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TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER,
" Cheap Feed For Milk and Butter.
H. G. DM of Roanoke, writes:
"Please tell ins the best feeds for cows
to produce milk. Do you advise feed
ing cottonseed meal, and in what quan
tity?" v
Answer: The very best food for a
dairy cow is good bluegvass. You can
produce milk more cheaply in this way
and with less trouble than by any other
means. Of course, bluegrass is not
available all the year, and for the win
ter feeding of the cpw somesuti-
tute ior grass must: ue luuuu, iu
dairy cow gives her best results when
receiving a succulent ration. For this
reason silage is considered one of the
best winter feeds for cows!
Silage, as you know, may be made
from corn, sorghum, cow peas, clover
or other farm crops. The greater part
ol the silage used is made from corn.
This is because of the large yields ob
tained, and the economy with which
the crop can be produced. "When the
corn is well eared and glazed, and some
of the lower leaves beginning to fire,
it is in condition to be put in the silo.
The silo may be constructed on the
same principle as a water tank. The
idea is to exclude the air and prevent
t fermentation, xne green corn -ut
up fine and run into the silo and packed
down firmly, and Avill then keep for
long periods, and can ue leu 10 ww&
as needed.
When silage can not be had, roots
are often used, but root crops can not
be produced as economically in the
South as silage, and the climate does
not favor their growth as much as it
does further North. It will pay you
iifcpo siin. if you are feeding a
fl considerable number of cows.
11 if you are without a silo, the qnes-
I 1 ,..-.1,-c- i oolf infn eniUP ITlPthod
liUll iWWi.
of feeding economically at the present
time. If you can obtain an abundance
I of corn stalks to be shredded or cut up,
tins wm iurmsu u i-amj gumi wu"
ness for your dairy animals, provided
you feed along with say twenty pounds
of fodder, ten pounds of good clover
hay besides some wheat 'bran and cot
tonseed meal. In order to make the
shredded stover more palatable, it may
be sprinkled with water and the meal
scattered over it and the whole mixed
together with a fork. This will neces
sitate the animals eating up much
more of the shredded stover than they
otherwise might do; and the produc
tion of cheap milk and butter depends
very largely in making the cows con
sume a considerable quantity of dry
roughness, which always provides the
cheapest part of the ration. If you
cannot obtain corn stalks, you can, of
oourse, feed your cows on mixed hay
and grain. This is often an expensive
ration. If with your mixed hay you
can secure some clover or cow pea
hay, it will provide a better variety
for the cow.
As to the concentrates, you mayx feed
.wheat bran at the rate of six to eight
pounds per day for each thousand
pounds of live weight, and to this you
may add two to four pounds of cotton
seed meal. Cottonseed meal may be
fed with perfect safety in reasonable
quantity to dairy cows, and as it is so
rich in protein, an element which -the
cow requires for the economical pro
duction of milk and butter, it furnishes
a cheap and excellent supplementary
concentrate to wheat bran. If wheat
bran costs you more than S25 a ton,
you can feed one-half corn and cob
meal and one-half cottonseed meal. In
this case you would not feed over six
to eight pounds of the mixture per day
to a thousand-pound cow. If you find
it difficult to secure corn meal, you can
u?e one-third wheat bran, one-third
middlings and one-third cottonseed
meal to advantage.
The amount of grain that should be
fed to a cow will depend on. her milk
flow. If she is giving three to five
gallons a day, she should be fed liber
ally twelve to fifteen pounds per day.
One must use judgment in feeding a
If cow, and no definite rules can be laid
down. Where the cow is giving a
small flow of milk, six to eight pounds
of grain per day would be sufficient.
Corn and other fattening-grains should
not be fed as the sole concentrates to
dairy cows. Andrew M. Soule.
Corn Stalks on Iand
Now, if you will permit me a small
space, I will give some farm experi
ence. The rops are all gathered and
stored away; the harvest was a bounti
ful one for we who tried to help our
selves, and we should all be thankful
to our Lord, the giver of all blessings,
tor such favors. Wheat and rye are
sowed, and now is the time to start
out for another crop.
