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PUBLIC LEDGER OCT. 25TH 1913. Farmers9 Educational and Co-Operative Union of America Matters Especial Moment to the Progressive Agriculturist PALLIATION OF THE HEAVES Clothes were not invented at this season of the year. . No bee ever stuns a man where he wanted it to sting him. Common s.ense among the common people is essential to progress. The harder the work a fellow does the less fault he finds with the cook. He who accepts too much advice is worse off than he who accepts none at all. In running away from temptaion it Is well to consider the direction you take. No matter what kind of winter we have it doesn't seem to affect the fly crop. We have found that the one, who is mindful of details, succeeds best with poultry. The wind never blows the dust off of anything upon which you do not want dust Think a little on your own account. No one has as yet established a monopoly on ideas. Let every farmer boy have a pet of some kind. It will make him better and teach him kindness . The oo-operative landclearing asso ciation could buy dynamite at rock bottom prices. Can the individual You ought not to subscribe for a farm paper to help the editor; you ought to subscribe to help yourself. We have always admired the way a bull-head goes about his business, even if it does land him on the bank. If the sight of af city spoils a far mer's boy he is not made of as stern 6tuff as a farmer ought to be made of. A great many men are so consti tuted that the most of their advan tages have to be forced upon them over their objections. Disease Is Incurable, but May Be Miti gated by Feeding Easily Digested Nutritive Food. (By DR. J. H. STANDISH, Nova Sco Department of Agriculture.) Repeated gorging of the stomach with food or water, and often both, is the cause of heaves. The symp toms are deep breathing, evidenced by the expanding nostrils and double lifting of the flanks, both of which are increased if the animal is forced up a grade at a fast trot or gallop when the stomach is distended with food or water; generally, also, a hack ing cough, mostly in the morning. The disease is incurable, but may be palliated by feeding easily digest ed nutritive food in small quantities. Give such food as early cut, well cured, clean timothy hay, preferably dampened with weak lime water, oats, wheat bran, flaxseed ground, and in winter roots, carrots, turnips, mangels or 'sugar beets; the oats to be boiled twice a week. Give four drams of ginger and two drams of baking soda in the food at night, or oil of tar in dessert spoon ful doses. In some cases better re sults are secured by alternating these daily or weekly, and in some case3 are benefited by four to ten grain doses of white arsenic once a day But care in feeding and watering is necessary in any treatment. Oat straw, if early cut and well cured, is often preferable to hay. In either case, shake the hay or straw to re move all dust. . KEEP THE GOOD BROOD SOWS MANY LOSSES IN MARKETING Should Not Be Put Into Fattening Pen and Sent to Market and Re placed With Untried Gilt. At Present There Is. Too Much Waste Between Producer and Consumer of All Farm Products. CBy A. P. WOODS. Department of Agri culture. University Farm, St. Paul. Minn.) In many cases great saving is ac complished by co-operative marketing for particular districts, and associa tions for this purpose are springing up rapidly in all parts of the country. The product of many small growers is brought together, graded and put on the market in better condition in car load lots, thus saving greatly in freight rates and in loss by handling. Although there has been great im provement in transportation methods and reduction in rates in the last forty years, as well as a decrease in the cost of marketing generally, there is, at present, too much waste between pro ducer and consumer, in the case of certain special products, like fruits, vegetables and flowers. By the time transportation charges, commission charges, wholesale profit and retail profit with all the costs of handling, are paid, the consumer often pays twice as .much as the producer re ceives. Every possible saving must be ac complished in the cost of production and marketing. Consequently the farm ers are organizing their own cooper ative warehouses, elevator systems, and trading facilities and demanding legislation to control railroad rates. grading, weighing, etc. Every farmer and consumer should take an active interest in these mat ters that so greatly affect the profits of labor and the cost of living. The average farmer does not pay enough attention to market demands and re quirements. If he does not produce the right varieties of fruits -and vege tables and send them to market prop erly and honestly packed he cannol expect the best prices. A girlin looking for a new suit at one of our store said : 'I have to have a scanter skirt That's slashed far ud th warn: I cannot wear the old stvles And keep my self-esteem." There may be larger things in life, And higher joys than in my flight; But, oh, amid this sordid strife, A child's dear face is all my light. Your opinion is all right in the estimation of others if vou haD- pen to think as they do, and if you do not they will knife you in the back. In sleep man dreams of marble halls, But wakes within his humble cot; 'Tis then the. voice of duty call, And yet the dreamer does it not. One of the things not to worry about is whether Senator Overman may have one or more opponents for the oenatorship, as he 11 get there all right. If a young man marries a slender girl and she