w k 7
G ra ta S a n ts .
Rammstion, check the progress
of the disease. Our advice is
~ f iv e the children A yer’s
C h erry Pectoral, Ask your
doctor if this it his advice also.
He koowa beat. Do as he says.
r s l l t s l a g Ho««.
' The bog Is an omnlverous animal,
you think constipation is of trifling
nsequencc, just ask your do«
II d i s * n * you of that notion
fler. “ Correct It, at o n ce!”
y. Then ask him shout Aygi
mild liver,pill, all vegetable
A H a y * P r e p o s itio n . _
A young man visited hie doctor and
described a common Illness that had
befallen him.’
‘T h e thing for you to do,* the phy-
bictan said, “1* to drink hot water an
hour before breakfast every morning.“
’ “Well, bow are you feelingt” the
doctor asked a week later. “Did you
follow my advice and drink hot water
An hour before breakfast?*’
“I did my b est sir, but 1 couldn't
keep it up more’n ton minutes at a
stretch.“—TR-Blta. * —
and needs “roughage” and green teed
for his beet health and growth. A cer
tain ainount of grain feed la aoadod
to grow hogs with the greatest profit,
and still more la necessary to fatten
and fit them for market. When young
animals have an abundance of range
with a good supply of nitrogepous
foods, like alfalfa, clover, vetches and
cow peas, corn makes a valuable addi
tion to the ration, but should not be
given In excess, and will usually be
found more profitable H mixed with
shorts, bran or other feed combining
a large proportion of protein. For
young pigs bran Is not , so/good as
shorts and ground cow peas may be
used In the place of the latter when
the price exceeds 920 per ton.
Feeding tor the finish should not
begin more than ten or twelve weeks
before the hoge are to be sold. For
the laet.six or eight weeks corn Is un
doubtedly the best grain, ae the feed
consumed during this time greatly in
fluences the quality of the meat. Hogs
take on. flesh rapidly during the first
weeks of heavy feeding, but longer
feeding means slower gains. Quick
work nays In fattening a! well as In
growing hogs, and when the animals
are on good feed and fall to malts a
gain of at least one pound daily they
should be sold or butchered.
Market your bogs at 9 or 8 months
of ags, at which time they should
weigh 200 to 250 pounds. A greater
per cent of profit Is secarsd than If
you keep them until 10 or 12 months
old. because you avoid 60 to 120 days
of daily animal waste. However, a
hog which Is mads to weigh 800
I a g e s to n s H a y R a c k L it t e r .
j It very often happens that one
wishes to remove the rack from the
Wagon when there le no one to aaslet.
This may be very easily done with the
device Illustrated herewith. The four
supporting poles are set In the ground
at a sufficient distance apart to admit
of driving between them with the
rack. There are a number of hooks
op the side of ekeh. sufficient to make
R « CM
H I« .
The vendor of Image«, who had Jtart
A dangerous parasite of many of the
been throw n o at o f a larger offlee b attd .
cereal plants la tbs fungus that pro
In*, wept bitterly aa be looked a t bla
duces In the grain or head what la
torn clothes and brokaa wares.
known as smut. There are several
"Who did this?" Inquired the friend
well known kinds of smut, each ' of
ly cop. “I’ll pinch 'em lf you say tb s
which Is caused by a distinct specie!
of the fungus. *
It w as my fault,“ ^ a id the vio-,
tlm, -gathering up the ' rem ains of a
The greatest loss from, smuts in this
plaster Image. "I Insisted on trying
is from the stinking amut of
to edil s bust of Noah W ebster to s
wheat id the loose smut of oats, A
meeting of simplified spellers.“ —Den
considerable loss la also doe to the
ver Republican.
, -,
loose smuts of barley and wbsat.
which are more difficult to control and
prevent T h l / are wlddly distributed,
a id though they occur usually In email
quantities the damage In the aggregate
la large. They oftsn are entlrély un
noticed on account of their earltneae
and the.absence of any conspicuous
1 Tlf bla touring car bad Just whizzed
sign of them at harvest time.
by With a /oar like a gigantic rocket,
* OILED •
The stinking emut of wheat trans 1776—T he colony of D elaw are erected and >ut afid Mtk,e turned to watck.lt
ltdelf Into a S ta te a n d -fra m e d a disappear In a cloud of dust.
forms only the kernels Into smut balls
will give you foil value
which do aot break until the wheat Is # ' constitution.
