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Show t I I The Bow of Orange Hihbon to any one, Joanna. Very angry I will be if I hear them. Batavius, also, he must be quiet on this matter. O, then, Batavius has many things of greater moment to think about! Of Katherine he never approved, and the talk there will be, he will not f A ROMANCE OF NEW YOHK By AMELIA E. BAER. CIHH X Thou tho Other like it. Before from Boston he comes back, I shall be glad to have it over. On." Eto. Joanna, many will praise KatherCopyright. 1886, hy DMM, Meed end Company. ine, for she to herself has done well. . And, when back she comes, at the governors she will visit, and with all CHAPTER IX. (Continued.) had never remained all night before "One Is wanting of the dozen, mothwithout sending some message or on the great ladies; and not one among them will be so lovely as Katherine with the a previous er. At the last understanding to that ef- Hyde. dish of cake sent to Joanna it went. fect And, if Joanna had been in Madam In the JBack it has not come. morning Joris rose very early For it you might go, Katherine. I and went into the garden. Generally Semple's parlor a few hours later she this service to nature calmed and would have had a most decided illuslike not that my sets are broken." tration of Lysbets faith in the popThis scarlet. cheered him, but he came to breakKatherine blushed ular verdict. Madam was sitting at was the opportunity she wanted. She fast from it silent and cross. He reached his store in that mood her tea table talking to the elder, who wondered if her mother suspected the had brought home with him the full want; but Lysbets face expressed which apprehends trouble, and finds to Joannas story. supplement out the missing annoyances that under other cironly a little worry about Neil had heard nothing. He had damask. Slowly, though her heart cumstances would not have any at- been shut up in his office all day over beat almost at her lips, she folded tention. He was threatening a gen- an Important suit and was irritable eral reform in everything and everyaway her work. with exhaustion, though he was doing when a man were came to the door. his best to The nights yet chilly though body, keep himself in control, If you are Joris Van Heemskirk, I the first blooms were on the trees and when madam his mother said and the wadded cloak and hood were have a letter for you. I got it from pointedly, Im fearing, Neil, that the not far out of season as to cause re- The Dauntless last night, when I was bad news has made you 111; you arena , the fishing in the bay. mark. As she came at a' like yoursel, he asked without Without a word Joris took the let- much clock struck seven. There was yet an Interest, What bad news. hour, and she durst not wait so long ter, turned into his office and shut the "The news anent Katherine Van at the bottom of the garden while it door. It was Katherine's writing, and Heemskirk. And this held the folded paper in his hand and was early In the evening. What of her? he asked. looked stupidly at it. The truth was Didna you hear? She ran awa singular reluctance to leave home assailed Katherine. If she had known forcing itself into his mind and the last night wT Capt. Hyde; stole awa conviction was a real wi him on The that it was to be forever, her soul Dauntless. could not have more sensibly taken physical agony to him. Through a She would have the right to go he mist out made these words: with him, I have no doubt, said Neil its farewell of all the dear, familiar I have My Father and my Mother with guarded calmness. objects of her daily life. About her gone with I married my husband. Do mother this feeling culminated. She Richard think she was his when he was ill, and tonight wife? you really found her cap a little out of place; he came tor I me. When left home, If she went with him, I am sure and her fingers lingered in the lace, I knew not I she was. He dropped the words and stroked fondly her hair and pink utes I had. was to go. Only five min' In is this Gods name, with an emphatic precision, and cheeks, until Lysbet felt almost em- the truth. Always, at the end of the looked with gloomy barrassed by the tender, but unusual eyes out of the world, I shall love you. Forgive me, window; gloomy, but steadfast, as if show of affection. To forgive me, mijn fader, mijn moeder. he were trying to face a future In Now then go, my Katherine. Your child, which there was no hope. Joanna give my dear love. Tell her KATHERINE HYDE. "But if she isna? persisted madam. cheesecakes were the that very good He tore the letter into fragments, I In a moment Neil let slip the rein and the krullers and that but the next moment he picked them in which he had been folding himwill come over and see the new carup, folded them in a piece of paper self, and in a slow, intense voice anpet they have bought. and in his Then them he put pocket. swered, "I shall make it my business And while she spoke she was re- went to Mrs. Gordons. She had antictying Katherines hood, and admiring ipated the visit, and was, in a meas- to find out. If Katherine is married, God bless her! If she is not, I will as she did so the fair, sweet face in ure, prepared for it With a smile Its quiltings of