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Show DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING FOR CHAPTZBS 100-fo- ot CUR F.URAL READERS. How IH'imniiii-u- MTato Thl Iarnior l t tliiil ad ruultry. of I'urm-- Hi uf l )' A '1, porting great coungrain. Several dairymen in this most the try are practicing this plan, noted of whom is Alenzo Wilcox, ol Millford, N. Y., who has fed ski.n milk to his dairy for years, and with a herd of common bred, but well selected, cows has raised the butter yield to over four hundred and twenty-livJohn pounds each yearly, writes Mrs. Could to the New York Tribune. It is not so much in feeding the milk to the cows, but in finding what cows best assimilate it and how much can be fed to advantage. The great value of Bkim milk consirta in its casein (probe tein) and milk sugar, and it may In bran to some relation Lear to said In 100 pounds of Its proportions. palm milk there are about 3 V4 pounds protein, Vs pound albumen, 4V4 poundB sugar and the ash and some butter fat, in all about 9 pounds of solid matter; so a cow fed 60 pounds of milk per day would get a food value somewhere near the value of 5 pounds of gluten meal. As dry matter the nutritive ratio would be very narrow, 1:2, when a balancing ration would be about 1:5.4; po it will be seen that if a cow will consume 50 pounds of milk a day she has been fed 1V& pounds of the 2 V4 pounds of protein thnt she reIf the roughage was quires daily. clover hay the protein in the hay w'ould be pretty nearly enough more to make up the total amount required. The best feeders of milk have found that not all of the cows like or can be induced to drink the milk, and of those that do many of them do far better and seemingly digest It better if it is fed slightly sour. Where the miik is creamed and butter made it is found better to put the buttermilk into the skim milk, and thus add a starter" that creates in the fresh milk a pleas--. nnt acid taste, which makes it better relinked by the cows, it is the best plan where the cows are fed the milk to let them drink it from pails, and wash there pails very fre fluently with boiling water and keep them fresh, otherwise the drinking trough or pail gets thick with fomented germs, and a bad taste is promoted, the cow refuses to drink the moss, and it will be a matter of mucl. labor to induce her to again drink skim milk. It is thought best that some grain le mixed with the milk when fed. As to this the fanner can Lcsi judge for himself when the feeding problem is before him. The value of the milk for food varies according to the price of Jiutter and ability of the cows to give milk. Cheap butter and small messes of milk make butter cost far more thap Its market price; but with butter selling at about 24 cents, and with a four hundred pound butter cow, skim milk is estimated by Mr. Wilcox to be worth in the saving of grain food fully worth 35 cents a hundred pounds a sum far in excess of that received by most farmers for skim milk, especially where they will not draw it away from the creameries at five cents a can, and that when they know that practically all of the food elements remain in the milk, for the abstracted fats contain little supporting substance, but briefly a substance to help digest and emulsify food and Impart energy. s e seem-injS- . 66 Music Efjcisted Centuries j&ejfore Our Time. H&agtime99 Rogtim In-din- A Stuilr In Mclin Milk. Now ami then one Lears of some man who is feeding his cows with their own refuse skim milk, and reand saving of sm-ees- fence. They were too up a pretty to be mutilated by dipping, and 1 was not )vr pared to erect such a fence. Whereupon I set to thinking and devised a scheme which worked beautifully, and n.y Ligborus now stay in the yard, and wings have not been dipped. I put up a ire fence foui feet high, and then at an angle oi about 45 degrees I added thr-r- feet, towards the pen. Mistress lien stands at about two feet from the base of tbe fence, and flies up as straight as sbe can, bits her head against the sloping fence, and comes down discouraged. Sbe tries this some half dozen times a day and finally gives It up disgusted. The hen Is a rather stupid animal and is unable to reason; sbe never thinks to stand off at a distance and fly for the top of the sloping fence. I do not remember seeing this kind of a fer -- e spoken of in poultry books or perioaicala If the scheme is of any assistance to any one of your readers, I am glad to give them the result of my experience. Ms daysof pharaoh. in the- A Washington . ap3 Ms a moe(ern Vo it 75 YNayr-tim- tna Hqqy ma Lulu rfy'Iub e- so ny. 