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DAIRY FACTS WIFE TOO ILL TO WORK IN BED MOST OF TIME PROFITABLE LAYING FLOCK FOR WINTER Waterproof As sure as you find rain and leaky boats, so sure you need shells that you know won't soak nor swell. You need the shells that after being doused in water will chamber and eject easily, the shells that will fire as though they had never been wet. BLACK SKEIIS US imokcltti and Black Powd By one of three easy tests with free sample shells you can prove that The Black Shells are waterproof. For the three free shells and a booklet describing how to make the waterproofing: and other tests, just do as follows : On the margin of this adver tisement write your name and address, also that of your am munition dealer, tear it out and send it to us. We will 6end you an order on your dealerfor shells from his stock and for booklet of directions. UNITED STATES CARTRIDGE CO. 2657 Trinity Building, New York City WHY STRIVE TO KILL TIME? If Annihilation Were Possible, the World Would Remain Just Ex actly as It Is Today. There are so many gentle proverbs is wonderful to think how. in our da v. that comely Titan has come to be re garded by the most of us as our worst enemy. We are forever scheming how to forereach him, to get the better of him, even in the extravagant phrase of the speed-at-any-price maniacs to annl eiilate him. Those, to be sure, fail to see how she consummation of their Ideal would Ueave them exactly at the point from which they started. Even the forty minutes girdle round about the earth, if achieved, would ities of existence : and, unless science is prepared to deal triumphantly with the problem of penetrating and breath ing atniosphereless space, one fails to see what the world would gain through n perfected system of aeroplanes but the taediuin vitae in its final and quite incurable form. Tables Turned. You say the poor tiling is unhap py?" asked the woman who listens eagerly. "Yes," replied the woman who talks. "She has one of those ambitious hus bands who wants her to go into poli ties, so that he can become socially prominent." His Choice. "If your dog were a .linger, I won der what style of songs lie would se lect?" "I am sure he would choose bark arolles." Sunny Dispositions and good digestion go hand in hand, and one of the biggest aids to good digestion is a regu lar dish of Grape-Nuts This wonderfully delicious wheat and barley food is so processed that it yields its nourishing goodness to the system in about one hour a record for ease of digestion. Take it all 'round, Grape Nuts contributes beautifully to sturdiness of body and a radiant, happy personality. Every table should have its daily ration of Grape-Nuts. "There's a Reason VARIATIONS IN CREAM TESTS One of Most Common Causes Is Differ ence in Amount of Water Used for Flushing. There are many causes for the vnri tions sometimes found in cream tests. Frequently would he n better word to i use than sometimes in connection with this subject, for variations in the tests may always he looked for. A few of the causes are here given. If the milk of a herd of cows whose average test is 4 per cent is separated so that the cream tests 40 per cent and the milk suddenly drops to 3.5 per cent of fat, as will often occur, the cream will then test only 35 per cent. The amount of fat lost In the skim milk is not affected to any ap preciable extent by the richness of the luilk separated. One of the most coivmori causes of variation in the test .if cream from the farm separator is" a variation In the amount of wato or skim milk ; used for llusl ing out the cream at the j end of the run. It is apparent that ' especially where a small quantity of ! cream is separated, a marked differ S ence in the richness of the cream may ! be made by a change in the amount of water or skim milk added. It is an easy matter to vnry a pint or more in ; the water or skim milk used and this ! alone may easily change the per cent ! of fat in the cream from 2 to 5 per j cent. The per cent of fat in the cream may be readily changed, as is well known, by adjusting the cream screw. The cream screw, however, Is not changed very frequently and it is not the common cause of the variations in the test which constantly occur and which causes so much friction between the buyer and seller of cream. SCRUB SIRE NOT PROFITABLE Farmers Advised by Ohio Expert Net to Sell Head of HerdUntil Daughters Been Tested. Can a bull be worth nearly $3,000 in one year in a dairy herd? The ani mal may be worth this much or even more, according to figures given by Prof. C. C. Ilayden of the Ohio experi ment station. He shows that In the station dairy herd one bull produced daughters av eraging 153 pounds more butterfat an nually than their dams. If ten daugh ters produced milk for six years, the total production of this sire would be I Purebred Bull. worth $2,750 more than that of a bull that produced no increase, If butterfat Is worth 30 cents a pound. Since the value of the bull can be determined only by the milk and but ter yields of his daughters, farmers are advised not to sell the dairy sire until his daughters have been tested. Ptiiyers should not discriminate against an old bull if he has some high-producing