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RAISING STEERS FOR MARKET
Feeder of Seventeen Years' Experience
Says Best Grades Are Always
in Good Demand.
Does it pay to raise purebred steers
for the market? Some say yes, while
others answer la the negative. But
an Iowa man says It pays to get a good
st&rt if a feeder intends to make a
good finish of the feeding experiment.
This feeder, who was recently on the
market with stock, went on record in
boosting purebred entile for feeding
purposes, as his 17 years of experience
that the good grades are always want
ed, and are tlie largest money-makers
in the eui. The allinnalive side of the
sis LS
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Dunch of Young Feeders.
question has a strong booster in this
gentleman, who has been practicing
what he preaches for many years past.
Each year he has been in the habit of
Jeedlng a bunch of purebred baby
'beeves for the summer market, and
each time has been successful in get
ting out on the venture. At his farm
he maintains a drove of Hereford cat
tle and aside from the regular breed
ing business, he raises a drove of steers
for the killers each year.
Many feeders think that purebreds
are for breeding and most anything
will do for the killers, but cases of
this sort argue well for cattle of good
blood to be finished for the market.
The feeder who recently made these
remarks Is emphatic in saying that It
pays to raise purebreds for feeding
purposes, and his advice to young meq
just getting into the live-stock business
Is to get a start on a purebred herd as
soon as possible. A good start short
ens the road to a successful ending in
a business of this sort.
FLEECED LAMBS MAKE GAINS
Old Idea Regarding Recuperation Sus
tained by Test at Nebraska State
Experiment Station.
The old idea that a shorn lamb will
regain in a week or ten days the
weight of the wool removed from It at
shearing time was vindicated recently
In an experiment at the Nebraska
state experiment station. Five lots
of 12 latnbs each were used in the
experiment, each lot fed a little dif
ferently. As the lambs were too heavy
to hold for the experiment, there was
an average loss of five cents per ani
mal, but the fact that the lambs did
especially well after the fleece was
removed proved the old theory. The
daily gain was .51 of a pound.
ONLY CORN HAS BEEN GATHE
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
The annual straw crop of the United
States amounts to approximately 120,
000,000 tons, and the average value of
all kinds of straw is placed by spe
cialists in the United States depart
ment of agriculture at about $5 a ton
when fed to live stock. In many sec
tions of the country, of course, no such
price can be realized and, as a mat
ter of fact, only a very small part of
the crop actually is sold. Five dol
lars a ton, however, may be considered
to represent the value of straw to the
farmer if he will use it properly.
Nevertheless, investigations by the
department show that only about two
thirds of the great straw crop is put
to its best use live-stock production.
Of the remainder a little more than
one-half is sold or turned under and
the rest, which amounts to about 15
per cent of the total crop, is burned,
as though, instead of being a potential
source of revenue, it was merely a
nuisance to be got rid of in the easiest
possible manner. Plowing under, too,
though not such an absolute waste as
burning, is nn uneconomical way of
utilizing straw. It does contribute
something, it is true, to soil fertility,
but the benefit to the land Is less than
that which would be derived from the
manure produced by feeding the straw
to live stock. "Of all systems of at
taining permanent soil fertility," says a
recent publication of the department,
"none is so practical or as easily avail
able as that of feeding live stock."
In order to illustrate, how straw may
be most economically utilized, the new
WINTER ROUGHAGE FOR HENS
RED FORAGE IS LET TO DECAY.
publication already mentioned,' which
is part 4 of a comprehensive survey
of the entire meat situation in the
United States, gives three sample ra
tions for wintering a breeding herd of
beef cattle. Any one of these rations,
it Is said, will prove economical. They
are as follows:
Rations for Wintering Breeding Cows.
Ration 1 Pounds.
Straw 10
Silase 20
Cottonseed meal or linseed meal..... lMi
Ration 2.
Straw 20
Cottonseed cake or oil cake 2
Ration 3.
