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PROVIDE PASTURE FOR HOG PRODUCTION
PIGS ON OAT AND PEA FORAGE.
(From the United States Department of
Agriculture.)
To make hog production most profit
able, the farmer should provide pas
ture for his hogs whenever possible.
The earlier in the year green feed can
he supplied the better. Swine of any
age relish green feed, and its use al
ways reduces the cost of produc
ing gains on hogs. In addition, it
keeps the animals ip good, thrifty con
dition. The information given in this
article, however, applies only to the
northern part of the United States,
particularly those states and sections
of states lying north of parallel 39.
The best crops to seed in early
spring are wheat, oats, rye, barley,
rape, Canadian field peas aud vetch.
Any of the cereals do well planted
singly or in combination with rape,
Canadian peas and vetch. In certain
sections, where these crops will sur
vive the winter, they can be sown the
previous fall. In sections where it is
impossible to maintain a stand over
winter, the crops mentioned can be
sown in early spring as soon as the
ground is fit.
The pigs should he turned in to pas
ture the cereal crops when the plants
attain a height of about six to eight
inches, and taken off when the plants
reach such a height that the pigs be-
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Pigs in Rape Field.
gin to spit the chewed material from
their mouths. This is because the
percentage of crude liber, the indiges
tible part of the plant, increases rap
idly as the plants grow larger. Green
wheat, oats, rye and barley are gen
erally classified as carbonaceous
roughages. When young, however,
these contain a high percentage of
protein, and should be classified as ni
trogenous roughages in the early
stages qf growth. Because the small
grains when young are so nutritious
and are green when frost has killed
clover, they are ideal plants to grow
for pigs during late fail and early
spring.
Canadian Field Peas.
Canadian field peas, when sown in
conjunction with some other kind of
grain (oats, rye, etc.) make an excel
lent early crop for hogs. The seed
should be sown in April or early May,
and if conditions are right the crop
will be ready to pasture In about thirty
or forty days. Hogs clean up the peas
and vines very well. The vines that
are left on the ground, together with
the manure, enrich the soil and add
more humus to it. The great value of
peas as a pasture for swine is far too
little understood.
Hairy Vetch.
Hairy vetch is a legume of increas
ing importance, especially as a forage
for hogs. It flourishes to a surprising
degree in Washington, Oregon and the
southern states. The seed should be
sown in the fall with rye or oats. Oc
tober is the best month in which to
plant this crop. When the winters are
too severe, vetch is not generally
grown. It succeeds wherever Cana
dian field peas do well, but the field
peas are usually preferable.
Rape.
liape as a forage crop is highly rec
ommended for hogs 'whenever it can
be grown successfully. It should not
be planted in the fall of the year with
the expectation of its surviving the
winter. In most localities it is best
to sow rape in April or May. II there
is enough moisture in the soil to *
rainate the seed, it is generally rea< >
to pasture in about six weeks. Vi hen
pigs are put on rape, it generally
takes them some time before they ac
quire a taste for it. Young pig" d"
not make as good use of rape pasture
as older ones. The hogs should not
he turned or. the rape until the plants
are at least ten inches high. Kape
is a very satisfactory forage plant for
hogs, because it grows rapidly and is
a cheap green feed.
Grain for Hogs on Pasture.
T\ bile the cost of producing pork
may ho reduced by the use of green
feed, it is desirable to feed grain in
addition. There is no time that grain
can be so profitably fed to a hog as
when lie is young and running on pas
ture. Under such conditions it is pos
sible to secure 15 pounds of gain for
each bushel of grain fed. During the
spring, summer and early fall months
from one-half to three-fourths of a
full feed of grain will he sufficient for
hogs ruuniug on pasture.
TREATING CUTS AND
INJURIES ON STOCK
important That Farmer Should
Know How to Handle and
Dress Wounds on Animals.
(By Xj. S. BACKUS.)
First aid is most important.
Quick healing leaves smaller sears.
Don’t use dust or lime to stop bleed
ing.
Bleeding that can be stopped with
powders will soon stop itself anyhow.
Frequent washing irritates wounds,
prevents prompt healing, and may
cause proud flesh. Small concealed
stab wounds, such as those from nails,
are the most likely to cause death.
Find them and keep them clean and
well disinfected.
