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PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT
DIVERSIFIED FARMING
The Poultry Yard.
If it smells sour or musty around
where the chicks eat or hover, get
the spade to bury some of them.
Keep it handy, for it will be needed
often.
If it is desired to breed up the
flock for vigor and early maturity,
do not make the mistake of selling
all the early, quick-maturing pullets;
but rush the early cockerels off to
market.
One hen may hatch all her eggs,
the next may hatch none, the third
may hatch part of hers; and the gen
eral average is far from a 100 per
cent, hatch. Do not expect the incu¬
bator to do more than hens.
Kush the marketable young stock
toward the pot just as early as large
enough. During the season that poul¬
try meat Is scarce, a small bird may
bring more than it ever would again
for market purposes, and the expense
of caring for and feeding It is stopped.
Chicks need tender grain feed
when a few days old. It aids in keep¬
ing the bowels in good order and in
other ways, but green feed should not
be relied on too much. Grain gives
them something to develop on.
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THE AMERICAN CARRIAGE HORSE.
The Figures on the Lines Are the Ideal Measurements in Inches.
Why not extend the poultry
the farm by adding ducks,
turkeys to the flock of chickens?
Docks and geese, particularly, feed
differently from the way chickens do;
•ad will use some things for feed that
chickens will not.
That old cat that woffld let
chicks peck her when anybody
about sometimes eats the same
when she thinks no one is looking.
It, *eems unkind to accuse the, old
family pet, but It very often pays
■sake sure of what she is really doing.
Those who use Incubators should
that the air about the machine
pure and free from bad odors—es¬
pecially from the fumes of the lamps.
The air can be kept pure without
ing drafts. The unhatched chick
needs pure air about as much as one
that has been hatched.
Birds worth $100 are not sold for
fl. and tho inexperienced should not
•apect to get top-notchers for a trivial
man. ft costs something to breed a
choice bird, a prize winner; and it
wiH not be sold for $1. When this
• to more generally realized, there will
fee less dissatisfaction on the part of
Inexperienced buyers.
Breeders, climb up the ladder of
advertising, to success, if you have
birds or live stock that are worth ad¬
vertising. Buyers will not hunt you
* np. unless you first give them to un¬
derstand that you are worth hunting
•p. that you can sell what they want.
Some strains of ducks lay a large
wnober of eggs and the eggs are so
Mg that their food value Is much
greater than that of the same num¬
ber of chicken eggs. There are poul
trymen who think ducks quite valua
nble for the reason that their eggs
ipply so much food for man. Yet,
it poultrymen Imagine that ducks
are good only for the meat they pro¬
When hatching duck eggs in an
tacabator, remember that they are
thicker than chicken eggs, and that
the top is therefore higher in the in
cabator and warmer, since the
ture is higher farther up.
ly this will explain to some why
they have not had the same
with duck eggs in the machine that
♦ ey have with chicken eggs.
i This much is certain—a ration that
’ to about, all starch, will not keep
•ticks’ bowels in good order nor help
them to make rapid growth. Corn
to little more than starch, yet some
times almost the only food that chicks
They may pull through by
■ tag bugs or worms to add to their
corn ration, but too much of a strain
should not be put on them by with
bolding less starchy feed.—Pro
gresslve Farmer.
Directions For Planting Trees.
When received, the trees should be
heeled in, the fine dirt being well
worked in around the roots. If dry,
they should be well \vatere,d.
In moving, they should be covered
with wet burlap or something to pro¬
tect them from sun and wind.
Holes should be dug four to six
Inches deeper than tree goes down;
this space filled with fine surface soil.
All bruised or broken roots cut oft
with a sharp knife, leaving a smooth,
sound end, cut from the lower side
up.
Set the tree one and one-half to
two inches deeper than It grew In the
nursery. Set with a slight lean to the
southwest, straighten the roots and
work fine dirt under and between tho
roots, packing firmly.
When all the roots are covered,
pack the whole firmly with the feet,
then finish with loose dirt. •
Cut off at least two-thirds of the
season’s growth of branches. Head
the trees low and as near as prac¬
ticable to a uniform height.
In spring, leave the ground slightly
dishing toward the tree.
In fall planting, mound up the
earth four to six inches above the
level, packing closely to the stem.
Sheep Produce Moire Meat.
Professor F. B. Mumford, of the
Missouri Experiment Station, in pre¬
senting a summary of all the work
that has been done at the experiment
stations on the feeding of sheep,
showed that sheep produce more meat
from a pound of grain than any other
class of farm animals. In fact, It was
shown that a pound of mutton can he
produced from about half as much
grain as a pound of boef. Even the
mortgage-lifting hog requires more
grain to produce a pound of human
food than the sheep. With the com¬
bination of corn and hay for food,
and dry shed for shelter, sheep will
always give a good account of them¬
selves, and respond readily to the
care given them,
Keep Farm Kooks.
