The Curtis Courier. (Curtis, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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TM Blmgltolty *f Pur* Milk
hl« MUh Ca»pain"
I* the subject *f aa article br Hopkia*
Aluai to th* McClure*. The
article I* a study *f a asuaiclpal pur*
milk auppiy. it* operation and r*aulta
to Ul* saving.
First the milk pall I* • teamed and
th* mouth of It ororod with at aril lied
cheese-cloth. The milk man, kla hand*
carefully washed, milks throush this
•hWHe-c-loth. under the supervision of
• Health Bureau nurse.Hhe pail being
then carried to a small abed nearby,
where the sterilised distributing bot-
tles are awaiting it. Double screen
doors keep out that mischievous dis-
tributer of dirt and disease, the fly,
and should one squeeze lta way In, It
la hunted down with as determined a
ruthles»nr»s us Hit were a rattlesnake.
Untouched by human hands, the milk
is siphoned into the bot'Jes, which
are at once sealed with sterile *toi>-
pers, and peeked in an Ice box until
ready for delivery. Thua produced and
bottled for delivery It la Insured against
taint. Nowhere can it encounter a
germ until It reaches the consumer.
The cow and baby are the only con-
tainers rot absolutely steille, and the
cow la as safe as Inspection can make
I her.
Does It not sound extremely simple
L this matter of producing milk? Ther •
0 Is nothing more to it than I have ne-
tt scrib'd. In the meie mntter of cle.mll-
t. ness lies the difference between milk
y' on which babies thrive, and mlik on
1 which bald- a pine and die. Wl.en I
visited the Rochester farm last Aug-
ust. the weather had been uncomfort-
ably warm for two weeks. At my sum
mer place, which l> tn the shore of a
lake and l.< ice free from dust and
ccntnn.iaatl n, ! had experienced dlifi-
cult/ In keeping milk sweet—*oiml
country mill?, tre-h fit tn the creamery.
Dr. Roby rave mo a glass from the
Koch' -oer farm’s cooler, where It hail
teen kept at u temperature of about
fifty <1 « es, and ask 'd my opinion of
it. It kj excellently sweet nuil fresh.
• "l’init milk," said h<\ after consult-
ing t i„ci.id, Is Just a tride .lore than
ten da.\ s old.”
active and effective Intellectual, pollt j
kal and ecoaogric Hie.
There are realms of large extent
where all ibis, or most of this, has al-
ready been realin d; and wl Re this is
l>erhaps miieiully Hue i scrat l a< s
of farming counA) west of the Miss-
issippi, with some of which I have a
fairly intimate personal kuowlid-,..
It Is no b ; * »r o of other great tracts
j of country vast ol Um Mi-Masippi. in
i these reyi jis the church and the
school floui'hh as never before: there
Is a'more succe*»ful auil more varied
farming industry; the social advantag-
es and opport unltb s arc greater than
ever h*fme; life Is fuller, happier,
more useful; ahd though the work Is
more effective than over, and in a way
quite as hard. It is carried on so as to ; vates enough of It
give more scope for well used-lelsuro Ne*r his cabin
Firmer Should Be Encouraged
In his addreaa at the eetni-cenlennial
of Michigan Agricultural Co ’eg**. Lang
Ing. President Roosevelt said In part:
Thera U but one person whose .wel-
fare is as vital U> the welfare of the
whole country ae is that of the wane
worker who does manual labor, and
that is the tiller at the soil—the farm
er. If there is one lesson taught by
history is that the permanent great
ness of auy statu must ultimately de-
pend more upon the character of Its
country population than u|»on any
thing else. No growth of cities, no
growth of wealth can make up for a
losa in cither the number or the char
acter of the farming population. In the
United States more than almost any
other country we should realize this
and should prise our country popula- ________ _____
tion. When this nation began Its lade- j yly p!ea jg we „ban try to
pendent exisUnee It was a nation of ...
farmers. The towna were small aud
weto for the most part mere sc-acoasi
tlading and fishing ports. Tho chief
Industry of the country wai agriculture
and the ordinary cftlzen was in some
way connected with it. In every great
c risis < f the past a pecullur dependen-1
cc lias hitherto been Justified. Hut It
cannot he justified in the future If ag-
riculture is permitted to sink in the
scale a pared with other employ-
me nts. \ c .iimot afford to lose that j
preeminently typical American, the
fainter who ovvus his own farm.
Yet it would be kilo to deny that in
the last half century there has been in
the eastern half of our country a fall-
ing off in the relative condition of the
tillers of iho soil, although signs are
multiplying that the nation has waked
up to (he danger and is preparing to
Mongrel Hons/ Makers.
