Lincoln County times., September 21, 1911, Image 3

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IF YOU HAVE
no appetite. Indigestion, Flatulence, Sick
Headache, "all run down*' or losing flesh, yon
will find
Tutt s Pills
fust what you need. They tana up tha weak
atataach and build up th* (Ugctag energlea.
Id. Uaa Will
Quickly Ead
Weak. Sera Eyat
The Hero'» Lament.
Achilles lamented hla vulnerable
heel.
"It means my wife will always make
me wipe my shoes off when I come In
the house," he cried.
Proper Treatment.
'1 have a terrible cold," he com
plained. "My head feels all stopped
up."
"Have you tried a vacuum clean
sr?" she queried sweetly.—Judge.
Left Him Far Behind.
Childish standards of greatness are
Interesting—perhaps because they are
at once so like yet so unlike the
standards of grown folk. Many an
adult, for Instance, has been proud
with no more reasonable basis than
that which little Johnnie displayed In
attempting to "top" the boasting of a
Juvenile comrade.
Tve got a real railroad train, with
an engine that goes, an' a real, live
pony, an' a really, truly gun, an'—"
"That's nothing!" Interrupted the
lad's disgusted listener. "Once 1 knew
a boy that sat up until 11 o'clock
twice In one week!"
Diary of a Fly-Killer.
Monday—My attention was called
last night to a statement that house
files are bearers of disease and should
be destroyed as soon as possible. I
began my crusade against them this
morning, it was a little discouraging,
because there was only one fly In the
bouse and It was quite agile. It es
caped me. I broke two vases and a
photograph frame.
Tuesday—I nearly killed three files
this afternoon, but the lamp got In
the way. It was a $7 lamp.
Wednesday—I saw a fly on the out
side of the fly screen and raised the
screen so I could hit It. Seventeen
flies flew In. 1 missed It.
Thursday—There was a sluggish
looking fly on the window with closed
wings. I stole toward It cautiously,
but It flew up Just as I let the blow
fall. Then I knew It wasn't a fly. It
was a wasp. My nose began to swell
at once.
Friday—My nose Is a sight. Drat
the flies.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ADDED 'EM UP.
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Hlx—You said your gun would shoot
900 yards.
Dl*—1 know I did.
Hlx— It'a marked to shoot only 150
yards.
Dix —I know, but there are two
barrels.
A HIT
What She Gained,by Trying Again.
A failure at first makes us esteem
final success.
A family In Minnesota that now en
joys Postum would never have known
how good It Is If the mother had been
discouraged by the failure of her
first attempt to prepare It. Her son
tolls the story:
"Wo had never used Postum till last
spring when father brought home a
package one evening Just to try It. We
had heard from our neighbors, and In
fact every one who used It, bow well
they liked It.
"Well, the next morning Mother
brewed It about five minutes. Just as
she had been In the habit of doing
with coffee without paying special at
tention to the directions printed on
It looked weak and
the package,
didn't have a very promising color, but
nevertheless father raised his cup
With an air of exceptancy. It certain
ly did give him a great surprise, but
I'm afraid- It wasn't a very pleasant
for he put down his cup with a
one,
look of disgust.
Mother wasn't discouraged though,
and next morning gave It another trial,
letting It stand ou the stove till boil
ing began and then letting It boil for
fifteen or twenty minutes, and this
were all so pleased with it
time wo
that we have used It ever since.
"Father was a confirmed dyspeptic
and a cup of coffee was to him like poi
son. So he never drinks It any more,
hut drinks Postum regularly. He Isn't
troubled with dyspepsia now and la
actually growing fat, and I'm sure
Postum Is the cause of It. All the chil
dren are allowed to drink It and they
perfect pictures of health." Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich
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COMBINE NAMES AND COLLAR
Mebraska Man Invents Device Which
May Be Adjusted to Different
Sized Necks of Horses.
Mr. Charles Sleeker of Waco, Neb.,
has recently Invented a device which
provides a uniform combined collar
ind hames whereby to dispense with
the usual collar and hames, which
may be adjusted for different sized
iccks, and which when in use will
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Combined Harne« and Collar.
prevent soreness and chafing, equalize
ind fairly distribute the draft, and
which may be easily placed and re
moved, says the Scientific American.
