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TH CITIZEN Dccfmbor 21, 1922 MOUNTAIN AGRICULTURE gHPTQTMAQ HOME DEPARTMENT Conducted by the Hone Economic Department of Berea College Cdrte4 by Mr. Robert F.Spenre. Farm Demonstrator and Special ! V-el A A A 1 W IV A A sjs Pag 8U FEEDING FOR WINTER F.fiCS In order to rccurc winter egg-pro duction it is ABSOLUTELY NECES SARY THAT THE HENS BE I'KOP EKLY FED. Fully thrce-fou -ths of the Kentucky hens do net rro liiv their maximum bicausp they do get the tirope- feed to make eg f. If they are fed only a grain ration they rhould not be eJtpcrted to pro duce winter eggs. 'n addition to the grain a dry mash mixture nmtainin.; nr anmal product such a meat urap, lish meal, dried buttc m Ik, ment( mal, or a high grade of tankage, added to the mill feeds must be feu. Feeding Suggestion It should be remembered that T.o one ration will fit all cotiditijns. TU cheapness and availability of the feeds should be considered. Ready mixed poultry mashes are very satis factory, and, if readily available anJ not too high priced, may be fed. If corn and cornmeal are tho onlv available feed ., a dry mash of three purts cornmeal ard two parts meat sc-aps should be fed with the whole i! cracked corn. In this case tho birds should be made to consume twice as much grain as mash by weight. I Feeding should be done at regular hcurr, preferably twice a day, onca in the morning and once in the eve ning. Keep the water pans clean and tided with pu-c, fresh water. If slclm milk is fed, avoid changing from sweet to sour, or the reverse. It is best to feed ssur milk continu ously. While the appetite should always he kept keen, nevertheless the bir's should be fed all they want to eat. Feeding is but one of the four es sential means of securing high egg production. The other three are. pure-bred birds of a high-laying stiain; strong, vigorous and healthy birds; and a comfortable house with plenty of room for exercise. From this it may be teen that correct j feeding alone cannot give maximum egg-production. Necessity of Meat Feed The fact that a meat feed is es sential is clearly brought out by an experiment covering a period of twelve month, conducted at the Ken tucky Experiment Station Poultry Farm. Thirty S. C. White Leghorn pul lets were divided into two pens of 15 each, both pens receiving the same grain ration. Pen 1 received a mash of equal parts cornmeal, bran, mid dlaigs, ground oats and meat meal, while pen 2 received the same mash without the meat meal. Pen 2 av eraged but 23.6 eggs per bird for the year, while the meat meal pen averaged 124.2 eggs per bird, show ing that the addition of meat meal to the mash increased the egg-production about five times. Tankage, which is widely used in hog feeding, will produce equally as good results as meat meal. If sour skim milk or buttermilk Is readily available, it may be fed In place of the meat scrap, in which case it should be kept before th biids in pans or pails, instead of drinking water. To get the best results, 30 hens should drink about a gallon of milk a day. If that amount cannot be se cured, or the birds will not drink that much, a small percentage of meat scrap should be added to the mash. At the Produce Experiment Sta tion (Indiana) Phelps fed three peas of White Plymouth Rock pullets for WHICH COMBINATION It is our privilege to offer THE CITIZEN with any of the following publications at a much reduced price: The National Republican THE CITIZEN The National Republican is of public affairs. The Courier-Journal daily THE CITIZEN Lexington Leader daily THE CITIZEN The Lexington Herald daily THE CITIZEN Southern Agriculturist bi-mo THE CITIZEN St Louis Globe Democrat bi THE CITIZEN Cincinnati Enquirer - THE CITIZEN THE CITIZEN BEREA, ;h.ee years, each pen consisting of ,",;i birds. All pens received the s.ime g'a'n ration and th. same Mush, with the except on of this treat sc'np ren, whi h had mcat Mtnp added to the mash. The meat tetiip pen averaged l.'IO.O eggs and the skim milk pen 110.2 eggs, whli the check pen, which received neither meat-: crap nor skim milk, average I but CI. 2 eggs. This showed that ;kiin milk and meat-scrap have prac tienKy the same a'u.. i RATIONS j Grain Mixture j Pounds Qun-ts Cracked corn 40 or 21 Wheat 4 1) or 21 Oat 20 or 20 Cracked corn 70 or 42 Oats 30 or 30 Dry Maah Mixtures 