We k-ani from exchanges, says Or-
chard and Farm, that Capt .lohu
lk Idii. v.ho lives iu a eulnu in 11.o
Ar buckle mountains. Iu ludlsn Terri
tory, bell vis that he has discovered
a new kind of u honey he*, and he 1
trying to civ ss It with the ordinary
bee. He thinks that if lie succeeds in
getting the two kinds ef bet's to cross-
breed he will have produced a bus su-
perior to either, because it will be bet-
ter adapted to thut country and clim-
ate than any bee now known.
Cupt. Udder s boms Is on Colbert
creek, twdve mile** west of Davis. 1. T.
He cluims ownership to 2000 acres i f
wild mountain Und there, aud culti-
for kls own needs,
are forty hollow
make
more nearly universal the conditions
that now obtain in the most favored
localities.
To Destroy Cutworm*.
Cutworms are everywhere regarded
as among tho most common and de-
structive p^sts in corn-fields, especial-
ly in seasons or conditions conducive
to their multiplication and safe hiber-
nation.
Leaving out of present considers-
j tion the minor attacks of the cut-
: worms upon the plants well started in
| growth, and discussing (he pests In
j connection whit the well-known meth-
od of attack upon small plants which
1 gives them their name, it may be well
slated that tho most trouble.ome
i forms are those that pass the winter
Points in Milking.
The w. ll-Unown phenomenon of "not
glvla;; down” ti e milk is claimed to be
the reri ,u of lack of nervous tone in
the- glands, brought about by .some
kind of excitement. The udder Is not a
container in which the milk is readily
Sirred up at making time, hut an organ
in which tli° greater part of milk is
elaborated i'.e milking or suckling
Is lti pr _;re-.v-, by virtue of the agita-
tion produced. Unless the cow is in
perfect repose t it secretion will not
take place ncr.i r ./. The lesson to be
derived front U is that the cow
should be treated with the greatest
gentle nos . and otherwise kept free
front excitement, specially during tho
time of milking or suckling.
What Restrained Grover.
"Perhaps one reason Mr. Cleveland
C(never called anybody n liar was he
cause he was a fisherman himself."—
d Chat lesion News.
up to me Hanger u..u ~ , partly grown, havlng b. en hatched
arapple t ff» ctively with . »^° | the previous autumn and having hid-
den in the soli or uuder other protec-
II1C
lion during the season of their sentl-
1 1 dormancy. Every careful observer
has found them alive tn such wlut'-r
Mississippi and north of the Ol io and
j »he Potomac there has been on the
whole an actual shrinkage sinco
civil war. In the s'ntes of this seclt n
there has been a growth ot population
in some an enormous growth—but
the growth has taken place In the
cities, and especially in the larger cit-
ies.This has been due to certain ec6-
nomic factors, such aa the extension of
railroads, the development of machin-
ery, and the opening for Industrial
success afforded by the unprecedented
growth of cities. The Increased facil-
ity of communication resulted in
the withdrawal from rural communit-
ies of most of the small, widely li*:rlb-
ed manufacturing Industries of the
'cities.
The chief offset to-the vnriotts ten
denotes which have told against the
farm lias hitherto come in the rise of
the physical sciences and their appli-
cation to agricultural practices or to
the rendering of country conditions
more easy and
countervailing
Woman Reclua# of Million* Dead.
Miss Aeha Clark, a native of Baltl
more reputed to be worth aeveral mll-
: lion dollars, died at Bellingham,
1 Wash., aged 90. She lived alone for
lJyears In a tumble-down shack In
'Worth Bellingham, but owned property
In many Pacific coast cities.
It 1b estimated by the Department of
Agriculture that last year’s crop wa ;
produced at a saving of $685,000,000
over what would have been the cost of
raising an equal crop fifty year* ag .
This saving was accomplished by t te-
ase of mod rn agricultural Implements.
stumps, each Inhabited by a colony of
1 bees. Ha says of what ha believea his
bee discovery:
”It la a strange mongrel honey-mak-
er. They appear to be a mixture of
gray-coated bumble beee and yellow-
atriped honey beea. Moat of them are
aa large as Italian queen bees. They
gather honey and deposit it In honey
balls In holes which they excavate in |
the ground. The bulla, or sacks, con
slat of a waxy substance, and are
about as thick as morocco leather. ]
Nearly every sack or cell contains
about a half pint of the sweetest bone;, i
imaginable. Its flavor is fur superior j
to common houey, and it acts like pep-
sin upon the digestive organs. The
mongrel honey-makers cover th*-lr de-
posits of sweetness with a lot of fine
grass—in fact, with a water-proof roof.
A goodly number of tho mongrels are
detailed to act as guards to repel In-
vaders, such as skunks, opossums, rac-
coons, ants and other creeping things
in search of sweetness. These It es are
great enemies to snakes, gophers, rats
and nosing dogs. A car that has ever
been stung by one of them emt never
bo coaxed to again nose around their
honey balls.