If any of you intend to raise corn
in land that was in corn last season, 1
fvill tell you how I treat stalk land if
Fou wish to get rid of the stalks. Do
iot burn them, as the manner of some
s, but take a good sized one-horse turn
plow and run two furrows in centre of
l
jpiddle, turning the dirt each way to-
News of the Day.
The ministere des finances at Athens,
Greece, will receive proposals for fur
ishing a yearly sunr.lv nf rierarette na-
er tO the Government mnnnnnlv sirl-
nnistrat on.
E Physicians live longer than other
ofessional men thai
Ife being over 60. Only 7 per cent die
Cn;uiuis, wmen snows that they
ara carefully against infection. Over
per cent die of nervous breakdown
heart trouble.
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STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER,
ward standing stalk (I mean second
furrow in bottom of first furrow) as
deep as one good mule can pull welL
Then cut stalks down with hoe or
scythe and lay each row of stalks and
all weeds and grass in this furrow.
Then turn on one furrow from each
side with a large : two-horse plow.
Then let it stand until planting time,
while the high ridge stands up and a
small bar between and the furrows
open. The cold, hard, freezing will
Veachdefcpjf in. the ground than if
flowed level. . " .....;. " ; ;v v' ; ; '
; At planting time, Use lii long, straight
plow with two mules drawing it. Run
one furrow on each -"ide of ridge where
stalks were buried, but do not turn
them out. Then with two mules turn
out l-emainder of old ridge. Now take
cutaway harrow and cut down the
ridge to the desired height, riant on
or just beside of stalks and you will
make corn if you cultivate well, x
Now as to the inoculating material
sent out by the Government last spring
for cow peas, I received a package and
used it on black cow peas on laud
that was in rye. Turned stubble, har
rowed and sowed with drill, some
treated and some untreated, and found
no improvement by Inoculating, but
the dry weather caused rather late
sowing. Now I sowed land in wheat;
will notice the same plats of land to
see if any benefit to wheat crop or not.
Hope to hear from some others who
used the inoculating material. R. C.
Whiten er, Burke County, N. C, in the
Progressive Farmer.
Reclaiming Tand.
A considerable per cent, of the best
arable laud in the South is to:day al
most entirely unproductive. It is
those lands lying along rivers, creeks,
branches, that have been cleared of
their forest growth and have been cul
tivated but for some reason have been
allowed to grow up in weeds and
bushes of one kind or another. Near
ly all of this land is rich and if put in
first-class shape would produce a bale
of cotton or fifty bushels of corn with-,
out any manuring. Most of this land,
all, is set in Bermuda grass, and if
nothing else, but if it had possession
there would be a most magnificent
pasture or meadow capable of produc
ing 50 worth of beef, pork or mutton
to every acre of it. If used only as a
meadow it would yield from two to
five tons of the best hay in the world.
It is a pity these lands are not put in
condition to do their best for they
would be the most profitable part of
the farm. It is true it would" take a
lot of hard work to get them back in
perfect shape, a lot of mowing, grub
bing and chopping that the average
farmer is not able' it seems to bestow
upon it. It would pay well to clean
up all patches even along the branches
and creeks. Such as are not set in
Bermuda could be used for sugar cane,
if desired. There is so little good land
on the farm to-day the best should
certainly be reclaimed with as little
delay as possible. Florida Agricul
turist. '
The Market Fowl.
Mr. r. II. Jacobs, editor of The
Poultry News, crowds a large amount
of sound common sense into a-very
short article as follows:
The market fowl is an insignificant
object with those who advocate . the
standard, and they boldly proclaim
their destestation of any mongrei
grade, or breed that is not recognized
by what they term the "infallible
guide" to success with poultry. ' Our
standard friends may be sound
enough on the standard requirements,
but we will say to them that when
they begin to build up the breeds ac
cording to the standard by pulling out
the pillars that support the -poultry
structure the falling ruins will crush
them as well as those whom they
despise. Like Samson, they will die
with the Philistines, for the founda
tion of the standard breeds is the mar
ket poultry. But for those who "keep
chickens" the fancy breeders wduld
have no markets for their productions,
and admitting that they displace the
scrub altogether they must create
newer kinds or find the markets all
supplied. The question as to the profit
ableness of a breed and its use as a
"thing of beauty" must be discussed
in Its plainest sense. To retain the
standard and keep up the purity cf the
breeds it must be demonstrated that
profit is sure to result, and unless that
is done the labor will be but thrown
away.