Straw 10
Shock corn 10
Cottonseed meal 1
The economical use of straw in
such combinations as these will a No en
able farmers In the western states to
purchase their feeder cattle in the fall
and carry them through the winter
without undue expense. The prices
for feeder cattle are frequently so
much lower in the fall that if the cost
of wintering can bo kept down, it will
prove profitable tc. secure stock at that
time instead of in the spring. As a
matter of fact, in a number of western
states it frequently happens lliut grass
is wasted because cattlemen are un
willing to purchase enough steers to
consume It at the high prices fre
quently asked in the spring. An easy
way to avoid this waste and to secure
the maximum returns from available
pastures is to purchase the feeding j
herd In the fall and carry It through
the winter on a ration in which straw
plays an Important part.
COCO IS SERIOUS WEED PEST
Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. It's horrible!
Take a dose of the dangerous drug tonight and
tomorrow you may lose a day's work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes
necrosis of the bones. Calomel, whenit comes in
to contact with sour bile crashes into it, breaking
it up. This is when you feel that awful nausea
and cramping. If you ' are sluggish and "all
knocked out," if your liver is torpid and bowels
constipated, or you have headache, dizziness, coated
tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour, just try a
spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone tonight.
Here's my guarantee Go to any drug store
and get a 50 cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone.
Take a spoonful and if it doesn't straighten you
right up and make you feel fine and vigorous I
want you to go back to the store and get your
money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the
sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine;
entirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate or
make you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver
Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and
clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated
waste which is clogging your system and making
you feel miserable. I guarantee that a bottle of
Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family'
feeling fine for months. Give it to your children.
It is harmless ; doesn't gripe and they like its pleas
ant taste. Adv.
IRON POSTS SUPPORT WIRE
German Idea That Makes Their
Trenches Only a Little Way From
Being Impregnable.
PROPER SHELTER FOR LAMBS
Animals Fed In Well-Ventilated Barn
Make Same Gains as Those
Kept in Open Sheds.
T a series of tests in feeding west
ern Iambs, the Indiana experiment sta-
tion found that lambs fed in a well
ventilated barn at the same amount of
feed and made the same gain in weight
a 4 those fed In an open shed.
The profit per lamb was 94 cents per
head in a barn, as compared with $1.04
per head in an open shed.
Although feed was high in price, the
margin in value of feeding and fat
lambs was sufficient to iasure a sat
isfactory profit on the operation.
FERTILITY LOSS IN PASTURES
.Steady Drain of Phosphorus From
Land Where Sheep Are Grazed Is
Seen by Expert.
Nothing Better Than Lawn Clippings,
Second Crop Clover, and 'Grass
When , Properly Cured.
Every poultryman ought to provide
a supply of green feed for the use of
the hens in winter. Green vegetables
are excellent in their place, but nothing
Is better than lawn clippings, second
crop clover and grass.
Lawn clippings should be raked up
and spread on the barn floor or in some
other shady place to dry, writes
Charles II. Chesley In Farm and Home.
Two days of drying in the shade prop
erly cures the grass. It should then
be put in bags and hung away where
It can be kept for winter use.
Second-crop clover, of any variety,
is excellent and It should be cured
and treated In the same manner as the
lawn clippings. Cut clover before It
blooms. By mowing the timothy held
or red top patch closely, after it has
had a chance to get a start In late sum
mer, a lot of winter roughage for the
birds also can be obtained.
Plant Also Known as Nut Grass Is
One of Most Troublesome Weeds
to Deal With.
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HAYING TOOLS SAVE EXPENSE
With Hayioader Man Can Complete
Load in Half Time, Says Expert
of Ohio State University.
How long does it take to pitch on
a load of hay? Prof. II. C. ttamsower
of the agricultural engineering depart
ment, Ohio State university, says it
takes from 33 to 45 minutes for one
man to' pitch on one load while the
same man can complete a load in 13
to 20 minutes with a hayioader. Pro
fessor Itamsower also points out the
advantage of having a complete line
of haying machinery to save extra ex
pense of labor during the harvest sea
son. Slings and hay carriers are es
pecially useful in saving diflicult labor.
