Newspaper Page Text
LESS EXPENSIVE FATTENING
SYSTEM SUGGESTED BY FLINT
Buy Cattle tn Thin Flesh, Feed Plenty of Roughage and
Then Turn Them Out on Grass Pasture—Prime
Corn* Fed Animals Are Scarce During Summer
'Months and Bring Good Prices.
| —I. —. i * . — ■■■■■———|
Excellent Bunch of Feeder Steers.
Choice beef can be produced with
less high-priced feed, and at a lower
cost, than it is produced by most feed
ers, thinks P. N. Flint, assistant pro
fessor of animal husbandry at the
Kansas Agricultural college. Pro
fessor Flint believes in a less expen
sive method of fattening, in which
grass is the principal diet.
The common feeding practice of
many of the farmers of the corn belt
is an expensive process. The cattle
are fed during the winter months.
Sheds have to be provided for shelter.
The cost of hauling and feeding the
roughage for the cattle when in a dry
lot is not a small item. Bad weather
is another objectionable feature —more
feed is required by a steer to make
the same gain.
The feeding practice for more profit
is this: Common feeders —Cattle in
thin flesh —may be bought at a low
price. Get steers two or three years
old. Feed them plenty of roughage to
keep them in good condition until they
are turned out on grass. A few hours
a day on pasture is long enough at
first, until their systems get accus
tomed to the change. Feed the steers
running on grass a ration of 8 to 14
YOUNG WOMAN
GOT HER EGGS
Smell Flock of Pullets Installed
In the Back Yard In Port*
able House Furnish
Medicine.
A young lady living in a small city
had impaired her health by too con
fining work in a city office, says
Christian Herald. Her physician or
dered her to a sanitarium for rest and
upbuilding, and when she returned to
work he instructed her to eat four
fresh-laid eggs daily; two eggs for
breakfast, and the others raw, in milk.
Finding it difficult to obtain depend
ably fresh eggs, she persuaded her
mother to permit her having a small
flock in the home yard. A portable
house was purchased and fifteen pul
lets installed in it. A small brother
was paid 10 cents a week to feed and
care for the flock, two bags of ready
mixed food were bought, and the re
sult of the venture was not only all
the eggs the young lady needed and a
supply for the family, but there was a
surplus which found a ready market
at the corner drug store, bringing 10
cents a dozen above the market price.
ALABAMA MAN
HAS NEW TRACE
I Wheel in End of Whiffle Tree
Holds Trace so That There
Is No Danger of Its
Loosening.
Considerable cleverness went into
the designing by an Alabama man of
the trace connector shown in the cut
The end of the whiffletree has sepa
rated parallel sides, with notches in
the ends. Pivoted between these
Bides is a wheel, with two radial slots
and lateral passages running off the
slots. To us this connector a ring is
inserted in the wheel by lining up one
of the slots of the wheel with the
notches in the end of the whiffletree.
I A
New Trace Connector.
Once the wheel is turned there Is no
danger of the ring slipping out of
rthe slot, as the sides of the whiffletree
prevent that. The trace is connected
with the ring by a spring hook and
the operation of hooking or unhooking
a trace requires only a few seconds
when this device is used.
A
pounds of corn. Begin with a light
ration and work up gradually to the
maximum. They should be ready to
market the latter part of July.
Prime corn-fed cattle are scarce
during the summer, as most of the
feeders in the lots are finished and
shipped out before this time. The
packers must have cattle with some
finish, and they pay a good price to
get them. Coming on the market at
this time, the steers fed on grass will
bring almost as good a price as stock
fed a full grain ration in a dry lot.
The success of this plan of feeding
is due to the low price at which the
cattle can be bought and the thin con
dition of the animals coming in the
common class of feeders. Making eco
nomical gains is not a breed but a
type characteristic. Often the best
and poorest gains made are by indi
viduals of the same breed.
Less labor is required with summer
feeding. The cattle gather their
roughage, and the manure produced
by them is distributed, and evenly. In
winter, dry-lot-feeding steers are fed
a ration of 18 to 22 pounds of grain
and 6 to 8 pounds of hay apiece, when
on full feed.
HOGS REQUIRE
GOOD PASTURE
. Every Farmer Having Swine
Should Sow Patch of Rape
Seed to Make Suit*
able Grazing.