"I have been experimenting with
Dairy Notee.
The "row with th* crumpled
t» getting to be a relic. Dehontiag to
the modem nut hod Breeding tM
horns off la the next atep and wt®
some day Ik- the only atep.
Too many cow a Lave to si>end 0
the month ef May getting in good
shape to do good work la June Horn*
never get iu good condition until fU*B
come. That's because they w. re nevto
frd rl i.t all winter.
Prepare for summer drouth by sow-
ing some sweet corn broadcast, or sor-
ghum will do, though not g< ol until
late in t' e f..ll. sow something to feed
during lly time.
Teach the hoys to be gentle with th*
cows Stoning nnd chasing will not do
for the new*, and It s mlgh'y bad on
the boy.
Cows eat I ts of suit when out of
•piing grass. Let them have It.
To w * tali Is the only w ay" to JudgO
the milk yield of a cow. le-t this wrtgfc
heavily on your mlud.
Other iLipgs bciug equal a lar ge cow
will produce milk and butter-fat chatt-
er than a small cow.
A good cure for "loet cud" la a half
pail of bran night and morning and *
good pustuie all day.
Nome cowa are foolish enough to t*T
to fill the pall when It makes them
skin and bone* to do It. Help inch
cowa by feeding them heavily.
To what extent are cowa the result
of habit? Thut's a problem yet uusolv-
ed.
You've h» aid of ehlekstia going
light" haven't you? Can t you find
seine cows that have that trouble this
spring? It Isn't due to disease, either.
This and next nt nth Is the oow'a
paradise—provided that pasture la am-
ple. If it Isn't It s your fault.
The dilution separator aeparatea the
farmer Irotn hi* hard earned cash. It
continues as long us operated.—Suc-
cessful Farming.
quarters, or has noticed their destruc-
tive attacks upon the earliest garden
vegetation at the end of their Ions
*“'ia or fasting. A. K .-" l-** „w.loun, uoa., fathenrA I h.»-
theae wona. mo.l j lie ronMaW dor- tMj
lag the day. trayollog from ,l»aMo m cM1„M hc,, too
n ,r , „ S ,*. I nowcoreora aro corlou.ly laapwted W
nightfall. They are the caterplllara of ,
, , , the old settlers In the hollow stump or
roctuid moths, the adults of which often a terriflc batll. takes
fly by night and are, In some favor-
able seasons, very abundantly attract-
,cd to lights in spring. On moonlight
nights the moths of some species are
also very abundant at the bluaaoaia
of plum-trees, sucking the nectar, and
at such times cutworms’ work may
soon be apprehended in abundance in
the fields.
Aside from the capture by lamp
traps of the abundant moths, which
pleasant. But these I here seems a quite practical appllca-
forces arc as yet In tlon of this much discussed method of
place, but I noticed that when a moth
attempts to enter the l,lve during the
conflict the mon rrls cease fighting
I their cousins and promptly dispatch
the intruding moth. Then, very often.
1 the aristocratic bees enter into arnia-
| Me relations with the newcomers by
letting them crawl into their hives. I
am watching this cro**-bre*dlng pro-
cess with keen delight, and will con-
tinue to introduce as many of tho
mongrels as I can capture. I think
that, like Burbank in the vegetable
Diseare in Manura.
Manure heaps are responsible for
many diseases that appear on farms.
Even tho well water may become con-
taminat'd, though the heap may b#
some distance from It. Typhoid fever
and diphtheria Iwve appeared In fami-
lies living a mile or more from neigh-
bors. and where it was apparently lm-
y sstbt': for the families to bo attacked.
A French scientist, who Investigated
diseases on farms in France, found
that there was some relation betweeni
manure heaps and epidemics of diph-
theria. Statistics In Scotland and Prus-
sia show that the rat* of mortality
from diphtheria Is higher in rural dis-
tricts. It is suggested that all naunur*
should be kept in closed locations,
having cement sides snd bottoms.
Tooth Grow Up In His Noss,
Recently a Hartford (Conn.) doctor,
who refuses to divulge the name ot
his patient, was called to treat a man
for grip. He discovered that the pa-
tient was almost deaf and advlsdd him
to consult an ear specialist, who auc-
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their infancy. As compared with a few j insect destruction, one of the moa. , klngdoni( x mny succeed in producing . c^de<J ,n oplknlng one ear. The tpe-
decades ago. the social or community feasible plans is apparently by that a much more ,,rofltable honey-maker ctaljgt then d,n.ctf(1 hl
than Is now known to the world.”
A Oeed Guess.
Mlrandal—I saw__y*ou with a gentle-
in au auto last night I saw only
of his arms. Did he only have
man
one
one?