The illustration shows the Improve
ment In the position It will occupy
when In use. and to remove It, It Is
only necessary to release the free
end of a strap from a buckle. This
free end may be now withdrawn from
i loop and a ring, when the Improve
ment may be moved from the horse's
neck. No Injurious strain Is brought
to bear In any port, the draft being
equalized.
KANSAS HORSE IS KNOWING
Animal Will Open Gate to Pasture by
Pulling Out the Wooden Pin
With His Teeth.
Mr. Thomas Botkin, of Kansas,
owns a horse which he declares has
great reasoning powers. The barn
yard Is separated from the small pas
ture by a fence and gate. The gate Is
fastened by a wooden pin and auger
bole In the gate post When the
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An Intelligent Animal.
horse wants to enter the pasture he
reaches over the fence, pulls the pin
out of the hole with his teeth, and
then shoves the gale open by the
weight of his body.
FEEDING SILAGE TO SHEEP
Experiment* Have Shown It to Be
Desirable for Animals During Win
ter-Much Care Needed.
A aeries of exhaustive tests at the
Indiana experiment station has dem
onstrated beyond doubt that good
silage used Judiciously Is an extreme
ly desirable feed for sheep In winter.
It has an excellent effect upon the di
gestive system and upon the general
health and thrift of the lambs Ewes
fed during the winter on rations In
cluding a liberal amount of silage gain
average each winter of 20 pounds,
while those similarly fed without sil
age gain only 16 ',i pounds. Those re
ceiving the silage also consume more
than 7 per cent less grain and over
32 per cent less clover hay than those
maintained exclusively upon dry feed.
It also had a valuable effect upon the
;n
fleece, those receiving silage having a
slightly heavier coat of wool. Of the
lot of fall lambs which were finished
hothouse lambs during the spring
of 1909 those fed -on silage rations
considerably fatter and better
as
were
than the ones receiving dry rations.
It should not be assumed, however,
that an undue amount of silage will
satisfactory In the feeding ra
Extreme care should also be ob
prove
tlon.
served not to feed frozen or partially
decayed silage or silage unusually
Balance the ration up with
sour.
plenty of clover or alfalfa hay, or
other good, palatable roughage and
dry grain.
Ration for Young Porkers.
The hog grower of the future In
pork production as a business propo
sillon, and not using hogs merely as
In the field lot, must lake
! cognizance of the fact that the young
pigs up to the ago of six months need
I a growing and not a fattening ration,
and that their feeding must be tern
pered with judgment.
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food as Insures growth,
scavengers
Food for the Growing Calf.
Growing calves should have such
Fat Is not
needed In the dairy
I winter should be clover, hay, oats or
. bran; bright straw may bei o a so.
! ind roots for variety. Keep
, comfortable, summer and winter ana
growth will follow as a natural re
mit
INFLUENCE OF A POOR SIRE
Improvement In Types of Horses Bred
on Our Farms of Greatest Im
portance to Farmer.
The fact that the sire Is concerned
with so many more Individual off
spring In a given season than a sin
gle mare, makes It readily seen that
his influence Is much more extensive.
To Improve the horse stock of a gl- en
community through the female line,
for Instance, would require the use
of fifty or more superior mares to ac
complish the same results as might
be secured by the use of a single stal
lion.
Purity of breeding Insures prepo
tency and since, In the gradlng-up pro
cess the pure-bred parent Is usually
the sire. It Is essential that he be of
such a character that the Impression
which he stamps upon his offspring
shall be only of the best.
Defects in structure cannot be off
set by type or breeding of the high
est degree of excellency. A horse may
he a superior Individual In a class by
himself, but he must conform closely
to the specified requirements of the
type with which he should class.
The Influence of well-bred sires In
any community can readily be seen
by observing the horses used In the
fields, on the road and particularly In
the horse markets of the cities.
