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Show PROFITABLE DAIRY HERD DIFFICULT TO ACQUIRE LINE OF WORK It Requires Time, Patience and Perseverance Iltzh Ideal Must be Constantly Striven For. (By miller rim vis.) To build up a dairy herd Is not a short tank. It requires In the first place a fixed Ideal In the mind of the owner. He must set hla stakes at a mark toward which be must endeavor to move constantly, advancing from year to year. There is a well know n dairy herd in Illinois, the owner of which has et his mark higher and higher for years, every time reaching the highest lnilt by following a set method. This man cares nothing for recorded cows pedigrees. He prefers pure-breIf they reach up to bis mark, otherwise he takes those of any blood or iff ben he buys a cow he In breeding. Ists on the privilege of milking her several times and testing ber ml'k with the Itabcock tester. When he began the dairy bundles, a poor man. be set bis stakes at 200 pound of butter a year from each cow. This wns not to be the average of the herd, but the low out limit for each Individual cow. As rapidly as the cows failed to reach thin mark sold and replaced with they wi-rbetter ones. Calres from the best rows were kept for members of the herd, and thoroughly tested after they came In milk, to be retained or rejected according to the test they fbowed. In the course of time the mark was reached and the limit was ruined 60 pounds, and by following the fame method he built up his berJ to the new mark. Then be net the limit at 3oo fiounds g In a year, and toward this he Is as rapidly as posxlbte. although as the limit U raised progress Is slow i r He bus now been In the business long enni en to select hetfers from hla own herd w hirh tome up to bis requirements Although he reaped a Itw y 'i.n ego to sell hi milk to a butter fa tory, he still on the butterfat tet as to the merits of bis snd hl rt.tt, reputation Make his riillk in rurh demand that b ratittoi supply all that is ralii-for The d.iirjnsn who does not ot a bin cows rgiifnrly blch mark end and systematically, will always carry in the Mme corns who are kept at to redure Ibe average of the herd It e)n like a strong stal. ji.ent to tnak, but It Is no doubt true, as was aid by the dairy rommUsloner of a great dairy state, that If the poorer half of the cows of the state were sold off the dairy profits of the state would be doublt 4. t If but the better half of the cows kept the feed consumed by ibe e 200-roun- fnt-Ut- s well-eBrn-- d l'. h'-f- ier Steering Committee Has Practically Agreed Upon Legislation to Be Carried Out. unprofitable ones would be saved, the work would be halved and the profits from those kept would be more than double those of the herds as now con- stituted. The volume of butter and milk proNOT SATISFIED? duction would be decreased, no doubt, PRESIDENT If this course were pursued, and the consumer would be called upon to pay higher prices; but the dairyman Rumors Around the Capitol That the would double bis profits, and that Chief Executive Is Not to Have should be the object sought in any All He Wants Leaders Prebusiness. paring for Campaign Party Many dairymen are trying to find Factional Troubles. the luetbod which will allow them to keep the largest number of cows on a given acreage. A much better Members of what Is Washington. object would be sought If they were known as the steering committee of the senate practically have agreed upon what legislation shall be put on Ita passage In the upper houae at the present session. Naturally Mr. Aid-ricbeing the leader of the Republican majority. Is the chief member of the steering committee, and as most of the other members are In sympathy with the Rhode Islanders views. It goes without saying that the committee Itself comes pretty close to being all powerful. President Taft has been Informed of the committee's desires In the matter of legislation and It Is said by those who are close to blm that be Is not altogether satisfied. At a recent meeting of the committee only two measures were discussed In detail, although sanction waa given to one or two other measures which will be taken up for committee study somewhat later. ft has been aald the chancea are that the senate leaders would make concessions to the Progressive Republicans on the bill providing for Jersey Bull, "Eminent." amendments to the Interstate comto try to secure the largest possible merce act It Is now practically asnumber of cows which will produce sured that some of fhese concession!) a pound of butter every day for ten will be made in the hone that they months of every year of their activwill be sufficient to make the