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INCREASING DEMAND FOR HEAVY HORSES
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Two-Year-Old Percheron Stallion.
The breeding of heavy draft horses
is one of the most profitable branches
of live stock farming. Few farmers
realize the importance of size in a
draft horse when put on the market,
either in public or private sale. A
horse that weighs less than 1,500
pounds is not considered a draft horse
in any of the horse markets of the
country, yet the mares kept on the or
dinary farms are usually lighter than
that. This accounts for the small,
scrubby lot of horses that are con
stantly being put on the market at a
loss to the breeder.
This was well illustrated at a sale of
grade horses recently held in the La
mer sale barns at Salina, says the
Kansas Industrialist. Here the horses
of good size were readily bought at
good prices, while some of the lighter
ones could scarcely be sold at any
price. There is an increasing demand
for heavy draft horses in the cities in
spite of the fact that many firms are
using the motor truck in their delivery
work. The motor truck can be used
profitably only on long, heavy hauls
where the roads are good and speed Is
essential. The motor requires good
roads for its best operation and can
be used to advantage only In the
paved streets of the city or on good
country roads. These remarks were
made recently by the manager of a
large express company at Chicago.
The delivery manager of a big pack
ing company at Kansas City, says that
the motor truck cannot be used on
short delivery on account of the heavy
POTATOES GROWN
IN STRAW STACKS
Unless Ground Is Reasonably
Fertile One Should Not Ex
pect Satisfactory Results.
Years and years ago potatoes were
grown in old straw stacks, and this
suggested hauling out straw to cover
the ground no matter where the pota
toes were planted. I have heard a
great many praise this plan, while
others give it as a flat failure. I have
tried it with success, and in some
cases have failed, but in that failure
learned the cause thereof.
One cannot control the season, and
for this reason, early potatoes in
straw have been an indifferent suc
cess, while those planted later are
almost always better than when given
cultivation and the straw not used.
If we have a cold, wet spring, potatoes
planted in a deep furrow under straw,
are not likely to do well, while if they
are planted a little later, when the
sun is warm, they will not lack for
moisture, and the potato must have
sufficient moisture.
I prepare the ground and lay off
rows with a single shovel just as if
I were going to plant in the regular
way except that the rows may be
some closer together. The potatoes
are then dropped in the row, and bare
ly covered, so that in some cases one
side of the piece shows. It is often
as well not to cover with dirt at all,
but it is safer in case of dry weather
to cover a little.
Then with a wogan haul out oat or
wheat straw and cover the ground
solidly to a depth of six inches or a
foot. Never fear, for the potatoes,
they will come through the straw, and
so will nettles which are akin to the
potato vine in this respect, but other
weeds will be smothered, and the patch
will be perfectly clean except for
the rows of green potato vines. It
will not be necessary to cultivate with
either plow or hoe, and if a few bull
nettles should be found they may
be cut off with a blade. The potatoes
will form right at the top of the
ground and in the lower layer of
straw. There will be some elements
of feritlity in the rotting straw, but
unless the ground is reasonably fertile
one should not expect any better re
sults from this plan than by cultivat
ing.
At digging time begin on one side,
fork the straw over and pick up the
potatoes, then take the next row fork
ing the straw from it over on the row
that has just been dug or rather
picked. The potatoes will be white
and clean, and you will get all of them,
whereas by the old method of culti
vation and digging among the weeds
as high your head you get maybe not
more than halt
expense of operation. The motor
truck has its place on the farm. It
can be used for plowing and heavy
hauling, but can never replace the
draft horse. If the draft horse Is a
permanent part of agriculture, mor*
attention should be given to its pro
duction.
There is an increasing demand for
heavier horses on the farms. Deeper
and better tillage must be practiced in
the future, and this requires heavier
machinery and more motive power.
There are two ways of increasing this
power. One is by Increasing the num
ber of light horses. But the most eco
nomical way is to increase the weight
of" the horses. This will reduce the
farm labor force: will decrease the
amount of equipment necessary in re
quiring less stable room and less
harness, and the cost of feed will be
lessened.
All farmers and breeders who are
breeding horses for commercial pur
poses should replace their small mares
with heavier ones. This must be done
gradually by adding a few good draft
mares to the herd every year and sell
ing the poorer ones. Sometimes good
colts may be reared from inferior
mares by mating them to a good stal
lion, but better ones always will be
the result of the mating of better
mares to the same stallion. There are
plenty of good stallions throughout
the state,, but the mares are lacking,
and until the farmers come to realize
the value of the right kind of mares
the profit in breeding will be low.
