Houses Built of Meerschaum.
The town of Vallecas, In Spain, 1i
almost entirely built of meerschaum.
VaHecas hr-s on its outskirt great
quarries of a meerschaum too coarse
for pipe making, and a meerschaum
built town is the result—an ivory
white town that shines in the Span
ish sun. In Morocco meerschaum is
so plentiful that they use it, when
sort and fresh, for scap. It gives
a plentiful and cleansing lather,
EkdisehehT, in Asia Minor, supplies
the world's meerschaum. There are
2,000 mines, targe and small there,
and 8,000 Kurd and Persian meer
schaum miners work day and night
In therm. The meerschaum comes
trom the earth yellow, and turns
white after ten days' bleaching 1*
the sun.—New York Herald.
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Alcohol
! Since May, 1906, Ayer's Sar
saparilla has been entirely free
from alcohcl. If you are in
poor healih, weak, pale, nerv
ous, ask your doctor about tak
!jing this non-alcoholic tonic and
alterative. If he has a better 3
jmedicine, take his. Get the best
jalways. This is our advice.
M Wo publish our formula#
* We banish alcohol
D / ~ from our roedlolnas
I / tl Wa urge you to
C ° n d£*r° Ur
A sluggish liver means a coated tongue,
a bad breath, and constipated bowels.
The question is, " What is the best thing
to do under such circumstances ? " Ask
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•'Take laxative doses of Ayer's Pills."
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Southern Agricultural Topics.
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Modern Method* That Are Helpfnl to
farmer. Fruit Grower axul Stockman.
Our Poor Methods of Marketing.
The manner In which Southern
poultry and eggs are marketed is
largely responsible for our failure to
make them profitable. We market
most of our poultry alive, but how
seldom we see a coop of uniform slse.
color and quality. But for our erase
for crossing and the scarcely less In
sane Idea that scrubs are more valu
able than pure-breds, because they
will stand more hardships, whereas
It is a fact that when any animal is
withstanding hardships it is a losing
business for the owner, we might have
poultry of uniform color. Any one
knows that of two coops, the one
made up of birds of the same size and
color, and the other of the usual
Jacob's coat variety, the former will
bring a good advance in price, even
though they be of no better quality.
There are thousands of town and
city men and women who appreciate
a really fresh egg, and many of them
have both the money and the Inclina
tion to pay for it. Why not cater to
that demand and furnish these peo
ple what they want and are willing
to pay for, really fresh, clean, good
eggs? Such eggs command a higher
price anywhere, and you can deliver
them to some man in town for the
top of the market. Find that man.
To command top prices, however,
they must be clean, of uniform color
and size and really fresh. In the
large egg markets Southern eggs sell
for from three to four cents below
the lowest from other sections. Why
is this? Rest assured It is because
they are worth less, for the men who
make a business of buying eggs know
eggs. * . -
But why are they worth less?
(1) Because of our mongrel flocks,
the result of our mania for crossing.
They lay eggs of all sizes and colors,
and we don't sort them.
(2) We send eggs to market as
they come from the nests, dirty and
unsorted. They should be graded as
to colors and size and those that are
dirty should never be sent to market
or should be wiped clean. It Is safe
to state that a lot of eggs with the
dirty and very small ones taken out
will sell for more money than all of
them would.
(3) We allow the male birds to
run with the hens at all times. The
result is that the eggs, being fertile,
soon begin to germinate from the
summer heat and then when cooled
the germ dies and the egg rapidly
spoils, or at least loses Its freshness.
These facts are well known, but still
we go on in the same old way. Why
the males are allowed to run with the
hens, except when we need eggs for
hatching, no one can tell, but still
we continue to do it, and furnish the
markets with most of the so-called
"heated" eggs that sell for three or
four cents a dozen less than they
would if the males had been sep
arated from the hens.—Progressive
Farmer.
Poultry Troubles.
