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CONFORMATION IS ESSENTIAL IN BREEDING DRAFT HORSES Oftke IOO'°OO Animals Marketed at Chicago Not More Than 5,000 Would be Termed A-l—Economy of Heavy Mare on Farm for Work and Produ- Colts is Summed Up by Expert. Corner^ zJuniom PLIMSOLL’S MARK ON SHIPS Peculiar Characters on Side of British Vessel* Determine Weight of Her Cargo. An Excellent Farm Team. REDUCE YOUR LIVING EXPENSES Eat Golden Cereal Foods and recommend them to your acquaint- anew. You get better quality and more for your money. They ar» made in your home state from the best Oregon Oats and Wheat Large packages contain a Handsome Premium and all go«!» «-» guaranteed. Ask your irrocer. Golden Rod Oats. Golden Rod Pancake Flour. Golden Rod Wheat Flakes. Ralston Select Bran. Golden Rod Wheat Nuts. Golden Rod Chick Food. Mirage Easy to Be Seen. The celebrated Fata Morgana, a Perhaps you have often heard oi presentation of natural “moving pic man's making bis mark In the world, but what do you think of a man that tures" on an immense scale which is left his mark on every British ship occassionally seen in the Straits of Messina, is explained by a scientific that sails the seas? writer as being a mirage, such as fre If you are observant you may have noticed in passing some of the freight quently occurs in various parts of steamers a peculiar mark on the side, the world; "in fact,” he says, "one close to the water, something like the may see a mirage any day by looking letters O. E. This mark is usually through the stratum of air overlying about the middle of the boat, and is a hot stove, or adjacent to the side white or yellow on a dark background. of a wall heated In the sunshine." In the old days many merchant Young scientists.will be interested in ships were lost through overloading Terifying this statement. and a British member of parliament, Displeased the Widow. Samuel Plimsoll, who sympathized A Philadelphia traveling man, hav with the poor sailors that had to risk their lives on these ships while the Ing gone upon that journey for which greedy owners stayed safely at home, there is no return ticket, his many worked and worked until he got a ' friends of the road consulted together - law passed that obliged every cargo' ns t0 the remembrance to be sent by carrying vessel to carry a mark on : them, ...... and finally decided upon a de- its side, showing the depth to which 1 sign which was not only original, but I which they considered peculiarly ai>- she might safely be loaded. The five marks on the figure to propriate. They never could under the right, which looks like a letter E, stand why the widow would not re Indicate the loading depths for differ ceive the beautiful suit case, made of ent places and seasons. The top Une, white flowers, with the words, "His turned to the left, is for fresh water. last trip, ’ in purple violets, on one The top line to the right is for the Bide. Jndian ocean. The next below is for Liquid blue is a weak solution. Avoid it Buy / MEXICAN MUSTANG liniment The Household Remedy. John Lind, Yo«t. Ut»h. write«: “We have been using your Mexican Mue tang Liniment in our fam.ly ever i U c « 1868 and find it to be a good article to nave in the house andarenever without it. I have recommended it to many of my friends who have also found the same my valuable. 25c. 50c. $1 a bottle at Drug A Gen'l Stores A House for You. “If you have sense, and feeling, do- termine what sort of house will b* fit for you; determine to work for it —to get it—and to die in it, if tb* Lord will. I mean, one that you can entirely enjoy and manage; but which you will not be proud of, except a* yon make it charming in its modesty.** —Ruskin. There are a number of considera their cost of maintenance and raise tions for the farmers to keep in mind colts worth $1,000. in breeding horses for the draft horse The economy of the heavy mare on trade. Among these are that size, the farm, both from the standpoint of weight, condition and character each doing farm work and producing colts bear an important influence in de- compared with light and medium termining the prices paid on the mar weight mares is nicely summed up as ket^ and therefore that this Influence follows by Secretary Dinsmore of the Red Cross Ball Blue, the blue that's all blue. Ask Is reflected upon the prices which your grocer. Percheron Society of America: “The they receive from the country ship cost of maintenance under farm con pers and buyers, says the Wisconsin ditions is about the same, the heavier Their Proper