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'#«•*'* *»»•»*i i'S'-ii' -;'M 'Miz i - : [f$?>-".- fcc * !i"<jfe<- A TALE OF Tilt OLD WEST <R#Y HADBY LEON WILSON ->•, . "C^- .- , { co*r /»G#r /a txs 0rZem#aPPtuu*3MHO CMmw ' -V ,« 'P ' t, , C^APT^t XX.--ContTnutd. i When lie had said over the word# long as his parched throat would l?t him, he became quiet. To his amazement, some new, strange peace had filled him. He took It for the peace of death. He was glad to think .... It was coming so gently--like a kind another soothing him to his last sleep, pi His head on his arm, his whole tired ftady relaxing in this new restfulnesa, Ike opened his eyes and looked off to the south, idly scanning the horizon, Ms eyes level with the sandy plain. * iPhen something made him sit quickly ;!!§P and stare Intently, his bared head ,!<|raning forward. To the south, lying low, a mass of light clouds, volatile, .^hangins: with opalescent lights as he looked. A little to the left of these Clouds, while his head wa3 on the piand, he thought his eyes had de- : 1*scted certain squared lines. ' ;f' Now he scanned the spot with a f feverish eagerness. At first there was only the endless empty blue. Then, fjrhen his wonder was quite dead and •He was about to lie down, there came - j|| miracle cf miracles,--a vision in tha «lear blue of the sky. And this time tjie lines were coherent. He, the dying gtaner, had caught, clearly and posi­ tively for one awful second in that "•iky, the flashing Impression of across. ;• =.It faded as soon as it came, vanished While he gazed, leaving him in gasp- ;-J^g, fainting wonder at the marvel. ^ And then, before he could think or • Question himself, the sky once more yielded its vision; again that image of >|§ cross stayed for & second in his Vfjyes, and this time he thought there Were figures about it Some picture Was trying to show itself to him. Still - teaching his body forward, gazing fearfully, his aroused body pulsing awiftly to the wonder of the thing, he began to pray again, striving to keep excitement under. > "O God, have mercy on me, * aln- ! ft prayed, not weeping net In any fairer of fear, but as one knowing his sin and the sin of his Church. The bur­ den of. his prayer was, "O God, my own sin cannot be forgiven--I know it well--but let me atone for the sins of this people 4nd let me guide them aright Let me die on this cross a hundred deaths for each life they put out or as many more as shall *be need­ ed to save them." He was strong in his faith again, conscious that he himself was lost, but burning to save others, and hope­ ful, too, for he believed that a miracle had been vouchsafed to him in the desrt. Nor would the good padre, at the head of his procession of penitents in his little mission out across the desert, have doubted less that it was a mir­ acle than did this unhappy apostle of Joseph Smith, had he known the cir­ cumstance of its timeliness; albeit he .had, become familiar with such phe­ nomena of light and air in the desert CHAPTER XXI. Tfir Sinner Chastens Himself. How to offer the greatest sacrifice--^ how to do the greatest service--these had become bis problems. He con­ cerned himself ho longer with his own exaltation either in this world of the world to come. He resolved to stay south, fearing Via. It would ffraaaiar tor /on than torn:'\ r She had looked up quickTy at him in much embarrassment. She smiled a little when he had finished. "I'm not much good to work, but I think I'd get stronger if I had plenty to eat I used to be right strong and well." "I shall be along with my wagons in two weeks or a little more. If you will go with meiben 1 would like to have you. Hgre, here is money to buy you/f5o5until I come." Yoinre heard of me, haW "ftm t l/m a divorced woman" "Yes, I know.™ She looked down at the ground a moment pondering, then ttp at him with sudden resolution. "I can't work hard and--I'm not- pretty any longer--why do you want to marry me?" Her question made him the more embarrassed of the two, and she saw as much, but Bhe could not 1*11 why it was. "Why," he stammered, "why,--you see--but never mind. I must hurry on now. In about two weeks--" And he put the spurs so viciously to his horse that he was nearly unseated by the startled animal's leap. Off on the open road again he thought it out. Marriage had not been in his mind when he spoke to the woman. He had meant only to give her a home. But to her the idea had come naturally from hla words, and he began to see that it was, indeed, not an unnatural thing to do. He dwelt long on this new idea, pictur­ ing at Intervals the woman's lack of any charm cr beauty, her painful emaciation, her weakness. As he entered Brigham's office In