Certainly you expect to be a better
farmer in 1908 than in-1907. Begin
to-day. Work, but think; consider
your mistakes of lest year and avoid
them this year. You should keep
some kind of a farm record, a diary,
a notebook or an account. Find out
from the record what you did With
the field that failed. Did you plant
too early or too late? Did you plow
too d'eep? Did the seed you bought
turn out well, or do you know? Farm
life employs all the energies of & full
manhood. There is so much to think
about the farmer is apt to talk littl*.
—Home and Farm.
Rotate the Crops.
Plan to rotate the crops, and wheji
the time comes in 1908 to do the
planting see to it that these plan*
are well carried out. The fertilizing
of the soil needed can thus be kept
in the right place and used a3 re¬
quired. Note the proportion of ele¬
ments required by the different crops
and so do the planting. It is also the
fact—and It is very important—that
one crop may be used to help the
ground for another. A big use can be
made of the cow-pea in this way.
The Fertilizer Question.
Study the fertilizer question in all
j of its aspects. Save the manure on
! the farm and the leaves from”' the
j woods. an d what Find your out crops what your need. soil Learn lacks
j about potash and all it Ccu
means..
j sider the difference between a large
product per acre and only an average
crop and know the large crops come
from mixed fertilizers and soil with
i leaves.
Night Sweats £ Cough.
E. W. Walton, Condr, 8. P. Ry„ 711
Van Ness ( St., San Antonio, Tex.,
writes: ‘‘During the summer and fall
of 1902, my annoyaneo from catarrh
reached that stage where It was actual
misery and developed alarming symp¬
toms, such as a very deep-sealed cough,
night sv,'ea ts, and painrin tiie head and
chest. I experimented wi th several so
called remedies before I finally decided
to take a thorough course of Peruna.
“Twoof my friends had gone so far as
to inform me that the thingformetodo
was to resign my position and seek a
higher, more congenial climate. Every¬
one thought I had consumption and 1
was not expected to live very long.
a Having procured somePeruua, I de¬
cided to give it a thorough test and ap¬
plied myself assiduously to the task of
taking it, as per instructions, in the
meantime.
The effects were soon apparent, all
alarming symptoms disappeared and
my general health became fully as good
as it had ever been in my life.
“I have resorted to the uso of Peruna
on two or three occasions since that
time to cure myself of Dad colds.”
THE J.R.WATKiNS MED.CO.
WINONA. MINNESOTA
Make* TO Different Articles: E9ou«ehol<!
Remedies, Flavoring Extract* all K.lntl«,
Toilet Preparations, Fine Soups, Etc.
CANVASSERS WANTED IN EVERY COUNTY
40 1 eariExperl«nce,8a,000,000 Output
BEST PROPOSITION m 0^ AGENTS
The trouble In too many homos,
mused the Galveston News, is the
incompatibility of Imported millinery
and do mestic allowances,
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Capudine Cures Indigestion Pains,
from Belching, whatever Sour Stomach, It’s and Heartburn,
immediately. Doctors cause. prescribe Liquid. it. Effects 10c,
26c., and 50c., at drug stores.
Trained to See a Joke.
Can the sense of humor be cultivat
©d? I think of a boy with the literal
directness of a small Briton, the des
palr of his humorous father. A sys
temattc course was begun, in tne hope
that the child’s life might be broaden
ed afld brightened. Each week one
or two evenings were devoted to a
careful explanation of the jokes as
they appeared in three of the hum¬
orous weeklies of the better class.
Puns were avoided, as they were
more easily detected and often en¬
joyed,’while the father had no desire
for a punster son. At first the even
Ings were strenuous, disliked by both;
to the humorous side, so potent to
the onlooker, father and son alike
were oblivious. But at twenty-fir®
while he is not an original joker,
none can excel this young man in th®
ease and quickness with which he de¬
tects a hidden meaning. The initia¬
tive seems not to he granted him, but
a fund of enjoyment is his which un¬
doubtedly would have been lost but
for his consistent training.—From
Good Housekeeping.
SAME OLD GAME.
That young man stays until an
unearthly hour every night, Doris, »»
said an irate father to his youngest
daughter. ‘ What does your mother
say about it?”
Well, dad,” replied Doris as she
turned to go upstairs, “she says men
haven’t altered a bit.”—Life.
“THE PALE GIltL”
Did Not Know Coffee Was the Cause.
In cold weather some people think
a cup of hot coffee good to help keep
warm. So It is—for a short time but
the drug—caffeine—acts on the heart
to weaken the circulation and the re¬
action is to cause more chilliness.