When I first began to raise chick
ens I had the common mixed breed,
and 1/ had pretty good success with
them, for they were both good set
ters and good mothers. But I ex
changed them for White Wyandottes
and then I began to have trouble in
setting them. The heus were willing
enough to set, at first, but after a
few days they grew tired of setting
and would desert their nests and let
their eggs grow cold, or else they
would set until within a week of the
times the eggs were expected to
hatch, and then would leave. Some
times there were others wanting to
Bet. If there were, I would take the
hen which had been setting and put
her out and then put the other on the
nest, but if there were no hens want
ing to set, I would place a box over
the hen, so that she could not get up
very well, and keep it on for some
time, only taking It .off for her to eat
and drink, then covering her up
again. Sometimes this plan would
work, but more often It would not.
The hen would manage to get the
box up, and then leave or break the
eggs and ruin them. I have lost a
good many eggs in this way. If 1
do not lose all at a setting, I often
lose half of them or more.
For Instance, I set a hen with
twelve eggs. She sat for about ten
days, then left the nest, and let the
eggs grow cold. I put a box over her,
but it did no good, for as soon as I
took it off she left the nest, and
would not go I made her.
Fortunately, howevfer, there was an
other hen wanting to set, so I put
her on instead, and she sat fairly
well for the remaining time, but I did
not get more than six chickens out of
all the eggs that were set.
Now, I do not mean to aay that
common chickens set well all of the
time, for, on the contrary, I set two
common bens. They set for a lew
days, and then deliberately deserted
their nests, and I don't believe they
left three eggs out of the whole lot.
Business Mithh
He will always be a slave who doea
not know how to live on little.
It takes a wise main to tell whether
the world is laughing with him or at
bim.
A good today makes a bright yes
terday to think of and a bright to
morrow to which to look forward.
Nearly every successful merchant
owes his success to the fact that he
has made a little money do a great
deal of work .
But on the average, the common
mixed breed sets better than the
White Wyandottes. Although the
latter are good layers and fairly good
mothers, 1 cannot recommend them
as good setters.—A Reader, In Flor«
Ida Agriculturist.
When to Feed.
No animal is fit for real hard or
fast work after eating a largo meal,
but we frequently practice feeding as
large an amount In the morning and
at noon as at night. When we force
work from the muscles a larger quan
tity of blood goes to them and conse
quently there is a smaller quantity
that can &o to the dtgestlve organs.
The result is digestion is checked, and
colic follows. |
Tb prevent this all horses doing
real hard work should receive all the
hay they are to receive in the twenty
four hours at night. And right here
it may be well to state that horses
are usually fed very much more hay
than is best for them. If the horse
can be allowed to eat hay for at least
one hour before being ted his grain
at night, then at least half the grain
he is to receive In the twenty-four
hours should also be given at night.
The other half should be divided into
two equal parts, one being given in
the morning and the other at noon.—•
Professor Massey.
Sweet Potato Investigations.
Extensive investigations dealing
with the sweet potato crop are being
undertaken by the United States De
partment of Agriculture. Experi
ments are in progress at several cen
tres, and include a study of the kinds
most suitable for the several potato
growing districts. Research is being
made in regard to methods of grow
ing and their comparative cost, and
methods of harvesting, storing, pack
ing and shipping the crop. Tho ques
tion of storage, it Is stated, is receiv
ing special attention, in order to de
termine the best means of curing, the
most suitable temperatures to be
maintained In the storage house, and
the amount of shrinkage that takes
place under those conditions. A.tten.
t'.on is also being given to the uses
and possibilities of sweet potatoes as
food for stock, as well as the desslca
tion and canning ot the product for
human consumption.
A Handy llarn.
Here are plans for a handy barn.
