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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- j . • wXi 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 New York . .260-562 Church Ft. San Francisco.. Postal Tel. Bldg. Bt. Paal 238 Bndlcott Bids. Philadelphia. .324 Market St. St Joseph. Mo. .Saxton Bk. Bid*:. Turooto. .14 Manchester BkAff. Boston 31 Bedford St. Baltimore Coca-Cola Bldg. Winnipeg. 4UUHammond BUta. fl Chicago,‘223 W. Jackson Bird. St. Louts Bldg. Montreal. B. 600,489 St Paolst. g 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 If von have been threatened or have GALLBTONEF INDIGESTION, GAS or pains In the right C n CE side write for valuable Book of information ■ fICE L. E. BOWK US. O EFT W-8. 810 H, lIZAUBOftN ST.. CHICiUO W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 52-1916.'*