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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1916-07-27, Page 3.1rort. • itor Talks • isieeerseesess; ,Candiae ere nwre and more be- eoreing recegnized as the equal of their eWn eitizena ley Our friends in Tho republie to the, eauth a Ake and the more the people a the twe nations Inhattle alad fraterldZ9 the lefaiii will be the prejudice between„148, Most of us had 11, common origin and Altho taw laabits and customs differ in Sento re- epeete, as do eur arebitiene and moral tendencies, there is at heart and Itlindamentsliri 'as citizens, not So ,Mtreli real differeace in evidence when we come to,linow each other well. We Were particularly pjeasecl, there, fore, to learn •that our old friend and fellow -teacher of the seventies now •six hundred and sixty.three aeree aro luxuriant with this green-rinuned red. • hearted.treasure, beside Wittelt the :ap- pe a Edo mouta be no temptation, at All. AO n indetetrY, Geergia Melon growiag is among the cemparativelY new And Meet profitable lines nf. ag. rieultare. liendretle of thoureands dollers are roAliagd everv Year on a, field that once was cultiVated almost •entirely for home WM. This develop.. meat, which is parallel to that of peach And apple orchards and pecan grovaa, allows the Poeeibilitiee gf the so-called minor crops, By prodncing • variety ef things for which there is an assured 'demand and producing them the /Ignorable William. Berwick Pb On a well -considered scheclul\e •so that eU,.4UStice. Of'. the $upreme.' Cont f.'ahnosti.every• season of Om; yearWill or Ontario, 'had accepted the .invitatiere of the eutheeities. Of Tele Untveretty tO deliver the Dodge lectures on the " Respeneibilities. of pitisenehip " the cemiug 'college year. This. lecture,. 'Ship has been held, by...the most pro- • Ininent • Americans,' including ,such distinguished .citieens.•ae. ex-Pre:4(1014. W.. H. Taft; Plibu:,.Root, Charles P. ' Hughes; etc"' !nit no one not MI Mneri- eaaeiti:Aen has .heretofore been eelece- ed: as . lecturer exeept Viscount Eryee ,.Whenhe was ambassador at Washing- ton, We are sure that Canadians of . all classes Will aPpreciate.most highly ' the donapliment to our -eminent .Re is .brother4ealaw to the late Dr. . 0. C. James, .C.X.Qa Dorninioa Com-• . misaionei of Agriculture, and a native • of...the County. of. Noethuinbeeland. * .*•*•*• Our older readers will remember how our grandmothers and mothers • *yen were strong believers in the use of medieinal herbs for all kinds. of human ,ftilments---one or more plants for every separate ill. Doctors then ,as now 'scouted the remedial values and caned them simples" for two reasons -because the persons •aidio used them were the simple-minded people and the remedy, if such, they deigned to characterize was. simple, too. English ,gardens even now con- tain ,more or less of these olthfaShion- • • ed medicinal herbs. • To us who were • familiar with them the old-time frag- rance is almost discernible in the very recital of the names of the aromatic plants. The fact that nearly all the • common household medicines were de- riv'ed from plants of pleasant odors 'leads to a wonder as to whether their • "supposed Virtues were discovered be- • fore they were brought into domestic • cultivation or afterwards. We believe that nature' does Provide a remedy for •the most of our physical ailments if we only Itnew which and When to use. have 'its money erop,farmers veal wax -continually more • prospermrs and in- dependent, The, natural resources Are so matifold 'diet this can be donee It requires only foresight and ,energy to turn the unnumbered opportunities to account. Canadian farmersmight take a nseful hint from the fotegoing, •* • * It is:a great mystery to the Col. lingweed Bulletin why more farmers do 11Qt attend Meetings for agricut. turaliits • in larger numbers: "The trOuble lies, at the- door of the 'farmers thernselvee. There is not an organi- eation of- anykind that can be kept egressive and useful .unless .those within its membership can be induced to be active and eriereetic,'and by Ode it must not be taken that it is held that the older men should be crowded aside. ,Youth and enthusiastn some- times, indeed very often, •requires to be tempered, and muchcan be done in this direction by the" advice and ex- perience ef those who have served their day with the axe, the fork and the plow in.bhilding up rural Ontario." While the Bulletin may be half right, or more, in our •opinion the chief .reason for non-attendance at farmers' meetings is the lack of education' in country districts. : Those who. attend farrnereInstitutes may have observed, as we have, that the intelligent farm- ers are usually Present, but those