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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. i £ * ii 4&S A 6 ' *>/ A 1Y/ * 3 V) ill i ft 6 > $ J IS * 4> N •XI m 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, __ 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. *5— < 3 w i iV f mm M Op- ,Vj 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. - 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.