The Best Pallet.
If a pullet has been early and care
fully reared, its most prolific season is
its first winter. The second year, as a
whole, is quite as profitable, however,
because the fowl eats less than when
growing, and the first half of its first
year there are few, or no eggs, while
laying is maintained all through its
second year. Prof essor Thomas Shaw.
Current Events.
N. L. Penn, the last lineal descendant
of William Penn, is dead at Hartford,
says the Boston Globe. He was once
the leader in the most exclusive cir
cles in Philadelphia. He fell in love
and married. - When -a few years later
his wife and her baby died together the
world seemed to drop out from under
him and he lost all interest in it. His
body will be sent to Philadelphia for
burial. . Thus ends the noble line of
Penns.
Sharps and Flats. '
Men who serve God to escape Hell
. would serve any devil who promised
them .'Heaven.
It's a good deal easier, to catch the
preacher's errors in pronunciation than
his appeals for the collection.
When God has burled your sins it is
a sin to dig them up again, even though
it be only to show them to your friends.
The man who made the biggest fool
of himself at election will be the first
to denounce the' excitement of a revival.
THREE YEARS AFTER.
Eugene B. Larlo, of 751 Twentieth
avenue, ticket seller in the Union Sta
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liberty to repeat what .1
first" stated through our
w Denver papers about
Dban's Kidney Pills in
the summer of 1899, for
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the interim.' to change my
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4 was subject to severe at-,
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long at a desk." Doan's
Kidney Pills absolutely
stopped my backache. I
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or a twinge since."
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Story of Terrapin's Memory.
That Br'er Tarrypin haa memory is
proved by a story told by Young D.
Hance, who owns the birthplace of
Chief Justice Taney, on Battle creek,
in Calvert county.
Mr. Hance keeps a small boat under
a mulberry tree on the shore of the
creek, and on going to the boat early
one morning he noticed a dry land
terrapin busily engaged in eating a
few mulberries which had fallen. Mr.
Hance, wishing to assist Br'er Tarry
pin in getting his breakfast, gathered
some mulberries and pitched them to
him one at a time. In a very short
time the terrapin began to catch the
berries in his mouth exactly as they
were thrown to him. Every day after
ward a slight knock on the side of the
boat would bring the terrapin but for
his mulberries, and Mr. Hance often
took his friends and visitors to see his
pet.
On one occasion a fresh young man
threw a piece of tobacco to the terra
pin instead of a mulberry. Br'er Tar
rypin retired at once in disgust, and
for days afterward refused to come
when called. Although Mr. Hance
finally induced him to come again for
his mulberries, Br'er Tarrypin remem
bered the tobacco and would never ap
proach unless Mr. Hance was alone.
Baltimore Sun.
DOG HAD NOT FORGOTTEN.
Stung by Bee in Puppyhood, He Cher
ished Resentment.
"Something must have stung your
dog," said a resident of this city to
a suburbanite, whom he was visiting
a few days ago. as he noticed the an
tics of a large collie which, after
snapping frantically at a flying in
sect, lowered his head and carefully
licked his right forepaw.
"No," replied the owner, of the dog,
"that is only a little delusion of his.
When he was a puppy a bee stung
him on that foot you see him attend
ing to, and ever since he has cher
ished a standing grudge against flying
Insects. Apparently the sight of one
not only arouses his anger, but re
calls most vividly his. first experience
with one, for each time after run
ning after one, whether he catches
it or not, he stops and tenderly licks
the place where he was stung two
years ago. As far as I know he has
never been stung since then." Phila
iclphia Press.
Woman Shot Deer from Carriage.
The other day Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
-ott of Houlton drove up to B planta
tion and while Mr. Iott was a short
distance in the woods after partridge.
