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NO ANIMAL SO EASILY HANDLED AS MULE ' flM Pf Rff! ' If M fl flfii ifr -x 45 T A , NjyK iv INT' CLEAN UP TO CHECK DISEASE Diseases of Calves Have Been Les sened at Ohio Station by Disin fecting Dairy Stables. Disinfecting dairy stables checks contagious and infectious cattle dis eases. A thorough clean-up followed Iy disinfection about twice a year with a coal-tar disinfectant is recommend txl by the Ohio experiment station. Calf diseases have been lessened in the dairy herd at the experiment sta- I. t i ALWAYS READY FOR ANY KIND Or HARD WORK. Spraying a Dairy Stable. tlon by disinfecting the stables each .spring and fall. Digestive troubles, particularly white scours, have not leen troublesome and fewer deaths in calves have occurred after this prac tice was adopted. Less garget in cows lias been evident. The same treat ment will help to hold in check tuber culosis and contagious abortion in herds where thesa diseases are preva lent Thorough disinfecting is urged to kill all disease germs in every possible lurking place. Mangers, stalls and floors need special attention. Coal-tar dips are used at the experiment sta tion. After , disinfection the stables are whitewashed. - There is no animal so easily and pleasantly handled on the farm as the mule, says a writer In an exchange. All the farmer who works a mule needs In the way of a barn Is a good paddock or lot of one or more acres, according to the number of teams that ho is working. In this paddock build a good shed suitable to whatever coun try or climate you are In. In this have a good long rack and keep It well filled with sweet buy, corn fodder, cane or other roughage. There must be a good trough kept well filled with corn, oats, bran or barley. A tank supplied with good wnter must be accessible. This is all you need to handle a bunch of work mules. When your "hiules come in from work, take the harness off and turn them loose In the pad dock. Eat, Drink and Rest The mule will lie down and take a roll, lie there n few minutes and then get up, wulk to the hayrack and eat a little hay. Then he will go to the water tank and drink, then take an other roll and eat some grain, and then go back to the hayrack and eat PLAN FOR STORAGE Southern Farmers Need Not Pay Fancy Prices for So-Called Patented Ideas. NO MYSTERY ABOUT BUILDING GENERAL CARE OF UTENSILS Designs of Houses for Storing Sweet . Potatoes Furnished Free to Any Farmer by the Department of Agriculture. Four Important Rules That Should Be Followed in Washing and Dry ing Milk Vessels. General recommendation for the care of utensils are: 1. Rins6 in lukewarm water as soon after use as possible. 2. Wash in hot water containing washing powder which will remove grease. 3. Rinse in clean hot water and pbice in nve steam 15 seconds, drain and place right side up until steanr1 evaporates. 4. Invert in a clean protected placo when dry. LOCATE CAUSE OF LAMENESS .Many Make Mistake of Not Making Careful Examination, Simply Ap plying Some Liniment. Cows go lame. Instead of making a careful examination to find out the fause, we. use a lot of liniment and think we have done all that is re paired. After much suffering on the part of the innocent animal we find perhaps that the trouble was due to i nail or something else In the foot. It pays to watch for and guard Against such accidents to live stock. UTENSILS NEEDED FOR TEST Outfit Can Be Procured From Any Creamery Supply House for Com paratively Small Sum. The utensils needed for the Bab cock test are a Babcock tester, a few test bottles, a pipette, an acid meas lire, some sulphuric acid and a pair rf dividers. All this can be procured from any creamery supply house for from $5 to$10, according to whether a four or an eight bottle tester la wanted. MILKING MACHINE IN FAVOR Attention Called to Device on Account of Labor Shortage Farmer Saves Time and Labor. The labor shortage calls marked at tention to the milking machine. It will pay to Install one on farm where 20 or more cows are milked dally. You can get as much milk as by hand milk, ing and can save time and labor. (From the United States Department of Agriculture.) There is no mystery about building a satisfactory storage house for sweet potatoes. Southern farmers who are paying large prices for patented plans and equipment alleged to provide the only successful way of storing sweet potatoes, are being defrauded. Special ists of the United States department of agriculture whose attention recent ly has been called . to Instances in which farmers have paid as high ns $750 for sets of plans, do not hesitate to brand such activities as plain hum buggery. Plans of houses that incor porate the simple principles of storage and common-sense methods of con struction, and which have proved suc cessful by years of careful trial, are furnished free by the department to any farmer who will ask for them. Misleading Reports Circulated. Because reports have been made and circulated In the South that storage houses recommended by the depart ment are not satisfactory, It is be lieved necessary, now that the time to provide adequate storage for the coming harvest is at hand, to correct such statements. One man with plans to sell has said that the shrinkage of sweet potatoes stored in houses de signed by the government specialists Is from 10 to 20 per cent; while in houses of his design there is practi cally no shrinkage. The fallacy of such a claim, department specialists point out, lies in the fact that shrink age is essential to good keeping of the potatoes. Sweet potatoes stored in the type