Salt Lake City some days later, there passed out by the same door a woman whom he seemed dimly to remember. The left half of her face was dis­ figured by a huge flaming scar, and he saw that she had but one hand. "Who was that woman?" he asked Brigham, after they had chatted a lit­ tle of other matters. "That's poor Christina Lunid. You ought to remember her. She was In your hand-cart party. She's having a - ,h i ' . , , - , f -J . - r > V' ,">*»--* te' * : IMPORTANT. Slowly at first, it grew before his l* -fixed eyes, then quickly, so that at the last there was a complete picture ^ - Where but an instant before had been - "liut a meaningless mass of line and ijjolor. Set on a hill were many low, ;|quare, flat-topped houseB, brown in ^olor against tee gray ground about them. In front of these houses was a larger structure of the same material, - church-like building such as he had , ®nce seen in a picture, with a wooden , iross at the top. In an open square Before this church were many moving persons strangely garbed, seeming to $e Indians. They surged for a mo- Ibent about the 'door of the church, .' "then parted to either side as if in an- ' /jiwer to a signal, and he saw a proces- - "jSion of the same reople coming with 'bowed heads, scourging themselves r With short whips and thorned 'branches. Ar their head walked a ^.brown-cowled monk, holding aloft be- ^|ore him a small ciross, attached by a ^hain to his waist. As he led the pro­ fession forward, another crowd, some ; vi-if them being othef brown-cowled jjaonks, parted before the church door, *'4nd there, clearly before his wonder- 1 tog eyes* was/erected' a grefet cross ; - Upon which he saw the crucified Sa­ vior. : ^ He saw those in the procession form -V; 'V.jLbout the cross and fling themselves 1 .*pon the ground before it, while all %he others round about knelt. He saw --jthe monk, standing alone, raise the j|maller cross in his hands above them, ' ^iis If in blessing. High above it all, te saw the Crucified One, the head ring over on the shoulder. He sank back on the sands In an ,|fccstasy. His Witness had come--not - isj|s he thought it would, in a moment f spiritual uplift; but when he had sunk by his own sin to fearful depths. Nor had it brought any mes­ sage of glory for himself, of gifts or powers. Only the mission of suffering t^jind service and suffering again at the But it was enough. How long he lay in the joy of the izatJon he never knew, but sleep J!>r faintness at last overcame him. i ^ He was revived by the sharp chlU >*Y ^f night and sat up to find his mind • i ^lear, alert, and active with new pur- poses. /He had suffered greatly from thirst, so that when he tried to say a ftrayer of thanksgiving he could not * |nove his swollen tongue. He was " Weakened, too, but the ireezing cold '•J>f the desert night aroused all his ' .latent force. He struggled to his feet Mjind laid a course by the light of the ' Snoon back to the spring he had left ^n the morning. How he reached the again he never knew, nor how e made his way over them and back o the settlement. But there he lay ick for many days, his mind, when e felt it at all, tossing idly upon the .jgreat sustaining consciousness of that vJ^Hsion in the desert The day which he next remembered * iltlearly, and from which he dated his i if|iew life, was one when he was back fiv|n the Meadows. He had ridden there #$n the first vagueness and weakness •;^f his recovery, without purpose, yet -teeling that he must go. What he ? '£ound there made him believe he had •' ^jeen led to the spot. Stark against Ir^he glow of the western sky as he - irode up, was a huge cross. He stopped, "^taring in wonder, belivlng it to be an­ other vision; but it stayed before him, gid, bare, and uncompromising. He /^ft his horse and climbed up to It. At $N^ts ^ase was Piled a cairn of stones, \ * $nd against tills was a slab with an /^Inscription:-^ "Hera 120 Men, Women, and Chil- Were Massacred in Cold Blood •ly la September, 1857/' On the cross itself was carved in ^Ipfleep letters:-- "Vengeance la mine; 1 will repay, J|j»alth the Lord." •• •' - fell on hla knees at the foot and f n n Damned Mormon f** be sealed to you and be a star In year crown forever. But I hope, now that you've begun to build up your king­ dom, you'll do a little better, text time. There's a lot of pretty good- looking young women came in with a party yesterday--" "All in good time, Brother Brigham! If you're willing, 1 11 pick up my sec­ ond on the way south." "Well, well, now that's good!" and the broad face of Brigham glowed with friendly enthusiasm. "You know I'd suspicioned more than once that you wasn't overly strong on the doc­ trinal point of celestfal marriage. I