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If you want to reach the people of the Piedmont sec tion put your ads in THE GRIT. ISAAC S. LONDON, Proprietor . A FAMILY NEWSAPER FOB THE UPLIFT OF CHATHAM COUNTY . $1.00 A YEAR. VOL. VII. SILER CITY, N. C., NOVEMBER 3, 1915. . NO. 25. i ' H1A WILLKEEP UP ACTIVE FIGHT IF NECESSARY HE'dAYS HE WILL FIGHT THE UNITED STATES ARMY. TO CAPTURE AGNA PRIETA This is His Frt Step; Meanwhile He It Plumb; Through With Ameri cans of All Kinds. Douglas. Ariz. Villa troops invad ing Sonera arrived within striking distance of Agud" Prleta, opposite here and the expected attack against the Oarranza garrison apparently is a mat ter of hours. Advance cavalry of the invaders hatted three and a naif miles easf of -Rgua Prleta. Gen. Francisco Villa, who arriTed at the, international border several n Kile a further 3ast a few hours earlier, talked witih Americans across the boundary and announced that he In tended to attack the Mexican town, regardless of any action United States troops might take. "If necessary I will fight the United States Army assembled along the bor der," he said. General Villa learned for the first time that permission had been given by the United States government for Oarranza to move troops through American territory to reinforce the Agua Prleta garrison. Four Carranza troops trains Jour- neying through United States territory arrived bringing the fighting strength of the Carranza garrison to 6,000 men. Villa, according to reliable advices, has 10,000 soldiers. Villa himself was with his cavalry, which passed along the border to take position just out of range of the gar rison. It was during this march that he learned that Carranza reinforce ments had been transported over Am erican territory. "Agua Prleta will be mine," he as serted, "Americans or no Americans, We may have to fight the whole American army if necessary, but no matter, it will 'be ours." 'When?" he was asked. "I know," was the reply. Suddenly Villa asked again if It was true that the United States gov ernnient had permitted General Car ranza to transport reinforcements over American territory. He then said : "This is the way the United States repays me for protection I have give foreigners ia Meiloo. Hereafter don't give what 'happens to foreigners In Mexico or in my territory. "I am through, with the United States. I can fight my battles. Let them fight theirs. "I can wihip Carranza and his en tire army, but it Is asking & great deal to whip the United Statei also; but I suppose I can do that, too:? Villa declined to pose for a ;jhoto graph. "No more of my pictures for the United States," he exclaimed. BULGARIANS CAPTURE PIEROT. Important Fortress Is Described as Key to Nish. London. The Serbian fortress of Pierot, described as the key to Nish, is in the 'lands of the -Bulgarians,, while the Austro-Gennans, advancing from the north, arg endeavoring to form a ring around Krauguyevatz, the Serbian arsenal. Thus, besides en dangering both the Serbian War capi tal and the town where the Serbian munitions are manufactured, the- Cen tral Powers with Bulgaria are' narrow ing the gap through which the Serr bian arny must escape. Simultaneously the Austrian are attacking Montenegro, to remove if possible tiie danger of bavins an enemy army on their flank. Little has been said about the fighting be tween the Austrians and Monteneg rins along f-.e Drina river, but appa rently it is of a most sanguinary char acter, as it took the Austrians with far superior equipment more than a week to force acrossing of the river at one point alone, that soutn of Vishegrad. Were Not After 8laton. Atlanta, Ga. Fulton county police after an Investigation of the source of shots heard near the country home of former Governor John M. Slaton, said there was no reason to believe the disturbance had any connection with alleged threats against Slaton shortly ifter he commuted the sentence of f'vo M. Frank. The shots were fired, r'ie police believe, by a boisterous au tomobile party, or 'possum hunters Former Governor Slaton returned to Atlanta three weeks ago following an absence of several months. Carranza Wants to Deal Direct. vVashington. General Carranza has made it clear through the Foreign Office of his government that he does not desire to deal with European gov ernments through the United Statei and state deaprtment officials are in accord with his course. European powers which have not yet recognized the de facto government have been transmitting representations through American officials In Mexico. General Carranza now desires that foreign gov ernments deal directly with him in the future. McAdoo Will Try to Collect wan lngron. ieany 1,500 names appear on a list Issued by the treas ury department of persons who have failed to repay money advanced them uy Tine uniteo. states government when they were stranded in Europe at the outbreak of the war. The amounts