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LIV? STOCK CALVES FATTENED ON SILAGfe Baby Beeves Required Less Careful Feeding Than Those Getting Heavy Grain Feed Silage-fed baby beeves are profit makers, according to the results of a feeding experiment with 60 beef calves conducted at University farm under direction of W. H. Peters, chief, and N. Iv. Cames, both of the division of animal husbandry. That barley, which can be profitably grown in many Northern climates where corn will not mature, is a highly satisfactory fatten A Pair of Young Shorthorns. ing teed for beef cattle was also prevail in the feeding trials. Calves getting silage, plus a full feed of grain, feed more regular and required less careful and skillful feed ing than the calves getting a heavy feed of grain and no silage. The silage fed calves made a gain of 2.36 pounds per head per day for a period of 106 days, while the calves fed without silage were valued at 10 cents per 100 pounds above the calves fed silage, yet the silage-fed calves showed a net profit of $17.90 a head, while those without silage showed a profit of $16.15 a head. Barley proved practically equal to corn, pound for pound, fn making gains on fattening calves, but because of its greater cost and the lower sav ing of feed made by hogs following, the corn-fed calves showed a profit of $16.15 a head, while the , bar ley -fed calves showed a profit of only $6.01 a head. Purebred beef calves, high-grade beef calves and common calves show ing same traces of beef breeding when compared, made similar gains on simi lar amounts of feed, though the differ ence in selling price was marked, the purebred calves bringing $86.78 per head, the high-grades $83.43 and the common calves only $56.18. MINERAL MIXTURE FOR HOGS w isfcmsin Specialist Recommends Combination of Which Charcoal Is Chief Ingredient. Experience has taught the stockman that a mineral mixture is -a pood tiling to keep jWfore the hops in the winter time. G. Bflhstedt of the animal husbandry department has just made a mixture to feed to the hogs in the Wisconsin Agri cultural college herd. It consists of: Two hundred pounds of powdered charcoal ; 100 pounds of wood ashos ; 100 pounds of air-slaked lime; 100; pounds of ground rock phosphate; f>0 pounds of salt ; 10 pounds of sulphur and 5 pounds of copperas. A mineral mixture such as this is not considered necessary in the sum- j mer time. HEALTHY PIG FORCED ALONG 8hould Be Placed on Market as Soon as Possible ? Give Access to a Self-Feeder. As long as the pig is healthy he should be forced along at a rapid rate and placed on the market as soon as possible. Just as soon as practicable lie should have access to a self-feeder and should be consum ing a reasonable quantity of feed be fore weaning. SOWS NEED SOME ATTENTION Gilts About to Farrow Should Be Watched Closely and kept in Good Condition. Sows expected to farrow will need t:- some attention. Especially should farmers with gilts to farrow watch the _ animals and keep them in fine condi^ tion; not fat, but in good living and 5$ -growing flesh. The feed should be such as will develop the animals but aot let them put on too much fat. SECURE BIG SWINE RETURNS Constant Care and Attention Is Re quired From Very First ? Care of Sow ts Important g? , v In order to secure the greatest re ? turns and to have a minimum of losses, constant care and attention is lr required from the time the pig Is 5 born until it is marketed. In fact at 6 tention to the pig should begin be i fore birth and much can be accom r plisbed through the feed and care of L pit pregnant sow. .Conducted by National Council of th? Boy Scouts of America.) SCOUTS AT WINTER CAMPS A big thought in scouts' minds at this time is winter camping. Camping with its health-giving" work and play is so vital a part of a scout's activi ties, that the keen frosty air only i^rves to enhance the Joy of life out cT*doors. Six hundred and fifty scouts of Greater New York spent the holidays at the big Bear Mountain camp. The program consisted of shouting's com bination of out-of-doors work and edu cational training. The day's routine was as follows: 7:00 a. 111. reveille, 7:05 a. m. calis thenics, 8:00 a. m. breakfast (hot pancakes) etc., 9:00 a. m. to 11:00 a. m. instruction and games, 12:00 noon dinner (piping hot), 1:00 p. m. to 2 :00 p. m. rest period; 2:00 p. m. to 4:00 p. m. competitive games, hockey, skat ing, toboganning, snowshoeing, skiing, etc.; 5:30 p. m. mess, 7:00 p. m. camp tire, 9:00 p. m. taps. In Chicago the Kiwanis club of En glewood, Hyde Park