Hogs require green food along with
■ a moderate amount of grain; but they
i will keep in good, thrifty condition
■ during the summer months on clover
and grass alone. Every farmer having
hogs should sow a patch of Essex
' rape seed. Sow four pounds of clean,
new crop seed to the acre; the ground
must be deep, finely pulverized and in
good order. In ten weeks from sow
ing this makes a good pig pasture and
good grazing; the pigs will grow fast
and will be kept healthy. When fed
on rape the pigs should have at all
times a mixture of wood and coal
ashes, mixing one handful of salt and
one of sulphur in each peck of ashes.
The fattening properties of rape are
probably twice as good as those of
clover. Last fall’s pigs should be giv
• en fine-cut clover hay, mixed with
wheat bran and wheat middlings.
1 Mix with boiling water. A few small
ears of corn may be given after the
mixed feed is eaten. Have the pens
clean and dry; give a thick bed of
dry leaves or cut straw. They should
have fresh water daily. Expert breed
ers give the following mixture to their
hogs; they consider it better than
wood and coal ashes alone: Ten
pounds of burnt bones, 10 pounds of
water and 10 pounds of sulphuric acid.
The burnt bones are put into an iron
pot and moistened with the water;
the acid is then slowly poured over
' the mass and well stirred in. Great
care must be used in handling the
acid, as the least drop on the hand
will burn like fire. Mix this with an
equal quantity of freshly burnt hard
wood ashes; let the pigs have a little
of this mixture twice a week. It is
especially good for pigs troubled with
tumors caused by eating too much
corn. Have a grass pasture or dry
yard adjoining the pens, as they must
have plenty of exercise to keep them
in good, thrifty condition.
Weather Effects on Calves.
According to some experiments
made in Ireland calves born in the au*
tumn made faster gains during the
winter when housed at night in a
well ventilated shed than did calves
which received no shelter, but by mid
summer there was little difference in
the two lots. Wet weather had a
more injurious effect on the unprotect
ed cattle than did a protracted cold
spell.
Queer Feed for Horses.
Horses and cattle in the country
near the Persian gulf are fed locusts,
fish and dates. In Thibet horses are
fed pig's blood, and in the cold moun
tain regions of Asia meat is regarded
as a necessary part of a horse's diet.
The increasing use of meat meal in
our country indicates that stockmen
are finding such a feed a useful addi
tion to the live stock ration.
Swamp Lands In West.
It is claimed that there are 77,000,-
000 acres of swamp and overflow
lands in the Mississippi valley that
can be converted into fertile farm
property at an expense of five tn
seven dollars an acre.
COLD 3 AND CHILLS
BRING KIDNEY ILLS.
>
Colds, chills and grip strain the
kidneys and start backache, urinary
disorders and uric acid troubles.
Doan’s Kidney Pills are very useful
in the raw spring
months. They stop
backache and urinary
disorders, keep the
kidneys well and pre
vent colds from set
tling on the kidneys.
Mrs. E. Bates, 36 Jay
St., Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., says: “A cold
started my kidney
trouble and for five
long weeks I was afraid to lie down
on account of the terrible pain in my
back. I took the doctor’s medicine
regularly but became no better. Then
I began with Doan’s Kidney Pills and
was entirely cured. I have had no
trouble with my kidneys since.”
“When Your Back Is Lame, Remember
the Name—DOAN’S,” 50c., all stores.
Foster-Milburn (Jo., Buffalo, N. Y.
LIABLE TO BEAT HIM.
SIEBH
J ]
□jAEKhLIJ so tJ 1U h I I I
zjTWTIi!/ 1 ’ /1
Uiwrn til’ll II
J
The Playwright—Honestly, now,
what do you think of my new play?
The Critic —Don’t ask me. You’re
so much bigger and stronger than
I am.
HANDS BURNED LIKE FIRE
“I can truthfully say Cuticura Rem
edies have cured me of four long
years of eczema. About four years
ago I noticed some little pimples
coming on my little finger, and not
giving it any attention! it soon became
worse and spread all over my hands.