who need instruction in agriculture most are absent The fault lies with our inadequate public school system, which halaced the rural schools under the Control of young girls and farm boys will not go, to school to such teachers after they attain to the ,age when they Can get the most benefit under proper teachers. : * * * * . Some woeful failures' have come to city people who think it is the com- mon lot of farmers to get rich quick. The high prices they` are compelled to pay for all kinds of farin preduce. Physicians of long' ago used herbs helps them in the belief they so often iii their practice but they did not let cherish /that leads them on 'the rocks the people kneVrof what the medicine when they follow their desires to go was coniposed. We are; not sure but ifarming, The Department of Agri - that the Mediehml qualities of some , culture,- we are told, receives letters , plants, barks, etc., are Still recognised ;regularly from would-be farmers who, • by .present-day physicians. People de on superficial knowledge, or beeause not•longer, in this country at least, go of the glowing stories of land sharks, • to their • gardens or the woods for ' get the false idea of wealth made pri . them, but to 'druggists, who :obtain !the farm. Some of them appear to • them from far-off lands -India, China; [believe that the reason all the farmers • Turkey,' where they are grown like , are not rich is because of extravag. tea for commercial purposes. In the ; ance, • wastefulness, ignorance, and a United States these herbs have alsoleek of bueinessability. , To these let- • gone out of fashion as a feature of the ' ters the Department's specialists reply, smell garden. Where now does one rnueli as follows: • ;find camomile, dill, caraway, thyne, " As,a matter of fact, fairriers as a •-rosemary, horehcdinct, fennel, southern % Class are intelligent, industrious and •• wood " old Man " and their like ? An[ eConomical, • and many of them are ' English paper includes pennyroyal in !men of getictbusiness judgment. Fer- • tile list, but this grows so freely in then those who have made a thorough ; wild places in this country that it has study of the 1th:sines's side of farthing never been made a garden Pleat. The i know that it is not an easy matter to • same is true of Peppermint, except in 'make money on the farm. Only the • market gardens. Whether or not it is I most practical and experieneecrform, worth while, as in old time; to grow ers are making considerable profit out theeeherbs-for their use as "simples "lof their business; Much of the money . is not certain,•though the high prices.; that has been. made on the farm in •"of drugs- owing' to the wet indicates recent Jeare has been made, not by. s In the nature of things • that it might be desirable True they 'farming, but by the rise of price on have a charea for many persons hardly farm lend less than plants grown for beauty a- this rise cannot continue indefinitely,' •:lone, and their cultivation is not with.. and some one will own this land when • �t • interest on purely aesthetic the price becomes practically station - grounds. As a spring tonic we doubt if the root of gentian, so commen'in our boyhood, has marry.. superiors as a ' It is,a good plan .for those who get • .spring medicine. Herbs, roots and the itching for .farm life - to go out ameks still have their uses, but few with- farmera and, engage in farm worli people now seem to go to the trouble for a season -there are always open - of preparing them for medieinal pur-, ings to • then willing to work -end • poses. whatever lads of time or money such ;* *• * . course involves the first loss' will be Doctors could do a great deal if they ,the best, in most cases at least. We • would to prevent people from vim- do not deny but that thereaare exe • traeting disease and sickness, but thatdons, but while if is true that °ems - would militate against the pecuniary ionally-a city bred family.makes good interests:of their profession and fe*, On the farm, this is the exteptien and men are so generous and philanthropic not the rple. • It is always 'a risk to • that they -will kill the geese that lay. invest in it busthess viithout• first mak- the-golden egg. • They will tell you, if ing, a thorough study' of that business. you ,were to suggest such a 'hiamani, Many city people who have saved ,up • tarian benevolence, that the bane of a few hundred dollars and who have their prefession now and alWay has, had little or no farm experience, but ary, or perhaps starts to decline. •* * * * • '•0!'