It will hold seven head of horses and
about ten head of cows. A crib op
posite the feedway will hold about
600 bushels of corn and an oats bin
adjoining this will hold from 100Q
to 1200 bushels of that grain. This
leaves a space fifteen by eighteen for
Implements, hay or anything that the
farmer may wish to put in it. The
Y. mm m nil aaijßß
COW' OKU MACHwj' 1/ \
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A Haniy Barn.
doors on the ciw shed are wide
enough so you can drive through
them with a wagon or manure
spreader. The horse stable has dou
ble stalls ten feet wide and fifteen
feet from inside of manger to the
wall. This, together with the fact
that the doors are eight feet wide,
enable you to get out with your team
very easily. The size of the struc
ture Is thirty-five by thirty-eight feet,
with a hay mow over the lower floor.
The eaves are six feet, affording more
'than usual protection to the outside
of the building. The accompanying
plan, says the Journal of Agriculture,
will give the reader a better under
standing of the interior arrange
ment.
Poultry Notes.
Mites are one of the greatest
scourges of the poultryman, and from
them, directly or Indirectly, spring
the greatest portion of poultry dis
eases.
And often birds that, otherwise,
are very- fine, have white or black
feathers to grow where they do not
belong, because the fowl's vitality is
sapped by the mites.
They multiply at an astonishing
rate, and it requires the very hardest
and most persistent work to rid the
premises of them.
The most lasting preventive is boil
ing whitewash, to which has been
added to each bucketful a teaspoon
ful of crude carbolic acid and a half
gallon of
This must be put on boiling hot,
and special care must be given the
roosts to see that it gets into evgry
crack.—Southern Fruit Grower.
Her* and There.
If anyone does not understand your
advertisements, it ia an indication
that he knows more than you do.
A man who continually questions
other people's motives without proof
is a man you are justified in distrust
ing .
•
Uprightness in all our dealings
with one another is a matter of
human convenience but of divine re
quirement. '• ' '
Many of the greatest men—New
ton, for instance, greatest of all dis
covers of law —l*ave been thought
stupid because they rebelled against
w»rk that was not congenial. In the
(Bad they Justified the rebellion. Hu
man beings, in the long run, prophes
ies the New York Journal, will learn
the truth put before them years ago
by Charles Fourier, that men are
governed by their attrcttlons, and J
that the success of the individual and
of tho race depends upon giving full
play to the attractions or passions.
Thwarting them or coercing them
means failure.
TtODsands Hive Kidney
Trouble and Never Suspect it
How To Find Oat.
Fill n bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours;
>!!«... I a brick dust sedi
ment, or settling,
-A Btri »gy or milky
IM JnH/' llf appearance often
uLV 1 Ji | indicates an un-
I healthy condi
7Y\ \\jSftJ fJ? ti°n of the kid
• - 1-Vquent desire to
* pass it or pain in
the back are also symptoms that tell you
the kidneys and bladder are out of order
and need attention.
What To Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy,
fulfills almost every wish in correcting
rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys,
liver, bladder and every part of the urinary
passage. Corrects inability to hold water
and scalding pain in passing it, or bad
effects following use of liquor, wine or
beer, and overcomes that unpleasant ne
cessity of being compelled to go often
through the day, and tq eet up many
times during the night. The mild and
immediate effect of Swamp-Root is
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Weak Women
To weak and alitor women, there 1* at leant on#
way to help. But with that war, two treatment*
must be combined. Ono li local, one Is constlti*
tlonal, but both are important, both essential.
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Theformer— Vr. Hhoop's-Nlght Cure—ls a topical
mucous membrano suppository remedy, while Dr.
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ment. Tha Restorative reaches throughout tha
•ntire system, seeking the repair of all nerve,
all tissue, and all blood ailments.
The "Night Curo". as its name impllM, does Its
work while you sleep. It soothes sore ahd Inflam
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discharges, while the Restorative, eases nervous
excitement, gives renewed vigor and ambition,
builds up wasted tissues, bringing about renewed
strength, vigor, and energy. Take Dr. Shoop's
Restorative —Tablets or Liquid—as a general tonlo
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