Newspaper Page Text
PROPER SELECTION OF BROOD
SOW FOR PRODUCTION OF PORK
Eegardless of Breed, Animal Should Possess Certain Definite
Characteristics Typifying Combination of Good
Breeding With Individual Excellence-
Hints for Summer Care.
■aaMßSsgag%HalEaßMßM||K^
~ < s - *
x : -X' v.-< >s '. __°- *A -ftN y - j;- ■ > 1
A Berkshire Champion.
(By R. G. WEATHERSTONE.)
The brood sow is the unit of pork
production. Regardless of her breed
she should have certain definite char
acteristics typifying a happy combina
tion of good breeding with Individual
excellence. The easiest and most ex
pensive method of embarking in the
swine breeding business is to pur
chase two or more pure-bred gilts,
safe in pig to unrelated sires, to be
used as foundation stock. Selection
of the best females from their progeny
and mating them to a useful growthy
quality male will establish within a
very short time a high-class herd. In
selecting a sow for breeding pur
poses the following points should be
emphasized:
L The gilt should be pure bred; a
typical utility representative of her
breed.
2. Should trace to a large, even
litter, farrowed by a kindly disposed
heavy milking dam that displays v«'
or, quality and symmetry.
8. She should evidence early matur
ity; possess a clean, sharply head,
large, bright eyes, heavy P aws . Hsht
jowl, neat ears, short "eck; have a
long, straight, strong back, broad,
meaty loin, smooth compact shoul
ders, deep, well Af cbed sides; even
width, plump shapely hams, a neat
trim unde’-' jne - dotted with many
evenly r-^ced rudimentaries; short,
L straig) 1 ,egs - wlth clean > dense bone;
'fiar 1 u P rl ßht on strong, well sup
b^ted pasterns, and exhibit style and
sigfsh throughout.
ni, 4. She should be a pasture product
^ther than pen-fed, chubby pet.
5. She should possess quality; be
in a vigorous growthy condition, free
from wrinkles, and giving promise of
development of flesh in region of val
uable cuts, thus yielding a higher
dressing percentage of edible pork.
In order that we may take proper
care of the young pigs it is necessary
that we know about what time to ex
pect them.
I have made it a rule to keep a rec
ord of the date on which the sows are
bred.
By reference to my record I find
that my sows farrow from the one
hundred and twelfth to the one hun
dred and fifteenth day from breeding.
Some claim that an old sow will go
LITTLE SPARROW
PEST DESTROYER
JBntfUoli Bird May Be Used Against
Alfalfa Weevil in the West—
Experiments Are to
/ Be Made.
' The English sparrow, originally im
ported into this country to destroy in
sect pests, but known chiefly in recent
years as a pest of other birds, may
come into its own again, according to
the officials of the government bio
logical survey. It has been found that
the sparrow is a vigorous enemy of
the alfalfa weevil, an evil which
threatens to spread throughout the
entire alfalfa farming territory of the
west as the cotton boll weevil has
spread in the south. So far the weevil
lias appeared only in Utah and part
of Wyoming, but a dozen other states,
it is said, will be affected within a
few years unless a real enemy of the
pest is introduced to fight it.
The biological survey is planning to
experiment with other birds this sum
mer and will not recommend that the
English sparrow be sent into the al
falfa territory unless no other effec
tive enemy of the weevil can be
found. The bureau of entomology has
received from its agent in Italy a
number of parasites which feed on the
alfalfa weevil and these Will be sent
to Utah at once.
Protecting Sheep From Doge.
A Minnesota farmer says that he
keeps dogs away from his flock by
putting in his pasture the dummy
of a man holding a stick for a gun.
This dummy is taken down ^every
morning, and put up again in the
evening at different places from night
to night. He says a sheep-killing dog
will not go near enough to the dum
my to discover that it is a bogus man.
Size of Farms.
Our farms are decreasing in size,
the average number of acres in farms
having decreased from 146 in 1900 to
138 in 1910.
longer than a young sow, but I bred
a yearling sow, a two-year-old, and a
six-year-old sow all on the same date.
These three sows all farrowed on the
same day.
I like for my sows to be into a
thriving condition when the pigs are
farrowed. In fact, I like for them to
■ Improve in flesh during the entire
period of gestation.