. been t • t " f la who 'are imbued with- a rosy visien of the joys and profits of farming, buy poor land at high prices and thereby lose the savings they have been years in accumulating. One city family, paid $10,000 cash and assumed a $12,000 mortgage on a farm worth only about. $11;000. Another pdid $2,000 cash and -signed niortgege ler $6,000. on'sa aarm• that was lateappraised at $8,0b0. A. city family that had paved $2,000 used this money to make &first. payment r on eleap farm lad, • and when their eyes were • opened found they still owed cohsiderebly more than the farm wag worth.. For seven years they have worked almost night .and day to meet the n'Tterestovithout be- ing able to reduce the principal: These instances could be multiplied al- most indefinitely. 4, * 4,• A little ptactical advice from an experience,d man who lilts no :land to sell should be sought. Any such man would Advise dee city man that in purehasing a farm great care should be taken to,get'a good -farm at a fair price. To pay or agree to pay more that the farm is worth Vs to invite failure. Prom a business 'standpoint no farm that does not pay hiterest on the total biyeetment, depreciation on equipment, eind wages for gill labor' perfortited on that farm, is succeasfule "Even when great care is 'taken in making the investment only in 'exeep. dotal cases should the city bred fain. fly attempt $arnaing. Generally the beet advice that et,th be given to the City bred man who &Arai to become a tatter is what we havereconimend. ad/ namely, that before plirchitsing a directions," • and if they won't do it.1 when sick they are not very likelY;to' • *do better when viten, and less aparett need for special care or action. We • notice that some action has been taken alopg preveritative lines. A news des- • patch in the papers recently stated • Californiaa • la going to terithapeople • how to keelivsell. The deepatch says: Doctors cure the sick. The Univereity _of Califernik_ wants wpinen to keen' folks well, To this end it is offering a course in its present Summer se's- • sion ofspecial value to women who want to make this their business in • _lifa„ The course will_shovagirls hoN • to become viaiting nurses in schools, k ha* to be neighborhood • Visitors, ' teaching mothers the care of babies. I • It has a special contribution for the • soelel service workers. who follow up • hospital cases and ailing families to remove the ceuses of illness,and for the girl svho wants to become a physi- •cal •educator. When one sees the variety of fruit in the groceries and fruit stores in June, and especially the big luscious watermelon, he wonders how they get • here So early said where they grew• . On iaquiry we find that the melons We get in this 'part of the Proviride .in •early summer come from the Southern • States, being shipped in Fargo quanti- • ties -ear -load lots -.to Totento and , Montreal and than sent out in stager tonsignments to retailers hi ernaller plates. • • • Georgia holds the lefty dietiotiOn raldng Mere waternielons than Wit [0110 State. !ti.,#611,t7-posttu thestek4 rr S.5 A 14.1NatAl SENTRY. FLANOEsts... • •• - ° • • An .efficial photograph' showing a l'$ritierilseefinel on duty .in Plande,r81, eilhouetted a,gains.t-the shy, , farm he worleas a farm ham( for two or three 'years. Thia will give him an opportunity to learn, at first hand many things about the business, as well as the practical side, of farming. In no other way, as a rule, can be get geed farm training and experience' at less trouble and expense or with- • out danger from financial disaster. * ,* # What teed service te' the average man in hia life work is. Algebra ? asks a practical business man. We give it up, like the other donkey did," as the old joke ran. Many hours we spent in our' school days on the subject, and we • liked it well, •too. Teachtng the boys and girls how to do quadratic equasions was also to us very interesting. • But in a business career of four decades we have never once had occasion to resort to an al- •gebraic 'solution of our many pro- blems. Still the examiners who set the •papers. for Normal Entrance exams. this year ,must consider Alge- bra a very • valuable subject. The paper was no -credit to any teacher owing to its too great length if for no other reason. There were twelve questions, containing in all nineteen parts, which is equivalent to nineteen separate problems: • As' the time al- lowed for the -paper was 214 hours, the average time for each problem was less than eight minute. • Only a very • exeeptional • candidate •could finish within the limit, aud, even then mould have no time for revision, or checking over his or. her work. *- * *• * A Montreal friend Sent us this ar-, • ticle, which is full of wisdom' and exl, cellent practical thoughts. We have no use for persons Who are forever placing a • discount on themselves. Everyone should set a high° value on their ability 'and then e strive. and strain every nerve to measure up to the Standard set. This is the article: " Make your • personality count. 