Show THE Big GMEGEGE) SHOUTS LIES AND UNTRUTHS VALUE OF COWS Difference Exists at the ing Record Shows A cow took the months value of PIPES THAT GROW Follow testing association of Ontario records of two cows for seven to Illustrate the comparative the two belonging to a dairy farmer and here are the records: ON VINES The Meerschaum Has a Rival South African Gourd In a Dallas Tex — Since the department of ' agriculture through its bureau of foreign plant investigation brought to 4 he notiee of the smokers of this country the fact that pipes could be grown that would wear well and smoke sweet and cool great interest baa been manifested in the enterprise This wonderful plant known as the calabash gourd is a native of South Africa and produces in the form of calabashes which are being made into the highest quality of pipe bowls Annually inanv thousands of pipe Exactly its Intention DRAFT HORSES THE MOST PUOFITABLE COW Weight of milk Ethel — I am so glad there was none 6595 lbs Weight of fat lbs of that horrible horn and drum car- Tendency to Defective Fore Feet Is a Yield of cheese 609 lbs Great Weakness nival business last night Value of $5595 George — Why not? It’s all right I think the weakest point in our Cost of feedmilk 2100 (7 months at $3) Ethel— Oh George it’s not a bit reIs defective fore draft' horses fined It’s so loud — Baltimore AmeriProfit $3495 feet As nearly as I can estimate from can the investigations made ip the second THE LEAST COW PUOFITABLE hand sale stables In Chicago where Weight of milk THE MODESTY OF MARY 2790 lbs 110 lbs fully 80 per cent of the draft horses Weight of fat 272 lbs that are used upon that city’s streets Yield of cheese are thrown aside at least 75 per cent Value of milk $2790 of the draft horses are rendered use- Cost of feed (7 months at $3) 2100 less after a few years’ service because Profit $690 of lameness the seat of which is In records on two these Commenting the fore feet touching the comparative value of the You go ontb the market In Chicago two cows the Farm and Dairy of Canwith a bunch of god draft horses for ada Bays: sale the first rart of the horse the It will be noticed that one cow gave buyer looks at Is the fore feet and If practically just double the amount of they are not sound and rignt the price milk In seven months that the other Is Immediately cut down cow did Does t’ is indicate that she is The fore feet are the most Imporworth just twice as much?' By some tant part of the horse from the user’s It will be claimed that is worth more standpoint in the Unite States than twice as much because she did and very little attention Is paid to not eat twice as much as the second that point as a rule cow although she gave twice as much The second weakest point Is in the milk When however we look at the profit hock joint and about 12 per cent of the draft horses In our large cities are of the one cow compared with the Pipes Made from Gourde discarded because of weak defective profit of the other we find that the and unsound hock joints Thesj two first cow gave five times as great a gourds are exported both In the rough the fore feet and the hock joints are profit as the second cow Does this and In the finished pipe Mistress— Why Mary this figure of points whlcn we should consider careThe plants grow very fast one plant mean that she is worth five times as Venus is covered with dust much? If it does not then hov much producing from 100 to 200 bowls It Is fully — Maid Yes’m Now what are the weaknesses in more Is the first cow worth than the about five months from the time the Mistress— Didn’t I tell you to brush the feet? We are seed is planted until the fruit can be CLEVER JANE second cow? using In this oun-trit off? These figures all go to show that gathered more Fercherons than we a:e of Maid — Yes’m Constant attention must be given to main profit In keeping cows lies in the all other draft breeds together they Mistress — And why didn’t you? are the breed that seems to be the the amount of milk they can be in- the plants when under cultivation so Maid (blushing) — Because mem I best suPed to our American people duced to give above the actual cost of as to insure a crop of suitable shapes thought it needed something on It — and the Percheron horse’s fore feet is feed The greater amount of milk the for pipes Many farmers of South Bohemian perhaps his weakest point Many of cow gives above the cost of feed the Africa make a special study of growthem are too small not small perhaps greater is the proportion of clear ing the correct shapes Confidence The gourds require a hot dry soli at the surface of the ground but small profit in handling her In the case of “Yes I’ll lend you kisses” where the hoof and the hair jon at the second cow here referred to it with rain at the proper season to bring Said Jennie unto Jack The curved stem “For I believe you’re honest the or coronet This Is the will be noticed that while the first them to perfection Enough to pay ’em back” cow give twice as much milk as the of the calabash forms a light and apparticular part of your Perche-o- n —Chicago