If I would have them in water for a
long time, they would burn like fire
and large cracks would come. I could
lay a pin in them. After using all
the salves I could think of, I went to
three different doctors, but all did
me no good. The only relief I got was
scratching.
“So after hearing so much about the
wonderful Cuticura Remedies, I pur
chased one complete set, and after
using them three days’ my hands were
much better. Today my hands are
entirely well, one set being all I used.”
(Signed) Miss Etta Narber, R. F. D. 2,
Spring Lake, Mich., Sept. 26, 1910.
Although Cuticura Scap and Oint
ment are sold everywhere, a sample
of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to “Cuti
cura,” Dept L, Boston..
Exposing Children to Disease.
In an article on the '.reatment of
sick children in the Woman’s Home
Companion the author, Dr. Roger H.
Dennett, a famous New York special
ist on the diseases of children, says:
“Never, never, never expose the
child to any contagious disease in or
der that he may have it once and be
done with it. Even the so-called sim
ple children’s diseases, such as meas
les or whooping cough, have a death
rate that is appalling.”
Spendthrift.
Uncle Ezra —Do you think the
money young Eph Hoskins made
down in New York will last him long?
Uncle Eben —You bet it won’t! He’s
going at an awful pace. I was down
in the general store last night, and
young Eph was writing SIOO checks
and lighting his cigars with them. —
Puck.
Perpetual Worth.
“ Why was it you never married
again, Aunt Sallie?” inquired Mrs.
McClane of an old colored woman in
West Virginia.
" ’Deed, Miss Ellie,” replied the old
woman earnestly, “dat daid nigger’s
wuth moah to me dan a live one. I
gits a pension.”—Lippincott’s.
FAR BETTER THAN QUININE.
Elixir Bubek cures malaria where
quinine fails, and it can be taken with
impunity by old and young.
“Having suffered from Malarious Fe
ver for several months, getting no re
lief from quinine and being completely
broken down in health. ‘Ellxtr Babek’
effected a permanent cure."—W. F. Marr. |
Elixir Babek, 60 cents, all druggists,
or Kloczewskl & Co.. Washington, D. C.
Gossip.
Polly—Miss Yellowleaf says she al
ways tries to get her beauty sleep.
Dolly—Well, all I can stay is she
must suffer frightfully from insomnia.
—Woman’s Home Companion.
TO CURB A COLD IN ONE DAT
Take I.AXATIVH BROMO Quinine Tablets.
Dragristarefund money if it fella to ours. IL W.
GROv K'S signature la on each box. No.
If a man Is honest he doesn’t have to
use a megaphone to advertise the
fact.
I Death Lurks In A Weak Heart I
. . .. ■ • ' - ■ • ' . ' • - v.
NICE BUT NOT IN HIS LINE
Exhibition of “Mantles” Most Pleas
urable, Only Young Man Had Other
Business to Attend To.
“I’ve come to see about the mantles,
miss.”
“O, yes, I’m glad you have come so
soon; will you step into the drawing
room?”
The young man stepped; he was
pleased with his pleasant reception.
After awhile ma came in and said:
“How do?” So sorry to trouble him,
but would he mind if they tried the
mantles on? Her daughter’s was a
trifle too full, and her own a trifle
too long, she thought. Perhaps he
would be good enough to see.
The young man said he would be
only too delighted.
The two elegant mantles in the lat
est style which were lying across the
back of the sofa were then donned,
and the young man said he thought
they looked charming. Yes, perhaps a
little alteration was required, but —if
they would excuse him he would be
glad If they would let him get on with
his work and show him the gas-burn
ers that were requiring fresh mantles.
Why! Wasn’t he from Jiggins &
Jigginses ?
O, no! He was the young man that
attended to the mantles from the gas
company!—Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
Severely Witty.
“Henry,” remarked Mrs. Henry Pack,
“we are going to have some company
this evening, and I do wish you would
brighten up and look less like an hon
orary pallbearer. Say something hu
morous.”
The company came and with a few
preliminary coughs and winks, which
were intended to announce to his wife
that the witticism was about to be
perpetrated, Henry said timidly:
“Mary.”
“Yes, dear, what is it?” asked Mrs.
Peck expectantly.
“Have you got all of your hair on
this evening?”—Boston Globe.
Pleasing Irregularities.
