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Ability Recognized.
"Noah ltnd the whole ocean to him
self. Ho didn't have to be much of
u navigator."
"Maybe. Hut you will admit he was
a. wonder as an animal trainer."
Washington Star.
Molding a Future.
"Mow did you become to be a per
former on the bass viol?"
"Well, when I decided to be a musi
cian I got lather to promise to buy me
a fiddle. Hut father always was one
of those men who want to get as much
as possible for their money." Wash
ington Star.
The Way Today.
"Duke, your son Is going to marry
an aclress,"
"A gaiety girl, eh? I'll disinherit
the pup."
"An American movie actress."
"Ah, the dear boy. We can restore
the caslle now. Louisville Courier
Journal,
Sure Proof.
"That rich old fellow hasn't tho
slightest suspicion his young wife do
losls htm."
"How tie you know ho doesn't?"
"Bpeauso I've sown him eat her
mince pie," Brooklyn Citizen.
Screw-Worm and Blow-Fly Trouble
some to Stockmen In Different
Parts of Country.
(Prepared by tho United States Depart
ment of Agriculture,)
Ilolh the so-called screw-worm and
the blow-fly larvae commonly called
maggots, are pests of prime Importance
to stock raisers. Thejscrew-worm is
often confused with the other species,
especially during the spring and full
months. Injury to live stock from mag
gots is more widespread thun Is that
due to the true screw-worm. In fact,
this maggot Injury inny be found
among live stock In any state of the
Union, although It occurs most fre
quently In the warmer portions of the
country. The true screw-worm Inflicts
enormous losses on the stock raisers
of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Ari
zona, and southern California during
seasons which are favorable for Its
development. During the warmer por
tions of the year it is never entirely
absent from this region and may also
cause Injury to stock In the other
Southern states, and as far north as
Nebraska.
rite screw-wnnn Is a native of the
Americas and has been causing trou
ble to stockmen for mnny yeurs. No
doubt It Is largely due to this fact
that cattlemen, accept the pest as a
necessary evil uud always count upon
loctorlng" a certain number of eases
every year.
The seasonal ubundance of the
screw-worm fly depends largely upon
climatic conditions. The first ap
pearance of udults in numbers in
spring varies from the first of April
to the middle of June, according to the
latitude and earllness or lateness of the
season. Throughout most of the ter-
WORK WHILE ITS COOL $
You'd better speed up on the j
work while the weather's still i
i cool. Statistics show you'll very
T m.. i, A. .. I. Ann. ., !.,... If A
gets hot ?
A person will dd 15 per cent
less physical work at 75 degrees
and 37 per cent less work at
degrees than he will at 68 de- J
grees when he has full choice of
doing or not doing, quotes K. G.
Smith, extension engineer at
Ames, from an Investigation car
ried on by the New York state j
commission on ventilation. It
was found that the power to do
either physical or mental work,
by subjects doing their utmost,
was not diminished by a room
temperature of 86 degrees. It's
the Inclination that lags when
the mercury begins to rise.
Caw I Caw I
Peter Menkin Brown, Berlin corre
spondent, said in Baltimore in a lec
ture on the blockade:
"The Germans are suffering from
our blockade more than they'd have
us think. There's a real dearth of
foodstuffs and there's a real pest of
profiteers.
"Think of it the Germans are now
eating crows! More than that, the
profiteers have cornered the crows of
Germany, so that the government has
had to fix crow prices, which range
I believe, from 60 to 85 cents, accord
ing to the weight and age of the bird.
"But imagine it. Cornering crow!
That is no way to help your country's
caws!" Detroit Free Press.
BUYING AND SELLING EGGS
Up In the Air.
Corp. (name deleted .by censor) 1b
the champion optimist in tho (doleted
by censor) regiment. On his first visit
to l'ans an air raid was In progress.
and as ho observed tho Parisians, all
Intent on the tuubes, he said to his
companion:
"There's one fine thing about thlB
air stuff."
