Show SHELTER THE COWS Now us the time to put into practical operation all the lessons you have learned about She necessity of keeping tho COWS comfortable in order to get a good flew of milk It will require but one little experiment ex-periment to prove to tine most skeptical mind that discomfort does mot pay with the cow writes L S Hardin in the Lou tevdlle Home and Farm If you keep a daily record of her milk yield YOu will I soon be impressed with this fact < Such a record is good for future reference concerning the weather for the shrinkage on certain days on the milk yield is a certain cer-tain indication that e trema lieiat or cold prevailed an i that vicinity The papers are full of accounts of small experiences proving the damage of bad weather One man writes October 10 our cows were turned out dITto the field to feed Soon after a cold rain set in I went after the cows before dinner and found them standing by the edge of the woods humped up in great discomfort They were hastily rubbed off when in the barn I rubbed one heifer until dry with Wisps of straw Well that day the cows shrunk in their milk yield nearly one third How ds It gentle reader with your cows at this moment while you are sitting by a comfortable fire reading your Home and Farm Is it raining out of doors or blowing cold and damp or worse yetis yet-is the snowlflylng over the field and wetting wet-ting the weather side of the cows as they stand huddled together for mutual protcetion Do you hoar that poor calf calling you from the barn yard Put on your great coat and go forth to do a good deed by putting these unproteced females under cover But perhaps you have no cover to put them under The tough horses occupy all the stable room you have and the sheds are all filled with wagons and farm machinery scattered about in every place and occupying several times as much room as necessary If you have mo accommodations ac-commodations for the horned beasts of jour farm H Ss high time you were becoming be-coming humane enough to figure out some way to furnish them protection Now 4s a good time to do that The poorest poor-est kinds of boards will make the best kind of cow stables if you will only plank up both sides of the studs and fill in between be-tween solid with straw or leaves BO that the wind will not get through Patent roofing paper is sold so cheap nowadays nowa-days that there is no excuse for neglectIng neglect-Ing the cows Such a roof will last several sev-eral seasons with but one thickness but will of course be better if two or more layers are put on AX IXCOaiPLETE AFliAIR Washington Star It is plain said the justice that you stole the hog and I shall send > you up fur twelve months Jedge kin you gimme bout one hour fo I goes What for Well still pork wont keep In dis weather en I wants tee go home en saLt dat hog down 1 P e f |