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PROFITABLE MANAGEMENT OF
SMALL FLOCK OF GRADE EWES
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One of Daintiest of Animals Will Live and Grow Fat Where
Cow Would Starve to Death—Aim to Have Lambs
Come in January or February, the
Earlier the Better.
Sheep on a Western Ranch.
(By R. B. RUSHING.)
Four years ago I purchased a piece
of land adjoining my farm which was,
to say the least, one of the worst run
down pieces of land in the country,
with noxious weeds of all kinds, the
burdock being very rank.
I turned in my sheep and in a few
weeks they had the burdock eaten
right into the ground.
The sheep, while it is one-of the
daintiest of animals, will live and
grow fat where a cow would starve to
death. I usually make two cullings
of my flock each year; one in the
spring and one in the fall.
In the spring I cull out all the ewes
that do not bring lambs or those
that do bring them and for some
cause fail to raise them, unless those
ewes are of extra quality and promise
well in the future.
In the fall I cull out and ship off
all the old and weak ones, also fatten
and ship the wether lambs during the
fall and winter, thus my spring cull
ing is light and my fall culling heavy.
However, I consider both important.
I make a point to always buy the
best registered rams I can And. There
is nothing gained in using a “cheap
ram” on a flock of grade ewes.
If you want to raise early lambs,
that is, winter lambs, you must be
thoroughly prepared and clearly un
derstand the business. It means sleep
less nights, nursing bottles and warm
blankets. But lambs usually bring a
good price in the market, which I
think pays for the trouble of raising
them.
I aim to have my early lambs come
in January and the first of February—
the earlier the better. My ewes are
kept in good, thrifty condition, both
before lambing and after.
Here is where many fail to have
what Is called “good luck” with sheep.
I se many flocks after they bring
their lambs, either early or late, turn
ed out in the early spring and that is
all that is thought necessary. Conse
quently they become thin in flesh and
run down from sucking.
Thus, when the breeding season
comes again, they are in no shape for
service, and if they do get with lamb
at all, the chances are they will bring
DESTRUCTION OF
OLD FRUIT TREES
/
Travelins Timber Buyers Buy
Them Up for Manufacture of
Tool Handles —They
Should be Spared.
(By J. H. HAYNES.)
There seems to be a disposition on
the part of the farmers to ostracize
the old standbys of years ago. It
seems like a sacrilege to do so.
Some traveling timber buyers went
over our country buying bld apple
trees for the manufacture of tool
handles. Their story was that the
trees were worthless for fruiting and
the price they paid would replace the
old trees with young stock.
The grandfather of the writer
'.anted an orchard (seedlings) 80
/ears ago. He gave his children the
< privileges of choosing a tree and nam
ing it.
One of the boys called his tree
■“Bill’s Apple.” This tree is still living
and bearing. So Is the boy who
named it.
One other of these seedlings that
was top-grafted with the Pound Pip
pin is still bearing. Enough wood was
taken from these two old trees to
make a gavel to be used by the pre
siding officer at the annual meeting of
the descendent of the old pioneer.
Last August over 200 of these chil
dren and grandchildren met to com
memorate the memory of the planter
of these two old trees and this gavel
was presented to the society.
Some four or five miles from where
these trees stand is a pear orchard all
seedlings planted at the same time by
another pioneer named Harter. These
trees are in fair condition yet, and
although seedlings, the fruit is good.
Our motto is spare the old land
marks. A young tree six years old
that grew from a graft from a tree
276 years old bore an apple last year
and we are sure the fruit was of the
same quality, appearance, etc., as the
fruit that grew on the original tree In
the orchard at Boston, Mass.
Grape Cuttings.
Plant grape cuttings in the spring
as early as the ground can be worked.
a weak lamb. “Bad luck” follows of
course.
You can plainly see that the real
trouble lies in their care and hand
ling at all times. They must be made
to take plenty of ,exercise and not be
housed until just before lambing
time, except in stormy weather, then
it is well to have a shed provided for
them to go under during the summer
storms.
When lambing time comes I watch
my ewes very closely and am obliged
to be with them both day and night
almost continually. Os course at this
time I keep them in a good, warm
barn.
