The Springfield news., April 21, 1921, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3

THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
PAGE THREE
CARE OF EWES IN
LAMBING SEASON
Success of Flock Depends Great
ly on Protection Given to
Mothers and Lambs.
PROPER FEED IS ESSENTIAL
Separate Pens Should Be Provided
With Openings to Permit Ewe to
6e Other Sheep, Thue Pre
venting Nervoueneee.
l'rpr4 by the Hulled mates Depart
ment of Asrlmiltura.)
The I inn 1. 1 i ic ii-iiiii In the time for
particular euro of the mot bore of the
flock, nnd precautions ngiilnst any III
nM or Injury either to ewes or
lambs.
Th rwe should have a qulot. lry,
aunielently Harm place In which to
bring forth her young, should be In
sured agnlnst niolculntlon by other
beep, nrid should he guarded agulust
possible mishap.
Avoid Heavy Feeding.
Care should ho taken before lamb
ing time, specialists of the United
States l-purtiniiit of Agriculture ad
vise, to aee Hint the ewe la Dot fed
too heavily, aa heavy feeding l likely
to cnuso udder trouble. The wool
should bo clipped from around the
teats, to enable the lamb to And them
rendlly. .
Juiit before InmMng time, the ewe
will become restless und show sunken
place In front of the hip. She should
0 placed In a separate n-n, which can
Ik uunle of two pnnela of boord fenc-
Well Nourished Lambs Give Llttie
Trouble In Rearing.
lie nbout four feet IiIkIi. hinged to
gether ut right nnjjlo nnd hooked or
otherwise fuxicncd to the walls of the
sheep shod. These panel ertiilt t ho
to see the other ti4i, thus pre
venting her from getting excited and
ncrvou.
The liinil) Hint la born strong and
vigorous will tiee little rnrn. If con
dition nre not so fyivornlilo, first-nld
measures will be necessary. In cold
weather Inmha become chilled and die,
mi I em prompt remedies lire used.
Wrapping the Inmb In hot flannel
clottiH, which nre renewed aa often on
necessary, I on excellent method of
warming It. Another met ho) In to
place the limili for a few minutes In
w titer nil hot ua the bund will benr;
then dry with cloths nnd wrnp for an
hour or two In fresh cloths or n sheep
skin. Milk should be given frilly nnd
the lamb returned to the ewe nnd ill
lowed to suckle a qulukly on possi
ble. '
l.lttlo trouble Is experienced with
(II mow tied Innilm when lambing pens
ure used. With n ewo that refuses to
own her lamb It la sometimes sufll
clent to draw aomo milk nnd rub It
upon her nose nnd ulso upon the
rump of the lamb. A heavy milking
ewe with only one lamb sometimes
enn be crxiindcd to adopt nn orphan
or n disowned lamb of a lighter milk
ing ewe.
After lambing, the ewes should be
watched to see that their udders are
fn good condition. KwVa should be
kept In lambing ieu for about three
days lifter lambing nnd then turned
SOIL PREPARATION FOR RAPE
Early Planting Will Generally Give
Best Results, as It la Adapted to
Cool Weather.
Rape enn tie plunted Just aa soon as
he ground 'un e prepured for It In
the miring; usually the eurly planting
will give the best results. It Is natural
ly udapted to a cool season and la
hardy enough to withstand pretty hard
frost a. Usunlly It niuy be planted ns
early ns the middle of April and suc
cessive plantings may lie made all
through tho summer nnd curly full.
Corn for Brood Sows,
Proper'y used In combination with
suitable protein feeds corn Is one of
the best feeds for pregnant bows.
Pasture la Essential.
Concrete Honrs in the barn are an
excellent investment to aid In saving
plant food In manure.
Fncinry-iniHle mixtures of dried beet
pulp and inoltMscs nre now nvulluble
to feeders and dulrymen.
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lirto pen by themselves, where they
ran have special feed nnd care, Af
ter lambing they should be fed lightly
at first, being put on full feed about
the third or fourth day.
Troublesome Ailments.
Well nourished lambs from properly
fed ewes have linle difficulty, but some
troublesome conditions are to be ef
fected In any flock. Constipation la
one of the most frequent ailments. It
Is Indicated by straining and distress,
and enn be remedied by a tenspoonful
of cantor oil. Indigestion Is shown by
distress nnd frothing at the mouth
This nlso usually can be relieved with
castor oil. Scours enn best bo cured
by giving one fourth ounce of cooking
sodn, one ounce of sulphate of rnng
ncsla nnd a pinch of ginger In flax
seed tea or gruel, following the dose
In four hours with two ounces of lin
seed oil. More eyes are common and
enn be relieved with a few drops of
silver nit rule solution known to oil
druggists ns "eye wash," or 15 per
cent nrgyrol, or even a very small
drop of pure sheep dip.
FARM W00DL0TS ARE
EASILY OVERLOOKED
Firewood Ranks Sixth in Value
as Farm Crop.
