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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1923 Big Loss of Pigs Before Weaning 4 J Heavier in Spring Than in Fall According to Survey Made in Three States. (Prepared by the United State« Department of Agriculture.) Losses of pigs before weening are heavier In the spring than in the fall, as shown In a survey just completed by the United States Department of Agriculture. The loss amounts to 36 per cent of the pigs furrowing in spring litters before weaning compared with a loss of 24 per cent of*pigs farrowing In fall litters. In records on 3,026 Ut ters of pigs during 1922 In Iillnols, Iowa and Indiana. The following table gives the principal causes of pig losses up to weaning time: Number of Pigs Lost Before Weaning Per 1,000 Farrowed. Why waste any more time longing for the pleasures you can get out of a Ford Car? Start now to make the Touring Car or any other type you may select, your own. Soon you will have it to drive anywhere you want to go—camping—visiting—picnick ing—or to your work ¡I Under the terms of the Ford Weekly Pur chase Plan you can enroll for as little as $5. We will 1 deposit yc your payments in a local bank at interest. You can add a little every week. Soon the payments plus the interest, will make the car yours. ♦ ?‘f J You will be surprised how little time it really takes to get a Ford after you make the start. Don’t put it off—Enroll today. Come in and let us give you full particulars. Woodson Brothers Authorized Ford Dealers Payments on Weekly Purchase Plan will be deposited with the FIRST NATIONAL BANK Every patron of The Sentinel is helping to give Cottage Grove a newspaper which emi nent authority has stated to be one of the best country newspapers published anywhere Causes of Death. Overlaid .................... Farrowed dead .... Farrowed weak ..,. Chilled ____________ starved ...... ..... Scours ................................. Injured by other stock. Sore mouth ...................... Eaten by sows ........ Worms .......................... .... All other causes ............. Total died In each 1.000 farrowed .......................... 868 U Ï 11 842 These records serve to show that fully one-fourth to one-third of the feed and other expense In keeping sows Is lost before weaning, by not giving the sow proper feed and care during gestation or proper farrowing quarters, the department points out By far the major share of losses In pigs la due to Improper handling and feeding and not to disease. Sows running on pastures while suckling pigs saved the largest litters. Sows that were fed the following quantities of feed, per one hundred pounds liveweight monthly, during the gestation period, farrowed the largest litters: 45 pounds of corn, 10 pounds of oats, 1.5 pounds of tankage. Tried sows that had produced pigs previous ly seemed in this study to show a ten dency to produce larger Utters than untried gilts. Cause of Losses. A similar study upon 8,574 spring pigs produced on these same farms In the spring of 1921 showed that 840 of every 1,000 pigs farrowed died before the date of weaning. The Important causes of losses In the spring of 1921, as In 1922, were pigs laid on by the mother sow, and those bom dead os so weak they could not get up to suckle. The 1921 pigs, however, were bothered more with necrotic enterltlB than wore those In the spring of 1922. The study Indicates that barring fluctuations In prices of feeds' and the occurrence of disease, the number of thrifty pigs produced per sow more than any other factor influences the cost of producing pork. All the care In feeding possible after weaning the pigs can very seldom overcome the production cost due to small litters, the department says. The1 figures show that the majority of sows last winter had a carrying charge of $15 to $25 per head, which covered the cost of carrying them while producing a Ut ter of pigs; with a large share of the sows this meant carrying charges for twelve months. The time to take the tall from the lamb Is In Its second week of life. The operation Is not difficult and docking the lambs simply removes something unnecessary to the lamb. Two men and a sharp knife or a docking iron are all that Is necessary. Let one man hold the lamb, while the other lo cates the joint In the tall by feeling on the Inside. Push back the loose skin so that a flap wUl grow over the stub and cut the tall off at a joint about one and one-half Inches from the body. The cut Is simply made with a sharp knlfo. In which case a