Some people are afraid getting
their sows too fat, and r suppose that
they can be made wo but they
ought to be in go<^ flesh. They should
have a surplus- U P f° r the suck
ling of the /oung pigs, because it is
• hard to k^ep a sow from going down
। j n fl es h rapidly while the pigs have
to dep jn d upon her for their food.
Middle White Sow, Walton Rose 69th,
First at Royal Show, Liverpool.
* The sows are given separate lots,
with a good shelter, close, warm
house, if the weather is cool, about a
week before they are due to farrow.
The sows are fed Sparingly for a
few days after farrowing, then grad
ually brought up to a full ration.
It has always been hard for me to
keep from feeding the sow too much
while the pigs are young, and as a
result I have had several cases of
scours with the young pigs.
When I find the pigs beginning to
scour, I give the sow 15 to 20 drops
of laudanum in her feed for a few
feeds. Her feed is reduced and this
usually checks the scours in a day or
so. If I have not any laudanum I
have used powdered charcoal with
good results.
As soon as the pigs are old enough
to eat I give them a separate trough
where they can eat without being dis
turbed by the mother. They are given
a mixed feed of middlings, corn meal
or other ground feed mixed with
water. The sow gets a similar ration.
More corn is used in cold weather
than if the season is warm.
GIVE HERD BULL
PLENTYEXERCISE
Important to Keep Animal Stromr
and Vlgoroue—Various
Ways of Givinar Him
Needed Work.
It is very important that the bull
at the head .of a herd be given plenty
of exercise, and be fed like a work
horse, as in this manner he becomes
strong and vigorous, and a sure calf
ga(ter.
On the other hand, if a bull be de
prived of exercise and the proper
kind of feed and becomes indolent,
lacking energy, especially breeding
energy, he is rendered almost value
less; in fact, he becomes a detriment
to a herd, owing to the fact that a
breeder is losing valuable time by re
peatedly breeding his cows to him
without results.
The various ways of exercising a
bull might consist in a paddock to
run in, a tread power to work in, or
being chained up and staked. At any
rate, it Is important to conceive some
manner in which to give the herd bull
plenty of daily exercise, as the re- i
suits of good feed and plenty of exer
cise may be plainly noticeable in the
offspring.
The New Way.
This is the modern Idea of cow
management—to first have a cow of
largest possible dairy capacity, know
• what her capacity to convert food
' into milk is, and feed up to the ca
pacity an^ no more. In your herd
• that you are feeding all alike it may
’ be possible that two cows of limited
i capacity are wasting food that one
: may be in need of to do her best
; work. Are you underfeeding good
■ cows and overfeeding poor ones?
Cut Off Diseased Wood.
Diseased wood on a tree can npver
, be made new again.- Cut it off and
i allow another shoot to grow. Every
> day that such wood remains on a tree
adds to the liability of losing it
SaENCE
BWENTION
QUITE HANDY WHILE SHAVING
Aluminum Holder Keeps Brush and
Soap Always With Mug—Not
Subject to Tarnishing.
. A useful shaving accessory has
recently been put on the market in
the shape of a holder, which keeps
the brush and soap always in place
on or in the shaving mug. The
holder is made of aluminum and,
therefore, is light and not subject
to tarnishing. At the top rise two
flexible arms, which clasp the brush
\J V I
\ H —77
I % ya/ //
Handy Shaving Accessory.
handle and hold it in a horizontal
position over the cup, with the bristle
and where the drippings can drop into
that receptacle, and not stain the win
dow-sill or any woodwork where the
implements may be stood. A spring
clip running down the back engages
the edge of the mug and holds the de
vice in firmly. The main piece of the
holder extends midway down into the
mug and has strip extending at right
angles at the bottom, and with two
little spikes arising from it The
soap is pressed on to these spikes
and remains fixed when the brush
is rubbed over it.
MACHINE WILL MAKE CHANGE
All That Is Necessary Is to Press
Buttons and Coins Indicated
Are Spouted Out.
Since the day of the first cash reg
ister there have been manj, machines
made on its principle. One of the
latest is the automatic change-mak
ing machine invented by a California
man. Most of us are familiar with
machines met with in drug stores and
restaurants, where the amount of our
purchase is set forth and recorded
every time the cash drawer is opened.
This new apparatus, however, goes a
step further and automatically makes
change, which it discharges into a
little cup at bottom, like the re
ceiver on a slot machine. When a
purchase is made the clerk records
Machine for Making Change.
the amount, as on the other kind of
cash registers, and then records the
amount of money received for it. If
there is to be change he merely press
es the buttons representing the
amount' of change required and the
proper coins drop from their places
into the chute that leads to the cup.