crimson satin, and the and outstretched hands, she rose from follow Hyde around the world until I cleave his false heart in two. His small, dimpled chin resting upon the her chocolate to meet him. You see, passion gathered with its utterance. fine bow she tied under it. Then she I am a terrible sluggard, councillor, He pushed away his chair, and put followed her to the door and watched she laughed; but the colonel left her down the road until she saw her early for Boston this morning and I down his cup so indifferently that it meet Dominie Van Linden, and stand cried myself into another sleep. And missed the table and fell with a crash. Joris tried to put the memory of a moment holding his hand. A mes- will you have a cup of chocolate? Katherine away, but he could not acI sage X am going for my mother, she on came Madam, courtesy, pot a miracle. The girls face said, as she firmly refused his escort. but for my daughter. Where is my complish was ever before him. He felt her I mother, with Then madam, your Katherine? caressing fingers linked in his own, ill sit until you return, he replied Truth, sir, I believe her to be and as he walked in his house and cheerfully; and Katherine answered, where every woman wishes with her his garden, her small feet pattered That will be a great pleasure to her, husband." beside him. For as there are in cresir. Her husband! Who, then? ation invisible bonds that do not A little farther she walked; but Indeed, councillor, that is a ques-t'obreak like mortal bonds, so also there answered suddenly remembering that the dommy easily nephew, are correspondences subsisting beinies visit would keep her mother in Capt. Hyde, at your service. tween souls, despite the separation of made restless "When were they married?" the house, and being distance. In faith, I have forgotten the preby the gathering of the night shadows, (To be continued.) she turned quickly and taking the cise date. It was in last October. come had which Who road married them? Hyde up very MRS. PULLMAN WAS SURPRISED It was the governors chaplain the night Neil Semple challenged him she entered the garden by a small the Rev. Mr. Somers, a relative of gate at its foot, which was intended my Lord Somers, a most estimable Widow of the Late Car Magnate Gets a Severe Jolt. for the gardeners use. The lilacs and respectable person, I assure you. A well known Cambridge (Mass.) had not much foliage, but in the dim Col. Gordon and Capt Earle and mydoctor, in the meeting of a society self were the witnesses. light her dark, slim figure was Twice over deceived I have bee's, held at his house a short time ago, behind them. Longingly gave the following anecdote relative and anxiously she looked up and down then In short, sir, there was no help to Mrs. George Pullman, widow of the the water way. A mist was gathering over It; and there were no boats in for it. And, if you will take time to late car magnate. A friend or mine (the name might have been Anderson) the channel except two pleasure shal- reflect, I am sure that you will be was ill with shaking palsy. He was a reasonable. to their proper lops, already tacking western man and had many peculiar"I know not, I know not out O, been my had Dauntless The piers. ities. One was that when he went into of sight for hours. There was not the Katherine, my Katherine! a place where it was warm he would I pray you sit down, councillor. splash of an oar, and no other river You look faint and ill. I protest to take off his jacket. He came to me sound at that point, but the low, peyou that Katherine is happy; and for advice, and I referred him to a of the turning tide. culiar wish-h-New York specialist. He called upon grieving will not restore your loss. on the All her senses were keenly For that reason I grieve, madam. the doctor one day and, taking off his alert. Suddenly there was the sound coat, sat down in a chair. of oars, and the measure was that of Nothing can give me back my child. caone has his Shortly afterwards two well dressed "Come, every sir, She turned strokes. steady, powerful her face southward- and watched. Like lamity; and, upon my word, you are ladies entered and both looked at in astonishment One was about a flash a boat shot out of the shadow very fortunate to have one no greater him leave. The other said that she a long, swift boat, that came like a than the marriage of your daughter to would send in her card and have the Fate, rapidly and without hesitation, to an agreeable man, of honorable man removed. They evidently thought to her very feet. Richard quickly left profession and noble family. Joris went home. On his road hp was Intoxicated. The doctor came It, and with a few strokes it was car- heThen met Bram, full of the first terror out in response to the card, with ried back Into the dimness of the He told smiling face. He bowed to Mrs. Pullcentral channel. Then he turned to of his sisters disappearance. him all that was necessary, and sent man and then to Mr. Anderson. He the lilac trees. Katherine! My love, my wife, my him back to the store. "And see you then introduced the latter to the great beautiful wife! My true, good heart! keep a modest face and make no lady. When Mr. Anderson caught the Be not Now, at last, my