, and other products, besides a system of licenses. Very little is known of the amount of the revenue or expendi- tures of China. Its credit is so good,thinlcs the News, thatin spite of the war a loan for almost any desiredamount could be negotiated in Europe. , Signs of the Criminal By the personal examination of innumer- able criminals Prof. Lombroso identifies certain pbysioal peculiarities and anomolies which' he claims to be diagnostic of the born oriminal-the man who is by nature irre- claimable and who may be regarded from the start as hopelessly incorrigible. Of these the chief are ludo of symmetryof skull or face, certain peouliarittes of oars, hands and feet, scantiness or absence of beard, nervous eoutraotions of the face, prngnath rem, inequalities of the iris, twisting of the nose or absence of rho bridge, retreabiag foreheads, excessive length - of fade prominence of cheek bones, dark color of hair and eyes, while White hair and bald - nese are rare, He lays great stress, more over, on tatooing—a praotioe which he regards as exceedingly symptoinatio of criminal tendonoiee—anti frown these various external choraoteriebios it is olaini. ed that three types of oriminals may bo distfnguiehed,'the assassin, the violent and the thief. T E T3BttJ'S$EXaS MOW TOY OtiltDD HIM: The Novel Way In Wrilell n horse was Alitred ata [tad hilts*; He was a good horse, sound in wind and ,limb. IIie speed and appeeranca'tnade him valuable to Mr. ,Andrews, the proprietor of a livery stable, wino hod )#ought him at se remarkably low figure, He was shout seven years old, and gave promise of long sorvioe• Only one thing sttbtraeted from his value and detraoted from his reputation, Ile refused to be hitched to a post or foe. toned by a halter. Nothing would• keep• trim in a stall but a bal'rlcade of rope or bare placed behind itim, When harnessed to a wagon it woe unsafe to1eave him unless hitched, for he was fond of a stroll. Yet if tied to a tree, or a stout post, he would undertake to break the rope, or hie nook,, by the most violent pulling, rearing and plumping, Mr. Andrews resolved that this equine madness should be cured, and. the village wiseacres set their wits at work upon the problem. One morning in July the proprietor of the stabie, with the butoher, the blaoksmith and the roan horse, appeared on the bank of the canal where the road was wide, the turf soft, andthe slope toward the water gentle. The blacksmith was armed with an iron crowbar, and rho :butcher with his lonest sharpest knife. fe. Mr. , .Andrews led the horse by a half-inch rope. All the idle men and boys about the mainerr net -burr rigid to the scene, The bar was driven deep into the soil, about fifteen feetfrom the canal ; the.. the horse was hied fast to the bar by the sten der rope, his head toward the village and, his tail toward the bank. The roan stood for a few moments with his ears forward manlfestrng a horse's our- iosiby in whatwas going on. The betcher flourished the knife before his eyes, and he started bankand felt the tug of the; rope on hie neck, Then all his equine ire was aroused, and he: settled bank with a fierce jerk. The rope bore the strain`until the butoher. suddenly drew the keen edge of his knife morose the tightened strands, when instant. ly the roan turned a back somersault,land- iug on his head in the canal. He was carefully and tenderly fished out, and to this day Dan be bitched by a string to a perambulator, wheelbarrow or umbrel- la. He is cured. LITTLE TOM KEEP. now a Plucky Little Drummer ;toy Sery ed ills Country In the Crimen. A little more than a year ago an old sol- dier, named Thomas Keep, died suddenly in Battersea, England. After the inquest was held, the following story concerning him was told : He was the son of the bandmaster of a regiment of Grenadier Guards,and titillated as a drummer at the age of ten, A few months later his regiment was ordered to the Crimea. Tom was a plucky little fellow,and loved England and hated B,ussia fiercely,' as was natural under the circumstances. Every night when he lay down to sleep, and every morning when he woke, be hoped that the chance would come to him to help his conn-. try in some efficient way. The battle of Balakiava was fought. He was in the midst of