1 The Sixth Sense.
At a recent meeting of the Paris
Afcademy of Sciences, Monsieur Kunz
discussed the phenomenon of “feeling
at a distance," to which the power of
blind people to avoid near-by ob
stacles is ascribed. Monsieur Kunz
believes that such a power exists, and
that it is not peculiar to the blind. It
seems to be shared by others who
possess a peculiar constitution. The
faculty appears to reside in the skin,
for experiments show that it is not
connected with the sense of hearing.
As to its nature, little knowledge has
been obtained. There is a tendency
to ascribe obscure phenomena of this
kind to electrical action, but the mode
of operation remains unknown.
Eardrums Protected.
To protect the eardrums of men on
deck from the shock produced by the
discharge of naval artillery, protectors
made of celluloid are inserted in the
ears, with a ball at one end which fits
in the ear opening. The device is
formed with a bore which turns at an
angle at the ball, and it is through
this bore that the sound waves are
permitted to travel to the ear. The
ordinary vibrations produced by
speech are so small that they pass
through the bore, but the large sound
waves produced by the firing of the
। big guns are impeded.
ACETYLENE FOG-HORN SIGNAL
Automatically Controlled Buoy or
Beacon Used for Year Without
Being Given Attention.
An automatic acetylene fog-horn is
being worked out oy Gustav Dalen,
. the Swedish inventor of the automatic
> ally lighted buoy or beacon. The
1 light-controlling device is a sun valve,
by which the light of day shuts off the
1 acetylene from the burner and the ap
pearance of darkness turns it on and
relights it. A buoy equipped with this
valve has been regularly lighted for
1 more than a year without attention
1 or renewal of its supply of calcium
1 carbide. An acetylene fog-horn al
-1 ready patented by the inventor in
1 Canada consists of a rotating disk,
’ carrying on its periphery small
’ pockets containing gas, and a horn in
1 front of which an electric spark ex
-1 ’plodes the gas. Each pocket passes
an acetylene jet before reaching the
spark, the acetylene thus taken up
forming an explosive mixture with the
air. By changing the rate of the disk’s
rotation, the rapidity of the explosions
can be varied to any number up to
500 or more per second, and the tone
produced by the horn as a result of
the explosions can be adjusted as de
sired by a suitable regulation of the
speed- To cause the horn to operate
when needed, and only then, has been
the serious problem. One plan Is to
have it set in action by a tuning fork
responding to the vibrations of a
steamer’s whistle, and with this ar
rangement an approaching steamer in
a fog would, on sounding its whistle,
get the fog-horn signal indicating the
locality.
MEANS OF SUBDUING WAVES
Automatic Apparatus Being Manufac
tured for Discharging Oil on Sea
During Stormy Weather.
I 1
A special automatic apparatus for
discharging oil on the sea In stormy
weather as a means of subduing the
waves is being manufactured by a
British concern. The apparatus con
sists of a cast-iron oil reservoir above
a vertical cylinder. A heavy 'piston,
working in the cylinder, attached to a
tubular rod and provided with a
। spring, ejects the oil onto the water.
Oil on Troubled Waters.
A handwheel on the spindle rod is
used to raise the piston when the
cylinder is being filled with oil from
the reservoir.
The apparatus is mounted in the
bow as shown in the illustration, says
the Popular Mechanics. Two small de
livery pipes protrude through the bow,
one on each side of the stem. The dis
charge of each pipe is about half a
gallon per hour, but this may be
varied according to requirements, den
sity of oil, etc.
Oil has been utilized for many years
as a means of subduing the waves,
and in many instances has saved ves
sels from disaster.
NOTES OF k .
SCIENCE M
SINVENTJCWr
Fourteen per cent, of the egg is al
bumen.
London Is the healthiest capital of
Europe.
Street gas lamps were first used in
London in 1807.
Licorice grows in abundance in the
Ural territory of Russia.
There are more muscles in a rat’s
tail than in a man’s hand.
The Scotchmen are the heaviest on
the average of all British subjects.
The state of West Virginia produces
65 times more coal than it did 30
years ago.
Ribs radiate from a center disk of
metal in a kite frame patented by a
Wisconsin man.
