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MARCH 22. 1922 THE DAIRY HERD U X (Continued from page two) I r element in the air and soil. It builds c these up into the various compounds c in the different parts of the plant, j The animal uses these plant parts to i supply it with the necessary protein, i etc., from which it builds its body, r Water is very important in all plant and animal life. It is the great food j carrier. Without plenty of water our t crops are a failure. It takes around i SCO tons of water to produce one ton s of dry matter in our crops. We all s know how serious a dry season is or t how luxuriant crops are in a wet sea- < son. Water forms a large part of ev- t ery animal's body. It is the great s food solvent and all foods are absor-; 1 bed in solution from the digestive < system into the circulatory system. It serves quite largely in disposing of the waste material of the body. Water in the Animal Body t Water regulates the body tempera- i ture, in warm weather large quanti-' i ties being given off every day by the < body as perspiration, thereby keeping < the body cool. Liberal supplies of wa-11 ter for all animals are essential and t should be available at all times to t milch cows. and a supply of clean fresh water | should be in evry field or paddock, 1 where stock are. While they drink less J j in winter, yet it is just as important that water at a drinking temperature j be ever before them and many dairy men agree that the increased produc- 1 tion during one season will fully pay ; for pulling in a watering system in j i the stable. ] Protein and its Sources in Plants Protein is a term used to name a large number of compounds, all of which contain nitrogen. These nitro- ; gen compounds are not found in large 1 quantities in most plants. The y are more plentiful in the growing parts of plants such as the leaves rather than} < the stem. They also are plentiful in certain parts of the seed, the germ' and the outer coatings generally carrying a higher percentage of the protein than the rest of the seed. The legume plants?alfalfa, all the clovers, cow peas, beans, are all rich in ( protein. These plants through ht? bac i teria which grow on their roots have I the peculiar ability to take nitrogen ; from the air and using it directly I thrive upon it and build up stores of protein within themselves. All other plants require protein in order that they may grow and mature into real crops, but this supply of protein or nitrogen must be supplied through sonu* form of fertlizer. Consequently the legume hays should be grown extensively on every farm because instead of requiring fertilization of the soil with protein material they will grow on a poorer soil and enrich it, they produce large quantities of pro- I tein, rich feeding materials and they ?arr> in generous quantities those de-1 sirable mineral products essential for bone building. The legume hays carry the greatest amount and most valuable part of their protein material in the leaves and more tender stems. In making them into hay and feeding them every effort should be made to prevent any waste of the leaves. Protein in the Animal Body. Protein forms a larger proportion of the animal body than it does of plants. Lea.i meat or muscular tissue is entirely of protein material. The tensnJanJank Ij THESE SUITS M THAT SOME Ol TO GET THERE J Big CI I Monday, H Men's Odd Panti Shoes, Oxfords, I 1 THIS CLOTHIN Remember this s! boy who wears tl GRASS SEED? I THE HIGHEST rital organs likewise, are chiefly proein material, the white of egg and nilk, both carry a large proportion >f differing proteid compounds. Great ?r quantities of protein are needed by roung and growing animals by breed ng females and by milking stock of: til kinds, than is needed by working nature or fattening stock. The protein in the food performs peculiar and specially important func ions. It is essential for body growth n ail young animals. It is an imporrint constituent of milk. It must be iuppiicd to repair tissue which hrough work is constantly wearing >ut. It is essential to the activity of svery cell of the body. A sufficient ;uppiy of it in every ration cannot >e overlooked without serious consequences. C BrliAku,,!