I fence off little pens about six feet
square and put a ewe and her lambs
in by themselves for two or three days
until the lambs have become strong
enough and sufficiently acquainted
with their mother to know her and
find her when turned in with a num
ber of ewes and lambs in a large place
provided for them in the barn.
Os course talking about winter
lambs may seem a little out of season
now, but now is the proper time to be
thinking of that very thing for it will
not be many months before the breed
ing season will be here and then if the
flock is not in proper condition for
breeding, the winter lamb business
will prove a failure.
It is an excellent plan for every
farmer to put up every fall a quantity
of oats straw to help out in carrying
the sheep through the winter. Wheat
straw will answer the purpose but it
is not as good as oats straw.
Os course straw is not an ideal feed
for sheep. It contains little nutri
-1 ment, but not much and a great deal
1 of food fiber; but clean oat straw fed
sparingly in connection with roots or
other succulent feed helps out won
! derfully.
Placed in the rack with clover hay
’ it will be pretty well eaten up every
■ day and it undoubtedly saves some
1 grain.
Where a farmer has plenty of grain
and little roughage oat straw will help
to piece out the ration admirably.
*lf fed in large quantities it will
■ almost certainly produce stomach
> trouble and this should always be
; avoided.
A a. a a. j— .— _ — — ,
FORAGE-PLANT
SEEDS IMPORTED
•
Considerable Number of Lots
Examined Found of Low
Vitality and Inferior
Quality.
The Secretary of Agriculture is call
ing attention to the Seed Laboratory
which has examined a considerable
number of lots of forage-plant seeds
imported into the United States dur
ing 1911 and found that many of them
consisted of seed of low vitality and
high weed-seed content, said:
“The analyses of 18 seed lots of seed
of alsike clover, red clover, white
clover, and hairy vetch, amounting to
225,780 pounds, showed that the pure
seed consisted of only 44.9, 64.2, 51.2,
and 23 per cent, respectively, of the
consignment, while the germination
was as follows: 38.8, 37.0, 30.5, and 77
per cent, respectively. Consequently,
though this seed was imported at a
cost of $7.47, $7.97, sl7 and $3.82 per
100 pounds, respectively, the actual
cost of 100 pounds of seed that ger
minated was $44.35 for alsike clover,
$34.66 for red clover, $111.86 for white
clover, $23.29 for hairy vetch, or from
two to four times the market price of
seed of the very best quality.
"A special examination of seed of
alsike clover and red clover imported
from Canada during 1911 showed that
approximately one-half was unsalable
for seeding, purposes in that country,
the seed control act there prohibiting
sale when more than a prescribed
number of noxious seeds are found to
the pound. One lot of seed of alsike
contained less than 50 per cent of
pure seed, germinating only 15 "cr
cent, or 7% per cent of the entire
bulk. This particular lot contained
approximately 135,000 weed seeds in
each pound."
Leads in Cranberries.
It is claimed that Massachusetts
leads the cranberry output, with an
average crop of about 400,000 bushels
annually; New Jersey is a close sec
ond with about 35b,000 bushels; and
Wisconsin ranks third with an aver
age of about 100,000 bushels.
RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE
AND GENERAL MERCHANTS
Address of J. T. Duncan of Douglas
ville, Ga., Before the Southern
Merchants’ Convention,
Atlanta, Ga.
“The other day I was in the home
of an humble Georgia Cracker. The
beds of pine plank were nailed to
the wall. The entire household out
fit consisted of a tin pan, a bucket
and gourd,' dining table with a bench
on each side, a pot and frying pan
for cooking in the fireplace' and one
lone chair for visitors, and yet—
“On that cabin wall there hung a
highly polished box, rich in meaning.
For through that box that man could
have talked in a few moments with
college presidents, with kings of
trade, with almost any important per
son in America. *
“Happy the merchant who sees
what that little box means and sees
it first. For that is success in mer
chandising, to see things first. Out of
that box runs a wire and over that
wire there flows into that home the
ideas, desires and spirit of stronger
rpen. People that were in another
world yesterday, are in his today ;
and as surely as that box stays there
it will in time put shoes on the frost
bitten feet, clothes on the back and
furniture in the home. Cabins are
empty of furniture only because they
are empty of ambition. But that lit
tle box on the wall is full of the
wine of pride—give it time and it
will tingle in the nerve of every mem
ber of that family.