1Vrake--- if stand far something. Then don't be afraid to adverdse "it There are meny legitimate and honorable ways of advertising yourself. Try to steed that in your community, riot in a freakish way, but in being a big, generous, capable man. Be a man 92 principle, of ideas,. of push, hustle, in- telligence and initiative. To be known and liked by a large number of people will help your business . ifinneasur- ably. Mixing is an art in which tht business builder should •fid'an; adept. To extend your, aequaiptence- is to ex- • tend your business." " • Take att. interest in your community -identify yourself • with its general affairs social, educational, religious, municiPal, induatrial, and in all young people's -enterprises. Be .pubiic spirit- ed and generous • according. to your means in helping every good work.- Give some • of your time te philan- tropic Work: .Show in -ail practical Ways that you are really interested in your town or, Community. Be- an active an p ct., . Shoulder your full share of the re- sponsibilities of your sphere of activi- ty. Be a full citizen in all that the term implies and encourage others to 1 eo.operate with you in every good work for the common good. • • . • • MATTER ANNIHILATED. \ By Chas. M. Bice, Denver,' Colo. According to he new physics, mat- I ter, .as we know it, disappears. • We know of nothing so empty -so near a vacuum, as matter in the new concep- tion of it, fol it is -only. a bole in the ether. . - Sir °Wet, Lodge says an aternacon- siets of a globular matsof positive ' electricity with very minute negative electrons embedded in it. The electrons are 100,000 tinies smaller than atoms, yet have a corrugated surface. Whr.t a •flight of the scientific imagination such a. conception irtmelves ! one has ever seen ea atom, nor eyen a molecule. The „power of human vision wottld have to be hicreased 'over a million ' fold to be able to see a moleeule, to say nothing' of peeing an atom or an. electron, And yet science is able to handle the electron, and determine its. action an4ropertiee. ••What an underworld of mystery and power it all is I In 15.1 eleinbers all the might and power flat reiads the eatth and shakes, the heavens. Ift imagination, we can see the invisible aqd ornnipOtent electrons emanating front the atoms in aurnbers Woad the power of mrthernatics to compute, summoned by some Mysterious cm. minder, and hurled in tient johalauxee across the battlefield of the storm. It is in this interior world of mole. etilar activity that the many tran5. forniations of energy • take place. Here is the hiding place d the light; eing, of. the'-eleattOne which moulded • together 'make the tlander storm. 8* we live, in a 'world of collisions, 'and hurling misfiles of 'which 011iv settees give as no evidence, and- it is well they do not 'There is tremendous activity in the air we 'breathe, in the water we drinlc, in the food We eat, and in the soil upon which we tread; which, if our senses could only take it all in, would doubtless drive'es Mad. The electrons give inertia to mat-. ter as well 'as force- and. cohension. .They' are what makes water a liquid, and the diamond the hardest of known substances. The 'flow of this energy frem its atomic' sources we realize as heat, and it is that whicb suffices to keep life going on this planet. It is from this energy We have 'stored tip in the -geologic ages our coal, oil and natural gas, and we see it to -day in the winds, tides, waterfalls and in electricity. • • ' • The electric constitution of matter compels us to revise our physics, and to a large extent abolish our ideas a matter. Thebeta 'rays from radium 'will penetrate solid iron a foot in thickness, • compelling' • us to reclass opaque bodies. We can confine ahd,control the odors emanating from organic bodies, but we cannot control the rays of radio- active matter. We can separate the three kinds of rays -the' alpha, the beta, and the gamma; by magnetic devices, but they cannot•be corked up or isolated. And we now know that, these rays are emanating continuously all about tia, though they cannot be seen. • -It is hardly an exaggeration to say that in this conception we are brought into contact with a kind of transcen- dental physics. A new world is pre- sented, where the laws and accidents of ponderable bodies do not apply Or exist. Gross platter disappears, and in. its placewe have matter demater- ialized, and,a,s it were escaping. , We see a world where perpetual without making enemies or losing motion is no longer impossible, -where friends- is suffitieht testimonial V) his 'apparently two , bodies c•ceilpy the tapt, and it must he due largely to same spaceatthe same: time. We are -this ;aialitY • that he -With Lord COMING G. tER OF 3 MIKE 010 DEVONSHIRE W044 DE :rartoun. 