HORSES NEEDED
FDR FARM WORK
Stallions and Brood Mares
Should Be More Carefully
Selected for Better Colts.
GET RID OF POOR PRODUCERS
Country Must Depend on Farmer for
Animals Required for Various
Kinds of Work — Decrease
Noted in Work Stock.
(Prepared by the United States Depart¬
ment of Agriculture.)
Progress in the average quality of
horses produced in the United States
has not kept pace with the progress
made in many agricultural lines, say
animal husbandry specialists, for the
reason that the fanner, in too many
instances, has not given the careful
thought to this subject that he has to
his other problems. This is true,
moreover, in spite of the fact that effi¬
cient horse power is one of the most
Important factors in the economical
production of agricultural products.
The average prices of horses during
the war remained practically at a
standstill, even decreasing slightly,
while the prices of meat animals in¬
creased tremendously, even more than
doubling in some cases. This had a
discouraging effect on horse breeding,
which resulted in a decrease in the
number of mares bred in 1918 aud
1919.
Demand Depends Largely on Quality.
There is today, however, a great
scarcity of high-class, efficient horses
and mules and a ..strong demand and
good prices for that class. The de
Character, Soundness and Good Con¬
formation.
mand and the price for the mediocre
work animal, on the other hand, is
low. This should emphasize the ne¬
cessity for the greatest endeavor to
reduce the number of inferior horses
produced. If the right kind of horses
and mules, the kind for which there
Is always a market, are to he pro¬
duced the same care must he given to
their production as is given by the
breeders of cattle, sheep, and swine.
What is needed more than anything
else in the production of our work
stock Is greater care in the selection
of both the stallion and the brood
mare. The poor producing brood mare
should not he bred. It is a losing
proposition to breed a poor producing
brood mare, even to the best stallion,
or to breed the good producing brood
mare to an inferior stallion, with the
hope that a good foal may be pro¬
duced. While occasionally a good one
will he produced in tills way, the re
«'•(*« : n most cases will be disappoint
i wo-Vear-Old Mule Colt.
lag , and a foal will be born that will
uot mature into a work animal valu¬
able enough to pay for the cost of the
feed and care necessary to raise the
foal properly.
It is a fact that many progressive
fanners balk at paying a reasonable
service fee for a good stallion and will
breed to an inferior stallion because
of the lower fee. It is false economy
to stop at a few dollars when it comes
to the best horse. It is the colt, and
not the high service fee, which counts
most in reckoning profits. It costs
but little more to raise the $250 kind
than it does the $125 kind.
A Decrease in Work Stock.
The result of the decrease in the
number of mares bred in 1918 hns
been a decrease in the number of
horses. The estimates of the bureau
)f crop estimates show a decrease of
173.000 in the number of horses on
farms January 1. 1920. as compared
with January 1, 1919, and an increase
af 41.000 mules, or a net decrease of
832.000 head in our work stock. Indi¬
cations are that there was a still furth¬
er decrease in the number of mares
bred in 1919. but the result of such
Jecreased breeding will not he shown
iDtil after the 1920 colt crop Ls esti
ti mated. If the decreased breeding in
1919 was as great as seems to be indi¬
cated. the estimate of January 1. 1921,
will show a further decrease in the
number of horses. This effect of the
decrease in horse breeding will not bo
fully felt until about 1923, or when
the foals horn in lt*19 and 1920 have
become of workable age. In many
sections the work stock is being used
up without any provision for the fu¬
ture.
Opportunity for Farmers.
The country must depend on the
farmer more than ever for the produc
tion of horses needed for farm and
other work, for the number of men
engaged in extensive horse breeding
has become less and less from year
to year. The farmer, in order to pro¬
duce the efficient horse, must use the
greatest care in the selection of his
breeding stock. The production of
greater efficiency in our work animals
would not only mean greater remuner¬
ation to the breeder, hut also greater
efficiency in our agricultural produc.
tion.
FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS
IN CATTLE AND HOGS
Analysis of Reports Indicate De.
crease in Disease.
Post Mortem Results at Federally In.
spected Meat Packing Establish¬
ments Give Encouraging Fig¬
ures to Authorities,
Analysis of the reports regarding
tuberculosis in cattle and swine, issued
during the last three years by the
United States department of agricul¬
ture, Indicates a decrease in the per¬
centage of animals found to be infect¬
ed with this disease. The figures
based on post-mortem results at fed¬
erally inspected meat packing estab¬
lishments are encouraging to state and
federal authorities and others engaged
in the eradication of tuberculosis.
A summary of the federally inspect¬
ed slaughter of cattle at eight impor¬
tant market centers—Chicago, Kansas
City, Omaha, South St. Joseph, St.