hope your second, Brother Joel, is a little fancier than this one." "She'll be a better worker," he re­ plied. '"'-'ell, they're the most satisfactory in the long run. I've found that out myself. At any rate, it's best to lay the foundations of your kingdom with workers, the plainer the better. After that, a man can afford something in the ornamental line now and then. Now, I'll send for Christina and tell her what luck she's in. She hasn't had her endowments yet, so you might as well go through those with her. Be at the endoWment-hbuse at fiye in the morning." And so it befell that Joel Rae, Elder after the Order of Melchlsedek, and Christina Lund, spinster, native of Denmark, were on the following day, after the endowment-rites had been administered, married 'for time and eternity. Prom the altar they went to the wagons and began their journey south. Christina came out of the endowment- house, glowing, as to one side of her face. She was, aUo, in a state of daze that left her able to say but little. Proud and happy and silent, her sole remark, the first day of the trip, was.: "Brigham--now--he make such a lovely, bee-yoo-tlful God In heaven!" But his work of service had only begun. As they went farther south he began to make inquiries for the wandering wife of Elder Tench. He came upon her at length as»she was starting north from Beaver at dusk. He prevailed upon her to stop with his party. "I don't mind to-night, sir, but I must be off betimes in the morning." But In the morning he. persuaded her to stay with them. "Your husband is out of the country now, but he's coming back soon, and he will stop first at my house when he does come. So stay with me there and wait for him." She was troubled by this at first, but at last agreed. "If you're sure he will come there first--" She refused to ride in the wagon, however, preferring to walk, and strode briskly all day in the wake of the cattle. When they reached Cedar City a halt was made while he went for the other woman--not without some mis­ giving, for he remembered that she was still young. But his second view of her reassured him--the sallow, anemic face, the skin drawn tightly over the cheek bones, the drooping shoulders, the thin, forlorn figure. Even the certainty that her life of hardship was ended, that she was at least sure not to die of privation, had failed to call out any radiance upon her. They were married by a local Bishop, Joel's first wife placing the hand of the second in his own, as the ceremony required. Then with his wives, his charges, his wagons, and his cattle he continued on to the home he had made at the edge of Amalon. Among' the women there was no awkwardness or inharmony; they had all suffered; and the two,wives tact­ fully humored the whims of the insane woman. 4 On the day they reached home, the husband took them to the door of his own little room. "All that out there is yours," he said. "Make the best arrangements you can. This Is my place; neither of you must ever come in here.** LOST CUNNING COUNTERFEITERS TURNING OUT WM--NO GOOD WORK* • m For Many Years There Have Been No Spurious Banknotes to Worry ' Money World--The "Mflu • ' roe -Hundred." HEATING MILK AND CREAM. There is one lost art among crim­ inals, one trade which United States secret service men have seemingly Wiped out to the very last man. This Is the art of counterfeiting currency, says the Kansas City Star. Kansas City bank officials say that for eight years not one spurious banknote worthy of passing comment has been handled In the money world. They declare that the day of successful counterfeiting has come to an end. "Not a banknote which fools the ex­ perts is on the market," said E. F. Swinney, president of the First na­ tional bank. "There is counterfeit currency, plenty of it," he said, "but It's a kind detected almost at a glance. Inspection of it quickly reveals the flaws. Usually the work Is clumsy. But not since the notorious gang in Philadelphia which made the famous "Monroe hundred" was wiped out has there been a really clever counterfeit­ er at work. At least, we have no rec­ ord of any. The "Monroe hundred" was a '$100 sliver certificate with the face of President Monroe stamped upon it It was of a series of 1901, check letter D, Tillman register, Morgan treasur­ er. It was an absolutely perfect coun­ terfeit. Experts in the treasury de­ partment were fooled by it. The notes became so numerous and were ac­ cepted so extensively that the gov­ ernment called In its entire issue of the bill, amounting to several mil­ lion dollars. Even now a 'Monroe hundred' Is occasionally picked up and is almost impossible to tell whether it Is genuine or not. "The only difference between the