Dally News horse’s fot which you should ex- second bow she yielded five times the propriate shape This Is the gourd of amine carefully In looking for weakprofit This was because once the cost commerce An Enterprising Journalist Curiously enough these gourds ber ness In a breeding horse Get a good of feed had been deducted all the Country Editor— Jim I understand with plenty of depth milk she produced above the cost of a resemblance to the capacious bowled that old stone building at the crosslarge and width in hoof at the heel then see her feed represented clear profit For meerschaum so popular in Germany roads 4s to be torn down The calabash pipe not only yields a instance it Is infinitely more costly The Printer — Yep they begin to- that the pastern or ankle blends niceThe ankle from the to keep five cows each yielding a very sweet and cool smoke but it ly Into the hoof morrow colors of $690 than It is to beautifully Its life is about as In profit one fetlock to down the foot the joint keep Editor— Well JuEt Country slip around and put a live toad in the wall Percheron Is frequently very short that alone gives a profit of $3490 By long at that of a brier pipe It takes Mistress — Have you been touching We must have and If long sets keeping one cow instead of five the a very high polish to fill up and very straight something the barometer Jane? The present market price of these too far back Pasterns should have feed of four cows is saved as well as with this week — New York Weekly Jane— Yes mum I Just put It to an angle of about 45 degrees but the labor of milking and attending to pipes is rather high owing to the fact “very dry” ’cos it’s my day out toshould be clean and smooth and show them and the space they occupy In that no two of them are of the same HOUSEMAID PHILOSOPHY morrow size and shape necessitating the malots of quality of fiber and give a full the stables ' king of the mountings by hand The nice round blending of the bone and A HOG HOLDER And Just as Good industry in South Africa Is such that sinew Into the hoof Now then the ever Don’t there are shipped annually from get the notion boy foot Itself Get a foot that Is wide in Whatever else you do to 200000 pipes the heel and deep ffom coronet to Contrivance for Securing the Animal That you’re supreme: because there are The ease with which these gourds for Ringing Get a horse with a Ten thousand more like you ground surface can be grown is such that it Is thought —Detroit Free Press hoof that is dense that Is closeness Here Is a device which the farmer American smokers will not be slow to You do not of the fibers altogether Her Hope want a hoof in which the fibers are can readily construct for himself appreciate this latest and best thing not laid closely together giving you which will prove a time saver when it in pipes which Beems destined to oust “My dear Mrs Widgerton” said the the meerschaum minister who had been delegated after A come3 to handling the hogs for ringa smooth hard horn the accident to break the sad news to hoof that Is not smooth on Its surface REMARKABLE HORSE TROUGH the widow of the victim “I regret to dense and close flbered will not hold have to Inform you that your husband the shoe and will wear off very quickHas Distinction of Once Having Is In the bosom of Abraham” ly if not shod Been Used as a Punch Bowl “Well" she replied after thinking When you look at the bottom of the the matter over for a moment “I hope foot get one that is concave hollowed Boston — The horse trough conyou’re sure It’s Abraham and not some up in the center and with a good nected with the pump in this picture is woman" — Chicago large full frog The the chief object of interest though not frog is one of the most important the largest There are millions of He Beat It of horse’s the the foot cushion parts horse troughs no doubt in the world “Where did you steal that mat which is placed there by Nature to but this one is the only one which has from?” demanded the policeman as he break the concussion as the horse puts the distinction of having been used as “They say the eyes are the windows his foot to the seized the tramp ground Very frequentof the soul — nonsense! You may look “I didn’t steal it” said the tramp In this Into 100 times and 99 ly as our horses are shod eyes anyone’ “A lady up the street gave It to me times you'll be deceived! If there’s country the weight comes all outside and told me to beat it” — Judge such a thing as a window of the soul on the rim of the foot which is not intended to bear all the weight but it's a keyhole"’ — Dorfbarbier INSOMNIA we have so shod the horse' In many The Hog Holder instances that the frog is all drawn The Modern Version Old Mother Hubbard up and shriveled and thesole Is flat- ing It can be placed at the end of a She went to the cupboard narrow runway or chute into which tened out To get her poor dog a crust the hog can be easily driven from the But when she got there SometimesI pen Then without any urging he will She found I declare It sometimes happens that a man insert his head in the hole as The cupboard controlled by