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CHAPTER VII.—(Continued.)
The doctor, in answer to his unspok-
en appeal. goes with him to the hall.
Are they going to arrest nie.'
George whltpers hoarsely, looking
grey ami haggard.
"Yes. they're got a warrant! George,
you are innocent, aren't you.'
"Yes. 1 am Innocent," lie returns, in
h dull Mirt of way. "My poor mother,
you'll stand to her, doctor?"
"George! ob. my son!" His mothers
arms are round hiin. She has heard
every word. Her voice is full or
ago ti.v an agony that Is like a sword
in her heart.
"Mother, my poor mother! I he
man's face works as he holds her to
him tight.
soul!1' shouts the
p coming to when
can act on a
of rubbish? My dear
don't let this worry
"God bless my
doctor, "what are
a n>h11 like Biivi'
trumped-up pin k i
Mrs. Houverle,
dead in Tasmania? He was killed—
kicked by a horse; and that poor girl
Barbara will only have to lurn round
and come home again. I met Sebas-
tlnn on his way to send her a tele-
gram."
"Poor child, poor Barbara! and she
was to have married George!" sighs
Mrs. Bouverie.
"So she will, ro she will," Doctor
Carter says abruptly. In his heart he
thinks: "That poor lad will get his live
years as sure as God made little ap-
ples; anil Barbara isn't likely to stick
to a man with the taint of prison on
him!"
verfilct when Mr. Sebastian Savlllt. i dairy ani) poultry.
still With the manner of one having
•bed mistake!
can seL it
you. it i^ all a wret
George, man, say you
right!"
There wa« no shame in the eyes of
George Bouverie. A kind <>r proud
light leaps iuto them for a moment,
then hf put* hi- mother gently Into the
doctor's iirnia, snying softly:
"Whatever happens, believe I am in-
nocent. ' Then he turns to the ser-
geant. "Now, then, i am ready to go
with you."
Mrs. Bouverie doeB not see the
crowning act of disgrace a-s her son
walks out of his own home a prisoner
into the- goodly light of lite setting
sun. She has fainted, and lies hack
with closed eyes, unconscious of the
young golden head, that, for the Hist
time in his life. George bows with
siiame.
He gets up on the car, with white
lips and a stony face. His eyes are
fixed aud show no wavering. And, be-
fore night frtlU, all Portraven stands at
its doors discussing the bank robbery
and the arrest of Mr. Bouverie: while
the cashier lies in his lodgings, and
turns bis face to the wall, a limp heap
o.' shuddering humanity.
His landlady hurries/. to tell him that
Mr. Bouverie has been taken. Mr.
Grey only shivers and buries his chat-
tering teeth and leaden face in the bed-
clothes.
il is Doctor Carter who, with tears
in his eyes, breaks to Mrs. Bouverie
1h<- terrible intelligence that her son
Juts been brought before the magis-
trates and committed for trial on the
charge or robbery and murderous as-
sault.
"lie never did it." sobs the old man;
"but it looks very black against him.
•Poor lad! He wouldn't say where he
pot the money he was wiring off to
that scoundrtl. the bookmaker, and
that went dafcd against him; and that
fellow Grey fetuck to his story. He
swore it was George who attacked him
he swore it through thick and thin.
On the face of evidence like that the
magistrates had nothing to do but send
the case for trial; but I can't believe
it of George I can't Indeed!"
Yet the doctor is wavering. Kails
are stubborn - ngs and honorable
men have become thieves and crimi-
nals hf fore now. Mrs. Bouverie lies
worn out with grief and anxiety.
"Would I had died for bee. my
son!" she moans, as David did, and can
take no comfort. Her boy. her idol,
{tent to prison, condemned already in
Ithe eyes of the world. Yet her faith
J,as never wavered. George said lie was
innocent, and God in His own good
time will make that innocence clear.
"Then there was that awkward bit
pf evidence about the chloroform." the
doctor goes on, examining and sifting
(every bit of evidence. "Dale, that
ihemist. -wore that George had
bought that chloroform for the de-
struction of a diseased cat.