"And that is ?"
"It keeps you looking up."
(Koply deleted by censor). Car
toons Magazine.
Good Opportunity.
"In the railroad collision 1 was In
I tell you 1 saw stars!"
"Well, you had a fine chancn whon
tho cars wore telescoped." Exchange.
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Wr ut ill m km. Writ fei Ptircl MQhiapi.il Tip.
THE H. r. NORTON COMPANY,
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White Leghorn Baby Ghix
from liwivy liiylntc (HoffHiitniO nloek. $10.00
)ht lOn, Wc trimruntoM iiv arrival.
THE PIONEER HATCHERY
41 S Sixth Street PetaJutna, Cat.
Qljin Veal, Pork, Beef,
-jrf I W Poultry, Butter, Egg.
and Farm Produce,
to bi' 'l'l Rettabfa Km-r liny lu, una with a
rvcooi of if, yaan of Bquan DiiUpga. anil
bo iiuri! of TOP MARKET PRICES.
F. M. CRONKHITE,
46-47 Front Street. Portland, Oregon
Do Your Own Plumbing
By tovfn dir. ,-t from a. at whokwala prloat
and uv.i 4hc (dumber', profit. Write u. to
day your nili. We wtU g-tve you our rook -bottom
"dlrt-ct-lo-you" prleoa, I. o. b, rail or
bona We actually nave you (rots 1U to U par
cent. All good! cuaranUMd.
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STARK-DAVIS CO.
212 Third Stro.1.
Black Blow-Fly, or Common Maggot
Fly, aa 8een From Above (En
larged).
rltory where it Is n pest It usually be
comes numerous during early May,
and cases of screw-worm Injury be
gin to appear soon after. The Insect
then gradually Increases In numbers
until the hot, dry weather of midsum
mer, which In Texas usually reduces
the abundance so that the Injury Is not
severe under normal conditions In the
months of July and August, unless
considerable cloudy and rainy weather
occurs. It becomes more numerous
agitlti In the early full, especially when
the weather Is warm and showery, and
Its activities are terminated only with
the advent of heavy frosts. The nbun
tlance of this fly, of course, Is depend
ent to a large extent upon breeding
places nt hand, but It Is also true Hint
a warm, humid atmosphere Is best suit
ed to its development
GOOD FEED FOR LITTLE PIGS
Scalding Middlings With Some Milk
and Sweetened With Molassei U
Most Excellent.
When pigs are about three weeks
old they will want to eat more than
the milk they can get from their
mother. A small, shallow trough
should he placed where the sow can
not get It. Scald some middlings,
stir mid pour In some milk; If the
milk Is sweet, all the bettor. Put Into
the feed about a tablespoonful of mo
lasses. Drive the little pigs curefully
over tho trough. They will get the
odor from the molasses, put their noses
to the feed, lap II, and begin to cut.
KEEP DUAL-PURPOSE CATTLE
Popular With Farmer Who Mutt De
pend on Few Animals for Milk
and Butter for Family.
(From tho United States Department of
Agriculture.)
Tho dunl-purpose cattle are popular
,vlth the small farmer who keeps but n
few cattle and must depend on them
to produce all the milk and butter
Beaded for the family and, nt the
same time, raise calves or steers which
will sell readily for slaughtering pur
poses. They have not been popular
with the ranchmen or farmer who
raise large numbers of cattle.
Butcher Only Healthy Hogs.
Only bogs which are known to be
healthy should be butchered. There Is
always danger that disease may be
transmitted to (hose who eat tho meat.
Prominent Dealer in Food Supplies
Opposed to Practice of Handling
Them by Dozen.
A prominent dealer in food supplies
has gone on record as opposed to buy
ing und selling eggs by the dozen.
