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AS TO STATE A111.
A Letter from n. I. Budd, Stufe Com-
mlsrloner' of Publlc “’orka
for New Jersey.
The workings of the law ‘for'st-ate aid
to roads have proved very satisfactory
in all localities where the
ments have been made, and the interest
.in the roads. instead _of suffering any
abatement, is intensely growing. Op~
position to the law on the part of farm—
ers has been changed to so much en-
thusiasm for it that; 240 miles of good
roads have been built, and more roads
are being applied for than can be built
in many years under the limited state
appropriation, so that it becomes quite
a problem. to select the ones to be first
improved. The farmers of many coun-
ties are grasping. the idea that. under
the state aid law they can easily and
economically cover their leading thor-
oughfares with stone, so no persuasion
is now needed to induce farmers to avail
themselves of the state bounty. Though
at first they were suspicious oi’ the
law for fear it would immeasurably i11-
crease their taxes, they have found
by experience that it sits ‘b-ut lightly
upon them, and is a small expense
compared with the saving by the more
easy passage of their produce to mar-
ket, and by the inzd-ucementit offers to
the city people to become visitors and
locators upon their lands.
County and state taxes. being as-
sessed in the city as well as in the coun-
try, according to the value of property
owned, include the wealthy merchants,
manufacturers and insurance COmr
panics. Most. of the wealth of the state
being found in the cities, our system
successfully provides for the construc—
tion of improved roads without laying
much of the burden upon the farmers,
not requiring them to contribute. more
than an equitable share of the expenses,
according to the wealth of each in-
dividual taxpayer. The farmers’ in—
comes a-re small compared with those
in other pursuits; therefore at first they
hesitated to subscribe to the building
of these improved highways; but we
have demonstrated, by building ,nu‘
merous highways under the state aid
law, that we can have good roads with—
out overloading them with taxes. They
are now finding it as easy to go from
the country home to the schoolhouse,
market, lecture room and church as it
is for the people to pass from their
homes in the city- to the same places.‘
Thus they have all the delights of ru-
ral existence, and the advantages of-
fered by the towns, the daily mail, so‘
cial intercourse with neighbors, etc.
Thus, farmers less favored in the race
of fortune are learning that by this
method they can obtain these sub-
stantial improvements without sub-
mitting to an enormous tax. The ques-
tion of keeping the present generation
on the farm by giving them better so-
cihl advantages through free and easy
communication will probably be solved
by this new movement.
SUPPORT FOR GATES.
One of the Best “fans to Bruce U31 :1
Bagging- Gate 15 by Means
of Stout \‘Vire.
The average farm gate causes: more or
less trouble by sagging. even when
well and strongly built. One of the
most effective ways to braceup a gate
that’has begun to sag is to make use
of a. piece of stout wire, arranged as
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SECURELY-BRACED GATE.
suggested in the sketch. The gate is
braced to the top of its own post and
that is kept. firmly in place by a wire
stay extending down to a stake. in the
ground, or to a. big rock, if one hap-
pens to lie conveniently near. There
are so many uses for stout galvanized
wire, No. 12, or stouter, that a. supply
should be kept constantly on hand.
For mending fences and for making
many other repairs it is exceedingly
convenient—Orange Judd Farmer.
EXPENSIVE BAD ROADS.
’l‘wo Important Lamults Decided
Against Township: in Which
They Bud Long Existed.
Nicholas Hoffman, of White town-'
ship, Indiana county, Pa... a few days
ago obtained. a verdict of $975 against
the township for- injuries received by
being thrown from his wagon on a
piece of bad road. The road was seven
. feet wide, but. large rocks projected
‘ from either sides; short distance apart.
In trying to avoid one of these, Hofi-
man drove over 'the other and was
thrown from his wagon.
In Clair county, Snyder township
will be mulcted out of $2,000 as the re-
sult of a defective public highway.
Mrs. Bessie Davis and her brothers,
Edward and Harry Kockler, instituted
a suit against the township to recover
damages for injuries sustained on a
highway 11 short distance from Tyrone.
The three were driving along the road
in a carriage. when the horses plunged
over an ugly embankment. The jury
awarded Mrs. Davis $2.000- for the bod-
ily injuries she sustained. and $20 to
each of her brothers for the damage
' done to the vehiclé.