'corn-huski- Ar-kans- Knl pjrit ikiiim. The plumage of head and the hackle of the Red Fylc game cock varies from 11 lat-a-t- Pair f IM P !e Gaum. bright orange to chestnut; back crimson; breast white; laced with chestnut; transbody white; wings crimson, versal 'vith a white bar; tail and tall coverts white; the head of hen is chpstnut; hackle white, edged with yellow; back white; breast salmon; wings white or chestnut tinged; tall white; shanks and feet of both cock and hen are yellow or willow. Red y During the last year there have been published countless articles on ragtime, written by prominent musicians, teachers, and critics, many of whom had something to say about who "Call it whai you will, and 'rag- time' is as good as any other noise, This says Thomas i'rcston Brooke. 'ragtime' existed centuries before our Lime, and it will go on for centuries to posr-ibl- mt j Bud Fylo Game cook,. lilack-brcaste- 32Ac3rTlMEr well-know- butter-makin- g. Inl-unln- high-cla- ss Cod-give- rag-tim- Baotime - i Fi-n- c. s Mu-ro- pe l.K-lioj- "i-- M W'VJ SK ad-iln-- I w - ot p: . cnnt'-mpnraric- s cor:-ul"- ii i s at I Pyles are similar in markings to the d Reds, white being substituted for black. iim-m- -3 romc after we have been forgotten. T2,ACrTIME Ragtime, its origin, its status, its 177G merits and demerits, and its chances for perpetual inn have been worrying musicians with long hair and the public having long purses ever since a popular song writer a few years ago claimed to have "invented" its rhythm. At Denver luM June the American Federation of Musicians at its annua! convention passed a resolution condemning ragtime and recommending that its mem 'fis nase playing it. In like measure th" Dancing Teachers' association of America and the National Music Teachers association are declared against it and pledged to discourage tlic use of ragtime in every manner lint against all of this, Brooke's Chicago Marine Band at the Cincinnati Zoological Dardens last season gave every Wednesday ragtime concerts I havp often been asked 'Why do discovered" or ''invented" it. Rag-tievening, and in spite of Cincinnati's invented or not discovered you by was play so mir.-l- i ragtime at your reputation as a musical city, these conwas 'music concerts? and 1 always reply that ragIV; r win 15.000 to says people anyone. certs drew from 12,000 time words music is what is must demanded, to them every evening. At these eon- - known and understood before and that ragI believe and that my mission is to please not certs the best elements of Cincinnati's were spoken.' to educate the masses. It is not a crime to acknowledge that you enjoy ragtime. All the old masters wrote in 2:uhULAMD ragtime, and that great poet and wizard of harmony. Richard Wagner, was n a pastmast'T at it. It is a fact that the themes for many of our most popular ragtime songs were taken bodily from his operas. I have always delighted in strong contrasts from the sublime to the ridiculous, if you like and I invariably follow "Tannnauser" or Ieonore overtures with some little street song melody or ragtime march. It frequently happens that two persons will Bit side by side at one of my concerts, one a lover of music the other w'itn a desire only for the ragtime piece. By bringing the extremes in close contrast the grand old overtures seem grander and the street song sweeter and more entrancing. "Why should any conductor refuse animals lower atin to the existed long time play music which causes so much the population were there, doubling man. It is simharmless of advent the before pleasure? and Symphony tendance at Wagner Ragtime is not a fad, ifs many have concerts. At the Buffalo Exposition ply rhythm, or intensified rhythm, and I hare frequently observed animals declared, and it will not die out. It and in every other city in the United n sense of rhythm time to music having a strong, pleases the Brooke's where kerping Cnnada States and us long ns the world will endure reand or marked the rhythm. band has played. 90 per ent Rhythm is Die skeleton on which shall stand. Call it what you will quests for music have been for the music is hung, and if you will strip ragiime is as good as any other name all e selections. modern ragtime of ita it existed centuries before our time the Mr. Brooke's standing as a compomush: nave the will it will go on for centuries to come and melodies that you a him ser of popular music has given we have been forgotten. in the since been after has Esvogue beginning on the heard subject. voice to be pecially is his opinion valuable when it is considered that not one liar of m ragi ini.