There are wild irregularities that
are pleasing. In the north station a
boy tripped while running toward his
father and mother who were on the
back platform of the car just start
ing.
The Mother—Little Johnny fell
down.
The Father—Leave him lay.
This was wholly admirable.
Modern Journalism.
Arthur Brisbane, the editor, praised
। at a dinner in New York the educa
tive value of moving pictures.
“But, of course,” he said afterwards,
. “the moving picture will never equal
the newspaper as an educative force.
“The newspaper not only reports
news — in dull seasons it makes news
, as v»U. A famous editor put this
newi-making feature very neatly be
for a cub reporter when he said:
“ ‘lf a dog bites a man it isn’t news.
But, if a man bites a dog, it is. When
ever you can't find a man biting a dog.
go and bite one yourself.’ ’’
Breaking Up.
“The rain was coming down in
sheets.”
“I noticed It was in the bed of the
streets.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and seo that it
Bears the STy
Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Tleicher’s Castoria
Also With Gloves.
Assistant Editor —Here’s a farmer
writes to us asking how to treat sick
bees.
Editor —Tell him he’d better treat
them with respect.
Instead of liquid antiseptics, tablets
and peroxide, for toilet and medicinal .
uses, many people prefer Paxtine,
which is cheaper and better. At drug- ;
gists, 25c a box or sent postpaid on re- :
ceipt of price by The Paxton Toilet
Co., Boston, Mass.
The Result.
Mrs. Howard —Did you give Johnny i
an unbreakable toy?
Mrs. Barker —Yes. but the trouble
' is that he has broken everything else
with it —Harper’s Bazar
TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA
AND BUILD IT THE SYSTEM
Taks the Old Standard GROTH'S TASTBLBS3
CHILL TONIO. You know what you are taking.
The formula is plainly printed on every botua,
■bowing It is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless
form, and the most effectual form. For grown
people and children, 50 cents.
Measure the depth of the water be
fore making your dive.
Yesterday we cheerfully chipped in
two metallic men to help inter a friend
of ours who could “take a drink or let
I it alone!”
Mra. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion* allays pain* cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
All Fresco.
“Why does that old maid use so
much paint on her face?”
“She's making up for lost time.”
For constipation use a natural remedy.
Gariield Tea Is composed of carefully select
ed herbs only. At all drugstores.
Even a wise man never gets over be
ing a fool to a certain extent.
THE SAFE LAXATIVE
FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE
Most elderly people are more or
less troubled with a chronic, per
sistent constipation, due largely to
lack of sufllcient exercise. They ex
perience difficulty in digesting even
light food, with a consequent belching
of stomach gases, drowsiness after
eating, headache and a feeling of lassi
tude and general discomfort
Doctors advise against cathartics and
violent purgatives of every kind, rec
ommending a mild, gentle laxative
tonic, like Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin,
to effect relief without disturbing the
entire system.
Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is the
perfect laxative, easy in action, cer
tain in effect and, withal, pleasant to
the taste. It possesses tonic proper
ties that strengthen the stomach, liver
and bowels and is a remedy that has
been for years the great standby in
thousands of families, and should be
in every family medicine chest It is
equally as valuable for children as for
older people.
Druggists everywhere sell Dr. Cald
well’s Syrup Pepsin in 500 and SI.OO
bottles. If you have never tried it
send your name and address to Dr. W.
B. Caldwell, 201 Washington St, Mon
ticello, 111., and he will be very glad to
send a sample bottle for triaL
Financial Cripples.
They were taking the visitor from
upstate around Manhattan, showing
him the sights. The big automobile
rolled past many wonderful buildings,
all of which the host pointed out with
some feelings of civic pride. At last
they chanced to pass by the Municipal
Lodging house.
"What’s that place?” asked the rural
visitor.
“Oh, that’s one of New York’s homes
for cripples,” was the reply.
“What kind of cripples?” was asked.
“Financial,” was the reply, as the
car sped on. —New York Herald.
He Shut the Shutter.
“Willie, didn’t I tell you to shut that
shutter?” said Mrs. Boggs.
“The shutter’s shut,” replied Willie,
“and I can’t shut it any shutter.”
Whenever some preternaturally
smart zig tells us that he’s got our
number we wonder where he got his
adding machine!