Paul, Sioux City, East St. Louis and
Milwaukee—shows that the percentage
of animals condemned for tuberculosis
for the year ended June 30, 1917, was
0.51 per cent (51 hundredths of 1 per
cent) of the whole number slaugh¬
tered. For 1918 condemnations for the
same cause had decreased to 0.38 per
cent; and in 1919 they had dropped
to 0.32 per cent. The total number of
cattle slaughtered in 1917 at the eight
points mentioned was 5,900.824, and
in 1919 this had increased to 6,995,735.
The reports regarding swine at the
same eight markets show that the per¬
centage condemned for tuberculosis In
1917 was 0.244 per cent; in 1918, 0.199
per cent; and in 1919, 0.17 per cent.
It is noteworthy, the meat inspection
divisional points out. that the per cent
age of tuberculosis in swine declined
along with the decrease of the same
disease among cattle. The figures
support the belief that swine are in¬
fected with the tuberculosis princi¬
pally from cattle, infection being
spread in most cases either by feed¬
ing unpasteurized skim milk, by allow¬
ing hogs to eat tuberculous carcasses
or offal, or permitting the hogs to fol¬
low diseased cattle in feed lots and
pastures. Live-stock owners, the de¬
partment of agriculture declares, can
hasten the stamping out of tuberculo¬
sis by careful attention to sanitation,
by having their herds tested with tu¬
berculin, removing any reactors found,
and thereafter requiring all cattle in<
trodueed on the farm to have passed
a successful tuberculin test.
ROTATION INCREASES YIELD
Among Many Other Reasons It Dis.
tributes Risk of Crop Failure
and Helps Fertility.
There arc many reasons for rotat¬
ing crops. Some are more important
in one section, some in another. Among
them may he mentioned the follow¬
ing:
( 1 ) Rotation increases the total crop
yield.
(2) It distributes the risk of crop
failure, since conditions Injurious to
one crop frequently do not affect other
crops.
(3) It gives a better distribution or
farm labor throughout the year.
(4) It allows the keeping of more
live stock, which favors a better use
of farm crops and furnishes farm ma¬
nure.
(5) It allows the use of green-ma¬
nure crops and the satisfactory ap¬
plication of farm manures, thus main¬
taining the fertility of the soil.
(C) It insures a better control of
weeds, injurious Insects, and fungous
diseases of crops.
(7) It uses soil moisture more com¬
pletely. as different crops use wafer
differently. — Farmer’s Bulletin 678
United States department of agricul¬
ture.
fLIVC STOQKI
Grain should not he taken away
from the lambs when they are turned
on grass.
* * *
To insure rapid growth; h coir should
lie encouraged to eat hay and grain
when a few weeks old.
* • *
The cost of producing and maintain
ing the cow herd ls of prime impor¬
tance to the beef man.
* * *
As the hoofs- of sheep grow very
fast, the feet will grow faster than
they wear unless they travel over very
i rough ground.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA.
HD DOE DOUSE
IS PROFiTRBLE
Hog Raisers Everywhere Now
Recognize This Fact,
SAVES THE LITTLE PIGS
Modern Weather-Tight Home for
Sows Permits Two Litters a Year
Instead of One—Good Type
Illustrated.
By WILLIAM A. RADFORD.
Air. W llliam A, Radford win answer
questions and rive advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects oertalning to the
subject of building work on the farm for
the readers of this oaper. On account of
Ins wide experienco as Editor, Author and
Manufacturer, highest he is, without doubt the
Address authority all on ail these subjects.
fortf No. inquiries to William A Rad-
1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago.
III., and only inclose two-cent stamp for
Hog raisers everywhere are rapidly
recognizing the modern, weather-tight
hoghouse as a most profitable invest¬
ment. Where the sows are properly
housed they respond with two litters
of pigs a year instead of one; the pigs
are marketable at the time when
prices are highest, and a greater per¬
centage of each litter is brought to
maturity.
The advantage of having the sows
farrow in the late winter are well
known to every hog raiser. But to
have the pigs cotne along while the
weather is yet cold is unprofitable un¬
less the mother and young pigs have
a house that will keep them warm, dry
and healthy. Modern hoghouses are
designed and built to give the sow and
her pigs just such a home.
Herewith is illustrated such a hog¬
house. It is a frame building set on
a concrete foundation and has a ce¬
ment floor. This building is 24 feet
wide and 42 feet long and has pens
for ten sows and their pigs.
The peculiar shape of the roof
makes possible a warm sunny Interior.
The house is set so that it extends
*ast and west and faces the south.