Swab out deep cuts with pure tinc
ture of iodin as soon as it can be se
cured and they will take care of them
selves then if the normal pus discharge
is removed.
A long-continued discharge from a
wound indicates an abscess pocket, a
bone injury, or the presence of a snag
or something else that should not be
in the wound. Call a veterinarian.
As soon ns bleeding has been
stopped, wash the wound with a pint
of warm water to which two teaspoon
fuls of creolin, lysol, carbolic acid, or
some similar disinfectant has been
added.
A wound should be healed in about
three weeks. If it is doing well the
swelling will gradually go down, and
the discharge will be odorless, thin,
and bloody at first, and thicker and
whiter later.
Antitoxin will prevent lockjaw af
ter nail or other puncture wounds. If
not so m-event ed, very few of the lock
jaw cases ever recover. The hard
crust lime forms over the surface of
a wound favors lockjaw by shutting
out the air.
Bleeding from a leg can always be
stopped by tying a small rope loosely
about the wound, then twisting it
with a stick or small rod. Tighten till
bleeding stops. Apply bandages and
remove the cord if possible. If band
ages cannot be applied, prevent seri
ous bleeding by pressing the fingers
against the cut blood vessels until a
veterinarian can be called.
ATTENTION TO SOWS
BEFORE FARROWING
Animal Does Best When Kept in
Healthy Condition —Avoid
Heavy Corn Feeding.
The way a sow is handled before
farrowing has much to do with the
value of her litter, according to the
University of Nebraska Agricultural
college.
The sow does best when she is kept
in healthy condition, hut is not al
lowed to become too fat. Heavy corn
feeding makes sows fat, and they are
not likely to produce large, healthy
pigs. For this reason, breeding stock
must be separated from fattening pigs
if best results are secured. Feeds
that produce bone and muscle are
best. Any one of the following ra
tions, supplemented by alfalfa hay in
the rack, will give good results:
(1.) Corn, 1 part; shorts. 1 part.
(2.) Corn, 5 parts; shorts, 3 parts;
ollmeal, 1 part. (3) Corn, 3 parr ; ;
shorts, 4 parts; tankage, 1 part. (0
Corn, 8 parts; tankage, 1 part. (•')
Corn. 1 part; ground oats, 1 part;
shorts, 1 part. (<D Ground barley, 1
part; ground oats, 1 part.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
TRAINING TODArS
GOYS Hi GILS
What the Little Ones Should
Learn, and How.
FORCING SYSTEM IS WRONG
Differences Between Information,
Knowledge and Wisdom, and the
Value of Experience as a
Teacher of Children.
By SIDONIE M. GRUENBERG.
IS IT not true that every parent
wishes to give his children the full
benefit of all the accumulated wisdom
of the past? And it is quite natural
for parents to do so, since they are
old enough to realize how wasteful it
is for the child to get all his experi
ence at first hand. To learn, and learn,
and learn, while children are still
young and capable of learning; to
learn while they are still young and
quite incapable of doing anything
else worth while—that would seem to
be the ideal life for children. Yes,
by all means, have the children learn.
But learn what? And learn how?
These questions do not seem to have
received quite so much attention as
they really deserve. We have been
so overawed by the vastness of the
world’s learning, and we have been so
conscious of the fact that the heap is
constantly growing, that we have al
lowed ourselves to look upon the
knowledge of the ancients as a sacred
treasury that must be preserved at all
cost, and that must, be injected into
children to the limit of their capaci
ties.
Without in any way disparaging the
value of accumulated experience, it is
fair to ask whether we have been al
together wise in our pursuit of learn
ing—for the children's sake. Is it
not true that we have too readily ac
cepted the written word as something
worth while in itself? Have we not
too commonly confused information
with knowledge, and knowledge with
wisdom?
In recent years there seems to have
been a wave of frantic fear among
many conscientious parents that the
prevailing methods of instruction are
too slow to give the children all of the
needed learning. Or perhaps it has
been a keen realization of the tremen
dous store that has to be gathered in
a few short years. At any rate there
lias been an eager searching for a
method of filling the children's knowl
edge reservoirs more expeditiously
and more compactly. So we have the
monstrous sight of a three-year-old girl
reading and of a six-year-old com
posing poetry.