Certain states that have paid at
tention to horse-breeding, now pro
duce animals that can almost be told
at a glance by dealers, without know
ing In advance where they came from,
so superior Is their quality,
states have exactly the reverse repu
tation and as soon as a lot Is an
nounced as coming from such a state,
dealers will desert the sale ring.
Horses coming from such localities
where farmers are averse to paying a
decent service-fee, but prefer to use
scrubs, are of poor type, vary widely
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A "Grade" Shire Stallion.
In color, form, size, and weight, and
possess few qualities which fit them
for long and useful service.
So Important has been the Influence
of scrub sires In some states, that the
legislatures have been prevailed upon
to pass laws to Improve the situation.
SUCCESS WITH MARCH PIGS
Begin to Fatten November 1 on Corn,
Apples and Milk—Ready to Kill
In Two Weeks.
(By J. B. JOHNSON. Pennsylvania.)
I h.,re best success with young pigs
farrowed about the middle of March.
When about a month old we wean
them and put them in a pen by them
selves and feed on sweet skim milk.
They learn to drink quickly.
We add a little middling to the
milk. About the first of May we turn
the pigs Into the orchard on grass and
clover pasture,
with bran and middlings mixed with
milk or water, giving them all they
We feed twice daily
Wo begin to fatten November 1, on
corn fodder, apples and milk,
want.
corn,
They are ready for killing about the
middle of November.
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To be profitable, sows must be sure
breeders.
Examine the collars of your work
horses often.
Don't let the nursing sows run down
too much In condition.
Do not disturb the sow for at least
24 hours after farrowing.
Don't teed the young pigs Intended
for breeding purposes altogether on
corn.
Ashes have good effect on the pigs
digestion,
worms.
Your
but does not understand your
besides killing Intestinal
horse may Intend to please
you
wishes.
Don't neglect to commence feeding
the colls some grain before they are
weaned.
The pure-bred draft breeding mare
much work as a grade.
will do as
and her colt will be worth much more.
exposed sleeping quarters
compel the sows to pile up In
Cold,
that
keep warm are usflally re
order to
sponsible for the dead pigs at this
time.
suspicious that some of
If you are
your cattle are affected with tuber
culosis. the sooner you have your herd
tested and made free from fire trouble
the better It will be for your pocket
book.
When you pet a pood brood bow,
one that always * fnlr
litter of strong pigs and raises a large
per cent, of them, better ho ' d
her ns long as she continues her good
work.
CONVENIENCE OF DIVIDING
FAU AND SPRING HOG HERDS
By This Method Farmer Will be Able to Distribute His
Time Equally, Economize in Room, Sell When
Markets Suit Him And Furnish Customers
Kind of Pork Desired.
my C. C. BOWSFIELD, Illinois.)
Every farmer, who raises as many
as 100 hogs In a year, ought to divide
them Into spring and fall herds. By
this means he will be able to distrib
ute the labor to suit his convenience,
economize in room, sell when the mar
ket suits him, and furnish his custo
mers on short notice, any kind of pork
desired, from suckling-roast to prime
bacon.
The thoroughly practical man can
turn hogs Into money very rapidly,
but the business needs to be on a scale
extensive enough to enable him to
properly divide his fields and build
ings, and to make thorough experi
ments, with different types, and differ
ent kinds of food.
I have observed two or three bad
failures recently, which were caused
primarily, by the old and erroneous
Idea that hogs do not require much
ground room or forage.
In raising pork for the market, the
farmer ought to keep In mind these
vital points: Cost of feeding, danger
of disease or sickness, and range of
market prices.
Starting the season with 50 to 100
pigs lust weaned, the owner should
provide pasturage of some kind. I
would give this lot of young animals
one mess per day, of brain and shorts
moistened with slops, skimmed milk
or whey. This Is ample In a grass-lot
of live or ten acres.
Clover Is excellent for forage, but
artichokes and rape are better. A
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little corn soaked In water la good
when the pigs begin to show growth
What they need above all else, how
ever. Is the range, with Just about
such a line of food as would be re
quired to give young cattle a steady
and rapid growth. Field-peas ought
to be available toward the end of
summer. The hogs can be allowed to
do the harvesting themselves.