This position gives the windows the
•enefits of the late winter sun, light
■ntering the lower windows falling on
>ne row of pens and on the other from
lie windows in the roof. The multi
Jicity of windows also permits good
ventilation, which is another necessity
u a hoghouse. The young pigs are
vanned bv the heat from the mother**
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and the sunlight. The heat from the
sows, however, is moist and unless
ventilation is provided the house will
he damp and chill.
The interior arrangement of this
hoghouse is shown by the accompany¬
ing floor plan. Through the center of
the building runs a feeding alley, with
the pens on either side. Doors at both
ends permit free access to the build¬
ing. either for taking feed to the hogs
or for removing litter. Each pen is
6 feet G inches wide and 8 feet 6
inches deep The cement floor is cov¬
ered by a board floor, slightly raised
from the concrete, for a distance
of five feet from each wall. This
board floor, covered with bedding pro¬
vides a dry place for the mother and
pigs. Despite the general impr'ession
that hogs are filthy animals, they are
not and will keep the board floor clean
and dry.
In the plan shown, the pens along
the south side of the building are con¬
nected with outdoor runs, making the
house usable in summer as well as
winter. The doors of* the pens are so
placed as to provide direct runs to
j each of the yards.
This sort of modern hoghouse will
enable iiog owners to double the num¬
ber of pigs usually raised, and will
t make hog raising more profitable. The
I cost of the building is low, hut the in¬
crease in receipts from the drove are
great.
While it may be a little early to be¬
gin now to construct farm buildings
that will not lie needed until next
winter, it is a wise plan under present
conditions to make arrangements for
j any contemplated building as far in
advance of construction as possible.
Contractors everywhere are busy and
material dealers must place their or-
with manufacturers several
! months in advance. This hoghouse
can be built iu the late fall or early
I winter, so long as the concrete floor is
laid before frost comes. The balance
of the building is of lumber and can
be erected at any time.
Nothing raised on the farm is more
profitable than hogs. These animals
bring high prices, the demand con¬
stantly is growing and with prop*#
housing and care a maximum number
of young pigs can he brought to ma¬
turity. Health is the prime essential
that makes for profitable hog raising
and to he healthy, hogs tinny he kept
in clean and sanitary quarters.
A hoghouse with a cement floor is
easy to clean. Where water under
pressure is available the cement floors
can be washed and the fitter that is
not gathered up by the fork carried
out. Sunshine helps a great deal in
preventing diseases, the sun’s rays be¬
ing a germ killer. The double row of
windows admits sunshine to every
part of the hoghouse illustrated.
Modern farm buildings of all kiuds
are helping to solve the labor-shortage
problem that confronts farmers every¬
where. Modern buildings, equipped
i with modern, labor-saving devices for
| doing the work necessary to give the
j live stock proper attention make the
! work easier and quicker, thus saving
j a great deal of will labor. find it is good in
Hog raisers a
vestment to build a modem hoghouse
this summer.
GLORIOUS CITY OF ROMANCE
H storic Edifices and Monuments of
Constantinople Unequaled by Any
Other Capital.
Iu spite of filth and evil odors, the
one dominant note of Constantinople
is Romance. It meets you at the
threshold of every one of its 200
mosques and its hundreds of chapels.
In the Church of St. Sophia, with its
stupendous dome, its dream-like
beauty, and its 1G centuries of history;
in the Suleymaniya mosque, with its
colossal columns and Its miracles of
Saracenic decoration; and the Mosque
of Sultan Ahmed I, with its six sky¬
piercing minarets, exquisite in their
grace, and its columns more than 100
feet in circumference.
In the Hippodrome, where gladiators
fought and chariots raced to the plaud¬
its of Roman spectators, you can see
the famous column of the Three Ser¬
pents, which stood 2,000 years ago in
the Temple of Delphi.
The Old Seraglio recalls Mohamme¬
dan splendors of long-gone centuries.
Once a royal residence, it still con¬
tains the mint and museum and li-
brary; and perhaps the most won¬
derful sight in Europe, the treasury,
with its fabulous treasures of jewels
and golden ornaments, worth incal¬
culable millions. Leaving Stamboul
and crossing the Golden Horn we come
to Galata, the quarter of the mer¬
chants, a busy hive of commercial in¬
dustry, with warehouses and factories
and the coming and going of great
ships from all the world’s seas.
From Galata we pass to Pera, the
aristocratic quarter, with its stately
embassies and consulates, its walled
in palaces of pashas with their har¬
ems.
Beyond Para is the beautiful village
of Eyyub, with the famous mosque in
which every sultan girds on the sword
of Osman before he mounts his throne,
and which no Christian foot may ap¬
proach.
Useful Carabao.