stout cord tightly tied about the stump close to the body will stop unneces sary bleeding. This cord should be removed In eight or ten hours so that there will be no sloughing. A much better way of docking the lamb Is the use of hot docking irons, searing the tall off with an Iron heat ed to a cherry red. This cauterises the wound and prevents bleeding. It’s important to you, to your motor, to your pocketbook — that you get a dis tilled lubricant for your car. There’s just one way to be sure of getting it. SUNOCO « THE DISTILLED OIL' is the distinctive, distilled lubricant for motors; made by an exclusive patented process. You know what distilling does—removes every impurity. Every one of Sunoco's six types— Light to XX Heavy—is pure, distilled lubri cant. Ordinary oils consist of light oil with “cylinder stock” added to give body. It’s cylin der stock that causes your carbon troubles. Ask your dealer or write us for booklet. ‘'What’s Happening Inside Your Motor?” MARSHALL-WELLS COMPANY DULUTH MINNEAPOLIS SPOKANE PORTLAND These dealer, sell SUNOCO—tali lubneation with then, Donnelly ft Rayner, Eugene, Oregon Ralston Electric Supply Co Albany, Oregon J. A. Thompnon, Blodgett, Oregon Cheshire Mercantile O b ., Cheshire, Oregon Shields Roch ft Company, Junction City, Oregon Jaekeon ft Addison, Lorane, Oregon Frank E. Biair, Lowell, Oregon Hans M. Pctrraoa ft Sons Co., Florcnee, Oregon Brittle ft Rimpson, Noti, Oregon W. M. Wade, Marshfield, Oregon “ J. T. R om , Powers, Oregon I I Feed Laying Hens Well During Summer Season I f I I « 1 What the World Is Doing (Popular Mechanics Magazine.) ——— ■ -——----------- --------- —■ MAKING HIM GET A MOVE ON Sometimes a man’s creditors pro vide the motive power that gains for him the reputation of being a person of unusual activity. • • • There is lots of false economy iy this world. A woman will waste five dollars worth of time saving ten cents worth of string. • • • There is nothing moro angelic on earth than the smile of the little babe who knows not why it forms its innocent mouth into that pleas ing shape. • * • Honesty is an absolutely safo policy that doesn’t always pay div idends. • • • Half the people you envy are dis satisfied with their position in life. • • • Tho woman who gots married for fun has a poor idea of a joke. Airship Hangar Could Louse Large Office Building At Scott Field, Ill., the Army Air Service has erected, at a cost of more Attachment on Spade Saves Shoes Taking Tail From Lambs Not Difficult Operation Play safe on oil KEEP YOUR HEAD, BROTHER “Where will we raise our food when all of the available farming area is taken up and worked to its fullest capacity*” asks a magazine writer. By that time we won’t waste food on people with nothing to do but ask foolish questions, so there is no occasion for uneasiness. • • • Often a woninn’s complexion is as valuable as her reputation—nnd she can whiten that up any time she wishes. • • • MORE SENSE TO THEM, TOO We have seen tipsy men try to talk—also mon after a public ban quet—and gathered more enjoyment out of some of the former than out of some of the latter. • • • A sweetly spoken refusal of a request is sometimes more satisfac tory than a begrudged acquiescence. The illustration shows a slmpit attachment for a spade, to save ths Shia'S while digging. The attachmerj consists of a «hort length of M or H-in. pipe, <il>out 4 in. long, with a hacksaw HACKSAW SLOT slot cut through ♦ it lengthwise as I I shown, to permit it to be pushed onto the spade. Tho slot should, of course, be of such a width that tho spade will bo gripped , . firmly. The use of this attachment only saves tho shoes of the workman, but it is not so tiring on the foot • • • World’s Largest and Fastest Cable than $2,000,000, a large airship han gar. The hugo structure could con- lain a 10-story oflieo building with a 60-foot tower on the roof. Tho hangar, vhich is built of steel, concrete, and glass, is 825 feet long and 225 feet high. At tho end are large stool doors opened and closed by electric motors that travel on railroad rails. ♦ • • Red Finger Light to Aid Night Auto Signaling Completion of the laying of a new A small red light worn on tho finger cable in tho Atlantio Ocean, between like a ring, has been mado to aid night New York and London, is expected by signaling by August 1, next, according to a recent motorists. A.s announcement. It will bo tho largest tho driver ex ever laid in the Atlantic, or anywhere tends his arm else in the world, and will havo a ca and hand to pacity twice that of any