The world’s demand for moving pic
tures now calls for the use of nearly
55,000 miles of films a year.
New Jersey maintains its high
standard of public schools at a cost
of about 20 cents a ddy a pupil.
A French chemist claims to have de
vised a simple but accurate method of
measuring the surface of a human be
ing.
The average weight of a man’s brain
Is three pounds and eight ounces while
that of a woman is two pounds eleven
ounces.
A Berlin scientist claims to have
found away to build up diamonds
from chips with ordinary illuminating
gas and a mercury amalgam.
An attachment for phonographs by
! which a violin can be connected with
a record and made to produce music
has been invented by a Wisconsin
1 man.
Frederick C. Hewitt last year left
220,000 to the Post-Graduate Medical
School and Hospital and $2,000,000 to
s the Little Day nursery, both New
1 York institutions.
An automobile wind shield patented
1 by a Vermont woman has a small win
-1 dow in one side, which can be adjust
-1 ed to admit as much air as may be
desired, but which will keep out raiu.
The Value
of a Man
By Edward A. Marshall,
Director of Mianoaery Coune of Moody Bible
— liulitute, Chicago
TEXT—How much then is a man better
than a sheep?—Matt. 12:12.
Jesus had just
been at the feast
at Jerusalem and
was returning to
Galilee. He may
have been nearing
Capernaum when
h e encountered
the Pharisees,,who
complained of the
bad example his
disciples were set
ting by gathering
a few ripened
heads of wheat
which grew beside
the path. Jesus
then entered the
synagogue, where
he healed the man with the withered
hand, to which they also objected,
saying: “Is it lawful to heal on the
Sabbath day?” that they might accuse
him. Jesus replied with the simple
illustration of the sheep In a pit and
closed by asking, “How much then is
a man better than a sheep?"
Men and women are such poor
judges of values that they are easily
deceived. Merchants deceive their
customers with imitation silks, wools,
and all manner of grocery products.
The milkman can water the milk and
escape detection except by the in
spector’s test. Frenzied finance takes
millions of dollars from the pockets
of the poor. A flaming ad. in the paper
draws people to California, Cripple
Creek, and the Klondike for gold. Men
leave their families without a living,
breaking their promise to maintain
wife and children, and leave to follow
a will-o’-the-wisp vision of gold. Some
of them never return. All these things
show the fickleness and shallowness
of human judgment when it comes ,to
the estimate of values.
In any daily paper one may find quo
tations of the value of cattle, sheep,
hogs, etc., but not of the value of a
man. On the farm the shepherd care
fully protects his sheep. A lamb,
born on a cold, rainy, spring day is
wrapped in a blanket, placed by the
kitchen fire; chickens hatched, are
put in baskets, carefully guarded and
fed, but, alas, the spiritual care of a
man is neglected. If a man poisons
your sheep, he will be arrested, but a
hundred saloonkeepers might give
your boy a drink and not one of them
be held responsible. They may rob
your boy of his money and manhood
until he loses his employment, and is
compelled to sleep in a ten-cent lodg
ing house with nothing to eat but
what he begs, but they go unmolested
and their business is protected by the
law; while if your boy should commit
a crime, when under the influence of
the liquor he got from one of them, he
would be punished, and the saloon
keeper Would escape. Poisoning sheep
sheep is not protected by law. “How
much then is a man better than a
sheep?”
Sweat shops cost the slow death of
thousands because of the greed for
gold. A dollar is worth more than a
human life. Accidents frequently
happen because of the pure careless
ness on the part of some one who ut
terly failed to consider the value of a
man.
God’s estimate of the value of men
can only be the correct one, because
the one who makes a thing is the one
who knows its worth. The value of a
sheep is estimated in the market of
the world, so God estimates the value
of a man by the market of heaven.
Jesus estimated that if you put a soul
into one scale of a balance, and the
whole world into the other, the soul
would outweigh the world. For this
reason the soul cannot have an earth
ly value, because it would take more
than the whole world to buy just one
soul.
Jesus looked at the Pharisees’ view
of things by which they estimated
their opinions, and wondered at their
shallow judgment in the estimation of
the value of a man; so he must do to
day as he sees people estimating the
relative values of things they secure,
and of the unprofitable way in which
they spend their time. People take a
fancy to some bric-a-brac and pay a
foolish price for it, but in a year or
two transfer it to the attic and then
to a second-hand store to make room
for something else which has caught
their fancy. Do you remember how
many things you discovered the last
time you moved which you had once
prited, but which you had come to
call “rubbish,” and how you remarked,
“I wish I had the money back that I
spent on these?” It was because you
had not placed the proper value on
them when you made your purchase.