a Trust offering gets what he is looking for after he the likeliest chance of esca e and the —Judge to expect it — Chicago farmer can work the lever and there has ceased Horrible Blunder Ndws you are Try it Fair Debutante — Prof Werdigo didn’t seem to like It when I told him STOCK NOTES FARM COMMANDMENTS I thought he was working too hard and that he ought to try to get a little Pigs will root more in spring when Ten Don’ts Which If Observed Will fresh air now and then Is at than soft other the any Save a Deal of Trouble Shocked Parent — I should say he time ground regularly with coal didn’t! Child you forget that he con- charcoal Feeding ashes other mineral matducts an orchestra at one of the a recent conference of Jewish At rootreduce the will ter and tankage theaters — Chicago Tribune Rings should be used farmers held In New York the fol ing Inclination lowing ten commandments for buying in extreme cases farm were approved: Ancestry Sows farrowing In the spring Bhould on both sides Horse Trough Once Used as a Punch “My grandmothers 1 Don’t think about be provided with extra dry shelter and buying a farm were Daughters of the American RevoBowl and other baby ani- If your wife won’t live in the country Pigs bedding lution” considerable cold — can endure mals 2 Don’t proThe believe agents when they a punch bowl Stage Manager It is situated on the girl who plays “I don’t know whether my grandtell you stories the Sleeping Beauty can’t go on to- mothers belonged to anything or not viding they are kept dry public square of Ostervllle Mass on Keep the colts and calves thrifty night 3 Don’t chase after big farms Cape Cod where strange things somebut I’ve heard my father say that he — at this and not? period heavens! Great growing occur They This occurrence times took Manager Why once belonged to the Sons of Temper4 Don’t buy a farm unless you have need a variety and abundance of feed Stage Manager — She just ate a ance” — Chicago place on a Fourth of July a national at this season to put them in shape money enough left to buy a cow Welsh rarebit and can’t get to sleep holiday quite popular in the United 5 Don’t settle far away from the on summer for best growth pasture The celebration States took The Objection place markets An occafirst in the church with patriotic Tess — I thought you said ycu were Keep up the grain ration Deep Sea Amenities 6 Don’t run too much in debt when songs the reading of the Declaration sional feed of oats and wheat bran The shark was reviling the skate going to get Borne pajamas? Is Linseed meal farm will “You’re such a cheap one!” said the — good buy for some and help you your of hurrah I I was Bess Independence but couldn’t find any After these exercises the young stock loosening the bowels aid 7 Don’t pay a deposit on your farm speeches shark I liked furnishing protein for development of until you have consulted a lawyer “Worse than that” sighed the entire company adjourned to the horse Tess — What was the matter? which wa3 filled with a punch skate ‘Tve even been accused of beBess — I couldn’t get them cn over muscle trough 8 Don't forget to insure your farm full of patriotism and other that was ing a distant relative of yours” my head — Cleveland Leader buildings in a reliable company and everybody drank of it with Thoughts come into our minds by Which the listening lobsters being 9 Don’t buy a farm unless you are things avenues which we never left open and Calls for the Cash delight As a matter of contrast it is merely lobsters cbnsldered fairly good to meet the mortgages able our out of minds A — go will of here care that stated not pay an thoughts the church so near through pound repartee for that locality Chicago 10 Don’t buy a farm unless you avenues which we lever Joluntarily ounce of debt — Dutch Droverb is a Baptist church and the pump Tribune have consulted those who know draws only pure cold water opened — Emerson With very few exceptions all s may be divided into two classes: LleB and untruths Lies are those assertions which the person making them knows to be not so and untruths are those assertions which the person them not making does know to be so Lies help to smooth over the rough places of life Indeed if It were not for lies life would be almost unbearable It would be unsociable to say the least If we had to confine ourselves stiictly to the truth conversation would be limited to such platitudes as “tw’o and two are four” ‘‘the Bquare of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides” ‘‘the earth is round” ‘‘the sun is on time and the like Whereas truth is limited minutely and painfully exclusive one has not to be at all particular about lies They may take any foini and disport In any garb A lie never has to be verified Nevertheless it is just as well to bear in mind that the art of lying requires a certain degree of consistency for lies and rigorously insisted upon have been known to pass current as truth for centuries often to the annoyance and headlessness of those who tried to set things right The lie is human to tell the truth Impossible — Ellis 0 Jones in Life frit f |