own, nothing shall great matter of it, he said. nor elated. It belongs to name Pullman he asked if she was part us again, Katherine never again. troubled I have come for you come at all you to be very prudent. I will not the wife of George Pullman. She anrisks for you. Only five minutes the have Katherine made a wonder to swered affirmatively. He said: Well, I am glad to meet you. I remember gaping women. boat can wait. Are you ready? George when he used to work for Lysbet was still a little on the deI know not, Richard. My father me for $2.50 a day. fensive, but, when she saw Joris commy mother My husband. Say that, also, be- ing home, her heart turned sick with fear. Thee, Joris; dinner will not Oh, Hes All Right loved. Am I fot first? Of course, every young mother If one worti I could send them! be ready for two hours! Art thou sick? thinks her baby the center of the uniThey suspect me not. They think you Katherine she has gone! verse. There have been several boy are gone. It will kill my father." Gone? And where, then? babies born in the little town of You shall write to them on the With during the past summer. ship. There are a dozen fishing boats Dauntless that Englishman; in The A they have gone. This is not intended as a startling near it. We will send the letter by Then he told her all Mrs. Gordon piece of news, because their arrivals one of them. My wife, do you need had said, and showed her the frag- have been duly and more persuasion? appropriately She had no time to consider. Rich- ments of Katherine's letter. The chronicled, but it is only stated as the ard was trooing her consent with mother kissed them, and put them in basis of a little joke. Some days ago four of the happy kisses and entreaties. Her own soul her bosom; and as she did so, she said was a great strait, young mothers, all of whom had fine urged her, not only by the joy of his Joris. softly, It boys at home, met in one of the large presence, but by the memory of the Well, well, me also must pass shops. their purTney completed anguish she had endured that day in the terror of his desertion. She clung through it. The Dominie Van Linden chases about the same time. As they within to her husband's arm, she lifted her has gone to examine the records; and were all leaving the place, face to his, she said softly, but clear- then, if she his lawful wife be, in the speaking distance of each other, a ly, I will go with you, Richard. With newspapers I must advertise the mar- fresh young assistant, in an effort to be pleasant, fired the stereotyped you I will go. Where to, I care not at riage. "If, if she his lawful wife be! question at one of them, How is the all. not if in my hearing; say not boy, They stepped Into the boat, and Say In an Instant four beaming faces Not a word was iF of my Katherine. Hyde said, Oars. When a girl runs away from her were turned towards him and four He held her within his left spoken. arm, close to his side, and partially home pleased voices answered in chorus, "With her husband she went; keep Oh, hes all right, thank you. covered with his military cloak. All The assistant nearly fainted. the past was behind her. She had done that in mind when people speak to what was irrevocable. For Joy or for thee. What kind of a husband will he be Had She an sorrow, her place was evermore at Eye? her husband's side. Richard knew to her? had not been married very They I bad not him. think of Well, then, that every doubt and fear had vanlong, and that complete blissful trust ished when her hand stole Into his Nearer home there are worse men. I which young husbands and wives have hand, when she slightly lifted her face think my Katherine is happy; and in each other had not yet been broken. happy with her I will be, though the But one morning wifie meekly reand whispered, Richard. child in her joy I see not. marked : While they were eating an early "I mended the hole in your trousers-pocke- t CHAPTER X. tearJoanna came dinner, in, sad and last night after you had gone to ful. What, then, is the matter with bed, John dear. Now, am 1 not a Popular Opinion. thee? asked Lysbet, with great comthoughtful little wife? During that same hour Joris was In posure. Husband (dubiously)"Well er the town council. Tnere had been a O, mother, my Katherine! My you are thoughtful enough, my stormy and prolonged session on the sister Katherine! dear. But how the mischief did you Quartering Act. All the way home I thought perhaps thou had bad discover that there was a hole in my he was pondering the question, and pocket? when he tound Dominie Van Linden news of Batavius. Thy sister Kathtalking to Lysbet he gladly discussed erine hath married a very fine gentleThe First Locomotive. It over again with him. Lysbet sat man, and she is happy. For thou The centenary of the locomotive beside them, knitting and listening. must remember that all the good men was celebrated at Camborne Until after nine oclock Joris did not do not come from Dordrecht. last I am glad that so you take It. I Christmas eve. The inventors of the' notice the absence of his daughter. 