It is not to be denied that the world
is quite full of a number of things,
many of which are worth understand
ing. It is also true that if you catch
a child young you may get more into
him before he escapes than you could
if you delayed your capture. But just
what good does it do a child of eight
to “read Shakespeare”—as many chil
dren of eight have done? Of course,
they pronounce all the words correctly,
We Have the Monstrous Sight of a
Three-Year-Old Girl Reading.
and they even offer you a good imita
tion of “expression.” It is not difficult
to teach ordinary children to read at a
very early age. It is not difficult to
have them read a great deal and to
reproduce much of what they read. But
what is the use of all this? The as
sumption is that the more the child
reads the more he will remember, and
the more he remembers the better off
he is.
The facts of the child’s development,
however, are against the forcing sys
tem of education. We can make a
child reproduce beautiful passages
from our “best authors” long before
we can give him an inkling of what
the authors are talking about. The
child may read about passions and in
trigue, but he gets only words and
high-sounding phrases. We may keep
•the child at our side and fill him up
with a thousand facts of history and
enough other words to qualify him for
three or four grades ahead of his
years. But this learning does not add
to the child’s power, because it has no
real meaning to him —it is not con
nected with his emotions and experi
ence.
There is real danger in the at
tempt to shorten the child’s develop
ing period by forcing him to an early
completion of the school work. The
fact that the child is capable of pass
ing the school tests in fewer years
than are ordinarily required may not
be a real gain. If it were possible
to make the child condense his valu
able experience so that he would at
fpn years of age be where most chil
dren are at fourteen, that would be
worth considering. In so far as “learn
ing” represents condensed experience it
is worth while; in so far, however, as
it is merely a mass of words about ex
perience, it is worse than useless.
There is another danger in the con
centrated learning theory of bringing
up children. The most valuable part
of the child’s education during the
early years, so far as the school
is concerned, has to do with
learning how to get along with
other children—with other people,
that is. And this is the chief ad
vantage of the kindergarten or school
during these years. The problem of
the adjustment of the individual to the
group, and from this the individual’s
discovery of his own personality, is
the most significant part of education.
We are likely to have the choice be
tween more individual instruction and
rapid progress of a kind, and more
group activities with slower “learn
ing.” When we are confronted with
this choice, it is well for us to realize
that the child needs more experience
with the external world, including
other people. This he needs not only
as a foundation for the concepts and
«straetions and the lofty ideals we
ually value in “learning,” but he
needs it quite as much as a means of
getting outside himself. Richard gets
Given an Abundance of Concrete Ex
perience With Things of Nature,
They Soon Caught Up On the Learn
ing Side.
from his few months of kindergarten
an enlarged vocabulary and an en
richment of his knowledge about
things. But most noticeable and most
valuable is the fact that he has lost
self-consciousness and has gained in
control of self in relation to others.
It has been found that where chil
dren ure given an abundance of con
crete experience with things of nature
aud of the shop and studies, and with
each other, while the reading and
writing was postponed, they soon
caught up on the learning side, and
were healthier and happier than the
book-fed children. There are other
ways of learning than the Rs system,
and there are more important things
for the child to get than any book can
give him. But most important of all,
the book learning serves at its best on
a foundation of genuine experience
with life’s realities.
(J Lived in Historic Era.
Marie de Itabutin Chantal, known
to the world as Mme. Sevigne, is sup
posed to have been born in Burgundy,
at the chateau of Boubilly, in 1(526,
though both date and place are some
what obscure. In 1644 she married
Marquis de Sevigne. Her unhappy
marriage was terminated by the death
of the marquis seven years afterward
in a duel. The young widow then de
voted herself entirely to her children.
When her daughter was married to
Marquis de Grignan, the consequent
separation caused the correspondence,
which although not intended for pub
lication, made her name celebrated,
for she associated with the principal
actors in the Civil war of the Fronde,
“Curing” Married Couples.
If every wife who is trying to cure
her husband and every husband who
is trying to cure his wife would stop
the operation, and all the husbands
would devote their energies to curing
themselves and all wives devote their
energies to curing themselves, the
homes would be a great deal happier
than they are today. There are scold
ing wives who are bending all their en
ergies to the task of curing their hus
bands of habits far less detrimental
to the happiness of the home than the
habit of scolding. There are husbands
who have set themselves the task of
curing their wives of imperfections of
much less consequence than the in
firmities of character and temper pos
sessed by the husband himself. —Edin-
burgh Scotsman.
