W r itte n fo r P o e tic D r a m a
The s< ng "Sweet and Low” wa»
wrlrten by Alfred Lord Tennyson as
one of the songs for his poetic dram a,
"The Princess.” Two songs were w rit
ten with the same title, but the one
published was chosen by his friends,
to whom he subm itted them. No spe
cial story has been recorded about It,
other than th at the thought was taken
from notes made by the poet when ha
was spending some time at the seaside
several months previous.
CIRL KEPT
losingweicht
Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable
Compound Built Her Up
PROPER TIME TO
FATTEN POULTRY
Scobey, Mont.—“I was working
( P r e p a r e d by th e U n ited S tate« D e p a rtm e n t
for two year»—clerking in a store—
of A g ric u ltu re .)
------------------ and seemed to ba
Early autumn is the time poultry
steadily losing in
weight so was , raisers will usually And advantageous
forced to give j to fatten and dispose of surplus cock
up my work. A
erels as well as early hatched pullets
neighbor recom
of a quality uot desired In the Hock
mended Lydia E.
of winter layers. Market poultry
Pinkham 's Vege
prices are usually highest just before
table Compound I Thanksgiving and Christmas. Anoth
to me and I have
er advantage In selling surplus stock
now taken six
fairly early in the season is found In
bottles and can’t
the saving of considerable food ma
tell you how I
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have ’appreciated
terial.
it, I am feeling better and stronger
Dr. M. A. Jull, poultry husbandman.
every day. I recommend it to all
United States Department of Agricul
vouiig girls and if any have the same
ture, recommends as u fattening ra
trouble and will write to me I will
tion a soft mash, measured by weight,
gladly answer.”—M bs . E mil IL
composed of corn, four p arts; oatmeal,
G ebtus , B ox 470, Scobey, Montana.
two p a r ts ; middlings, two parts, and
beef scrap, one part. The ground
grain should be mixed thoroughly
and molrtened with sour skim milk or
buttermilk. Milk Is excellent In fa t
tening mixtures and about two pounds,
or a quart, of milk is used to each
pound of mash.
Care should be taken not to feed
the birds too much during the early
part of the fattening period. For the
tirst few days of this diet feed lightly
three times a day. For the rest of the
period give the birds all they will eat
three times a day but do not leave
It before them. A four-pound cockerel
Gas, nausea, sick headache, heart-
should add a pound In two weeks.
bum, distress after eating or drink
Four pounds of the grain ration muy
ing quickly and su rely relieved.
produce a pound guin.
Safe. Pleasant. Not a laxative.
Experienced fatteners sometimes
N o m a l i z t t D ig e e tio n a n d
keep poultry on the fattening feed for
S w e e te n s th e B re a th
as long as three weeks; but in most
commercial fattening plunts the birds
are fattened for from seven to ten
days. There Is often a difference of
5 cents a pound between the market
price of thin and plump birds. How
ever, farm ers In many parts of the
country may not find such advantage
ous marketing opportunities, and the
prices received may not pay for the
expense and bother of fattening the
birds, in such cases It may prove
wisest to sell direct with no attem pt
254 AND 754 PACKAGES EVERYWHERE
! to fatten the fowls. Many such birds
i are bought nt the markets by fatteu-
A M e a n s o f Escape
' ers and conditioned and fattened for
Office Boy—Two men outside to see I resale.
you, sir. One is a poet and the other
Is stone deaf.
Busy E ditor—Well, tell the poet that Culling Undesirable
the deaf man Is the editor.—Family
Hens From the Flock
Herald.
Culling should he a continuous proc
ess from the time the egg Is selected
M ig h tie r T h a n S w o rd
until disposition Is made of the bird.
“My pen is mjr upkeep.”
With the young stock this constitutes
“Are you an author?”
removal of unthrifty birds. The pul
‘•Gosh, no. I raise liogs.”
lets should be selected from the stand
point of size, relative rate of maturity,
C harity covers a m ultitude of sins and health. On the other hand, with ,
th a t should be allowed to remain un laying hens, other than the occasional
removal of outstanding poor individu
covered.
als. the ideal time for culling is at
It's a signal trium ph for the w eath the' end of the laying season, which
er man when his prediction happen» runs from July to November. From
July on the flock should lie examined
to come true.
each month for the purpose of remov
If a woman once poses as a beauty ing the poorer ben». Ju st how rigid the
It keeps her buey trying to live up culling Is depends upon the desired
reduction of the flock. The later cull-
to IL
| Ing enables one to be more exacting
In the selection of the suiierlor birds.
Obviously It Is to the advantage of the
poultrym an to make more than one
culling as he Is thereby able to Imine- I
diatel.v cut down production cost».
Books T h a t T a lk
The Visagrnph Is the name of a
new device to aid the blind In rend
ing. Books printed In "Braille," or
raised type, are still necessary, but
the reader. Instead of reading the let
ter by passing Ills Hagers over It. re
ceives vibrations from a radio set. A
photo-electric cell picks up a light
Image from the raised letter and tran s
mits It through tubes to a radio loud
speaker.—Youth’s Companion.
