LIVE STOCK FACTS HIGH-CLASS HORSES NEEDED ? . J. Weil-Bred Animals That Have Been - Properly Fed and Brftken Are Always in Demand. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The United States Department of Agriculture calls attention to the fact V that there is a market for high-class, well-bred horses and mules. The small unde^ sloped animal . of poor quality is always a O.rug on the mar ket, but the offspring of good brood mares bred to pure-bred sires of the right type, if prcperly developed and broken to harness, nearly always find a ready market. Figures based on the 1020 census show that about 200,000 fewer colts were produced in the United States in 1919 than were needed to supply re placements of horses and mules on farms alone. About 225, (KX) high-class animals are needed for annual replace ment in cities, making a shortage of more tluin -1(H), 000 horses and mules produced in the United States in 1919, below the number needed for replac ing losses.^ * ? The department recommends that ?farmers produce replacements enough, in connection with general farming, to be able to sell off the older work ani mals each year. The market de mands well-broken and trained horses that will last a long period of years. Therefore, if the colts are broken at about three years of age and used on farm a few years, these young Horses, together with the breeding stock, will furnish the power for the average farm and the young stock will be increasing in sale value. Horses ? 1 Good Horses and Mules Should In crease Income of General Farmer. 9 reach their maximum sale %value at about six years of age, and the sur plus animals should be sold at this time. Well-bred horses and mules that have been properly fed, and well broken are usually salable at a prolit able figure and should increase the income of the general farmer. MATERIALS FOR HOG} FLOORS | .1 Concrete Is Sanitary, but Often Cold and Damp ? Animals Require Clean, Warm Nest. The agricultural engineering division 1 at University farm has been receiving Inquiries concerning the construction j of hog houses, especially as to the j material to use for tloonj. "The hog house floor is very Impor- . tan: if the building is to be permanent aud satisfactory," says I'rof. H. 13. White of the division. "Hogs desire j a clean, warm dry and well-bedded nest, and this requires care in the j choice and placing of the materials for the floor. "Concrete makes a sanitary floor, but it is often cold and damp and not de sirable for small pigs. A removable fl&or of wood for the nest to be used at farrowing time is a great improve ment. Cork brick or creosoted blocks ar? also used for the floor of the nest. "Hollow building tile laid on well drained gravel covered with about on^ Inch of sand and with the joints be tween the tile filled with sand makes a dry, warm floor. In some cases an Inch of concrete over the tile Is pre ferred, as It makes a more easily cleaned surface, although not so dry." <c LIVE STOCK HINTS - ? A good grooming costs no money and Is equal to two quarts of oats. ? ? * Engineer s> say that a horse can do the work, of ten men. ? ? * The brood sow does not need an ex pensive atod elaborate hog house for shelter. ? ? * v Hogs, when fed a small grain ra tion, will make rapid and profitable growth on alfalfa. * * * During the months that the farm horses stand idle or have compara tively light work to do, a saving can be made til the feed costs by feeding a greater quantity of roughage than the horses get when at fceavy work. ? ? * While the ewes are lambing, the suc cessful shepherd watches the flock closely and is always at hand to give the ewe or lambs assistance when needed. ? ? ? No farmer need hesitate In starting with sheep because he has not suffi cient barn room for them. In fact, sheep do not do so well when housed In a close barn with other animals. -* - ? ? . A sow that has had proper rations up to the farrowing time will be quiet ^ at the time of giving birth te.ber litter. ? 1 By LAURA MONTGOMERY ((?). 