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Most  of  the  poets  have  had  their  turn 
at  dairying.  Most  of  them  single  out  the 
dairymaid  as  the  target  for  their  verse, 
but  the  cow  has  beeu  well  painted  with 
poetry  (?).  It  seems  to  us  that  the 
Holstein  cattle  have  had  the  best  of  this 
round  with  the  poets.  Here  is  “a  toast*’ 
printed  in  Black  and  White  Record — 
taken  from  the  programme  of  the  Hol¬ 
stein  bnni]uet  at  Detroit:  • 
A  Toast 
(Tune:  Michigan,  My  Michigan) 
We  drink  to  you  a  toast  tonight. 
To  all  who  love  the  Black  and  White. 
With  Holstein  milk  we  drink  your  health  ; 
We  wish  you  luck,  unbounded  wealth. 
Hood  Hols! ciu  milk,  you’re  food  for  man; 
The  best  produced  since  time  began. 
Let  them  deny  it  if  they  can  ; 
We  prove  it.  true  in  Michigan. 
Kentucky  has  its  famed  liigh-hall. 
In  Kansas,  water — that  is  all, 
New  England  folks  drink  only  tea; 
But  Michigan  says,  “milk  for  me.” 
Just  Holstein  milk,  just  milk  for  me, 
It  beats  your  whiskey  or  your  tea  ; 
Official  drink  it  soon  will  he, 
In  Michigan,  in  Michigan. 
As  a  “toast”  that  is  far  above  the  av¬ 
erage,  and  as  a  truth  it  hits  the  bull’s 
eye.  The  dairymen  need  an  increase  of 
milk  consumption  just  as  the  apple 
growers  needed  the  Apple  Consumers’ 
League.  We  must  all  get  busy  at  the 
task  of  increasing  the  demand  for  milk 
by  calling  for  it  at  every  public  talde. 
Cultivating  the  Farmer’s  Wife 
How  glad  I  was  to  read  of  the  woman 
who  was  careful  of  John  E.  Smith’s 
wife!  Such  care,  I  am  convinced,  is  all 
too  infrequent.  The  tired  housewife  is 
saving  of  everything  but  her  own  health 
and  strength,  on  which  depend  the  com¬ 
fort  and  well-being  of  the  farm  and  fam¬ 
ily. 
Farm  wives  invariably  pity  the  bride 
who  comes  into  their  midst.  While  she 
is  showing  them  her  new  furniture,  kitch¬ 
en  cabinet,  oil  stove,  neat  house  dresses 
and  many  conveniences,  they  gaze  on  her 
happy  countenance  with  commiseration, 
wondering  how  long  her  bloom  will  last. 
When  she  returns  their  neighborly  visits, 
she  makes  a  silent  vow  never  to  have 
shut-up  rooms,  where  iu  order  to  exclude 
flies,  air  is  also  excluded ;  not  to  wash, 
iron  and  can  fruit  all  in  one  day  until 
frazzled  nerves  yield  to  the  proverbial 
last  straw  and  vent  their  irritation  on 
the  first  offender,  and  not  to  save  every 
penny  she  can  make  to  pay  for  groceries 
so  the  farmer  can  use  his  surplus  to  pur¬ 
chase  the  latest  improved  machinery. 
I  am  a  farmer’s  wife,  the  only  woman 
on  our  farm.  When  I  feel  that  I  have 
too  much  to  do,  as  every  housekeeper 
sometimes  does,  I  sit  down  and  consider 
Ways  and  means  of  remedying  this.  I 
hire  my  washing  and  pay  it  Out  of  my 
own  money  made  on  eggs  and  chickens. 
The  woman  lecturer  at  our  farmers’  in¬ 
stitute  said  it  was  impossible  to  hire 
washing  done  in  her  native  country. 
That  region  must  be  thinly  settled,  and 
with  prosperous  folk.  I  have  no  trouble 
in  getting  washing  done  for  a  moderate 
wage.  Not  at  the  house  though :  l  send  it; 
it  way.  Next  comes  ironing.  I  divide  it 
in  .two  parts  for  two  mornings.  When 
my  neighbor  at  three  o’clock  on  a  July 
afternoon  tells  me  over  the  ’phone  that 
She  is  ironing,  I  say  mentally.  ’’Wlmt  a 
poor  manager,”  as  I  take  my  book  to  the 
hammock  in  the  shade.  If  she  could  see 
me,  she  would  assume  a  virtuous  expres¬ 
sion  and  exclaim,  “IIow  lazy!” 
The  white  linen  table  and  bureau  cov¬ 
ers  are  kept  for  occasional  use.  not 
ironed  every  week;  a  roll  of  crape  paper 
cut  iu  suitable  lengths  takes  their  places. 
White  oilcloth  is  better  011  washstands. 
For  the  dining  table,  first,  cover  with  a 
white  cloth  so  that  about  six  inches  hang 
over  all  around;  over  this  lay  white  oil¬ 
cloth  trimmed  to  about  one  inch  below 
the  edge  all  around,  just  enough  to  catch 
the  rub  from  the  elbows.  The  oil  cloth 
can  be  quickly  wiped  up  after  a  meal  and 
hits  of  jelly,  butter  or  spilled  coffee  leave 
no  further  trace. 