G o ld e n G a te A m e n itie s
To a certain San Francisco newspa
per's assertion. In alleged verse, th a t
“this paper's large and quite enough
for any person's need.” the Argonaut
of that city rep o rts:
"It 1« quite
enough for wrapping an old pair of
shoes, or for a few hooks, or even,
perhaps f ir the laundry; hut suppose
it Is needed for all three purposes on
the same day."
Relief
G u id e fo r S a w in g
In making saw cuts ucross the
grain of a hoard for the pnrpoM of
forming a groove, the beginner In
woodworking may have trouble In fol
lowing the lines accurately. A s' ort
straight edge, hrndded or hebl with a
hand screw against the outer side of
the knife mark, will guide the saw.—
popular Science Monthly.
IO more
Over-Acidity
FINNEY OF TH E FORCE
Score One for Snoop
Sentenced to P la n t T rees
Out In the western part of Canada,
where they appreciate the value of
tree«, a resilient was found guilty of a
piece of carelessness which resulted
n a smull forest tire.
The forest
.anger bad him arrested and he was
f und guilty uud sentenced to plant
1UU trees.
FOR INDIGESTION
M i li t a r y C y c le
Designed for cross-country service,
three-wheeled motor cycle has been
tested In England.
T here are two
small wheels In the rear and the m a
chine has a duplex steering arrange
ment. '
cycle has been pr.qiosed
especially for military uses.
D om estic A d ju s tm e n ts
It is not n bad guess, says a promi
nent medical authority, that 5 per
. cent of the better educated women In
America And It very hard to adjust
' themselves to the duties and lim ita
tions of domesticity.—Woman'» Homo
Companion.
K e e p B a la n c e Even
Pleasure Is a m atter of contrast».
What the other fellow ha» alw ays
looks better than what we possess.
Variety Is the spice of life, yet wa
should realize that n little spice goes
a long way In u well ordered career.—
GrIL
Poultry Notes
If pullets are too slow In starling to
lav, give them a wet mash dally for a
week or so. T hat often starts them.
• • •
Ground yellow corn, with plenty of
milk and a range of rape, clover or
alfalfa, will keep the young chicks In
pood condition.
« • •
An effective way of eradicating lice Is
by means of sodium fluoride. It is easy
to apply and Inexpensive, ami yet how
many fail to take advantage of this
valuable proctfflure.
a
When your
Children Ciy
for It
C astorla Is a comfort when Babv Is
fretful. No sooner taken than the little
one is nt ease. If restless, a few drop»
soon bring contentm ent. No barm done,
for C astorla is a hah.v remedy, meant
for babies Perfectly safe to give the
youngest In fa n t; you have the doctors
word for th a t! It Is a vegetable pro
duct and you could use It every • ;y
But It's In an emergency th a t Cast Is
m eans most. Some night when con ti
patlon m ust ho relieved—o r colic | n
- o r other suffering. Never he wi : on
it ; some m others keep an ex tra I I'
anopened, to make sure there wnl
wnvs be C astorla In th e house. It h
effective for older children, to o ; rea<
the book th a t comes w ith I t
a
•
The ventilation problem In the poul
try house is much easier to solve if
1 the hens ore given enough floor space
Three and one-half square feet or
floor «pace should be allowed for each
hen In the flock.
• • •
The development of chicks will be
checked and bens will st< p laying If
the common red mites aw permitted
grow and develop. In warm w eath
er mites multipl. nipldly.
• • •
More than »15.UUO.tXM) ate lost each
rear because of fertile eggs put on the
1 market from June to October. Meet
this lors cm. OS from the farm s be-
' cause the mule birds are kept »"«»'
,11 or winter. Il is the eggs f ■ tilized
|1V ,i„.se n u b s that rot a f.e r they
I ¡rave H o far. s. causing heavy losses
I .11 along the i aiketm g Hue.
. • •
I Good poultry Is necessary if there 1»
I „ be i p. ■ :
* k ' « ,L
I Specialised farm s are becon... g more
rim e r-u s. b • for many yer. f . c m -
•be main on ; ut of egg» s . u l- u " r v
,j;.|rii«r<l by la» general
meal will I*
farm».
T ra in H as R ig h t o f W a y
A Supreme court decision handed
down recently contains the following:
“When a nine goes upon a railroad
track he knows that lie goe» to n
place w here be will he killed If a train
comes upon him before lie Is d e a r of
the track, lie knows that he must
stop for the train, not the train stop
for him.”
THE FEATHERHEADS
No Chance for Felix
A N e w S a la d
Little Mary was not accustomed to
seeing raisins In the variety of salad
that was served on an occasion when
she and her parent» were dinner
guests. "Oh. mother." «he excluimed,
"look af the fly bags.”
O ld E g y p tia n W e a v in g
F.lizalietb Huge, an authority on
costume. say» that the thread woven
by the ancient Egyptians was thrown
downward Instead of upward as was
done by all of the early people».
U n c le E ben
“A happy man.” said Cnele Ehen,
••Is one dat Is willin' to tend to hl»
own business wlfout inukln It big
enough to git mixed In no merger
Ians."—W ashington Star.
H o b b e s an d W o rrie s
Contented absorption In some activ
ity Is good for the disposition: when
we are absorbe»! we don t stop to
I,other about small w orries.—The
American Magazine.
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