of house recommended by the department shrink from 8 to 10 per cent in weight, not bulk by reason of evaporation of surplus moisture. Proper curing of sweet potatoes means getting rid of surplus moisture, and the type of house which the special ists suggest accomplishes this by com bining the ordinary principles of good ventilation with common-sense meth ods of construction. Department Plans Give Satisfaction. Storage houses built according to plans suggested by ' the department have been In use in every state of the South for five or six years. The de partment has no knowledge of failure In any house built and operated strict ly according to recommendations. Four years of Investigation with 100 houses under observation showed that the average loss by decay, eiter an av erage period of 124 days, waa less than 24 per cent. In determining this loss representatives of the department per sonally graded the potatoes in each more hay. In this way he vill eat, drink nnd rest all night, and when vou are ready to go to work, Mr. Mule Is ready, too. One Man Sufficient. No stabling, no bedding.-no curry ing and no feeding, except by one man wko sees to filling the troughs, hayrack and wnter tank. A bunch of work mules handled in this way and worked hard every day will, at the end of six months, he better and fat ter than when you started with them. Horse Would Be Lacking. Now you never could handle a bunch of horses In this way. It would only be a few days until your horses would begin to show up bad, some would be foundered, some crippled and some lame. A mule seldom balks or 'runs away. You often find a balky horse, and when the horse runs away he tears up the harness and wagon or plow and often cripples himself. It does not take so nmcli to raise a mule, and before yon know It he is old enough to work, and you always have plenty of work stock and have a few good teams to soil each year. j house n total of 228,000 bushels. Ev ery potato that had a decayed spot was thrown out and classed as de cayed. In each case the potatoes were harvested, stored, and cared for by farmers. In the department's own storage house at Arlington, Va., sweet potatoes stored in October last year and removed the latter part of June showed a loss of less than 1 per cent. Farmers Intending to build, storage . houses should write to the Division of' Publications, Department of Agricul ture, Washington, D. C, for Farmers' Bulletin 54S, Storing and Marketing Sweet Potatoes-. This bulletin gives plans and lists of materials needed and also tells how to ' convert building such as abandoned tenant houses into, storage quarters. Calomel Salivates! It Makes You Sick and You Lose a Day's Wbrkn Liver Tone Acts Better Than Calomel and Is Harmless f Men, Women, Children Read Guarantee! ; Every druggist here, yes I your druggist and everybody's druggist has noticed a great falling off in the sale of calomel. They all give the same reason. Dodson's Liver Tone is taking its place. "Calomel is dangerous and people know it while Dodson's Liver Tone is safe and gives better re sults," said a prominent local druggist. Dodson's Liver Tone is personally guaranteed by every druggist. A large family-sized bottle costs only 50 cents and if you find it doesn't take the place of dangerous, salivating calomel you have only to ask for your money back. Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant-tasting, pure ly vegetable remedy, harmless to both children and adults. Take a spoonful at niglit and wake up feeling fine, no sick headache, biliousness, ague, sour stomach or clogged bowels. If Tone doesn t gripe or cause inconvetf day lake calomel. Take a dose of calomel toniVht you will feel side, weak and nauseate! a day s work!-- Dodson's Liver Tone is real You'll know it next morning bectl waice up witrryour nead clear,' you bowels clean, breath sweet and stom You will feel cheerful and full of vi for a hard day's work. You can eat anything afterwards! of salivating yourself or your child uet a -bottle of Dodson's Liver Tti on my guarantee. You'll never ae-a of nasty, dangerous calomel into your st SERUM FOR RAT-BITE FEVER WHERE SOY BEAN WILL GROW Plant Will Thrive Almost Anywhere ! North of Louisiana and South of Iowa State Line. The soy bean Is a comparatively new plant In many sections of this country, but it will grow and do well almost anywhere north of Louisiana and south of Iown. It can be grown to the north and to the south of the two states Mentioned, but Its best regions seem to be within the parallels of lati tude marked by these states. Soy beans have, in fact, been grown along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico with the best of success ay-1 some enthu siastic growers believe they will pro duce a crop anywhe.ro south of the Canadian boundary. In Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Illinois soy beans are now recognised as a highly valuable forage. In some places they are driving out the old reliable cow pen, as they have been found an even better forage than the peas. Like the peas, they serve to enrich 'any soli In which they may be planted. In Ten nessee and Arkansas the soy bean Is particularly valuable, as the oil and climate of these states seem to fit its requirements exactly. Japanese Physicians Declare Cure Is Obtained From Veins of Persons Who Have Recovered. A group of eminent Japanese doc tors has been busy studying rat-bite fever ever since Futaki, Ishiwara and their associates reported two years ago the discovery of the microbe that causes it. This Is a spirochete, so called because its form is spiral or zig-zag. Several