4****4 • 00 Hao Been One of the Busiest Nen • in'the United KingdoM ?'or Years. • In the opinion. of 1 Ex-Atta.claelf whose ackaamtance with public men,in • the 014 Country is ofleeV ettaMlilari • and who contributes( artielee on Euro, • Pean affairs to the Pittelearg Dispatch Canada is to be congratulated upon the fact that the Dulte of Devonshire .10 to beher' next OdiVern0r^•Gglierair • 41 EakAttaOhe" says that CanadiauS *Of find in the Duke of Devoashire one of the latest approaChable •an geniat viceroys who was ever sent to ,Ottawa. It is admitted that it will'he no easy task to succeed so heartily - •liked a Governor-General as the Puke of Connaughtewho has endeared him- self to the people of this -country ; but if anyone ceuld succeed in the task • it is likely to be the Duke of. Devon- • shire, whose great position, has been so long established that he has never felt the tlightest need of asserting it in word or 1 -Jeering. • .. A Strong Sense of Dutyq ‘Only sastrong sense of ,ditty could induce the Duke of Devenshire to ac- cept the position of Governor-Generial of Canada, for he ,has nothing left in the way of elevation of rank to which he might aspire; and highly though the people of Ottawa may esteem the privilege of living in that city, it is not something that might fittingly crown the ambitionof the Duke of ,Devonshire. His acceptance of 'the gp.,1Ost means that he will have to break 6r hie racing stable, close Devonshire Hou in Piccadilly and the famous Chats orbh mansion in Derbyshire, as well s Lisrhore Castle iii Waterford, to both of which Country residences he and the,Duchess aresaid; to be deeply attached. Moreover, his active busi- ness career will have to be abandoned or at least interrupted for some years, and he has been one . of the busiest •men, in the kingdom, He manages half a dozen greateVtates, and owns almost the whele ' of the prosperous seaside tovrn of -Eastbourne, of which he hap, been repeatedly elected Mayor. He is also laird -Lieutenant of. Derby- shire Chancellor of the University of Leeds, chairman of a great shilibuild, irg company, and of several industrial and mining concern's, at well as being, a M.F.II. and active president of at least a dozen charitable and philan- thropic concerns: A Tactful Duke. 1• One of the distinguishing character- isticof the Duke -ofDevonshire is his tact, which was do severely tested ayhen, he acted as Financial Secretary of the Treasury, in which capacity he I was ' ex-offiCie the distributor of the Government patronage, endChief whip of the party. His -Was' he, de1i2 ! eate dety. of , selecting the r cipienta of peerages, banineteies,• knighthoods; and other, honors on the: first of the year Ood on the Kirig's..birthday. That lie was able to discharge these duties introduced to a world where the 4th. dimension is Possible: . • In the physics we studied- at s'Aieol friction turns kinetic energyinto ion, energy and heat, which quickly disappear ; but When we reach the interior wiirld of the electron now, we behold 'perpetual motion aesthe rule; for we have reached the fountain-hedd of energy, and the motion of one body is not at the expense of the motion. of another body, but is -a • part of the spontaneous strugglin, jostling and vibration that go on,forever in all the matter of the universe. . The Brunonian movement of partic- les of matter is no length.: the last word, for they are visible by the aid of a high-power glass; • but in the new,,physics, the particles are infinite- ly smaller and their agitation a mil- lion times more intense. The atoms that compose the molecule are said to be dancing about and flying with in- credible speed in all directions, while th eieetrons inside the at�ins areVII More violently agitated and rapidly changing places. • • • Thus we meet the same staggering figures in the science of the infinitely little that we do in the infinately vast and great. While these electrons are hypothe- tical bodies which; • no . eye has ever seen, or can see, they build Up the solid frame of the universe. - • We here get a glintrie of the magic of chetnical combinations, and its won- derful law of affinity. • Certain bodies attract ,others with a fierce and an- rneasureable force, and when they unite the resultant compound is h new body totally unlike either 82 the con- stituent elements: • In feet both sub- stances have cliSappeureci and a new ope has taken their place. - Tlie cliaMe-cifehlorine gas and -ti mineral sodium into common salt, is a wohderful 'ovation. The 'atoms seeei to get 'tnside °Pone