and Woodlawn have furnished two cabins in the forest preserves not far from the city. On the site is an artificial lake amid beautiful rustic surroundings. The Kiwanis officials have turned over "the keys of the preserves" to the scout officials loathe use of the boys. Ames (IowaJ council prepared a Christmas vacation camp for its "hard as flint" campers. The forest ranger In charge of the state park where the boys camped, requested the scouts to assist him in the establishment of new trails. In marking these and the ex isting trails. In clearing brush from the scenic points, and in maintaining feeding stations for the wild life I which is abundant in the park. Besides these camps, hundreds of t others wtH be conducted during the j winter and attended by the sturdy scouts bent on making themselves , strong and fit for present and future citizenship and service. SCOUT SAVES COMPANION On the day of the following rescue, ! Harold Beal, thirteen-year-old scout j I of Westerly, N. V., was in swimming J with ftve companions when one of the ! boys became exhausted while beyond ! his depth, ^nd sank beneath the sur face. Beal saw his chum's predica ment and started to sralm towards the boy, who had come to the t op and gone under ti e second time. When he came to the Surface Beal grabbed him by the hair and started to pull him | toward the sin re. Another lad of | the party attempted to help Beal. but 1 ivas pulled under by the struggles of I the half-drowned hoy, and Beal had to complete the rescue alone. When the rescuer and the rescued reached land the latter was resuscitated by methods taught the troop in their life saving work and soon the lad was able to go j to his home without assistance. Scmit ! Beal is an extremely modest li^ro and j fhe story of the rescu? would never | have been told were it not for some | of the witnesses who insisted the boy's hen ; i be made l:nown to his scout !etn NEW DEPARTMENT FOR SCOUTS Out of the IS, 01 4 scout troops, 8.23C arc in territory in which u local scout council does not exist. To render these troops the same special, direct, per sonal service that local councils can give, a new department has been cre ated at the national office, with George, W. Ehler as director. This "Depart ment for Troops Not Under Council" will h$tve control of the consideration of applications for registration o 1 troops ^iot under council, troop organ ization and management, merit badge activities, etc. Among other res]>onsl bilities which this department will de velop and care for are: proper organ ization of-r.ew troops, co-operation with established troops, promotion of ad vancement of scouts, consideration o 1 and help in individual scoutmaster's problems of organization and manage ment. STUDY SCOUTING fN SCHOOLS The value of the bc.v scout move ment in citizenship training has caused the board of education, Atlanta. Ga., to embody a course on scouting in ths school curriculum. The work will be given in the fifth, sixth and seventh ! grades in the form of a course in civics oased on the scout movement. Study of the course will not entitle stutlents | to rank as scouts. It is given to ac? quaint pupils with the alms and scope of the movement i SCOUT SAVES BROTHER' By means of his stocking and a stick which he picked up in a' brook nearby, Scout Edwin Howard of Du Boisetown, Pa., saved his brother Warden from feeding to death. The ! boys were playlnjr when Warden fell, cutting an artery in his leg. Follow ing his first-aid Instructions, Edwin ; made a tourniquet of the stick and ; the stocking and applied It above the ; womd. The doctor stated that the scout had saved his brother's life bj j ?topping the flow blood. I JOIE'S DEFENSE By MOLLIE MATHER (<?. 1923. Western Newspaper Union.) "Everything," said Joie discon solately, "has some uncomfortable feature to offset the good. ' "Wfyich means?" Mrs. Warren asked smilingly. Josephine Ware looked up at. her friend. "Which means," she returned, 4 that life since I met Bruce and loved JilHj has been too beautiful to last. And now Helen Martin tells me that Bruce has a most exacting and sensitive mother. Helen says she doesn't know how he ever dared to become engaged without first consulting his mother. Joie was favorably impressed with her mother-in-law to he. on the ..first occasion of their meeting. And Jo o too, in all her abrupt frankness, prom ised to win the heiurt of the elder woman. Bruce was proudly h*ppy and Mrs. Warren smiled satisfaction. "Josephine is sitth ;*n honest little soul," she told the mother of Jose phine's fiance. On