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FEEDING OF SOWS AT FARROWING TIME
JUT.
Duroc Jersey pigs. The mother of these pigs raised 32 in three litters.
(By A. O. CHOAT.)
When an animal presents an abnor
mal condition of health there must
exist a cause, but too often the ener
gies of the keeper are bent so much
on finding a cure that the disturbing
cause is entirely neglected.
For scours in pigs there must be a
cause. Scours being merely a symp
tom. The condition exists inside the
digestive tract. It is doubtless a con
dition of purification resulting in the
generation of poisons destructive to
the food before it can be assimilated.
To find a cure potent enough to kill
and expel the germs of purification
from the digestive tract, and still not
Injure the animal, is necessary, but by
all means the keeper should endeavor
to discover what caused the presence
of the germs In the flrat place.
Everyone has heard of cases of pto
maine poisoning and doubtless all
have experienced cases of sour stom
ach; between these extremes there
are many types of fermentation that
may infest the digestive tract.
Ptomaine poisoning implies and
demonstrates a nitrogenous article
upon which to work. What is called
sour stomach Is simply common fer
mentation of the sugar.
It Is well recognized among physi
cians and chemists that when organic
nitrogenous compounds break up the
simpler compounds are much more
noxious as a rule than those given off
by the disintegration of a carbohy
drate.
From what has been said it may be
easily deduced that when oil meal
middlings or tankage putrlfy In the
digestive tract of an animal the result
would be more serious than if the ma
terial decomposed were corn.
Our experience with seven litters of
pigs during the last two weeks Is as
BUILDING A CONCRETE WALL
Convenient Method of Conetructlng
f Windbreak for Stock la Given
in Detail and Illustrated.
A very convenient way to build a
wall for a back yard fence, or for a
windbreak for stock, is described by
Cement Age. The wall 1b built up in
panel sections, about 52 feet long, with
a foundation extending three feet in
the earth. Supporting one end of this
panel, and built up at the same time,
ie a large concrete post. The othar
end of the panel is keyed into the
mortise in a similar large post molded
at the previous operation, as shown
In the sketch.
The forms for the panel are simply
two independent walls of one-inch sid
ing fastened on uprights of two by
four inch material, spaced about two
feet apart. The mold for the post is
a box open on one face and at both
ends. The open side butts against
the end supports of the panel forms.
To the inside of the board opposite
the open face is nailed a w-edge-shaped
timber, which forms the lengthw-ise
mortise of the post, into which the
'^G^IERAL
FA^HNOTE^!
Keep all weeds from going to seed.
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There are 54,000,000 sheep in the
United States.
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Try the plan of slow marketing of
totton this year.
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Sweet corn may be dried in the
same way as beans.
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If the churn is likely to remain idle
for some time, keep it filled with lime
wajer.
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The horse that is always ready for
his meals is the one that earns his
board.
♦ • ♦
Rhubarb should not be allowed to
go to seed if the best root growth is
, wanted.
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If the garden Is fall plowed it means
follows: On February 24 two of our
young sows farrowed 23 pigs Al!
were saved but one. Previous to far
rowing, in fact all winter, my brood
sows were all fed alike.
In the morning I gave a bunch of
ten sows about a bushel of clover
chaff from the barn floors, scalded
and stirred Into a thick mush with
five quarts of oil meal and one quart
of tankage.
At night they ate somewhat less
than a half bushel of corn. They had
the run of 20 acres of stalk land and
30 acres of grass land.
Inspired by the appearance of such
litters of strong pigs I immediately be
gan increasing the feed, although pre
viously having determined not to.
Within three days the sows were
getting three pints of mixture com
posed of oil meal middlings and tank
age twice a day, and given a good
feed of corn beside.
At this time the manure of the sows
began to give off an odor overlooked by
me entirely. Two more sows farrowed
eight pigs each and saved them all.
I increased them rapidly in feed,
but about that time the trouble began.
Scours appeared
I cut the slop content, at. once to less
than a pint of well salted meal mix
ture and to three ears of corn. The
pens were thoroughly cleaned, scraped
and freshly bedded.
Scour soon began in the other lit
ter, but showed no serious symptoms,
as these sows had been on heavy feed
only a day or two.