another and suffer a complete transformation • arid, yet,' we fife-Vert-ifili th-er-diniut;lfrerwe crier resurrect •the oxygen again, and; re - Stere the elements, but just how thee molecules unite /and are lost in one another, it is impossible to conceive. It is so fundamentally unlike a mech- anical mixture; that even our imagi- nation ean furnish no clue to Science tells us that the antinifesta= tions wo call light,* heat, magnetism and electricity, _all come from the activittes of the elactrone. The elect- ron is not a material, particle; and so. matter in its last analysis is de - Renee the step to the electric coestitution of matter ' 15 an easy one, and instead of matter we have disembodied onergY •• • Sir Oliver Lodge thinks this state of motter borders on, or is identical With, "what we dill the 'spiritual, affeeding a key to All the occult Phenomena of life _and mind, Chemical activity • is the fhea atop from the non4iving to the livihre, but the last step hat never been taken hi any earthly, laboratory, -• Derby, the 'closest persithal friend • of King:George. . Butft was in hisrela- dens with his lateuncle„ •the 'eighth Duke, that this characteristic • shone most brightly, and in especially trying circarnstanees. •. A Difficult Situation.. By the will of hie gran father, the seventh "Duice, Lord Victor Cavendish, as ;he was then, received all the pro- perty not entpiled, "f ; laces, and other valuable possessions; arid it was generally understood that the seventh Duke was strongly op. posed to leaving thorn to his OW11 son, because it was well known that he was to: marry the Duchess 'of Man- chester. To this brilliant woman the old Duke had taken a prejudice, and when after his death his sow and heir married her, as expected, relations be- tween him aad the • nephew might well have been strained. That. they remained the best of friends, and that the new Dilates§ of Devonshireleft to the wife of the present Duke instead of to any of her oivn dairghters her very finest diamonds •, are sufficient; evidence if theandlinees and.tact that hair° saved a situation, that must have been aWkward: Is Sure to Make. Friends ' It .has been "noted. that among the • several names • that had been men- • ticited as likely t� succeed the Duke •of Connarght, • that of the Duke of Devonshire was never head. • War conditiops made it. injudicious to ap- point She Dake of Teck, Queen Mary's brother, after he had been practically, decided UPore' • Lord ' Curzon was named ; and so were Lerd Lord Derby • and Lewis Harcourt. Brilliant puldic Men though they are, Lord Derby had _Inure important war ti;tteirtOl)erf Of at present -than ia 'possible for a Canadian. Governor- General, to discharge, and Lem' Cur- zen rind Lord Milner are probably better adapted for Imperial service he (AK& spheres. The office of, GetvLa nor-, General of Cada has been in the past • used to achieve fine strikes of states-, and history triay repeat it- self in this respect What the Duke cif Devonshire will make Of it remind , .81lo a Paying- Proposition, It is safe iv say that mom silos will be built iit-Cara0.419ri- year-tlim apy previous year. Om ell4e has proved to be superior to routs as a eueetelent feed for elairY cattle, and When it is realized that a b.m. of cepa can be grovrn for anywhere from thirty cents to one dollar more cheap - then a ten ef roots, it if,' ap- parent that i the man who keeps cattle and -has not got a silo le riot Malting the best of hie opportunities, says the Canadian Countryman. If growing corn instead ,of rooba et: fe4s a saving of half .4 dellar per ton When eighteen Or twenty acres is reserved for succulent feed each year (Wlaieh is hy no theane an excessive acreage),„by growing corn, over $15Q would, be saved in the. season's crop. This Is enough money to put up a " Althofagh for •aniatly years' silage, has been regmelied as one of the best succident, feeds for, dairy cattle, it, is only .conipara.tively recently that - it has receiseed proper recognition as a feed fer- fattening steers. Some ex- periments carried on in the States te- cently shOw that cattle that are. fed as, much as fifty. and- seventy-five pounds of silage per lair sold for almost* as much as those fattened chiefly on grain, while the cost Of making one hundred pounds gain was from $2 to $3 less. • We quote from Wallace's Farmer: "At the Missouri. Station, one lot ef steers which receilied an average daily ration of 37.6 pounds of silage; 4 poinkli ,Of alfalfa hey, and 5 pounds of oil meal sold for $9,65 per cwt., while another lot reeeived 'an average daily ration of •16.3 pounds of silage 3.9 pounds Of alfalfa hay and 15,3 pounds of shelled corn,. sold for $9.75 per cert. • In other' words; the steers