other cable now signal a turn, in service between the United States or whatever and Europe. Engineers charged with it may be, tho design of the new cable estimate tho lamp is that it will permit a sending speed of automati- approximately 600 letters per minute rally lighted by the outstretching of in Ixith directions at the samo time, or a tho fingors. The oord connection total of 1,200 letterspermin-.ite, making can txi plugged into tho dash-board it the fastest cablo in tho world. Its or under the driver’s seat. conductor requires an average of about 1,100 pounds of copper per mile, aS Modern Jove Juggles Million Volts against an average of alxiut 700 pounds At an electrical show held at a of copper per mile for tho heaviest western university not long ago, one now in servioe. of the students mystified tho crowd TTIC aeriiJs arc easy to eon- with a display rivaling the mythical • struct and when properly made, feats of Jove, who was Ixdievod by the the nsulls obtained with them art ancients to bo tho wieldor of the nearly us good as those obtained with thunderbolt. Seated in a chair sep outdixir aerials. Allie aerials should arated from a table by seven-ply in sulators, tho youth grasped a zigzag not be confused with loop aerials, at they havo no direct ional effects. They rod in one hand and in the other a wand with which ho made conflict slno huve an advantage over outdool aerials in that they do not need a light with a ball from which tho lightning effect was emitted. Tho impunity ning switch. with which ho handled tho l,(XX),000 'rhe end-to-end type of this aerial volts is explained by the low amperage consists of a number of lengths of No. 14 stranded copper wire, strung paral lel to each other, and attached to tho uprights at each end of the attic by ffieans of ordinary aerial insulators, Tho total length of the wire used should not lie less t han 150, nor moro than 200 ft., and tho wires should lxi spaced about 1 !$ ft. apart. One end is left dead; the wires are then con nected in series, as shown, and the other end is soldered to tho lead-in wire, which is brought down to tho instrument through a length of flexible value of the current passing through loom. his laxly and the insulators under the In attics where less space is avail chair logs, which prevented the elec able, such as those with hip roofs, tho aerial can be strung along tho rafters, tricity from going to the ground and as shown In the upper right-hand thoreby establishing a flow of current drawing. One length of No. 14 wire, that would have been disastrous to tho 150 to 200 ft. long, is strung in four daring young experimenter. • * • parallel rows as indicated, the wire lx^ ing attached to tho rafters by means CA variation of the “dunning" letter of round porcelain insulators, which is used by a Western firm, with agree can be purchased at any electrical able results. Its notice is beaded with supply store. Ono end is left dead, and four bias of music. The worils are the other is connected to the lead-in also given, being a parody on an old wire, as before. Scotch folk song. They read: “May Tho flat-loop aerial, shown in th« a Ixxly ask a Ixxly, Pleaao remit today. “ lower drawing, is designed for small attics. Two lengths of rope are strung an amateur has received stations 1,000 across the attic. from oomer to corner, miles distant, using a two-step spider and are tied ysgethor at tho point coil receiving wit. where they : mm . The aerial wire is To obtain tho best results with any attached to the ropes, as shown in the receiving sot, just as much pains must drawing, being tied firmly at overy lie taken tefsecure a good ground as to point where it touches the ropes. Tho (■onstruct tho aerial. N umber 14 wire inner end is the dead one, and the should lx; used, and ono cjid aoklered azsial oh hw - hxx sattia Main Things Necessary in Handling Brood Mare Y Where to buy US.Tires NELSON’S SERVICE STATION Cottage Grove, Oregon 1 Why let a LOW PRICE keep you from t ' the BEST? I I .*( 1 the road have shown cnodnsduciy that Zero lene, which is made from adccted W estem Naphrfr nir B aa r Onrir^iEifrEtt d 5% mat, I i ’■ A « KJ II.PAGE and non-skid A security are important factors in tire performance. Upper Left: Aerial Strung •crow an Attic, the Wlrea being Connected la Seri.e. Upper Right: Atrial Ar ranged on the Rafter* of a Hip Roof. Lower Right; Flat- Loop Aerial Supported by Ropea from the Cornera of the Attic outer end 1« connected to the k'ad-in wire. 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