it, but was unharmed. There seemed to be nothing for Tom to do. Nobody listened to his drum, and he bad neither gun nor sword with which to fight. On the fifth of November the sleeping English camp was awakened by the fire of ninety parks of artillery placed during the night oa heights around them. All day the terrible battle raged. At evening the dead and wounded lay—fifteen hundred of them—on the plateau, while shot and shell still poured down on them, and the merciless oold ot a Russian night silenced the cries of agony on their lifts. Suddenly a stout boy, conspicuous in his red uniform, began to move among them, while shells and bullets whizzed past him unnoticed. He gathered wood and built a huge fire. Then he made a great pot of tea, and in a tin cup carried it to the wounded, freezing men, kneeling by each one, :lifting his head gently, and putting the mug to his lips with a cheery, "Try a hot drink." It was, little Tom Keep. Many, a wounded soldier owed his life that night to the bay's enurege and practi- cal sense. Re was dubbed in the regiment, the boy hero of the Grenadiers. But throughout his life Tom angrilyrefused the title and the credit. "I wanted to do something for Old England," he would say. "But all lcould do was to give a oup of hot tea. What was that?" Many good men and more good women are in Tom Keep's ease. They . are ambi- tions to play a prominently noble part in life, and fate decrees that they shall stand in the background, and only give a little help to the soldiers who do the fighting, The man who mixes the mortar in the building of a great house may bo despised by toaster masons and decorators, whose work is seen and applauded by the world ; but the architect who gave him his work knows that without It the temple would not pe reared, His reward will bo sure, when the day of payment comae. The Royal Read. Great Sciontist—" What' troubles yon?" Wife— When you announced your new euro for everything, all the 'world sang your prelims; but efnee the people have tried 11, your name hns'completely disap. peared from the newspapers, magazines, and even the medical journals. " Don't Worry about.: that. 111 soon an• nonnc0 another now aura for them to try." Hearing aPiPin Drop. The fttensity of ognfined sound is Mute :rated at Carisbrooke Castle,Isle of Wight, where there is a well 200 feet deep and 12 feet in diameter, lined with smooth mason•. ry,. When a pin is dropped into, it, the sound of it atriking'the striae° of the water, 792 feet below, man be distinctly heard. CANAAIAN LOYALTY, Ulcer le ►nave the Eityal tri' lethals Mgt* ,vent erlitrantry al the 8ervleeoi'lllu litriltah Uovertiment.. 81r gharlee Tapper, Canadian High Com- missioner, who is at present In Soobland, in addressing a meeting a few days ago, said Ahab when anxiety was occasioned recently by the hurried assembly of the British Cabi- net Council in London to oonsider oho alarm- ing condition of affairs in the Easb,bhe Cana- dian Cabinet was also assembled, and authorized Chief Justine Sir Samuel Henry Strong, eobing•Goveruor-Oenerad, to send a cablegram to Lord Ripon, Secretary of State to the Oolonles, stating that the Dominion of Canada wan prepared to pub the ;loyal Canadian Regiment of Infantry at the service of the British Government, and maintain that force in the nommen interest of the Empire. This statement of Sir Char• les' evoker rho warmest applause. A CANNIBAL FEAST, Savages' or itussell. Island Attnelt a Prenelt Trod Ina Station and Murder the People.. A doepatch from Victoria, B.O., nays:- The steamer Miowera, from the south seas, brings word that the savages of Emelt island, lying off' the New Guinea coasts, attacked a French trading ,statien late in October and killed everyone on theplace including the trader, cannibalism being practised upon the victims. 