genuine bill and the counterfeit was in the shape of the figures 3 and 4 and the length of the bilL In the fig- Are 3 the lower loop did not extend up BO far toward the center of the figure as it should have extended. In the figure 4 the space between the base and the center cross line was nar­ rower than it should have been. The false bill was one-sixteenth of an Inch shorter than the genuine. "Such irregularities would easily pass the eye of an expert," Mr. Swin­ ney said. "Of course, if a genuine bill was laid before you, and you had the opportunity to compare the two, after some study the defects could be noted. But think of the number of money handlers who had the counter­ feit bill who had no opportunity for such comparison. '^he gang which made the 'Monroe hundred" was arrested in Philadelphia in 1899. The plates which printed the bills were recovered and the counter­ feiters sentenced to long terms in prison. "With the end of that gang," Mr. Swinney said, "there seems to have been an end of successful counterfeit­ ing. Not since 1S99 has the govern­ ment- been forced to recall any cur­ rency issue. Crooks have learned that to make spurious currency which will pass inspection is a hard task. And they have learned that the pen­ alty Uncle Sam makes them pay when d|etected is heavy." ^CHAPTER XXII. vaguely that in the north he would be in conflict with the priesthood. He knew not how; he felt that he was still sound In his faith, but he felt, too, some undefined antagonism between himself and those who preached in the tabernacle. For his home he chose the settlement of Amalon, set in a rich little valley betwen the shoulders of the Pine mountains. Late In October there was finished for him on the outer edge of the town, near the bank of a little hill-born stream, a roomy log-house, mud- chinked, with a water-tight roof of spruce shakes and a floor of whip- sawed plank,--a residence fit for one of the foremost teachers in the Church, an Elder after the Order of Melchisedek, an eloquent preacher and one true to the blessed Gods. At one end of the cabin, a small room was partitioned off and a bunk "built in It A chair and a water-basin on a block comprised its furniture. This rofito he reserved for himself. As to the rest of the house, his ideas were at first cloudy. He knew only that he wished to serve. Grad­ ually, however, as his mind worked over the problem, the answer came with considerable clearness. He thought about it much on his way north, for he was obliged to make a trip to Salt Lake City to secure sup­ plies for the winter, some needed arti­ cles of furniture for the house, and his wagons and stock. He was helped in his thinking on « day early in the journey. Near a squalid hut on the outskirts of Cedar City he noticed a woman staggering under an armful of wood. She was bareheaded, with hair disordered, her cheeks hollowed, and her skin yellow and bloodless. He remembered the tale he had heard when he came down. He thought she must be that wife of Bishop Snow who had been put awsy. He rode up to the cabin as the woman threw her wood inside. She was weak and wretched-looking In the extreme. "I am Elder Rae. I want to know if you would care to go to Amalon with me when I come back. If you do, you cam have a home there aa ton* aa yo« pretty hard time of It. You see, she froze off one hand, to now she can't work much, and then she froze her face, so she ain't much for looks any longer--In fact, I wouldn't say Chris­ tina was much to start with, judging from the half of her face that's still good--and so, of course^/shtFNhasn't been able to marry. Tne Church helps her a little now and then\J>ut what troubles her most is that she'll lose her glory if ehe ain't married. YotT see, she ain't a worker and sh»- ain't handsome, so who's going to haf« her sealed tbiiim?" 4 "I remember her now. She pushed the cart with her father in it from the Platte crossing, at Fort Laramie, clear over to Echo canyon, frhen all the fingers of one hand came off on the bar of the cart one afternoon; and then her hand had to be amputated. Brother Brigham, she shouldn't be cheated of her place in the Kingdom." "Well, she ain't capable, and she ain't a pretty person, so what can she do?" "I believe if the Lord is willing I will have her sealed to me." "It will be your own doings, Brother Rae. I wouldn't take it on myself to counsel that woman to anybody." » •1 feel I must do it Brother Brig­ ham." * "Well, so be It If you say. She can The Coming of the Woman-Child. The next day he sent across the set­ tlement for the child, waiting for her with mixed emotions,--a trembling merge of love and fear, with same- thing, indeed, of awe for this woman- child of