1. Sh;pstutT 40 or 60Vi Corn meal 20 or is Ground oat 23 or 46 Vi Meat scrap 23 or 11 n " Ship; tuff 50 or 75 H Co -n meal 30 or 27 Meat scrap 2) or 11 Green feed should be fed during the winter and also during the sum mer if the birds a-c in confinement. Some of the best greert feeds are sprouted oats, mangel beets, cabbage and kale. How to Feed The gra'.n mixture should be scat tered in a straw litter from six t ter inches deep; about one-thi-d the total amount in the morning anJ two-thirds in the evening. The bird. should be made to scratch ha-d and vcrk hard for every grain they get. The dry mash should be placed in . hoppe and kept before the birds at all times. MAKE LIVE STOCK BETTER The man who fussef, fumes and cusses because his live stork dors not bring the top of the ma-ket usually has himself to blame. The South has plenty of live stock; but that live stock is not good enough to command the top of the market. Read this piece of an editorial taken from the Southern Agriculturist: But even more than Southern farms need more five stock, do they need better live stock and better can of the stock now on them. Unles tho quality of your live stock is con siderably above the average, and un less you are a better breeder and caretaker than the average Southern fa-mer, you need to improve the quality of your live stock and to givu your animals better care, even more than you need to increase the num ber of them. In fact, the deficiency in the number of live stock in this section may be more directly due than we sometimes think to the sorry quality of ro many of them and the poor feeding and care that so nit-ny of them get. Our philosopher says: I've heard m grardfather tell about how the folks used to have cholera when he: was a kid. When folks learned to keep themselves clean inside and out side, they got shet of the cholera. I'.'s pretty much the same with hogs. They ain't very apt to have cholera if the farmers!! see to it that they're kept clean inside and outside. IF all the stray dogs and the curs were to be exterminated at once, how many additional farmers would be gin developing good flocks of sheep? Rernlar Price ChMtiag Offer sr $1.50 1.501 $1.80 an illustrated weekly review Regular Price Ckbhini Oder Both $5.50 $5.00 $6.00 $1.50 $1.55 $4.50 $5.00 ) 1.50 $5.00 I 1.50 $6.00 1.50 $ .50 1.50 - wk. $6.00 $150 KENTUCKY the Day of xvsiciuiic; J i j ,i rtr nr.v. tiiom - ii IIHISTMAS, both In its ritual and in it sentiment, is alio mI us old as Humanity it.-e.f. As far bark s you can go we find sunn-thing very li;.e tlie Yulctiile feUival a season of rcjoieiiig, attended ly a somewhat boisterously joyful celebration. About Chribtmns t) rre is nothing th:it even approxi mates sectarianism or nry kind of nie it.il or social nar rowness or littleness. Its spirit is as broad as hunvuiity, and all men of whatever raee, creed or geographical status, are invited to, and are entitled to. take purl in its !ad festivities. Veiy pitiful is the human being who, In the mi 1st of the Cbristnuis se. son, feel like flocking off by himself, like Sffl Dundreary's bird. It is a se son, not for isolation and loneliness, but lor fellowship and universal brotherhood, ss tliouch we were saying to one another, "ALL HANDS A HOC .!!" with nobody left out. When we pai.se to think of tic way in wHiieh the Christmas originated it becomes easy for us to urulersUml why the season is everywhere mail to be the occasion of deep rejoicing and multiform gladness. Beyond a doubt the festivnl had its birth away up in the frozen North, In the region of the aurora bore ilis, where the battle between the cold and ti c l.eat the darkness and the licht, is the longest and the most ter rible; and it was (juite natural that at the turn of the sun. when the litfht and warmth be-an to return, men should turn themselves loose in a sort of paroxysm of joy. And by degrees the festivities of the men of the far north worked thir way southward; for even there tl.e return of the sun meant life to men. meant tbe sunshine and he it without which the human race most perish. The hyperboreans had their Christ. Kaldur by name. Halilur the good, the gentle, the compnssionnt, who. taking pity on them, destroyed the Frost Giant and siveu tlie:n from death. We cannot very well blame the hyperboreans if. lit first, their religion was larpely