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COW RATIONS.

Mictures of Various Feeds That Will Pro- dece Milk and Butter,

How to get the most and best milk from the feeds that are cheapest in his neighborhood is the problem most im- portant for the dairyman to solve. In order to solve it he must consider both the fat producing quality anfl the milk and muscle producing quality in those feeds as well as the price of each. Roughly speaking, the feed that makes muscle } ration that also makes milk. That which tends to make a cow fat is apt to dry up the milk. It is nec- essary therefore while feeding enough fat element to keep the cow in good or- der, to pour into her all the milk mak- ing food she can digest. Milk and mus- cle making foods are said to contain much protein or nitrogenous material. Fat making foods contain large quanti- ties of starchy material, or carbohy- drates, as they are called. The one food which makes most fat and least muscle of any is probably America’s great staple corn. It is the most valuable sin- gle feed in the country because of its cheapness and the many uses to which itcan be put. But to produce the best results it must always be mixed with other material containing protein.

The protein feeds par excellence are linseed meal, wheat bran, shorts and middlings, gluten meal and cottonseed meal. Gluten meal is what is left after the starch and bran are taken out of corn. It is valuable according to the thoroughness with which the starch has been extracted. Gluten meal with very little starch in it iscalled ‘‘high grade’’ and high grade gluten meal contains about as much protein as linseed meal. Where the gluten meal is cheaper than the linseed it may be used instead of the linseed, and vice versa. The best gluten meal contains occasionally as high as 37 per cent of protein. What is called “‘gluten feed’’ is different. It still contains the corn bran.

It is to be yemmembered that linseed meal, fed in excess, is apt to make but- ter soft. Cottonseed meal tends to make it hard. If too much cottonseed meal is fed, it causes sometimes inflamed udder, otherwise called garget.

Now for the rations. A ‘‘ration”’ i« food for one day, usually divided into two feeds. We shal! give here a variety of them. Some materials are cheap in some neighborhoods, otbers in others, but from the variety named each dairy farmer can select those best adapted to his needs and pocket. The rations are estimated for a cow weighing 900 to 1,100 pounds. Either gluten meal, lin- seed meal or cottonseed meal should find a place in all dairy cows’ rations.

Ration No. 1.—-Ten pounds hay, 3 pounds straw, 3 pounds bran, 3 pounds cottonseed meal, #5 pounds ensilage.

No. 2.—Fifteen pounds clover hay, 5 pounds corn fodder, 3 pounds chopped corn, 4 pounds shorts or middlings, 2 pounds bran, 2 pounds linseed meal or gluten meal.

No. 3 (for young Jersey, from Coun- try Gentleman).— Eighteen pounds hay, 1 pound cornmeal, 2 pounds bran, 2 pounds middlings, 1 pound cottonseed meal.

Neo. 4.--Thirty pounds corn ensilage, 10 pounds corn stover, 5 pounds oat straw, 4 pounds gluten meal, 6 pounds wheat bran.

No. 5.—Eighteen pounds crushed cornstalks, 2 pounds hay, 2 pounds corn and cob meal, 3 pounds ground oats, 3 pounds wheat bran and 4 pounds cake weal.

No. 6(from Country Gentleman, “for fresh cows that are satisfactory produc- ers’’).—Ten pounds timothy hay, 50 pounds ensilage, 3 pounds corn and cob meal, 5 pouxds wheat bran and 2 pounds cottonseed 1neal. If the oats are fed in part and no cottcnseed meal is pur- chased, then the grain ration may be 2 pounds corn and cob meal, 6 pounds bran and 3 pounds ground oats. The ra. tion as first given is likely to be the more efficient for milk cows.

No. 7.—Seven pounds sorghum fod- der, 12 pounds alfalfa hay, 3 pounds corn chop, 3 pounds oat chop, 4 pounds wheat bran, 2 pounds oilmeal.

No. 8.—Thirty-five pounds ensilage, 10 pounds clover bay, 5 pounds bran, 2 pounds cornmeal, 1 pound cottonseed meal.

No. 9.—Twenty-five pounds silage, 10 pounds clover hay, 8 pounds corn fodder, 4 pounds bran, 2 pounds oats, 2 pounds oilmeal.

No. 10.—Thirty pounds silage, 10 pounds clover bay, 6 pounds whea} bran, 3 pounds pea chop.