types of this spiro chete were found in men who had been bitten by rats, and in guinea pigs that had been experimentally Inoculated. These were Identified by Futaki as In all probability identical. Doctors Renjiro, Kanelco and Kikuzo Okudn of the Imperial university In Kyushu, Fukuokn, Japan, contribute to the Journal of Experimental Medi cine n confirmation of Futakl's belief ; Doctor Roklchl Inada contributes a description of the disease ; Doctors Yu taka Ido, Itokuto Holt, HiroshI Ito and Hldetsune Wnnl describe experiments that prove the rat to be the common carrier of the Splrocheta icterohaemor rhaglca, as the microbe of the disease Is called ; and Doctors Yatuka Ido, III roshl Ito, Hldetsune Wnnl and Kikuzo Okuda discuss the possibility of pro ducing Immunity. The latter "go Into details of their experiments and come to the conclu sion that the "serum of persons who have recovered from rat-bite fever con tains an Immune body which destroys the spirochetes of that disease." The importance of these articles lies In the final proof that this spirochete Is the cause of the fever, that rats are the carriers, and that the disease can be cured. Willing to Participate. Willard was napping when his young brother came and begged him to play train. With unusual Indulgence he said, "AH right, I'll be the sleeping car," and continued his rest. Minimum of Waste. "No waste, now, ma ; no waste. We all gotta help." "You attend to your own business," snapped ma, with some acerbity. "The only things I throw away are tea leaves and egg shells.". The man. who borrows trouble is generally pretty good about paying it back. To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The Quinine drives out malaria, . the Iron builds up the system. 60 cents. No Other Place Woud Do. A dentist, who had been made nerv ous by frequent burglaries in his vicinity, was somewhat startled recent ly by having a man come regularly at the ftaine hour every evening and sit on his doorstep. He finally suggested that, if it would be all the same to him, he would be pleased to have him divide his attention and sit on some neighbor's doorstep for a while. "But it wouldn't be the same," shouted the visitor, "nor anything like it. You arc a dentist, and I have an aching tooth that I haven't the cour age to have pulled out. I come here every afternoon trying to make up my mind to have it out, and as soon I come in sight of your house it stops aching, but when I sit on your-doorstep, and the confounded thing knows It can be pulled out If It gives me trouble, I have some rest." Being Just to Husband. Mollie had very pronounced Ideas regarding the rights and wrongs of her sex. "Don't you think, Saliie," she nsked one day of her dearest friend, "that a woman should get a man's pay?" "Well," replied Sallle, after a mo ment of deliberation, "I tldnk she should let him have car fares and lunches out of it." Youth's Companion. Happy Thoughts. "What was uppermost in your mind the first time you went 'over the top?' " "I seemed to hear someone saying, Doesn't he look natural?'" Over the Fence! At the Gibson count ton there are places v must be guarded to others from swarminl says the Indlanapolil year one of the ami appointed for a long s down in the shade and Murphy, president of chanced to see a long climb the fence thert to pay or get out," h "Got no money; gueS was the response" thought," said Murph stay In on condition. Y policeman and tell himl over the fence," "Shucks, then he'll "Try it, anyway," dent ; you'll get to stay Long Boy did as bide over the fence," he t watchman. "What!" exclalmad "Then right out you gq He dragged the youtl but the youngster yellei Murphy and he canie u "I'm putting this lux: plained the policeman! the fence." - "He said he did," an association head, "but stay and have appoints you awake. Turn him Long Boy saw the A of his kind got over day. Fastidious E "Alas-1" said the drum ner table, "kindly look will observe four flies s in my coffee." "Too true," replied tl ress of HuckaDucK tavt deed unfortunate, sir, b let the cup set, or sit, m be, for a few minutes t drown and then sink t and you will soon for them. Ilowlyehaveyer-t; rractlce doesn't alwa, feet, but it makes somt doctors wealthy. SOURCE OF DELICIOUS MILK Qualified Veterinarian Should Be Called Upon to Inspect and Test Each Cow Every Year. (Clemaon College. Bulletin.) The family cow should be a constant source of cheap, pure and delicious milk. Such may be the case If a few precautions are taken. It Is frequent ly observed, however, that under the conditions surrounding the family cow only dirty, diseased milk can be pro duced. A cow may be suffering from tuber culosis, the worst disease to .which she is subject, and still show no signs of it to the proud owner. For the sake of the children who drink the milk, a qualified veterinarian should be called upon to inspect and tert each cow every year. With the assurance of a healthy cow, she should be housed In a clean, well-lighted shed and provided with a clean yard In which to exercise. The milk should be drawn Into a clean, small-topped milk pall and k?pt cool until consumed. hi 1 Si tl ore Corn! When you eat corn instead of wheat you are saving for thi boys in France. Corn is an admirable cool weather food. Whether or not you like corn bread, corn muffins. "Johnriv Cake", or corn pone, you are sure to like T The newest wrinkle in corn foods crisp, bubbled flakes white corn a substantial food dish with an alluring smack and costs but a trifle. Make Post Toasties Your War Cereal
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