Power-Driven Log Saw Supplants
Crosscut and Buck, Making Task
of Cutting Easy and Pleasant
Easy to Move About
While farmers hove watched the
prices of corn, wheat, live stock and
other furm products go down, down,
down, many of them mny have over
looked the one farm commodity that
has not only held up In price, but
which Is In grcut demund and which
offers splendid rash profits right now
when they ure needed most. This crop
Is firewood nnd It Is Just ripe for
"picking." Itight now In the time fr
fiinncrs to harvest their firewood I Al
though neglected by muiiy, statistics
kIiow firewood to be the sixth farm
crop In value, being headed only by
corn, wheat, cotton, buy and outs.
If this were still the nge of the cross
cut nnd the bucksaw, this suggestion
of sawing wood for profit would be re
jected as too suggestive of buckache
und blistered hands. Hut in these
modern times the power-driven log sow
u machine light In weight, easily
moved nnd dependable bus C'ome to
KUpplnnt the croNKcut Mid bucksnw
forever und to make the once hardest
of nil farm Jobs an easy and pleasant
tnsk. With such a machine ns Is now
on the market, the farmer enn enrn
the ready rash he must have to keep
things going while congress, bonkers
nnd others debate over his and the na
tion's problems.
In n utilitarian sense, timber un
used Is timber useless to mankind.
Trees lire n vegetable crop, nnd like
others of their kind, they grow to ma
turity, decoy and die a total loss un
less they nre harvested and converted
to the uses for which they nre best
adapted.
On nenrly every farm In most sec
tions of the country there Is timber In
more than sufllclent quantities for
home use. There nre live trees that
need to be taken out to give room for
younger ones to grow, c to clear the
land for cultivation: there nre dend
trees that .nre allowed to fall nnd de
coy, nnd on thousands of farms the
banks of rivers nnd creeks are lined
with logs nnd other driftwood.
The old wny of banting logs to a saw
rig mndo timber work Impracticable
ns well ns unprofitable. Hut now that
there nre log sows thnt can be
wheeled like a borrow nlmost any
where nnd enn be operated on rough,
marshy, brushovered ground, wood
can be cut by machinery Into enslly
handled lengths nnd sold nt the high
prices that such fuel Is now bringing.
GOOD CLOVER SEED IS PLUMP
Color of Individual Seeda Ranges
From Violet to Light Yellow
nd Fairly Uniform.
Cood red clover seed Is plump or
well filled, bright with a alight luster,
the color of Individual seeds ranging
from violet to light yellow. The Indi
vidual seeds sheuld be at least medium
sired and fairly uniform, free of
adulterants of any kind and from
seeds of noxious weeds.
Go Slow With Corn.
Go slow on corn aa a grain feed for
aheep. unless you wnnt to fatten them
for market.
Test All Seeds.
It Is not a good plan to sow ntested
seeds. Get only the best fiom re
lluble firms. It pays. , .
Keep Up Barberry War.
Don't let up on the common bar
berry the shrub that gives the grain
rust funguH Its sturt In the spring.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
THE JOB AND THE MAN
Br P. A.
CJIAItlTY
F
OK some five or six years we have
hod n riot of charity appeals.
Thwre have been drives for this and
cmnpulgTis for thnt tag days and ail
other kinds of days.
Itlghtly the people have responded
with promptness and generosity to all
the appeals, touching tlie bottoms of
their pockets occasionally when the
drives came very close together and
always giving something, however lit
tle they were Interested In the cause.
The war was responsible for the
tnot of the appeals. Hut the war Is,
technically, at leust, over, and It would
seem as If there ought to be a let-up
arid a good breathing spell so that
pocketbooks may recover and charities
get down to a normal basis.
Charity ought to mean something to
the giver as well aa to the receiver.
Heal charity means giving real help
Money Is frequently a long way from
being the best thing that you enn give
to a poor arid suffering individual.
If you saw a man In a pit and all
his efforts to get' out were unsuccess
ful, you would scarcely be doing him
any very great service by flinging a
dollar down Into the pit with him.
Nor would It be the best thing to
get down In the pit yourself.
The best thing to do Is provide the
man a way out of bin predicament a
wny to better himself a way to get
up on a level with his fellow man.
It was not the amount of money that
the Good .Samaritan rpent that made
his name a synonym for generous char
ity. It was the fact thnt when be saw
the man who had been down to Jericho
lying by the roadside "he went to blm
und bound up his wounds nnd set him 1
on hU own beast arid brought him to
mi Inn nnd took core of him." '
There are too muny of us who are
generous with our dollars nnd tnlsers
with our smiles. We spend a dollar
where a hearty good cheer, a message
of encouragement, a llttlo thoughtful
ness would do a good deal more to
THE WOODS
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
CHILDREN OF THE SPRING.
"IXHAT means the Spring to you?
W The tree, the bloom, the grass;
Wide fields to wander through;
A primrose pnth to pnss;
Hrlylit sun, and skies of blue;-
Tlie songs of singing streams;
The rippling riverside
Awakening from vd reams ;
Fulr-browed nnd nzure-eyed
Ob,' thus the Springtime seems.