getting nu corn, but a large amount of 'silage, together with oil, meal and ,alfalfa have .sold within 10 cents Of these getting 15 pounds of corn a day. These high sjlage steers allatally sold 5, cents higher per cwt. than two 48-oaylstvwrites. than another lob which received an average daily ration. of, 17.5 pouads of silage'2,3.7 pounds Of alfalfa hay, 15.6 Pounds of shelled „corn, and 2.6 pounds of cottonseed meal. It is interesting to note also that the steers receiving the larger amounts of silage did not shrink any more than those receiving the Smaller amounts. The dressing percentage eves almost but not quite so high in the cast of the low Silage steers. "The _Missouri „ekperinient, S 4 when taken in connection with Iowa and Pennsylvania. experiments; indicates Very strongly. that the beef cattle men have finally reached the point where they ar,e almost compelled to rely on large ainotnits of silage. , • For years, the Ettg,lishmen and Scotnien have fed their average f3tee'r 70,100, or even 120 pounds af foots, together with not more• than eight Or nine Pounds of grain. "Silage is 'a little moreboneentratel than theroota used. by Englishmen and -Scachmenbut it looks as though the cern felt -feeder -had at last heen riven to adopt the methods , 'of the 'feeders across . the water." These, Fall .Pigs. Were .Prefitabie. Fifty-seven fall pigs fed at.Univer- P.arrie, St. Paul, last winter' 'and marketed recently, left. a margin of 44.56 a. head to cover cost of labor, !risk, interest, .profit, ete. .• „ I 3s1 0., Ashby of the . animal hus- h ry division. at University Farm,. • beg a series of tests two years age \to determine Whether raising fall •pigs is profitable in Minnesota. • The margin of nearly five dollars h.. •head, is the result et* the teet. Eleven., sows farrowed fall litters for the tests, and the pigs Were wean- ed .December 16.. • .They were put on feeding tests two .days later. ' The records kept, cover an feeds .Consumed by, sows and litters froni farrowing to weaning and -from the time tb,e act- ual feeding teet was begun until it was finished. Ttotal cositi of feed for the. sows . and • pigs up to weaning time was $180 81 From we nhi • ti ,tiMe Marketing the feed eost $577-88, 'making a -total cost of $13.42 ahead. The feed was counted .at these prices: .Shellei cora, 75 cents a • bushel;. ground barley, ..65 ,cents • a bushel; short, $26 a ton; tankage, $55 st ton. • The pigs, averaged 191% pounds When .aeld May 6. They were sold at $9.65 in. South 50. Paid, a pride equi-• • valent to $9.40 at home The sell- pricenf $17.98 left a "balance of $4.56 each. • No account of arinure , is taken 15 theee figures. •' • The pigs were fed in five lots, three lots fromself feeders end two .lots fed by hand. Those in' the lots in which the self feeders were used. did • ,better ;than -those -in. --the -other-Ws- The' corn -fed lots required 06.4 seven• bushels of corn, forty pounds of tank- age, and from bhirty to forty potinds, .of shorts • for each, pig from weaning -time-to-the close of the 'test. The.pigs were fed frrain alone. They Were given no, milk and; did not have eccess to the cattle yards. Mr. Ash - b3 *nits that. her mulk is available. or When the pigs eito pick up •After cattle the margin will be corresnond- , • • to be seeta\rthat he will make no blunders end rriany friends his pre- vious career renders a • safe predie,.. flop.' •• EaVoritism. • "Oh, no," soliloquized Johnny/ bip terly; "there ain't tttly fait -ash in ehis family! • Oh aol If 1 bite MY Anger nails, I get a rap , "ster the' knuckhiss-litit, if the lisby Its •lila .whole foot they thitik itrt 1. e • Pretty Small.... Hewitt -a -What sort of it .aloW le • j• oewsov.e,tt.--"'We.l.i;:lie 1/..t r' hove to say to his constiensoi, you havel ' 'it if /0 rt. , or Usti eXhilitStion, tails is brougll about by over -exert tm and besuffiqc vat haat 'elnation. The dir rays of the Vie are not responsible fo this effectlen,-which very ofter_ oeeur to an animal on A eleluirp sulf41 4arr, Some of the tnoro ' Promluent.,ortql toms 04 heat stroke are Weariness,;, profuse bweati4g) difricla,bre414„Nrg an 'extremely bigia; temperatnre, and a. rapid pulse( Which 4'1'44101'ysrowa weaker and upon the aPProaiell death muscular tremors will he noted The .treatment for sun stroke and. heat etreke Are the same. Itenenve Old animal to a cool, (OA, well venti1ate place And Verna 49. strear4 of eht' water to flow oyer the horse `arid/ possible, apply ice packet,* the heed: If ice IS plentiful apply it all over. body: --8. O'Toole, bT4'ii.th Dakota Ex perimeat Station. •••••••••,,,,,, •.f • • Farm Notes, • • Don't turn. a• geed cow off lust be -4 eause elna iS getting old. te ;t1fr'511,1t:0111011:15*!::::•.;!h!!!:1;:::rse, more