The carabaos of the Philippine Is¬
lands belong to the group of Asiatic
buffalo. They are mostly mouse
colored, and their thick hides are
sparsely covered with thin hair. Their
bodies are as round as barrels, and
their thick, fong horns give them a
formidable appearance, although they
are quite harmless under ordinary
conditions.
Henry Flury, in Our Dumb Animals
magazine, says the carabaos are ideal
Philippine beasts of burden, first be¬
cause they are slow, and the slower
the better, in the estimation of the na¬
tive who ls never in a hurry; and
secondly, on account of their big, bar¬
rel-shaped bellies and split hoofs,
which spread ont very widely when
the rainy season comes and the roads
are rivers of thick mud.
LEAVE GIRL TO
DiE UNDER GAR
Men Force Her Chum Into An¬
other Machine and Drive
Away.
IS BURNED TO CINDER
Tragedy Is Culmination of Wild Ride
of Intoxicated Party—Girl’s
Wrist Watch Fused
by the Heat.
New York.—Despite the pleadings
of a girl companion, who begged them
to try to save her companion who was
being cremated beneath a burning au¬
tomobile, two men, both under die in¬
fluence of liquor, forced the compan¬
ion into another automobile and drove
away while the screams of the burning
girl grew fainter and fainter.
The girl, whose identity is unknown
save that her name was Helen, was
of a party of four in an automobile
that turned turtle at Old Mill road and
Queens boulevard shortly after four
o’clock in the morning.
The tragedy, the culmination of a
wild ride, was witnessed by Anthony
Kutillas and his wife, who live al¬
most opposite the spot where the acci¬
dent happened, and Thomas Fischer
of 1821 Palmetto street, Ridgewood,
N. J.
Awakened by Screams.
The Kutillas were awakened by the
screams of two girls shortly after
three o’clock. They rushed to a win¬
dow and saw an automobile running a
zig-zag course past their house. The
automobile soon disappeared, but the
screams of the girls could still be
heard.
In a few moments the car returned,
running at a high rate of speed and
stopped when the driver saw a stalled
car belonging to Fischer. Stopping
hut a few seconds, the chauffeur start¬
ed again with sueli speed that the car
overturned.
The two men and one of the women
were thrown clear of the wreckage,
but the second girl had been pinioned
beneath the wreckage. Flames hurst
out immediately.
The girl who had been thrown from
the car was uninjured and, according
to Mr. and Mrs. Kutillas and E’ischer,
“Never Mind Her, Come On.”
hogged the men frantically to save the
girl who was being burned to death.
“Never mind her!” shouted one of
(he men. “Come on!” With that he
grabbed her and started pulling her
down the road. Another car came
along and the two men forced the
girl into the second machine and sped
away.
Burned to a Cinder.
In the meantime the girl under the
car had become a flaming torch. Her
screams had ceased by the time Mr.
Kutillas reached the scene. Fischer
was working frantically to extinguish
the blaze. He was joined by Kutillas
and a number of men returning from
a dance.
Mrs. Kutillas telephoned an alarm
of fire and it was not until the fire¬
men arrived and extinguished the
blazing gasoline that the charred body
of the girl could be removed from the
pyre.
Her form had been burned to a cin¬
der. A wrist watch had been fused
by the heat. It was so badly damaged
that it could not serve as an Identifi¬
cation mark. Protected by the girl’s
body lay a purse containing some
charred papers and business cards of
firms In Montclair, Newark and Jersey
City.
One More Unfortunate.
Manchester, O.—Identity of a beau¬
tiful girl buried iu a graveyard three
miles from here will never be known.
She appeared at a farm and was
taken in for the night. She left in
the morning, and three days later she
was found on a deserted houseboat,
alone and near death from starva¬
tion and exposure. When turned over
to local Red Cross workers, she said:
“I have cut all home ties. There is
nothing on me by which I can be
identified. I don’t want my family
to know of my fate.” She lived two
days but never made any other state¬
ment.
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Sculpture by Wholesale.
Many of the marble statuettes sold
in art stores are cast—not carved. The
mold used consists of two parts—an
outer casting of plaster of paris ami
an inner mold of rubber. The solution
poured -into the mold Is composed
chiefly of marble dust—mere waste.
After the mold has been removed the
statue is scraped and polished, and the
result is a finished work of art.
Approved Subject to Conditions.
Mrs. Pester—There’s a movement on
foot to compel husbands to pay sal¬
aries to their wives the same as to
anyone else who works for them. Don’t
you think that’s fair?
Her Husband—Eminently fair, if the
husband reserves the right to fire those
who prove unsatisfactory.”
Case Seemed Hopeless
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