"That was true." Mrs. Bouverie lifts
her heavy, tear-wet eyes for a second.
"Yes: but George couldn't say he
had used the chloroform, and that told
against him. Saville jumped at that
point."
"My poor cat died. She was a pet.
and she w.as caught in a trap. To
spare my feelings. George said he
would give her chloroform. She was
■dead before he got back from Port-
raven. and afterwards he said he had
thrown the bottle away. Oh, i ' or
Carter, you know my boy is inn it!
Thi.se hideous doubts must be dis-
solved' I feel so weak, so hearth; .'ten,
so friendless!" sobs the poor i ly :
CHAPTER VIII.
The assi7.es are going on, and the
county town is full of barristers and
attorneys; and all interest is centered
on the Portraven bank robbery case,
for the man to be tried is a gentleman,
a member of one of the oldest families
in the county.
Mrs. Bouverie is staying In the sauie
hotel as the judge who is to try her
son. She will stay near George to the
last; and Doctor Carter, fuming and
fussy, has taken up his quarters at
the Royal Arms too. He Is beginning
to lose heart. The evidence Is so dead
against George, and the great counsel
engaged can wring nothing from the
silent lips of the prisoner. With a sad,
stern face of George confronts him, but
refuses to speak-refuses to account
for the money that had been in his
possession that day. He will make no
defense whatever, beyoud declaring his
nnoeence. His counsel is in despair.
Without doubt, the jury will bring in a
verdict of guilty.
Worn out with great anxiety, Mrs.
Bouverie lies on a sofa in a private
room of the hotel. In the garden be-
low the windows great bunches of li-
lacs scent the air, and the light breeze
rustles the golden sprays of laiburnum;
but the mother's eyes see them not.
She can only think of her boy within
the cold, gray walls of the jail waiting
for his trial. Mr. Saville is in the town
too, with a look of satisfaction on his
face; also Mr. Grey, the cashier, who,
they say, has never recovered from the
shock of the assault on him. He starts
at every shadow, and looks a miser-
able. haunted individual.
In vain Dr. Carter tries to persuade
Mrs. Bouverie not to attend the trial.
It will only be needlessly distressing,
lie urges. And his inmost conviction
Is that George .will be found guilty.
Mrs. Bouverie Is firm. "My place is
beside my son," she says, struggling
for calmness.
So the warm spring days go by, with
the world flooded with sunshine, and
every field and tree in its new dress of
vivid green, everything bright and
beautiful; only the stern, unhappy face
of the man awaiting trial, while moth-
er prays to Him who pities this sor-
rowful sighing of the prisoners, tak-
ing her trouble to the foot of the cross
and laying it there. Oh. the shame,
the misery, anil the pity of it all!
And the day dawns for the trial of
the bank robbery. Dr. Carter makes
one more desperate effort.
Mrs. Bouverie. you are not strong
enough to stand this. I promise to send
you word every half-hour as the case
goes on. Besides, it would only dis-
tress poor George to see you."
"Dr. Carter, you mean well, but 1
must go. 1 will be very brave," Mrs.
Bouverie says, looking at the doctor's
kindly face with eyes that are dim
with tears and want of sleep.
"it will kill her, poor soul!" Dr.
Carter says, half aloud.
Crowds are flm-king to the court-
house. It is an exciting case. The
counsel rettflned for George is in the
depths of despair. He cannot see the
chance of an acquittal unless some
wonderful evidence turns up. which is
not likely, at the eleventh hour.
Mr. Grey, the cashier, is prepared to
identify George Bouverie as the man
who attacked and drugged him.
The case is not very exciting after
nil. In vain Mr. larvis cross-examines
Mr. Grey; he sticks to his statement
without wavering. Limp and ghastly
looking h is. but firm; and yet he
never once looks at the pale, set face
of the man in the dock. Vho holds his
■ golden head up bravely. One1 once,
, when the judge says:
"Edward Grey, look at the prisoner
In the dock. Do you swear that is the
man who attacked you in the Portrav-
done an unpleasant duty, steps down
from the witness table.
George gives him one look—a look of
deep and bitter anger and contempt.