From the first two litters five pigs
died between the ages of ten and
twenty days, and others were badly
damaged.
I will say here that I pulled them
all through, giving no medicine of any
kind to sows or pigs except plenty of
salt In the slop.
next panel is keyed. Two two-foot
lengths of three-eighths inch rod are
inserted through holes bored in the
face of the wedge, one three inches
from the top and the other three
inches from the bottom, allowing one
foot of the rods to enter each panel.
In starting the wall, use the post
—
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A Concrete Wall Built Up in Panel*,
the Joint Being Reinforced With
Rods.
form only and carefully plumb it,
using the rods as reinforcing for the
first panel.
The principles of efficiency are con
stant. They apply alike to young and
old, men and women, clerk or farmer,
banker or professional man.
you can plant at least a week earlier
next spring.
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It the weeds are allowed to flourish
! they increase the labor and eat up
i the profits.
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Tools that are in the best of con
! dition always make the work move
j more rapidly.
Don’t let your supply of Insect
powder run short. Use it regularly
and liberally.
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A pullet that does not begin to lay
before cold weather sets In, too often
waits until spring.
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Remember that early fall plowing
ie a preventive measure against cut
worms next spring.
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Recent public sales indicate that
the purebred cattle industry is on a
very healthy basis.
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Productiveness may be easily and
surely bred in sheep by the rule of
heredity and selection.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
Vocations for
Young
Christians
B, REV. JAMES M. GRAY. D. D
Dmo of Moody BibL looUtule
of Chicago
f
TEXT- But unto every one of us is :
given grace according'to the measure of I
the gift of Christ —Ephesians IV:7.
such as these the Lord Jesus Christ
bestows spiritual gifts according to
Uis grace, as the rest of the verse
says. These “girts” are for the use
and blessing of the whole church, and
are described in general terms in
the following verse as apostles, proph
ets, evangelists, pastors and teach
ers.
Note this, that while we all believe
In education and especially in an ed
ucated ministry, yet all the colleges,
and seminaries and Bible institutes
in the world can not make such apos
tle, prophet, evangelist, pastor or
teacher. They have tried to make
them and have turned out graduates
that looked and acted like them, per
haps, but they were uot the real thing,
and the church has suffered by the
imposition. A true apostle, prophet,
evangelist, pastor or teacher is the
gift of the Great Head of the Church
in his body. He is a Spirit-taught and
Spirit-endowed man, and when the
church sees or hears such an one it j
recognizes his divine commission
whether he has the imprimatur of a ■
school or not.
What Ministers Are For.
Now, specifically, what are these !
gifts" bestowed upon the church for?
The anawe? of the text verse is, “For j
the perfecting of the saints," which '
means all true believers, for every be
liever on the Lord Jesus Christ be :
comes a saint the moment he so be- ;
lieves. But when the saints are thus
“perfected,” enlightened, strengthened
in the knowledge of the Lord, what
are they to do? The answer is to
engage in the “work of ministering
for the edifying (building up) of the :
body of Christ." (Verse 12.)
Here comes in the question of Chris j
tian vocations for young people who
may not have the gift of apostles, j
prophets, evangelists, pastors or teach- ,
ers. There is a work of ministering
for them to do nevertheless, when i
they are "perfected" for it by those
who have been truly set apart for that I
task.
What is the nature of this work? If ,
the student output of the Moody Bible
institute may be taken as a criterion, ■
there is a wide variety in It. We have !
been taking a census of 8,000 to 9,000
young men and women who have pass
ed through our hands, and'have found
that some are pastors or assistant ।
pastors, and some are wives of pas
tors, for the last named Is a calling
for which Christian young women
need a distinct training. Some are
evangelists or evangelistic singers,
both men and women; some are home ;
missionaries; some are teachers in >
Young Men’s and Young Women’s
Christian associations; some are su- ।
perintendents of missions and hos- 1
His Word Cannot Fail.
Religion is a matter between two
persons: the individual human soul is
one and God is the other. It is a
most high and holy fellowship or part
nership. And our Lord Is not the de
pendent partner, nor will he suffer any
of his children to outdo or excel him ,
in generosity or itr—iove. We never j
throw a crown at his feet that he does
not take it up and remake it into a
chaplet of beauty and glory for our
own brows. We never sing a heart
felt song to his praise that he does not
some time whisper It back into our
souls as a word of deathless hope and
peace. We never render him a serv
ice that he does not transform that i
service into enrichment of honor and
increase of power. He hath said.