This will give firmness and sweet
ness to the flesh, and could be used
right through the fall. Instead of corn
My preference would be to give the
final month to a dressing up with
corn. This crop being ready In Octo
ber, the fattening process can be
ALFALFA PEST
WORKS INJURY
Weevil is Not Native to America,
But Introduced From
Europe, Asia and
Africa.
(By F. M. WEBSTER.)
The alfalfa weevil is not native to
America, but has been accidentally In
troduced from Europe, western Asia,
0 r northern Africa, where it Is very
common, and where, while more or
less destructive to alfalfa. It is prob
ably prevented by its natural enemies
from working serious and widespread
ravages.
The Insect winters entirely In the
beetle stage, seeking shelter, before
■.he frosts of autumn commence, either
in the crowns of alfalfa plants, close
to the surface of the ground In the
Held or under leaves, matted grass,
weeds, and rubbish along ditch banks,
hay stacks and straw stacks. Indeed
It Is oftentimes found In barns where
hay Is kept over winter.
It has been estimated that fully 80
per cent of the beetles that go Into
winter quarters In the fall live through
until spring.
spring the beetles make their way
With the coming of
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The Alfalfa Weevil: Adults Clustering
on and Attacking Sprig of Alfalfa.
forth from their hiding places and
attack the young growth of alfalfa as
soon as
them.
In ordinary seasons they appear In
March and the egg-laying period usu
ally lasts from March or April until
early July.
Some Idea of the abundance of
which
there Is sufficient food for
these eggs and the extent to
the pest may breed In vacant lots and
other waste lands where alfalfa has
| escaped from cultivation and grown
, gg r weed mnv be obtained from the
| fact tha t tn one cas. a single plaot
^ beefl foun(J ^ CO nUln 127 of these
rushed through the month of No
vember, or until conditions are right
for marketing.
The clearest profit Is made In ten
months, at which age. the bogs ought
to average 266 pounds. Animals that
get good pasturage, and about such a
diet as 1 have described, are pretty
sure to escape disease. It Is essential
to have plenty of pure water In the
hog lot.
The farm should Include three or
four small fields, securely fenced, so
that one kind of forage could be
rested, while the other was used. Then
again. If the owner detects fever or
other sickness In the herd. It Is easy
to segregate those animals which are
affected. Prompt action along this
line, may prevent heavy loss.
Dipping is another essential, and as
It is neither difficult or expensive, It
ought to be attended to. twice each
summer. With this kind of hog farm
ing, cholera will not be known, and
the stock will get a steady growth,
from beginning to end.
If the weather be severe, when It
comes to the last month of feeding,
the hogs should be kept In clean,
roomy pens, but even to the last day,
they should have some succulent for
age-plant to eat.
suitable for this, and carrots are ex
cellent. In connection with the corn,
or peas.
It is for the good of the animal, and
of course for the owner's pocket, that
a program of this kind he marked out.
Feeding 50-cent corn, for six or eight
months, will not do.
Clover or alfalfa Is
Farmers must
learn that forage Is natural to the hog.
and that it will give the growth at a
small cost.
Allowing full rental value for the
land, the cost of all food supplies, and
the wage value of the time taken up
in the care of the stock, from the date
of birth, to the marketing 100 hogs
10 months old averaging 250 pounds.
be turned off. at a cost not ex
ceding $700.
It may be done for a little less, but
If it Is to be a business proposition,
let It be figured as a business man
can
would count the expense,
ful experimenting and observation, for
several years, I get no figures very
far from |7 for a marketable hog
weighing 250 pounds.
With care
Vieep Up Cow's Condition.
To keep up the condition of the
cows and to supplement the pasture a
little wheat bran and flaxseed meal
can be profitably fed all through the
summer.
egg punctures In the midst of the egg
laying season, with the punctures
fresh and new. As one puncture may
contain anywhere from a tew to over
30 eggs, probably 10 or 16 on the aver
age. this single plant presumably con
tained between 1,200 and 1.300 eggs
at the time It was observed. If these
hatched and half of them developed
Into female beetles and 80 per cent of
the latter passed the winter, this plant
might In a year give rise to over 150,
000 beetles.
