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Cows will fall off in yielc! of milk If
flie food is suddenly changed, or if
forced to drink veay cold water. .In
the grazing season they will some
times fait off in milk if changed from
one pasture to another. The appe
tltes of cows differ, nml they will trav
el over a large area in order to secure
some favorite grass. The pasture
should consequently contain a variety
of grasses, in oraer that each animal
, na y more easily select its food.
WrrtU " Highway*.
It is the duty of every farmer to
exterminate the weeds on the roads
along his farm. Some of the most
troublesome weeds nave traveled from
one end of the country to the other
along highways. Every farmer should
make it his business to see that no
weeds go to seed on the highway ad
joining his farm. The Canada thistle
is traveling all over the country, at
no mean rate of speed, and as long as
farmers will not keep it down along
the highways there is no use of doing
so on other parts of the farmt and the
same may be said of many other ot the
vegetable pests.
Market >qnal> Bsisiwc f*r Women.
There is no good reason why women
should not engage in raising squabs
for market They succeed with poul
try and the work is not -near .as hard
producing squabs as chickens, or
broilers. The most objectionable part
of the business would be .killing the
squabs and cleaning out the pens.
This, however, is not as hard as the
same work in the poultry business.
Besides feeding her stock she has
one day in the week for killing .day.
which is Tuesday. It is not a hard
task to kill six dozen and hang them
iu the cellar to cool until the next
day, when they are ready to shTp.
A woman can easily care for tOO
pairs of pigeons and the net Income
should be at least S4OO. If they were
kept in well arranged buildings it
would require not more than one hour
morning and evening to feed and water
the flock. If the building used for the
purpose was heated above the freezing
point in winter and water piped to
each pen a great many more birds
could he cared for in the same time
f and with 'less labor. A continuous
building with an aisle or walk at tbe
back of tbe pens is the best style so
that it would not be necessary to go
through the pens in feeding and caring
for the birds. —E. F. Barry, in Grange
Judd Farmer.
Cooking I'eed vfor Cows and Hogs.
Seven years ago I bought a feed
cooker that I have used ever since for
cooking feed for hogs and scalding
feed for cows. For the hogs I take six
bushels small potatoes, apples or
pumpkins, run them through a root
cutter so they will eook quickly and
when they are done mix one bushel
eornmeal and one bushel bran. This
makes 100 gallons of feed. When it is
all mixed well together I take the feed
out of the cooker and put it in barrels
tilt t are packed in sawdust, which keeps
the feed warm until it is fed up. I
feed the hogs all they will eat of this
three times a day. Having never
weighed the hogs for a test. I cannot
tell exactly how much gain there is
from cooking the feed over feeding it
uncooked, but should think about one
fourth.
One bushel cobs and an armful of
old rails split up for wood will cool:
the 100 gallons feed. For cows I put
one peck barley sprouts in a galvan
ized bushed basket, heat water in the
cooker to the scalding point, fill up
the basket with water at night, and in
the morning I have a basketful of
nice, thick, lukewarm feed. I give
four quarts to each cow in milk, which
I think increases the flow of milk at
the least one-quarter. Another ad
vantage in cooked feed is that all the
foul seeds are destroyed so that none
goes back on the land to sprout and
ffrow weeds.—E. M. Van Dyne, New
England Uomestead.
Long. Lived Troes Are Ilelnsj FUitieil.
![ The division of forestry, through its
taction of tree planting, has succeeded
ln arousing widespread interest in the
Bul) ject of tree growing on the plains
of the upper Mississippi valley. An
agent of the division has recently re
turned from that region, and reports
that the farmers in the territory west
the Mississippi and north of the
th parallel of latitude are awaking
0 importance of planting trees,
especially for economic purposes. The
3 uuVrs of this section are anxious to
iVoul the mistakes made during the
operation of the timber claim act. The
t<Th eS n ° W keing planned are designed
e permanent features on the home
steads.
that end the farmers will use a
. 1 Proportion of long-lived, slow
*™w,n? secies than formerly. The
j and for such hardy, drouth-resist
? as the hackberry. green
„ w hite elm, bur oak, red elm, red
. ar an< * western yellow pine (bud
’ m ) promises to be greatly increased
y ng the next few years. The
th! ateßt pre . sent difficulty with which
tenr] P^? S + Pec *' 1 ve Planter has to con
erc. . s tae fact thrtt commercial grow
witWk? UrSery sto< \ k are not supplied
n this kind of r naterial. The nur
ebnr?i Still Carry lar Be quantities of the
Cot ' lVed hinds, such as boxelder,
8 h' IW00( l- maple i fcd willow, but are
Th ° n the Inost Valuable species.
p r . e p!an ting 0 f conifers on the
ha?”' 5 ° f the *’er t during the past
eu c !* ee n attei ide<l with general
This is o', ring to the use of
eastern and Introduced kinds that nr*
not adapted to the country. There is
abundant evidence, however, that the
red cedar and western yellow pin 3
(bull pine) will thrive throughout this
section. The desirability of ever
| greens for wind-breaks on a bleak
i prairie should lead owners to turn
their attention to these hardy native
| species.—l nited States Department of
Agriculture.