Mr. Dale, the chemist, adds hie quota
to the mass of evidence, and the chlor-
oform is accounted for.
The crowd of persons listening to
the case come to the conclusion that
George Bouverie must be a very wick-
ed young man indeed, in spite of his
noble figure and kingly head. He is
nothing belter than a common thief.
And public sympathy goes with the
bank clerk, whose nervous system has
been shattered.
Truly H had been a bold robbery in-
deed, and an example should be made!
To walk boldly Into the bank, choos-
ing a moment when there was no one
present but the cashier, and to imme-
diately chloroform him and make off
with a hundred pounds was the act of
a villain!
Dr. Carter's face grew longer and
longer as the case proceeds. Mr. Jar-
vis makes but a lame defense. Mrs.
Bouverie turns an agonized face on
the doctor, and whispers, with white
lips;
"It is going against him, and yet he
is innocent."
Dr. Carter is trembling visibly.
"Uet me take you away, Mrs. Bou-
verie. My dear lady, be guided by
me. I'll let you know the Instant It is
over."
But she shakes her head, her poor,
sad eyes seeing only the figure in Die
dock, the man with the handsome,
miserable face, that gets paler and
more desperate as the case goes oil.
Ho glances at hiB mother once, with a
world of sorrowful pity in his gaze,
and his self-control deserts him for a
moment.
The judge is .sumjjaing up, and every
sentence, every clear,cutting word tells
against the prisoner. It Is a scathing
speech, in which the Jury are entreated
to lay aside any thoughts of the pris-
oner's position, of bis youth, only to
remember that a hideous crime liaa
been committed; and he begs them to
do their duty fearlessly, conscien-
tiously before God, and faithfully be-
tween the Crown and the prisoner at
the bar.
Sebastian Saville draws a long
breath as the judge, sits down. George
Bouverie is as good as condemned;
there is not a chance of an acquittal
now. The Jury file out of the box.
(To be continued.)
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How SnrcPMful Farmer* Operate TbU
Department of Ilia Farm—A Few
Hints ait to llie Cara of Ll e.6tocl:
iiiid Poultry.
ANAGRAMS ON NOTED NAMES,
Some Traimpoittloim Exprewtlng Fact#
in Jlen's History.
Anagrams thai, transmute the names
of well-known men and women are
often start lingly appropriate. What
could be better in this way than these
announcements, evolved from two
great statemen's names wh< . the reins
of power changed hands: Gladstone,
G leads not!" Disraeli, "1 lead, sir!"
Quite as happy is the comment on the
devoted nursing of Florence Night-
ingale, whose name yields "Flit on,
cheering angel." Among those that are
most often quoted we may mention
Horatio Nelson, "Honor est a Nilo;"
Charles James Stuart, "Claims Ar-
thur's Seat;" Pilate's question, "Quid
est Veritas?" "What is truth?"), an-
swered b>* "Est Vir qui adest" ("It it
the man here present"): Swedish
Nightingale. "Sing high, sweet Lin-
da;" David Livingstone. "D. V.. go and
visit Nile;" the marquess of Ripon
(who resigned the grand mastership
of Freemasons when he became a Ro-
manist). "R. I. P.. qi'°th Freemasons:"
Charles Prince of Wales, "All France
calls: O help;" Sir Roger Charles
Doughty Tichborne, baronet, "\on
horrid butcher Orton, biggest rascal
here," and many shorter specimens,
such as telegraph, "great help;" as-
tronomers, "no more stars,"and "moon
Btarers;" one hug. "enough;" editors,
"so tired;" tournament, "to run at
men;" penitentiary, "nay. I repent;"
Old England, "golden land;" revolu-
tion. "to love ruin;" fashionable,
•one-half bias:" lawyers, "sly ware:"
midshipman, "mind his map: poor-
house. "0 sour hope;" Presbyteriau,
best iu prayer:" sweetheart, "there
we sat;" matrimony, "into my arm.'
—Chambers' Journal.
DrNtroyini; Our Market Abroad.