daughters, for his value cannot be determined until he is at least four years old. HERD SUBORDINATE TO FARM Farmer Makes Big Mistake if He Does Not Regard Cows as Assistants or Side Issue. (By DR. H. B. FAVILL.) The man who doesn't regard his ; herd of dairy cows, be they grade or purebred breeding cattle, as the hand maidens of the farm, as the assist ants, as the side issues of the farm, and which is only a means of building the farm up to its highest possibilities, ought to fail, and he probably will, j For, after all, it is the farm thai : counts, and not the herd that is on it. It is the farm that makes the farmer, jiind not the herd. In the long run, ; take the country through, there will be no great breeders except those that i are great farmers, because the herd i is subordinate to the farm and is used i for the purpose of magnifying the ! farm. RICHNESS OF A COW'S MILK i Mistake to Expect That It Can Be In fluenced by Character of Feed Given to Animal. It seems reasonable to expect that the richness of milk could be in fluenced by the character of the feed given to the animals. However, it has been thoroughly proved that for all practical purposes it is impossible. The richness of the cow's milk de pends upon inheritance and can no more be changed permanently by the feed than can the color of her hair. If the milk cannot be changed in rich ness by the feed It is clearly Impos sible for cream to be Influenced In this way. ",V Ay $ V4 " ? i-tiV? I JV i GOOD OPEN NESTS, The poultryman who wishes to have a profitable, laying flock for the sea son just ahead, says N. E. Chapman of the extension division at University Farm, must do three things now. First, he must make his poultry house ready for the laying stock. This means that he must make it perfectly weather tight, repairing roof and win dows if need be; that he must clean It thoroughly and either whitewash It or spray It with some good disinfectant; that he must thoroughly renovate roosts and nests ; that he must refill the loft with clean straw; provide new sand and litter, hoppers for dry mash, for grit, shells and charcoal, a table or shelf for pans or crocks for water and milk, and a cheese box of road dust or hard coal ashes. He must determine the capacity of his house in order that the laying Hock may not be crowded. Each laying hen START FOR WINTER LAYERS, Early Pullets Should Be in Cold-Weather Quarters Some Weeks Before They Begin to Lay. - The cold weather will soon be here again, so now is the time to get every thing ready for wintering the laying stock. April and May pullets will start to lay about the first of Novem ber, or even sooner, and they should be In their winter quarters several weeks before they start to lay. The most Important thing, and the one most frequently neglected by the average farmer, is to have the win ter quarters properly cleaned and dis infected. After being thoroughly cleaned out they should be white washed. The whitewash is best made from fresh lime and applied while hot with a spray motor or force pump. About G or 8 per cent of crude carbolic acid is added to the wash, also a small pall of buttermilk added to each barrelful makes it stick bet ter. Everything movable in the house should be taken out and disinfected. When fresh straw or shavings is put into the nests and fresh litter on the floor, the house is perfectly clean and healthful for the reception of win ter layers. It has been believed by many poul trymen, and investigations seem to bear out the belief, that hens which molt late are better winter layers than those which molt early. Those hens which molted in August and are now starting or have started to lay, are likely to stop again when the cold weather sets in. So now is the time to pick out the hens to keep over winter. All males should be kept separate from the females until breeding sea son opens, as It gives them a better chance to produce vigorous stock when it is wanted. LICE POWDER EASILY MADE Few Cents Will Pay for Mixture That Will Effectually Keep Vermin From the Fowls. "Don't let the mites and lice eat tip the profits of your poultry flock when a few cents' worth of homemade lice powder will free all fowls," says M. C. Kilpatrlck, poultry expert of the agri cultural college extension service, Ohio State university. , An effective homemade lice powder is made as follows: Place two and one-half pounds of plaster of paris In a pan. Then stir in three-fourths pint of gasoline and one-fourth pint of cresol or 95 per cent crude carbolic acid until a crumbly powder Is formed. Dust the fowls by sifting the pow der In the feathers, between the legs, under the wing and along the back. BLUE OINTMENT FOR VERMIN One Application Will Keep Fowl Free From Lice for Entire Season Must Dust Often. With many poultrymen the use of blue ointment as a remedy for lice is replacing the use of lice powder and liquid lice killers. When lice powder is used, the dusting must be very thorough, as the descendants of any louse that escapes will soon re Infest the hen. With lice powders at least two dustings must be made ten days apart. On the other hand, when blue oint ment Is used, but one application will keep the fowl free of lice for an entire season. The