When Christ came to investigate the
condition of the human race and see
what he could do to ameliorate the
suffering caused by sin, he did not
waste his time on trifles by trying to
create a better environment nor patch
up the weaknesses of men.
There are doubtless few Christians
but what feel from time to time that
the money they spend here and there
to gratify passion or fancy is worse
than wasted. There is only one way
to correct this habit and that is th ask
God to give you the true vision of
values as they have been estimated in
the commercial rating of heaven.
MACON, DUBLIN AND SAVANNAH
RAILROAD COMPANY
roCAL TIMETABLE.
Effective July 2, 1911. .
No.lß N 0.20 Stations N 0719 No.lj
A.M. P.M. Lv. Ar. A.M. P.M;
*7715 3725 Macon' 11:15 430
7:22 3:37 Swiftcreek 11:03 4:20
7:30 3:45 Drybranch 10:55 4:12
7:34 3:49 Atlantic 10:51 4:09
7:38 3:53 Pike’s Peak 10:48 4:08
7:45 4:00 Fitzpatrick 10:42 4:00
7:50 4:04 Ripley 10:37 3:53
8:00 4:14 Jeff’sonville 10:27 3:42
8:10 4:23 Gallemore 10:15 3:30
8:20 4:33 Danvilel 10:07 3:22
8:25 4:38 Allentown 10:02 3:17
8:34 4:47 Montrose 9:53 3:08
8:44 4:57 Dudley 9:42 2:58
8:50 5:03 Shewmake 9:36 2:52
8:55 5:09 Moore 9:29 2:45
9:10 5:25 ar 7 1v.9:15 2:30
Dublin
9:15 5:30 lv ar 9:10 2:25
9:17 5:32 SouMD&SJct 9:08 2:23
9:21 5:36 NorMD&SJct 9:04 2:19
9:31 5:45 Catlin 8:54 2:09
9:40 5.54 _Mlntor 8:47 2:01
9:50 6:05 Rockledge 8:36 1:50
9:55 6:10 Orland 8:31 1:45
10:08 6:23 Soporton 8:19 1:33
10:19 6:34 Tarrytown 8:07 1:21
10:25 6:41 Klbbee 8:00 1:15
10:40 6:55 Vidalia 7:45 1:00
CONNECTIONS. 7
At Dublin with the Wrightsville and
Tennille and the Dublin and South
western for Eastman and Tennille
and intermediate points,
At Macon iwth Southern railway
from and to Cincinnati, Chattanooga,
Rome, Birmingham, Atlanta and in
termediate points. Also the Central
of Georgia, G., S. & F. railway, Mai
son and Birmingham railway and the
Georgia railroad.
At Rockledge with the Millen and
Southwestern for Wadley and inter
mediate points.
At Vidalia with the Seaboard Air
Line for Savannah and intermediate
points, and with the Millen and South
western for Millen, Stillmore and in
termediate points.
J. A. STREYER, G. P. A.,
Macon, Ga.
Foley’s
ORINO
Laxative
Sa Plaaaant and Effeetfvn
GURU
Constipation, Stomach and
Liver Trouble,
. by stimulating these organs and
restoring their natural action.
la best for women and chil
dren aa ORINO does not grips
or nauseate.
FwtabU and Stationary
■MS
I ■ -I
AND BOILERS.
Saw, lath and Shingle Milla InjeotN^
’ Pna^M and StUnaa, Wood Sava.
Bhatia, PuUejra, Belting, Gaae>
llaeßaginea.
LARQB STOCK AT
LOMBARD
I :
1 PaaaSiy, Machine and Boiler Wechs
Supply Store.
AUGUSTA. GA.
ROYSKnmcms
■akee Kldoeya nnd Bladder BlgM
■
■MaaßaMßMaaaaaMsaMMßnaaawaMsaasaßanßaataSß
LflYour
Printing
rzn
If it is worth
doing at all,
• it’s worth do
ing well.
□
First class work
at all times is
our motto.
Let us figure
with you on
your next job.
I — tzi
r ■ .1 I, ■ . iJ
9■ . ’