Insur ates. gents yield and to Join the regulars in putting the bill through with someMaking Butter. thing like unanimity. As Is pretty To produce best butter the cow well known President Taft seems to should be a good, healthy animal, kept think that In harmonious party action on good pasture and supplied with on the chief administration measures pure water. The stable should be lies the principal hope of Republican clean at all times, especially during victory at the polls next November. The cream should be milking. The Democrats In the senate believe churned at a proper time and tem- that the concessions which Mr. Aid-ricperature, and worked until the milk Is making and will make later to Is all out. I salt my butter with 12 the Republicans who are led by Senaounces of salt to every ten pounds, tors Cummins and Clapp will not be says a writer In HnlUmore American. aufTlclent to make the middle and far My customers pay 30 cents a pound, westerners come Into the and come to the house to get their camp. Harmony was securedharmony on the supply, which Is packed In postal savings bank bill, but now It is jars. This brings me more clear being Intimated that the aenate leadmoney than any other way I can dis- ers expect the bouse to make such pose of the produce. 1 make only 20 changes In that bill aa will nullify the to 30 pounds a week and use about effects of the yielding of tbe leaders 250 drops of vegetable coloring matIn tbe upper house. 100 to ter pounds. Acoustd of Playing Politics. In other words, the Democrats are Comfortable and Cheap. I.. T. Foss. of North Adams, Mass., saying that the Republican leaders in has built an Ideal poultry house from the senate gave way In some matters canvas and old newspapers. The can-v- s simply to get harmony In their own Is nailed to studding 18 Inches ranks, believing fully that the house would take care that tbe concessions apart, and the newspapers, after folded so they were 12x18 Inches, made In the senate would not be apcontaining 32 thicknesses, were nailed parent when the bill finally becomes on the same as sMngle. These were a law. It will be remembered that Senators covered with canvas which was tber Cummins and Clapp, In their minority painted report on the Interstate commerce Ee Kind to Sows. bill, took exception to the provision If a sow heavy with pigs should which puts Into tbe hands of the ats'ray into your yard, don't "shoo" her torney general's force the government with the hew handle lletter shut her defense of all actions taken on appeal rn and notify your neighbor. He'll to tbe interstate commerce court Tbe thattk you. and then besides one of senators In opposition to Ibis provision say that tbe attorneys for the your sow may break nut some day. shippers and also law officers working Sheep for th Farm. under the Interstate cemmerci comneed be wasted on the mission ought to represent the govNothing farm where sheep are kept tufts of ernment before the court because grass, weeds and aftermaths and odd they are well Informed at to all tbe bits of Teed can all be utilized and details of the commerce cases from converted Into wool and mutton. the time of their Inception. It Is understood that the leaders will yield In this matter to tbe losurgeot de- H Three Daughters of Noted paign. The members of the Republican congressional committee hope, SENATORS PLAN no- h five-poun- be-In- g , METHOD OF STABLING CALVES sires. Seeking Public Opinion. Representative William II. Mr Kin-leof Illinois, chairman of the Republican congressional committee. Is getting Drst band Information of political conditions throughout the country Home time prior to Mr departure from Washington. Itepresentatlve James T. Lloyd of Missouri, chalrnian of the Democratic congressional committee, went all through the middle est trying to find out what he could about Ibe political y . ' P m EMI flhisttatlnn shows a very con fnr stabling calves The r ah p. are kept In good sired fens, seral rsltfs foeethef. allowing ro'tch more chance for enerrlse than mfictt e'h calf Is confined separately Id a small cfall. The cslres are allowed to rn Irjose In the pens, except t fdire tiT. and are then easily In the stanchions fastened while drinking Ttey should be kept In the etanrtiloft for half hour or eo. and are sire to sock fd grain, a tby each other if rd'-asImmediately driiitirig The yoking calves ahem'd 1 kept In separate pena tip to ft three ek of are. as It Is a dl.'