Good Breeding.
Civility is the essential article to
ward pleasing and is the result of good
nature and good sense, but good breed
ing is the decoration, the luster of
civility, and only to be acquired by a
minute attention to, and experience of
good company. A good-natured plow
man or fox hunter may be intentionally
as civil as the politest courtier, but
their manner often degrades and vili
fies their matter; whereas In good
breeding the manner always adorns
and dignifies the matter to such a
degree that I have very often known it
to give currency to base coin.—Lord
Chesterfield.
Hospitals for Animals.
There is in India a sect called Jains,
one of the articles of whose creed is
that men should not only do no harm
to animals, but should protect their
lives and cure their ills. The Jains
have many hospitals where sick and
maimed animals are tenderly cared
for.
The pious Jain who meets on-the
road a wounded animal stops to take
care of it or receives it into his dwell
ing. The hospital at Bombay is situ
ated in the center of the most densely
populated quarter of the “Black
Town” and all visitors are freely ad
mitted.
UGH! CALOMEL IKES YOU SICK!
CLEAN LIVER Si MELS MY WAT
Just Once! Try “Dodson’s Liver Tone” When Bilious, Consti
pated, Headachy—Don’t Lose a Day’s Work.
Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel
fine and cheerful; make your work a
pleasure; be vigorous and full of am
bition. But take no nasty, danger
ous calomel, because it makes you
sick and you may lose a day’s -work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver,
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That’s
when you feel that awful nausea and
cramping.
Listen to me! If you want to enjoy
the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel
cleansing you ever experienced just
take a spoonful of harmless Dodson's
Liver Tone. Your druggist or dealer
sells you a 50 cent bottle of Dodson’s
Liver Tone under my personal money
Pleasure before duty means that
duty will lose out.
MOTHER,ATTENTION!
Gold Ring for Baby Free.
Get a 25c Bottle of Baby Ease from
any drug store, mail coupon as di
rected and gold ring (guaranteed),
proper size, mailed you. Baby Ease
cures Bowel Complaints and Teething
Troubles of Babies. —Adv.
Sparks of genius have nothing to do
with lovemaking.
SWAMP-ROOT STOPS
SERIOUS BACKACHE
When your back aches, and your blad
der and kidneys seem to be disordered, re
member it is needless to suffer—go to your
nearest drug store and get a bottle of Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root. It is a physician’s
prescription for diseases of the kidney*
and bladder.
It has stood the test of years and has
a reputation for quickly and effectively
giving results in thousands of cases.
This prescription was used by Dr. Kil
mer in his private practice and wag so
very effective that it has been placed on
sale everywhere. Get a bottle, 50c and
SI.OO, at your nearest druggist.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.—Adv.
A heroic wife is one who could talk
back but refuses to do it.
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
Is her hair. If yours Is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Cre
ole” Hair Dressing and change It In
the natural way. Price SI.OO. —Adv.
As a trouble maker a jealous woman
isn’t in it with a jealous man.
Only One "BROMO QUININE"
To get the gennine, call for full name LAXATIVB
BROMO QIJININM. Look for signature of B. W.
GKOVB. Cores a Cold in One Day. 26c.
Too many prefer to pose as bread
winners rather than as breadmakers.
MOTHER’S JOY SALVE
for Colds, Croup, Pneumonia and
Asthma ; GOOSE GREASE LINIMENT
for Neuralgia, Rheumatism and
Sprains. For sale by all Druggists.
GOOSE GREASE COMPANY, MFR’S.,
Greensboro, N. C.—Adv.
You don't notice the expense so
much at the time if paid with a check.
HOW TO TREAT DANDRUFF
Itching Scalp and Falling Hair With
Cuticura. Trial Free.
On retiring touch spots of dandruff
and itching with Cuticura Ointment.
Next morning shampoo with Cuticura
Soap and hot water. A clean, healthy
scalp means good hair and freedom, in
most cases, from dandruff, itching,
burning, crustings and scalings.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
Grafters oft break in where burglars
fear to tread.
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills contain
nothing tmt vegetable Ingredients, which act
gently as a tonic and purgative by stimu
lation and not by irritation. Adv.
An ounce of happiness contributed to
another is a pound added to your own.