8he went to Joannas, said Lysbet thought In very great sorrow you first locomotive to make a successful run were Richard Trevithick and calmly. Still, in her own heart there would be. See that you do not say such words Andrew Vlviar. was a certain uneasiness. Katherine 4 Au,hoT of "rrle"d cake-bakin- ,d t M...J I down-stairs- The Benefit of Prayer The undoubted habit of civilized men and women the yorld over to resort to prayer whem in acute distress, no matter what their religion may be, gives evidence of a human instinct which neither argument nor disappointment is able to eradicate. Pursuing this line of reasoning, a recent contributor to the London Spectator points out that those who desire to be delivered from some sudden pain or peril do not ask to have words found for them in which they may express themselves, and they do not turn to the Lords Prayer or the Bible.. Christ suggested to all men to pray every day for the fneans of livelihood, and His followers, by their own account, prayed for temporal blessings. Our Lord himself with the reservation of complete obedience to God's will prayed fervently that the doom He foresaw might be averted. Again, it is almost impossible to distinguish between spiritual and temporal benefits, so complex is the world we live In. Most men in the present day simply could not pray for what seems to them a miracle. When the doctor tells us that life is extinct we have not the power to pray that life may return to the body; but who can tell how many calamities may have been avoided by a spiritual suggestion? To deny that instances of answers to prayer have occurred is, in the opinion of the present writer at least, to shut ones eyes to evidence. The explanation of the whole matter which commends itself to out mind is this that prayer is a bene cent force to which our instinct bears witness. That which we so dimly re alize, our Lord, with His infinitely greater spiritual sensitiveness, clearly saw so clearly that He could hardly find words strong enough to express His meaning, or to impress it upon the minds of His followers. He speaks as though those who pray put in motion some force whose working Is as certain as that of any law of nature, and He teaches this as part of the Christian faith. But exactly how that law works we do not know, and He did not explain. Why He did not every man must decide for himself In accordance with the dogmatic medium through which he is able to receive the Christian verity. slow-comin- g Life Near South Pole Seals, according to the crew of the antarctic exploring ship Discovery, are abundant near the south pole. They are very tame and can be clubbed by anyone without showing more fight than opening their jaws and making a harsh noise. They are possessed of extraordinary vitality and are not easy to kill. Antarctic seals are not provided with marketable fur. The skins of the majority of seals in the antarctic regions show ajj extraordinary number of cicatrices, some old and some recent, which for some time have been a puzzle to zoologists. It is a question whether they are the result of warfare among the bull seals or are caused by attacks of some monster not yet known to science. Some light has been shed on this subject by the discovery of remains of an ordinary seal in the stomach of a sea leopard, which is provided with a very fierce set of teeth, quite in keeping with the possible habit of feeding on other seals. the adelie, is a Adelies are bird. most inquisitive and at times are in A kind of penguin, g such a hurry to follow up a clew that they will scramble along the Ice on the belly, pushing with their legs and using their flippers alternately like the paddle of a canoe. They get over the ground at an astonishing rate and it is hard work to overtake a penguin when it takes to this means of locomotion, especially when it doubles. In the water the penguin is perfectly at home, diving and steeplechasing in grand style. He can Jump clean out of the water and pop down on the ice exactly like someone coming up through a trapdoor on the stage and dropping on his feet. The penguins collect in enormous numbers and are sometimes seen marching about like a regiment of soldiers in Indian file, all acting In unison. A much larger penguin, the emperor, weighs sixty or seventy pounds and stands well over three feet high. It possesses the most extraordinary muscular powers in its flippers. When presented with the end of a ski stick the emperor gives It such a smack that one's hands tingle. At the same time it utters an angry guttural exclamation. n h - Red Ants Are Faithful On the stone steps of a house on the "Hill are two wooden pillars, a foot and a half apart, among the supbig Recently ports of the porch. black ants have been so abundant and aggressive about one of these posts, in which they made their home, that all its cracks and crevices were puttied up and it was deluged with an fluid. line Four days ago, a tiny snake-likwas noticed between the two pillars. It crooked and curved and looked as if something had crawled through a light coating of dust, leaving its trail there. On close examination it proved to be a line of life. It was made up of countless minute red ants, rushing madly, some in one direction and as many in the other, some turning to the right and others to the left, but all of them all the time holding close to the circuitous