"I am strongly In favor of selling
eggs by weight," he says. "It Is the
only Just way for both seller und pur
chaser. As things are now, one man
mny buy a carton of eggs, very good,
but very small, while another may
buy a carton of line big eggs. Yet
both will pay the same price. It U
not fair. The only fair and Just
method Is to buy and sell them by
weight."
Eggs vary so In size that a dozen
large and a dozen small eggs pur
chased at the same price per dozen
Eggs of Various Sizes.
may differ as much as 25 per cent In
the value of the food elements fur
nished. Perhaps the fairest way to
buy or sell eggs Is by weight. Because
of the wide variations In the size of
eggs, It is also coming to be recognized
that more accurate results In recipes
cun be obtained by weighing or meas
uring the eggs out of their shells.
WHY TOMATO PLANTS WITHER
Those Raised In Cold Frame Are Less
Hardy Than Those Grown In
Open North Wind Hurts.
Frequently It Is found by those who
start tomato plants in n cold frame
that the blossoms which appear so
thrifty and which give such promise
of future returns wither and drop from
the plant a few days after the latter is
transplanted to the open field. Conse
quently a new set of blossoms must
be developed and the plants lose all
advantage that was theirs In the way
of an early start.
There may be two reasons for this,
Plants raised In a cold frame are
necessarily less hardy than those
grown In the open. If the weather
happens to bo sufficiently mild for
two or three days after the trans
planting occurs the plant will adapt
Itself to the change. But If the wind
veers about Into the north or north
west and there Is n marked drop In
temperature the shock Is too great
and the blossoms go. Experienced
growers watch for what they antici
pate will be a settled spell of spring
.weather even delaying the removal of
their plants to the open for a week or
ten days beyond the time they feel
the change should occur, In order to
avoid loss of blossoms.
GOOD GARDEN SEED FAVORED
Essential in Successful Gardening
Beat Way Is to Patronize Some
Reliable House.
Good garden seed is an essential In
successful gardening. If we are going
to plant something, we want It to
grow. The worst thing possible is to
plant seed that won't germinate, and
it is almost as bad to flud that the
Seod which has been planted Is untrue
to name.
In order to avoid all annoyance It Is
best to srare good seed. When buying
garden seed dcmasU that It be fresh;
likewise Insist that It be true to name.
The easiest way of avoiding poor seed
Is td' purchase the product of some re
liable house.
USED IN DETECTING DODDER
Hand Lens la Useful Instrument to
Ascertain Presence of Weed
Seeda In Alfalfa.
The hand lens will be found very
useful In detecting dodder and other
weetl seeds In alfalfa seed. The gen-
rnl quality of unadulterated seed can
be estimated on the basis of color.
Fresh seed Is light olive green and
gives a bright glossy surface when
rubbed with the hand. Alfalfa seed
which Is of any shade of brown Is ques
tionable. One should not purchase seed
when the sample Contains any consid
erable percentage that Ib discolored.
Sure! High Heels
Cause Corns But
Who Cares Now
You reckless men and women who
are pestered w'th corns and who have
at least once a week Invited an awful
death from lockjaw or blood poison
are now told by a Cincinnati authority
to use a drug called freezone, which
the moment a few drops are applied
to any corn or callous the soreness is
relieved and soon the entire corn or
callous, root and all, lifts off with the
fingers.
Freezone dries the moment It is ap
plied, and simply shrivels the corn or
callous without Inflaming or even Ir
ritating the surrounding tissue, or
skin. A small bottle of freezone will
cost very little at any of the drug
stores, but will positively rid one's
feet of every hard or soft corn or
hardened callous. If your druggist
hasn't any freezone he can get It at
any wholesale drug houBe for you.
Adv.
Suspicion.
"It may be a coincidence," said the
woman with the firm facial expres
sion, "but I can's help having my
doubts."
"What's the matter?"
"Since we regulated the household
for daylight saving my husband breaks
every alarm clock I tell him to Bet."
