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mind, of tbe highest value to the breeders of 
blooded stock. With this apparatus in their 
possession they are no longer compelled to 
make tedious and expensive individual churn 
tests, but can with a small sample of milk 
accurately ascertain the percentage of butter 
fat it contains for every animal in the herd, 
on the same day, at a small expense for time 
and chemicals and with no waste of milk 
worth mentioning. Such tests may be con¬ 
ducted monthly or quarterly or at irregular 
intervals as judgment dictates, and recorded 
for study and comparison. He does not wish 
to be understood as saying that a milk test 
should decide at once and of itself the value 
of a cow; other important factors [should be 
takep into consideration, such as tbe condition 
of the cow at the time the test was made, her 
age, length of time from calving, season of 
the year, kind and amount of food supplied. 
Then there is also to be reckoned in the ante¬ 
cedents of the animal, her constitution and 
breeding. Until the method of milk analysis 
here considered was given to the people, 
there was a reasonable excuse for the bn ed- 
ers of dairy stock not knowing exactly the 
better qualities of each of their cows, though 
they might know how the whole herd stood in 
the aggregate. Now there is no possible ex¬ 
cuse for ignorance on their part. Every 
breeder who is heart and soul in the business 
of breeding dairy stock should certainly think 
of these things. 
Vice Versa. In view of a recent news¬ 
paper criticism upon the intelligence of the 
horse, one of the N. Y. Herald’s exchanges, it 
does not mention which, as it ought to do, has 
the following capital offset:— 
A horse in one of our stables thinks that the 
intelligence of his ownpr, man, has been 
greatly overrated. It has kuown him to drink 
whisky until he became brutal and drove and 
whipped him until he dropped from exhaus¬ 
tion He has known him to gamble in lot¬ 
teries, bet on horse races, sit in a draft until 
he takes cold, eat ice cream and drink hot 
coffee at the same meal, eat of everything to 
gormandizing, take medicine to cure his in¬ 
digestion and immediately over-eat again and 
repeat the operation. He has known him to 
grossly abuse his animals, his employes, his 
wifeaud his children; to gamble and drink 
half the night and then expect to have a level 
hf ad for successful business the next morning. 
He has left his colts and calves in the corn¬ 
fields and on mean pasture all the winter long 
to train them to habits of economy and hardi¬ 
ness, not kuowing that both exhaust vitality, 
impair tbe strength and usefulness and lessen 
their value. He has often seen horses, badly 
trained and developed by incompetent owners, 
expected to do as much and act as intelligent¬ 
ly as if trained by the most thorough and ac¬ 
complished owners, and whipped and scolded 
because they did not know better. Men do 
not expect the unread aud uneducated to 
make profound statesmen or skilled doctors, 
but they do expect their poor horses to have 
sense beyond their training and in that show 
bow very little intelligence they have them¬ 
selves. 
The Kansas Sorghum Industry.— From 
Prof. M. Swenson, Secretary and Chemist of 
the Fort Scott, Kansas, sugar works, the 
Farmers’ Review has received the following: 
'‘We began making sugar on Septemper 5, 
and have met with excellent results. Our 
output of sugar this year will be fully double 
the quantity made last year, and the quality 
is much improved. The sample sent you is 
from the last boiling made to-day, and con¬ 
tains 98X per cent, pure sugar. 
“This season’s work has been quite profi 
table, both to the company and the farmers. 
Th^ yield per acre has varied from eight to 
18 tons, and we have already contracted for 
our next year’s crop. We have had about 
2,000 acres more cane offered than we can 
take at these works, and arrangements are 
already being perfected for the erection of 
another factory south of this city. The com¬ 
plete success of this industry has been demon¬ 
strated, and we will soon show our faith by 
the building of a number of new factories 
throughout the State.”—That is good. 
The aluminum Age —It is said the alumi¬ 
num age is approaching. The weight of the 
new metal is only one-third that of iron, with 
equal or greater tensile strength. It is easily 
cast and is as fireproof as iron: while plates 
of it are not warped or curled by heat. As it 
never rusts, a house built of it would always 
present a silvery and glistening appearance. 