1923, by McClifYe Newspaper Syndicate.) D ICK took out his letter arid re read it us tlie train ueared his station. "Doesn't it seem odd, Dick, to be engaged and yet to have been separ ated so long that we shall have to be come acquainted all over again? I am greatly changed. I sometimes won der if you will be terribly disappoint ed and wish you hud waited to ratify old old love affair. I'm coming down to meet you, and so as to be sure that you know me I'm going to wear a red carnation 011 my suit. Sounds silly, but I want you to take a good look at me and if ? oh, I can't bear to think of that contingency, but if you have any regrets, why don't speak to me." The man's eyes were a bit misty as lie read. "Ninu was always so sensi tive," lie rellected, "sensitive and high ly strung. She has brooded over her changed looks until she's lost her sense of values. Of course her recent illness would pull her down, but a few months will ? " Pressing about the great Iron gates were many people waiting to welcome friends, and Dick's dark eyes roved from woman to woman in search of the face he loved. Nina would, of . course, look much older, ? fourteen ! years makes a great difference. Dick paused as his gaze lell upon a mass of color, not one carnation but a ' great cluster of tliem/ He stood star ing, a growing dismay turning his eager anticipation into the gayness of certainty. .The girl's face was partly averted, biu the profile underneath the spotted veil was palpably made up. Layers of thick white powder struggled for place with a red so false that Dick was instantly remind ed of the grotesque adornments that the Africans used for certain cere monies. A full, fringed cape with crossed bands in front swung behind her, billowed by the breeze. A great black beaver hat, raklshly on one side, adorned the masses of frizzled bobbed hair. Nina Hart said that she had her hair cut, but she had not said that she had, also, touched it up, and this she must have done, for her hair had, formerly, been a smooth, soft brown, while this was reddish. Even her mouth was disfigured by lier passion f(*r red, and sticky traces of lipstick formed a cupid's bow that would have been bold behind the foot lights. "Well, cutie," came a masculine voice, "waiting to meet your sweetie?" The frizzled head nodded gayly: "He's coming home to marry me," she answered, and Dick grew sick at heart ; her voice, too, had coarsened and her speech was punctuated by pauses in which she chewed gum. "I'll be dashed if I do any such thing," decided Dick as he saw the loudly dressed stranger lean down and take a carnation from the clus ter, and he tinned on his heel alertly as lie saw the girl turn in his direc-' tion. He hurried out Into the gray. fog of the autumn day and stood on the bridge moodily. Dazedly lie tried to co-ordinate Nina's letters that had been tilled with beautiful thoughts, sentences that showed clearly her high ideals, and the incredible crea ture who had smirked flirtatiously at the stranger in the checked suit. A small person with a pale, wistful face and blue eyes stopped and re garded him timidly: "It looks like him, allowing for the tan and ? " she thought and then flushed as his ab sorbed gaze fell unseeingly upon her ? "no, it cannot be." A fire engine clanged past, narrow ly missing a taxicab whch, swerving, nearly run down the girl. "Narrow escape," cried Dick excit edly, lifting her bodily and putting her safely beside the rail of the bridge. "Why, Dick, is it you," came a low, soft voice that took the man straight back to the past. And then he looked under the little velvet hat that so becomingly finished the smart blue suit with the snowy, frilled collar, and saw Nina, the old Nina of his dreams. "Why," he gasped, "you wrote that you would meet me wearing a red ? " She laughed a bit breathlessly and one tiny gloved hand Indicated a small red flow'er among the lace frills. "There was a blockade on the car track," she explained; "that's why I'm so late. I saw you right away, but you looked so queer and stern that I didn't dare ? that is ? '* Dick took her arm and signaled to a taxi. "I cannot bear to have you look at her, sweetheart," he interrupt ed ; "any one can buy a red carnation, but there is no one who can look like you ? " "Then you don't think I have changed so much 7" Mushed Nina as the cab whirled them away. He regarded adoringly the soft brown locks that lent her an oddly childish look. "I love it," he *ald simply; "Nina, you are prettier than you were when I left you. Some | times," he added cryptically, "mis takes make one appreciate what a | man possesses," and smiled at her I mystified expression. Always in Evidence. Baby was nodding. "The sandman's coming around," #oftly sang the young mother. . t . . - ?. 