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BROOD SOW MANAGEMENT IS IMPORTANT
*<By JOHN M. kVVARD, lowa Experi
ment Station.)
To produce healthy litters it is not
only necessary that the sows be fed
correctly upon the feeds that furnish
sufficient muscle, bone and energy
making materials, but that they be
handled' wisely during the period of
gestation.
The mother sow needs food for
three important purposes: First, for
her own maintenance: second, for
growth on her own body, and, third,
for the nourishment of the fetal pigs.
Corn lacks muscle and bone formers,
and,-jn addition, is too concentrated
(not bulky enough for breeding
swine). Tankage, meat meal, linseed
oil meal, skim milk, buttermilk, bran,
oats, middlings, shorts, soy beans,
clover and alfalfa are the logical sup
plements to corn in the middle west.
At the lowa station the most ex
cellent rations for gilts carrying lit
ters are:
1. Corn, 88 to 90 per cent.; meat
meal or tankage containing 60 per
cent, protein. 10 to 12 per cent.
2. Corn, 75 per cent.; finely cut
clover or alfalfa, 25 per cent.
3. Corn, 80 per cent.; oats, chopped
clover or alfalfa, 10 per cent.; meat
meal or tankage, 10 per cent.
For old sows the proportion of meat
meal or tankage can be cut down
practically one-third to two-fifths
and still get excellent results.
Stronger, healthier litters, having
more hair, more color and more bone,
have been the result whenever we
added a suitable protein and ash sup
plement to corn. When we selected
our supplements wisely we also got
cheaper pigs. At present prices Tor
purchased protein and ash supple
ments, meat meal and tankage are
our cheapest sources.
Above all things, excepting the food
supply only, an abundance of exercise
is the most important. All classes of
pregnant animals do well only when
an abundant opportunity for exercise
is allowed. The general tone and
vigor of the mother is reflected in the
offspring; the better the general
health and condition of the dam, the
stronger and shore vigorous the
young.
Range of pasture is perhaps the
best of all. Allow the sows to follow
cattle for a while, but be sure to re
move them when they tend to become
clumsy and heavy. Scatter the feed
over the ground, such as sheaf oats,
soy bean hay, etc., and let the sows
FARM LIFE BEST
FOR FAMILY MAN
Cost of Living in City Is So Much
Higher That Ordinary Man
Saves Little.
(By 3. C. CUMMINGS.)
To the Editor: I am glad to note
the considerable interest being taken
In small farms by those who have
been bent on living in the city.
1 am glad to state that I feel there
is much more enjoyment and happi
ness on the small farm than there is
in city life, and this I know through
personal experience.
I am a carpenter by trade, learning
the trade while living on a farm'after
a year or two. I thought I could make
more money in the city, as wages were
better, so 1 went to the city to work,
getting wages ranging from 25 to 50
cents per hour.
I did not stop to figure the cost of
living in the city, but I found that it
was so much higher than in the coun
try that at the end of each month I
was where I started.
Finally in despair 1 decided to move
back to the country on a small farm.
We got some chickens, a cow and a
hog, and soon found our living came
much easier and I also find I have all
the work I can do at my trade.
While wages are less per day than
in the city, we get our board in con
nection, which lessens the expense.
Farm life is more healthful and pleas
ant than city life.
What, for instance, Is more enjoy
able than to go out and see a nice
flock of chickens and at the end of a
day gather a few dozen eggs; at night
and morning milk a good cow and
have your own good sweet butter and
pure milk for use, and then at the end
of the summer put your winter supply
of produce in the cellar?
This is all possible on the small
farm, and 1 am certain that if many of
our city brothers knew the advan
tages of the small farm, they would
not only cry "back to the farm,” but
they would go
ibie Hog House.
An Ideal Portal
gather it. Feed on the side of the
field opposite the sleeping bunks. Al
low hay in racks, the eating of which
is conducive to light exercise. Shut
the sows from the houses in the mid
dle of the day, rather than allow to
huddle up and snooze peaceably.
Schemes to induce exercise cost lit
tle, yet the returns are considerable.
Warmth, dryness, ventilation and
sunlight are essentials of an ideal
hoghouse. Such conducive conditions
can be secured with a little fore
thought. Good, dry bedding is
needed, and to be kept dry must be
changed regularly. Arrange the
houses so as to avoid draughts and
heavy winds, preferably placing them
in sheltered nooks. Although the hog
can stand considerable cold, yet the
breeding hog does not have the fat
which ordinarily keep the fat hog
warm; neither does the breeding sow
have a warm coat, as the horse, for
instance, roughs it. We have
found in our experience that sensible
shelter saves many cents.
We hog men cannot afford to feed
our hard-earned corn and other
grains to lice and worms. Crude oil is
cheap, costs not more than $4 a bar
rel, is easily applied, and does the lice
up brown and black—hence, why
hesitate. It kills the nits at one appli
cation, and can be used in winter, be
cause it is an oil, and does not evap
orate. An old broom or sprinkling
can, and a couple of hurdles, handled
by two active men, is sufficient equip
ment for ridding the farm of hog
lice.