due aggregate several hundred thou 6and dollars, the sums advanced rang ing rrom $1 to $1,370. In many cases the government has been unable to locate the Individuals at the addresses given. Congress appropriated $2,760, uiH) for the relief. THE FRENCH GABIHET NSHE5 DUTIES NEW COALITION CABINET, ALL PARTY GROUPS BEING REPRESENTED FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY New Cabinet is Remarkable For Its Personnel and For Ability of Its Members. Paris. A new French Cabinet, beaded by AiriMide Briand as Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs has taken up iita work This is the first time In the history of the French Republic that there is a coalition ministry of all the oppos ing parties and fa6tooa It follows closely on Che reoenjt innovation of forming a British coalition cabinet of Conservatives and Liberals. The action in forming the cabinet was the culmination of a deep popular sentiment that at the supreme crisis of the war party jdi vision should give way to united action by ail parties. Because ibe cabinet of Rene Vlviani was representative of only a few political groups, the ministers pre sented their collective resignations and President Podncare immediately charged Aristide Briand with the for mation of a new organization com bining all elements. The composition of the Cabinet follows: Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aristide Briand. Minister of State and Vice Presi dent of Cabinet, oharles de Frey-C-net. Minister of War. General J. . S. Gallieni. Minister of Justice, Rene Vlviani. Minister of the Interior, Louis J. Malvy. ' Minister of Marine, Rear Admiral Lacazee. Minister of Finance, Alexandre Ribot. General Secretary of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jules CamJbon. Minister of Public Instruction and Inventions concerning National De fense, Prof. Paul Painleve. Minister of Public Works, Marcel Zembat. Minister of Commerce, Btleime elemental. Minister of Colonies, Gaston Dou- mergue. Minister of Agriculture, Jules Me- line. Minister of Labor, Albert 91 tin. Ministers without portfolio, Bmil Com ben, Leon Bourgeois, Denys Co chin and Jules Guesde. Under Secretary of State, War, Mund blocs, Albert Thomas. Under Secretary of State for Sub sistence, Joseph Thierry. Under Secretary of State for San- Mary Service, Justin Godart. Under Secretary of State for Avia tion, Rene Besnard. Under Seccretary of State for Ma rine. Louis Nail. Under Secretary for Fine Arts, Al bert Dalimier. , The Under Secretaries of the. Min istries of the Interior and Foremen Affairs were not made public. J. P. MORGAN UNDER KNIFE. Opreated on for Appendicitis Attack Mild Condition Good. New York. J. P. Morgan, who had been at his desk a little over two months since recovering from bullet wounds inflicted by Erich Meunter, the mad professor of languages, who ait, tempted to kill the financier 'last July is . again confined to his bed, this time from an attack of appendicitis. Mr. Morgan went through an oper ation which three attendant special ists afterward described as successful in every way. The append! was re moved at noon by Drs. Maxkoe, Lyle and Smith; and the official bulletin Is sued shortly thereafter, said Mr. Mor gan was resting comfortably. Con tinued progress was reported unoffi cially during the artefnoon. The attack of appendicitis was mild In character, it was said, and the patient's condition was very good. Carranza Asked for Orders. Washlngton.--Repre8entations have been made to General Oarranza by the United States asking for positive or ders to military authorities In the vi cinity of Matamoros to pursue and ar rest Mexcans raiding into American territory. It is understood that such orders already have been issued. The state department received the protest of acting Gocernor Randall of the Villa government in Sonora against the transportation of Carranza troops through American territory en route to Agua Prieta. Garrison Encounters Opposition. Washington. Secretary Garrison encountered some opposition to the proposal for a continental army as a part of the administration national de fense plans from members of the ex ecutive committee of the National Guard Association and of the official militia board, an advisory body com posed of militia officers. After a con ference called by Secretary Garrison aad which lasted several hours It was indicated that no agreement htd been reached. Underwood on Defense. Washington. Oscar W. Underwood, senator-elect from Alabama, said in discussing the question of national de fense that he would wait until the army and navy experts themselves had reached their conclusions and present ed them to congress before expressing his views on the subject. The new senator declared that he favored a reasonable National defense although he was not prepared now to say what he meant by the term reas onable national defense. SILEE EFFICIENT AMERICAN 1 I? n,i LI ffcS