DAIS a common ration for cows kept in milk-dairies; brewers grains are not thought favourably of in cheese or butter dairies, where any food that readily becomes sour or tainted is scrupulously avoided, and is wholly prohibited by the owners of factories or creameries, and by condensers of milk. Roots of various kinds are rarely used in America, the hot, dry summer climate and the greater ease of growing the equally valuable feeding crop, maize (commonly called corn), combining to make root-crops unpopular. When roots are grown, the long red or the yellow globe mangels are preferred. The use of ensilage has been found very convenient in the dairy, and this practice is rapidly extending. In the dairy districts of Wisconsin at least 2000 silos were built in 1888, the serious damage to the feeding crops by the dry season of the previous year having induced dairymen to secure ample feed by growing corn-which suffers little from drought, and to some extent enjoys dry, hot weather and preserving it green in silos. It is quite certain that the cheapness and ease of production of this grand fodder erop has given a greater stimulus to the American dairy than any other favourable circumstance. The abundance and cheapness of the grain (corn), and also of bran, enable American dairymen to produce cheap milk, cheese, and butter; and there is no other class of American farmers who enjoy equal comfort, and even wealth. a Dais (Old Fr. deis, dois, from Lat. discus, quoit,' 'platter; in late Lat. a table'), a term used with considerable latitude by medieval writers. Its most usual significations are the following: (1) A canopy over an altar, shrine, font, throne, stall, chair, statue, or the like; the term being applied to the canopy without regard to the materials of which it was composed, which might be cloth, wood, stone, metal, or other substance; (2) the chief seat at the high table in a hall, with the canopy covering it: (3) the high table itself; (4) the raised portion of the floor, or estrade, on which the high table stood, and which divided the upper from the lower portion of the hall; (5) a cloth of state for covering a throne or table. Area, 150,932 sq. miles; about equally divided between the two states, Four-fifths of the surface is an undulating plain. A belt of high plateau, the Coteau du Missouri, traverses the tract from northwest to south-east; and a similar but smaller ridge or divide lies east of the James River valley. The great river Missouri flows south-eastward across the Dakotas; and the country west of that stream is more broken and better timbered than the rest. In South Dakota lie the Black Hills, a rugged and mountainous region (3200 sq. m.), and well wooded. Their highest point, Harney Peak, is 8200 feet high. The Turtle Mountains in the north are crossed by the Canadian boundary, south of which their area is but 800 sq. m., and their highest ele. vation 2300 feet. The geological features of the Dakotas are full of variety and interest. A very large proportion of the surface is covered by glacial and alluvial drift, and much of the country bears evidence of having been more than once submerged. During the Silurian age a shallow sea or saline lake must have rolled over it; while there is evidence that at about the end of the glacial period it was either the bed of a great lake, or at least was very largely covered with lacustrine waters. At present the lakes are all relatively small, except Devil's Lake, or Minniwaukon, in the north, which, like many others of this region, has no outlet. Its waters are therefore saline, but it is inhabited by fishes of various fresh water species. About one-third of the area of the tract, chiefly towards the northwest, is believed to be underlaid with beds of workable lignite, well adapted to use as a domestic fuel ; and the spontaneous firing of the lignite beds has probably been a large factor in the development of the so-called bad lands,' which are covered with rocks of most fantastic shapes. Natural fuel-gas has been obtained by boring at several points. Among the building-stones are quartzite, jasper, and granite in the south-east, and sandstone, marble, and granite in the south-west. Fictile clays, gypsum, cement, chalk, mica, and other useful minerals are found in many places. Medicinal and thermal springs are found in the south-west, where the Black Hills afford much gold and silver, as well as tin, antimony, lead, mica, copper, and other minerals. The tin-mines are the only ones of any extent ever worked in America; and some of the gold mines are among the most extensive in the world. In the ten years 1877 87 the gold and silver production of the Black Hills amounted to $33,770,000. Daisy (Bellis), a genus of tubulifloral com posites (family Asteroide) characterised by its conical receptacle and absence of pappus. The seven or eight species are palearctic, save B. integrifolia of Tennessee and Arkansas. The familiar species, B. perennis, needs no description, nor can any one have failed to notice its habit of closing at night. Double varieties, crimson, pink, white, or striped, are common in gardens, and are frequently of such The climate of the Dakotas presents some remarkexuberantly vegetative habit as to produce smaller able features. The winters are cold, but so dry heads in the axils of the involucral bracts of the and sunny that the cold is usually borne without main capitulum, whence the popular name of Hen-great suffering, except during the blizzards (see and chickens. A handsome variegated variety is called aucube folia. The characteristic beauty and almost perennial profusion of blossom have made this commonest of flowers the prime favourite alike of childish and poetic garlands, and invested its many names (Eng. Day's eye, Scot. Gowan, Fr. Marguerite, &c.) with such an unequalled wealth of associations that it must here suffice only to name Chaucer and Burns as foremost laureates of a ceaseless tribute of admiring song. The Ox-eye Daisy is a Chrysanthemum (q.v.). The BLIZZARD) which are occasionally experienced. The summer days are warm and often windy, but the nights are ordinarily calm and cool. climate is everywhere remarkably healthful; malThe rainfall arial diseases are nearly unknown. is relatively low, but the copious saline elements in the soil, with the generally level surface and the coolness of the climate, tend to the retention of moisture; hence the rainfall is usually ample planting of forests has been greatly encouraged by for the production of all the ordinary crops. The local and national legislation. The Missouri River Dåk, or DAWK, the mail post of India; also, is the principal stream; it is usually navigable for travelling by Palanquin (q.v.)," See BUNGALOW. eight months in the year. The other important Dakota, NORTH and SOUTH, two states of the rivers are the James, noted for the fertility of its American Union organized from the former terri-valley; the navigable Red River, famous for its tory of Dakota and admitted into Copyright 190 in vs rich alluvial lasin; the Big Sioux, Vermilion, the Union in 1890. The tract is White, Cheyenne, Bad, Moreau, Grand, Cannon bounded N. by Assiniboia and Ball, Heart, Little Missouri, Maple, and the Mouse Manitoba (Canada); E by Minnesota and Iowa; S. or Souris. The north-east section of North Dakota by Nebraska; and W. by Montana and Wyoming. is tributary to Hudson Bay through the Red River; by JB Lippine. tt | |