of a mati-mil type the worship of the sun, for Ilaldur was no more than the sun iil-J:ied. Christ not the petty Christ of tS- professional theoloL-ian. but the Christ of Humun.ty tt-nds for OPTIMISM. All is well, let not your hearts be troubled. Sufl'nient utto the day IS tie evil thereof. In reality there is no evil, the thing we call "evil" boirg but good in the making. "I am come that ye niijr'it have life, not death; confident e. not despair; glad ness, not weeping and wailing." Away with all groucliiness and greed, all doubt and despair! This is the season of love and good will, of hope mid glad., ess. Joy is always and everywhere "orthodox" and in order. If you are able to do so at no other time of the year, during the Christmas time resolve to have the full rnurnge of your noble slf, and to let your worthiest and bravest sentiment a?scrt itself to the full. Let joy be unconfined! Again be is said. "ALL IS WELL." Tre Sun is not going to be conquered by the Frost King; the anarchists a -e not going to overthrow the Constitution of the United States and the j-n;rn-ment that was inaugurated by our venerated Washington; in spite of the little politicians who are ready to "give up to party what was meant for mankind," the ways and means of bettering the condition of manki.id will surely be found; the life of men and nations shall not have been ir- vain; and as for Old Death, who awaits us at the end of the little earthlr way. for all that we to the contrary he may turn out to be our best friend. Those who have crosaed the north Atlantic in winter need not be reminded of the uplifting and joy-giving influence of the (rulf stream. Those who have felt it can never forget it. Once fairly upon the mysterious "river of the sea," the chill and numbness of one's body and soul depart, the rigid muscles relax, the pent up feelings let themselves looae in singing, and chat, and all-round sociability and enjoyment, and all the world seems to be refashioned for the better. And such is Christmas, with its good will and rood cheer, iu brave confidence and spontaneous gladness. It is the gulf stream of life, warm ing us into the sentiment of a common humanity, with its unselfishness and comradeship, and imparting to us all the glad sense of security and Education of Public to Reduce the Death Toll by Avoidable Accidents By DR. F. D. LAWSON, Society for Prevention of Accidents. As we of this society regard it, education and also an awakening of the moral senae of responsibility throughout the United States are the only means by which the immense toll of dead and injured by avoid able accidents, which take place yearly, can be reduced. The dead from automobile accidents in this country in 1920 are given as 15,000 and the accidents from the same cause as 500,000, in round numbers. It is fur the purpose of checking the conditions which made such a record possible and from every other source that this society has been organized. There can be no question that life can be made safer if the public will only give its moral and physical support to a movement which is intended to benefit everyone. The slaughter which occurs every year by accident in the United States is possible of reduction to a comparatively small percentage, but this can only be accomplished if the public iUeli will aid. What we have in view it to educate the public mind to a point where everyone instinctively will do whatever may be possible to avoid acci dents to themselves or their fellow beinjm. Declares Aphrodite Was "Hard Boiled" CHICAGO. The mall order romance of a rather aged and halt Hermes and his f. o. b. Aphrodite came to a emashup In Judge Harry B. Miller's courtroom. Hermes, It may be remembered, was the winged messenger of the Immor tals of Mount Olympua, the youth of Mercurial charm and swiftness. Aph rodite was the perfect divinity, the Ideal of maidenly charm and beauty. Therefore, It was a shock when John D. I'lnley, alsty-oue. hobbled Into Judge Miller's courtroom and an nounced himself as the Hermes In the "Imrd-nolled" Idyll spun In correwnd enee by Aphrodite, otherwise Mis Sarah Hawkins of Greenville, Miss., who carried a slg-ehnoter and backed lilin up against a wall when he devel oped an antipathy to matrimony. He met her through a matrimonial ad In a country Journal, he testified. He wrote, and Sarah sent him a