It would be an excellent material for ships, 
railroad cars, etc., etc. It is one of the most 
ductile of metals, and is easily drawn out into 
wire. As an electric conductor it has seven 
times the working value of iron, so that it is 
excellently adapted for telegraph, telephone 
and electric wires of all kinds. It is the best 
material possible for bridges, owing to its 
light weight, great strength, freedom from 
rust and ductility. In the aluminum age, 
aereal navigation will be probable, owing to 
the small weight of an aluminum engine driv¬ 
en by compressed air or electricity. Made 
into rifles or cannon, soldiers would be reliev¬ 
ed of two-thirds of the weight of their guns. 
The process of procuring aluminum has hith¬ 
erto been so expensive that the metal is worth 
five dollars a pound; but English and Ameri¬ 
can papers now tell us of the discovery of a 
new method of obtaining it from an almost 
omnipresent clay, so inexpensive tha; alumi¬ 
num may soon be put on the market as cheap 
as iron. Its sources of supply are inexhaust¬ 
ible. Iron, copper, silver, gold are found 
only in localities geographically small. But 
one of the most universally distributed ma¬ 
terials of the earth beneath our feet is clay, 
the metallic base of which is aluminum. 
How Linseed Cake Should Appear.— 
From a bulletin recently issued by Prof. 
James, of the Ontario Agricultural College, 
the following conclusions are deduced: 1. 
Linseed cake should be reddish i n color, not 
too dark, somewhat resembling whole flax 
seed. 2. It should present a granular struct¬ 
ure on the surface, a clean, uniform appear¬ 
ance when broken, showing the smooth, oily 
coats of the original seeds. This granular 
appearance is, to a great extent, a test of its 
oilmess, the more compressed or broken the 
seeds the less oil it contains. 3. The cake 
should be decidedly oily to the taste. 4. 
Upon examination with the eye or magnify¬ 
ing glass, few, if any, foreign seeds should 
be seen. 5. It should be clean, free from 
dust and grit. 6. It should not be damp, 
other than with oil. If damp, examine care¬ 
fully for mold; if moldy, do not use. Keep 
in a dry place. 7. The grouud cake or meal 
is more likely to be dirty aud adulterated 
than the unground cake. 
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. 
Ladies, sour attention ! Send in your names 
for the Women’s Potato Contest. 
Wool Production of the World. —The 
London Industries, as quoted by Bradstreet’s, 
gives some interesting information on the 
total annual woM production of the world. 
This, it is estimated, amounts to 16,000,000 
cwts., of an estimated value of £200,000,000— 
or, say, $1,000,000,000. Australia supplies 
2,000,000 cwts., of a value of £24,000.000, and 
the Cape of Good Hope furnishes 300, 
000 cwts., amounting to £10,000,000^ ‘“The 
United States, with its 50,000,000 sheep, does 
not grow sufficient wool to meet its require¬ 
ments, but is obliged to obtain the difference 
from La Plata and Australia. ” The number 
of sheep in Europe is estimated at 200,000,000, 
which furnish 4,000,000 cwts. of wool of an 
estimated value of £36,000.000. Morocco, 
Algiers and Tunis grow a considerable quanti¬ 
ty, while France produces 37 per cent less than 
it did forty years ago. The European coun¬ 
tries rank in the following order: 1, Russia; 
2. England; 3, Germany; 4, France; 5, Aus¬ 
tria-Hungary; 6, Italy; 7, Spain. The East 
Indies and China produce about 3,000,000 
cwts of wool per annum. 
Finish What You Begin, is the good ad¬ 
vice of the Manufacturer and Builder. Thou¬ 
sands start well, but never finish one thing at 
a time. They have a dozen things on hand 
and no one completed. Time is wasted on 
unfinished work. Always finish what you 
begin. One thing finished is worth a hun¬ 
dred half done. The completion of an under¬ 
taking yields more pleasure and more profit 
than dozens of plans. The man who is always 
planning or scheming is rarely, if ever suc¬ 
cessful. He often furnishes ideas for others 
who go persistently to work and finish what 
his ideas suggested. “That was my idea—my 
plan,” we frequently hear some one say, but 
the mau who carried it out was the one who 
benefited himself and others. Do not begin 
what you cannot finish. What you under¬ 
take to do, do, and reap the reward of your 
own ideas and skill. 
It is to be hoped that the souvenirs for the 
Women’s Potato Contest will reach at least 
$1,000 in value. The R. N.-Y. has received 
from its friends many letters commendatory 
of the project . 