No. 11.—Fifteen pounds mixed hay, §$ pounds corn stover, 3 pounds bran, 5 pounds gluten meal, J} pound oilmeal.

No. 12 (for young cow).—Twelve pounds clover hay, 5 pounds timothy hay, 5 pounds wheat bran, 5 pounds corn and oat chop, 2 pounds cottonseed meal.

No. 13.—Thirty pounds silage, 6 pounds corn fodder, 6 pounds ciover hay, 5 pounds bran, 2 pounds corn chop, * pounds oat chop, 1 pound cottonseed meal, 1 pound oilmeal.

No. 14.—Twenty-five pounds corn fodder with corn on, 6 pounds wheat bran, 4 pounds buckwheat middlings.

No. 15.—EKighteen pounds alfalfa hay, 10 pounds sugar beets, 5 pounds Wheat bran, 5 poundy wheat shorts.

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The Minister of Agriculture intends Pending shout 1.000 ran ples of Canvadiar Wheat to British millers, #0 that th-v may *te for themselves the excellence of Cana- D grain,

TURF TALKS.

The heaviest money winning trotters of the year siarted out green.

Ladies’ races would be more popular if road wagons were used instead of sulkies.

A trotter bearing the pleasing name of Light Lunch is racing in the Key stone State.

Countess Eve, 2:0914, is unquestion- ably the best trotter ever sold for ship- ment to Europe.

Joe Wheeler, 2:0714, is the fastest hew performer of the year. He stands over 17 hands and is 4 years old.

A new stallion barn, which cost $10,- 000, has recently been completed at Patchen Wilkes farm, Lexington, Ky.

The Eagle Bird gelding Eagle Flan- agan has trotted to his record of 2 12% on eight different occasions this season.

Parker 8, 2:061,, is the fastest gray pacer on record. Guy and Manager were formerly tied for the honor at 2:06 %%.

Wilkes, out of Naiad, by Belmont, own- ed at North East, Md., who has 2:20 speed at the trot and can also pace very fast.

Bert Sheldon, the old warhorse, stil] continues to get a share of the money. At Allentown recently he beat a good field in a five heat race and trotted twe of the heats in 2:131,.

One of the greatest young pacers ip America is the bay gelding Allen W, now heing trained at Woodlawn by Alex McKay. He recently paced three heats in 2:17, 2:1215, 2:12. He is by Young Jim.

Syzygy, 2:1214, pacing, gets his name from the astronomical terms which de- Sigvate that the earth, sun and moon are in line. W. R. Carter, Mexico, Mo., developed him and has driven him iu ali his races.

Jockey Narvaez, who had the mount on Billy Mason in the stake race recent- ly, was hit in the eye with a clod of flying mud and so injured he could not take the mount on Pitfall in the last race. That is why the latter was scratched.

COW STALLS. aheaply Constructed, Easily Cleaned and Fill Every Requirement,

The stable is closely lined inside and whitewashed, plenty of windows, ‘weather boarded and battened outside and painted, all at a cost of $375.

In the first place the stable has enough light in it to tuke the photo-

graph of it in a quarter of «a minute's exposure, which was taken after cows

MODEL COW STALL. were put on pasture and all bedding re- moved and stalls swept ont, and, by the way, they are kept so through the en- tire summer for milking night aad morning.

These stalls are in common use for the reason that they give to the cow #0 mear perfect comfort and absolute cleanliness that their introduction haa made the keeping of cows a pleasure.

While Fig. 1 gives a perfect rear view Fig. 2 will explain more clearly the side section and measrrements, etc.

The platform A is made of one inch oak, doubled and joints broken, with a fall of 2 inches, and is 6 feet 6 inches long for a cow weighing 1,000 pounds and ebould be correspondingly longer or shorter as the weight of the cow may require.

This feature may be provided for by placing the fencing in front of the cow nearer toward the ditch or farther away, or sometimes the ditch is run at an angle or an offset at one end, but the former is by all means the most sat-

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The feed trough B is raised by run- ning two 2 by 3 stringers the entire length of the stable, making the trongh 18 inches wide and 6 inches deep in front of cow. The stalls are 8 feet 8 inches wide from centers, and parti- tions 4 feet high and 8 feet 6 inches long at C. The posts D are 5 fect high, made from 2 by 8 studding, and toe nailed in the corner of each feed box at F and 1 by 8 lath nailed to them for the cow to eat hay through, and to keep her standing back to her ditch.