ointment is applied by rubbing a small pellet into the feath ers around the vent, as all lice on the fowl must make frequent visits to this portion of tl e hen in order to obtain moisture. BUILT IN PAIRS. needs at least four square feet of floor space. If an inclosed scratching shed is included, this may be considered in making calculations of the amount of floor space. If a considerable number of fowls Is to be kept over, It will be worth while to divide the poultry house proportionately between old and young. He must gather in all the young chickens from brooder houses, coops, boxes, trees and bushes, for a thorough culling of the Hock. He must give pul lets hatched in April and May a chance to make good. They will lay In Novem ber and December if properly housed and fed. He must dispose of all old stock, except birds desired as breeders ; also old roosters and cockerels, except those needed as breeders or for family consumption. Colony houses may be utilized for coc';erels and surplus stock until they can be profitably marketed. EARMARKS OF GOOD LAYERS Chalky White Ear Lobe Indicates Hen Is Laying Heavily Rules Laid Down by Cornell Expert. When you go out Into the hen yard to get a chicken or two for the Sun day dinner, you na'urally want to se lect the ones that are poor layers. There probably Isn't any way of tell ing in every case by a hen's looks vtiether or not she is a good layer, but the following rules laid down by Professer Kent of Cornell are the re sult of a good deal of study and ob servation. They will hold good in most cases: Yellow-legged birds quickly lay of the color in their shanks when they are laying. A hen which is laying heavily almost loses the yellow color out of her shanks. After molting the yellow color returns quickly. Examination of the ear lobe is con sidered to be almost infallible. A chalky white ear lobe indicates that a bird is laying heavily, whereas a cream-colored one shows that the bird is laying moderately, has just started, or has just stopped. A milk-colored ear lobe shows that the hen has laid slightly or has stopped laying. A very yellow or dark ear lobe iudicates that the hen has not laid at all. It is to be remembered that an ex tremely white ear lobe also may mean very low vitality. The more velvety the texture of tho comb of a hen is the better is her health, and it is almost a certain sign that she is laying heavily. Out of 40 hens under observation at Cornell, six with chalky-white ear lobes showed that they had laid 22 eggs that week, 10 eggs the previous week and nine the week before that. Of six other hens with creamy ear lobes, four laid 15 eggs that week and three laid 12 the week before and three more laid nine eggs the prior week. Seven hens with yellow ear lobes were examined and only one of them had laid an egg that week and four the week before. Nine hens with very dark ear lobes showed that they had not laid an egg for weeks. BOARD TO CATCH DROPPINGS Convenient Platform, Liked by Many Breeders, Is Lowered and Raised by Aid of Pulleys. Many breeders like a board plat form under the rcosts, to catch the droppings. This keeps the floor olean, and enables them to preserve the drop pings in good shape. A convenient board for droppings that is much liked by one breeder, is hinged at the north wall, lowered and raised by pulleys, and held by narrow chains hooked over nails. Every morning, the board is lowered i into a low box, the width of the board, ; which is wheelel from place to place cn casters. The boards are quickly cleaned with a hoe. Iioosts are screwed onto iron brackets fastened to the boards. The roosts are frequently tak en out and painted. Boards for drop pir.gs sLculd be of good lumber. I sni!:utv., uad free from knotholes where miles might hide. MARKET ALL SURPLUS MALES Get Young Roosters Out of the Way and Reduce Feed Bill Save Those Wanted for Breeders. Any young roosters which are large enough to crow should be marketed as soon as a market can be found, to g? them out of the way and reduce th feed bllL This, of course, refers to those which are not kept for sale as breeders, etc i RUSTED STRAW FOR FEEDING Value Demonstrated by Experiments Made by Canadian and Other Experiment Stations. Tnere hus evidently not been much investigation on the effect of rust on straw af to its feeding value. Most of the Analyses made show that rust in creases the feeding value of the straw. The Dominion experiment station in Canada and the experiment stations In North Dakota and Minnesota, have found that the rusted straw has a larger feeding value than rust-free straw. The analysis main! at the Xoith Dakota experiment station one year, however, showed thaf. the straw had a decreased feeding value. The reason for an increase feeding value Is explained by the fact that the plant first produces the nourishment in the stem and leaves and later passes it up into the head to fill out the kernels. Tho rust interferes with this food passing up into the head. It has a little the same effect as cutting the grain for hay. The value of the rusted straw de pends on a good many factoid, among which are the time at which rust strikes the crop, how the straw is cured, and whether it has any shriv eled grain in it. Cases