THE BUSINESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3610, 10 February 1906, Page 4

THE BUSINESS.

} IkMI Who Rain* the Blffht Sort o< Haye'lftefrer Yet Marta ■■ r;_ a Vallnre- of .It. Jtt- the round-up institute in Wisconsin Iwfcyear, H. A-Briggs, an extensive i, breeder of that state, gave the folyiktwing good advice in regard to the '.lnrood mare,: If yo/u are going to raise draft horses what kind,of fi. ood mare you have. Don't try to raise a draft horse from • n 1,000 or 1,100-pourid trotting mare. .-.’Meet your largest mares and cross ' them with the breed you like best, pure-bred draft horse, whether he is :? imported or American bred, you must i got size and quality. If you are going Kto breed carriage or coach horses, self loot your mares that have size and r quality, and cross them with the very best carriage horse you can. lam not ■e going to point out the particular breed " you should have. Among our American trotters we can gtt as good a type of Siloach horse as there is in ..ut world, if ; we look (0 size and quality, but there ■.■•iciugh.of them. If American |;peoplj» had paid as much attention to w produc 1 ’"; rood carriage horses as they ||:Jl*ve to liming speed, and speed : alone, .vr have the best coach I'iad'Aio.' V ....ets 0l .U, nation in w 0... ad we would have a na- : tlonal , .ation for producing cartillage jors-cequal to the one we have bad for producing little trotters. That been the one great trouble with the 1, men who have been raising trotting kofeee, they have lost sight of every- [ thing except the speed and the speed ■ ■ pcdigre.e. and the result in many cases > baa been that not one in 25 has been Bfit to put on the market to sell for any kind of legitimate use. Get the idea I, Of trying to raise trotting horses out fe;irf;yQUr head; if he can’t do anything t t but |trot you do not want him, because 111 you would do more harm to yourself r . and your family in a financial and a li .moral way than anything you can do ? on the farm. But if you have a good l. otandard trotting fnare, and can cross fr ber with a good French or German ||lf<mjiiOb Of standard bred horse you can make money in raising coach or carferriage horses. Such horses are sell- '■ ing all the way from $l5O to $1,500. \:, They weigh from 1,150 to 1,250 | pound* and stand from 15% to 16 ?''handt -h with all of the style and c-A-r .■ c.ion that yon van get in a hO:v.- i.-ui a low shuffling gait, but ' one thai gets his feet up and shows L nice knee action and nice hock action.

< That will give you an idea of the kind [ f r of horse that I think iis advisable for 5 the farmer to raise. You may have I'' 'the very best breeds of either one of —, these kinds, and if you neglect feed you will hare the veriest scrub that ever grew on a Wisconsin farm.

A GOOD HOG TROUGH.

fisp Onset Set Tfcelsr Feat Isto It Onset Oet Is the War While ■ Mop Is PoavsU la. X sand sketch of a hog trough I have had lo use for some time, and it is a immm. Pigs cannot get their feet into It and cannot gat in the way when pour*

lag in slop. The height (E, H) is two lest; width of opening at B, two Inches; C, D, 6 inches; D, E, eight inches. Slop li poured in at A and runs down .through the two-inch opening into ' trough, the rear side of which slopes » -forward so that the pigs can reach all the slop in bottom of trough.—Ohio Parmer.

TIMELY SWINE NOTES.

The hogs are mortgage lifter# this yea*.

Converting oorn into pork this seaaon*has been a paying business. Do not let the harvest work or cultivation of the crops interfere with the eare of the pigs. The wheat that did not pay to cut aan be harvested by the hogs to a decided advantage. . Let the hogs run in the orchard now and they will destroy lots of worms •nd inwets by eating up the dropping fruit.

A lamer who cannot find pleasure la handling the swill pail for the pigs la not able to enjoy all the pleasures of the farm. Hogs are filthy animals only when

they are compelled to be filthy. They enjoy clean quarters as much as any ; , other animal, and will keep them so if gives a chance.—National Stoekman.

■keep m Farm Fertiliser*, frrof. Roberts, of Cornell university, says the fertiliser produced by a sheep in a year is worth 5)3.17. While the most of this is left in the pasture, its value to the farmer depends much

upon the condition of the grass there. Many pastures are in such condition { that they need breaking up and re-

seeding as much as they do fertilizer, and until something is done to remedy this trouble the vame of the manure made by the sheep would to some extent be wasted. We know that the sheep improve the pasture by killing

many varieties of weeds, and thus give the grass a fetter chance, but the sheep should not be forced to live entirely upon weeds and bushes. If they are, it will be a question whether the ' bushes or the flock of sheep will be killed first.