Prof. Stubbs, of the Louisiana Ex. S., 
cautions Southern farmers against investing 
in so-called new varieties of cotton. In 22 of 
these varieties he found there was no decided 
difference. 
Prof. Henry of the Wisconsin A. E. S., 
says that all the strings of the grape vines are 
cut about the middle of October and the vines 
are bent over, after pruning, and held down 
by the foot until a couple of shovelfuls of 
earth are thrown on the top. The whole vine 
is covered up with earth just deep enough [to 
be out of sight, even if rains should wash off 
a little earth. Two men perform the work 
very rapidly. The use of the earth is to keep 
the vine frozen all winter instead of freezing 
and thawing as it might if left uncovered. 
Don’t listen, he says, to any one who says there 
is no need of covering. Covered vines start 
off vigorously in spring, while uncovered vines 
are more or less weakened, even if they are 
alive. It pays to cover vines in Wisconsin as 
well as it does to shelter stock. Keep the 
vines covered in spring as late as possible, but 
uncover before the buds swell enough to 
break off in uncovering and tying up. Ex¬ 
amination of the vines from time to time will 
show their condition and when they must be 
uncovered. 
The editor of the O. C. Farmer, who is al¬ 
ways on the humane side, says that a man 
who will dock his horse ought to be put out in 
the hot sun with his hands tied behind him, 
and left in that condition to fight the flies and 
mosquitoes. After a dose of ten hours daily 
for a week or two he would be prepared to join 
the humane society, and promise never, no 
never, to be again guilty of docking a horse.. 
Every farmer, says the Farm Journal, can 
produce some one thing or some line of com¬ 
modities to a little better advantage than he 
can any other. Every farm has its peculiar 
strong points and excellencies, or is, at least, 
netter adapted to some classes of products than 
to others, and these peculiarities, whatever 
they may be, and however slight their promi¬ 
nence, should be made the most of. Study 
yourself, your land, your markets, your roads 
—all your surroundings—and push things in 
the direction of the best possible combination 
that can be made of all these. 
Though often disputed, it is a fact, never¬ 
theless, says Mr. Greiner in the above paper, 
that all kinds of nut trees, Pecans not excepted, 
if properly grown and handled, can be trans¬ 
planted as easily and readily as peach trees. 
The long, tap root is not essential to the life 
or thrift of the tree . 
Emphatic Editor Hoard says that ten 
thousands of dollars have been wasted in 1888 
by the farmers of W isconsin, and the end is 
not yet, by stacking and husking corn, instead 
of putting it in a good silo. They will waste 
a large per cent, of the stalks yet. The corn 
in the crib will waste a good deal, and the 
thrashing and grinding toll is to be paid yet. 
Who pays for all this toil and foolishness? 
Nobody—not one red cent. The labor is a 
dead loss, and the loss in feeding value varies 
with the weather and the quality of the shel¬ 
ter... 
Prof. C. S. Plumb, of the Tennessee Agri¬ 
cultural College, tells the Weekly Press that 
another season he proposes to attempt grow¬ 
ing some Crab-grass (Panicum sanguinale), 
under high cultivation, so as to learn if it can 
be made productive and desirable as a fodder 
crop. The past season he has cut two crops, 
but while growth was rapid, the yield was 
rather light. It is questionable if a yield of 
importance can be secured from it, owing to 
its habit of low growth, producing small, 
short leaves, and these not overabundant. 
We should like to have some of our exper. 
iment stations cultivate Panicum clandes- 
tinum. In the lower fields of the Rural Farm 
it grows luxuriantly and the cattle are very 
fond of it. 
Prof. Morrow still believes that this is a 
good time in which to buy foundations for 
herds of well-bred cattle, as it will be con¬ 
trary to all precedent if they long remain at 
present remarkably low prices.. 
The “common cow,” the Breeder’s Gazette 
says, is abused simply because she is a “scrub” 
which fails to pay a reasonable interest on 
the investment in herself, and her keep. If 
the common cow can give as good an account 
of herself at the pail and butter tub as tbe 
grades of the improved dairy breeds, which 
are within the reach of even the commonest 
farmer, no one has words of abuse for her. 