fltfWFF I II g& mm -- mm J ' This is the crew of the United States submarine K-8 which won the efficiency pennant In the recent maneuvers off the Pacific coast. NOTE TO GREAT BRITAIN LONG EXPECTED NOTE HAS AT LAST BEEN SENT BY SPE CIAL MESSENGER. Protest Against Order-ln-Council or So-Called Blockade, No Terms Given Out. Washington. America's long-con sidered protest against British inter ference with commerce between the j United States and Europe has been dispatched to London by special mes senger and will be presented by Am bassador Page at the British Foreign Office next week. It became known that the note, which is about 10,000 words long and covers exhaustive the argument of the American government on all phases of interference with neutral trade was approved by the President and started on its way to London. Alxeander W. Kirk, third secretary of the American Embassy at Berlin, who had returned to Washington, carrying documents from Ambassador Gerard was entrusted with the mis sion on his return Journey to Berlin. Until now the fact that the com munication had been sent was kept secret, instructions having been given to officials that no announcement of any kind was to be made about it. That it contains a repetition of argu ments made in the note of March 30, i which recorded the Washington gov ernment's first protest against the or-der-inrcouncil or so-called blockade. Is admitted but no intimation was given by officials as to what measures are proposed In the event that there is no modification of British practices. Not only does the latest communica tion acknowledge the various notes and memoranda sent by the British government since March 30, but it also acknowledged and discussed the lengthy note that came from Great Britain in January In response to the first protects by the United States against interference with neutral trade. It was the note now on its way which former Secretary Bryan advo cated sending at the same time that the second Lusitania note was dis patched to Berlin last June, Presi dent Wilson declined to send It at that time because of the fear that the United States might be placed In the position of bargaining for its rights with Germany on the basis of its attitude toward Great Britain. With the clearing up of the submarine controversy through the satisfactory settlement of the Arabic case, it was announced at the state department that the note to Great Britain would go forward. After three weeks of consideration at the White House it finally was dispatched. BANDITS MAKE RICH HAUL. Rob Train in Oklahoma of Possibly $60,000. Musokgee, Okla. The uninhabited fastnesses of the Kiamichl hills in the far southeastern corner of Oklahoma, rendezvous of bandit gangs since frontier days are believed to be hold ing five of the eight men who held up and robbed a southbound limited train of the Missouri, Kansas & Tex as Railroad at Onapa, 27 miles south of Muskogee. Germans Have Road to Turkey. London. The German Army which crossed the Danube at Orzova has Joined the Bulgarians, who invaded Strbia neat Prahovo, and the Central Powers now have an open road through northeastern Serbia and Bul garia to the Aegean Sea and Constan tinople. They are thus in a position to send guns and munitions toy river and railway to their Bulgarian and Turkish allies. Who will be greatly strengthened thereby. The invasion of nonthern Serbia by the Ausitro-Grer-t-ans continues apace. Shells Explode Near King George. Paris. Four shells exploded only 200 yards from King George of Eng land, and President Poincare. of France, during their visit to the front according to a Temps correspondent back of &e firing line. The King and the President with the Prince of Wales and General Jof fre, says the dispatch, had taken a point of observation when a German battery fired two heavy salvos result ing in the explosion of shells near the official party. SUBMARINE CREW THIRTEEN DIE IN BIG FIRE TWELVE ARE YOUNG. WOMEN EMPLOYEES OF UNION PAPER BOX COMPANY. Held Pending Investigation Into Loss of Lives Many Daring Rescues Are Made. Pittsburg. Thirteen persons were killed and eight injured by a fire in a four-story building, the two upper floors of which were occupied by the Union Paper Box Company, here. Of the dead all were young women em ployed by the company except one. Many of the bodies were so badly burned as to make identificaton dif ficult. Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong at once ordered that the police city coun cil and the coroner make a thorough investigation of the fire. The flames started In a pile of straw In the rear of the first floor of the building. William C. Kimbel general manager of the box factory at once warned the girls employed on the third and fourth floors to leave. The flames gained headway so rapidly however that escape by stairways and fire-escapes was soon cut off. Some of the girls attempted to go to the dressing room for their hats and there firemen found a majority of the bodies. C. R. Carlisle, driver of a transfer wagon, drove his wagon into an alley in the rear of the building and threw up a rope to girls In a window above. After making one end fast, they slid down the rope to safety. Margaret Steigerwald, aged 17, who was injured by jumping from a third floor window, said she and five other girls were trapped in the building when someboly closed a door at the head of the stairway. Three officials of the Union Paper Box Company and the executor of the Jarhes Brown estate, owner of the building In which the company's fac tory was located were arrested H. H. Woods, executor of the Brown estate, was released on $10, 000 bail and Henry E. Weiskopf, pres ident, William C. Kimbel, secretary and treasurer and Henry C. Shaefer, foreman of the factory of the box com pany, were released on $5,000 bail to appear at the coroner's inquest. SUSPEND SEAMAN'S ACT. Foreign Trade Council Asks Wilson to Suspend Act. New York. Suspension by Presi dent Wilson, under authority to be granted by Congress, of the seamen's act, in whole or part, until a proposed government shipping board of five members can recommend measures necessary to maintain American ship ping on a competitive basis with other nations, is advocated by the iauonai foreign trace uouncu in a committee report adopted recently. Problems relating to American shipping under the seamen's act were given long study on behalf of the council, which represents mammotn American Interests identified with al most every phase of foreign trade, by a committee composed of James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel Corporation; P. A. R. Franklin, vice president of the Inter national Mercantile Marine Com pany, and Capt. Robert Dollar of San Francisco. Gompers Sees President Wilson. Washington Samuel Gompers, pres Ident of the American Federation of Labor, talked with President Wilson in advocacy of legislation to be pro posed in Congress next winter. Mr. Gompers urged the importance of in dustrial education, vocational train ing and general legislation for conser vation of human energy and life. A report was widely circulated in offi cial circles that Mr. Gompers gave the president information of plans of German agents to tie up munitions shipments to the Allies. Four Gernfans Locked Up. New York. Four of the five men charged with conspiracy to delay or prevent the sailing of war munitions ships from the United States to Al lied countries were locked up under Federal custody. Robert Fay, said to be a former lieutenant in the German army, Walter L. Scholtz, his brother-in-law, and Dr. Herbert Kenzle, were held in New York, while Paul Daesch was in prison in New Jersey. Max Breitung, the fifth man charged with complicity in the conspiracy, has not been apprehended. CITY HE BOOK ISSUED BY UNITED STATES SECOND INSTALLMENT OF PUB LIC RECORD ON WAR QUES TIONS I8SUED. NEUTRALITY IS MAIN' TOPIC Both British and German Authorities Complain. Lansing Always Had Unanswerable Reply. Washington. A second installment of the United States Government's "WUte Book has been issued by the State department. It contains Im portant diplomatic correspondence with the belligerent governments of Europe since the publication of the first Installment last May. Besides constituting a public record of the position of the United States as precedent for the future,, the vol ume reveals a series of charges and counter-charges by the : belligerents that reflect the difficulties constantly encountered in observing neutrality. One of the most interesting features is the publication for the first time of a memorandum of the German For eign office referred to in. a colloquy between Chairman Flood of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and "Rep resentative Bartholdt of Missouri, at the hearing on the bills proposing an embargo on arms. Mr. Flood quoted the memorandum to sustain bis argu ment that Germany did not hold ship ments of munitions to the Allies as' illegal. The correspondence with the German Government developed as a consequence of a ruling by the United States that it was a vloiatkra of neu trality for merchant ships to leave American ports for the express pur pose of supplying belligerent warships at sea. TWENTY CHILDREN BURNED. School Building at Beabody, Mass., Burns. Many Are Injured. Beabody, Mass. Twenty children, most of them girls ranging in age from 7 to 17 years, lost their lives In a fire which destroyed St. John's Parochial School. Another girl has injuries regarded as probably fatal, while others were less severely hurt. The 600 children had just entered tiL.elr classrooms when the fire was discovered, and although a majority were guided to safety by Sisters of the Order of Notre Dame, who were their teachers, panic seized a large number as they neared the front door and in their rush to escape they lost their footing