photo of a "movie" Aphrodite as her own. The romance grew. "It was she who railed me Hermes," rtnley teMIHed. reaching fur Ills cane. "She said he was shout the swtftettt fellow In history, snd I should copy his speed In getting her heart. "I hurried dowa to Oreeovllle and met her. That was the blow. She looked ss much like Aphrodite as an old. spavlued boras looks Hie Mao War. : r y .c S J "After I explaiued I expected to find a awevt little girl who looked and acted differently than she did. she drew ber gun and backed me up against the wall of the railroad sta tion. Then she told nie not to think 1 could get away with tost stuff, and that I'd have to go to ber home and marry her. "We were married there twenty four hours later by a parson. Hut even at the ceremony she wouldn't kiss tue, hut gave me a push In the face when I started to. "She sure was a hard boiled wom an." fluley said he escaped from the powerful anna of the Mississippi Aphrodite the Drat chance he got and rauie home. That was In March, and he hasn't seen ber since, nor has he missed her. m Aye to ytftrUCT fit ) REMODELING OU MAKING OVER CLOTHING On every hn d we heir about tl.e h;gh cost of I'vintr. and the unusual exrense of the th ngs -e-Miired f 'r every day life. This is indeed true, yet fiere are many wayr in which economy may b' pra ticed without de priv:n one of real neeesrities. Hv giv;n-r some thought and nttetit:on to matters of cl thit g, much of the so "ailed tic'-cssar expense ( an be sav -d. It is n it uncommon in ninny hmic to find gn-menU discarded for want rf a little repair, or because they a e not made n.vording t the Into't fashion. Vany of us when buying a new hat, suit or dress, fail to kei'n n mi d the f:' t that we plan ti wear it two or more seasons. And so buv a dress of a style impossible to ma'e over and of a color of wh'eh we so n tire. Jhn'(c pere wrote, many year no, "Costly thy habit as thy purse ran buy." and the advice st'l holds good. Kconomy does not consist, however, of buying cheap, shoddy materia. New cl ithing should lie selected or planned that a-e not apt to go out rf style, ran easily be made eve" ar I with trimmings that will clean readi ly, or ran be chaneed without ipo li-g the garment. If this Were the gen--ral practice, mu h time and monev would bo saved. It is good economy to remodel -arment wh eh has lieen left ov-f-orn last yea". This is especially true if the materia! in the garment is of a good quality. Ma'ters of re in! listing (leaves, cellars, cuff, trim ming1 nnd the like are so simple an I vet so impnrta' t th it Ucy shoul I have s mo attent'un. No spc-cifi.-rule ran be given fo- nuik'g ovc garments, but a few general sugges tions may le ct forth. There are two types of "enodelini or mak ng over. One is to change the garment completely. The o her is to replace worn parts such a? col lars, cuffs, vests, and sleeves, or to change the length of waist and skirt. The latter ki d of remodeling often pays when the first would not. As old material has a way of looking its age, which is indescribable, and afte' spending days working on an old flr.-ss. it is an old dress atill and looks m. : k . u.. u:e:. v uinstnids 1 1 ces uy mu iun m . VTfllSKUYMKX grow large S IN quantities of Norway 5 spruce for t'tirl-lmss uses S rather more In the middle Weat, 8 where conifers are nol emiimon lj In th woixls, than on the east- v ern and western coasts, where S they frlnue every hillside. But the tree mimt commonly used Is w a short-needle pine found In the jw g wcmhIs of Northern Michigan and jj w Wisconsin. Fjirly In September 5 JJ the Indians about the lumber r ramps of this region are set to work cutting tln-e trees fur the 2 market, and by early Novemtier jK j a little fleet of vessels tnukes Its 3 j -way down Lake Michigan, a H ? Christmas tree hauled to the JS fforcinaM of each one, that by jjj this sign all may know that In S their holds Is a cargo which S might not tempt a Captain Kldd. but Is far more precloua than many a one for which good ships hsve lieen scuttleX CINCINNATI MARKETS Hay and Ors'n Corn No. 2 white 78070c : No. 9 white 7777r; No. S yellow T7 78c; No. 4 white 7SVj7tk-; No. 4 yel low 73V4&70Wc; No. 2 mixed 77V4G 78V4c Wheut No. 2 red ll.40Ot.41: No. S $1.21.:W; No. 4 l.:ir&137. Outs No. 2 white .ViWSIc; No. S white 40Kr; No. 2 mixed 4tt 4V-; No. .1 mixed 47tt4f4Nc; No. 4 white 47V(HSVic. Buttsr, Eggs and Poultry Hutter Creamery MJfMr; Hairy fancy MOe; packing atoek No. 1 2Mc; packing stock No. 2 IHc. Eggs Kxtru flrMs Xie; freSh flrnti ,Me; ordinary firsts 4'Jc. Live I'oultry Fowls 4 lbs and over Ilk'; under 4 lbs 14c; roosters 12c; fryers 2 lbs uud over IHc; hen tur key 8 lbs and over 43c; old Tom turkeys 10 lbs und over Il.V; young Tom turkey IU Ilis snd over 4.'tc; geese, choice 20V. Live Stock Cuttle Sleers good t' choice I7.M CU .V); fulr to good W..ri4f 7.W; com mon to fulr $ Tart; cows good to choice $t.