“But,”  says  the  bride.”  I  have  my 
white  linen  covers,  beautiful  with  lace, 
tablecloths,  napkins,  etc.,  and  I  don’t 
want  to  spend  the  money  for  crape  paper, 
paper  napkins  and  oilcloth." 
“Indeed,  and  to  wbat  better  use  can 
you  put  small  change  than  saving  your¬ 
self  instead  of  buying  your  husband  a 
smoking  stand  or  walking  stick*'” 
The  papers  and  magazines  write  of 
women  as  a  parasite,  spendthrift  and 
vampire.  There  may  he  such  in  cities 
but  in  our  country  circle,  the  women  arc 
equal  earners  with  their  husbands,  but 
often  too  self-sacrificing  to  claim  their 
part  of  the  pay.  E.  w.  S. 
Thrashing  Day 
The  noonday  whistle  blows  from  the 
neighboring  town,  ami  all  is  quiet  in  the 
barn.  The  thrashers  are  marching 
towards  the  house  and  awaiting  their  turn 
at  the  wash  bench.  It  is  a  jolly  crowd  of 
hungry  men.  As  I  pass  back  and  forth 
putting  the  eatables  upon  the  table,  I 
catch  a  few  sentences. 
“Well,  Gus,  wlmt  do  you  say  for  to¬ 
day?  Will  it  be  roast  chicken  fricassee 
or  chicken  pie?” 
“Don’t  know  about  that,  but  bet  we’ll 
get  apple  pie.” 
I  began  to  fear  they  would  be  disap¬ 
pointed.  as  I  had  neither.  After  dinner 
I  spoke  to  one  of  the  men  and  asked 
if  they  were  satisfied  with  their  dinner, 
as  I  had  overheard  their  remarks  before 
dinner. 
It  was  the  owner  of  the  thrasher  and 
helper  who  had  been  tailing.  He  said 
nearly  every  place  they  went  the  farmers 
had  chicken  in  some  way,  and  he  was 
“chickened  to  death,”  and  most  places 
served  pie  for  dessert,  and  all  women 
were  not  expert  in  the  art  of  making  good 
pie.  It  taught  me  a  lesson  and  since 
then  we  eat  chicken,  but  have  meat  on 
thrashing  day.  Stews,  pot  roast  or  pot 
pie  are  good.  It  is  not  expensive  and 
makes  plenty  of  gravy.  I  use  beef,  veal 
or  land).  For  dessert  I  make  puddings 
with  fruit,  tapioca,  cottage  or  rice,  and 
always  have  a  large  pan  of  baked  beans, 
potatoes,  white  and  sweet,  and  one  other 
vegetable.  I  never  forget  pickle#  of  some 
kind,  as  most  men  like  them.  This  is 
not  a  hard  dinner  to  prepare  when  there 
is  only  one  pair  of  hands  to  do  all. 
AUNT  ELIZABETH. 
A  Dry  Earth  Closet 
Some  years  ago  I  saw  in  Tm;  It.  N.-Y. 
a  description  of  an  outdoor  closet  with  n 
bucket  enclosed  that  could  be  taken  out 
and  emptied.  Would  you  give  descrip¬ 
tion  of  one  so  built  time  a  woman  could 
clean  it?  I  am  an  old  woman  and  have 
a  hard  time  getting  anything  like  that 
done.  READER. 
There  have  been  many  devices  for  the 
sanitary  disposal  of  human  wastes,  some 
of  them  practicable  and  some  smacking 
more  of  the  experimental  laboratory  than 
of  the  everyday  home.  About  as  simple 
and  inexpensive  a  device  as  I  can  sug¬ 
gest  to  meet  your  peculiar  needs  is  a 
large  galvanized  pail  of  Bin’ll  size  as  you 
can  conveniently  handle;  this  rn  he  placed 
beneath  the  fly-tight  scat  of  an  ordin¬ 
ary  privy  and  the  contents  kept  covered 
with  dry  loam  or  road  dust.  A  box  of 
the  latter  should  be  near  h.v  su  that  a 
handful  could  frequently  thrown  into  the 
pail.  The  chief  objection  to  this  ar¬ 
rangement  is  the  necessity  of  frequently 
emptying  such  a  pail.  but.  if  a  hole  is  dug 
conveniently  near,  the  pail  may  he  emp¬ 
tied  into  5c  and  the  contents  covered  with 
a  little  of  the  earth  from  the  excavation. 
Dry  earth  is  nature’s  great  absorbent,  de¬ 
odorizer  and  purifier,  but  it  is  not.  di¬ 
rectly,  a  germ  destroyer,  a  -  fecal  dis¬ 
charges  covered  by  it  should  not  he  with¬ 
in  drainage  distance  of  any  well. 
M.  B.  D. 
Cat  and  Birds. — Stray  cats  have  come 
and  determinedly  remained  with  u<.  and 
we  feared  they  would  drive  tin*  birds 
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