“So the little box makes trade.
“Again, the little box steadies the
market, at least helps to. An ideal
market for merchant and famer is not
fluctuating, speculative market, but
one in which prices vary but little.
The world never before marketed a
huge crop at so steady a price. As
soon as the price found itself, it prac
tically stayed between 9 and 10 cents.
That little box has had its part. The
moment prices went up that little bell
rang in ten thousand cabins and by
night enough had come to town to
bring it down; the minute the price
went down it locked the gate of near
ly every farm lot until prices went
back to normal. In exactly the same
way it helps to give every article
ofSarter its normal value. For in
stance, never were there so many
chickens and such fine ones being
raised in Georgia and yet they have
kept at a fine average price.
“The telephone is a spender. Every
man here knows that the telephone
costs him far more than the monthly
charge. Let any member of the fam
ily think of something that he wants,
or she wants, especially she, and she
rushes to the telephone and orders or
at least inquires. Her neighbor does
without —she has no telephone. A
rural telephone is a spender. Once
a man telle his want to his merchant,
or his neighbor that want is fastened
in his mind until he gets it. The
telephone farmer is in town already
and becomes a town spender.
“The little box brings merchant and
country customer together. The vil
lage groceryman that takes the lead
is the one whose phone is forever
ringing with, talk like this: ‘Hello I
how are all? pleasant morning! I've
some nice so and so —, just in. Would
you like any this morning?' Custom
er feels notice and complimented. Far
more so the rural customer.
“The little box on the wall causes
cash trade. Ideal trade is cash trade,
and barter, constant barter through
the year is the first step. His tele
phone helps Mr. Farmer find a market
for his barter the year around —he
can sell before he hitches up his
horse. If his merchant is progressive
the phone says, ‘Any butter? Any
country hams? Any surplus corn on
hand? Any fodder left over! Any pea
nuts? I'm clear out!’ That coaxes
him into raising things that will sell
the year around.
“The telephone forced ‘free deliv
ery’ of goods in the town. The mer
chant that saw it, ‘saw it first,’ forg
ed ahead. The rural telephone will
force us to solve somehow the diffi
cult problem of rural free delivery of
goods. Happy the merchant who sees
and dares it first. It will be preced
ed by a short period *in which there
will be a small fee for delivery. And
is not something like rural free de
livery of our own goods the only way
to head off the mailorder drain? It
sounds visionary now, but the little
box on the wall will do its work in
time.”
Panama Canal Causes Clash.
Washington.—The lines are drawn
for a great diplomatic struggle be
tween the United States and Great
Britain over the question of whether
this country may discriminate in fa
vor of American vessels in the admin
istration of the Panama canal. The
wordy war may terminate in the sub
mission of the question to The Hague
tribunal. A series of diplomatic and
legislative conferences developed the
fact that the forces in the American
government which favor allowing the
American ships free passage
Fo-d Prices Lower.
Chicago.—Chicago provision deal
ers tell a story of cheer for house
wives who have been on the verge of
panic because of high food prices.
The dealers declare vegetables of all
j nds are selling at prices 50 per cent,
lower than quotations of a year ago.
Nature has been a big factor in the
reduction. Abundant rainfall through
out the country is making bumper
crops. The potato yield is unprece
dented this year. There has been a
big drop in retail prices.
Single Feather for the
Midsummer Dress Hats
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The single ostrich feather, uncurled i
and more or less heavy, is mounted
very cleverly on the smartest of mid
summer dress hats. Two models '
worth studying are shown in the pic- ■
tures given here, one of them in two
views. The beautiful Leghorn with
upturned brim is covered on the upper
brim and crown with chiffon in a
color like that of the straw. Pompa
dour chiffon, by the way, is highly
favored for this purpose and is useful
where one wishes to remodel a straw
hat that is soiled. A single long plume
with unusual width of flue is mounted
at the right side and stands almost
perfectly straight until the natural
bend of the rib tilts the end down
ward. (Some plumes are bent in the.
NEGLIGEES OF CHINA SILK!
Soft, Reclining Garments for the Hour*
•■*. When Ceremony Is for the Time
Forgotten.