The secretary of agriculture of Mis-
souri, in his lust report, says:
Adulterated Cheese.—Oneof the worst
features of this business is that imi-
tation butter compounds and adulter-
ated cheese are destroying the market
for United States dairy products
abroad. To illustrate, in 1880, the
United States sold In Great Britain one
hundred and twenty-eight million
pounds of cheese, while Canada only
sold forty million pounds or less than
one-third what the United States did.
In 1898 this condition of the trade was
reversed, the United States selling to
Great Britain only forty-six million
pounds, while Canada sold one hun-
dred and fifty million pounds, or more
than three times the amount sold by
the United States, a condition that
may be attributed almost solely to the
fact that In this country the laws per-
mitted manufacturers to brand skim
milk and filled cheese as full cream ar-
ticles, and as such it was exported and
sold.
Adulterated Butter.—The same in-
crease in the sales of Canadian butter
and decrease in the sales of butter from
the United States may be noted since
butterlnc has been manufactured and
placed upon the market In imitation
of and sold as creamery butter. In-
dicating this decrease in 1898, New
York exported to Great Britain only
sixty-five thousand packages, while
Montreal exported two hundred and
twenty-seven thousand packages, and
in 1899, with Secretary Wilson, of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, making every possible effort to
extend the sale of dairy products in
Europe, New York exported one hun-
dred and, three thousand packages,
while Montreal exported four hundred
and twenty-five thousand packages, or
more than four times as much as this
great country with Its largely extended
area, its abundance of all kinds of
stock, food and grasses and its supe-
rior climatic conditions. The pure
food products of this country are equal
In character to those of Canada. The
demand should be as good and the
supply far in excess. The unfavorable
condition of our butter trade with Eu-
rope may be attributed to the fact that
we have offered for sale in that coun-
try fraudulent imitation articles, that_
we have lost the confidence of con-
sumers and brought into question the
purity of our product.
•tsold be brought to the attention of
the public as forcibly as the worst
types, a decided step would be taken
toward the improvement of the general
city supply. _____
Fowl* With or Without Meat Foo«l«.
The Geneva experiment station has.
as previously mentioned In the tann-
ers' Review, beqn making trials in feed-
ing fowls with and without meat in
their food. A part of the report *ays;
Vhe results were convincing, almost
startling, in the case of ducklings Ted
the contrasted rations. The first lot of
ducklings was fed on corn meal,
ground oats, animal rn^al, and a little
skimmilk and dried blood. The second
lot, was fed on wheat bran, corn meal,
ground oats and skimmilk or curd.
Both lots were fed green alfalfa; and
sand and coarse grit were freely sup-
plied. Before the experiment had been
long under way it was not unusual to
notice scrawny, grain-fed birds,
with troughs full of good, apparently
wholesome food before them, standing
on the alert and scrambling in hot
haste after the unlucky gra&shopper or
fly which ventured into their pen;
while the contented-looking meat-fed
ducks lay lazily in the sun and paid
no attention to buzzing bee or crawl-
ing beetle. The 32 meat-fed birds lived
and thrived; but the vegetable food
birds dropped off one by one, starved
to death through lack of animal food,
so that only 20 of the 33 were alive at
the close of the fffteenth week of con-
trasted reeding. They were then fed
for foiir weeks on the meat meal ra-
tion, and made nearly as rapid gains as
the other lot iit the same size, two
months before; buf they never quite
overcame the disadvantage of their bad
start on grains alone. Some of the
omparative averages for ten weeks
from birth, the period of profitable
growth for the larger ducks, are shown
graphically below, the first figure or
upper line representing the meat fed
birds in each Instance:
Total weight attained. Cost of food fof
1 I Pound Jam
Dry manor in joo<f
top I bound e,<3in
"and my poor George was so happy
.just before this happened— engaeil to en bank?
•Barbara Saville. and looking forward , "Then only the witness looks for a
to going out to Tasmania."
The doctor draws a long whistle.
llreakliiK Horses In South Africa.
The way in which horses are broken
to saddle in South Africa is one which
1 have never seen practiced in any
other country, says a writer. It it
charmingly simple, nnd has its good
points as "well as its bad ones. It con-
sists of tving the head of the neophyte
close up to that of a steady horse by
means of a cord connecting the respec-
tive headstalls worn by these animals.