her mother, who had come to him so deviously and with a secret significance so mighty of portent to his own soul. When they brought her In at last, he had to brace himself to meet her. She came and stood before him, one foot a little advanced, several dolls clutched tightly under one arm, and her bonnet swinging in the other hand. She looked up at him fearless­ ly, questioningly, but with no sign of friendliness. He saw and felt her mother in all her being, in her eyes and hair, In the lines of her soft little face, and indefinably in her way of standing or moving. He was seized with a sudden fear that the mother watched him secretly out of the child's eyes, and with the child's lips might call to him accusingly, with what wild cries of anguish and re­ proach he dared not guess. He strove to say something to her, but his lips were dry, and he made only some half- articulate sound, trying to force a smile of assurance. Then the child spoke, her serious, questioning eyes upon him unwaver­ ingly. "Are you a damned Mormon" (TO BE CONTINUED#. ^ ^,1 The. world doesn't owe you * living --It was here first. * Clear Brush Land Flock Quickly Makes Away with Tan- gle of Briars. A flock of Angora goats was put dn a rocky hillside that It was de­ sired to have cleared and put into grass. It was such a tangle of brush and briars that It was with difficulty one could make a way through it. The goats actually ate their way in until It was penetrated with paths In all directions. After the leaves with- fta reach were eaten they would stand on their hind feet with their fore­ feet in the branches and so eat the leaves higher up, or, it the brush large, would throw Uttlr lover a atone wail Uks 4c$n. weight against and bend ltJJIfc^the ground, where others of the flock would help strip it of its foliage. The leaves would come out again only to be eaten off, then sprouts would come from the roots to share the same fate, until at the end of the second summer everything in the shape of a brush not. over six feet tall, except the pines and laurel, were completely killed and white clover was beginning to appear. These goats, with their long, curly white fleeces, attracted more attention than anything else on the place, but, aa can be imagined, they had to be well fenced in for they would run two Methods Which Will Pravn Easy and Safe. Bacteria will make cream taste bad, sometimes turns bitter and often re­ fuses to turn quickly and cannot be managed easily. They must be con­ trolled by the temperature. Get a regular dairy thermometer that hot and cold water will not break and la easily cleaned. If it is possible to hold the heat at 130 degrees for half an hour a little of the bad germs is con­ trolled. Do not set pans on the stove 30 that the cream will burn on the pan and part of it be overheated. Place a quart or two of water in a kettle and set the pan in this, as Hadn't Been Drunk. He evidently wasn't used to the ways of big hotels. He looked as though he might have been from some farm and was in a large city for the first time, says the Denver Post. Somehow he had heard that the next morning men who have been absorb­ ing intoxicants drink lots of ice wa­ ter. "Say," he said to C, T. Newton be­ hind the desk at the Shirley hotel nbout eight o'clock in the morning, "the other clerk last night told me to ask fer things over that little tele­ phone in my room when I wanted 'em. "Yes," said Newton. "Well, this morning, about a half an hour ago, I asked fer a glass of ice water. phone." ', / ..... "Yeti," . v "WelV f 'a® a heavy drinker. I wasn't drunk last night." 1 "What do you mean?" "Jes' this--I didn't get no glass of ice-w^ter. That girl sent me up a whole pitcher. It looked mighty much to me like she thought I was full of liquor last night and would need a whole pitcher. A glass would a-been enough." And as he turned and strode away he wore one of those "Guess 1 didn't call him down, eh?" looks. Donation Carnegie Refused. Apcopos of Mr. Carnegie's fatest gift, an editor, taking out his note­ book, ̂ said the other day: "I can tell you of a gift of $1.50 that Mr. Carnegie once refused to give. Let me read you the letter asking for this gift." With a laugh he read: "Dear Mr. Carnegie--Understanding that you are blessed at present with an unusual surplus of income, and knowing well your generous spirit and desire to do good to those who Will help themselves, I want to ask you to make me a contribution of $1.50. "When I was a young man my mo­ ther gave me a hymnbook, which I faithfully used. It is now, thanks to my efforts, worn out, and I think it should be replaced, and you are the man to do this. "Appreciating to the lj!ull the gener­ ous deeds that have made your name illustrious in this and other countries, and believing that in making me this donation you Will be carrying on the spirit of your work, I am, yours faith­ fully, "Mark Twain. "P. S.