Worms are a serious drawback. I
know of no better remedy than san
tonin, six grains; calomel, four grains
to a hundred pounds of hog. given
once on an empty (twelve hours off
feed) stomach, and repeated in ten
days if necessary. It is not well to
use any worm medicine upon sows
within a couple of months from far
row. because all pregnant animals
have some tendency to abort when
giVen a strong laxative. The thing to
do is to tend to the worms in time.
Laxativeness of the bowels is highly
desirable, as costiveness is a menace.
Plenty of exercise, combined with lax-
I ative feeds, such as tankage, oil meal,
: bran, alfalfa hay, etc., will largely
I solve the problem. However, if it
does not, a week before farrowing an
i emergency remedy of an ounce of
; Epsom salts per hundred pounds of
hog will help considerably.
ANSWERS GIVEN TO
POULTRY QUESTIONS
Few Problems Regarding Incu
bators and Hatching Eggs
Treated by Expert.
(By M. BOYER.)
W. E. R.—The dryer the air in the
incubator, the more rapid the evap
oration.
E. R. T. —The little eggs in the in
cubator throw off very little heat for
about the first two week^.
R- T. Y. —A high temperature during
the early part of the hatch is apt to
prove fatal.
T. Y. U.—A rise of temperature to
^llO degrees on the eleventh day, if
not too prolonged, will not necessarily
prove fatal.
I. O. P.—After removing the infer
tile eggs from the machine, spread out
the fertile ones so that they occupy
the same relative position to one an
other.
A. S. IJ.—-The White Holland tur
key variety are among the heaviest
layers.
■ S. D. F.—lnbreeding, lice, dampness
and improper food are causes of great
’ mortality among turkeys.
D. F. G. —Never breed from the same
I gobbler more than one year, unless
the same breeding hens are also re
tained for another season.
F. G. H.—Maryland and Philadel
phia dry-picked turkeys command the
highest market prices, not only for
the reason that the turkeys are fat
and usually of a fine grade, but that
they are well bled in killing, which
naturally gives the skin a bleached,
white appearance.
B. N. M. —A quick growth and de
velopment. with nearly maturity, must
come from food.
Attention to the Cockerels.
Instead of keeping half a dozen
; cockerels that are deformed and oth
[ erwise unfit for duty, sell them all off
■ and get one or two good ones. On(
i cock can care for fifteen or twenty
pallets. Better have blood than s'crul-
Every time a wise man makes a mfs
take he learns something.
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Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion for all kinds of
contagious itch. At Druggists. Adv.
Your neighbors may know that you
have money, but what they may not
know is how you get it.
WHEN RUBBERS BECOME! NECESSARY
And your shoes pinch, Allen's Foot-Ease, the
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Could “Work” Him.
The Preacher —Aren’t you afraid of
your future in the next world?
The Dying Man—No, sir. If satan
is any kind of a fellow at all he must
belong to one or more of the nineteen
different lodges of which I am a mem
ber in good standing.—Puck.
SHE CALLED HIM.
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Tom — I don’t know a thing I
wouldn’t do for you.
Grace —Then you will have mother
and father come and live with us.
Tom —Good you reminded me; but I
don’t know of anything else I wouldn’t
do for you.
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For red, rough, chapped and bleed
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with shapeless nails, a one-night Cuti
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Dry, anoint with Cuticura Ointment,
and wear soft bandages or old, loose
gloves during the night. These pure,
sweet and gentle emollients preserve
the hands, prevent redness, roughness
and chapping, and impart in a single
night that velvety softness and white
ness so much desired by women. For
those whose occupations tend to in
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Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
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Adv.
Municipal Golf Courses in England.
The parks committee of the Bir
mingham city council is considering
the establishment of a municipal golf
course, the proposed site being at
Castle Bromwich.
Edinburgh, with six public courses,
claims to have been the pioneer of
municipal golf. London has public
courses; Nottingham has two courses
and Manchester has had one since
1911. Sunderland and Liverpool have
similar schemes under consideration.
Several seaside resorts include mu
nicipal golf among their attractions.
Brighton and Bournemouth are in
stances. Yarmouth has a scheme in
hand and Southport has considered a
similar proposal.—London Mail.
Those Perilous ’Buses.
The experts from the National Phy
sical laboratory who have been asked
to ascertain how far, if at all, the mo
tor ’buses are endangering the stabil
ity of St. Paul’s Cathedral, will have
no simple task in apportioning* to the
'buses their share in the tremors to
which the cathedral is said to be sub
jected. But modern methods and
measuring instruments are capable of
some wonderful things.—Pall Mall Ga
zette.
Overloaded.