FATTEN CATTLE FOR MARKET
Some Sections in South Where Shelter
is Not Required Becoming One
of Chief Industries.
(By E. R. LUDYD, Director of Mississippi
Kxperlment Station.)
Coco or nut grass is one of the most
troublesome weeds that we have to
deal with in the state. There are
large areas of splendid land, as well as
a good area of hill country, infested
with this grass, but we know of no
pratical method of eliminating it and
it has no economic value. Many
Delta farmers are using coco land for
crowing small grains and alfalfa and
it does not seem to interfere with
crops which are planted broadcast.
The grass may be held partially In
check by sowing the land thickly to
fall oats and as soon as the crop is
removed in June plant the land broad
cast to cowpeas. The two crops will
shade the land practically an entire
year and smother out a considerable
portion of the grass, but this method
will not exterminate It.
ARGUMENT FOR GOOD ROADS
Railroads of Country Haul Yearly
195,586,840 Tons of Farm Prod
ucts Over Smooth Rails.
There is the strongest kind of an ar
gument for good roads In a report of
the interstate commerce commission
that in one year the railroads of this
country hauled l.IKO.GS'J.r.fH) tons of
freight, of which 11)3,380,840 tons were
the products of agriculture. This ton
nage of freight was hauled over 350.
000 miles of railroad, but before it
readied the railroad it was hauled over
2.:J,O0.O(H miles of wagon road.
The railroad haul was over the
smoothest and most level road that
can be made. The highway haul was
mostly over unpaved and ungraded
dirt roads, full of ruts, sinkholes and
knolls. If the farmers were organized
into corporations as the railroads are,
they would soon discover they could
not afford the enormous waste of bad
roads. Kansas City Times.
(By DR. CHARLES E. THORNE, Ohio
Experiment Station.)
Even when permanent pastures are
grazed by so perfect a manure produc
er as the sheep, It is evident that In
the bones of the young stock grown
upon it and sent to market there must
be a steady drain of phosphorus and
lime, which must ultimately become
manifest in reduced production, and
experience has shown that the use of
phosphatic fertilizers upon such pas
tures produces a marked Increase In
the production of grass.
In many sections of the south cattle
are fattened for market without shel
ter during any period of the year, and
in some favored spots they are fed no
grain whatever. The raising of blood
ed stock is also becoming one of the
chief Industries.
REMOVE ALL DECAYING WOOD
Harboring Place for Insects and
Disease That Will Spread to
Healthy Parts of Tree
Dead or decaying wood of any
fruit plant should be removed as
....n .-j it Is noticed. It matters not
) th( season may be. Such wood
.rhors disease and Insect pests that
li spread to healthy parts of the
re and to neighboring trees.
DON'T MIX DRESSED POULTRY
Pack Young and Old Fowls Separately
Carefully Place Neat Tag or
All Shipments.
In marketing fowls, especially
chickens, never mix (he young dressed
fowls with the old. If you do, the
young go In at the price of the old.
no more. Pack all the dressed roost
ers in a box to themselves, but don't
mix the old with the young In this
case, cither.
Tag all your shipped fowls, for If
you are sending prime stock the tag
will recommend you highly, not only
to the house you ship to. but the cus
tomers be sells to.
Thf young poultry hatched late this
summer can be sold for roasters In
Janu iry and February.
In the Atlantic Monthly Mr. Edward
Morlae describes a very clever im
provement the Germans have made In
their barbed-wire defenses. The
wires are usually fastened to wooden
posts, of course, but the Germans have
found a better support for them. He
writes:
"After we had taken the German
trench, our men set to work to remodel
it, shifting the parapet to the other
side, building little outpost trenches
and setting barbed wire. The latter
job was done In a wonderfully short
time, thanks to German thoroughness.