4 , Just at that point a vender in the alley yelled, "Fresh spinach I" ? Judf* [ hatching early pays best ? ? * ? I Pullets Should Be Mature by Novem ber 1 and Begin Laying ? Maturity ? May Be Hastened. While some puJ^ts may start laying early in the fail and molt during late fall or eariy winter, and not resume laying until spring, this will not be characteristic of the entire flock. With ? the general farming breeds, such as Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, Langshans and Orpingtons, little trouble will be had; with fall molting of pullets unless the birds are hatched extremely early. By what is termed early hatching is meant not later than May If). It takes about six months to mature a pullet of the above mentioned breeds. With special care and management and in some flocks where they have^been bred especially for egg production, this may be hastened to a little over five months, but on the average it will ran between six and seven months. .All pullets should be hatched so as to mature and ready to start laying by the first of November. With Leghorns and the smaller, quicker maturing varieties one does not need to hatch quite so early, as with these birds maturity can be obtained by the first of November with later hatching. After very careful observation of poul try conditions throughout the country, Hens Take Good Care of Chicks Even When Confined. t substantiated by experiments in the experiment station and others, it has been found that June and July hatch ing either from the standpoint of egg or meat production is not as profitable as t lie early hatching. In some in stances where t ht> season is backward and plenty of shade can be afforded, and vermin cnif be controlled by rigid i sanitation methods, June and July ! hatching can be made profitable. : INSURE FERTILITY OF EGGS j To Produce Hatchable Eggs, Breeding Stock Should Be Well Fed ? Ex ercise Is Essential. Early hatches are desirable when ! one has facilities for caring for the * ; little ones, and when proper fertility can be secured in the early eggs. Nat i urally, eggs will hatch better in the middle or late spring, but with proper care the fertility can be insured earlier. Breeding stock that is kept in the oj>en air will produce hatchable eggs earlier than those that are tightly housed. In fact, such results can be obtained from stock housed in open front or scratching shed houses. To produce hatchable eggs, breeding stock should be fed liberally but forced to exercise freely. Some meat and bone are necessary in addition to grain feeds scattered in the litter. It Is be lieved by some that mash fed hens do not produce good hatching eggs, but there seems to be no foundation for this opinion, as experiments have prov en that there is no difference between such eggs and those produced by hens fed entirely on Whole grain and meat POULTRY NOTES I , * 0A hen will not lay eggs, no matter how' well she is fed, unless she has the egg-making material. ? * ? Light in the poultry house ,1s one factor which cannot be overempha sized. ? * ? Set only uniform eggs of average size. Small, misshapen eggs and ex traordinarily large eggs do not hatch as well as the aggs of average size and texture. ? ? ? Dampness Is fatal to success with fowls, but clear dry quarters do not have to be warm. Sudden changes of temperature are to be avoided and the flock should be kept from chilly winds or storms. ? ? * Geese can be fattened by forced feeding with noodles and this la often done for the highest class markets. ? ? ? ' Oyster shell and grit must be be fore the flock at all times. The oyster shell furnishes the lime for the egg shell, while the grit takes the place of the hens' teeth. ? ? ? The last Important thing to remem ber If good results are expected, is to keep the poultry house clean. This Includes the dropping boards, nests and, most of all, the floor. ' ? ? ?? ?? ' . ? ? :\< : .., . The Winter s Harvest fieel "tube's Seem A <KW BUMPED OFF OKI QMEEM ST. AM' the BOSS Set "wuatLE OVER AM' 00 am Aft-oe^e PER. *tH' PAPER., QUIClCy V. The Cop's Little Joke UO0OJM AVW)W0> WIUlS HOUSE. SOM .J -=* What CAN It Be? FANNvf YeUS THE LAMJVER WHERE HE CAN LOCATE US ? ? The LAWVEP GiVES PANN^f $500. FOR "TELL IN* ? NOW I WONDER WHAT IN f "TPUNDER HE WANTS T<x SEE ME FOR. f I HAVEN'T XorJb ANYTHING To hVWE ALAm?& ChASIN' ME ? 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