The postman, staggering under his
tremendous burden, stopped at No.
23 and rang the bell.
“Here’s the two dozen house blinds
you ordered sent by parcel post,
ma'am,” he feebly murmured as the
lady of the house came to the door,
“and the patent washing machine and
the new iron gate for the front yard,
but” —and he smiled a feeble, wilted
sort of apology—"l'm afraid you’ll
have to wait until my next delivery
for your portable garage.” •
It’s awfully hard for a girl to get
used to a stepfather.
Death Lurks In A Weak Heart
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RECALLS LITERARY MYSTERY
Rev. Mr. Wolfe, Author of "Burial of
Sir John Moore,” Buried at
Queenstown.
A literary mystery of a hundred
years ago is recalled by the special
centenary number, recently issued, of
the Newry Telegraph, an Ulster
tri-weekly. In its pages April 19.
1817, under the simple head of "Poe
try,” appeared what Byron called, “the
most perfect ode of the language.”
"The Burial of Sir John Moore.” By
ron or Campbell or any of the others
to whom this poem was variously
ascribed would doubtless have been
proud to claim it. But the author was
the obscure curate of Ballyclog, in j
Tyronne, Rev. Charles Wolfe, and (
the fame of the piece was but a pos- I
thumous fame for him. Not until his
death, of consumption, in 1823, at the
early age of thirty-two, did the author
ship become known to the world. And
Wolfe, who wrote much other verse
of merit, is remembered only by that
one poem, which sprang from the col
umns of a provincial newspaper to
universal recognition in the big world
of letters.—London Chronicle.
Alfonso Enjoys Reminders of Danger.
King AlfonSo of Spain is said to be I
a fatalist, and being of this temper
he is able to derive enjoyment from
occurrences that would affright most
people. A knife that he knocked out
of the hands of an assassin is hung
up in his den. The hides of two horses
up in his den. The hides of two horses
killed in bomb explosions have been
made into rugs for his cozy corner.
On his wedding day an attempt was
made on his life, and the next day he
visited the spot and pointed out to his
young wife the spot where the assas
sin stood.
FAR BETTER THAN QUININE.
Elixir Babek 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, ‘Elixir Babek’
effected a permanent cure.”—William
F. Marr.
Elixir Babek, 50 cents, all druggists, or
Kloczewski & Co.,Washlngton, D.C. Adv.
Charity Without Pauperism.
A great defect of many charitable
schemes is their tendency to pauper
ize the beneficiaries. This is over
come by one of the methods adopted
by the Robert Browning settlement at
by the Robert Browning settlement at
Veal worth, which supplies boots to
poor children. The footgear is hand
ed over in return for the payment by
the parents of a small weekly "rent”
until the retail price has been covered.
I After the final payment the boots
I still remain the property of the settle
ment, without whose permission they
can neither be sold nor pawned.—
London Globe.
Thought He Had ’Em.
Farmer Brown —Hello, John! How
you feelin’?
Farmer Jones —Poorly. I felt all
right yesterday, but I kinder think to
day somethin’s the matter with me.
I feel some o’ the symptoms of scia
tica, lumbago, dyspepsia, ringworm,
bronchitis an’ a few other ser'us ail
ments.
Farmer Brown—Du tell! What in
th’ name o’ Tophet did ye do las’
night?
Farmer Jones —W’y. I read the new
Farmers’ almanac till near mornin’.
Girl’s Gratitude.
"I gave up smoking to please her.”
"Good.”
"And drinking.”
“Well?”
“Now’ she says she finds me very un
interesting."—Kansas City Journal.
WILL RELIEVE NERVOUS DEPRESSION
AND LOW SPIRITS.
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic,
GROVE’S TASTBLBSS chill TONIC, arouses the
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system. A sure Appetizer and aid to digestion.
For adults and children. 50 cents.
Trying to Place Him.
"What is your idea of a radical?”
asked the young man who is studying
politics.
"My observation.” replied Senator
Sorghum, "is that a radical is usually
a man who wants to muss things up in
the hopes of establishing himself in
circumstances sufficiently comfortable
to warrant his becoming a conserva
tive.”—Washington Star.
Her Habit.
"It did Jack no good to marry his
stenographer, for she continued the
habit of office in their home.”
“How so?”
“When he starts to dictate she
takes him down.”—Tit-Bits.
Usual Accompaniment.
“This fresh air movement is merely
tentative.” "Well, of course, tents
will have to go with it.”
PILES CURED IN 6 TO 1* DAYS
Tour druggist will refund money if PAZU OINT
MENT fails co cure any case of Itching, Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6to 14 days. 50c.
Honesty.
No man is so dishonest but what he
considers his next door neighbor
more so. —Milwaukee Sentinel.
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No crop gives better returns for using the
wSf right kind of fertilizer than does tobacco.
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Both quantity and quality are improved by property
^ ance ^ fertilizers containing Potash in the format
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