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v_,_____._â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€". _ _ W ml.“ FE EDI N G STEERS . [Interesting facts about feeding. steers in barns and sheds have been recently worked out by the Pennsyl- vania experiment stationamder the direction of Prof. T. I. Mail's. The main points considered are compara- rtive gains in live weight, health and .vigor of the animals as indicated by the amount of food consumed and ‘ “the relative economy of the method so far as it relates to the amount ofl feed consumed per pound gained. The steers were divided into two lots of 1:2 each and were selected from ‘_a carload lot bought for fattening purâ€" poses. ' Lot 1 was fed in a large pen or. box stall in the basement of the colâ€"I lege barn. Lot 2 was fed in the yard adjoining the barn. A shed 14an feet was built across one side of this yard to give shelter to the animals. It was inclosed at both ends, while one side toward the southeast was opened. constructed of rough boards. A self- a‘ecovding thermometer was placed in The shed and one in the barn. Both llots of animals had plenty of fresh Water. The aim was to treat all as ‘nearly alike as possible, except the shelter. ' Shredded corn stover and clover Ihay Were fed. The grain ration conâ€" sisted of 12 parts corn and cob meal and one part cottonseed meal. T‘This was fed to February 11, after which, to the close of the experiment ‘corn meal and, cottonseed meal were fled in the same proportions. The This was - BREEDING SOWS. Three things of great importance in the breeding of swine are ancestry, individuality and form. In commer- cial pork production, purity of bleed {in the sow is not so essential as iwith the boar, but good performance ;in the ancestry with reference to ‘feeding, breeding and nursing quali- ties is important. 3 Among general individual qualities, 'lsizo, strength of bone and length of 'coupling are very important. The isize should be medium to large for {the breed and the bone medium to lflne, but strong and finer than in the male. The body should be rangy, but it would not be Well to have the coupling unduly long. ~ In breeding sows of the most do- ;sirable form, the head, neck and :limbs are medium to strong in size, ibut varying with the breecl;- neck ’broad and deep; varying in length and depth with the breed, even width at the shoulders, sides and hams; the top and bottom lines parallel, exâ€" icept that the top line should be a little arched in some breeds; the :hair should be fine, especially on ithe neck and withers; the body 'should be deep and symmetrical in :form, and the teats should be not !less than 12 in number and they :should be well placed. The selection of the sows for breedâ€" ing use should not be made until .some time after the pigs are weaned. As they frequently change considerâ€" Iably in form after this time, the finâ€" al choice should be delayed as long as possible. Sows for breeding lshould be chosen from litters of gsows in full maturity, rather than from young and immature sows or from those of aged sows whose breed- ing qualities have begun to wane. They should be chosen from large Spring litters rather than autumn litters, as they will usually be of steers Were weighed on three conseâ€" Ibetter development and will be the 'cutive days at the beginning of the experiment and the average of this was taken as the correct weight. During the experiment they were weighed two consecutive days every second week, the average of which was taken. Where there was a. very great difference, a third weighing “was made the following day. All materials fed to the animals :were weighed and reCOrded. The feeds unâ€" rmat-en ,Were removed and weighed. The experiment began November 26 and closed April 1. Up to _December 11, grain was fed three times a day, with stover at night and hay in the morning. After that the grain was fed twice a day, with hay at night :and stover in the morning. It was thought that more sto'ver would be eaten by this method than the other, with a considerable saving of clover hay. At the beginning of the experiment Lot 1 averaged nine pounds less than Lot 2. At the close of the experiâ€" ment the average of Lot 1 was ten pounds more than the other. Lot 2 .ate slightly more grain and stover Tt'han Lot 1. On the other hand, Lot 1 ate more clover hay than Lot 2. ‘The lot fed in the open shed pro- ~'duced a slightly smaller gain at the ~oxpense of a somewhat greater amount of food. It is not