--Don't send the hymnbook; sead the $1.50. . "M. T." •$:V .>.« feL. ^ iSf I . .4*. "". ".vl' . . / ' I . Fierce Bug«. ,• . "Yes, !*m looking, for a house. T^ie roaches where we are now acara jay wife most to death." "Nothing scares my wife but mice." "Same with my wife, but these roaches are so big they look, vice."--Philadelphia Prata. ' I' 3TOVE ^ 1 krrptf J cSry steam . HEATER Methods of Heating Cream. shown in the first sketch. Milk drawn from the cow Is about 100 degrees, and the heating takes little work. Then set the milk in a cool place. If the water in the kettle boils the milk must be stirred constantly to prevent^ melting the butter fat Where a large quantity of milk is to be heated, a simple way is to set a can upon bricks 10 the tub and carry steam down tinder It through a pipe, as shown in the second sketch. Cream may also be warmed up in this device for churning. To preserve the milk and cream it should be kept at as low temperature as possible with- A Question Which Must Receive &*. . Thoughtful Care of the Dairyman. Now, a word about feed. This is a subject to which you will have to give special and careful attention. Yob - must not only look to the needs Of your cattle, but you must endeavor to get their rations as nearly a« possible from the products of your own farm. Economy is one of your watchworda. But you must make It a study and il will take i'ou several years, says • writer in Holstein-Friesian Register. Look first to the needs of yout cows, and next to the cost of the feed. Your heifer calves should be fed sweet skim milk for about six months, and you can mix with it a little oora meal and oil meal, or these can be fed separately. After six months, if on good pasture, they will require no feed; but as fall comes on tbey should not he allowed to run down and become poor before winter feed­ ing Is begun. This feed should con* sist of bran, shorts, oil meal, etc., with fodder, hay and straw for rough­ age. I would feed no corn. A few weeks before your heifer is due with her first calf you should begin feed­ ing her a mixture of food rich in pro­ tein. Do not overfeed her, but grad­ ually increase the feed until by the time she drops her calf she will be getting about all she wants to eat You will find that she has made a very large udder and will start off with a very large flow of milk. For a few days after calving, feed lightly, gradually increasing, and yon will find her responding well to your attention. Keep her in milk for ten to 12 months. There is no danger from milk fever with the first calf,.but from then on, and especially with the third and fourth calves, you cannot feed ao heavily before calving, neither will she require it; for by this time the habit of milk-giving wO) well formed. - - , i 4 t A CLEAN MILCH COW. out freezing, of course. HE AQE OF LlMjtT. w Good Dairy Cow Brlnga a Profit Up la Twelve Years of Age. Good dairy cows should not be "Oa- lorized" until the* are at least 13 years old, and even after they have, reached that age some continue to' produce a large quantity of milk. The' production of milk depends largely on, the care that is taken of the annual and her natural strength. Experi­ ments have proven that the produc­ tion of milk and butter fat constantly increases until a cow is six vyears of age, when she should be at her prime as a milker. Heifers produce a some­ what better'quality of milk than older cows, for the reason that as a cow be­ comes older she takes on weight, and the amount of fat in the milk is cor­ respondingly decreased. A consider­ able portion of food is used by young animals for the formation of body tissue, and heifers therefore require more nutriment for the production of milk than the older cows, says the Journal of Agriculture. After cows havo reached the age of seven years the amount of food required again in­ creases. Unless the animal's digestive organs have become impaired by im­ proper feeding, she should continue to produce milk until 12 years old, although naturally the supply will be considerably less than In her younger days. Arrangement ef Stall Will Halpr'°|jl Keep Her Out of Dirt __ 4 J * ' To ebtistruct a stall to keer> cow perfectly clean, use a 2x4 for bot­ tom of feed rack. Place this three feet from floor to atall. Use 1x4 strips placed about six Inches apart forming the rack. The strips should slope back about 60 degrees; Place a 2x4 on edge from seven to eight feet from front of stall on the floor, de­ pending on sifce of cow. Fasten the 2x4 down to