“Tfeha thug wagons aeust cost a
for every dollar sperrt
threshed and often remain Intact In 1780— W ashington w ent to H artford, “»P? “v ca*h.” »ay Mike. “The rich
Conn., to consult w ith Rocham beau
the threshed grain. The loose smuts
!•
fairly
burntn'
money."
concerning some definite plan of
of barley, on the other hand, early dis
“An’ be the smell rv It.” sniffed Pat.
action. -
charge their spores, which are blown
^ t m ust be ttvot talnfbft m oney we do
1781—
R
oyalty
abolished
and
France
off oy the wind as soon as the smutted
ee b earin' * p \m h ch a8**t.“—8 acc* s|
declared a republic.
head comes out of the leaf sheath;
'V \
\
¿A p
1793—Gen. W ashington laid the corner M agazine ’i *
they Infect the plant In .the flowering
stone of the national capltoi In
Great M«me Eye Remedy
stage and enter the embryo inside the
W ashington.
ovary before the latter ripens Into
diseases
of the eye' quick relief
iU li—B urning o f Moscow during the
utog PETTIT’S EYE SALVE.
■eed. An Infected aeed develo pee a
occupation of th e city of Napo
igtrws or Howard Bros., Buf-
«nutted plant the foUoyring year.
.
leon's arm y.
The m ast successful method thus far 1114—B ritish retreated from F o rt E rie
found for preventing these smuts Is a
to N ia g a ra ___B ritish "raised the
hot-water treatment of the seed. This
lng man
treatment la described in Bureau of
ye holds
Plant Industry bulletin 152. entitled
“The Loose Smuts of Barley and
Charlie-jWhen I saw you both on
Wheat,“ recently Issued by the United
the porch last evening I thought he
States Department of Agriculture.
^ as holding something much moro
The bulletin is a report of recent re
substantial than your attention.—
searches Into the life histories of these
jgdgei^ £>-y. i f i I O ‘
T i t KST M tK U ^ f i t <§*CIS«%I
smuts and the determination of meth
Pneumonia
and
Consumption
are
al
ods for their prevention.
I Gives inuHodmtc relief. The first
ways preceded by an ordinary cold.
dose relieves your aching dtfoat and
D a n g e r o f B a rk e d W ire .
Hamlins Wizard Oil nibbed into the
allays the imUbon. Guaranteed to
Barbed wire Is all right, for stock
chest draws out the toflammatjoii
cattle and makes a cheap fence, but
breaks up the sold and prevents all se
rious trouble.
it is hard to construct such a fence to
turn hogs, and, owing to Its danger
F s s li r E x a m p l e .
ous characteristics, It Is out of the
“Tou m u st th ink you ought to ru n
question for horses, and even for
around barefooted. Johnny," paid Mrs.
milch cow«.
Lapsling, chidlngly. “Just because Bob
With the woven wire fence the poet
by Stapleford does. H e’s no c u S iu lo a
expense is not so great as that of the
to r n hv -
other kinds, as they need not be so
heavy, and may be net a good distance
a p a rt Heavy end posts are a a abso
lute necessity, and they should be set
in the ground not less than 8)4 to 4
Sure c u re and positive piwrenthnB,
feet deep. If the line posts are 20 to
25 feet apart It la a very good Idea
to have every fourth poet of good else,
longer than the others, to allow'extra
setting. I d setting end posts dig* a
big hole, put the. post In. and begin to
tamp and ram from the very bottom,
not filling It too fast, so as to get the
earth about the post packed from the
bottom to the top. The “ dead m an”
plan of bracing a post t r perhaps bet
ter than any ocher. The “dead man”
is a short post or heavy stone burled
about 8 feet deep, 4 feet from the
end posts, and with a cable made of
plain galvanised wire to the poet top
and around the dead man' the post
can be held for y ean as firmly as
when set. Be sure to nee galvanised
wire, aa black wire will not last more
than atx or seven years.
A 30-Inch high woven wire fence,
two smooth No. 10 and one barbed
wire a t the very top, makes p good
fence for any kind of stock, and can
be pat up for lose than 40 cents per
rod, exclusive of poets.—Lexington
1881— C hester A. A rth u r took the oath
Herald.
of office a s P resident of the U nited
CLOTHING
tnfaeiori n r "am o sm l **
T. «míA a t
Highest Q uality 1
use
rB A K I NG
W POW DER
it possible to lift the rack a little-at
g time by means of the poles, as il
lustrated by the dotted lines. Thera la
no need of a complicated block and
tackle wnen such a simple device la so
effective.—Frank-Monroe In Farm and employ.