*, .nf( Tkoir Plant Sources. Carbohydrates are so named because :hey are composed of the three elements, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen n certain proportions. They are abun iant in all plants and form the bulk )f all crops grown on the farm. There are different groups of carbohydrates :he chief of which are the starches. :he sugars and fibre. Starch. Corn starch, in universal use is entirely representative of the starch ^roup. Kach plant produces its own characteristic starch. The cereal grains and corn all produce highly valuable starches particularly suited to human consumption. The potato and kindred starches produced by tuber plants are generally coarser and less valuable as a human food. The starches are not soluble in cold water and only slightly in hot water. Coiling changes their physical form and makes them more easily digestible. Sugars. The sugars are best represented by our common table sugar. They atv readily dissolved in hot or cold water and are so very quickly absorbed frm the digestive system into the blood. Tho every plant has its characteristic sugar, yet very few* plants produce it in abundance, and our chief sources of sugar are the sugar cane, which grows in semi-tropical countries and the sugar beet. Southern Mississippi. Louisiana, i una and tne Bermudas and the Hawaiian Islands are the chief sources of cane sugar for the United States. Sugar, becau o of its paiatability is used almost exclusively as a human food. Only the molasses from which it is hard lo extract the pure sugar is used for cattle feedig. The sugar beet is essentially a mangel with a high sugar content. It is more delicate and difficult to grow than the ordinary root crops. Sugar beets are, however, very largely grown in Colorado Utah, California Michigan and Ontario. They are an expensive crop to produce and for that reason chiefly have not interest ed farmers in many more states . Fibre. Fibre has the same chemical compo sition as the starches and the sugars but it has a different form and different characteristics. One kind of fibre is well represented in linen or cotton. It is tough and not readily sol uble. It gives strength and rigidity to the plant. It forms the stems the leaf ribs and the outer cotatings of the Each plant has its own characters tic fibre, which varies in touchness ONE HUNDRE [UST GO AT SOME SOI FIFTY B( NE WILL BUY AT SOP ; ON TIME iothing < Tuesday, VII s, Dress Pants, Corduroy for Men, Women and Ch G AND SHOES IS GOI A BEAUTIFUL LINE # - * a w core is agent tor the C/Vl ?m." Henry? -A FULL LINE OF TH GRADE, RECLEANEE RESH MEATS EVER\ / " THE WATAUGA E rigidity and in digestibility. Thus the a trunks of trees, the fibre of cotton f< and the fibre in the alfalfa plant c? while all are true fibre and chemically st alike, yet they are vastly different oi from a digestive and food value ai standpoint. The man who refuses to f? distinguish for feeding purposes be- p; tween fibres from different sources, c< disqualifies himself as a feed author- n ity by his lack of knowledge. u: The digestible fibre has the same food value as an equal amount of . digestible starch or sugar. j b< Starches and fibre constitute the e< greater portion of the plant. The c< sugar is formed in solution in the ir sap 01 me piani; it is me iorm in which the plant building material is v transported while it is stored in the h form of starch. Carbohydrates in Animal Body While these three great earbohy- T drate groups constitute the very large cl part of all our farm crops and must form the greater part of all animal ; food, yet they scarcely exist in the ; animal body. There is no fibre in the i animal body. Th?re is a small amount of animal starch called glycogen in the liver and thruout the muscular ! tissue. Though this modified starch | ! seed8. ; performs an important function in \ \ the body yet in amount it is insignif- \ i icant. Nitrogen Free Extract Explained In feed analysis the carbohydrates | : are divided into the two groups: Fibre and nitrogen free extract this latter. 