clear that the lower temperature to which Lot 2 was exposed Was the cause of the difference, as the record of the tem- perature for two weeks does not show any particular relationship be- tween temperature and gains. On the whole, while the bran-fed lot apâ€" pear to have given slightly better results, the difference was not very mar {ed In view of the wide differâ€" ence observed between individual aniâ€" mals in each lot. it is not at all im- possible that the selection of ani- mals and conditions other than temâ€" perature which surrounded them had quite as much to do with the differâ€" ence as the exposure to cold. Experiâ€" ments will be conducted by several other stations along the same line to get more definite information. $rig-ht age for breeding in the au- .tumn. The age at which to breed sows is an important one. Young sows. should not be bred under the age of eight to ten months; to breed them earlier would tend to arrest develop- ment in the sow and in her brood, and also tend to weaken the vitality lof both. . l Sows carrying much flesh, made iwhile confined in small pens, will prove at best unsatisfactory breedâ€" ers. In the summer, exercise is easâ€" 'ily secured by the use of pasture, {but winter conditions at the north Eare so adverse to outdoor life of the lpig, that much ingenuity is called for on the part of the herdsman to atâ€" 1tain the «desired enld. Sows will gain exercise in winter when the Weather ‘is not too cold if turned into shel- tered yards, where horses and cattle iwill not annoy them. If litter from 'the stable is thrown in the yard, ex- iercfse will be gained while working this over in search of waste grains. iSome exercise can also be forced by scattering grains of corn or cats very lthinly over the feeding floor. .â€"â€"J< STORE CAVES FOR FRUIT. | Some years ago fruit growers ithoug'ht that I the introduction of Icold storage would revolutionize the business and about do away with or- dinary cellar storage, Writes G. H. ',Van Houton. They (believed that gearly apgples could be kept in cold 'storage throughout the fall season, and thus come into competition with the winter apples. While great suc- cess 'has been had with refrigeration, the average farmer will still have no cause to change from the old-fashionâ€" ed cellar method, if he uses common sense and care in preserving his apâ€" ‘pl‘es. I know of nothing more de- sirable than firstâ€"class Genet apples buried in the ground and kept until spring. In a properly constructed and well-managed cellar, fruit and wage tables should keep all winter. Farm- Ghildren Had . 8k in Disease itching so Bad They Would Tear Their Fleshâ€"An ExtraordinaryCure by DR. CHASE’S' OINTMENT. I Too many children are in agony from itching, burning skin disease. Too many mothers are worn out. by anxiety and loss of sleep in watching over their little ones who are torturâ€" od by such ailments. Dr. Chase’s Ointment is a. prompt and positive cure for every form of itching skin disease, and has proven its marvellous power in thousands of cases, similar to the one described below. Mrs. Lois McKay, Tivert‘on, Digby County, N.S., writes :â€"'â€"‘"My children were taken with an itching, burning Ikin disease and tore their flesh until it Was sore and their shirts would Sometimes he wet with blood. The doctor did not seem to know what toiled them a’nd could give no relief, so I began using Dr. Chase’s Oint- Ement. I 3 "Wherever it was applied it did its iwork well, and has entirely cured ithelm of this hoorible disease. They isutlerod so they could not sleep Enights, and I thin-k if it had lasted ’much longer I would have gone crazy [from the anxiety and loss of sleep. I cannot find words to praise Dr. Chase’s Ointment enough for the good it has done my children and hope other sufferers will try it." Dr. Chase’s Ointment, 60 cents a box, at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Company, Toronto. To pro- tect you against imitations. the por- trait and signature of Dr. W. A. Chase, the famous receipt bookvau- thor, are on every box ers should bear in mind that it does not hurt apples to freeze, so long as they are buried deep enough to pro» vent thawing before springtime. [t is wise to put on a mulch of straw or litter. after the ground is frozen, to prevent the fruit from thawing during a warm Spell. Generally I would say a cave is more desirable than a collar. A wellâ€"bricked cave arched over and nicely cemented will not cost too much for the average farmer. The