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All Trade Avenues Blocked.
_ i ' "The greatest drawback“) the bust-
-' mess men just- now is the poor country
wads. Avenues of trade are practi-
eally blocked on account of the roodl.
Ihope. to see. legislation so complete .11
”this respect that. a man or woman can '.
go all over the country 1011 a bicyic o. " ..
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EEEnING THE CALF.
Advice Given by a Pennsylvania
Dulryman Who Has Haul a Lot
of Experience.
A reader in Pennsylvania, who has
made a' business of raising calves, says.
never to mix cornmeal into the oalf’s
milk. Nothing will scour a calf'quick-
er. He has tried linseed meal. linseed
jelly, rennet and even melted butter in
feeding calves. The keynote of'success
is temperature. Have your milk from
98 to 100 degrees. Don’t give. a heifer
a? spoonful of corn meal until she be-
gins to give milk. Leave the calf with
the cow'until it. is three days old. and
then give one-half new and one-half
skim-milk, heated to 98 degrees. Give
this for several days and then put it on
skim—milk, heated to 98 degrees, until
wean-ed, and never overfe'ed. He uses
a. calf fecder with a. rubber tube for
sucking. This, he. says, keeps the calf
in better health, as. it prevents it. from
drinking the milk too- fast.
If the calf is constipated, lower the
temperatureof the milk for one or two
feeds to 90' degrees. If it. scours, run
the temperature up to 105, for a feed
or two. One can regulate the bowels
accurately by‘ the temperature of the
milk. Neve‘r mix anything with the
milk. At about four weeks: old, give the
calf bra-n in a box, and all the clover
;hay it. will eat. Don’t feed any corn.
meal. Try to get. it to-consume all the
{rough feed possible. Don’t be afraid if
ft-he calf becomes pot-bellied, so long as
the digestion is right. It will help the.
calf wonderfully to rub it well with a.
stifl’ bruSh or the hand along the spine
and sides once or twicelcach day. This
sort. of massage treatment will surely
help the calf. The four greatesse'ntials
in raising a good calf are cleanliness,
temperature of the feed. not mixing’
Ianything with the milk, and not over-
feeding.—Rural New Yorker.
HANDY FODDER SLED.
Useful in Many Places About the
Farm, and a Great Saver of
Labor and Trouble.
I Hauling shocked corn fod'der or cane
from the. fields is a hard and tedious
job where the hauling is done With a
wagon and rack—the usrual method.
Then, too, the tearing down of the
shock, the throwing of it. upon the rack
and the unloading of it again break
off the leaves and dry stems. This: job
is greatly simplified and much is saved
in fodder and labor if a. sled is built- for
the hauling. The runners of the sled
CHEAP FODDER SLElD.
are made of 2 by 8’5, 16 feet long. The
standard-51(3) at each end are placed far
enough from the ends of the runners
to bolt on braces (b). The crosstbraces'
(c) are made of 2 by 8’s. No tongue is
required unless the hauling is? to be
done on snow.
The slled is driven along the shock
row as near as possible to the shock,
which is ‘ipped' over onto it without
breaking the tie band. The sled' will
hold from four to six large shocks.
The fodder hauled in this way is in
good shape for ricking if desired, and
loses little if any in transportation.
This Isled comes
1:110 ut the farm, saving much lifting on
and. oil? wagons—American Agricul-
tux-ist-
Moncy Value of Clcahltness.
Prof. W. J. Fraser. of the: Illinois sta-
tion. says: alilk. as ordinarily pro-
duced. sells at six cents a. quart, while
milk so carefully handled that it. is
known to be free from dirt and disease
germs sells at. from eight to twelve
cents per quart. To produce really
clean milk requires great care. Some
experiments were made at the Illinois
station with sterile plates exposed for
half a minute in various places. The
following collections resulted: Dust
from fodder. 2133.: dust from corn- meal.
5; dust from brushed cows. 869; under
unwashed udder. 2.023: under washed
udder. 90. Often the milk-er goes to his
work in the same suit in which be
brushed lorses and did other like work.
flaw Mrs. Pinkhatn
HELPED MRS. GOODEN.