A LEADER
WATER SYSTEM
IN YOUR HOME
Means an nnftUUng w ater supply. It
■Mens th a t you will have th e asset practi
cal Doawetk w ater su- ply eyatem bow In
pee. Mo «jara tad tank, no fraseo pipes la
w intar, no M agnant w ater in summer, no
w e te r supply traoMee of any «art. Tank
pieced in baerm ent out of sight and way,
m ade eg P r aw ad steel, will aot ru st and
eyatem of fi
w M h^LEA D ra
a te logue end free
Supply
bnStlnt “Rcnr ÏSoÎved My
LEWIS & STAVER CO,
Portland, Ore.
’ Spokane, Wash.
Boise, Idaho.
I would never try to drag
o u t th e roots w ith h arro w or rake, be
cause not all of th e roots w ill be g ath
ered and those left w ill soon fill the
•oil again. T he pest can m ost easily
be killed rig h t w here It le, th e roots
fu rn ish in g an abundance of p la n t food,
by using a double action cut-away har
row. Now, please don’t th in k th a t any
kind of a harrow w ill do, because it
w ill n o t If you rely on any except
the one I have m entioned you will
be disappointed. I have used e r e to
destroy quack g ran m any tim es, and
am su re of w hat I am w riting. I t you
to pay handsom ely. Young and old
cows are very d istin c t in appearance.
The form er have an unm istakable ap
pearance of fullnem of flesh and coat,
while th e old ones a re m o re o r less
shrunk. T he teeth g tv j an indication
of age, and the- horns afe often looked
plow shallow —ju s t deep enough to
to aa a guide, the young having smooth
tu rn over the quack roots, bottom aide
borne, w hile those of the aged are
up; let lay th u s for a week and then
w rlnkted. I t cross-breeda a re bought,
go over th e 'fie ld w ith the double ac
get them w ith th e g reatest tendency
tion cutaw ay harrow ; th en a fte r a
tow ard the beat breed th e cross has
few day s rep eat the harrow ing and
been secured from COws w ith a m ale
keep a t It, going over the field a t in
or bull type o f 'h e a d are ra re ly good
terv als of a few days u n til the pest
m ilkers. The head should be refined,
Is all destroyed It Is no uae to th in k
neck thin, ferequ& tters wide, square
th a t if the field be gone over, perhaps
anfl robust, With deep, broad th ig h s
a dosen tim es in one day, the quack
w ill be killed, tor the sun. as well as
#__________
__ ___ th e harrow , must get In Its work.
Virginia Exnerluient BUtlon prove Th® way to do la to go over tiie field
that skim milk is-a valuable food for once. then wa,t * few days for the
laying heap. • ’ '
roots to dry and repeat the operation.
TheUrst test covered 123 days. The
b»,n* thorough In this the grass
twenty-two hens fed the skim milk can
destroyed and a crop grown the
laid 1,844 eggs, aa compared with »06
lf commenced early In the
laid by twenty-two hens fad a meeh
wet with water. -
Ih another teat sixty hens fed skim
milk laid 863 egga In thirty-oevoa days,
aa compared with 883 eggs laid by a
sntlllar lot fed no milk.
Other tests gars about the came
comparative results.
\J
•
The conductors of these experiments
estimate under prevailing conditions,
with eggs selling at 20 to 85 cents a
dosen, that the eklm milk had a feed
ing value of 1)4 to 2 cents a quart.
.
C. Gee Wo
or Drugs Used. No
' ‘¿ ■ B E p M â Œ b O p e ra tio n * o r C a ttle «
ja ya ssa ftar ts »
M a r a s » » ® “ ""
lasases of M n and Warnen.
■ ■
A S U R E C A N C ER C U R E
ï j s £ r , wiïïS,1y s  * “
CONSULTATION fU K
The C. Gee W o Medicine Ce.
I
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J
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m*
_,
T h e y 'l l W a n t t h e W o o « .
The for set famine to not to be llama
dla tp. said Mr. Plnohot at Denver. “We
lav* foresta In plenty for the present
I pa ne ration, and pnrhapn for Ihe next.
sit in th* years to comb there will b*
amine a-plenty If we don’t a t this time
take the stitch In tlm*.“ '
M
P
U
D a b *
* I n
A _ _ t
aa.
a
S tates.