Mrs. Iott, who was sitting in the car
riage, spied a large buck deer at the
edge of. the clearing and immediately
brought her rifle to bear upon Mr.
Deer. He dropped after receiving one
cartridge Lewiston Journal.
HABIT'S CHAIN.
Certain Habit Unconsciously formed and
Hard to Break.
An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces
sary to break a life-long habit would,
if it could be transformed, lift a weight
of manytons.
It sometimes requires a higher degree
of heroism to break the chains Of a per
nicious habit than to lead a forlorn
hope in a bloody battle. A lady writes
from an Indiana town:
"From my earliest childhood I was a
lover of coffee. Before I was out of my
teens I was a miserable dyspeptic, suf
fering terribly at times with my
stomach.
I was convinced that it was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet" 1
could not deny myself a cup for break
fast. At the age of 36 I was in very
poor health, indeed. My Sister told me
I was in danger of becoming a coffee
drunkard.
"But I never could give up drinking
coffee for breakfast although it kept
me constantly ill," until I tried Postum.
I learned to make it properly according
to directions, and now we can hardly
do without Postum for breakfast, and
care nothing at all for coffee.
"I am no longer troubled with dys
pepsia, do not have spells of suffering
with "my stomach that used to trouble
me so when I drank coffee."" Name
given, by- Postum Cc.7 Battle Creek,
Mich.
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Lift of the Heart.
Whn we stand with . the woods around
us ' '
And the great boughs overhead '
When the wind blows cool on our fore-
head; --.-
And the breath of the pines is shed
When the, song- oxrthe thrush is rine
ipgr .
Wonderful, rich, apart
Between the sound and the silence
Comes a sudden lift of the heart. .
When we seek with the clearer vision
That grief the revealer brinea
For the threads that are shot torethfr
.In, tiieaci?8e.wroVh.t web things,
And find that pain is woven
Into love and Joy and art
Between the search and the solace
Comes a sudden lift of the heart.
And when life's farthing candle
Gutters and flares and sinks:
When the eye no longer wanders "
And the brain no longer thinks:
When only the hand plucks idly
At the sheet till the spirit part
Does there come between living and dy
ing sudden lift of the heart?
Atlantic.
The Censor In Italy.
A most amusing incident took place
last week, which shows fhe absolute
absurdity of the censorship in Italy.
The great actor, Ermete Novell!,
now in South America, has a son who
lives in Florence, to whom was born a
bouncing boy. The young Novell!, in
haste to let his father know that he
had made him a grandfather,, tele
graphed: "Ermete Novell!,- Buo'no?
Ayres: Boy. Enrico." Several hours
later he was called to the telegraph
office, where the following conversa
tion took place:
"You know we could not let your
dispatch pass."
"Not let it pass! But why, if you
please?"
"You know you said It was a boy"
"And if I did, what then? Is it not
true?"
"Well, that is what we do not know
yet." "
"What! Are you crazy? I know
it!"
"Well, anyway, public .order de
mands that It should not be made
public." .
"Made public! Am I making it pub
lic by telegraphing to my father?
And, in any case, what has the birth
of my son got to do with public order?
Excuse me, have you all taken leave
of your senses?"
"Your son?" gasped the other. "We
thought you were telegraphing about
the queen!"
Dm if the war correspondents says
that he and his associates spent most
of their time at headquarters reading
novels. We suspect that their favor
ite book was "Forty Liars, and Other
Lies," says the Washington Post.
PsyrUo'oy f the Setting Hen.
The hen patiently "sets" only through
the overpowering pressure of a mys
terious creative impulse that masters
her restless impulses to be outside
scratching and cackling, instead of
working for posterity. Boston Her
ald. S10O Keward. 109.
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A huge statue of the Virgin has been
successfully placed on the summit of
the Dent du Geant. a raountaiu in
Italy 1.1,000 feet high, near Milan. Di
vine service was performed on the
summit in celebration of the event by
the vicar of Oourmayeur.
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lir. & B. Harttnati, Columbna, Ohio;
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