FARM
COMFORTABLE COOP FOR HEN
Need Not Be Expensive, but Should
Be Dry and Roomy Fresh Air
la Essential.
(Prepared by tho United States Depart
ment or Agriculture.)
In order to be more successful In
raising chickens the poultrymen should
provide a house which meets certain
requirements. It need not be an ex
pensive structure but it Is essential
that the hens have a comfortable
house which is dry, roomy, and
abundantly supplied with fresh air
and sunlight. It never pays to over
crowd the fowls.
No particular style of house Is pe
culiarly adapted to any section of this
country. A house which gives satis
faction In Maine will also give good
results In Texas or California, but It
A Question.
"You must be a woman hater."
"Why?"
"You've never married."
"Why should a man who has never
married be a woman hater?" Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Temptation.
"Are you going to raise lettuce in
your garden?
"I don't know," replied Mr. Cross
lots. "If I get a whole lot of lettuce
on hand the women folks may keep
the family poor buying the ingredi
ents for mayonalse dressing." Wash
ington Star.
"I understand your grandfather was
a profiteer in the war of 1812.
"You got it wrong."
"How's that?"
"He was a privateer, not a profiteer
He preyed on the enemy." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
That's the Question.
She Anything that Is worth win
ning is worth working for.
He Yes, but the question Is, will
your father loosen up, or will I have
to keep on working for you after I've
won you? Boston Transcript.
8oothe Baby Rashes
That itch and burn with hot baths of
Cuticura Soap followed by gentle
anointings of Cuticura Ointment.
Nothing better. For free samples ad
dress, "Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston."
Sold by druggists and by mall. Soap
25, Ointment 25 and 50. Adv.
High Visibility.
'Officer," said a lady much above
the usual avoirdupois, "could you see
me across the street?"
Madame, I could see you half a
block!" Judge.
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES.
Allen's Foot-Ease. theanttseDtic oowder. Makes
tight or new shoes feel easy. Relieves Corns,
Bunions, Hot, Swollen, Tender, Aching Feet. Sold
everywhere, 25c. Don't accept any substitute.
Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. .Olmsted, Le
Roy. N. Y.
Judas Didn't Last.
Comparisons of profiteers to Judas
are hardly fair, as the latter eventual
ly developed symptoms of remorse
and bumped off. Washington Star.
THAT CHANGE IN
WOMAN'S LIFE
Mrs. Godden Tells How It
May be Passed in Safety
and Comfort
P. N. U.
No. 22, 1918
Alfalfa Good for Swine.
That ulftilfa liny can be used to ad
vantage in the growing and fattening
of swine Is proved by experiments
conducted at the Wyoming station,
PROPER EGGS FOR HATCHING
Coatly Mistake to Use Those From
Unculled Flock Best to nave
Small Breeding Pen.
it la n costlv mistake to hatch eggs
from the whole unculled flock, and
to keep males enough the year around
so that the eggs will be fertile.
Pnr better get the eggs from a neigh
bor who culls his hens for hatching
eggs, or send to some breeder who
does. It Is not an expensive thing to
have a small yard for one's own best
bens and mate.
, Success With Sheep.
To be successful with sheep one
luus be careful of the details.
Chances for Prosperity.
No kind of funning offers better
chances for prosperity than by turn
ing silage and alfalfa hay Into gilt
edged butter and selling It direct to
discriminating consumers.
Fremont, 0. "I was passine throutrh
the critical period of life, being forty-
six years of age and
had all the symp
toms incidentto that
change heat Hash
es, nervousness, and
was in a general run
down condition, so
it was hard for me
to do my work.
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound was recom
mended to me as the
beat emedy for my
troubles, which it
surely proved to be. I feel better and
stronger in every way since taking it,
and the annoying symptoms have disap
peared." Mrs. M. Godden, 925 Na
poleon St, Fremont, Ohio.
Such annoying symptona as heat
flashes, nervousnsss, backache, head
ache, irritability and "the blues," may
be speedily overcome and the system
restored to normal conditions by this
famous root and herb remedy Lydia E.
