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Show DTijtY"ANFP01JIUIlY. INTUnESTINO CHAPTBnS POD OUH RUI1AL IIKADhllS. Itow Snrrarnl rrnin 0Mrl ThU llprleen ' ! rfm A Tmw Hint t lli Car of !.! Nluck l loallrr. Cvllfftrnt tlnttfir Siir. Practically all the best creamery butter sold on the Pacific coast Is In squares of about 2 pounds each. The squares are blocla with rquaro enda and rectangular aides The butter Is picked on a table Cited with sideboards side-boards aa high ns the squares stand when on end. The top surface Is carefully care-fully leveled even with the table sldea, and the squares, number at a time, are cut by wires. They are wrapped In parchment paper and packed on end In heavy wooden cheats. This method of handling butlar la excellent In some respects, but It Is subject to criticism on two Important features: Flrat, there la now no uniformity In the welghta of tha squares. One creamery aenda caara of sixty lX-pound squares, or 10S pounds, to Sacramento, and to tho same market another creamery also al-so aenda cases holding alxty squares, aggregating 101 pounds. Thla latter creamery alao aenda to Ran Francisco cases holding alxty aquarea of 93 pounda. It must be both confusing and annoying to handle squares of such varying weights, and no realty good reason for the practice waa found. Doubtless many people who purchase butler do not Duties tha dlfferenro In welghta, hut conalder all squares alike, and tho seller who can shave off the most without being suspected Is the gnlner. Such competition la not only discreditable but illahonest. The second sec-ond criticism nf the method of marketing market-ing butter relates to tha pnekngis Eastern dealers have learned that It Is mora economical snd satisfactory In many ways to use cheap but neat boxes for shipping, which do not havo to ba returned, than tn uso tho heavy and expensive trunks or chests that were so common only a few years ago. These Utter aro continually being lost and broken, cause annoyance at both ends of the line, and require much labor for proper cleaning (nnd this Is too often neglected), while tha cheaper packages havo not thrao objections. Dullelln 21, U. S Dept of Agriculture. oatllna; III Um, Ytnrm. II Oarman, In Dullelln 70 of the Kentucky Experiment Station, thus relates re-lates his experience with the gape worms when tho chicks wers kept on dirt floors and on board floors: I find by experiment that It Is pos-alblo pos-alblo to prevent the trouble completely on my place at Lexington by keeping chicks on a board floor from tbo Unit they are hatched, until they aro lirco enough to endure tho attacks of the worms. Chicks hatched by two hens June 6-7, 1897, were taken from tho nests beforo they had sn opportunity to set to tho ground, and confined In two compartmenta of ttl samo coop. Ono compartment was provided with a board floor; In the other tho chicks were allowed th freedom of tho ground Thero wcro twenty chicks In nil divided equally between the two liens nnd confined In tin two compartmenta, compart-menta, which were separated by wlro netting. Immediately after tho experiment experi-ment was started three of tho lot on tbo floor managed to git Into tbo other compartment and were allowed to remain. re-main. Thuro were thua on tho plank floor seven chicks, whllo confined on the ground beside them were thirteen. Ono of tho Utter lot died from some unknown trouble soon after they hatched, leaving only twelve for experiment ex-periment Tho two lots were treated alike in every respect except In tbo matter of tha floor and In the eharacter of food. Those on the plank floor received the accustomed food given young chicks, namoly, corn meal mixed with wntcr and scraps of bread, potato and meat from tha table Aftor they had grown somewhat a little, oats was glten them occasionally. The chicks on the ground received the same kind of food, except that they had In addition a dally ration of oartbworma. The following fol-lowing la a icrord of observations on tha lot to which earthworms were fed: June 23 One of the chlcka observed to bo badly affected with the gapes. It died during the following nlgbt Boveral others slightly affected. June 21, A second chick of tha same lot nearly dead from gapes. It was removed and chloroformed, when Its trachea was found to contain gape worms June 23. A third chirk of this lot was found dead, and on examination Its trachea was found partly filled with the worms. A fourth, nearly dead from the disease, was chloroformed and It alao had worms In tha trachea Several of tha remainder wcro at thla date observed to be affected, and probably prob-ably not a alngle ono waa entirely free from the trouble. June 30 Threo more chlcka wero so badly affected that It was decided to remove and destroy them. All bad gspo worms tn tho trachea. July 1 Threo of the rive remaining chicks were affected nnd wero removed and chloroformed. The trachea of all contained gapo worms July 3. One of the two remaining chlcka was affected. It was removed and destroyed like the others. July 5. Tho last one of the lot was removed and chloroformed and alao bad gapo worms In the trachea. During thla time not a single chick of the seven kept on the plank floor became affected with the disease The hen kept with them, however, tp- H peared to suffer from tho cloj eonfln- JH racnt and cramped quarters, and sub H acqucntly died. Her trachea did not 'i'IB contain gape worms. It Is evident that 1 M the chlcka In the compartment with- m out n floor obtained the gape worms jH either from the gronnd or else fror 99 the earth-worms that were ted them. j H ill roaltry nrtr IS9I Methods of feeding turkeys differ j$ greatly. One turkey raiser has the fol- 'tftV lowing to fay on the proper feeding or ln(E turkeys: A good morning feed con- IflBSl alsts of a mash composed of sweet po- rSm tatocs (cooked, of course), enro-tncai. MEW barley or buckwheat-meal, and aklm- Wk milk. A llttlo XM may be added. Vor ijEBfj tho noon feed gtvo cracked corn, bar- rluTt ley, or buckwheat; while corn may b .Jul given at euppcr time. Corn a. year old KS la preferable to new corn. 