Pale tinted china silk Kimonos em
broidered in self tones are charming
and soft, for they, like so many of the i
season’s garments, are made of the
thinnest of thin china silk. These have
a collar which turns back flat and
very short sleeves, the back of the
robe is plain, and the entire garment
is unlined. In pink they suggest
spring blossoms.
In this very thin china silk may also
be purchased dainty waists made sail
or fashion, the collar, tie and pocket
are of striped -gray and white china
silk. At about the same price come
plain white china silk waists with high
collars. Marquisette waists for “sep
arate blouse” wear are still very high
in price; some are made of high neck,
and others Dutch neck. Much Clbqy
lace is to be seen in the wash shirt
waists of inexpensive mode. These
also come both Dutch neck and
high.
WITH THE PANIER EFFECT
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One of the gowns worn by Miss
Mary Moore in “Mrs. Dane's Defense,"
at the New theater, London. It is of
plum glace, shot with heliotrope.
Small, Flat Jabots.
Small and rather flat plaited jabots,
which are only sufficiently large to
fill in the neck opening of the coat,
are being worn, and there is a fancy
tor flat lace bows with fan-shaped
falls of lac
। rib into curves along their entire
I length.) Two large muslin and chif
fon roses mounted at the base of the ■
■ plume finish the model, which is an
i excellent example of what may be
done with a single plume.
One of the most beautiful hats
shown this season is portrayed in the
Rembrandt model with short upstand
ing ostrich feather. It is a double hat
of the softest and finest Milan braid,
and is cleverly shaped into its out
lines by means of ribbon laced
through slashes in the straw. Such
a hat needs almost no trimming, but
the single standing plume with un
curled flues is especially fitting on a
hat with so much dash and style.
; JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
' THAT CONSOLING CUP OF TEA
Traveler Is Wise Who Provides Her*
■elf With Materials for Making the
Cheering Beverage.
In traveling both at home and ■
abroad, there is great comfort in your
I own cup of tea. On the steamer, par
ticularly, you miss your own brand,
and the well-versed traveler who is
wise in the lore of creature comforts
never wanders far from home without
her tea caddy. It adds greatly to her
popularity, too. “Oh, if I only had a
good cup of tea” is the general cry
on shipboard, and then this far-sight
ed woman produces the cheering
leaves, and she becomes the center of
attraction, and has her little coterie
every afternoon. There are some who
prefer it for the morning meal, too, in
stead of the usual mediocre coffee with
condensed milk.
For this poignant need of the travel
er, a charming little tea box of ma
hogany containing a small silver tea
caddy and a little tea ball, reproducing
in miniature a tea kettle, has been put
upon the market It is very simple in
arrangement, compact, and easy to
pack and makes a really practical
gift.
There are many places on the con
tinent where good tea is a real luxury,
and many an unsophisticated Amer
ican is astonished when she pays her
bill for what she considers a very
simple repast. She finds that her cup :
of tea costs more than a very elabo
rate dessert, and so it is a great econ
omy as well as comfort to carry your
own tea with you.
White Net and Colored Batiste.
Some of the newest dresses for mid
summer show combinations of white '
net and colored batiste. The sleeves
and under-arm sections of the waist
are made of net, as well as the upper
portion of the skirt. Embroider*!
panels of light blue batiste in English
eyelet pattern are used from the
waist yoke to the bottom edge of the
skirt.
Narrow flounces of embroidery ap- I
pear in three successive rows in the
sides of the skirt, and are joined to 1
the panels. Other dresses showing a ;
similar combination have pink em- j
broidered batiste in solid pattern
combined effectively in both waist and
skirt with the white net. Another
colored model is made of pink voile
with embroidered patterns worked out
in white linen floss.
Bureau Scarfs.
The white linen embroidered scarfs
with eyelet work, punch work or de
signs in satin stich are always in
good form and wear pretty well. For
a scarf that is a little out of the ordi
nary one may find most attractive as
fairs made of bands of cluny lace anfl
openwork scrim. These, especially
when over a color or figured cretonne,
are especially nice for cottage use.
They are finished with an edging at
the cluny
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could not
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feet**
M Nor take anythin! In my hand*. Ivas
so sore from rheumatism
There you see the hard case
of Mr. Phillip J. Cormisky of
East Mauch Chunk, Pa.^as
he explains in a letter to The
Blood Balm Co. 'our case I
cannot be worse than his.
