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Show Uiirn out tho tent caterpillar ncata. Tho nhcop should nevor bo hnndllcd roughly. Tho non-lnyor makes a good cater for tho table, Horaeswlth tender ahoulderfl should liavo nwcat pads used upon them. With tho lightening of tho work lighten up on tho feed ration for tho horso. A handful or oil mcnl dnlly In tho hnrao'H ration will help put n gloaa upon hla coat. The wlfo will provo your best counselor. coun-selor. Listen to lior and tunny a legal complication will bo spared. Milk la good for tho hens ns well as tho plga, . Sco If you cannot sparo thorn soino. It helps to ninko oggs. ' How aro tho drains about' tho Iioiiho? Tlmo to think about getting thorn In good Bhnpo for tho . winter mouths. Hold tho wheat In tho bin rnthor than sell at too low a prlco. It Is al-moat al-moat certain to run Into monoy beforo tho year Is over. Food loft In tho trough by tho hogs la tho boat kind of evidence thnt you nro feeding too goneroualy. Feed only what will bo eaten up clean. Tho fnrm whoro tho dny'a work ox-tonda ox-tonda from throe or four o'clock In tho morning until night or nlnu o'clock nt night la .tho farm whoro It la hard to keep hired help and whoro tho children nro luaplred with tho ambition am-bition to louvo It on tho first opportunity. oppor-tunity. To prodtico good eggs nnd got them on tho mnrkcit In tho beat possible condition ono must provldo good housing, food nnd water regularly, and above all koop tho ncata clean. Fgga ahoutd bo gathered dnlly, and when tho temperature Is high thoy should bo gathered twice a day. Reject Re-ject all doubtful eggs and keep tho egga In na cool a place as possible. Much ban been anld In tho papers about "petroleum butter," nnd tha curiosity If not tho anxiety of tho dairy farmers haa boon excited. Dairy Commissioner Fuuat of Philadelphia Phila-delphia secured a sample of "petroleum "petrole-um butter" and had It analyzed. Ho found It waa composed of SO percent, vaseline, two per cont. salt and 10 per cent, cornstarch. Tho roat was wnter. Tho aamplo looked much like vaaollno and. la said to taato llko It. Mr. Faust decided that it could not bo aold ns butter, Drained soils are generally well ventllatod soils, for na tho wator percolates per-colates through and lowora tho water table, It drawa an equal amount of air Into tho soil. Then when nuothor rain falls and a ahoet of water la formed on tho surface of tho hold, it presses down upon tho soil air, and haa a tendency ten-dency to forco it out through tho drains, and In settling drawa another volume of air Into tho soil, so thnt ovory shower helps to change tho air In a drained Hold. Tho drains themselves them-selves coutltuto ventilating lluoa by montiB of which air clroulatoa through tho aoll more or loaa because of changes In temperature a'nd barometric, baro-metric, Tho simplest form of silo la the stnvo alio. It should bo made from two-Inch narrow plank, proporly beveled bev-eled and hold together by strong Iron bands. Tho atavoa, after hoveling hovel-ing so that whon llttod together thoy will form n circle of tho doslrod site, are plncod on ond on n aolld foundation founda-tion and properly tltted. Theso nre strengthened nnd held in placo by strong Iron hoops, which aro so mado that thoy may bo tightened or loosened loos-ened at will. Doora should bo built at Intervals from tho top to tho bottom bot-tom ao that tho silage may easily bo got out. It Is not necessary to put a roof on this silo, but It Is much to be preferred. Thla stylo of tho silo should bo kopt well painted, both inside in-side and out. If properly built and Ukon caro of a stavo silo Is durable, rigid and airtight. Pumpkins aro fine food for fr.tten-Ing fr.tten-Ing hogs. Varloty of feod should be provided for tho liana. Ounpowdor and lard la good for fscrntchoB on tho horBO. Cut out tho old canes from the berry ber-ry bushoB nnd burn them. Koop tho pullets