Myrtella—The other
somewhere, 1 guess!
was around
life of country people in th# east com
pares less well than it formerly did
with that of the dwellers In the cities
Many social communities have lost
their social coherence, their sense of
community Interest In such commun-
ities the country church, for instance,
has gone backward both as a sr.clal
and a religious factor. Now, we can not
too strongly insist upon the fact that
it is quite as unfortunate to have any
social as any economic falling off. It
wouldf he a calamity to have our farms
occupied by a lower class of people
than the hard working, self-respecting,
Independent and essentially manly and
womanly men and women who hav
hitherto constituted the most typical
American and on the w’hole the most
valuable, element In our entire nation.
Ambitious native-born young men and
women who now go from the farm
must be brought back to It, and there-
fore they must have social as well as
economic opportunities. Uverything
should be done to encourage the grow-
th in the open farming country of such
institutional and social movements as
will meet the demand of the best type
of farmers. There should be libraries,
assembly halls, social organizations of
all kinds. The school building and
teacher tn the school building
should, throughout the country, dist-
ricts, be of tho very highest type,
able to fit the boys and girls not mer
elv to live in. but thoroughly to en.ioy
and to make the most of the country.
The country church must he revived
All kinds of agencies, from rural free
delivery to the bicycle and the tele-
phone. should te utili|ed to the ut-
most; good roads should be favored;
everything should ha done to make It
suggested by the hibernation In the
soil of the half-grown worm*. It is a
principle In applied entomology well
worthy of frequent experimental trial,
that nature demands for the safety of
these soil protected insects freedom
from disturbance after they have once
How tc Keep Hay.
Haystacks should never b# used if
the hay can be put under shelter. Hay
sheds, which are simple roofs on poles,
settled in winter quarters, bb their dl;- i cogt but pttle, and will save much
turbance is very likely to result vaiuabi0 fco<i jn a year. Clover bay
through one asency or another in i dr€8 not reta)n its quality when close-
ly packed, being liable to heat, which
is also an objection to baling it. The
einllst then directed hla attention to
the left nostril. In which there wa* a
hard substance. Forcepa were finally
brought into play and a good-
sized tooth was extracted. It must
have turned from Its regular coirs*
years ago, the doctor says, and pon*-
trated the nasal organ.
their death. It Is therefore believed
that fall or early winter plowing Is
very effective in killing these hiber
natlng worms, along with other spe-
cies ot troublesome insect#.
The attraction of the worms to po
soued bails of bran, or fresh harbar,
of flavored plants, as clover, proves t
be a practical mode of attack in ga,
den* and seems to be worth trial, aven
In corn-flelda also.
easier for the farmer to lead the moat | straw.
Making Manura.
AVhat Is styled "making manura" by
adding materials, such as straw, corn-
stalks, etc., to the manure, Increases
the value of the manure heap but
little, so far as the absorbent materials
are concerned. Their real value Is In
absorbing and retalnlnz the liquids,
and to do this to the bsst advantage
such materials as cornstalks and straw
should be fine. It is true that they
may decompose after a while or be
trampled Into pieces, hut in the mean-
time portions ot the liquid may escape
and be lost. Manure is valuable only
in proportion to the value of the ma-
terials from which it is produced. A
shovelful of manure produced from
the consumption of linseed meal I-
| more valuable than many times the
same weight of manure produced fron;
best prices for hay aro ob-
tained only when the hay Is
bright and clean, and when exposed to
the weather it is liable to Injury unless
stacks are made by experts. The best
hay Is that which has received careful
attention in both curing and storing.
There Is a cutlotis origin of a recent
fire In a Manchester (N. H.) telegraph
office. The sun streaming through the
windows fell upon a heavy glass pa<*
per-welght, which slowly absorbed th*
heat until It grew so hot that it tiegaa
to radiate it, and the m< ssagei undei*
n- ath caught fire.
Hens in Summer.
The cheapest way to keep a flock of
hens in summer is to turn them on a
range and let them pick up all the
, food required, as they will fill their
1 crops several times a day with bugs,
grass Beeds, worms, etc. When fed
grain during warm weather the fowls
1 are liable to become too fat, in which
i condition the hens do not lay and ar<
then also more liHhle to disease. Eggs
1 may not he high in summer, but they
can be produced at a very small cost
at that seuson If the hens are mad* to
seek their food.
The One Who is Wanted.
"The Vassar girl who succeeded in
putting the shot thirty feet the other
day has won plaudits right and left,
but the average man who is looking
for a wife will prefer the girl who
can put hot biscuits right over the
home plate.”— Washington Poet.
*•»**«
Wise Woman.
Ella—Bella has given up playtog
bridge whist and has thrown her cards
In the fire.
Ntella—Burned her bridge behind
her. so to apeak.
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