“I suffered 3 years” he says, "I was
run down so bad, the doctors told me I had
no hope to be cured. I could find no place
on account of my sickness. I wasn’t fit
for anything before I started to use 8.8.8,
“Today I am well and happy; and able
to earn a hund red dollars a month on a loco
motive. Your medicine is so helpful I
gained 25 pounds in two weeks. And I am
still gaining. I will recommend 8.8.8. to
all my friends.”
If the drug-gist can’t supply
you with 8.8.8. write to The
Blood Balm Co., Philadelphia
or St. Louis.
Don't keep on suffering when
real help is at hand.
DAISY FLY KILLER ?’X d « $
flies. Neat, clean or*
namenuil. convenient,
K cteap. Lasts ail
Made of
metal, can't »pi 11 or tip
over, will not soil or
injure anything.
Guaranteed effective.
Sold by dealer
6 sent prepaid for SU
EABCLD EOMEBB, ISO DeXilb Av«_ Brooklyn, a. X.
■Mil If you suffer with piles, send
|]||AA name and address to DR. R. L.
M||UV ANDERSON, box 633, Fort
| llvW Meade * Flo™ 3 *, for valuable
information.
SnnnDCY TREATED. Give quick re-
UflUrO I usually remove swel
ling and short breath In a few days and
entire relief in 15-45 days, trial treatment
FREE un.GBKKSSSOSS, BoaA,AIUaU,Ga.
I say the degree of vision that
dwells in a man is a correct measure
of the man. —Carlyle.
Their Need.
Seedy Applicant—l can bring tears
to the eyes of the audience.
Theatrical Manager—Huh! We
want somebody who can bring the au
dience. —Puck.
Getting Rid of It.
Tyres—l tell you the man who
takes care of his own motor car has
i a good deal on his hands.
Byres—Well, soap is cheap.
Her Ruling Passion. ,
The woman who had chased dust
and dirt all her life finally reached
j St. Peter.
"Come In. you poor, tired woman,”
| he said, and held the gate ajar.
But the woman hesitated.
"Tell me first.” she said, “how often
i you clean house?”
I The saint smiled.
“You can’t shake off the ruling pas
sion. can you?” he said. “Oh. well, step
Inside and they’ll give you a broom
■ and dustpan instead of a harp.”—
I Cleveland Plain Dealer.
They Are Overworked Now.
Four-year-old Dick had made an im
portant discovery that his hair would
pull out if enough force was exerted,
and was absorbed in proving the fas
cinating find on his forelock. His sis
ter —aged seven —noted the proceed
ing with round-eyed horror.
"Dickie! Dickie!” she cried, "you
musn’t do that!”
"Why?” demanded Dickie, with the
cynicism of childhood.
“Because the Bible says that an
your hairs are numbered —and if you
pull any out you’ll make a lot of extra
bookkeeping for the angels.”
SALLOW FACES
Often Caused by Tea and Goffes
Drinking.
How many persons realize that tea
and coffee so disturb digestion that
they produce a muddy, yellow com
plexion?
A ten days’ trial of Postum has
proven a means, in thousands of cases,
of clearing up a bad complexion.
A Washn. young lady tells her ex-
, perience:
"All of us—father, mother, sister and
brother —had used tea and coffee for
many years until finally we all had
stomach troubles, more or less.
"We all were sallow and troubled
with pimples, bad breath, disagreeable
taste in the mouth, and all of us simply
so many bundles of nerves.
“We didn’t realize that tea and cos
! fee caused the trouble until one day
we ran out of coffee and went to bor
row some from a neighbor. She gave
us some Postum and told us to try
! that.
“Although we started to make it,
we all felt sure that we would be sick
if we missed our strong coffee, but we
tried Postum and were surprised to
find it delicious.
“We read the statements on the pkg.,
got more and in a month and-n half
you wouldn't have known us. We all
were able to digest our food without
any trouble, each one's skin became
clear, tongues cleared off, and nerves
in fine condition. We never use any
thing now but Postum. There is noth
ing like it.” Name given by Postum }
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
"There’s a reason,’’ and it is ex
plained in the little book. “The Road
to Wellville,” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A eew
o.e appear* trow time to ««™e. They
are genuine, true, and full of Jaunuuß
Interest.