nad their bodies block ed the exit. M of the sisters escaped, but Moth er Superior Marie Carmelita was ser iously burned. At the convent house it was said that her injuries probably were not fatal, although she ts pros trated by the disaster and the suffer ing of her charges. How the fire started may never be known. An early theory that a boiler explosion caused it having been dis- mlsed. state police officials were of the opinion that a store room in the basement, where a gas meter was lo cated, was its source. Austro German Forces Advance. London. The German official state ment records the advance of the A us tro-German forces and the capture by the Bulgarians of Zajecar and Knla jevats, both on the Timok River northeast of Nish and the heights of Pirol, almost directly east of Nish, but beyond this there is little or no auth entic news of the invasion of Serbia, King Peter May Go to Italy. Amsterdam, via London. A tele gram from Budapest to The Oologne Volks Zeltumg says that King Peter of Serbia probably will leave that country and go to Italy. Four German Steamers 8unk. Petrograd, via London. British submarines have sunk four more Ger man steamers in the Baltic. This an nouncement is made in the Russian official statement. Favor National Prohibition. Baltimore. Unanimous authoriza tion of a petition to Congress to sub mit to the states a national prohibi tion amendment was voted by the Presbyterian Synod of Baltimore in annual session here. Petitions also were approved asking for a federal censorship of moving picture films and a prohibition against the export ation from the United States of in toxicating liquors to Africa. Each of the petitions it was said, would be supported by a national movement of churches to be initiated by the Synod. Big Warehouse Burns. Baltimore. The United States bond ed warehouse on two piers of the Bal timore & Ohio Railroad at Locust Point, was destroyed toy fire. Records were destroyed and estimates of the value of the contents of the ware house varied between r$300,000 and $400,000. The building and piers were valued at $150,000. Firemen kept the flames from two grain elevators, 200 feet away, which contained 2,000,000 bushels of grain. Most of the ware house contents had come recently from London and Liverpool. Has Plenty of Troops. Washington. Major General Fun ston reported to the war department that with the arrival at Douglas, Ariz., of additional troops now en route he would be prepared to guard American territory against violation In the impending attack by Villa forces upon Agua Prleta, the Mexican town across the border. Two bat teries of field guns, two regiments of infantry and a troop of cavalry make up the reinforcements for the border patrol. Artillery will be used if ne cessary, General Funston said. GMT BEST ARRANGEMENT k Open-Front Roosting House Usually Very Comfortable During Hot Weath er, the. Front Being Arranged In Such Manner as to Keep Out the Wet. Sunshine is absolutely necessary for the health and vigor of the laying hen. Low windows should be set so that the sun will shine into every part of the house during some part of the day. Roosts should be placed on a level and not too high, as the hens are apt to injure themselves either by crowding, falling or flying against projection about the house. Keep the windows in the poultry house clean. Rub them repeatedly with old newspapers. Sunshine is the greatest of tonics. Poultry keepers may easily reduce the percentage of dirty or soiled eggs and losses entailed to insignificant fig ures. First, an ample number of nests is. of course, necessary, but an ample number means no more than, and prob ably not as many, as are usually di rected by poultry writers. Laying houses are, as a rule, provided with a sufficient number, but where the keeper falls down is in failing to sup ply enough nesting material and floor litter. POULTRY CARE DURING FALL Much of Success in Winter Depends on Attention Given to the Fowls In Autumn Season. The success of poultry during the winter depends largely on the care they receive during the autumn. If your hens do not molt early they will not be profitable winter layers, writes Mrs. W. M. Jeans of High Hill, Mo., in Farm Progress. I find it profit able to feed three tablespoonfuls of sulphur in one gallon of soaked corn; this is enough for about thirty hens. I feed this twice dally for two days. This has to be fed at a dry time, or keep the hens confined in a dry house for three or four days and feed the first two days. About thirty days after I use this feed I cull out all my hens that have not molted and market and keep only my best hens and early-hatched pul lets. The henhouse should be thor oughly cleaned and painted or sprayed with some good disinfectant. The chickens should be either well sprayed or dipped. I use a good stock dip. find this keeps off disease and mites. Hens should be fed a well-balanced ration at this