After they have both been saddled and
bridled, the "schoolmaster" is first
mounted, and then another man gets
on the young one. who Is powerless to
buck. rear, or run away, on account
Making a Natural Starter.
The method of making this natural
starter is simple. There may be vari-
ous plans, but one which is satisfac-
tory enough is as follows: A perfectly
healthy cow from a cleanly, well kept
dairy is selected. After the under parts
of the body are carefully brushed, and
the udder moistened with a damp
cloth, the first few jets of milk from
t&e teats are rejected, and the rest is
drawn Into a sterilized vessel. This is
then covered at once and taken to the
dairy, heated to a proper teniperatun
and passed througn a separator. The
skim milk thus obta'ned is again col
lected in a sterilized vessel, carefully
covered, and set aside to sour. After
it has become properly soured it seiwes
as a starter for the cream ripening
process. Of course there are many
-46* t methods of obtaining a natural
r^rter, for a natural starter is noth-
ing more than a lot of skim milk or
whole milk obtained under specially
cleanly conditions from an exception-
ally good dairy and allowed to sour
naturally.
Of course it is impossible for the
dairyman to be sure that such a
natural starter contains the species of
bacteria that is wanted for ripening.
Sometimes it may contain proper
species and at other times an unfavor-
able species. Logically then the use
of a natural starter is very unsatis-
factory. But our dairymen are not so
much interested in the logic of the
method as they are in practical re-
sults, and care not whether the process
they use fs theoretically the best, pro-
vided it gives them a good quality of
butter. There can be no question that
the use of natural starters thus made
has been a very decided advantage to
the butter maker as it has been
adopted in the last ten years.
52 lbs.
Tn conclusion, then, It may be said
that rations in which from 40 to 50
per cent of the protein was supplied by
animal food gave more economical re-
sults than rations drawing most of
their protein from vegetable sources.
The chief advantage was in the produc-
tion of rapid growth, although the cost
of production is also in its favor.
While inferior palatihllity may have
had something to do with the marked
results, especially with the ducks, the
whole hearing of these experiments
and others not yet reported seems to In-
dicate that the superiority of the one
ration is due to the presence in it of
animal food.
OpanloK" tor Veterinarian*
The Ohio State University at Colum-
bus In its report of the department of
veterinary medicine, says; There is
a growing demand for men who are
skilled veterinarians. The close rela-
tionship between veterinary medicine
and general medicine—so-called hu-
man" medicine, especially along san-
itary lines, has opened to the veteri-
nary profession a large, new field. At
present a well qualified veterinarian
has his choice of the following fields
of labor.
1 As an inspector and assistant in
the Bureau of Animal Industry. The
lowest salary paid, to an assistant In-
spector, Is $900 to *1,200 per annum.
2. As an instructor at an agricul-
tural or veterinary college. These po-
sition* require the best trained men
available, and pay good salaries.
3. As an investigator of infectious
and contagious diseases' at state agri-
cultural experiment stations. These
positions are especially fitted to one
who has the scientific ability and taste
for original research. There is a
great lack of men trained for such
scientific work In this country, our
veterinary tchools formerly teaching
little or nothing of the sciences
(botany, physics, bacteriology, path-
ological anatomy, etc.) which form the
foundation of a veterinarian's equip-
ment.
4. As a ve'.erlnary surgeon in the
cavalry service of the United States.
The position now pays $900 to ?1,200
yearly, with perquisites.
5. As a state veterinarian. Many
of the states now have state veteri-
narians, and the time is not far dis-
tant when every state in the union
will have such an official.
G. As a veterinarian to municipal
health boards. Already several of ouv
larger cities employ veterinarians as
Inspectors of abattoirs, butcher shops;
of milk and dairy products, and to as-
sist in sanitary work generally.
7. Ab a stock farm manager. A
number of veterinarians are employed
on stock farms in breeding districts as
managers.
8. Practice. For those wishing to
enter upon a regular1 Veterinary prac-
tice, desirable locations are still plen-
tiful iu many parts of the United
States.