Tarming That trends to 1 jilnvp.
Although we can earn a livelihood
with less hard manual labor than our
fathers of 30 or 40 years ago could, if
we keep up with the manner of living
I tceay, wc must manage more methodi
cally and skillfully than was required
by their simple and less luxurious man
ner of living. They had broad acres
of rich, virgin soil, from which they
skimmed their crops much to the im
poverishment of their descendants, wa
think. But now we must contract, con
centrate and intensify our labor, .to in
crease the productiveness of our fields,
to do which successfully, requires
knowledge of the supplying needed
elements of productiveness. Success
ful farmers are those who understand
these principles and practice them.
Those who do not know, or regard
them are more or iess failures. There
are many ways of mismanagement,
which cause the rapid exhaustion cf
the fertility of the farm. To manage
in such a way as to produce paying
crops, and not unduly exhaust the?
soil, requires judicious management.
Not everyone who says he is a farmer
is one. He may pursue the business
after a manner, but in point of knowl
edge and skill, he is wanting, and, at
best, he is merely an imitator. There
are many of this class of farmers.
Most of them fail because they do not
understand or properly adopt the best
means of maintaining the fertility of
their land. They also often cultivate
more land than their force warrants,
giving only indifferent cultivation;
and as the drain upon the farm goes
on about the same whether large or
small crops are grown, and as poor
crops usually follow poor cultivation,
such farming makes a sterile farm.
Then there is the widely practiced
method of raising grass and stock to
be sold off the farm. This when rightly
conducted is very profitable, but the
practice of sowing the farm to grass,
clover and other forage crops and
stock raising, neglecting cultivation
and manuring, is anything but profit
able. The crops are harvested and
either sold or fed to stock, and the
stack sold off the farm; and as the
prevailing idea about this sort of farm
ing is that grass and stock raising
keep up the land, little if an\ r thing is
returned to the soil to replace the
heavy annual drain upon it, required
to produce crops and build up the ex
pensive animal frame. Innumerable
farms are run down under this ill
managed system of farming.—J. I. 8.,
in Agricultural Epitomist,
A Hood Compost Ilea/.
On my seed farm I make a great deal
of waste vegetable matter,, inch as buck
wheat straw, rye straw toe much brok
en up in threshing by machinery to
be marketable for bedding, and a
large quantity of the mixture of forest
leaves and meadow hay that after two
seasons of use as covering for 30,000
or 40,000 seed cabbages has become too
fine and broken for future use. These,
if left in heaps, in the course of a few
years, become, at the bottom, the
blackest of humus, the rye straw being
by far the slowest to decompose.
At the close of the planting season
of 1899, having two or three carloads
of stable manure and about half a ton
of ground bone, nitrate of soda and
muriate of pot ash to spare, I concluded
to utilize more or less of the waste by
making a compost heap in the cellar
of one of the stables. It was made
with manure as a foundation, then a
layer of the half-rotten, strawy ma
terial, over which we scattered one of
the fertilizing elements, care being
taken to place the most strawy ma
terial nearest the bottom of the heap.
About half way up I dumped in and
spread evenly some four cords of hall
rotten corn cobs. With alternating
layers we built up the heap to the
depth of about five feet.
This was in early summer. It was
left untouched until planting time
next spring, when on testing it I found
that every substance had fully rotted,
and the whole mass was in a fine state
of comminution; ever the corn cobs
had entirely disappeared, and thus
added their 25 percent of potash to the
heap.
I used this compost on freshly
broken up sod. giving it a fair dressing
for a corn crop. I planted it with
Longfellow, and had the most wonder
ful results in growth of stalk ever
known in my experience as a corn
grower; by actual measurement many
of these were nine and one-half feet
in height, with the ears so high up
that a man of average height could
walk under many of them without
touching them with his hat. The crop
contained a larger proportion of long,
well-filled ears than any I can recall
in a long life devoted to farming oper
ations.
The compost utilized not only muen
waste vegetable matter, but the nitrate
of soda and muriate of potash, fer
tilizers which all who have kept them
over a season are aware, dampen and
waste more or less in the process of
keeping.—J. J. H. Gregory, in The
Country Gentleman.
Kockefeller’s Daily T.if>.
John D. Rockefeller goes through the
same routine every day at noon in re
gard to his lunch. He enters the little
restaurant absent-mindedly, -wakes
with a start when the waiter approach
es him, hesitates over his order and
then always calls for a ham sandwich
and a glass of milk.
THE WEEKLY NEWS, CAIITERSYILLE, GA.
Ft'areumrnßtS,
Forearmed.
The liability to disease is greatly
lerse.rcd when the blood is iu good con
dition, and the circulation healthy and
vigorous. For then all refuse matter
is promptly carried out cf the system ;
otherwise it would rapidly accumulate
—fermentation would take place, the
blood become polluted and the consti
tution so weakened that a simple
malady might result seriously.
A healthy, active circulation means
good digestion and strong, healthy
nerves.
Asa blood, purifier and tonic S. S. S.
has no equal. It is the safest and best
remedy for old people and children
because it contains no minerals, but is
made exclusively of roots and herbs.