It is because she cannot do this that relentless 
war is waged upon her. It is because she has, 
times without number, been demonstrated a 
comparatively—oft-times an absolutely- 
profitless machine for the performance of the 
duties demanded of her that she is told to 
“go.” It is because a cow can now be pro¬ 
duced at a cost but little enhanced that on 
the same keep will far surpass her in the out¬ 
put of valuable products that she has “got to 
go.” If the common cow were fed, cared for, 
and culled as those cattle are which such 
writers delight to call “fancy,” in something 
less than half a century she would cease to be 
a “scrub.”. 
Edward Atkinson says that a New Eng¬ 
land chemist has discovered a method of dis¬ 
solving zinc , the product being called “zinc 
water.” If applied to wood, the wood be¬ 
comes thoroughly fire-proof. And the cost is 
a mere trifle. Such a discovery is justly re¬ 
garded as of the first importance. It must 
greatly reduce the cost of insurance.. 
A French agricultural chemist announces 
that he has discovered a very effective means 
of guarding the grape vine against the rav¬ 
ages of phylloxera, mildew, and black rot. 
His remedy consists in a manure composed of 
ammoniacal salt, lime, potash, and phos¬ 
phorus. It is stated that a vineyard in the 
vicinity of Lyons has been preserved in splen¬ 
did condition through the application of this 
manure in the midst of other vineyards that 
have been completely ruined. The attacks of 
phylloxera and mildew are not prevented, 
but the plant is rendered sufficiently hardy to 
withstand them. 
ABSTRACTS. 
-Farm Journal: “It is poor policy to 
keep heavy, slow-motioned fowls in the same 
flock with the light and nervous Spanish 
breeds. They each require different feeding 
and treatment.” 
—“ To deepen and enrich the soil is better 
than to enlarge the farm, for while the crop 
is increased, the cost of producing it is de¬ 
creased.” 
—“ Wheat chaff with corn meal and bran 
makes a good mess for the horses.” 
—The sides of a pig made into bacon will 
sell for as much as the whole body.” 
—O. C. Farmer: “A gentleman named 
Aden not long since called a convention for 
the purpose of establishing a farmers’ trust, 
which should protect farmers from the extor¬ 
tions of other trusts. In other words, he 
thinks trusts are a wrong to the people at 
large, a wickedness; and he proposes, not to 
abolish them, but to add another to the num¬ 
ber.” 
—A Virginia writer in the Weekly Press: 
“Japan Clover. —We have a splendid Lespe- 
deza pasture now on an old field which last 
spring showed nothing but broom-sedge. The 
seed was merely scattered through the broom- 
sedge and left to take care of itself. The field 
has been used all summer as a place to turn our 
cows on at night after being pastured and fed 
elsewhere. To-day hardly a spear of broom- 
sedge can be seen, while the Lespedeza has 
matted over the whole surface, and a splendid 
pasture has suddenly been made where a very 
poor one existed before, and all by the mere 
scattering of less than $5 worth of seed.” 
—N. Y. Tribune: “All avoidable injury 
to health is murder in one of the degrees.” 
—Vermont Watchman : “ An English 
essayist, who estimates that the tobacco vice 
costs his country (aside from vast incidental 
losses, as from fires, prison expenses, etc.), 
fully a hundred million dollars a year, points 
out that the weed is a nerve depressant and 
alcohol is often used to counteract its effect; 
and cites significant statistics of temperance 
societies showing that smokers break away 
from their pledge in greater numbers than 
those not addicted to the 4 dirty,’ ‘ selfish ’ and 
‘ disease-produeiDg ’ habit.” 
-Charles Kingsley: “Every duty which 
is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh 
duties at its back.” 
For Dyspepsia 
Use Ilorsforil’s Acid Phosphate. 
Dr. Lorenzo Waite, Pittsfield, Mass., says: 
“From its use for a period of about eight weeks 
to the exclusion of all other remedies, I attri¬ 
bute the restoration to health of a patient who 
was emaciated to the last degree, in conse¬ 
quence of nervous prostration and dyspepsia. 
This patient’s stomach was in such an irrit¬ 
able oondition that he could not bear either 
liquid or solid food. An accomplished physi¬ 
cian of many years experience, whom I called 
in consultation, pronounced his case an incur¬ 
able one. At this stage I decided to use Hors- 
f ord’s Acid Phosphate, which resulted as above 
mentioned.”— Adv. 
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