have been re ported in which animals have been harmed by being fed rusted straw. One way to determine if it Is harm ful Is to feed It to a few of the less valuable animals for a week or two and observe the ffect that it has on them. Some other roughage should be fed with the rusted straw and do not make a sudden change from other feed to rusted straw. Shaking the straw to remove the dust as far as pos sible is also advisable. Observe the animals that are being fed rusted straw to see what effect it has on them. North Dakota Experiment Station. VALUE OF WHEAT FOR SWINE Tests Made at Missouri Agricultural College to Find Suitable Sub stitute for Corn. (By I A. WEAVER.) Information of value to all pork-producers, especially in seasons when the corn crop is short, has been obtained by carrying on experimental work with other crops grown on the farm by the Missouri agricultural experi ment station. By conducting feeding trials with wheat it has been shown that under some conditions wheat may well be used for hog feeding Instead of corn. Results obtained show that when corn Is worth 70 cents or more Prize Winning Sow Owned by Missouri Agricultural College. a bushel, wheat may be profitably sub stituted for corn if the wheat is worth 90 cents or less. Likewise if corn is worth SO cents per bushel, wheat is worth $1.03 a bushel as hog feed. It has been further shown that pork may be produced more cheaply by adding a small amount of tankage to a mixture of corn and whe;it than.by feeding these feeds wiliout such a supplement. For example, the cost of producing 100 pounds of pork with corn and tank age was CO cents less than when corn alone was used. This would mean an additional profit to the producer of $100 or more on each carload of hogs fed. GIVING MEDICINES TO SWINE By Using Old Shoe With Hole Cut In Toe, There Is Little Danger of Strangulation. If it should be necessary to admin ister medicines to a hog, simply cut a small opening in the toe of an old shoe, have an attendant hold hog In as natural a position as possible, In sert toe of shoe In mouth, pour drench In shoe carefully, and the hog will do the rest (of course powders should be liquefied with water). By this method there is practically no danger of strangulation, no danger of breaking drenching horn or bottle or any other vessel that may be used, the hog in trying to eject shoe from mouth will simply swallow. RIGHT CARE OF BROOD MARE Careful Plowman Can Use Her Up to Within Few Days of Time She Is to Drop Her Colt. A careful plowman can use the mare up till within a few days of the time she Is to drop her colt without dan ger, and likewise he can begin work with the mare ten days or two weeks after the colt is born, provided th3 work Is reasonably light and the mare is cared for properly. It is not necessary that the colt fol low Its dam while she Is in harness but It is better to leave the colt in tht pasture or the barn while the mare is driven. Her Health Restored byLydla . Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. ; Indianapolis, Indiana. " My he! was bo poor and my constitution so down that I coin not work. I was thin, pale and weak, weighed but 109 pounds and was in bed most of the. time. I began tak ing Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound and five months later I weighed 133 pounds. I do all the house work and washing for eleven and I can , truthfully say Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg i etable Compound has been a godsend to me for I would have been in my grave today but for it. I would tell all wo men suffering as I was to try your valu able remedy." Mrs. Wm. Green, 332 S.Addison Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. There is hardly a neighborhood in this country, wherein some woman has not found health by using this good old fashioned root and herb remedy. If there is anything about which you would like special advice, write to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. English Learning Other Languages. The English have never been distin guished in the past as linguists, their own mother tongue answering their requirements, commercially, intellec tually and otherwise. Their insularity in this respect is disappearing, how ever, and two anonymous donors have eacli given $.",000 to Leeds university, one gift being for the development of the Russian language and literature, and the other as an initial endowment to found a chair of Spanish. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen eral Tonic because it contaios the well known tonic properties of QUININE and f"iON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. SO cents. Contradictory Methods. "How Is it you are always so ready with everything needed?" "llecause I make It my standing rule to have everything in running order." Stl8, Granulated Eyelids, Sore and Inflamed Eyes healed promptly by the use of ROMAN EYE BALSAM. Adv. After man came woman and she la still in the race. Is Work Too Herd? 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These are common tiallstone symptoms CAN BHCCKVU Bend for home treatment. B4lul BmS PPrr Uw, Hwul, UmU TraaM. u ArswaMUa. AV IVLiU titir -- - - . - - ,t
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