satisfaction of such a storage house will fully repay the extra work and expense. Good results are obtained by sub- earth ventilators. In caves these are made as deep as the nature of the ground will permit, preferably so the top of the ventilator will not be abOVe the level of the ground. Tiling should be laid from some point that is several rods from the cave; it should enter at the bottom of the cave, and be so construct-ed as toact as a drain in case water should seep into the cellar. Tiling should be large enough to allow a good inflow of air, and a good opening should be maintained for the exclusion of foul atmOSphere in the cave. By the use of this system of ventilation, outside air is cooled and circulated in the cave while'all impurities are carried off. If a farmer cannot see his way clear to build such a stor- age cave, his collar should be opened in the fall, when the air is cool, and closed when the weather is yet warm. The cellar should be kept, tightly closed during warm and windy days of the fall. My experience has been that apples stored in a Well conâ€" structed cave may be kept with less average loss than in cold storage. and certainly at a. greatly reduced cost. ~,.___+_._...__ BABY’S DANGER. â€"â€" The summer months are a bad time for babies, and an anxious time for mothers. Fermentation and decomâ€" position in the stomach and bowels are the cause of the many summer complaints of babies and young childâ€" ren. This is the reason why the hot Weather months are more fatal to little ones than any other season. Baby’s Own Tablets should always be found in every home, where there are young children and their prompt use during hot weather may save a preâ€" cious little life The tablets cure con- stipation, diarrhoea, and stomach troubles, and are guaranteed to conâ€" tain no opiate or harmful drug. Mrs. Walter Rollins, Sissons Ridge, N.S., says :â€"“Beforc using Baby's Own Tablets my little one cried almost continuously with stomach troubles. I can truthfully say I never had any medicine act so promptly and give such satisfaction as the tablets do. I do not think you make any claim for them which their use will not substantiate." The tablets can be had from any medicine dealer or by mail from The Dr. Williams’ Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. Price 25 cents a. box. _____§_._..' RULES FOR LONGEVITY. â€"â€" It is a. Subject That Many a Man. Puzzles All of us when in our right minds, want to live as long as possible and if at forty we say, "I don’t care to live after I am eighty,” at the latâ€" ter age we rub out the eighty and insert a hundred; and even the cen- tenarian is quite_content to keep on though he knows his doing so does not excite popular approval. But what conducts to longevity is the question that puzzles the average man. To attempt to reason from specific instances involves him in a maze of glaring contradictions and leaves him hopelessly bewildered. Here are Cassius M. Clay and Leo XIII. dying within a few days of each other, and each in his 94th year. Could there be a stronger con- trast than that between the manner of life of the rugged Kentucky fire- eater and the frain and abstemious scholar of the Vatican? A man 'died in Indiana the other day at the age of 89, who was noted for his enormous consumption of tobacco, and Jacob R. Smith, of MassaChu setts, came forth to ascribe his good health ‘at'the age of 94- to the fact that he never used tobacco in his life. But out these undeniable factsâ€"The human machine is like other machines; some are 'built to wear out early, and some to last a long time, and though the Working time of the one may be increased by care and abstinence. worry, excesses and privations short- en the time for which the other can be kept running, even though that period should be extended over more than the number of years generally allotted to the life of man. The man who died from the excessive use of tobacco at 89 was as surely cut off before his time as one who died at 20 from the same cause; and'the frail life of Gioacchino Pecci was as surely prolonged by his abst‘emious habits until he died as Leo XIII. at the age of 94.. . ______+___.