The hayrack at E is 18 inches wide and 3 feet deep to F and is open with a 6 inch thwart, so that grain, ensilage or any cut feed readily falls through in- to feed box. Theditch is 16 inches wide and 9 inches deep on platform side and 7 inches at rear and is made absolutely watertight. The letter feature, along with the broken joints of the platform, always insures gocd sanitation, as with every particle of manure and liquid voiding where absorbents and deodo- rizers can be applied, the stable is in shape so that its caretaker can keep it pure and sweet with little effort, and have some place to take callers into when showing his best cows withort having to prefix and suffix the visit with an apology.

Auy farmer, I think, can erect this stall with the use of a good saw, hatch- et, jack plane and square at a trifling cost, and when once completed I am pos- itive that it will bo a great source of pride to the dairyman who has it in his barn.

After four years of use and keeping | cows confined from four to fiye months, | each winter, day and night, I am able to say that it is a perfect stall, and

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SIDE SECTION. not only keeps the cows perfectly clean, but I have not seen a stall that gives the cow s0 much freedom for her head and body.

We tie with ordinary tie chains, which by the use of a large ring or a strap around the second bar in front can be moved from one side of stall to the oth- er. We attach so much importance to having cow stables clean and sweet that we have taken the trouble to illustrate this stall and feel that nothing adds a greater incentive toward keeping up good appearances about the dairy barn than absolute cleanliness.

Dairy help soon catch om and take pride in seeing that things are in keep- ing with other surroundings that look well. — George E. Scott in Hoard’s Dairymar

A Story of Tnacnera™.

Dean Farrar gives the following rem- fmiscence of Thackeray in The Inde- pendent: ‘‘Dining with him at the house of Dr. Butler, I remember that he spoke of many things, but the only remark that I specially recall was one about himseif. He said that he had re- cently sat at a dinner next to cn emi- nent tragedienne, now dead, and that she had overpowered him with ecstatic compliments. A few days afterward he had sat next Jenny Lind, and the great singer, with a frankness which delight- ed him, said that she had not read a line of one of his writings and knew nothing about them. Of the two ladies he greatly preferred Jenny Lind and enjoyed her frank indifference much more than the fulsome adulation. ’”’

And He Couldn’t Have Both.

Stokeleigh—Why don’t you get mar- ried, old man?

Brokeleigh—Debarred by custom.

Stokeleigh—How so?

Brokeleigh— Well, while it 1s per- missible for me to appear in public without a wife it is not permissible for me t» do so without clothes.—Brooklyn Life.

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And prove it for yourself.

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MESSAGE TO WEN

Proving that True cronesty and True antrophy still Kxists

If avy man whois weak, nervous and debilitated, or who is suffering from any ef the varoas troubles resulting from youthful tolly, excesses or overwork, will take heart and write to me, I will send him confidentially and free of charge the plan pursued by waich I was completely restor ed to perfect bealth and manhood, afte years of tu‘fering from Nervous Debility, loss of Vigor and Organtic Weakness.

I have nothing to sell and therefore want no money, but 9s I know througt my own experience how to | ympathiz: with such +ufferers, lam giad to be abl to assist any feliow~beings to a cure, ] am well aware of the prevalence of quick ery, for I myself was deceived and tmpor- ed upon until I nearly lost faith in man kind but I rejoice to cay that lam now perfectly weli and happy once more end am desirous therefore to mate this certair means of cure known toail. Ifyou wil write to me you can rely npon being eurce and the proud satisfaction of having bee of great service to one in need will be sufficient reward for my trouble. Absol ute secrecy assured. Send 5c silver cover postage and address Mr G, Strong. North Rockland, Mich. 125 p & w.

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DECLINING A BULLDOG,

A Theatrical Stenographer Put It on the Same Piane as a Play.

Dog stories are plentiful, as are also fish stories, but here is a genuinely true one, vouched for by Manager Will J. Davis and Myron B. Rice, which alone should be suf- ficient evidence of its truthfulness. Mr. Davis is a fancier of dogs, and he is con- tinually bothered by his friends for young specimens. In the summer Mr. Davis had a kennel of bulldogs which were unusual- ly fine. He had remembered Mr. Rice vis- iting his farm in the Henry Irving engage- ment, where he much admired all of Mr. Davis’ canine family. He thought Mr. Rice would be pleased to possess one of these fine bulldogs, so he forwarded one to New York city.