Where this plan has been a failure
it was on account of wet, cold weather
early in the season which caused
the potatoes to rot before coming
up. We usually use clean straw, but
half rotten would answer the purpose
probably as well. This coat of straw
which may be turned under the next
year, enriches the ground for subse
quent crops whether of potatoes or
grain.
SOME PLANTS ARE
B!G LABOR SAVERS
Require No Greenhouse, Hotbed
or Window Garden—They
Are Hardy.
(By JOSEPHINE DE MARR.)
It is not too late in the season to
urge busy housemothers who love
flowers, but who have little time to
give them, to grow herbaceous plants.
These plants are labor-savers; for,
once established in good, deep soil,
they require little care or attention;
they bloom profusely, and if a good
selection is made, abundant blooms
may be had from early in spring
when the moss-pink (phlox subulata)
covers itself with flowers, to late fall,
when the hardy chrysanthemums
withstand the early frosts.
These plants require no greenhouse,
hotbed, or window garden, for they
are really hardy. However, it is well
to protect the young plants their first
winter.
Herbaceous plants are propagated
in several ways—by seeds, division,
cuttings of tops of roots. Cutting of
the roots, although not usually prac
ticed, is easy and successful," and
should be better understood.
If you will carefully dig up a plant,
say, a one-year-old golden glow, you
will find on the niain roots little
shoots close together. These are fu
ture plants. All one has to do is to
cut the root in small pieces, being
sure to allow one shoot or eye to th<o
piece, and plant them in the ground.
If one has too many plants, it Is
easy to exchange with one's neighbor,
and thus acquire a new plant.
White Geranium.
A good white geranium is a jewel
which, when found, should be kept.
Select one or two zonales for ornamen
tal foliage, and keep them bright by
giving the plant as much sunshine as
possible and a dose of ammonia once
a w’eek —a teaspoonful in a quart of
water.
Intolerable Nuisance.
Moles in a garden prove an intoler
able nuisance. While they may b?
trapped, the only sure way Is to in
ject bisulphate of carbon l:.to the)-'
runs.
EXPERIENCE
OF MOTHERHOOD
Advice to Expectant Mothers
The experience of Motherhood is a try
ing one to most women and marks dis
tinctly an epoch in their lives. Not ono
woman in a hundred is prepared or un
derstands how to properly care for her
self. Os course nearly every woman
nowadays has medical treatment at such
times, but many approach the experi
ence with an organism unfitted for the
trial of strength, and when it is over
her system has received a shock from
which it is hard to recover. Following
right upon this comes the nervous strain
of caring for the child, and a distinct
change in the mother results.
There is nothing more charming than
a happy and healthy mother of children,
and indeed child-birth under the right
conditions need be no hazard to health or
beauty. The unexplainable thing is
that, with all the evidence of shattered
nerves and broken health resulting from
an unprepared condition, and with am
ple time in which to prepare, women
will persist in going blindly to the trial.
Every woman at this time should rely
upon Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound, a most valuable tonic and
invigorator of the female organism.
In many homes
once childless there
are now children be
cause of the fact
that Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable
Compound makes
women normal,
healthy and strong.
If you want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi
dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
woman and held in strict confidence.
Reason Why.
She was a dear, old fasioned,
modest simple, maiden lady. So that
when she announced the fact that she
thought of paying a chiropodist a visit
her great friend was duly astonished.
, “I didn't know you suffered from
corns,” remarked the latter, when the
news was first broken to her.
“I don’t,” replied the old lady mild
ly, albeit firmly; "neither am I af
flicted with bunions, chilblains, nor
any other pains in the feet.”
Her friend gazed at her with grow
ing consternation.
"Then, my dear,” she remonstrated
gently, “what on earth do you want
to visit a chiropodist for?”
The little old lady’s cheeks blushed
a delicate pink as she leaned forward,
laid one mittened hand on her interro
gator’s arm and whispered:
“It’s this way, my dear. I do so
want to be able to boast that at least
once in my life I had a man at my
feet!”
ECZEMA SPREAD OVER BODY
R. F. D. No. 1, Lewisburg, Ky.—“ Fi
fteen years ago I was badly affected
with eczema upon my scalp first, then
it spread all over my body and con
tinued to grow worse for four years.
It began with a dry rash. After form
ing thick scales or scabs the irritation
forced me to scratch the scabs off and
the hair would come out with them.
Upon my face and body the sores
would get inflamed and they disfig
ured my face. It was worse where
my clothes irritated them. The erup
tion was a yellowish watery kind,
sometimes bloody. In warm weather
it was so bad I was not able to work
on account of the raw irritating sores
on my head and body.