__ TROPICAL GOLD MINE. ' . There; is a gold mine in Australia which. isbthree thousand feet deep, and the various tunnels are so hot that cold water has to be continually sprayed over the miners working the lode. The temperature is usually about 108'degrees, and the men have to work almost naked in order to stand the heat. of it an we may learn. DIAMONDS BY THE TON. â€" Hill. $15,000,000 Worth Taken From. African Mines Annually. ‘ It is possible for one to gain some 3 idea of the enormous wealth of the: fact. 1 South African mines from the GIUSEPPE aim PRAISES DR. WILLIASIS PINK PILLS. that $15,000,000 worth of diamonds: â€"- are taken yearly from the f‘m” ~"'""\"' '1 In Four Cases of Anaemia Their est mines. The cost of obtaining: these diamonds amounts yearly mi half their value, so that the annual? net profit from the four mines is om} timated at about $7,500,000. Effects Were so Satisfactory that He Will Go on Using'Them. Dr. Lapponi, whose skill presmw‘ed ton 1. “,1 d ‘ ‘ hat“ :the life of the late Pope Leo Xlli to o ( (111011 5 iepiesents a value Ewe great age of 92’ and to w he so Of 830'000’000’ and up to the year icare the health of the present. Pope. 1892 these four’rnines produced ten tons of diamonds, of value of $300,000,000. In 1.89:; no less than precious stones, weighing about hale a ton, were obtained. erfontein mines belongs the distincâ€" lliis all aggregate lhas written the remarkable letter of l P y . iwhich the 2,430,041 carats of the ition :â€" 1 Holiness Pius X., is confided, following is a translaâ€" “I certify that I have tried Dr. . . To the .lngâ€" I’W-illiams' Pink Pills in four cases of 1the simple Anaemia of development. tion of having produced the largest {After a few weeks of treatment, the, diamond ever mined in the world. It weighed «570 carats, and in its unâ€" .tiOUS- cut state was the size of a hen’s egg. -...__. “v.5 .. PR ESCRIBING OUR WEST. "I have strenuously objected to the easyâ€"going ways of the majority of far Western druggists,” said the commercial, “but thus far I don’t seem to have made much of an im- pression on them. I was in a Wyâ€" oming town last month, and feeling aguish I went to the 'drug store and got some quinine capsuls. An hour after taking them I went to bed, and it was about midnight when I was aroused by the landlord, who asked: “ ‘Stranger, are you feelin’ all right?’ “ ‘Yes, pretty well,’ I replied. " ‘No horrible pains nor nothin’?’ “~‘No. But why do you as-k?’ ” 'I guess you’d better come down- stairs. The dru'g-gist says there’s some mistake about them pills. I want to tell you, though, that he’s a. powerful good feller, and never piz- ens anybody on purpose.’ “My hair began to curl before I was out of bed,” continued the com- mercial. “I remembered that the druggist seemed to be careless in, serving me, and, while the capsules had thus far had no“ bad effect, it did not take me long to imagine that I had sWallow'ed ten grains of morphine and was good for an exâ€" cursion somewhere. I made light- ning work of climbing into my clothes and getting downstairs, and there I found the druggist as calm as anflold shoe. ” ‘I think I put up morphine for [quinine for one of three persons,’ he explained, ‘and so I called round to see if you were dead. Let me look at the box.’ " ‘By John, him, thing of killing week with your old drugs? somebody once a If you have poisoned me~â€" ” ‘Those are quinine, sure enough,’ he interrupted, as he opened a cap- sule and tasted. “You can go back to bed, stranger.‘ “ ‘But I want to know about this thing. Why do you keep your morâ€" phine and quinine side by side? Why don’t you have your mindâ€"’. “ ‘You are all right and have no cause for .complaint,’ he said, as he lighted a cigar and seemed some- what relieved in his mind. “ ‘But who got the morphine?’ I asked. “ ‘Lung Sing, the Chinaman, probâ€" ably, and it’s all right. It was ei- ther Lung Sing or old Bil] Birdsall, and it don’t matter which, as the boys are .going to hang both of 'em toâ€"morrow!’ " __ .l OLD FASHIONED. But Still in the Fashion. It is an over new and interesting story to hear how one can be entire- ly made over by change of food. "For two years I was troubled with what my physician said was‘the old fashioned dyspepsia. “There was nothing I could eat but 20 or 30 minutes later I would be spitting my food up in quantities until, I Would be very faint and Weak. This went on from day to day until I was terribly wasted and without any prospects of being helped. “One day I was advised by an old lady to try Grapeâ€"Nuts and cream leaving off all fatty food.. I had no confidence that. Grapeâ€"Nuts would do all she said for me as I had tried so many things without any help. But it wasso simple I thought I would. give it a trial, she insisted so. . - ‘Well I ate some for breakfast and pretty soon the lady called to see her ‘patient’ as she called me and asked if-I had tried her advice. "' ‘Glarl you did child, do you feel some better?’ “ ‘No,’ I said, ‘I do not know as I do, the only difference I can see is I have no sour stomach and come to think 6f it I haven’t spit up your four teaspoons of Grape-Nuts yet.’ "Nor did I ever have" any trouble with Grapeâ€"Nuts then or any other time for this food always stays down and my stomach digests it perfectly; I soon got strong and well again andbless that old lady every time ‘I see her. “Once an inValid of 98 pounds ,I now I weigh. 125 pounds, and’feel strong and well and it is dueyentire- ly and only to having found the proper food in Grape-Nuts.” Name given by Postum (30., Battle Creek, Mir-h. Get the little book “The Roadto ‘ Wellville” in each package.‘ man’, I yelled at of course that tired, languid condi- ,,but do you make a regular ton of young girls whose develop result came fully up to my expecta- For that reason I shall not fail in the future to extend the uSe of this laudable preparation not onâ€" ly in the treatment of other morbid forms (if the category of Anaemia or ;Chlorosis, but also in cases of Neur- ‘asthenia and the like.” DR. GIUSEPPE LAPPONI. Dr. Giuseppe Lapponi, Physician to the‘Pope, who has written a. letter in praise of Dr. Wil- liams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. It would be impossible to exagger- ate the importance of this opinion. Dr. Lapponi’s high official position places his professional competence above question, and it is certain that he did not write as above with- out weighing his words, or without a full sense of the effect his opinion Would have. The "simple anaemia. of develop- ment" referred to by Dr. Lapponi is ment to womanhood is tardy, and whose health, at the period of that development, is so often imperilled. A girl, bright and merry enough in childhood, will in her teens grow by degrees pale and languid. Frequent headaches, and a sense of uneasiness which she cannot. understand, makes her miserable. Just when it is time for her to leave off being a girl and become a womanâ€"a change which comes to different individuals at dif- ferent agesâ€"her development lingersâ€"- why? Becausa she has too little blood. That is what Dr. Lapponi means when he speaks, in the scien- tific language natural to him, of “the anaemia of development.” Dr. Wil< liams’ Pink Pills for Pale. People have the power of making new blood. They cure anaemia just as food cures hunger. That is how they help growing girls, who, for want of this new blood, often drift into chronic illâ€"health, or "go into [L decline"â€"which means consumption â€"aad die. Dr. Williams’ Pills could save them. The Value of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills as a nerve tonic, referred to by Dr. Lapponi, makes them Valua- ble to men as well as women. They act on the nerves through the blood' and thus cure diseases like St. Vitus :lance, neuralgia, paralysis and loco-' :notor ataxia. When buying those pills it is important to see that the, full name Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People” is printed on the' wrapper around each box.’ Never take a substitute, as it is worse than a waste of moneyâ€"it is a men-- ace to health. If you cannot. get the genuine pills from your dealer write the Dr. Williams' Medicine COL, Brockville, On~t., and the pills will be sent you post paid at 50 cent: a box or six boxes for $2.50. .___â€"â€"-â€"~§-â€"~r~â€"â€"--â€" TOO SACRED TO.TOUCE. It is a tradition in Corea that the Imperial person is sacred, so sacred that to touch it with a steel or iron Weapon constitutes high treason. A former' Emperor, Tienâ€"son-Ib‘ai-on, about the end of the eighteenth cen~ ‘tury, preferred to die from an ill- [ness' which could have been easily cured by a slight operation rather then submit his body to such a dese- cration. The visitor was showing little Os~ wald the book of fairyâ€"tales. “But Wouldn’t you live to have been the two~headed giant?” asked the visi- tor. “He had lots of fun!” "No indeedl.” responded Oswald. "Think how he must have sufl'ered when his momma boxed his ears!" -,nR..A.i-w;;chAsrs . “cmm our I: sent direct to the disused pm, by the ‘hnproved Blower. Heals the ulcer; clears the a}: In tho passages, stops droppin throat and ermnnanfiy cute: Catarrh and :y Fever. Blower . free. All dealers. or Dr. A. W. Chm - Medicine 02.. Toronto and W -.4...........4.-u_l -.“:L-aâ€"*¢b:‘~ . .._._ -. .f- ‘ r." {3,34 .4-_w I