Mr. Rice while in New York lives in an apartment, and as apartments in New York are similar to those in Chicago the janitor protested against Mr. Rice having a dog in his rooms. He did not know what to de with the pup, having no place to keep him, and yet not wishing to give it to any one else. He therefore thought iz would be best to return it to Mr. Davis. He took the dog to the oilive and there had it packed for shipment. In the meantime he had requested his stenographer to write a polite letter to Mr. Davis, telling him the factsand expressing thanks and re- grets. Now, in Mr. Rice’s New York office they are in the habit of receiving numer- ous manuscripts of plays.

“Will you dictate this letter?’’ asked the stenographer.

‘“‘No. Go ahead and write it yourself. I am busy justnow. With all the experience you have had you certainly should have tact enough to decline a bulldog without giving offense.’’

A few days later Mr. Davis received the following polite letter of explanation and thanks from his friend, Myron B. Rice. Ai first he could not comprehend its meaning. He, however, kept it and expects to have considerable amusement out of it at the expense of Mr. Rice:

Deak Sin—We regret that we are compelled to decline the bulldog you so kindly submitted tous. We have carefully examined it and are sincerely sorry that it does not seem wholly available for our use.

Of course you are aware that many consid- erations besides quality must govern the ac- cepiance of bulldogs, and the rejection of any particular bulldog does not necessarily imply that it is lacking in merit.

This and a hundred other reasons may cause the rejection of any offered bulldeg without reference to its intrinsic worth. The simple tact of refusal, therefore, does not carry with it any adverse judgment as to the excellence of the bulldog, but it is merely a statement that it cannot be used at the present tme. We thank you for your courtesy in submitting same sad remain, very truly yours,

Mynon B. Ricg. Per F. J. —Chicago Tribune.

Pee: S30 +en Koh, Ae iniZeOD. Qvery Particle Put to Use—Only Its Dying jreath Lort.

In an erticle cn the ‘‘Wonders of the We Wilicim George Jcr- lum, in The Ladies’ Home Journal, de- tails how scicuce at the present day utilizes the ox. ‘‘lvot many years ago,”’ he says, ‘‘when an ox was slaughtered 40 per cent cf the anizial was wasted. At the present time ‘nothing is lost but its dyiug breath.’ As but one-third cf the weight of the aniisal consists cf products that can be eaton, the question of utilizing the Waste is a serious cne. Tae blood is used in refining sugar and in sizing paper or manuuiactured into dcorknobs and buttons. The hide goes to the tanuer; horns and hoofs are trans- formed inte combs and brittous; thigh bones, werth $80 per ton, are crt into handles for clothesbrashes; fore leg boues sell for $50 per te: for collar but- tons, parasol handles and jewelry; the water in which bones are boiled is re- duced to glte; the durt from sawing the bones is food fer cattle and poultry; the smallest bones are made into bone-

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pint of neatsfoot oil; the tail goes to the ‘*soup,’’ while the brush of hair at the end of the tail is sold to the mattress maker. The choicer purts of the fat make the basis of butterine; tke intes- tines are used for sarsage casings or bought by gold beaters. The undigested food in the stomach, which formerly cost the packers of Chicago $30,000 a year to remove and destroy, is now made into paper. These are but a few 4 of the products of abattoirs. All scraps unfit for any other use find welcome in the glue pot, or they do missionary work for farmers by acting as ferti- lizers.’’

WANTED-—To borrow, $2°60 at5 percent. on 28 acres on Lot 22, worth $6000 cash. Write A A, Box 335, Charlottetown.

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We are in the Dairy Supply business to stay, notwith standing the unfair competition of au official whose travelling expenses are paid out of the public fends. We pay our own, and will compete with any of the Quebec houses thus repre- sented, for quality of workmanship in cheese vats, cream vats, either single or duplex, portable or stationary, temper- ing or receiving vats, and all other Dairy Supplies in stock or to order at short notice.

We have on hand Alpha Separators which return more money to the patrons than any other, _

Separator oil that will insure safer running at extreme speed than any other on the market.

Butter Boxes for storing and shipping butter in.

Dairy plants that will run without an expert engineer on hand.

Boilersthat: will save fuel over any other thathas been imported so far. Engines that do not require to be driven te extreme speed to obtain enough power, All work warranted for une year.

Sall at our up town store in the Temple, Grafton St.

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