“After trying various medicines
without relief I tried Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. After using four cakes
of Cuticura Soap and four boxes of
Cuticura Ointment and one bottle of
the Resolvent I was entirely sound
and well and have been for eleven
years.” (Signed) W. H. Williams,
Mar. 19, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
post-card "Cuticura, Dept L, Boston.”
Adv.
Our Relations.
“There’s a bright side, if we look for
It, to every black catastrophe,” said
Andrew Carnegie, at a reception at his
superb Fifth-avenue house, with its
outlook o^r Central park.
• “I know a millionaire who complain
ed of his loneliness.
“ ‘My wealth,’ he said, ‘brings me no
happiness, for I have neither kith nor
kin.’
“‘To pauperize,’ said I, ‘or to crow
over?’ ’’
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the XTy '"T*’*'
Signature of Tc&C&M'M
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Gee Whiz.
"Did the play have a happy end
ing?”
“Quite the reverse. The sheriff at
tached the scenery for debt.”
You Look Prematurely Old
SAW HOPE FOR THE BEAR
Birthday Gift Had Every Possibility
of Being Received as One of
the Family.
Page, a true little southerner, is lav
ishly endowed with the traditional
“family spirit.” His sense of family,
indeed, is so strong that he regards
any one or anything belonging to his
own household as in some mysterious
but very real way superior to all the
of the world.
Page has a dog whom he loves very
dearly, and it grieved him much when,
not long since, Jickey declined to have
anything to do with the stuffed bear
that came as a birthday gift. Present
ly, however, he became normally
cheerful and began to play happily.
A visitor sympathetically inquired if
Jickey has decided to adopt the new
bear as his friend.
“Not yet,” Page made smiling an
swer, “but he will soon, Aunt Annie.
You see, Jickey’s only a dog and he
doesn’t think as quick as we do. He
thinks the bear is only paying a call
here. But just as soon as he knows
that the bear is one of the family he'll
take to him all right.”
FUTILE HINT TO THE BORE
Social Caller Could Not Understand
Gentle Intimation Conveyed by
His Host.
President Wilson, thanks in part to
his splendid training at Princeton, but
thanks in greater part to his tact, is
said to receive and dismiss visitors
more adroitly than any former occu
pant of the White House.
Sometimes, however, a stupid visitor
turns up, and then President Wilson’s
tact is unappreciated, and the visitor
overstays his time. Apropos of such
visitors the president at a luncheon in
Washington told a story.
“There was an old follow,” he said,
“who was praising the rising young
lawyer of his town.
“ ‘George, for a busy man,’ said the
old fellow, ‘is one of the pleasantest
chaps I ever met. Why, I dropped in
on him for a social call this morning
and I hadn’t been chattin’ with him
more than fifteen minutes before he’d
told me three times to come and see
him again.’ ”
"That Human Trumpet Call.
When Enrico Caruso was in Atlanta
a few days ago he sang to the prison
ers in the federal penitentiary three
sons, including his “Sob Song” from
“Pagliacci.” After hearing Caruso,
Julian Hawthorne, now convict No.
4435, wrote a poem, a few lines of
which run thus;
“Then, in the hush of the great blank
hall,
God wrought a wondrous miracle,
For a voice like a glorious trumpet
call
Arose as a soul from the deeps of
hell.
And our souls rose with it on won
drous wings,
Rose from their prison of iron and
clay,
Forgot the grime and the shame of
things!
We were men 'once again in a sun
lit day,
Sin and grief and punishment —all
Were lost in that human trumpet
call.”
Many Plants "Left-Handed.”
Habits of plants analogous to the
right-handedness and left-handedness
iof man have been reported to the
■ Cambridge, England, Philosophical
j society by R. H. Compton.
In an examination of eight varieties
' of two-rowed barley the first leaf was
' found to twist to the left in 58 per
cent of more than 12,000 seedlings,
and an excess of left-handed growth
was found also in millet and in oats.
In corn there seemed to be no mark
ed tendency either way. No evidence
of hereditary peculiarity appears to
have been obtained and no special
significance of the results is pointed
out.
Showing Him the Road.
Tourist—l’m just a bit doubtful
which is my right road here, my good
man; perhaps you can direct me—?
Villager—A pleasure, sir, ‘deed 'tis;
that there road'll take ’e to Bill Wat
son’s, an’ this ’ere turn to Arry
Thompson's—Bill keeps th' best ale,
but if you want 'bacca as well, take
this 'ere turn —Bill don't keep no
shag—only twist. —London Bystander.
Thankful.
“I am lucky in being taken ill here
in New York, instead of being laid
up anywhere else.”
“Ah!" said the doctor.
“Yes. For all this money I'll have
to pay you I'd have to be ill anywhere
else for more than two months.” —
New York World.