develops into a heavy weight in after years he. can see where he got more than he bar gained for. I SSTCf ODD SAW Hog (o)m)(g(ol I Don't put your Savings in the top bureau drawer nor in a hole in the mattress or an old sock. Such places are not safe; they offer no protection from either fire or thieves. But put your hard earned money in this strong Savings Bank, where it will be safe and ready for your use when needed We keep your savings safe and pay TIHIIE UNION BANK J. S. BRADSHER, Cashier. Main Street. -:- Oxford. N. C YOU CAN GET GOODS AT A GREAT SACRIFICE By Attending Tlhiiis Qiresiit Osile rn WW MAIN STREET Paris Old Stand OXFORD, N. C. ,c3 Fine Tobacco Farm For Sale in Orange Co. 312 acres near Carr, 100 acres in cultivation, 90 acres in pasture; well watered; good dwelling; tobacco barns, pack house and feed barn; some oak timber and enough wood to take care of the place indefinitely. This is one of best tobacco farms offered for sale in Orange county. For Full Particulars Address, J. F. Stevens, Hillsboro N. C. TO IMPROVE RURAL - CREDIT Agitation for Better Marketing and Co operation Assuming Proportions of Political Campaign. It Is strange that the farmer will keep the good brood mare from year to year and at the same time put his good brood sow into the fattening pen and send her off to -market as soon as she is fat enough to go. Thus the good brood sow is often sacrificed while the gilt, untried as a brood eow, takes her place. This is a mis take. When a sow proves a good suckler and careful mother she should be retained, especially if she Is prolific. With such a sow the farmer is rea sonably, assured of a strong, healthy litter of pigs that will grow into profitable hogs. The gilt may prove a poor suckler, overlay her brood, while four or five is often the number of her brood. So with the young gilt for brood sow the pig proposition on the farm is a very uncertain one. If a sow proves to be a good breed er from the start, she should be re tained, for it is reasonable to expect that she will get better each year. And it is a fact that older sows bring healthier, stronger pigs, and a greater number of them with less danger of trouble of any kind at farrowing time w mm MAKES SLOPPING HOGS EASY Section of Fence Swings Over Trough While It Is Being Cleaned or Feed Is Being Renewed. Here is my style of a hog trough, and it is too good to keep from those who may not have it. A section of the fence, the length- of the pen, swings over the trough from side to side, making it possible to shut the hogs away from the trough while .To Wm One of Them. 3D HBftflJ TfOIJffiKg Givemi Away for Benefit of IF A R M-E M- Throughout the entire country there Is going on a campaign for improved marketing, rural credit and co-opera tion. This campaign Is assuming the proportions of a political campaign and even the changes in the tariff are being pushed into second place. Sav ing the nation is by no means a lost art, and the orator advocating reforms Is getting in his work. All this agita tion, however, is constructive and it will result in the probable discovery of what the trouble is. There is as yet no very definite information as to whether the trouble should be laid at the door of the trusts, the middle mer or our antiquated laws, says the Denver Weekly Post. Let us hope that the agitation, coupled with the work of the new bureau of rural or ganziation, will bring results. Handy Hog Trough. cleaning it and putting in feed, writes J. A. Crandall of Norwich, Kan., in the Farmers Mail and Breeze. A shows the bolt at one side on which the gate swings. B is a bumper, and C is a latch to hold the section back Weight of Cloverseed. Sweet cloverseed weighs the same as red clover or alfalfa, when it is free from hulls, that is, sixty pounds per bushel. It is a hard matter to take the hulls all off in a common threshing machine, and many sow hulls and all. as it grows just as well that way. When seedsmen han dle it 1h have to be taken off. Place for Hogs. The hog should find a place in the economical management of every farm. He will turn to good account many things that would otherwise be lost either on a grain or grazing farm On the former there are plenty of grazing spots ' and many other herb growths that will equalize the ration of auite a number of hogs and, send to market or to the farmer's table hpalthv and palatable meat. On the crazine farm a little grain will fill out the high album enoid ration and make fat animals. Exercise for Pigs. Little pigs should be made to take vprr.lse and the sow ought not to De fed on too rich slop for a time. Lack of exercise and the mother sow eating too rich slot) is a great combination for the development of thumps. Fashions in Breeding. There are sometimes fashions in breeding which it will pay to follow. For instance, the present fashion is against big hogs, and in favor of me dium weights. That way profit lies Votes Allowed On Subscription. Voting Power and Subscrip tion Price. Votes will.be given on old and new sub scriptions to the Pub lic Ledger - Oxford Banner, according to the following sched ule: One year New subscription $1 Votes..... .. ... 500 One Two Morse Wagon and (Harness For the Farmer securing the largest number of Votes in any single Township in the County, Dron Age Cultivator For the farmer securing the second larg est number of Votes in any single Township in the County. Subscribe to the Public Ledtfer. help your friend Subscribe to the twic-a-week Public Ledger now fianfifi for Ynii -Irl V X vauww " ". 1 ; Tries-a-ra! 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