&tld; cunners $1.!UU)2.2A ; slock steers 4(i7; slock hlfirs .MitAM. Culvestlood to choice V)((f fslr lu good 7 'K(i l0; common and Urge $4'i7is. Kluep ioud to choice $,'.yil..'iO; fslr to good Hi 5.00; common $l(2; bucks Wtt'A.M; lambs good to choice i:i.rsiM; fulr to good $ii13.n. Hogs Heuvy $M2.pi; choice packers and butchers medium tf.2.'4 8.40; heavy fat sows CiJ7; light ship Iters S.7o; pigs (100 pounds and less) S0tfH.73. little better than before, Tho ques tion then is, will tho result Justify all tWis work, or will it be better tJ niaKe the dress over fur some one who Is smaller. Kr"niontly two gar met ts can be combined to good ad vantage, but judgment should b" ued in th a matter or the wearer will soon beo rne t'red of th" dress and cast i r';!e. Standard colors-Mark, navy blue, brown nnd grny are n1ay safe selections, fo their nn-'btriisive-ne'v makes for less concern when the dress must be worn yen after year. Tinerent shade of these co'o's mnv be combined n'eely. As a ru'e, silk material is combined with (ilk nnd wool; cotton wi'h ctton, wo'l or s Ik. One of the nvst notable out of bito feature of n dres this yea- i its high wa:st line. If a lastyenr's serge dress r to be made over the following suggestions may be of help. A navy aerge may have a front panel and cuffs of red or grey je-sey silk, ib-corated with large navy French knots. A scam above the wa'st line makes the piecinir a rucrea, prividod the discarded portions of th d-rss are la-ge enough to permit the cut t rg. The skirt 'n'nrd at a low waist line and faced will surely prove I ng enou"h. A brown serge may have the panel and ruff of tan jersey. IIomstit hing is popular this year and is a clever wav to connect piecing--. The f.dlowiig a-e po;ntsi to be con-side-rd in remodel ng or making over: First, if remodeling is to be worth while, the fin'shed garment mut b attractive and have wearing quality. Si-cond, materials must be appropri ate in texture, color, and patte-n for the purpose intended. Third, the se cret of successful remaking l in givi' g the mme t are and attention to the work m if thj material wen new. The work will au-ely bo a fail ureif ild pts and wrinkles re main; if an attempt is mado to use some parts as they a"e; unless all sr.uns are ca-efully basted; unle' s all rams are carefully pressed; unless the pntte-n is chosen with regard t size and shape of piecea to be used. It ir not an unusual thing to have a made-over dress hok nicer and feel more comfortable than when it was t ew. 1 Anna F. Van Meter WALI.ACKTON HAS ROUSING COMMUNITY MEETING Wallaceton, Ky., Dee. 18. Our community club met at the school house, Tuesday night, December 12, at 7 o 'clin k. Mr. Spence and Mr. Carrithcrs had pi omit ed to be at our meeting, but business called them to Lexington. Tbey missed some fun by not bsing with us. We had some readings on the prog ress of high schools snd one on some of the things Wallaceton needs, tome recitations, and last but not least a mock marriage ceremony. The old "he" and the old "she." Jas. Ogg. Ji, the president of our club per formed the ceremony. This was fua frt ni the beginning to the erd. Some one suggested we invite the superintendent from Madison and Garrard county to come to our next meeting to talk and plan for our nw school-house. We are planning to have a program for that time, which will be Tueiday night, January 2, 1923, and hope to hi ve the bouse full. Now won't you be one of our number.. A FIRE FLINGER talesman A smoking Jacket? Tale way, madam. Would you like a smok ing jackal In half wyIT Customer Haven't yeu one In as bestos! My husband Is learning te roll his own cigarettes. JOHN WHITE & CO. L9UISVILL&, tT. liberal sasertasaat ad tell vale pel) f 1. II "1 WW 5 3tn.iEM3ii!HinjrB s -FURS Mldee sad fleet Hla