1888—-Public Inaugural exercises a t the
U niversity of T ex aa
1888—M ichigan Collage of Mines open
ed for the reception of students.
1881—Union and Confederate veterans
form ed a m em orial association on
th e C hlckam auga battlefield.
,
*891—Intense b eat in South Dakota,
preventing work In the harv est
f ie ld s .;..S t. Clair tunnel a t D etroit
opened.
*896—Yellow fever became épidémie a t
B runsw ick. G a . . . . Cherokee strip,
4,072,754 seres, opened for pubUo
Am Y e t .
O S n S e t D ig n ity .
settlem ent.
T eacher—W hat do we knew
Ira G rett—Polly, dear, let me elope
1895—C hlckam auga N ational P a rk ded- eerning the canals on M ara?.
with you the first dark night!
*! tested w ith Imposing cerem onies
Shaggy H aired • Pupil—Gee!
Polly G lott— Elope with me? T he
. . . .C otton S tates and In tern atio n don’t know any more about ’em
idee! r supposed you w anted me t e
a l Exposition opened In A tlanta.
we do about our own north pole.
•lope with you!
1897—P relim inary peace tre a ty be
tw een T urkey and Greece signed
a t C onstantinople
1902—Com m ander P eary arriv ed at
Sydney, N. S., on his retu rn from
th e
fa r
n o rth . . . . C ruiser Des
Mblnes launched a t Quincy, M aea
1908—Gov. Hoke Sm ith signed a bill
term in atin g the convtct-leaee sy s
tem in G eorgia’. . . .T he R epublicans
renom inated Gov. H ughes of New
Y o r k .. ..R ep u b lican s carried Maine
by reduced p lu ra lity .. . .An acci
T h e K in d Y o u H a v e A lw a y s n o u g h t h a s b o r n e t h e sig n a -
dent to Orville W right’s aeroplane
IjD *
C han. H . F l e tc h e r , -an d h a s b o o n m a d e u u d e r h is
a t F o rt Meyer, V a, caused the
p e rs o n a l s u p e rv is io n f o r o v e r 3 0 jren rs. A llo w n o o n e
d eath of Lieut. Thom as E. Sol-
i o d e c e iv e y o u i n th is . C o u n te rf e its , I m ita tio n s a n d
fridge.
“ J u s t- a s - g o o d ’’ a r e b u t E x p e r im e n ts , a n d e n d a n g e r t h e
h e a lt h o f C h ild re n —E x p e r ie n c e a g a in s t E x p e rim e n t*
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
F ire destroyed the Savoy T heater,
H am ilton, OnL; lose 160,000.
P resident T a ft baa ap p o in t'd A- p *
Saw yer of B eattie to be au d ito r of
P orto Rico, to succeed G. C. W ard.
At Bucyrue, Ohio, JtMge B abet a p
pointed George W. Why sail receiver
and E ll W eet co-receiver of the Co
lumbus. M arian and Bucyrue E lectric
Railway, operating between Bucyrue
and M arion.
%
S enator C arter of M ontana declared
at S eattle th a t chargee of w ater power
g r a b b in g in his S tate were w ithout
foundation.
F ra te rn itie s and sororities In the
high Schools of W ashington, D. C„ will
be allowed to flourish and m ultiply so
long aa they continue to be conducted
In a n unobjectionable m anner.
- Goa. Balllngton Booth of the V olun
teer* o f America, In a New York meet
ing laet night, eoored big hate. H e
•aid the “m erry widow” had changed
to a “peach basket” of a "w ash bowl“
and ho wondered w hen It would stop.
What is CASTOR IA
C
a s to ri» la a h a rm le s s s u b s ti tu t e f o r e
b a . I b ' I W b . ___ a a __ a l i ___g»_______
and a
C olic. I t re lie v e s T e e th i n g T r o u b le s , c u r e s Con
a a d F la tu le n c y . I t a s s im ila te s t h e F o o d , r e a n
g*o*»ach * n d B o w e ls , g iv in g h e a lth y a n d n a t u
T h e C h i l d r e n 's .P a n a c e a —T h e M o th e r 's F r ie n d .
Bean the Signature of
Fe# Ov©r/
30
Years.