.irtilt matter to keep them from we Mr is before they Jesrn to eat hay TT enient afr to and grain. f!y fastening them Is the stanchions In this wsy each calf ma) be fed separately and get only Its own shaie of grain The calf pen should Mr well lighted and clean and should nrn Into an exercising yard where the calves may be turned out whenever the weather permits. Killing dickens. Chickens killed for market of for the home tble should have the bead severed by cutting off; then the body shotill be bung up to let the blood thoroughly drain out Thla Insures the w holeeomeness of the meat If the ragged neck Is unsightly, the skin may be polled over It and l"d with a bit of twine. ser'tlment Uofore he left Washington some a long conference with President Taft Of cour no one was allowed to know Just what the president said to the Republican concessional committee's chairman, but there are blnta that the president rln declared It would be had policy to make any dlicrlmtna tions as bteen Republicans who are If) Ing to srrere reelection to the lower hoiisp Once m a time. It Is said with Mr MfKin'ey's sanction, letters were sent out by the Repuhll-cacongressional committee which In tone and temper were not to the liking of the socalled Insurgent ReThis kind of letter wripublicans. ting has been stopped, for the president would not sanction It. and now the mtter!st that roes out Is what may be called "straight Republican" few days ago Mr. McKlnley had n doe-trin- Concerning New Tariff Bill. Of course It will be necessary, or at least so the ruling powers la tbe Republican party declare, to defend the rayne-Aldrlctariff bill on the stump daring the coming congressional cam b however, that at least four administration measures can be put through congress at this session with united party action back of them and then, as the officials of the committee view It. the speakers can go before the country and Bay. "We have carried out tbe promises of the Republican platform in large measure, and we pledge ourselves to carry out the rest of the recommendations before tbe Sixty-flrB- t congress adjourns next March." Chairman Lloyd," of the Democratic congressional committee, says that the Republicans all through the west, and to some extent through the east are disaffected because President Taft has not carried out In full force and effect what are known as the Roosevelt policies. Mr. Lloyd says that the Republicana who are disappointed over what they consider lack of aggressiveness on the part of the present president, are bound to vote for Democratic candidates for congreas In order to make their protest against the disinclination of the party to go ahead along progressive lines. Look to Roosevelt. The Republican managers In tbe coming campaign, as has been printed heretofore, may make an attempt to get Theodore Roosevelt to take the stump In support of bis party and of the Taft management of tbe progressive policies. It may be that the mighty hunter will return to America and Indorse what Mr. Taft baa done, but even if he does this there are many officials In Washington having some reputation for wisdom, who aay that they doubt very much whether Mr. Roosevelt will consent to go on a speech-makintour, and that be probably will content himself with sitting in his study at Oyster Hay or In bis editorial room In New York city, there to put out In written form what be thinks about political conditions. Chairman Lloyd, of the minority party's campaign committee, says that he Is convinced that the unrest among tbe people will result In Democratic victory He refers, of course, to the complaints that have been made about the high cost of living and the feeling evident In some places that the high prices are trace- able to the tariff. Republican Faction Troublea. The Republicans In New York have been having troubles, and while In a measure they have been settled, occasionally messengt-- i from the Empire state Republican camp are still being sent over to Washington to confer with President Taft and with Senators Root and Depew. The feeling of most of the Republicans seems to be that the party in New York will not get into a definite state of peace un til former President Roosevelt returns. Apparently a great many people expect that aa soon as Mr. Roosevelt returns to this country, he will have something definite to aay about the -- g Tbe Repubpresent administration. lican who think tbat President Taft haa not done bis best to forward the Roosevelt policies, are seemingly convinced tbat Mr. Roosevelt at once will get out bla big stick and use It on the administration of the man who during his presidency was bis secretary of war and bis closest friend. Other Republicans believe that tbe mighty hunter on coming back, will say kind ly words for tbe administration, and will Insist that Mr. Taft has been all right, and that the only difficulty Is tbat bla