floor, if set fa dirt with 'r% <? ,^"'1 One Way of BuIM&m • FEEDING FOR MILK. Went Into Businesa. '* The first principle that' ^filiBed ftifc to engage in dairying was the fact that the same crops that cause df cow to give a large flow of milk supplies our soil with the most expensive in­ gredients in a fertilizer, writes a cor­ respondent of Farmers' Guide. The second bent In my dairy business waa that often raising a legume crop we could, by feeding it to dairy cattle, extract all the milk and butter and yet return 90 per cent, of Its fertiliz­ ing ingredients to the soil, aiid that In its most available form (a ton of butter carrying away only about 50 cents' worth of plant food). The third reason for turning^ to dairying was that when properly used with other feeds, skimmed milk would produce young dairy stock of the highest pos­ sible dairy value, even better than whole milk. The three prime factors on the dairyman's bill of fare are alfalfa, corn silage and blue grass, and you need little other feed if you have plenty of these. If I had any other ad­ vice, I would say, have plenty of al­ falfa, as it is the best soiling crop ever grown. ijiij> 11 11 viff* 3, :'rUp°w T«,k- ry\ Che best cow is the one I give the greatest returns in profit and continue her usefulness for many years. Other classes of domestic animals have risen and fallen In public popu­ larity, for varying periods of time, but not So the cow. v The cow stands out superior to all other animals in her relations to man. She came across the ocean with our fathers when they sought refuge in the American wilderness. By kneading and rubbing the ud­ ders of young heifers and drawing the teats a good form may be given to this organ and the future milk secre­ tion 1be considerably Increased. - Horns on a bull cause trouble'; never any good. Now the most sen­ sible thing any and every cattle breed­ ers' association can do, is to put a premium on a bull with horns off! Let such revision be made to every ."•c&le of potota." • ^ a good sized stake. If floor Is made of plank,' nail a block to floor them spika the 2x4 to blocks. The cow when eating will Stan* with her hind feet just behind the SmA, leaving the droppings behind it When she lies down she will ha compelled to lie in front of the 2x4 with her head under the feed It is not necessary to have a in a stall of this kind. There shoaM he short partitions, however, to kaap the cows from turning around. My stalls, writes an Indiana corre­ spondent of Prairie Farmer, are four feet over all, but they can be less. This way of stalling is better than stanches--givea the- animal erty and keeps them, cleaner. + ' ' • , . t Garden Notes. Very little hand-hoeing Is necessary' in a well-managed farmer^ gardes. The whole garden should not ha planted in one day, because the perature requirements of the crops are quite different Successive planting of the same va­ riety of corn, or peas, or radishes, may be made if that method at lengthening the season is adopted. If this can be applied in the fall aad plowed under, the land can ordinarily be fitted for the early planting by simply discing, harrowing and plank­ ings If a wheel hoe la run close to the rows as soon as the plaotn appear above the ground, and this traateent is repeated at frequent intervals, the labor of hand-weeding wOl be greatly reduced. Some crops, Bk* radishes, lettuca and peas grow baBt In the cool weather of spring, and are uninjured by frost; while others, like melons, tomatoes and beans, require a much higher temperature and at* ijwsb killed by frost. - > ' • **( i Cement Floor for Dairy Barns. If there is anything on earth that smells to heaven, It is the average stable floor. The cow ha? to sleep there, breathe there and be milked there. That floor should be kept tidy, clean and dry. It can never be kept tidy with a plank floor. I am thor­ oughly In favor of a cement floor in the cow stable, writes a farmer In Farm and Home. Some men have said to me that a stone floor is too cold, bat I put plenty of bedding on It; that gets over that difficulty. Then some one said it la slippery. Well, before the cement Is dry, 1 take a rake and rake it all up and make It aa rough aa a hedge fence, and the cows will not alip. J- V y' , Goo4 Cows and Goad Ca*V. v • You may have the best cows In Urn worlft, hut if you do not feed and man* age them properly they can never ha made to pay. One advantage of hav­ ing pure-bred cows is that It leada one to practice pure-bred There is such a thing as scruttJ as well as scrub stock. Wfcaa a sons gets a good cow he la moafc more likely to take good ear* of tt torn ha i»M a ' yyy \ ' •' .'-..'ir' .-Pv- ' 1 - . . . . 1 r * 5 ' . . 1 a k . . . . -