There is a hot wholesome drink
which a Dak. girl found after a time,
makes the blood warm and the heart
strong.
She says:
“Having lived for five years in N.
Dak., I have used considerable coffee
owing to the cold climate. As a re¬
sult I had a dull headache regularly,
suffered from indigestion, and had no
‘life’ In me.
“I was known as the ‘pale girl’ and
people thought I was just weakly.
After a time I had heart trouble and
became very nervous, never knew
what It was to be real well. Took
medicine but it never seemed to do
any good.
“Since bei married my husband
and I both bhve thought coffee was
harming us and we would quit, only
to begin again, although we felt It
was the same as poison to us.
“Then we got some Postum. Well,
the effect was really wonderful. My
complexion is clear now, headache
gone, and I have a great deal of en¬
ergy I had never known while drink¬
ing coffee.
“I haven’t been troubled with indi¬
gestion since using Postum, am not
nervous, and need* no medicine. We
have a little girl and boy who both
love Postum and thrive on it and
Grape-Nuts."
“There’s, a Reason.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Ro^ to
Wellville,” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
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1 INTEREST
_ -TO THE
STICK TO ONE BREED.
If you have started out with one
pure breed, stick to it. Do not be
led off by a foolish desire to cross it
with some other breed or to intro¬
duce scrub blood into the flock. If
a change is to be made, get better
blood of the same breed as the one
now on hand.
KINDNESS OF HORSES.
With the balky Horse try kindness.
Take a hammer or stone and tap the
bottom of each front foot. Give each
nail a light tap with a smart tap on
frog of foot. Drop foot quickly and in
most cases the animal if spoken to
will start quickly, his attention hav¬
ing been diverted.—Farmers’ Home
Journal.
WEED INFESTED HAY FIELDS.
Too many mowing fields are in¬
fested with various weed pests
which appear rather to be on the
increase. In part this must be ow¬
ing to the use of inferior grass seeds,
and allowing meadows to remain in
grass too long before plowing and
reseeding.
All such fields should be harvested
early in order to prevent a more ex¬
tensive seeding to weeds, Those
fields that produce little but white
daisies and weeds should be marked.
“To be plowed another fall,” and
should go through a thorough prepa
ration of cultivation and fertilizing,
that will fit them to produce abun
j I of dant reasonable crops of length, good hay in two a rotation to four
say
j years.—Farmers’ Home Journal,
SOWING GRASS.
A reader in Warrick County asks:
“When is the best time to sow grass
seed?” If there was only one kind
of grass the question would be easy to
answer. If timothy is meant, early in
the fall is the better time, so the grass
can get a good start to enable it to
stand the winter. Sow blue grass as
early in the spring as possible. Or¬
chard grass should be sown in March
and red top in April. A good rule
would he to sow when weather and
soil are in suitable condition.
Barnyard manure is a great help
to grass of any kind, and you are not
likely to apply too much, especially if
it is well rotted and pulverized.. A
liberal spread of such manure will
double the crop of hay, or will pas¬
ture double the number of stock on
blue-grass. Break the ground se^n
or eight inches, and harrow thorough¬
ly for best, results. Sow twelve
pounds of grass seed to- the acre.
j twenty-five pounds of orchard grass
an( j three pounds of red top.—In
j diana Farmer,
THE MARKET END.
The producer who looks into the
market situation of the great cities
is always impressed by the great mar¬
gin between! the price he receives for
his goods and the price paid by the !
consumer. His first view is that the
middlemen are looking for too' much
profit at his expense and that of the
retail buyers, but when be looks
more closely- into the business and
notes the- various losses and draw¬
backs and Incidental expenses of the
jobbers an,dAretailers he feels less cer¬
tain regarding the rights of the ques¬
tion.
The middlemen, especially the re¬
tailers, do not seem to be especially
prosperous. In fact, failures are
rather numerous in that class. Their
losses in the shape of bad bills and
produce which spoils before it can be
sold, or which has to be sold at a
sacrifice, are evidently large.
But after looking over the situation
the producer will probably feel that
the margin might be cut down if only
a better system of distribution could
be arranged. The whole subject of
handling produce in the large market
centres is worth a great deal more
attention than it has received from
official sources. The Boards of Agri¬
culture and also the Interstate Com¬
merce Commission might look into
the matter to great advantage. The
producer would like to have his views
cleared on what constitutes a reason¬
able margin between the wholesale
and retail price, including various
jobbing prices. It would aid him
very much in forming a plan for pos¬
sibly handling produce in a way that
would place it fresh without loss or
damage in the hands of the consumer.
At present it is hard to arrange such
a plan without putting other people
and other sellers in the place of the
legion o£ wholesalers and retailers.