Constipation can be cured without drugs.
Nature’s own remedy is Garfield Tea.
Friendship and confidence are plants
of slow growth.
I Are You Sick? |
Il For prompt relief, if you suffer from any of the troubles B
9so common to women, or if you are merely weak, and lack B
9 life and energy, you are urged to take Cardui,the woman’s tonic. B
9 Cardui is a purely vegetable, tonic medicine for women, B
9 and as its success of more than 50 years clearly shows, itß
9 can, as a reliable remedy, be depended on, in time of need. B
Mrs. L. E. Hibbs, of Morton’s Gap, Va., says: “I wasE
9 taken sick and confined to my bed, most of the time, for 10 K
9 months before I decided to
CARDUi
CC 77 ■
I The Woman’s Tonic I
I had ulcers and then a tumor.
The second doctor that treated me said my last chance ■
■ was an operation, and when the third doctor was called in, B
B he told me it was doubtful that I would recover. ®
H I wouldn’t consent to an operation, and decided to give B
H Cardui a trial. When I had taken two bottles, B
gg I better. In two months, I could goB
g about and do light housework. New I feel®
9 ^1 well and the tumor is gone.
/ 1 heartily recommend Cardui to suffering B
women. I am sure it will cure.” 9
h MV ‘ Try a bottle today. Your druggist sells ft. B
Kash
The com crop fooled lots of farmers*
year.
lany fields looked good but fell down
he yield. This was owing to a heir
vailable Potash, for Potash is primarily
oducer of grain.
com mutt have enough quickly mfiabla
produce well-filled ears as well u Stalina*.
rt 11 laer shoald coatala at least M Pataak--*
—no matter la what form the fertiliser 1>
■lt. 7# to 100 Iba. par acre. drilled la wixm.
ill keep away oatworma ana root lloa.
tier can't furnish brands rich anoart tn Potadt
arry Potash Salts so yon can supplement yew
W* wame manure or streoatboa tha brands be doos cany, wake
to o» tor prices.
Wo will sell direct ta any amount from •'
200-1 K bs< up. Write rm book J
ierdliMr iormelas and dinettana ,1
GERMAN KALI WORKS,!^'
JC Ilk liTnSSrfcSuljQSHnfSJiSSSIre CaaHtaantal BW«„ BaMmers ;
j Rheumatism I||
1 can be H
• cured
No matter what anybody I'
says; and no matter
many remedies you Aave U
tried. »
Our purifying Botanic Blood H
Balm has brought positive and K
permanent relief to hundreds of K
rheumatic sufferers who were a ■
good deal worse off than you are. K
This benign and powerful tonic ■
overcomes the virulent, germs■
which are the cause of this obsti- ■
nate complaint. It neutralizes the JI
caustic acids which poison and ■
inflame the tissues. And it en-■
riches the circulation with pure ■
fresh healthy blood. This is what K
yon need. ■
Your money lack fails J
tohelpyou. Don't endure those tor- J
turing miseries. Seek relief today. K
If your druerist can’t supply you with K
“B.B.B." writ* to us. We will ace that ■
you are supplied. ®
The Blood Bahn Co. H
Philadelphia and St. Louis Ki
Just D D ”1
FM^ZOth century
P.Corset
■ ■ ■ STYLE ST»
tMade of good quality
steam shrunk oontil.
that win not stretch-
Automate Boning^
warranted not to
break fm a year,
Bones constructed vLA
a patented swtomatto’
system that glrse ■
sliding movement In
bending, distributing
the strain, an*
making them bze
poaslble to break.
AT DEALERS $| RQ i
or sent direct l.vv ’
BIRDSEY-SOMERS CO.
233 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK i
THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. IhM.No E.BeJG?
THERAPIONKX^S
GREAT SCCCXSS, CURES XlhStT. BLADDER DISH I fIM,
FILES. CHSOSTO tXCEBS. SEIM IStTTIOSS—tITHEB 3X>
Sent aMm* ""A* hr FEES teekM M DE. Lt CUM.
KED. CO.. KATERSTOCE ED.. HAMFSTEAD, LOMIMIM.KSW
I—- - —
W, N. U, ATLANTA, NO. 13-1918. j