For SUMMER HEADACHES
Hicks' CAPUDINE is the best remedy
no matter what causes them—whether
from the heat, sitting in draughts, fever
ish condition, etc. 10c., 25c and 60c per
bottle at medicine stores. Adv.
His Trade.
"That man yonder leads a double
life.”
“You don't say so!"
“Yes. He sells duplicating ma
chines."
Some men never recognize an op
portunity tinless it Is labeled.
For
That Picnic »
—to ensure complete success
A take along a case of
The satisfying beverage—in field or forest; ■
■ at home or in town. As pure and whole- g
W some as it is temptingly good. g
V Delicious—Refreshing f
_ Thirst-Quenching J s«i»
fo^Free^^. the Genuine-
li Refuse Substitutes. or Car boo*
Booklet. 61 . A ated in bottle*
( THE COCA-COLA COMPANY. Atlanta, Ga.
Juvenile Altruism.
Little Paul came in to ask his
mother, if Alfred and he might each
have a cooky. His mother purposelv
gave him two of different sizes. In
terested as to which Paul would give
his guest, she stepped to the door just
in time to see Paul give the smaller
cake to his playmate.
“Why, Paul,” she called, “don’t you '
know that you should have kept that I
one yourself?”
“Yes, I know,” was the nonchalant I
reply. “But, you see, I was afraid
that if I gave Alfred the biggest one ■
he might get sick!”
HEADACHE ATO BILIOUS ATTACKS
Caused bv Malaria removed by the use j
of Elixir Babek cure for such ailments.
“Myself and whole household had suf- I
sered very much for some time with i
Malarial Fever. ‘EUxir Babek’ has
cured us perfectly, so that we enjoy at
present the best of health.”—Jacob Eb- ;
erly. Fairfax Court House. Va.
Elixir Babek 50 cents, all druggists or
by Parcels Post prepaid from Kloczew- !
ski & Co., Washington, D. C.
Solving a Problem in Arithmetic.
Little Marion was busy with her |
“home work.” After a great many :
perplexed frowns and much nibbling
at her pencil she looked up and said; •
“The only answer that I can get to
this example Is five and three-fourths
horses. Do you ’spose that is right,
mamma?”
“Well, I don’t know,” answered her
mother, cautiously. “It sounds rather
queer.”
A long pause; then the small arith
metician’s face lit up with a smile.
“Oh, I know,” she cried. “I’ll reduce
the three-fourths horses to colts.”
Poison Oak or Ivy Poisoning
is quickly relieved by bathing the af
fected parts in a solution of two tea
spoonfuls of Tyree’s Antiseptic Pow
der to a pint of water. 25c. at all
druggists or sample sent free by J. S.
Tyree, Washington, D. C. —Adv.
Talking Shop.
Enthusiastic interest in one’s occu
pation is always an advantage, but, on
the other hand, it is not well for a
woman in business to talk of her work
at all times and places. Naturally,
the thing that we do constantly is our
most absorbing interest, but we must
remember that other people have
other things to talk about.
RUB-MY-TISM
Will cure your Rheumatism and all
kinds of aches and pains—Neuralgia,
Cramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts,
Old Sores, Burns, etc. Antiseptic
Anodyne.. Price 25c. —Adv.
Carefully Selected.
“By the way, Cleverly,” asked the
publisher, “where did you get these
photographs of strong-minded, deter
mined looking women with which you
illustrate your article on ‘Why Men
Don’t Marry.’
"Oh.” replied the author, “they’re ■
wives of the men I know.”
Real Diagnosis.
“Poor Maude says her heart is !
broken.”
“She's mistaken. It's only her head :
that's cracked.”
Mrs. Winslow* Soothing Syrup for Children J
teething, softens the gums, reduces intlamma- |
Uon,allays pam.cures wind co lie ,25c a bottle4A 1
Could Have Saved Her.
“Why do you hate her so?”
“She used to be engaged to my hus- j
band."
“And didn't marry him. Oh. I see.' '
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out Malaria and the Iron builds up
the System. For Adults and
Children.
Vou know what von are taking when
you take GROVE’S TASTELESS chill
TONIC, recognized for 30 years through
out the South as the standard Malaria,
Chill and Fever Remedy and General
Strengthening Tonic. It is as strong as
the strongest bitter tonic, but you do not
taste the bitter because the ingredients
do not dissolve in the mouth but do dis
solve readily in the acids of the stomach.
Guaranteed by your Druggist. We mean
it. 50c.
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alterative and cathartic properties.
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so essential to regularity.
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“Norton Yam,” "Providence' and “Sugar Tam,
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TOMATO Md EGG PLANTS, U.n pv MM.
10,000 for 115.00.
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