season and always keep before them a dust-box filled with ashes, in which sprinkle some lime. grit of some kind and plenty of fresh water, and there is no reason why your poultry will not return a good profit. BEST PRODUCER MOLTS LATE Hens Laying Most Eggs Gets Rid of Feathers Late in Season Brings Up the Yearly Output. Cornell experiment station says: "The hen that molts late is the hen that will lay the most eggs for you during the year, despite the belief that the early molter is the great egg producer. It Is true, she may lay a few more winter eggs for you, but she is quite likely to shut off laying in the late spring and the summer time. Just when the late molter ts producing an! egg every day and bringing up the yearly output to hih Igures." Avoid Roupy Fowls. It is not advisable to breed from a bird which has a severe attack of roup. Hens aneciea wiib caruuic ruuy may lay, but the chicks hatched from such eggs are usually unhealthy These chicks may appear all right for a time, or until they grow up, when in most cases the disease will attack them. Hauling Eggs to Market. If vou haul eegs to town in the wagon, put a good bunch of straw un der your case of eggs. You are sure to get broken eggs if you try to haul them set in the bottom of wagon with out putting in hay or straw to take off part of the jar. Would Cull More Closely. Were the general farmer obliged to purchase in the market for one year the grain fed to his poultry, it is safe to estimate that the flock he winters thereafter would be about one-half the Bize it formerly was. Geese Are Pugnacious. Most geese are of a pugnacious na ture and cannot be kept with other poultry. Two Poultry Essentials. Provide plenty of clean drinking wa ter and keep charcoal and grit always at hand. Dual Purpose Geese. Toulouse geese are profitable for either nprket or breeding, purposes. OF POULTRY HOUSES Obviously the nesting material must be clean, or the eggs become soiled by contact, and it must be sufficient in quantity, or the eggs are often broken by dropping upon the hard floor of the nest. In bouses where the dropping boards are above the nests, and the custom is to sand the boards. small stones often drop into the nest and breakage results when newly laid eggs fall upon them. The condition of nests should be noticed daily, and the nesting material replenished when necessary. Plenty of nesting mate rials prevents breakage and insures clean eggs. An ample and clean litter on the floor is also very essential when an A-l clean product is sought Particu larly is this true when the hens are allowed outdoors during hot weather. The litter acts as a foot mat for the hens on their way to the nests. Clean eggs bring better prices than dirty ones. If your hens do not produce eggs make up your mind that the manage ment is at fault. UTILITY VALUE OF POULTRY Farmer Should Aim to Select Fowls for Production of Eggs and Meat Scrubs Are Unprofitable. In poultry, as with other live stock, the farmer should be much more con cerned In their practical utility value than in their ability to win prizes at the shows. Prize-winning hens are judged for their beauty of form and plumage. not for their ability to produce eggs or meat abundantly and profitably. This does not infer that the farmer should breed scrub poultry by any means. He can no more afford to harbor scrub hens than scrub cattle or hogs, but his aim should be to pro cure purebred fowls that have been bred along utility lines rather than for show purposes only. There are such strains In all the practical breeds and these are the strains that the farmer should procure for his breed ing flocks. The fact that fowls have been bred along practical lines does not indi cate that they have lost beauty or breed type, but rather that greater attention has been given to egg pro- auction than to the fancy points of the show room, which would be lost to the average poultryman anyway. It is gratifying to note that the ten dency of the times is toward greater utility value in all of the popular breeds. The egg-laying contests have undoubtedly exerted much influence in this direction. DIET FOR GROWING CHICKENS Supply a Variety of Corn, Oats, Wheat, Bran and Alfalfa Meal Bone Meal Strengthens. Growing chickens should not be fed a diet of just one kind of food, say corn, oats or wheat. Mix all three, or either wheat or oats, with the corn, or corn and dry bran, or corn, wheat and alfalfa meal. Al ways keep plenty of charcoal for the growing chicks to pick at; you can burn and pound up wood for this. If you will provide bone meal for the coming-on flocks you will find that It . strengthens the bones. Stout leg bones are signs of healthy, young fowls. Unprofitable Management. The' "root-hog-or-die" plan of man aging the poultry on the farm never will make many dollars for the owner. Unfit for Breeders. All birds are not fit for breeders even if they are purebred. Many make the