1 hi summer time cows drink more) | term including all carbohydrates oth- i j er than the fibre. Fats and Oil* Their Sources in Plants. Fats contain the same three elcI incuts, carbon hydrogen and oxygen, : s constitute the carbohydrates. They j differ in thi? important respect that j t hey contain less oxygen and so have _ ' | "Slimy I "When 1 feci stupid, get const!pati I two of Biack-Draught and it sets me H Haisiep, of R. F. D. 2, Columbia, S. i nn all right, and have not used any other of tt I am a guard at the State Ri I or more years. When I first beard c I" BLACK-D / Liver M and the good medicine tt was, 1 hi I'd get up in the morning. I would I bad taste in my mouth, but didn't tl stupid and didn't feel like eating?tn was then I began Black-Draught, an Mad at work, ready to eat and deep I take Black-Draught, and for 25 jc; wouldn't be without it at all. My w lot 1 am out of doors, and fresh ir "fines I need. I recommend It ti Sold Eve 2n?jnjsni^^]^.i?nfenm lj D MEN'S SUITS RT OF PRICE. >YS SUITS AE PRICE?THEY MUSI and Shot Fed. March 26 r Pants, Khaki Pants, Dre ildren. J NG TO BE SOLD?IT ML : OF SILK HOSIERY t-HART OVERALLS. Ai I. Hardin IE. VERY BEST GRADE. >, SEED OATS-EARLY B r FRIDAY AND SATUR ' DEMOCRAT food or energy value two and one>urth times as great as that of the irbohydrates. Fats may be either i did or liquid. Liquid fats are called ils. Fats form a relatively small mount of any of the plants They are >und chiefly in the seeds and more articularly in the germ. Flax seed >tton seed and several other seeds inning naturally high in fat are sed as a source of vegetable oilsFatt in Animal Body. Fats occur feelv in all animal odies and are quite widely distributi. Fat is the storage form for ex?ss food in the animal body; it is lore freely deposited just beneath te itin, around the kidneys and the : >cerat and to a limited extent beveen the muscle fibres. Mineral Matter or Ash Mineral matter is also called ash. 'he mineral matter in plants consists hiefly of Calcium Potassium PhosCT3n ~ 11" n ^ c^:r-^r-^=3D. ,.. "ii II .i"B iir.li..? ii aim c=r n a Taste" | id, or bilious, I take a good dose or II straight," writes Mr. George B. | C. "It cleanses the liver and I tee! B r medicine as I do not see the need jijj iformatory, and have been for three [Jjl " R AUGHT || [edidne id been having a tired teeUng when | J he stiff and aore, and had a allay, Eg link ao much of U till f began to feel j en I knew I needed medicine. It I d 1 felt all node over, ready for any I . So, for aay return of this trouble, 52 ire It has been my medicine, and I j ork is constant. I am on my feet a I air and Black-Draught are ill the | u others for I know it Is good." rywhere. ?? B9 | m jytjj M 1 r GO- BE SURE aj i m i i Sale 1 ,27, 28th 1 ?1 rue sn ss Shoes, Work i>6.50 values $3.50 ft ST BE SOLD k the man or the ^ P FEED OATS, OF ERT, BIG WHITE ^ % NO REAL CAUSE FOR ALARM Chinese Fortune Teller Was Merely Wishing That Good Luck Might Follow His Customer. T?? huve your fortune told iu China is likely to be rut her an ordeal, in "Beyond Shanghai" Mr. Harold Si>eukmun describes a curious experience thut he once had with a fortune teller at Wuchang. What the fellow told him was something astonishing?considering the length of time he took to tell 1L Asking Ah Chow, uiy interpreter, to usien auemiveiy, says air. rspeaKinan, 1 sai down at the book-littered table of a large prophet with a benign expression and born-rimmed spectacles. All that he had to work with was a pair oi dirty bands with long, razorlike nails tliat he Instantly began to play about lay face with all the abandon ol an excited orchestra leader. Hoping that the prophecy he was to tnske might uot Include the innuedlute los? of lay eyesight, 1 sat still and waited Ajfte- he had felt my hta<l, thumped my chest and looked at uiy puhn* h? seized my left hand and began t( shout; his voice Doomed out like a bell In e minute I was the center of e large and eager crowd. In thre? minutes the crowd that listened breath less to every word blocked all ways ol escape. T1 " fortune teller gave his predlc tion n short, precise sentences each ol whi? h began vociferously with th< preface. "Yehalla!" What with th< humidity of the crowd and the stead: bombardment of yehalias close to m: ear, I decided after live minutes that I was time to depart. With a smile urn a bow that I meant should conve: uiuj - anu una my 1 ineu i<? wimuruv my h;.nd from the gnisp ot' the prophet but he only held oil the tighter am ftdrly peppered rue with yetiallus Should he cheat a foreigner? No-?no Four hundred cash hail been paid, am the M'huUus were only h?df finished! At last after 1 had begun to hav< morbid thoughts of knocking him 01 the lead and of esi-aping in the mo fusion he let go his talonlike grip. \V rose moistly and made our way ou through the sweating crowd, whirl opemsi in respectful silence in fron of \:s For nine minutes by the watc he had foretold just what the futur would hold for me, and. thougb thought him a faker. I was rurioua t knew just what he had been sayln during all that time "What," I aske Ah Chow, "did the fortune teller say? t "Oh," replied Ah Chow, "he saj "Good luck!'"