her birthday Joie rejoiced in the sift with a personal touch that Mrs. Gordon sent t*> her. ? "It. is as tluuigh she had known or my preference for dull blue, Joie said to her lover. "Did you ever see such a lovely belt, Bruce? Oriental. Just the tiling to wear with my new house suit." . "Perhaps" Bruce suggested, she 'may have learned of your preference from me. And "perils I may have mentioned that modish little dress, as well." "You are both of you dears!" said joie. Tenderly she replaced the pretty b?t. in its tissue wrappings, and j closed the gift box. Then she went | forth to purchase a birthday gift for I.ertie Wnrren. Lettie desired modest ly, a collar and cuff set for her sweater. So Joie made her way to Julia Webster's novelty shop. Miss Webster was a dealer in fine needle work.* Here, Joie knew, she would ho able to match Mrs. Warren's daintl- i :;ess. The white linen set which she ? selected had a fine hand-made edge jn keeping with her friend's accustomed taste. But because the simple Rift contrasted humbly with a beautiful necklace Mrs. Warren had that morn- ' ing sent to her. Joie felt called upon . to write a line of greeting. "This hit of lir.enjind lace, may not* be called a gift, nettle, dear!" she wroie. "Accept It for the love that ?<*'S with It." Following events were so insidious- 1 lv different that she could scarcely; realize what had happened. Kruce. openly as attentive as ever, was con- j strained and cold in her presence. Mrs. : (Jordon had gone home without call- i ing or sending f??r Joie to bid her good- j by. When she took her perplexities ' to Lettie Warren that young matron was unusually grave. "I tyave bothered about the situation myself, Joie." she said. "And I really cannot under- j stand Mrs. fiordon's attitude. During the latter part oi" l*>r visit she never mentioned your name, while at firdt she was happy in praise of you. 'I am so glad,' she said to me, 'that Bruce has made such a pleasing choice.' " "I supp??*e it is just one of the unexpected traits of character that Ilelen warned me about." Joie de cided "But why should Bruce follow her example of coldness? That he disapproves of me is evident, and I have no way of knowing the cause. When I question him he gives an evasive reply. I believe," added un happy .Toie, "that I shall relieve them both by breaking the engagement." That evening as Brace came gravely into the living room .Toie lifted a white and gold box from the table. With re luctant fingers she drew from it the blue and gold belt. "I ? I can't wear it Bruce," she child ishly said, "when >our mother no longer cures for me. it was lovely of her to send it, and I loved her for her kindness. But now that She is no longer kind ? " Quietly Bruce Gordon ended the broken sentence. ""Mother was dis appointed in you, . Joie, and so I ad mit, was I. But that will pass and we shall all be good friends again." It was l?i*uee now who ceased speak ing abruptly. The tissue wrappings of the box fell from Joie's hand to the floor. Cn one tissue square lay a fold of linen and lace. Wonderingly, Joie stooped to pick It up. Before them was a collar and set. The exact set , that Joie had purchased from Julia j Webster to give to her friend. Con- | fused ly she explained this to Bruce, j The light that flashed across his re- , lievedly transformed face was more confusing still. His old dear smile , was turned upon her. "Why, Joie mine," he said, "the un happy Incident Is explained. When i Lettie Warren showed your gift to ; mother that day so soon after mother h^d sent the collar and cuff set to you, and after Miss Webster, as mother told me, insisted that she carried but one article of each pattern, why, mother was shocked at your ? well lack of sentiment, or discretion, In passing on what she supposed was her 'grift to you ? to the very woman who was her hostess. There was, too, something about an accompanying note. Do you recall your wording, Joie? ? 'Such a simple gift being no gift at all,' or words to that effect." Bruce Gordon laughed. "Poor af fronted mother!" he said. "We must go out to see her at once." Joie's eyes were shining. "To think that I never looked under that second layer of tiaue." So He Was Hired MR. FEATHERHEAD,fHER?'e> A MAN OUTRIDE LOOKING FOR A JOB 60 YOU WANT To BE. MANAGER, I OF OUR. SALES DEPARTMENT WELL ,WHAT MAKES YOU ThtlNK YOU CAN MAKE. A SUCCESS JN Th|J> ? MRTlCULAR LINE OF BUSINESS* f cause iVe failed in every other A LINE 60 THIS MUST BE The one 1 Insurance Agents , Give a Look!
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