The working out of a more practical
plan for the distribution of farm
products will be one of the agricul¬
tural advances of the future.— Amer¬
ican Cultivator.
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of the thioEs tile cluWom,,
of Illinois are going to fight are f , 1
cigarette habit, the cocaine ha
G-cent theatre and unlicensed Hotels. '■
THE SAFE WAY TO EUY PAINT.
Property owners will save a dao»
of trouble and expense In .pL *
th p ir buildings properly painted if
they against know misrepresentation how to protect thetnsejvJ
and adu!
teration in paint materials. There'®
one sure and safe guide to a pure and
thoroughly dependable White Lead-.
that's the "Dutch Boy Painter" trade
mark which the National Lead 0 ODl.
pany, the largest makers of genuine
White Lead, place on every package
of their product. This company sends
a simple and sure little outfit for test¬
ing white lead, and a valuable paint
book, free, to all who write for it
Their address is Woodbridge Bldg
New York City,
The man who suffers most from the
heat is he who watches the thermom¬
eter.
To Drive Out Mui.uia and Build U|
the System
Take the Old Standard Grove’s Tast*.
less Chii.l Tonic. Y ou know what voo
are taking. The formula is plainly printed
on every oottie, showing it is simply yup
nine and Iron in a tasteless form, and tha
most effectual form. For grown peori#
and children. 50c.
A MODERN WANT.
"You are a poor young man?”
"1 am.”
■‘Then what, you want is a thrifty,
economical wife. ■
"Not at all. What I want is a rich,
libera! wife.”—'Pittsburg Post.
HAD ECZEMA 15 TEAKS.
Mrs. Thomas Thompson, of Clarksville,
Ga., writes, under date of April 23, 1907: “I
suffered i5 yea's with tormenting eczema;
had tho best doctors to prescribe; but noth¬
ing did me any good until I got tetteri.ne.
It cured me. I am so thankful.
Thousands of others can testify to similar
cures. Tettebise is sold by druggists or
sent Dept. by mail for 50c. by J. T. Shcptrinb,
A, Savannah, Ga.
The most recent church census of
this country shows 40 denominations,
with 101,731 ministers, 210,199
churches and 32,833,156 members.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, > ^ss.
Lucas County,
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he i»
senior partner of the firm of F.J.Chenl. it
Co., doing and business in the City of Toieao,
County will 8tate aforesaid, and that said
firm pay the sum of one hundred dol¬
lars for each and every case of catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use or Hall’s
Catarrh Cuke. Frank o. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, A. D.,
1886. A. W. Gleason,
Hall’s (seal.) Catarrh Notary Public.
Cnreis taken internally,and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur¬
faces of the svstem. Send for testimonials,
free. F. J . Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
Bold bv all Druggists, 75c.
Take Kail’s Family Pills for constipation.
Book Renting.
Book selling and book renting are
often carried on side by side and un¬
der the same management, shop¬
worn or soiled or second-hand books
being relegated to the loan depart¬
ment of the business; but in a Phil¬
adelphia bookstore an attractive
modification or reversal of this plan
is in operation. On shelves accessi¬
ble to the public there has been
placed an inviting array of new nov¬
els, in alphabetical order, and from
this supply of fresh, clean "best¬
sellers” (and best-lenders) any per¬
son of good credit may borrow such
volume or volumes as he desires at
two cents a day for each, the mini¬
mum charge on each boojt thus loan¬
ed being six cents, or a three-days’
rental. With the first appearance of
dog’s-ears and thumb-prints a book is
transferred to the hurt-book counter,
there to await a buyer, and a fresh
copy takes Its place on the loan-shelv¬
es if the demand for It still contin¬
ues.—The Dial.
HIS CLAQUE.
ti You played me false,” declared tha
candidate.
“But we raised pandemonium.”
I had a right to expect twice as
much pandemonium 'or the money I
paid.”—Washington Herald.
TEN YEARS OF BACKACHE.
Thousands of Women Suffer in the
Same Way.
Mrs. Thomas Dunn, 153 Vine St.,
Columbus, Ohio, says: “For more
than ten years I was
in misery with back
ache. The simplest
housework completely
if exhausted me. I had
no strength or ambi-
4, Hon, was nervous and
i! suffered headache and
dizzy spells, After
these years of pain I was despairing
of ever being cured when Doan's Kid
ney Pills came to my notice and their
use brought quick relief and a perma¬
nent cure. I am very grateful.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
NO G-REAT SIN.
I don’t think he’ll ever become
popular in this neighborhood.
i . And why not?”
“We are a plain people, and ha
alludes to a gripsack as a portman¬
teau.”—-Kansas City Journal.