- music occurs in his nun posieLAVERY pays. tions. and that while lie does not defend it. lie makes it plain that ragtime music is witn the people for all time. Mrs. .hi ni os I.. Blair, a society leader c six-fo- ng half-mas- l(ut ter Sinking In Normandy. Crossing fourteen or fifteen miles of water we land on the northwest coast of France, lu a region long noted for dairying, especially Here we find the Normandy cattle large, coarse boned, with heavy, homely heads and horns, and nothing to show the possession of dairy qualities. Their udders are especially poor. They appear more of a beef than a dairy breed. Yet the people make a living with them as dairy animals. In type A Remedy for Mm-lthey are very much like our Brown The loss of stock in Montana, caused Swiss, although inferior in every reby poisonous plants, has been estispect You have, to pay 9150 or 9200 mated at from 950.G00 to 9100.000 per if you want a good cow there. Norannum. 1'rior to the present fiscal mandy cattle have thrifty calves, and year there was no simple and reliable this section is noted for its superb way of saving stock when poisoned, veal. In fact the beBt veal I ever but now, by a series of careful experitasted was in France. These people ments conducted at the request of the carry on dairying at a great disadMontana authorities, the department vantage. They have no means of coollias shown that if a small tablet coning milk or determining what they lose sisting of permanganate of potash and in butter fat. Tbe butter is not salted sulphate of aluminum be promptly and is sold twice a week. Daughters administered the greater part of this and wives of dairymen take it to nearloss can be averted The action of the est market and In two hours from permanganate is to oxidize and destroy 52.00U to C0.GU0 pounds is sold. At the poison still remaining unabsorbed these markets are four or five princiIn the stomach, and this action is inbuyers, with assistants who take tensified by the sulphate of aluminum. pal most of it. shipping to Paris and other The poisonous plants that respond to large cities, and what is left goes to this treatment are. so far as ascer- Die blending factories where butter of tained, larkspur and poison canias, the different grades is mixed and blended two plants that cause most of the lossout In about three grades. turned and es In Montana. Dept, of Agriculture of jtf. jOiiis, dn hired in a public butter brings the very highest This last spiing that the Missouri Report. price in some of the lust English maris u "raglii.ie" itv, and in the kets. Fresh Normandy rolls sell at talk Die li::iiiinasier agrees following A l,r(linrii ( the best prices in the Parts and Ism-do- n with her as to ail iti-- being in Die a man conwishes (o Occasionally markets. No good butter In In a jnrd. says a writer fine is suited; it is a mark of poor cal' g.u.v. - now It. iv. time." said Mr. llionkr. In Poultry Monthly, .ucli was my exAlvord. Major quality. nf ail mooted the ii.ost generally pert' mv. My puli' ts fli w l!io fmrelull why musicians, l the. lies among then put on iwn fence, The fact that the average modern dls-uand they pci'iutM that. I woman treasures her good looks and jmeh a subject should threaten lo more Musiof ion rat the Chicago it ail. hut ov'-then strung a win m-npp-a- is considerably youngcian. Is rather dlllicu't to undei stand he wire they Wiiit. Iiihiin ii:g er than her masculine an iulciligeiit a friend, lias leva advanced as a reason Tor the w h. u considered ri'Mly. I i and y ,.'tn:i'!p"iiil. who said tenden-women to unprejudiced :ily two th in;; gum to do; Hit! r :; p ti .;r wings or put marry men tluir j iniors. a drummed tn the of time and that still is the only music of many of the heathen races. It is the juber, hues, and wing dances of tbe old plantation darky, and no more inspiring ragtime was ever played than that which he patted with his hands, shuffled with his feet, or plunked on his rudely constructed banjo. "All the oldtime fiddlers were ragbackwoods The time performers. a barrel on who sat perched piayrr In a corner at a bee, who held his fiddle at his elbow and t, his bow at played the Traveler and 'lp Duck Creek in a style that would put to shame many of the fellows who claim to have originated what they are pleased to call ragtime. Drummers have played nothing but ragtime since the invention of the drum. The hnss drum is now used only to punctuate or emphasize the heavy heats or pulse of the music, but in the original 'sheepskin band' that has furnished martial music for our soldiers in times of war for centuries the bass drummer used a stick in each hand and helped out the ragtime rhythm of the snare drum. Who has not stood on a cuibstone, watching u passing parade, and noticed how wearily the men in line plodded of along to the monotonous the bass drum? But when the snare drums broke into their merry ragtime how the beats of 'tat-- t marchers immediately braced up and walked with a buoyant, elastic step? According to good authority the sense of rhythm is greater by 5)3 per cent than either the sense of harmony or melody. Consequently, any march with a strong rhythmic accent, or a ragtime song with its Intensified rhythm, appeals more intensely to greater mansind. .r t. y |