route from one post to the other and making the snake line or worm line on the stone step. During all these four days those little bugs have been uninterruptedly g e busy whenever they were looked at night or day. Once the stream was swept off with a broom, but in a few minutes the gap was closed and everything looked just as it had before. Apparently these creatures are carrying out of the disinfected pillar th dismembered remains of the black ants and depositing them in the pillar that has not been subjected tc treatment. These small ants are so minute that they are scarcely perceptible except in the mass, and they can readily slip in under the base of the pillars where the black ones could not go. None ol the red ones have been seen there abouts until this remarkable procession began Its unceasing to and fro march. Are they slaves of the black ones, and if so who gave them their orders to clean house? Nothing interrupts them; they even refuse to be tempted with sugar or scared by water. When a little pool was put In the path they filled It up with their bodies and the next marched on. Hartford Courant. Makes Tools Last Long The constant use of a ppn point for fourteen years, a penknife eighteen years, an ordinary indelible lead pencil five years and a key ring nineteen years to the ordinary person sounds incredible, but such is the case with Cad Burba, a clerk in the general customs office here. Mr. Burba, who was In the drug business at New Hope for more than ten years, is now using constantly a pen point he secured, second band, while in the drug business, and since be has been at work for Uncle Sam he has continued to use it, preferring it to any other. During that time he has worn out two penholders, but the point is still in the prime of condition, kspt so by the care bestowed upon it by Its owner. A fellow clerk was discussing the matter of care of pens recently, when Mr. Burba remarked that any pen, or article of any kind, would last for years if given the proper care. To prove his claim he drew from his pocket a knife which he had carried eighteen years. The blades gave evidence of numerous whettlngs, but not a gap or break could be seen. The knife, Mr. Burba said, had done a full share of work since he bad owned It, and is good for many years yet. After exhibiting the knife Mr. Burba drew forth a key ring bearing the date of 1885. It is a souvenir of the Louisville exposition, was purchased as such by Mr. Burba during the festal occasion, and has since done constant service. Mr. Burba has a special pocket for all these articles, and they may always be found there. He says he never breaks the point from a pencil, never loans it but that he watches it closely, and sees to it that It does not get away; never leaves the pencil, key ring or knife lying on bis deek, but replaces them In their respective pockets when not In use, and by such inviolate system and care he always has them about him. ? ye-e- s, Wire Rope from Pompeii Ropes made of various kinds of fiber and leather are of very ancient date. Ropes of palm have been found In Egypt In the tombs of (about 3000 B. C.), and on the walls of these tombs Is also shown the process of preparing hemp. The Bible tells us that Samson was bound with ropes and that the spies sent by Joshua into Jericho were let down in a basket, presumably by means of a rope. At Nimrud, Assyria, a carved slab showing the siege of a castle was found, on which a soldier was represented in .he act of cutting a rope to which a bucket for drawing water from a well outside the castle walls was attached. The wire rope is generally considered a modern invention, a product c modern skill, and it will surprise many to learn that its manufacture is really a rediscovered lost art. Although the Assyrians practiced Beni-Hassa- the art of wife beating, no evidence has been found to indicate that they used wire for making rope. The excavations at Pompeii have, however, brought to light a piece of bronze wire rope nearly fifteen feet long and about one Inch in circumference. This rope is now in the museo Borbonico at Naples. It consists of three strands laid spirally together, each strand being made up of fifteen wires twisted together, and its construction does not, therefore, diher greatly from that of wire ropes made Pompeii was buried A. D. 79, 1825 years ago. but how long wire ropes had then been known it is impossible to tell, though, judging by the knowledge shown in the construction, it may be safely concluded that they had been known for a considerable time. As to the use of rope tramways, it is said that they were in use as early as 1644. Philadelphia Record. to-da- As Milk Grows Old. A Trick in Seed Selling. The Grain Dealers' National Association, recently in session in Milwaukee, passed the following resolutions: Whereas, Seed houses do a large business in tho sale of seed grains, and thereby may materially affect the general business of the crops of grain thus produced, either for better or worse; and, Whereas, It is known that seed thus sold by seed houses does not always possess the merit of type and breeding sufficient to meet the expectations of the purchaser, and in fact often does not tend to raise the standard of the