1'inkham's Vegetable Compound.
If any complications present them
selves write the Pinkham Medicine Co.,
Lynn, Mass., for suggestions how to
overcome them. The result of forty
yesrs experience is at your service and
your letter held in strict confidence.
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by CUTTIR'S BUCKIEO PUIS
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Chickens Do Better When Made Com
fortable in a Well-Constructed
House.
Is preferable to build more open, and
consequently less expensive, houses In
the South than In the North. The best
site for the poultry house depends prin
cipally on the local conditions. The
location should have good water and
air drainage, so that the floor and
yards will be dry, while the house
should not occupy a low pocket or hol
low In which cold air settles, and It
should be situated for convenience In
management and adapted to the avail
able land. Wherever possible a south
ern or southeastern exposure should
he selected, although this Is not essen
tial If there Is any good reason for fac
ing the house In a different direction.
Poultry can lie raised successfully on
any well-drained soil. A light loam
which will grow good grass Is well
adapted for this purpose, while n very
light sandy soil through which the wa
ter leaches freely will stand more In
tensive poultry conditions, but most of
the green feed for the fowls kept on
such a soil will have to be purchased.
A heavy clay or adobe soil Is not as
well adapted to poultry raising, as
such land does not drain readily, and
It Is much more difficult to keep the
stock healthy. Long stationary houses,
or the intensive system, saves steps,
but It Is easier to keep the birds healthy
and to reproduce the stock under the
colony system, where the birds lire al
lowed free range. Breeding stock, and
especially growing chickens, should
have nu abundance of range, while
hens used solely for the production of
market eggs may be kept on n very
small area with good results. The col
ony house system necessitates placing
the bouses, holding about 100 hens,
from 200 to 250 feet apart, so that the
stock will not kill the grass. The col
ony system may be adapted to severe
winter conditions by drawing the col
ony houses together in n convenient
place at the beginning of winter, thus
reducing the labor during these months.
FAVOR SPREAD OF DISEASES
Damp, Poor Ventilated Quarters En
courage Such Ailments as
Roup.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Cold, damp, poorly lighted nnd ven
tilated poultry quarters favor the
spread of such diseases as roup. Such
contagious diseases as these are diffi
cult and sometimes Impossible to con
trol unless given attention In the early
stages. Whenever preventative meas
ures fall, separate sick birds from the
flock as soon as there Is evidence of
disease, and then consult expert udvice
to effect a cure.
HEAD LICE ON YOUNG CHICKS
Where Pests Are Discovered Head and
Throat Should Be Well Greased
With Pure Lard.
One great trouble with young chicks
Is head lice, with which they are apt to
be Infested. A thorough examination
of the head and throat of every chick a
day or two old should be made, and If
any of them are found to be Infested
give the head und throat of the whole
brood a thorough greasiug with pure
lard, which will put an end to the
lice.
Keep Drinking Vessels Clean.
Placing open drinking vessels on a
shelf a foot or more above the floor
prevents the hens from scratching
coarse litter Into them, but does not
keep out fine dust which floats In the
air and settles In the water.
Turn Geese Into Dollars.
There are many ways of turning
geese Into dollars, to say nothing of
the pillows and feather beds we can
make from the feathers.
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for U.S. Marine Corps recruits.
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AFTER "THE GRIP," or in conva
lescence from pneumonia, fevers, or
other debilitating diseases, your quick
est way to get flesh and strength Is
with Doctor Pierce's Oolden Medical
Discovery. That gives purity to youj
blood, plumpness to your body, and
puts every function into perfect work
ing order. It makes thoroughly effec
tive every natural means of repair
ing and nourishing your system. For
pale, puny, scrofulous children, noth
ing approaches it. It builds up com
pletely their flesh, their strength, and
their health.