?Youth's Companion. New Camera Dees Wonders. Instant changeahilty from stan< aril-size moving pictures to douhh size still pictures, through apertur and shutter control, adaptation of th Intermittent movement, replacing th customary claw movement; reductlo In size. Increased rapacity, dayllgl loading; wider range of utility, wit elimination of tripod. If neceaaar; are features of a new moving plctw camera designed by a Seattle wi veteran * ho served aa aviation phi tographer In France for 14 month The new camera, described In Popi lar Mechanics Magazine, can he ca rled about and used for snapshot t still pictures like an ordinary bar camera. I'sed in this manner it lu a capacity of !?,'_<*0 pictures, eitht standard moving picture size, % in* by 1 inch, or double size, I** inch t 1 inch, which latter can be enlarg? with sharpness lip to 8 b> Id inchc About 20?* snapshots can he made the time consumed in taking a with the ordinary roll film camor This is. perhaps, the most imperial feature of the new camera. Shows Power of Lenses. An instrument, by the use of whb the effective power of lenses may I ascertained, lias been designed so th< although it will give accurate resui It is comparatively low-priced. T! mechanism, described 'n Popular BJ chanics Magazine, consists of an i ; right bracketed support carrying ! one end a sliding telescopic lens s] | tem and a neat for the l$ns to be ? I amlned. Projecting from the otli j end of the bracket is a triangular b ! marked with a dioptric scale, up ; which is mounted a sliding carri fitted ?:th an illuminated target a a rotating axis dial. The target mounted inside a rotating dial, whi la graduated so that the axis of 1 lens being examined may be eas j reaa. Reversal of Form. ! "I m.'t l.ady Duff Gordon In a L> J don beauty parlor last mouth," salt 1 Chlcat" woman, "and she was I rather hitter mood on account of : failure of her dressmaking bualnest j. "She showed me a pamphlet that J attendant had Just given her?a pi I phlet entitled 'How to Keep Yi Husband'?and she gave, oh, suet 3, Utter laugh, and said: ] i " 'Most women nowadays, I sfco ! think, are more anxious to know b ' to make their husbands keep then 3 ?Chh ago Dally News. I Making Him Happy, j] "Jack, dear, you remember bet J we were married you said that a ^ 1 thing you could do to make me ha; 1 would make you very, very happy. 5 "Yes. dear, I believe I did." S* "Well. I really must have a i gown. I hope you won't deny yi 5 self that happiness, Jack."?Bos i) venlng Transcript. | ? Marked. . "Has Tom showed you any mar j attention T 3 "Yea, ha left the price tar on 3 ring ho gave ma"?Boston Transci B' ' MARKED EPOCH IH HliiTORt Founding of First Public Library, aft Alexandria. Egypt. Was of tho Highest Importance. The first important private library of which we have definite knowledge belonged to Aristotle. It was luter brought to Itorue by Sulla. Such private collections IndirectUy influenced public libraries. The largest library of the ancient world, that at Alexandria, Is said to have been prompted by Phalereus; tho , actual founder was either Ptolemy I. Soter. or Ptolemy II. Philadelphia. Possibly the father had gathered a fine private collection and the son threw l It open to scholars as a real library; for It occupied quarters In the royal , palace, near the famous museum. This library marked a new epoch In history. It was the first scientifically ; administered Institution of the kind, } and upon Its existence depended the i scholarly labors of the students at tho museum. It was here that classical i philology hud its cradle, and linguis> tic study received its first Impetus. > From the beginning, there was a second library at Alexandria, though i much smaller In extent, it occupied i the temple