•Them that honor me 1 will honor.’’ :
And his word cannot fail.
Everything you do counts —see that
it counts for, and not against you.— I
Dean Stanley.
Life to be worthy of a rational be
ing. must be always in progression.—
Johnson.
pitals; some are matrons, deaconesses
and nurses, while still others have
simply gone into commercial or pro
fessional pursuits, and, in the case
of women, are occupied in home du
ties. It is a most interesting fact
that a large number of Christian
young men and women secure a train
ing in the Bible and practical meth
ods of Christian work in order to re
turn to their customary vocations at
home, in church or in business and
put what they have learned into prac
tice in "the common round, the triv
ial task" of every day, which is as
truly a "work of ministering" in the
gospel sense as anything they could
do, and a sphere in which it is greatly
needed.
Every "Joint" of Value.
This brings us to the closing words
of Paul on this topic, in verse 16,
where, keeping up the figure of the
church being the body of Christ, he
says, "From whom the whole body fit
ly joined and compacted by that which
every joint supplieth . . . maketh
increase of the body.’’ In other words,
every single joint In this spiritual or
ganitsm is of value to the whole, which
means that not one of us Christians
can be spared in the exercises of our
vocation whatever or wherever It may
be. The smallest visible joint in the
human body may be that of the little
finger. It seems of comparatively lit
tle worth, but let it get “out of Joint”
for'a while, and what happens? The
whole body soon becomes aware of it,
and in time may be “put out of com
mission” because of it. So you and I
may have a small opinion of ourselves
in the organism of Christ's spiritual
body, and from one point of view it
is becoming that we should, neverthe
less it is necessary that we do our
part or else “all the members suffer.”
We may not be apostles, evangelists,
prophets, pastors or teachers, but we
are that which is represented by a
"joint," and need to be always in
union with the Head, and with the
other members of the body if the
whole shall be profited and increased.
The vital question, however, is that
suggests! at the beginning, are you
included in the word “US?” It is
not enough to live in a Christian land,
or even to be a church member. The
point is, have you ever definitely ac
cepted Jesus Christ as your Saviour
from sin. and have you thus been born
again? It is such as these who have
been baptized by the Holy Spirit into
Christ's body, and on whom he be
stows gifts according to the measure
of his grace. Let me urge you to
come to church if you have not done
so.
Value of Overcoming.
It was not without reason in the na
ture of man that the Christian life
was made one of difficulty. Itlias
been a stumbling block to many that
human nature is so constituted that it
is harder to be good and easy to be
bad; but the difference is founded in
the very nature of things. 1 tis not
by chance that training is necessary
for the athlete, nor that education Is
required to make a scholar. Acquisi
tion without effort of anything worth
having is Inconceivable. Thal which
comes without work is usually worth
less. or positively hurtful. Effort and
endurance alone will purchase strong
and matured character. —The Watch
man.
What Is “Enough” With You?
We make one long, firm, permanent
stride toward high ideals when we
cease to Indulge In self-congratulation
or self-despair. “Forgetting those
things which are behind"—the mis
takes that made the heart ache with
shame, the praise that made our
cheeks glow with pride—let us press
ou and lay the best of ourselves and
service at the feet of Christ, abso
lutely refusing to be disturbed by the
praise or blame which, alas, too often
mars the service of the most conse
crated. A deed ever so poorly done
in his dear name will be remembered.
A service ever so mighty will receive
his reward, and his remembrances,
and his rewards are enough.
I am to speak
to you on the sub
ject of “Christian
Vocations tor
Young People,"
which is ray rea
son for using
this text.
"Us" Is the Im
portant word to ;
begin with, which
does not mean
everybody, but
only true Chris
■ tian believers in
the sense of re
deemed and re
generated men
and women. On
Living Bibles.