There are three times as many ani-
mals as there are human beings in the
United States. There are ten timet
as many doctors of medicine as there
are veterinarians. It must seem, then,
that as the country grows older, which
means that the veterinarian will be-
come more often employed than at
present, and as the value of our live
stock increases, the future must have
in store for the skilled veterinarian
opportunity to succeed in his
chosen vocation far more favorable
than his professional brother, the
practitioner of general medicine.
"Thai accounts for the milk in the
cocoanut—that Bour-visaged Saville
means to marry the girl himself. it
is as plain as daylight now. I hat is
why be is so dead against George!"
Mrs. Bouverie clasps her trembling
hands and bows her grief-stained
face.
"George in prison! Doctor Carter,
God only knows my agony! My poor,
poor boy, weak as be may have been,
bat criminal never'"
Doctor Carter tries to comfort and
console her.
"There, there, let ii come to a trial;
1 have secured Jar vis for George. If
man can ferret out the truth he
second into the steady eyes of George of hi'g head being fixed. Besides this.
Bouverie—eyes that look true as steel. the faet of his being alongside another
"That is the man," he says.with such )lorsp glves him confidence, and. no
conviction that George Bouverie's matter bow wild he may be. he will
counsel groans. learn in a short time to carry his bur-
i Mrs. Bouverie sits immovable, her jen an(j reguiate his pace according to
! hands in her lap. a small, pitiful figure ; that Gf his companion. As he settles
crushed to the earth with a sorrow llown quietly to work, the connecting
Htaltli and Condition of Homeg.
A recent government report treats
of the health and condition of horses
for the year ending March 31. It sum-
marizes as follows:
Losses.—Of the 10 states each esti-
mated to contain 500,000 horses or up-
ward, all except Missouri report losses
from disease somewhat less than those
of the preceding year. The year 1898-
99, however, was characterized by a
rate of mortality slightly higher than
that of any previous year for which
figures are available, and accordingly
a comparison of the year now under
discussion with the ten-year average
is less satisfactory. Ohio, Indiana,
Iowa. Kansas. Nebraska, and Texas
report a rate of mortality below their
respective ten-year averages; in the
case of Pennsylvania and Missouri the
percentages of loss agree exactly with
the ten-year averages, while in New
York and Illinois they are slightly
above such averages.
Condition.—The. condition of health-
fulness and flesh on April 1 was very
high, being only 3 per cent below the
normal, as compared with 5.6 per cent
below the normal on April 1 of the
preceding year.
Chirk* on Frae Kan jr.
We notice that one poultry writer
is advocating giving the old hen full
liberty to drag her chicks anywhere,
lie hays that if this be done the chicks
will be hardier, more fully developed
and in every way better birds when
mature than those reared to the wean-
ing age with the hen confined to a
coop and a few square rods of ground.
But we would suggest that, the trouble
comes in the fact that there are like-
ly to be very few birds to mature. By
New Orchards In Iowa.
To the Farmers Review: A local
nurseryman informed me that h«
never before had so good a trade. H«
had some twelve acres of a nurserj
and he sold about all that was fit to
go out, and all that he received from
wholesale nurseries. This is certain-*
ly good news. Many of the old or
chards are about dead. They were
never cared for as they should hav
been, never manured, simply starved
to death. This was the result of ig-
norance. They never dreamed thai
a tree needs food. They expected a
tree to go on bearing indefinitely with
out a pound of manure. They art
about dead now and men arc in ha3t*
to set out new orchards. These wilt
be cared for. There is no better-ap-
ple country in the slates than south-
ern Iowa. All that is necessary to
raise Eden apples is to exercise thd
same care with the trees that we dc
with our breeds of fine horses, cattlt
and swine.—E. B. Heaton.
that is so terrible and so strange.
Mr. Saville, with an assumed air of
reluctance, steps into the witness box,
but every word he utters tells dead
against the prisoner. It is he who
brings to light George Bouverie's
financial difficulties and racing pro-
clivities. and the jury prick their ears,
and into theh twelve intelligent faces
comes a look that shows they have
found out the reason why. There Is
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U" J-011 hear that Philip SaTlUe Is | rlo has the falm«l doubca o( W
cord may be gradually loosened out
until at last it can be taken oft alto-
gether.