In the most stubborn Scrofulous,
Skin or Scalp Diseases, Eczema, Salt
rheum, and every kindred ailment, It
effects wonderful cures. Contains no
alcohol or harmful drugs. In tablet or
liquid form.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regu
late and invigorate stomach, liver and
bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules,
easy to take. Adv.
Never Saw Him More.
I
Truly Nastyl
Miss Oldgirl Suppose I were to tell Mistress Your master and I have
you that I didn't believe one word re-' been talking the matter over, Mary,
garding the lasting qualities of your and have decided that you must take
affection. What would you Bay? month's notice.
Mr. Wise Why, I would say that i Mary Oh, Indeed! I bet master
you are far too wise for any ordinary : wishes he could take a month's notice,
man to marry. Goodby! Brooklyn i too. Passing Show.
Citizen.
Paradoxical.
The Teut, let him tell it, is blameless.
His behavior, however, is shameless,
And why should the Hun
Crave a place In the sun
When his ways are so shady and
nameless?
Chicago Tribune.
Doctor You should be constantly at
our husband's side, as you will need
every little while to hand him some
thing. Mrs. Casey Niver, doctor! Sure,
O'm not the woman to hit a man when
he's down. Boston Transcript.
A Wayside Encounter.
"Why don't you work, you old
tramp?"
"I belong to the army of the unem
ployed." "Huh?"
"I'm a member of the Debt Battal
ion." Kansas City Journal.
His Ear to the Ground.
"What are your ideas as to the po
litical situation?"
"My friend," replied Senator Sorgh
um, "we regular export politicians
know how to go with the people. And
just now all of us people are fighting
for our country and not for jobs."
Judging From Appearance.
Hokus She spends all her hus
band's salary on her back.
Pokus (at a fashionable function)
I always heard that he didn't earn
much. Buffalo Express.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet
for a laxative three for a cathartic.
Outclassed.
"Well, old Crimson Gulch seems
very quiet and orderly," said the trav
eling man.
"Yes," replied Broncho Bob. "When
so many of the boys Is away handlin'
machine guns, it doesn't seem worth
while foolin' with a little toy like a
six-shooter." Washington Star.
A Direct Question.
Sister's Beau "Lillian, If you'll
come sit on my lap, I'll give you a nice
present."
Lillian (aged five) "Is that why
you gave sister a diamond ring?"
Exchange.
None Needed.
"What walk in life do you Intend to
select for your son?"
"Oh, we can afford to buy him an
automobile now." Exchange.
Suitable Punishment.
"What do you think ought to be
done with this train robber?"
"Why, railroad him to prison."
The Farmer's
Share
Live stock is marketed from
farmer to consumer at a lower
cost than almost any other farm
product.
The United States Department of
agriculture reported in 1916 that the
farmer gets for his cattle "approxi
mately two-thirds to three-fourths" of
the final retail price paid by the con
sumer for the resulting beef.
Under normal conditions, the farmer's
share of retail prices of various farm
products is approximately as follows:
Butter 71 per cent
CATTLE 6623 to 75 per cent
Eggs 65 per cent
Potatoes 55 per cent
Poultry 45 per cent
Fruits 35 per cent
The difference between farmer's price
and retail price represents the necessary
expenses of packing, freight and whole
sale and retail distribution.
Swift & Company not only performs
the manufacturing operations of pre
paring cattle for market in its well
equipped packing plants, but it pays the
freight on meat to all parts of the
United States, operates 500 branch
distributing houses, and in most cases
even delivers to the retail butcher. All
this is done at an expense of less than 2
cents per pound, and at a profit of only
about Vi of a cent per pound of beef.
Large volume of business and expert
management, make possible this indis
pensable service to the live-stock raiser
and to the consumer, and make possible
the larger proportion ' of retail prices
received by farmers.
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instructive bets sent on request.
Address Swift & Company,
Unkm Stock Yards, Chicago, Dlinois
Swift & Company, U.S.A.