Thoroughbred! j|f^||k
!t pays to buy thoroughbred cattle ■ and /I !j!| jj j Bjß.
it pays to buy thoroughbred clothes — ®WC^iiill!io)3 V'
OVERALLS, WORK SHIRTS etc of (
Stifel’s spJP
Indido Cloth
Standard O for over 75 years g® Ills
are every inch thoroughbred. Firm, strongly J 4 MJ
woven cloth, that resists wear and weather. f||[ Hb
Color that lasts as long as the cloth.
You can tell the genuine STIFEL’S INDIGO
by this little maritime- stamped on the Ob' tea
back of the cloth in- IHe*“**BSs®. aic je the garment. ?
BEGISTUEO
Look for it and you’ll never be disappointed in the wear of your working
clothes for it's the CLOTH in the garment that gives the wear.
, c!othM t l j. L. STIFEL&SONS
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA
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back guarantee that each spoonful
will clean your sluggish liver better
than a dose of nasty calomel and that
it won't make you sick.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You'll know it next morn
ing, because you will wake up feel
ing fine, your liver will be working,
your headache and dizziness gone,
your stomach will bo sweet and your
bowels regular.
Dodson’s Liver Tone Is entirely
vegetable, therefore harmless and
cannot salivate. Give it to your chil
dren. Millions of peoplo are using
Dodson’s Liver Tone instead of dan
gerous calomel now. Your druggist
will tell you that the sale of calomel
is almost stopped entirely here. —Adv.
Mrs. Lena Rood of Seattle, with a
fortune of !f!25,000,000, is the richest
person in Ihe Pacific northwest.
IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY
but like counterfeit money the imita
tion has not the worth of the original.
Insist on “La Creole - ’ Hair Dressing—
it s the original. Darkens your hair in
the natural way, but contains no dye.
Price sl.oo.—Adv.
A boy in a schoolroom is worth a
dozen in a poolroom.
For speedy and effective action Dr. Perry's
“Dead Fhot" has no equal One dose only
will clean nut Worms or Tapeworm in a few
hours. Adv.
And many a man fails to make good
because he loves to take things easy.
AfT.lrted Party—* fUy. am'! yoa got no more acnae
than «o l.iiigii at a man who's pot a had coldt
Exuberant friend—"l ain't luffin' 'cause you fot it A
I’m l tiffin eatuM I ain't got it I tuk German Syrup and fil
rtired mine "
Boschee’s I
German Syrup 1
For 51 years, has I'een the quickest. _ "
safest, and Mat remedy for coughs,
colds, bronchitis and sore throat. It
acts like magic soothing and healing
the lungs, the very first organs to get
out of order whSn one catches cold.
25c. and 75c. sizes at all Druggists and
Dealers. Keep a bottle always handy
imteismiths
v ©dllTonec
Sold for 47 years. For Malaria, Chills
and Fever. Also a Fine General
Strengthening Tonic. •"'iSS.TtES! *"
HAMS CANT SPOIL
Get ahead of warm weather—Put the salt right
to the bone with a
TURLEY MEAT SALTER
That keeps them, because that's where a ham
begins to spoil. Thousands in use; owners de
lighted. Must satisfy you or you get your
money back. WHICH FOR FREE BOOKLET.
T. J. TURLEY. BOX 444, OWENSBORO, KY.
FROST PROOF CABBAGE PUNTS
Early Jersey and Charleston Wakefield, Suc
cession and Flat Dutch, by express, 500, SIOO j
1,000, $1.50. Satisfaction guaranteed. Post-jT
paid 25c per 100.
D. F. JAMISON, SUMMERVILLE, S. cf]
Shorthorn Bulls
A few fine, young registered Short
horn bulls ready for service. Write
at once for prices, etc.
Shedden Forms, Raymond, Ga.
117 A IWTiri'l Cow peas, peanuts. Quote
W xmlw A Dl/ lowest figunes on peanuts
and cowpeus delivered New Orleans; send samples.
P. It. Hereford. HJBGodcbaux Bldg., New Orleans, La.
Stop That Cough With PINTA Two ounce bottle
m;*kes one pint. Postpaid to any address for 45
cents. Windsor Drug Co., Muscogee, Okla.
EARN SIO to *ls WEEKLY addressing cir
culars, spur© time; Instructions, 10c silver. Hrie
Mail Order Co., lU5® N. Western Avo., Chicago, 111.
APPENDICITIS
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