For the wooden stakes to which the
wire is tied they had substituted soft
iron rods, ihree-quarters of an Inch
thick, twisted live times in the shape
of a great corkscrew. This screw twist
ed into the ground exactly like a cork
puller Into a cork. The straight part
of the rod, being twisted upon itself
down and up again every ten inches,
formed six or seven small loops in a
height of about five feet. Into these
eyes the barbed wire was laid and
solidly secured with short lengths of
tying wire.
"First cutting the tying wire, we lift
ed the barbed wire out of the eyes,
shoved a small stick through one, and,
turning the rod with the leverage, of
the stick, usncrewed it out of the
ground, and then, reversing the proc
ess, screwed it in again. The advan
tage of this rod is obvious. "When a
sh-ell falls in the midst of this wire
protection, the rods are bent and twist
ed, but unless broken off short they
always support the wire, and even
after & severe bombardment present a
serious obstacle to the assaulters. In
such case wooden posts are blown to
smithereens by the shells, and when
broken off they let the wire fall flat
to the ground."
Restful.
"That hired man of yours is a very
picturesque figure," remarked the art
ist. "I'd like to paint him."
"Go ez fur ez you like," replied the
farmer, "but It seems to me I've heard
sonewheres thet they ain't much of
any market fur still life pictures."
His Idea.
"You're charging us city prices for
these raspberries," said the summer
resorter to the farmer.
"Yep. You're city folks, ain't you?"
"Of course."
"And used to paying city prices?"
"That's true, but we picked these
berries ourselvofc."
"Well ain't that the fun you came
out here to get You don't expect to
get your fun for nothing, do you?"
Detroit Free Press.
TOADIES EARN BIG MONEY TAKING
orders for Dr. Sawyer's Remedies. Estab
lished 33 years. The Sawyer Squaw Root
Co., 177 N. State St., Dept. 9, Chicago.Adv.
Hopeless.
"That man we were just talking
to seems to be perfectly normal," re
marked the visitor' who was being
shown over the insane asylum.
"And yet he's one of the very worst
cases we have," replied the attendant.
"That man thinks he can get as many
miles out of a gallon of gasoline as
the agent who sold him his car said he
could."
Calling for Reform.
Frances You say you are going to
marry a man to reform him. That is
fine. May I ask who he is?
Flora It's young Bond.
Frances Why, I didn't know he had
any bad habits.
Flora Well, his friends are saying
that he has become quite miserly.
Puck.
Displaced.
"What has become of the old-fashioned
political boss?"
"He has given place," replied Sena
for Sorghum, "t the new-fashioned
political boss who Insists on having his
own way without paying cash for it."
Btles, Granulated Eyelids, Sore and Inflamed
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The Sort.
"Mrs. Caddy does talk a great deal,
but she's as deep as a well."
"I hope she is like one of the wells
which sometimes dry up."
How Aviators Get Messages. '
Helmets for aviators have been in
vented with wireless receiving tele
phones built into the ear flaps.
Electricity ivfade City Monopoly.
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"Saved Daylight" 40 Years.
Monson, In Maine, wonders why
there Is so much ado about the "day
light saving" plan. According to the
Youth's Companion, about 40 years ago
someone In the town suggested that it
would be a good thing for the work
ers in the slate quarries to gain a,n
hour of daylight by going to work an
hour earlier in the morning and stop
ping work an hour earlier at night.
The town adopted the suggestion, but
instead of changing t he working hours
it set the clocks ahead. Through all
the years since then the clocks of
Monson have been an hour ahead of
the clocks in other Maine towns.
Assessed Value.
Deserted Wife I want to offer five
dollars reward for news of my hus
band, dead or nlive.
Police Officer But, madam, you
ought not to put news of him dead
or alive at the sum figure.
D. W. All right. Make it ten dol
lars reward if he's dead.
Nothing More.
"Your wife must be very solicitoua
about you."
"Why do you say that?"
"She writes every day."
"She's solicitous about the canary."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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