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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1907 



To America's Good Women: 



With the November Delineator we started the "CHILD RESCUE CAMPAIGN"— 

 the bringing into the home that needs a child the child that needs a home. There 

 are 25,000 children in New York alone who do not know what Home means; there are 

 2,000,000 homes in America that do not know the joys that -children bring. In the 

 December issue are shown the second two, little, homeless children we are asking the 

 great American womanhood to take into its heart. 



We are proud of this December issue. It contains many notable features : " What 

 Christmas Means To Me," a symposium by Edwin Markham, Madame Schumann- 

 Heink, Eva Booth and the Rev. Charles F. Aked. It tells " How Santa Claus Comes to 

 the Rich " with toys of fabulous price, and of " Christmas in Strange Places." Besides, 

 it gives a generous list of fiction by well-known writers, Zona Gale, Owen Oliver, Ellis 

 Parker Butler, Jean Dwight Franklin, Edith Fullerton Scott and Eloise Lee Sherman. 



In fact we are proud of our record for the year. We have, of course, maintained 

 our position as the greatest fashion authority in the world. This is acknowledged, and 

 of it we presumably should be proud, as any one would be proud of leadership in any- 

 thing. But, like most human beings who attain a recognized position, it is not on that 

 position our pride rests. 



During this past year we have given our readers some of the finest recent litera- 

 ture, for instance: the letters of Fraulein Schmidt to Mr. Anstruther, by the author of 

 " Elizabeth and Her German Garden," and " The Chauffeur and the Chaperon " by 

 the Williamsons. We have had contributions from some of the most famous people 

 in the country: Hon. David J. Brewer, Justice of the U. 5. Supreme Court; Cardinal 

 Gibbons; Richard LeGallienne; Ella Wheeler Wilcox ; Newell Dwight Hillis, the great 

 divine; Agnes and Egerton Castle; Anthony Hope; David Belasco; Ida M. Tarbell; 

 Judge Henry E. Shute; Carolyn Wells; Ellis Parker Butler; Lida Churchill; Edgar 

 Saltus; Tom Masson; Gelett Burgess; Grace MacGowan Cooke; Lillian Bell, and a 

 number of other writers. But it is not of these things we are the proudest. 



The Child Rescue Campaign, — the homeless child, the childless homes — the bring- 

 ing of these little ones into the homes where little ones are needed ; this movement 

 is of our pride and of our heart. Will you make it of your heart ? Will you give us 

 such assistance as you can? 



THE DELINEATOR, 



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We do the long waiting — thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that give an 

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WH. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor 



Balanced Rations for Dairy Cows 



IT IS practically impossible to make up 

 a balanced ration for dairy cows of 

 timothy hay, barley, buckwheat and oats on 

 account of the low content of protein; if 

 enough of these were used so that the ration 

 would contain the proper amount of protein, 

 it would contain too much dry matter and 

 carbohydrates. To show how it looks, we 

 have prepared a ration, using buckwheat 

 middlings in place of the buckwheat. 



RATION I — POORLY BALANCED 



FOODS 



DRY 

 MATTER 



PRO- 

 TEIN 



CARBOL- 



HY- 

 DRATES 



FAT 



NUTRI- 

 TIVE 

 RATIO 



15 lbs. Timothy hay 



4 lbs. Barley 



4 lbs. Oats 



3.5 lbs. Buckwheat 

 middlings 



13.02 lbs. 

 3.56 lbs. 

 3.56 lbs. 



3.05 lbs. 



.02 lbs. 

 .35 lbs. 

 .37 lbs. 



.98 lbs. 



6.51 lbs. 

 2.62 lbs. 

 1.89 lbs. 



1. 17 lbs. 



.21 lbs. 

 .06 lbs. 

 .16 lbs. 



.19 lbs. 





Total 



23.19 lbs. 



1.72 lbs. 



12.19 lbs. 



.62 lbs. 



i:7.2 



RATION 2 — WELL BALANCED 



FOOD 



DRY 



MATTER 



PRO- 

 TEIN 



CARBO- 

 HY- 

 DRATES 



FAT 



NUTRI- 

 TIVE 

 RATIO 



15 lbs. Timothy hay. 

 2 lbs. Cottonseed 



13.02 lbs. 

 5-34 lbs. 



1.83 lbs. 



1.62 lbs. 



.42 lbs. 

 .52 lbs. 



.74 lbs. 



.66 lbs. 



6.51 lbs. 

 3.94 lbs. 



.33 lbs. 



1. 00 lbs. 



.21 lbs. 

 .10 lbs. 



.24 lbs. 



.16 lbs. 





3 lbs. Burkwhe.'.t 

 middling' 





To.al 



21.81 lbs. 



2.34 lbs. 



1 1.78 lbs. 



.71 lbs. 



i:5.8 



Barley, oats and buckwheat are so nearly 

 alike in their composition that any one can 

 be substitutied for the other. You will note 

 in Ration 1, the protein only reaches 1.72, 

 which is far too low for cows giving an average 

 flow c-f milk. In Ration 2, cottonseed meal 

 has been substituted for the oats, and this 

 will give a fairly well-balanced ration with 

 nutritive ratio 1:5.8. 



Penn. F. E. Bonsteel. 



Some Truths About Stock Foods 



THERE is a good deal of misunderstand- 

 ing about the real value of the various 

 condimental stock foods as a part of the 

 ration for either stock or poultry. Professor 

 F. W. Woll of the Wisconsin Station in 

 Bulletin No. 151 has summarized some feeding 

 experiments with them. Trials were conducted 

 by about a dozen experiment stations — in all 

 twenty-three different trials. In twenty-one 

 out of the twenty-three experiments nothing 

 was gained by including these foods in the 

 rations and they were a detriment in that the 

 cost of the ration was increased by their 

 addition, thus increasing the cost of the pro- 

 ducts. Therefore there is nothing to be gained 

 by feeding a healthy animal with one of these 

 condiments. As a medicine they are not much 

 better, as has been pointed out by the Iowa 

 Agricultural Experiment Station in Bulletin 

 No. 87. One half or more of these foods is 

 composed of common feeding stuffs and are 

 worth about $1.50 per 100 pounds. About 

 one-tenth iscomposedof common salt, another 

 tenth of charcoal, which leaves only about 

 three-tenths of the bulk to be made up of 

 such simple drugs as anise, sulphur, ginger, 

 red pepper, sassafras, and Epsom salts, all of 

 which possess mild medicinal properties but 

 because they are fed in such small daily 

 quantities really do no good. To show how 