The alfalfa weevil has no natural
enemies, except frogs and toads, both
of which are by far too few In num
bers to greatly restrict the ravages of
the pesL
AIDS FOR THE
HOG BREEDER
Two Pastures Better Than One —
Vicious Animal Should he
Killed — Provide
Shelter.
The breed of white hogs Is rapidly
disappearing from this country.
Free range for hogs does not mean
that they should be allowed to run
over our neighbor's farm.
With good fence wire cheap as
it Is today it is an easy matter to di
vide up the hog pasture Into convenient
lots.
Two pastures are better than one.
because while the hogs are feeding
In one field the other will be recover
ing and later furnish much more at
tractive feed than as If both pastures
are used as one.
The vicious hog that la forever
breaking out and causing trouble for
one's neighbor cannot be killed too
quickly.
It Is a good plan to provide sum
mer shelter for the hogs , on a high
spot where the wind will have a full
sweep.
Cow of Quality,
It Is unofficially reported that a Jer
sey cow ownd by a member of the
American Jersey club, of New York,
In a year's test gave 14,452 pounds ol
milk. The average dally was 39 6-10
pounds milk and 2 pounds and 1-7
ounces of butter.
Feed for Dairy Cows.
High priced feed and low prices for
milk or its products Is a very unde
sirable combination, but It Is some
times economy to submit to a present
loss, rather than allow a milk flow
to go by default.
Sheep on Pasture.
11 too many sheep are confined on a
pasture they will eat the grass roots
right out of the ground.
WOMAN
ESCAPES
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WasCured by LydiaE.Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound
Elwood, Ind-—"Your remedies have
cured me and I have only taken six
bottles of Lydia EJ'inkham's Vegeta
"—T^Tible Compound. I
nih. I was sick three
months and could
not walk. I suf
fered all the time.
The doctors said I
could not get well
<p a*
without an opera
tion, for I could
hardly stand the
pains in
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my sides,
especially my right
one, and down my
right leg. I began
to feel better when I had taken only
one bottle of Compound, but kept on
as I was afraid to stop too soon."—Mrs.
Sadie Mullen, 2723 2T. B. St., El,
wood, Ind.
Why will women take chances with
an operation or drag out a sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three
fourths of the joy of living, when they
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can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound?
For thirty years it has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
has cured thousands of women who
have been troubled with such ail
ments as displacements, inflammation,
ulceration, fibroid tumors, Irregulari
ties, periodic pains, backache, indiges
tion, and nervous prostration.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
Compound will help you,
■write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass., for advice. Yonr letter
will be absolutely confidential,
and the advice free.
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Gayboze—When my wife saw tha
condition I was In when I got home
from the club last night It just stag
gered her!
Martini—I'm not surprised,
know you drank enough for two, old
You
man!
A Trifle Withered.
In his native tongue no one could
have made more graceful speeches
that Monsieur Blanc, but when he
essayed compliments In English he
was not quite so successful.
"Have I changed In the five years
since we met in Parts?" asked tha
elderly woman who desired above all
things to be thought younger, much
younger, than she was.
"Madame," said the courtier, his
hand on his heart, "you look like
a rose of 20 years!"—Youth's Com
panion.
Order of Independents.
Larry O'Neil had no love of discip
line save as he administered it. When
he decided to "jine the p'rade," he
breathed defiance with every order is
sued by the military leader.
"Here, you! Look out for yer feet!"
muttered the man next him. "Keep
shtep. can't you?"
"Get along wld yer sheeps" said Lar
ry, turning on him.
"I've a shtep o'
an' I'll take it or lave the
me own,
p'rade to get on widout me."—Youth's
Companion.
In Seclusion.
"Is your mistress at home?"
"Are you the manicure lady?"
"No, Indeed!"
"Then she ain't at home, mum."
The Flavour
of
Post
Toasties
Is so distinctly pleasing
that it has won the liking
of both young and old
who never before cared
much for cereal food of
any kind.
Served direct from the
package—crisp and fresh,
and—
"The Memory Lingers
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Postum Cereal Company. Ltd..
Battle Creek, Mich.