methods have been misunderstood The men who are theclosestfrlendsof Mr. Roosevelt men whom he consulted on political matters, and who In fact were members of his official household, are of the opinion tbat the colonel will keep elltnt on admlnls tratlon affairs for a long time after be comes back to America, and that be will nis!;e a close study of the first year of the administration and of Its outlined policies for tbe future, before he says or writes a word In approval or disapproval Sees Work for Ea President One of Mr. Roosevelt's close friends, however, a man who waa nearer to blm In an advisory way during bis term aa president, than any other man In the t'nlted States, la now an office holder In New York city, t'nquesilon ably thla New York man, whose Idea llty Is not bard to guess. Is part leu . inrly Interested In New York state lie foresaw Ibe row which recently broke stut between the Republican factions In tbe Empire State, and be came to the conclusion apparently, for he Is a good Judge of men and la political conditions, tbat affair New York could be straightened out only by some one with a strong hand, and he bad one man la mind wbo at that time was fsr away In the Jungles of Africa. The Democrats la Washington are not at all unhappy over the trouble which are besetting the Republicans In New York state. The Democrat bate set it down as a certainty that they are to carry the next bouse of representatives, and they say freely that with a Democratic victory next fall another Democratic victory In the fall two years hence Is certain to f"l low. ft Is virtually a necessity tbat the party which elect a president, shall carry New York state. The Republicans have trouble also In these two In Ohio and In Indiana. states they have hot takes on aa sharp and virulent a form as has the quarrel la New York when The twfifed Republican about the difficulties which they seem to hsv fallen into, retort that history show that the Republicans, quarrel a they may, always get together Id time to save the day, and then they wbo do the twitask the Democrat ting whether or not this ran be said a truthfully of tb party that 1 bow In Ibe minority. Tbe Democrat an swer tbat their party trouble are all behind them. GEORGE CLINTON. pol-lilcs- WELL KIDNEYS KEEP THE BODY WELL. Somewhat Disappointing. He was a doctor and waa patiently waiting for his first patient Thought he: "If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to tbe mountain. And as patients will not seek me out I must need seek them out." lie strolled through tbe When the kidneys do their duty, th blood la filtered clear of uric acid and other waste. Weak kidneys do not filter off all the bad matter. This lathe cheap market and presently saw a cause of rheumatic man buy six nice cucumbers. "Here's paina, backache and a chance!" aald he, and followed blm disorder. home. Patiently he waited for four urinary Doan'a Kidney Pills long and lonely hours and about midcure weak kidney. night the front door quickly opened, Rev. A b r a ra and tbe man dashed down the step. He seized him by the arm and cried Weaver. George town, Tex., former earnestly: "Do you want a doctor?" the man roughly. editor Baptist Her- "No!" replied "At a "Want more cucumbers!" ald, say: Baptist conference at Jackson. Tex., I fell from a platform and hurt my back. I was soon over the Injury, but the kid NUm time in tea whoa the liter is right Am ney were badly disatomic t sod bowel are riahb ordered, passages painful and often CARTER'S LITTLE Doan's Kidney Pills cured bloody. UVER FILLS thla trouble completely." emir but tnnlv Remember the name Doan's. Sold I CARTEL Foster-MUburCo., by alt dealers. 60 box. N. Y. centa a Buffalo, CuraCoaf. I sti nation. X IIIVER- I Utterances. Unpublished c i ii Indiga. Herein is set down a hitherto untion. published utterance of Emerson. There Headache, ami Distress after Eating. Is no doubt of It authenticity: "An Small PiU. Small Da, Small Priaa a boodely boodely boodely boo, dood-elGENUINE must bear signature) doodely doo!" It waa bis favorite way of addressing babies. Carlyle inbabies thus: variably addressed "Kookey kookey kookey koo, kookey kookey koo!" Occasionally be varied that with: "Keekey keekey keekey kee, keekey. keekey kee!" Shakespeare's conversation with babies was Too this: "Too Sir Francis Bacon' waa simply: "Klklk." David Hume said: "Boo!" Charles Dickens usvl "Heao, taln't oo Cured by Electropodes yaph a Itty bit?" Sir Isaac Newton J VWM. Tn.lMllrf Ml UtkW ihoa. Hotjy brcoaal aunal used to say: "Howdydoogum!" roaaaalaa wlrra, Poatllv cm lo Rhaiunatl aad W Kldaar backaefca. 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