'H Thera la at the present time a great gfH furor for the raising of llelgUn bares. H snd all over the country men are rush H Ing Into the business. Now, we da not t with to dlscoursge tho raisers of thee M animals, but on tha otlnr hand ws do fl uot wish to see the butluen so over- H done that a reaction wilt set In. As- M cording to present Indications, a great M many people are going to drop money M In the enterprlaes that are being H pushed forward on this line. In tha H vicinity of Chicago, and avon In tbw H city Itself, a good many have taken up H tha work. The trouble Is that the. iH market la Halted. A good many peo- H pie will not eat harea and are not like- H ly to try to overcame tbelr prejudices H when poultry and other meats may bo H had cheaply and In abundance. Wo H teo that In aomo parte of tha ronnlry H tho bualncat of raising these harea IH bis become so extensive that orchard- H Itts ore becoming alarmed Thus, In H San Diego county, California, the su- H pervlsors havo passed an ordinance H making It unlawful for any person to jH liberate Delglan bares. But, however H desirable, thla ordinance may be, It la H I uot at all likely that It will provo of M any avail, for tho reason that It a man H should liberate any of these animals It H would bo Itnpoaalbto to prove the tact H At Is well known, those animals are H fond of tho bark of young fruit trees H nnd grape, vines. Tho fruit growers - havo now to contend with our common com-mon rabblta, mica and other rodents, ' knd nra In no mood to add tho Delglan hara to tha host of enemies. It Is said that n single pair of Delglan bares, it left alone, will lucreaao to over 3,000,- , 000 In ten years. This msy be so, but tho samo Is truo of tha rabbits that now llvo In our woods, nnd la moro than truo of our domestic fowls. W v think there la Icaa to fear from their ', fecundity than trom our poultrymon U building up too griat hopea on their f- -. cundlty. i, Vrly lt.conl. Shwui, Jt Prof, a I Ilencli, of lbs Storra Ex- JJ perlmcnt station, "says: - Tbo Indifference, to tho Individual quality of cows Is well Illustrated In the market price ot cows. Dealers quota now milch cows at from I3S ta ISO, according to tb'o physical condition of the cow, and the apparent quality and quantity of her milk. Yet the dlfferenro dlf-ferenro In the net yearly profit derived from two cows thua offered for sols may be soveral times as great as thi difference In tho first cost of tbo cows. Tho scale Is a common symbol nf Justice, Jus-tice, yet few dairymen understand the algnlflcanre ot It In relation to deal-Inga deal-Inga between tbelr cows and them, selves. The Dabrock test Is quite generally gen-erally used to determine tho quality ol milk offered for sale, but dairymen mako llttlo use of It In determining tho valuo ot their cows as butter producers. pro-ducers. On the contrary tho cow Is still Judged by the 'good mess" ot milk which sbo may give, and the yellow cream that It "throws up," without regard re-gard to tho fact that no nccuruto estl-mata estl-mata ot tho annual yield ot milk can bo formed from nn occasional weighing weigh-ing or measuring of the dally yield, or that tho color of rnllk or cream Is not a euro criterion of Its richness. Unless some rrcord of actual weighings weigh-ings Is kept, even the man who milks tho cow cannot tell within a thousand pounds how much milk she bas produced pro-duced during the year; and unless soma test la mado ot tho composition of tbo milk, bo can only guess at her ylold ot buttor IIikmI snd I'wor Jii.lz'-A Jii.lz'-A western swine grower expresses hlmaclt thus: If I was u tart Ing out as an exhibitor to tbo county fair my earnest prayer would ba to be delivered deliv-ered from "picked up" committer ot three. Not that three men do not know more than ono, nor that throe men are not as honest as ono, but It Is a difficult matter on any occasion tor tho superintendent to secure tho men who really aro competent to go out and award premiums Justly and H correctly. It Is bard to get tha ma- H terlal ba wants. Take n good, practl- M cal, honest breeder take a man thor- IBj oughly up In tbo business and ono K who 1ms experience enough and tend jH him In there as a single Judgo nnd ho Wk can not toll when he comes cut whoso Jk hogs won tbo premiums. This class R ot men are going to put the promlams m where thoy belong and yon will get H more universal satisfaction M Secretary Wltaon of tbo department , H of agriculture reports that among tho H seeds brought from Alaska by Prof H Ooorgeson are two varletlea of wheat H that mature In that northern latl- H tude, that the straw of samples re- H turned Is about five feet long, clear H and bright The secretary hopes that experiments made with tbeso varieties H will demonstrate tliolr valuo at an H early ripening wheat H |