Funny Mhii'h Wife.
"Here's the clockmaker come to hx
our sitting room clock," said the funny
man's wife; "won't you go up and get
It for him? "Why, it isn't upstairs,
is it?" replied he lazily. "Of course
it is. Where did you think it wat?"
"Ob, I thought ii had run down."—
Philadelphia Press.
riaan anil Cncli-an Uairlrs.
A California milk inspector has this
to say: Unclean dairies have been so
widely advertised in official reports ,
and newspaper articles that many citi- j ^ie time the old hen has dragged the
zens think well-conducted dairies do ! lives ou' some of them, and cats
not exist, or, if they do, no way is I aIU' ral!5 have had their pick, to say
knowu by whtch one can be assured | nothing of the bout with the gape
of getting their milk. And many per- i worm, the number will be few. Nor
sons will go without milk whenever ' are we convinced that it is healthful
possible rather than run th° risk of j for a chick to be over exercised or that
getting the dangerously impure arti- j it is rendered hardy by being soaked
cle which they are convinced Is very with the dew or chilled by cold winds,
common. Thus the scarce articles have ' When a hen drags her chicks to a re-
the effect of reducing the production | mote corner of the farm the mink or
and use of impure milk; but they have j cat finds it a good chance to gather in
the same effect also on the use of pure ! one of the stragglers now and then.
milk. It Is unfortunate that the ex- i
cellent features of the best dairies are Firm Fences.—There is nothing in
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Falut the Poultry Honne.
Paint is not expensive and it pays
to use it where it can be done to ad-
vantage. There are on our farms many
dilapidated poultry buildings that are
not worth painting, and for such
buildings we do not advise painting.
But where a fairly good house is in
existence it should be painted. It
may be thought that looks do not
count, but this is a mistake. The man
that has a well painted good looking
poultry house will be very much more
likely to keep It clean than the man
that has A poultry house he is asham-
ed of every time he sees it. Moreover,
paint is a preserver of the wood and
should be used for that reason as well
as for looks. One writer suggests that
a painted building is warmer than an
unpainted one, but we do'ubt if the dif-
ference is enough to show on a ther-
mometer. In a high wind the differ-
ence in favor of the painted wood may
be considerable.
Variation of Temperature.
Probably the greatest diurnal tem-
perature range on record is that re-
ported by M, Zlchy, a late traveler in
Mongolia. The temperature at Urga
was 30.2 degrees at 5 a. m., and at
noon it had risen to 105.8 degrees.
not given as much prominence as are | relation -to poultry keeping that gives
the defective features of the worst, so more satisfaction than a well-built
as to show those Interested that good ' poultry fence of wire on posts that are
milk is on the market as well as bad. j so deeply set they will never incline In
A practicable plan by which this could j any direction. It. pays to have a firm
be accomplished could easily be fol- I fence. It will save a great deal of
lowed, greatly to the benefit af all con- vexation. The posts should be so deep-
cerned Although only a few dairies . ly set that they will stand wind and
were visited, it was readily seen that rain, frost and soil moisture. This can
at least'a part of the milk going into be obtained only by having the holes
Sacramento and San Francisco Is pr:- dug so deep that the bottoms of the
duced with great care and can be re- ; pos's will be below the region subject
lied upon as a safe and wholesome | to heaving in the spring, which does
food. As already suggested, if these | not necessarily mean below the region r,om
first-class dairies and others like them j of frost.
What Is known as the Wisconsin
card test Is the only one so far brought
forward that will indicate good and
bad milk as relates to noxious fer-
ments. This test is especially valu-
able to the manager of a factory, and
more so if some of the patrons have
been bringing milk that should be ex-
cluded because of unoleanness. Every
patron should insist that the creamery
or cheese factory be supplied with the
test, as it is of little use for the ma-
jority of the patrons to bring perfect
milk if that milk is to be reduced in
quality by having dirty milk poured
with it.
The somnambulist who tumble#
roof i? an illustration of one
way to fall asleep.
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