of Scrapls, and Its relation to the larger library resembled f that of f city library to a university library. Under the direction of distinguished f scholars and able organizers the - larger institution grew with what we ; may call American rapidity. Its hls7 lory during this period has become 7 better known through a papyrus diet covered a few years ago. ' The eagerness of the library authorities to secure new books and rare v books sometimes led th? to adopt ' devices that would not be counte' nanced by modern ethics. So keen wus ' the rivalry with the library at Per gamon, that the Kgvptfans tried to hamper the latter's growth by a rather futile embargo on the exportation of B papyrus. Thereupon the people at 1 Pergamon Invented fhe book material L~ which received Its name from their ? city--parchment. ^ Demetrius Phalereus reported that t in his day there were two hundred ^ thousand rolls or volumes in the IIbrurv at Alexandria. The poet Kalllj machos, under Ptolemy II. reckoned o tlielr number at. nearly half a million. When the library was burned in 47 B. a . . . ^ C., II WHS supposes 10 contain scveu hundred thousand books, while the library at the Serapeion, In the same , city, contained 42,000. After this fire, which destroyed most 1 | of the books, which Caesar had alj. ready stored on the wharves for trana^ portal Ion to Home. Antony presented e Cleoputra with the library of Per9 gamon. In 272 A. D. the mueeum 11e brury was destroyed, and in 381 A. D. n ; the same fate overtook the library at : the temple of Serapia. The story of ^ their destruction by the Arabs Is a! j^ | myth.?Prof. William V. Wyss in the ^ Neue Zurcher Zeltung. (Zurich, Swltir zeriund.) a- Odd Legal Decision. a- A curious verdict Just returned In a French court a< quits a man of murder >r according to the unwritten law. which id always exists in France, hut requires | him to pay a heavy tine to the widow of the victim. Valat kept a wine shop 'h in J'aris. Ills neighbor, a retired lackey smith, became a friend of Vulat and *d further sought to win the friendship 'S. of the wine deuler's wife. When he in discovered the intimate relations I* which existed between ills wife and, -- the locksmith Valat decided to H\*-iige! at himself, but not desiring to kill hei asked the locksmith to pay him 40.P00 francs which he needed to complete the purchase of his wine 3hop. The 1 locksmith refused, whereupon Valat l)e killed him. Probably because of his heroic conduct at Verdun Valat waa acquitted, the unwritten law being reche ognized, but the jury, finding hlra partf ? i iv colltv sentenced him to nav 10.000 tp. i francs damages to the locksmith's at widow. f? iX- Fitting Suits by X-Ray. ,er j The latest Idea In the trade of tal,ar lorlng comes from Paris whore clothon lers propose to fit their customers er, without the aid of chalk or tape-| n(j measure. By the use of an X-ray phots tograph they can eliminate all danger ch ! of misfits and avoid all necessity for! he trylng-on." The X-ray silhouettes of ily the regular customers which would hov-A tn h*? different from ordi nary X-ray picture*, would be stocked In the fitting cupboards, and t?o quick and cheap do they expect the process' ?n" to be that the ready-to-wear suit * would be put out ol the market In Chinese Letter*. Chinese scholars and patriot* have *n recently accomplished the onerous im~ task of reducing the 10,000 old Ohlur nese characters to a simple alphabet1 ' a . of 39 symbols. The object Is twofold ?to enable the entire Chinese popnn latlon to read and write?hitherto these were scholarly feats?and to en! able the Inhabitants of the carious I Chinese provinces to understand each other. The establishment of a national Chinese dialect will go far tours ward making China a nation, -ny Minister Who Was Worldly Wlao. A minister met two of his parishloners at the house of a lawyer whom lew he considered too sharp s practitioner. 5mr' The lawyer put the question: **Doo**n tor, these are members of your flock. May I ask. do you look upon them as white sheep or black sheepT" "I don't know," answered the mlnisked ter. dryly, "whether they are black or white sheep, but I knew. If th?y are the base long, they are pretty certain to kg dpt. fleeced."?London TttBlta,
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