Place. Agriculturist. Nothing that influences The folks who are perpetually pro mares are more efficient in the work the large central markets for the prou- testing that their consciences ar< of the farm, the colts are ready for acts of the farm fails to affect the clear and that they have nothing foi Tells How She Keeps Hef work a year younger, and if carried sale of a single article directly on the which to reproach themselves are gen to the same age, will bring about Health — Happiness For farm. erally in a bad way, for the probabil twice as much as the colts from the ity is that their much-vaunted con Probably the one thing w’hich the light weight mares and about one- Those Who Take sciences have stopped working and general run of horses that reach the third or one-quarter more than the ---------------- Her Advice. are of no further use. Such p*opk markets lack more often than any colts from the medium weight mares.’’ Plimsoll’* Mark. never allow that they are in th« other is size and Incidentally there This summary was drawn up after fore weight. It is stated from good some careful thinking, upon the ques the summer season anywhere. The wrong; their favorite sentence Is. “1 Scottville, Mich.-“ I want to tell you authority that there are more good tion being put to the secretary by an one below that is for winter and the told you so!” and their proper place how much good Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg- horses marketed In the Union Stock extensive land owner looking forward lowest of all Is for the north Atlantic la on a desert island with thick etableCompound and Yards at Chicago than any other to the purchase and breeding of In winter, as that is considered the skinned turtles for boon companions Sanative Wash have place in the United States, and yet horses, "What kind of mares should most dangerous of all the oceans done me. I live on • traveled by cargo carrying ships. Hair Fabrics. of the 100,000 horses marketed there 11 use? I want to know all things con farm and have worked Tn the manufacture cf hair fabrics not more than 25,000 would weigh sidered, whether I should buy a 1,200 very hard. I am O'er 1,550 pounds, and not more than pound, a 1,400 pound or a 1,700 pound LITTLE TRICK OF INTEREST the hair is reduced to a paste by a sol forty-five years old, 5,000 were what would be termed A-l mare?” In other words, the land vent and all kinds of hair and fibers and am tho mother horses. First class draft horses for owner as a business man wanted to One May See Through His Hand by , Bre used. The paste is run through of thirteen children. Using Piece of Paper Rolled Up the city trade should not weigh less know whtat would be the relative cost Bn artificial silk spinner and drawn Many people think In Form of Tube. than 1,600 pounds when In working of maintenance, what the relative effi from the spinner in threads. Some of it strange that I am condition, and If they weigh 1 750 ciency on the farm and what the rela these are a yard or more in length. not broken down Here is something that is very easy They can be braided or woven like ar pounds they will satisfy all the better. tive market value of the colts pro with hard work and To carry such weights horses should duced, of these three classes of mares. to try and that is bound to interest tificial horse-hair. Hair composition the care of my fam- Stand about 16 hands high or over Here is how he thinks out the mat everyone you show it to. Take a of superior quality Is kept for the man I ily, hut I tell them of my good friend, xnd should have conformations in ter, and his thinking was based on ex piece of paper and roll it up into a ufacture of wigs and braids.—Harper's , Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- proportion. Weekly. i pound, and that there will be no back- tended observation and experience: I ache and liearing down paina for them if The condition of a horse is all Im All three classes can, of course, be No thoughtful person use* liquid blue. It'« a pinch of blue in a larwe bottle of water A r L f«»»» ‘ they will take it as I have. I am scarcely portant, both as to soundness and managed, as far as maintenance cost Red Cross Ball Blue, the blue that's ail blue. ever without it in the house. thrift. Horses that have poor feet, is concerned, at about the same gen “I will say also that I think there fa bad hocks, weak wind, or poor shoul eral figures. But in respect to working Ancient Italian City. no better medicine to be found for young: ders are sticklers on the market. They efficiency, if we rate the 1,700 pound