general crops produced. For example It has been too common a practice for seedsmen to purchase ordinary corn from farmers cribs and sell the same under special brands when in fact it possessed no special merit whatever, with respect to type and breeding, and the same is true In regard to other grains; therefore, Resolved, That the Grain Dealers' National Association, now in convention assembled In Milwaukee this 23d day of June, 1904, does hereby urgently request all firms engaged In the selling of seed grain to adopt a line of business policy that will result in giving more attention to the questions of type and breeding and adaptability and thereby assist in improving the quality and yield of grains; also, Resolved, That the secretary be Instructed to send a copy of this resolution to all the principal firms engaged In the business of selling seed grains in the grain producing states, and also to all the leading agricultural pape '8 In the country. The practice against which the resolution is directed is one that has long been condemned by conscientious dealers. It not only Injures the farmers, but Injures the firms that are trying to do an honest business. It la gratifying to see a great association take the stand that this one has taken. The agitation is sure to bear fruit. Farmers Review. Corn in British India. In an experiment on the relation of temperature to the keeping property of milk, at the Connecticut Storra station, the bacteria in milk multiplied fivefold in twenty-fou- r hours when the temperature was 50 degrees F., and 750 fold in the same time when the temperature was 70 degrees. Milk kept at 95 curdled in eighteen t hours, at 70 in hours, and at 50 In 148 hours. So far as the keep Ing property of milk is concerned, low temperature is considered of morn Importance than cleanliness. In milk kept at 95 the species developing most rapidly is the undesirable one known as Bacillus lactis aero forty-eigh- genes. At a temperature of 70 this species develops relatively less rapidly In the majority of cases than Bacillus lactis acidl, which latter Is very desirable In both cream and cheese ripening. The bacteria in milk kept at 50 Increase slowly, and later consist of very few lactic organisms, but of miscellaneous types, Including many forms that render the milk unwhole some. These bacteria continue to grow slowly day after day, but the mlk keeps sweet because the lactic organisms do rot develop abundantly. Such milk in the course of time becomes far more unwholesome than sour milk, since it is filled with organisms that tend to produce putrefaction. Although the temperature of 50 degrees is to be emphatically recommended to the dairyman for the purpose of keeping his milk sweet and in proper condition for market, he must especially be on his guard against the feeling that milk which is several days old is proper for market, even though it is still sweet and has not curdled. Quite the reverse is the case. Old milk is never wholesome, even though It has been kept at a temperature of 50 degrees and still remains sweet and uncurdled. Thfs very considerably modifies some of our previous ideas concerning milk, for It has been generally believed that, so long as the milk remains sweet, it is in good condition for use. Quite the contrary in this case, if it has been kept at a temperature of 50 degrees or in this vicinity. It is not unlikely that it la this fact that leads to some of the cases of ice cream poisoning so common In summer. The cream is kept at a low temperature for several days until a considerable quantity has accumulated or a demand has come for ice cream, and, when made into Ice cream, it is filled with bacteria in great numbers and of a suspicious character. Prof. H. W. Conn. The cultivation of Indian corn, or maize, has within the past century become a factor of great importance In the rural economy of British India. The Indian Agriculturist (Calcutta) of June 1, 1904, says: This grain, if we consider the whole of India collectively, is now of equal economic importance with wheat In the hilly tracts of the country especially, and among the bulk of the aboriginal tribes, It is chiefly depended upon as a means of subsistence. Yet the botanist, Roxburgh, writing about a hundred years ago, described It as cultivated In various parts of India in gardens, and only as a delicacy, but not anywhere on the continent of India, Russian and Siberian Butter. as far as I can learn, as an extensive Grass is the great foundation of use Its in crop. upper India may have been more general at that time than dairying, and it will be a long time before dairying will flourish in lands this writer was aware, for its most where grass does not grow spontanecommon vernacular name, makkai, derived from Mecca, is supposed to as- ously. The great plains of Russia, with her sparse inhabitants in some sociate its Introduction with the Moportions of the furnish just gul dynasty. But there Is no name the condition on empire, which a great dairy for maize In Sanskrit, and the grain industry may be built up. In the has no recognized place .n the recolder parts of the temperate zone ligious or social ceremonies of the sod forms naturally. The frost strikes Hindus. Few of those