pushing nhend. Extra Ex-tra food now means early egg laying Ilnlf-etnrvod Bhccp will clean up ft brush lot but avIU not mako any profit for tholr owners. Clean up tho rubbish m garden and orchard nnd burn. In this wny many a harmful insect is destroyed. A tired horso In In no condition for food or water. Qlvo a llttlo tlmo to rest and cool off beforo watering and fcodlntr. Koop Bomo of tho oat sheaves for tho poultry this winter. Thoy will onjoy thrashing out tho food foi themselves. A small grain ration ovory day will bo moro thnn returned in tho milk pail If tho cow la In tho profit earning class nt all. Tho bad habits wo nottco on other mombora of tho family nro often but a reflection of tho thlnga wo do and hnvo taught them. Milk should bo cooled ns soon as poflslblo attor drnwlng from cow. It will koop longer and hnvo a finer flavor when thus handled. Sudden changes In dlot nro harmful to all farm animals, especially tho horso. With tho lull In tho hard work, bo careful how you turn tho horses on gniBB. Decs, It Is Bald, novor puncture grnpcB. Thoy do alp tho julco, how-over, how-over, nftor blrdB and wasps hnvo punctured punc-tured tho Bklns. Placo tho blamo whoro It holougs, Unsound foot In a horso aro generally gener-ally Indicative of a constitutional wcnknoBS which la Btiro to appear In tho offspring. Thoroforo bo sure tho mnro nnd aire nro both sound. Without iiomo Bystom of nccounta how could tho morchant dobuBlness Bnfoly. And yot Btich business accounting ac-counting la na Important for tho farmer farm-er an for tho morchant. no sure tho bit Is not so narrow aa to irrltnto nnd pain tho mouth of tho horso. Such condition leads to uneasiness un-easiness which often may result In tho horBO taking tho bit in hla tooth nnd bolting In ahcor desperntion. Iloro is a dust powdor which Is uon-polsonoua nnd la suro death to cabbngo worms, etc.: Alr-alnckcd llmo with n good sprinkling of lino tnblo salt. It can bo plncod In a can hnv-Ing hnv-Ing n perforated top and sprinkled upon tho plunta troubled with tho worms. Thla Is n good Idea to save for next season. A garden without fruit trees nnd berry bushes la only half a garden. Thoro should bo enough for family use ' in sonson, for canning nnd pro-serving pro-serving nnd such llko for winter use, nnd somo to soil. Starting with strawberries, straw-berries, which como In very enrly and tho tlrat fruit of tho season, thoro should bo ndded raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, currants nnd grapes. Tho great advantages of small fruits nro that they occupy amail space, aro oasy to grow, thoy begin bearing early and tho fruit Is tho most delightful and tho most wholesome of all foods, They aro an prnamont to any farm or home grounds. Prof. O. F. Hunzlkor, bend of tho dairy dopartmont of tho Indiana experiment ex-periment station nt Purduo. nnd Prof. O. W. Spltzer, dairy chemist of tho anmo Institution, hnvo just completed experiments to determlno tho cause of tho low por cont. of buttor-fat in n largo portion of tho evaporated milk on tho market na roported by chom-lata chom-lata and pure-food departments throughout tho country. AHhough milk containing thoroqulred percent, of buttor fat, when mado Into evaporated evapo-rated milk, nnd nn annlysla by tho U8iial methods made shows a short-ago short-ago of from 0.5 to two per cont. of at, by tho experiments oxplnlned In thla bulletin It has boon found thnt there Is no loss fnt present, but that tho ordinary Dabcock teat nnd tho oltlclal mot hods of fat estimation do not liberate all tho fat present. Tho fat column hi tho tost bottlo Is generally gen-erally cloudy and contains charrod nud curdly deposits, making nccurate readings dltllcult. Uulformly correct results arc obtained by tho use of a one-fourth dilution of ovnporated milk and of dilute acid after the first whirling of tho testor In tho place of water. Correct roaulta are also ob tulned by ether extraction. |