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“I am very grateful to you for your
kindness and the interest you have
taken in me, and truly believe your
medicines and advice are worth more
to a. woman than allthe doctors in the
world. For years I had female troubles
and did nothing for them. Of course
I became no better and finally broke
down entirgly.
with inflammation and hemorrhages
from the kidneys, then inflammation,"
congestion and falling of the Womb
and inflammation of ovaries.
“ I underwent. local treatment-every
day for some time; then after nearly
two months the doctor gave me permis-
sion to go'back to work. I went back,
but in less than a. week .was com-
pelled to give up and go tobed. On.
breaking down the second time, I d .
cided to let doctors and their medicine
' alone and try your remedies. Before
the first bottle was gone I felt- the ef-
fects of it. Three bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and a
package of her Sanative Wash did me
more good than all the doctors’ treatd
ments and medicine.
“ The 'first remark that greets me
now. is ‘How much better you look!’ and
you maybe sure; I_ never hesitate. to tell
the cause 'of my health. ”—1133. R. J.
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handy in many places;-
My troubles began .
New York and the’MediteI-‘I’afllflfi
A TERROR TOSNAKES.
The Secretary Bird of Africa Kills
and Elite the Most Poison-
ous' Reptiles.
The secretary bird, a native of Ad'-
rica, and also found in some of the
V'Vest, Indian islands, is the king of
snake destroyers, the lordlie-st bird
that walks. It is about four feet from
tip to tip, as swift on foot as on the
wing. It is a wonderful boxer and as
quick as the mongoose itself. It likes
to playwith reptiles, to get them thor-
Oughly roused and then to swallow
them at leisure. It has a long neck,
slender .body, “strong legs and a power-
ful be-ak. Its color is clear light gray
along the sides of the head and throat,
.wings- a brown black, thighs and ab-
domen black, breast and tail coverts
fwhite.
the .eyes are yellow and the legs and
feet. dull flesh color. The bunch of
lfe'athers behind its; ears gives it its
name. The South Africans have do-
mesticated it. and made much of itsvir-
tues. It eats all sorts of things, as
stomach analysis shows. This was
found in one stomach: Eleven lizards,
11 tortoises, three snakes the size
of a man ’s arm and several handfuls of
assorted insects. When it' is ready for
a bout it walks around the snake. and
plays on the reptile’s nerves of irrita-
tion. When the snake strikes the sec-
retary bird does a side step and re-_
ceives the blow on its powerful wing.
After a few strikes the reptile is tired.
Then the bird nabs it. by the back of the
neck and shakes the life out of it. If
it is particularly tough he flies up
with it a few hund1ed feet and drops
it kerplunk in a way that is always
fatal. Then he eats it.
‘Isian- bluejacket.
The cere and bare skin about .
RUSSIA’S snAs1c1; NAVY.
The men Are Big Enough, But They.
Are Unable to Navigate in
Rough ,Weather.
Any man who believés in the Russian
navy should keep his eyes off the Rus— :
A real sailo-rman-has
fingers bent. up like fi-shhooks, from the
lifelong habit of gripping things. The
Russian sailor carries his hands like
‘a soldier and cannot possibly be “han-
dy.” A sailor’s gait ashore has‘a. slight
roll. This arises from the need at sea.
of keeping upfthe windward side. of
a. rolling ship. And the rolling gait;
marks one of a; sailor’s finest qualities
—balance. Unless the, body poises and
,balances to meet every motion of . a."
ship the result is seasickness, says
LOndon Answers.
Now, the Russian bluejacket does
not roLl' 1n his gait ashore, butmarehes.
Neither has he any sense of. balancing
at sea, and seasickness in the Russian
_fleet is a. source of actual weakness-and
’danger. The Black sea. squadron can.
ionly be put to sea. in the three calmest:
months of summer, and the so-called.
I'maneuvers takes place ashore on the
Kenai peninsula, consisting merely of
battalion drill.
One more trait of the real sailor is
his self-reliance, which makes him. fit
for facing emergencies single handed.
But the Russian blue-jacket has none. of
this. He is not a machine in himself,
1 but only a. little bit. of a. machine which
:cannot work without the other bits.
He is huge in stature—a giant. com-
!pared with our men—but in his winter
overcoat it is impossible to distinguish
him from a soldier. Unhandy, seasick
and reliant only on drill discipline, he
is utterly unfit for active service.
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