who cultivate each winter and prepares the soil It now have any idea that it Is an deep for the passage of the tender root innovation, and the fact that its local hairs and makes unnecessary the name Is often that of some much older work of the plow, so far as grass is crop encourages the pious belief that In these little inhabited it has been the staple food of the concerned. regions more grass grows than men district for untold generations. can gather. But the dairy cow can gather it and change it into butter Loss In Over-Ripthat brings from 16 cents to 20 cents Wheat In 1879, Dr, R. C. Kedzie, In an ex- a pound even in that land of low haustive study of the ripening of prices. Coupled with this is the use wheat, pointed out that there was a of the milk for bacon making, which slight loss in weight between com. is an Industry sure to follow closely plete ripeness and the stage generally on the heels of the dairy cow. designated as dead ripe. Subsequent Dairy schools are springing up in experiment at this college and else- Russia. If there is any one thing . where have given like results. There that will stimulate the production of is not only a loss by shelling when good butter and other dairy products the grain becomes over-ripe- , but a it is the dairy schooL Judging from of well number dried given kernels, experiences in other parts 'of the or the product of a given area, kept world we may expect the graduates in the ordinary manner, will weigh of the schools to go out into the numless if taken from an over-ripfield erous creameries that are being estabthan if taken from a field cut at the lished in all parts of Russia and Siproper time. Moreover, the amount beria. How much the dairy industry and quality of the flour produced and there Is to be set back by the present the germinating vigor of the grain war it is hard to say, but it is believed itself are less if the wheat Is allowed that the check to its will to become over-ripthan If cut at an be only temporary. development The great objecearly period. These facts are now tion urged against Siberian and Ruswell recognized by farmers, and ordi- sian butter is that the larger part of nary practice is regulated by this it is poor in The students of quality. knowledge. The loss in shelling is un- the dairy schools will cure this to a doubtedly the most Important one, and very large degree, especially that part fortunately it can be controlled in a of It that goes to foreign lands. large measure by a proper selection of varieties combined with harvesting When 8alt Appears In Butter. at the proper season. Michigan Station. In the summer time it is quite common to see butter with salt standing on it Agricultural papers frequently Ob the Ranges. Reports from the ranges indicate receive letters asking why the salt a large supply of cattle and very good comes out on the butter. The explanaagricultural conditions. The rains tion Is simple and the butter can be have been copious during a large part easily kept in a normal condition. The salt comes out of the butter simply of this grazing season and consequently the production of grass on the because the butter is kept in a dry This causes the moisThe lack of atmosphere. plains has been good. drinking facilities has not been felt ture in the butter to move toward on the plains this year as in some the surface of the butter and evaporfor the reason that ate into the air. As it was salt water former years; many of the springs have been kept In the butter it is salt water when it supplied by the rains. This has made gets to the surface of the butter. a condition that is favorable for graz- But in evaporating it cannot take the ing. The only drawback is that last salt with it, but' has to leave it. At winter was unusually severe on range first the amount of salt deposited is stock and they came into spring in so small that the residue of salt is poor condition, thus necessitating a not noticed. Later, however, the aclonger feeding period in summer for cumulations become so large that they their preparation for market The are apparent to the eye. If the butabundance of good grass encourages ter were weighed before the evaporathe rangers to believe that the cattle tion and afterward it would be tound will put on weight rapidly from now that the loss of weight had been considerable. on. Keeping the butter in a moist place will prevent the accumuLice are great destroyers of young lation of salt. If the place where the It Is difficult to find them butter is stored is opened several turkeys. times a day it will be advisable to on the turkeys, but this is no reason keep a crock of water in It, that the why the owner should not take preevaporation may reghlate itself. But cautions against them. A good greaswhere butter Is stored in a cool place ing will do as a protection. that is not often opened there will be Those who have watched the live little trouble from this cause. The stock interests of the country know lower the temperature the less the Places where the temthat they are advancing slowly a lit- evaporation. tle each year. !t however, posperature Is high and ventilation good sible to male a ,vi(;re marked dry out the butter quickly and leave it e e e covered with salt |