Asolo, which Inspired two of Brown girls. My eldest daughter has taken* sell very slowly and at very low horse at 100 per cent., liberal allow ing s verses In "Asolando,” and which Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com prices. So also do horses that are in ance Is made if the 1,450 pound horse is observing the centenary, is a forth pound for painful periods and irregular k poor condition of thrift. Fat always is credited at 90 per cent., and the fled town in Treviso, In northern Italy. ity, and it has helped her. aelps to sell horses quickly and at 1,200 pound horse at 80 per cent. The It was the ancient Acelum, and pos good prices, for it makes them look colts bred to a good draft sire will “I am always ready and willing to sesses a cathedral and a ruined aque good and the horses, moreover, do not average somewhere speak a good word for Lydia E. Pink- Seeing Through Hand. about 1,500 duct. The former palace of Catha- i ham's Vegetable Compound. I tell «very seed to be conditioned before they pounds; colts from 1,450 pound mares can be put to work. A horse which l,6v0 to 1,700 pounds, and colts from tube about three-quarters of an inch rine Cornaro, queen of Cyprus, is in one I meet that I owe my health and neighborhood. ftil «»nt. in th , « u re ®reubeautl' happiness to your wonderful medicine.” looks thin when it leaves the farm Is 1,700 pound mares, 1,800 to 2,000 in diameter. Hold this in your right the liable to look considerably thinner pounds. Then, too, the lighter weight hand and place one end of it close up ful seats In the vicinity, and the town -Mrs. J.G. J ohnson , Scottville, Mich liter It has been shipped and arrives colts necessarily make their full to your right eye. Place on the table has a population of under 6.000—Lon R.F.D. 3. I Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- it the sales stables. Fat horses ship weight only at maturity and they will about three feet from you any small don Globe. Far better than thin, thriftless ones. not be fit to sell until they are four object, such as a coin. Now open your i pound, made from native roots and herbs, Pastor's Merited Rebuke. Then, too, the suspicion of being a and one-half or five years of age. The left hand and place ft with the palm contains no narcotics or harmful drugs, When Samuel S Coiber was preach and today holds the record of being th* poor doer on the best of care is liable same Is true of the medium weight facing you, against the left side of the paper tube, about midway of Its ing In an old log schoolhouse in John- most successful remedy for woman’s ill» to attach Itself to the thin horse In colts, * but buyers are scouring the the mind of the buyer, whereas when । country for heavy colts. Every good length. Keeping both eyes open, now *°n county, Missouri, In 1852, his known. he looks upon a well conditioned i gelding Is gathered up at three years you will appear to see through this congregation was quite small. One aorse no such suspicion occurs to him. < of age. The heavier colts sell earlier, hand In fact, there will apparently be Sunday all were sitting at the desks It* Only Purpose. a hole right through it. through which * forward near the puncheon floor. Character Is a valuable asset to or 1 if carried until they are older and you will see the coin. "O Willie, Willie," cried a tenches The sermon was monotonous and the any horse that is placed on the mar- then 1 put on the market, the prices ad- Io a hopelessly dull pupil, "whatever old log seats had no backs. Observ ket, and like size and weight is gen- vanco accordingly. Colts weighing do your think your head is for?" Evenly Matched. ing the sleepy, downcast look of the •rally lacking in the usual stock of around 1,500 pounds will not bring । Willie, who evidently thought this an- A boy sat on a rail fence inclosing congregation, the minister woke them oorses to be selected from in the more than $140 to $175 on the average, k cornfield, A city chap passing. up by shouting: "Arouse, heaven 1» other of the troublesome questions country. a horse that shows intelli- because they come In competition laid: that teachers were always asking. not under tho floor!" $ence, good breeding and those qual with the great glut of common pondered it deeply. . . Please, miss," "Your corn looks kind of yellow, ities that come through careful light drafters on the market. Those Bub.” my Mother« will find Mrs. Window** Boothlnt he replied at length, "to keep th«, beat remedy to use tor thvU chUdrtu collar on!"