'Enquiries are being made by the euthoaties,,wtth a view to the apprehension and puniehmenb of the ringleaders in the horrible affair. Rossell island is notorious for having been the scene of the massacre and human feeat of a whole shipwr"eked crew of Chinese several years ago. THE KURDISH MASSACRE. Terrible Butchery Perpetrated Nen llooeh, In Tarnish Armenia. A n despatch frown is p r 1 Sophia, Bulgaria, says: —An investigation into the report received by The London Daily News, of London, from Constantinople, on November 12, saying that 3,000'Armenians, including women and children, had been massacred in the Saosoun region, near Mooeb, Turkish Ar- menia, during a recent attack by Kurds, is seemingly confirmed bya storywhich has reached Varna, -Bulgaria. According to this story, a force of Bashi Bazouke raided a number' of Armenian villages and they are reported to have killed sad. wounded 6,000 persona. Caught Trying to Murder a, Wonsan. A despatch from Denver,0o1., says:—H. Moller, au Italian, entered the ;louse of Marie Veutress, at 2,:330 Twentieth street, near Market, early on Monday morning. Without the least warning,he seized her by the throat, and pressed his thumbs tightly upon her windpipe, She imagined the man engaged in choking her was the one who had strangled Lena Tupper, Marie Contassit and Kiku Oyani. He is not a man of groat physical strength, and she managed to release herself. She screamed for ltelp,and when an officer arrived Moller was trying to cut her throat with a rater. The pollee do not think that the man is the Murderer of the other women. A Victim of Many Accidents. A despatch from Toronto says:-13en- jamin Bowman, a young man employed by George Mashintsr, butcher, at 228 Bathurst street, aeoidently shot himself in the groin while handling a small air•gun Saturday afternoon. He was removed to the General hospital, where it was found that about 70 grains of birdshot from the weapon had penetrated his body. Bowman's parents live in Barrie, He has beenin the hospital twice as thsresultof injuries from runaway horses, and once through having been bit• ten by a horse he was looking after. Inereass to Millions In a Day. Many apeodes of baoteria are capable of doubling their number every hour. In shwa ease, in the short space of twenty-four hoors, a single bacterium would increase to anumber but little altort of 17,000,000, to lie exact, in forty-eight hours the offspring of this minute germ, which is not more than 1.15,000 of an inch in length have increased to the surprising number of 981,500,000,- 000, their bulk being sufficient to fill a pint measure. J le ..n t1 i stis s„ •ti �,•'..yam_, ... 0•;F,nit,,, ;dc, -o'a'f' *ir. J. in »yketanot St. George, New Brunswick. After the Grip No Strength, No Ambition Hood's Sarsaparilla Dave Perfect Health. :Che following letter is from a well-known merchant tailor of St. George, N. 5,: .12, L Hoot) Sr Co., Lowell Mass,: .Gentlemen.—.1 am glad to saythatHood's SArsaparillautak Hood's Pills have done me a great deal of good.' I hada severe attack of the grip ini.the whiter,and aftergetting, over the fever I did not seem to gather strength, and had no ambition. 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Wherever tneMormona live you will find small, well -tilled farms.. Brigham Young was one of the wisest as well as one of the greatest men of this century. No one ran visit Utah intelligently without °observing proofs of his great wisdom and farsighted• noes, which have lapped over pito Idaho and Colorado. He preached the gospel of'irriga- tion, small Swine and diversified farming as the most profitable, and people have long realized the value of his words. The day0f bonanza farmingis closing, The people of the North-West have discovered to their sorrow tile folly of tarrying all their eggs in ono basket. Thereat bonianza'farmer , with 10,000 acres in wheat wheat is Ancient Mariner of agriculture, Wheat at20 dents a bushel, with flour at ;'112,40 a barrel; is worthless to him even when it harvestW thirty bushels to the acre. It costs morel than that to raise 1t. He Founded the Japanese Navy. The founder of the Japanese navy wits an Englishman named Will Adams,who went to the eastern seas as a pilot of a Dutch fleet in 1503, and was oast wtway ln. Japan a couple e f ye are 1 p Y aher. He became aa Ja , noble and constructer of the navy to the tycoon, but was never ,allowed to return to Enulaud. He died about twenty yearn afterwards, very ingeuionsly leaving half Of his properly to his wife' and faintly fu Itugland and the other half to his wife and family in Japan. After ;tie death he was deified. A few years ago his tomb anti that of his Japanese wife was discovered.