mistake in thinking so. Early Fall Feeding. Now that bugs and grasshoppers are getting scarce, since the weather has turned cooler, the range ration must be supplemented by grain. ' Care must be aken not to feed too heavily on the start or we may have some sick birds on our hands. Light feeding at the beginning, gradually increasing the amount as. marketing time draws nigh, should be the rule. What to Feed. Corn and wheat make the ideal ra tion old corn being much better for the purpose than new. The latter is apt to cause looseness of the bowels. In the absence of corn, feterita, maize or lafir makes a good substitute. We have fed all with good results. Clean Out Feed Trough. The stiff old broom is an excel lent thing to v ean out the feed trough, and this should be done after every feeding. Simplify Brooding Proberr. The brooding problem is immensely simplified by a good, careful hen. Largest circulation of any paper in the county. Excel lent Advertising Medium. RIGHT RULES FOR DAIRYMEN Wisconsin Agricultural College Givet Out Some Good Advice That .Ev ery Farmer Should Follow. The dairy department of the Wis consin college of agriculture is urg ing that the following be pasted up in every dairy barn in the state: Practice the foUowIng advice and you will make more dollars in dairy ing. Others have done it. why cant your Use purebred dairy sires from cows having large and profitable produo tions of milk and butterfat Raise well the heifer calves from cows which for one or more genera- Purebred Holstein Calf. tions have made large and profitable productions of milk and butterfat. Breed heifers at the age of sixteen to twenty months. Feed heifers liberally and milk regu larly. Do not try to save feed by turning to pasture too early. Provide plenty of pure, fresh water, shade and protection against flies dur ing hot weather. Supplement poor pastures with corn silage or "green soiling crops like rye, peas, oats, green corn fodder, cabbage and other available feed. Feed cows daily one pound of grain In winter for every three pounds of milk produced, 25 to 40 pounds of corn silage, and what clover or alfalfa hay they will eat. Do not turn cows out to remain and suffer in cold, stormy weather. Allow them to have water which il not colder than that from a" deep well twice or three times daily. Brush cows daily if you can possibly find the time, for it pays better than does grooming of horses, which as rule is not neglected. Keep cows in clean, well-lighted. properly-ventilated stables. Treat cows gently and avoid excite ment. Weigh the milk of each cow at milk ing time. Get your neighbors- to share with you in owning a Babcock milk tester and test the milk of each cow. Discard the cow which has failed at the end of the year to pay market price for all the feed she has con sumed. BABCOCK TEST AND SCALES Instruments for Ascertaining Correct Value of Dairy Cow Outlay ts Not at All Large. The Babcock test and scales are in struments for ascertaining the correct value of the dairy cow with reference to her milk and butterfat production. The test is simple, accurate and easily mastered by anyone who will give the matter careim study ana attention, taking the necessary time for the work. Those who prefer not to de vote the time should Join a cow-test ing association, for it does not pay to keep unprofitable cows. A small four-bottle tester with glass ware and full directions can be se cured for about $5 of any creamery supply company. ESTABLISH THE MILK FLOW Best Time Is When Cow Is Fresh and Should Take From Three to Four Weeks Feed Liberally. The time to establish the milk flow of the cow is when she is fresh. It should take three to four weeks to bring her to a full flow of milk and to eating a full ration. There is no other time In the period of lactation when care and judicious feeding have a more important bearing upon her year's rec ord. The dairy cow should be fed liber ally, but care should be taken not to overfeed her and carry her beyond her capacity. This works injury not only to her milk function, but to her breeding powers. Selling to Private Customer. . Selling butter to private customers is almost a business by itself. Yon must have the market close to hand and you must be able to manufacture gilt-edged butter and give proper de livery and be a salesman besides. Really, furnishing butter to private customers might be separated from dairy farming. It is a separate bnsi ness, but one man can handle both. Make a Business of Dairying. It does not pay to keep cows for $ side issue. Get the best and make dairying a business just like any branch of farm work. Unprofitable Dairy Cow. The dairy cow that does not yield over 100 pounds of butterfat per yea is about as profitable to the owner as a hole in the granary roof. Good Buttermaker. A, good buttermaker deserves a good wag and will get it from somebody
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