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h ■ - ' The total value of the produce of the.'forest .exported from Canada last year was $20,954,680. If the Nicaragua canal is finished Mclborne will be 1,350 miles nearer to New York than to Liverpool by allsea route. The worst banking crisis of the last century was in 1839, when the Bank of England was saved from failure by the Bank of France. Taking the population of Italy as 100, that of the United Kingdom is 128, of Germany, 172; of the United States, 234, and of Russia 406. A recent test of salt-water fire service gave satisfaction. Salt water «c----tinguishes fire much more rapidly than the same amount of fresh. The heaviest precious stone is the zircon, which is 4% times heavier than an equal quantity of water. The lightest is the opal, only twice as heavy as water. The balloon record has been beaten lately by a balloon sent up from Paris with automatic instruments. It rose 56,000 feet, or 10% miles, and met with a temperature of 102 degrees below zero.

The state of Montana owns more than one-eighteenth of its area, for the government granted to the state two sections in each township for the benefit of the public schools and an aggregate of 688,000 acres for the various state institutions.

It is a peculiar fact that, although American roads are infinitely more wearing upon motor vehicles than are French highways, the automobile builders of France make their machines much heavier and stancher t|jan are the majority of self-propelled vehicles of American manufacture.

FOREIGNERS OF NOTE.

Only four popes have reigned longer than Leo XIII., and only three have lived to a greater age. Paderewski is said to have done all his work on his new opera, “Maura,” by night, beginning at about 11 o’clock, and often being still at his task at breakfast time.

It. is not generally known oiat Richary Le Galiiennc, the poet and novelist, is one of the most eminent oculists in Europe and has, at various times, attended many royal personares.

ili.ss Lilavait Singh, of India, who visited this country last year and spoke at many religious gatherings, is translating the autobiography of Booker T. Washington into Hindoostanee.

A. Yamada, a representative of the Japan Cotton Trading Company, Limited, of Osaka, is on the Pacific coast to select the best port from which to export cotton and other American produce to Japan. After attending to this matter he will spend three years in an exhaustive examination of American methods, especially in relation to the cotton industry.

RUMORS FROM ABROAD.

It is reported that a group of French-Swiss capitalists has formed a syndicate to construct several railways in South Russia.

The Russian minister of railways has prepared a timetable showing that when the Trans-Siberian railway is finished the journey around the world can be made in 33 days.

Since the Louisiana and Texas farmers learned to raise rice by irrigation they have invested $5,000,000 in 1,580 miles of canals, capable of flooding 300,000 acres, and spent $1,700,000 in building 30 modern rice mills. Under the new system the rice lands pay a net profit of sls an acre. There are now in Italy 3,179 kilometers of street tramways worked by mechanical power, 263 kilometers of these by electricity, and the remainder by steam power. They are owned by 64 companies and private concerns. The town of Milan owns only s y a kilometers, while the two largest companies control 261 and 205 kilometers respectively.

FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

Faint purse ne’er won fair lady.— Life.

Our adversity should often be spelled perversity.—Ram’s Horn,

Do not mistake excitement for amusement nor idleness for calm.— Good Cheer.

Dyspepsia, with all its terrors, can’t keep a man from eating, but It can him wish he hadn’t, good and hard. —Puck.

The love a loyal man feels is always poorly expressed—only the cold in love make fine speeches about it.— Town Topics. A Pan-American sight recently was a Japanese in American clothing riding in a jinriksha drawn by an American garbed as a Japanese.—Buffalo Express.

A man gets mad if any man looks at his daughter of 16, and if she has 1 reached SC without any man looking at her, he begins to look at her critically himself. —Atchison Globe.

WOMEN AT WORE.

in St. Petersburg women pay only one-half of what men do for a ride in a eab.

! In the factories of Baden, Germany, 88.86 per cent, of the workers are I women and girls over 16. ' Few women consider that they earI ry some 40 or 50 miles of hair on : their head; the f&ir-halred may even : have to dress 70 miles of threads of gold every morning. Women were first permitted to become employes in government offices in 1863, when Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase appointed six women clerks. .