"He was my Bible,” said a Japanese
convert, pointing to her pastor, when
asked what passage of scripture led
her to Christ. "She was ray Bible,”
said the daughter, pointing to her
, mother. "The first thing that arrested
|my attention was the change in my
mother." Are those who are nearest
to us, the casual acquaintances as
well, irresistibly convinced of the prac
: tical gain of Christian truth by our
dally life exposition of the Bible? Said
Paul to the Corinthian Christians, “Ye
are dur epistle written in our hearts,
known and read of all men.”—Select
• ed.
The principle of conscience is in
. every heart, but the pendulum often
requires a touch from without to make
jit do its office.—C. I. Yorke.
Consider carefully what you say.
i The indigestion caused by being com
. pelled to eat your own words is dis
tressing.
Say as you think, and speak it from
; your souls —Shakespeare.
WOMAN FEELS
10 YEARS
JUNRER
Since Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound Re
stored Her Health.
Louisville, Ky.~ “I take great pleas
ure in writing to inform you of what
Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Com
pound has done for
me. I was weak,
nervous, and cared
for nothing but
sleep. Now I can
go ahead with my
work daily and feel
ten years younger
than before I started
taking your medi
cine. I will advise
any woman to consult with you befora
going to a doctor.”—Mrs. Inize WiL
LIS, 2229 Bank St, Louisville, Ky.
Another Sufferer Relieved.
Romayor, Texas.—"l suffered terri
bly with a displacement and bladder
trouble. I was in misery all the time
and could not walk any distance. I
thought I never could be cured, but my
mother advised me to try Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound and I did.
“ I am cured of the displacement and
the bladder trouble is relieved. I think
the Compound is the finest medicine on
earth for suffering women.” — Mrs.
Viola Jasper, Romayor, Texas.
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.
In the Singular.
George Ade, at the Chicago Athletic
club, listened to a youth’s passionate
panegyric on love.
"Walt till you’ve married her," said
Mr. Ade. "Wait till you’ve been mar
ried to her fifteen wr twenty years.
Then you’ll be like Slnnickson.
"Sinnlckson’s wife looked up from a
novel the other evening and said
dreamily:
“ ’l’ve been thinking, dear, of our
courtship—those ecstatic days!”
“’Humph!’ said Sinnickson, shaking
his fat, bald head. ‘That ecstatic
daze, you mean.' ”
Self-Evident Fact.
“Are you going to attend Mrs.
Snapper’s musicale?’’
"Do you observe any strong-armed
individuals propelling me by main
force in the direction of Mrs. Snap
pers villa?”
“I do not.”
“Then you may surmise that I am
not going to attend Mre. Snapper's
musicale."
A Distinction.
Miss Outertown—lsn't there a Mrs.
Skinner here who keeps boarders?
Hl Hubbel—She takes boarders,
ma'am, but she don't keep 'em. —
Puck
But Not Musical.
Knicker —What is a harmonica?
Bocker —Corn on the cob set to mu
sic—New York Sun.
HAPPY OLD AGE
Most Likely to Follow Proper Eating.
As old age advances we require less
food to replace waste, and food that
will not overtax the digestive organs,
while supplying true nourishment.
Such an ideal food is found in Grape-
Nuts, made of w'hole wheat and barley
by long baking and action of diastase
in the barley which changes the starch
into a most digestible -sugar.
The phosphates also, placed up un
der the outer-coat of the wheat, are
included in Grape-Nuts, but are lack
ing in white flour because the outer
coat of the wheat darkens the flour
and is left out by the miller. These
natural phosphates are necessary to
the well-balanced building of muscle,
brain and nerve cells.
“I have used Grape-Nuts,” writes an
lowa man, “for 8 years and feel as
good and am stronger than I was ten
years ago.
“Among my customers I meet a man
every day who is well along in years
and attributes his good health to
Grape-Nuts and Postum which he has
used for the last 5 years. He mixes
Grape-Nuts with Postum and says
they go fine together.
“For many yeari before I began to
eat Grape-Nuts, I could not say that I
enjoyed life or knew what it was to be
able to say ‘I am well.' I suffered
greatly with constipation, but now my
habits are as regular as ever in my
life.
"Whenever I make extra effort I
depend on Grape-Nuts food and it just
fills the bill. I can think and write a
great deal easier.”
“There’s a Reason.” Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Read
“The Road to Wellvllle,” in pkgs.
Ever read tbe above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. Tbe?
are genuine, true, and full of bnmsa
Interest.