than repay you; fer, any ex the jig is up. • ICeep goo), aild ten - one the horse will cool off in a few minutes, too. • 'Unprofitable cows and unprofitabl acres keep a fellow all the time tleiak Ing abeut the poorhouse. It asn't very pleasant either.. • be galled, buteif oceura have • Toe bad that a horse :sheuldyietvte:oidi. Pr:ink"? oPv6e.rwatehreedraa:Ilinplaceead. ,asoteoi,t5rh!ng arQ heals it almost immedie' , • A' little wheat bran, or some mix -e ture of grain in the feed box at evens! ing milking time, is a good plea to bring the herd promptly up to thel, ' gate. Irregular milking throe ii at. damaging practise. The Mare that is to beconie • a) mother must have considerate treatei. ment and gc:od food. Avoid any that may be musty, drive reasonablye and, if drawing loads, let her stop °ea:: casienaRy to get breath. , •.• If we watch hogs elesely we raayi learn many lessens from them; They, know their needs .better than we do.1 wiWhIlen doethtoery tahreemsoneltves9t, cirlith:ir bitthYPea37';14 chance.•• , It is easier' to keep alinrse'd shimhiers healect up than it is te make them see after they have once beenl sore. Sarno horses have thinner than others and 15 breaks through e ier. Watch every spot, that is likel to be chafed and iiad the, harness to protect it. • • •' A good many times when's,. Sow thai his borne eight or ten Piga at a litite drops down tO four or five, we won" der What is the matter. We may fltich the reason M. the lowered vitality ,ofl the sow. This shows the need of tbas sow being in the best of trim at the': time of service. When. a horse refuses be drink wader, don't get 'angry at the horse, bl islepekithfc.,Qtr.aanden, aczimn4e4ty00.-tthheorcatuhr.wate is too stale: or fcrult4 Horses must drink just So much every day, , some more, some less; but see that they all have the chance. ITALY'S xikG• A GOOD SOLDIER,[ . He Has Had Many. Narrow. Escapes, • • From Death. , ' • ' , - • The military correspondent ef•thn London Times, describing his reeent, tour of the Italian front, says,: "Italy is fortunate in having at her head at this critical hour Of her destinies a king who 'le a soldier born and bred. It is a common say- ing that the King of Italy is homesick when he is absent from the army, and ., it la certain his Majesty spends every, hour ,he can spare from state affairs . with his troops. He wears on his breast the medal , and rabbets given only to those who have been at the . 'front a year and though be deprecates any allusioneto the fact, it is true that he is constantly in the firing line. He .. has had many narrow escapes, and is personally known to the whole army, who love,„to see him in their midst. , "I have not found any officer of his army who has ,a better, more ' hi - timate or inore accurate knowledge of his troops than the King. Hili attention to the wants of the arniy is absolutely untiring, and his cool ' judgment and large experience must often be of great service to his min- isters and generals: "I de not know whether the field headquarters . of the King of Italy or of Kin* Albert of Belgium is the most Unpretentious, but certainly both mon, archs live in circumstances of ex- tremesiMphcity. -My:reCollection ie that when I last had the honor of ' visiting King Albert's headquarters, the bell in which I must call the par- lor ° did not ring, and the Queen of .--atles-Belgionealtaelateaget up and -fetch.' tea herself. ,"When I had the honor of :being t•ecer-ved by the King of Italy, I found , his Majesty in a little Villa which held , only four people, and the King work. ' ing in a room of which the Only- turni. 1 tere, I can recell, consisted of- a camp ,bcd, close to the ground and of - tXiguous breadth, a .einall table and tre 'chaise of nirOmpromisim hard. nese, 'ho only 0.44ipeikt in the room w e the 'base of the task Austrian shell. w 411 burst Just above t e Ring's. head. • It had been •ineunte as a on. venir by the Queen." •• • o' 14 Distrusted the PrOiniee. • • °Why he Saa aall deVntOtA?" '1 ' "My wife has threatener to leare me, • , I I"Cheer up. Women hie ahlta thrtittenteg ..sonwthing like that 04, hardly ever do IV' "That's What 74, waa th • _ • Heat kW Horses. • : •SunStroke lo caused by the direct rays of the sun falling upon the .skull, • horse so affected may die o4449A1Y aS though stricken with apoplexy he fatty haVO a Oaduol pararysia of respiration. tke symptom& which usually piesopt thinueeivOgI tstYe' testiness, pawing, spaiens, &ea 4 rnark- ed of themucous ineuVAIkues lining the ettaities of the head. no temperature in aeristroke MAY llet' Hat' above normal during the whole couree of the disease, .Anotheit condition very similar to ,attitlittoke.1,1- that Ithown. a0 heat stroke