—Youth's Companion. Dandling and good training will out- weighing around 1,650 pounds to 1,700 "Yep, that's the kind we planted,' jyrup * uring the teething period. sell the common, plain looking horses pounds will bring $200 to $240, and tald Bub. ay a considerable margin; size, heavy weight geldings will bring $300 Stabbed by Utnorella. "It doesn’t look as If you would get weight and condition being otherwise to $350. The heavy mares therefore nore than half a crop,” observed Perhaps the strangest weapon ever ilike. pruuuce produce cons colts tnat that bring from one- ;be city chap. used for killing was an umbrella. In The man on the farm engaging in third to twice as much money as the “Nope; we don’t expect to landlord October, 1908, a man named Ernest Dorse production from the viewpoint lower weight mares. jets the other half,’’ retorted the Smith was found dead in Chiswick it dollars and cents and anxious to roungster. High street. England. He had a punc make his acres earn the highest net Size* of Silo*. The stranger hesitated a moment tured wound In the eye which had returns should breed his mares to the reached his brain and which the doc A silo 12 feet in diameter and 3i ind then ventured: Dest sires that are available combin feet high will hold when full about "You are not very far from a fool- tors agreed had undoubtedly been ing size, weight, soundness and char- 75 ton* of silage. A silo 14 feet in sh fellow, are you, Bub?” caused by th« steel ferrule of an urn Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is not a icter, and should breed to them con- diameter and 30 feet high will hold "Nope, not moren ten feet,” brella. iistently. They should endeavor also about 103 tons. Twelve cows require »aid the boy—and the city chap passed stimulant. It does not make Uncle Pennywise bays: i* soon as possible, either by pur- 36 tons of silage to supply them 200 >n. you feel better one day, then Countless ages of time passed, as we :hase or by breeding up, to possess days at the rate of 30 pounds a day. compute time — before the earth was as bad as ever the next. themselves of big drafty mare» com A silo 10 feet in diameter and 22 to The Maid and Her Apple*. bining those qualities. The only re- 24 feet high would be a very good Three boy* met a servant maid car prepared for the advent of man. The There is not a drop of alco rrettabl* thing about th* sale of the size for this number of cattle. If it is rying apples to the market. The first oldest civilization known is that of hol in it. Ayer’s Sarsapa dapple gray mare* on the January desirable to make some preparation ook half what she had. but returned Egypt, and the pyramids are things rilla is a tonic. You have the of yesterday compared with the for 11, 1912 Chicago horse market for for summer, and as a rule it is, then o her ten; the second took one-third, |l,000, la that the mare* were not the silo should be built still higher. On »ut returned two; and the third took mation of the alluvial plains of th* steady, even gain that comes purchased by some good farmer to be reasonably good land a yield of 10 «ay half those »he had left, but re- Euphrates, or the delta of the Missis from such a medicine. Ask ased for breeding and farm work pur tons per acre of green corn may be ex irned her one She had then twelve sippi. not to mention the Laurentian rocks. your doctor all about this. poses instead of by a Chicago teaming pected. On very rich land a* high a* "P'cs left—how many bad she at firm to draw a big wagon. It is re 20 ton* of green corn are produced. I rust him fully and always No Wonder. grettable that they should ever have do as he says. He knows. gotten away from th* farm, for if Don't Excite Cows. can ’ t understand your case at all. Her« Hen* riot Working. Who makes the best liver pills? Th* they were worth $1.000 for drawing a Do not allow the cows to become "Can I get some fretb eggs at your you were practically cured a few day« J. C. Ayer Company, of Lowel), Mass. 01< "Mon and heavy loads, certainly « excited by hard driving, abuse, loud <-e today?" asked a neighbor of ago and now your nervea are Is I They have been makn»g Ayer’s Pilis for they were worth that on th* farm i talking, or any unnecessary dlaturb- frightful shape again. Have you had | over sixty years. If you have the slight • her» they could do work to earn i aaca. a Budden shock of some kind? Patient est doubt about using these pills, ask u ¡. arr.” replied the little fel- your doctor. Ask him first, that's best. All our bens have gone dry." —I received our b*'l yesterday. MOTHER OF LARGE FAMILY Stimulant or Tonic ?