No other remedy so thoroughly and
effectually cleanses the blood of im
purit ie s. At the
fgjgir va t eS the entire sys
tem. It cures permanently all manner
of blood and skin troubles.
Mr. E. E. Kelly, of TJrbana, 0., writes:
“ I bad Eczema on my hands and face for
five years, it would break out in little
white pustules, crusts would form and
drop off, leaving the skin rod and inflam
ed. Tlie doctors did me no good. I used
all the medicated soaps and salves without
benefit. S. S. 8. cured me, and my skin
ia as clear and smooth as any one’s.”
Mrs. Henry Siegfried, of Capo May, M.
J., says that twenty-one bottles of S. 8. S.
cured her of Cancer of the breast. Doc
tors and friends thought her case hope
less.
Richard T. Gardner, Florence, S. C.,
Buffered for years with Boils. Two bot
tles of 8. 8. 8. put his blood in good con
dition and the Boils disappeared.
Send for our free book, and write
our physicians about j’our case.
Medical advice free.
CHE SMdFT SPECIFIC C 0„ ATLmNTA, GA.
LABOR WORLD.
Strike disturbances have occurred
at AznalcoUar, in the province of Se
ville, Spain.
There are 310 vessels and over 2000
men engaged in the sponge fisheries
In Florida.
The machinists’ demand for a nine
hour day, at Watertown, N. Y., has
been refused.
All the employes of the omnibus and
street car lines In Barcelona, Spain,
went on strike.
Tug firemen and Ihiemen at Cleve
land, Ohio, who have been on strike,
have returned to work.
Substitute mail carriers are to dis
place hoys in the handling df special
delivery letters in Boston.
Girls who struck for more wages at
West's knitting mill, at Ashley, Penn.,
have been granted their demands.
So many negroes have left for the
West Virginia coal mines that farm
labor is scarce about Greensboro, N.
C.
The Ohio Rolling Mill Company, at
Findlay, Ohio, has granted an increase
of ten per cent, in wages to 400 em
ployes.
Ten thousand additional hands
will be needed in June to harvest the
crops in Southwestern Kansas and
Oklahoma.
Reports from Upper Silesia show
that fifty per eeut. of the persons who
have been out of work are now em
ployed and prices are improving all
around.
The letter carriers of Philadelphia
are not to be permitted to wear shirt
waists this summer, but their uniform
suits will be made of much lighter
material than has been custonmrj r in
hot weather heretofore.
Manchester, N. H., is to have what
it is claimed will be the largest sin
gle mill building ever erected. It is
nearly completed, and is 770 feet long,
with two wings of 330 feet, all of an
average width of 100 feet, and live
stories in height, including basement.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bough)
trie NA MuRAI. UAilflc.
Garrick is pitching fine ball for the
Washingtons.
Norton, the Hoboken pitcher, is re
garded as a wonder.
Hans Wagner is still tearing off safe
drives for the Pittsburg Club.
Crolius, the Bostons’ new right field
er. has conic up to all expectations.
.vinos Rush 1 , of Cincinnati, lias been
sent to \\ cst Baden Springs to get in
playing form.
Mctiraw's latest recruit for his Bal
timore team is Charles Jackson, of
Philadelphia, an outfielder.
Heidrick, of St. Louis, has simply
been “killing - ’ the ball since tlie sea
son opened. So lias Jack Doyle.
Manager Selec, of Boston, made a
trip to Princeton hopeful of signing
Hillebrand, (lie crack college pitcher.
He learned that Hillebrand lias signed
to coach the Tigers until June L
The cadets of the West Point Mili
tary Academy are taking more than
usual interest in baseball this year.
They have been practicing hard for
months and expect to have an excep
tionally strong team.
“I have got a strong team,” says
Frank Selee, the Boston manager.
“Barry in left field is faster than any
body I have had there in a long time,
and DeMontrcvillo at third suits me.
He is a better base runner and hustler
than Collins.”
Raw son, prospective shortstop of the
New Haven team, wears glasses and
says they do not handicap bis playing.
Not counting smoked spectacles for
sun fields, ball players who have
worn glasses on the field have been
few and far between.
It’s notable that the American
League did more damage to the Na- i
tlonal’s third bases than any other
position. Cross from Brooklyn, Mc-
Gray from St. Louis, Collins from Bos
ton, Bradley from Chicago and Wil
liams from Pittsburg are the last
corner men who have “jumped.”
Start The New Century Right!
Don’t try to get along with those old fashioned,
out of date farm .mplements. What’s the use, when
our prices on up-to-date implements are so low ?
EVERY Ti:BT-v^
for quality and durability, has been given
the machinery which we sell and recommend,
“Tried and true” makes are the only fines
good enough for our customer s.
WE ABE PR®
of our new spring
line of
stylish
RIGS
Quality
UANTITY.
That is the problem which has long
confronted us. You see there are so
many goods which may look all right
but which are really inferior
Wo Have Solved It.
We never sacrifice qualily but buy in such large
lots that we can affojd to sell at very low prices.
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season’s labor. Our customers cannot but do so,
for feed saving
Crop Making Farm Machinery
is the only kind we sell.
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