Yet not for such ns you
She comes with song and voice,
TIs not for such ns you
She makes the lienrt rejoice,
She comes .with skies of blue.
Spring's children nre tho 111
'TIs these she comes to cheer;
Upon the window-Bill,
Within the chnmber drear,
She sits her song to trill.
On nnrrow cots they lie
Within the quiet room,
Their sky a square of sky
Cut from the Inner gloom,
From dreury wulls nnd high.
Spring menus bo much to these,
Tlie prisoners nbed !
The perfume of the breeze,
The blrdsong overhead,
The echoed melodies.
The window open wide
Behold, the Spring Is here I
No more the countryside
Is dim nnd dark nnd drear:
Now stronger runs the tide.
The pale nnd pntlent wife,
Her babe upon her breast,
Forgets the night, the knife,
And sleeps the sleep of rest,
Awakening to life.
The old, the very old.
Behold In budding Spring
Another yenr unfold
And life, a tinsel thing,
Is turned ngnln to gold.
And e'en the empty cot.
Whose Spring has come too late.
The one who now Is not,
The one who could not wait.
The Spring lias not forgot.
For, Bee I the Springtime stands
Our drooping eyes to raise
To fair and shining fstrnnds;
The Springtime comes und lays
A Mly lu his hands.
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WALKER.
help those to whom we Intend to ex
tend aid.
Charity which lessens the self
respect of the one helped U badly
bestowed.
A loaf cf bread given lo such a way
thnt the receiver thinks less of him
self than he did before he received It
Is an Injury rather than a help.
Iletter, he had hungered a Httle
longer until his bread could have been
obtained without cost to hla manhood.
There Is a good denl of misdirected
charity In this world.' We give to suf
ferers far nwny and close our eyes
to those nenr nt band.
We give for show from the pocket
ret her than from the heart.
We not Infrequently make conditions
worse Instead of better by giving with
out understanding.
Io not think this Is an argument
egnlnst charity. It Is not. It Is pa
argument for wise charity.
Give aa much as you can. Give aa
often as you enn.
The mlfe wos a noble gift' for tbe
widow, but unless you are a widow do
not take that as the basis for your
contribution.
But give wisely. See that a whole
some, useful and helpful application
Is made of your donations and the
world will be better and you will be
better for having helped your fellow
man.
But above all be generous of your
kind words, of your smiles, and of
your encouragement. It Is Impossible
to misapply them. Tou can be sure
they ore certain to help nnd you can
be equally certain that they will In no
Instance and under no circumstances
work a harm.
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THE GIRL ON THE JOB
5 How to-Succeed How to Get E
Ahead How to Make Good j
By JESSIE ROBERTS 1
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DOMESTIC SERVICE
D
OMESTIC service Is getting to be
short time ago would hare scorned It
aa utterly beneath them are beginning
to look toward It with a growing af
fection. Domestic aclence Is being
taught In most communities, and the
graduates Increase every year. Most
of these girls, after their training, go
Into Institutional and hotel work, Into
teaching. Into hospital service, set up
tea and lunch shops, and follow allied
lines. But positions like these nre not
always Immediately available. Put
domestic cooking In the same class,
and many a girl could earn a good sal
ary and live comfortably i until she
found some more advanced work.
One way In which this will be
brought about Is In the growing use
of cooks and house workers generally
by the hour Instead of the month.
Such workers get more salary, but no
lodging, nnd only the meal or meals
they serve. But such workers are
pavlfTg the wny for the proper recog
nition of domestic work as a dignified
. SCHOOL DAYS "
fell TMr H W
jtl k u(c o i Co, .wiiggi &wHJ? WBfl
i III IBiIL EJ 7A
I wit) look omtime about me for the
things that mrlt prata:
I will srch for hidden bautlM that
elude the grumbler'e case;
1 will try to find contentment la the paths
that 1 must tread;
1 will cease to have resentment when
another moves ahead.
British Weekly.
MEALS FOR A DAY.
FOR a choice dish sometime on a spe
cial occasion you may like to try :
Chicken Fillets With Almond 8auc.
Sprinkle, two chicken, fflleta with,
salt, a little pepper and a few
grains of cayenne. Dip In live oil
end cook in a hot frying pan until
delicately brown. Add to the pao one
cupful of equal parts of white aauce
and cream. When hot thicken further
with two tablespoonfuls of flour rubbed
to a pnste with an equal quantity of
olive oil or cream. Stir until the
sauce bolls, then add one-half cupful
of thinly sliced almonds.
Almond Sponge Cake.
Blanch and pound In a mortar one
ounce of aweet and one ounce of
bitter almonds, round them two
at a time, adding a few drops of water
or white of egg to prevent the nuts
from boiling. .When a smooth paste,
add the yolks of five eggs alternately
with one cupful of powdered sugar.
Then add one cupful of flour, sifted
with two teaspoonfula of baking pow
der. Lastly, fold In the stiffly beaten
whites and bake as for angel food.
Banana Pie.
Take one cupful of sifted banana
pulp, one-half cupful of sugar, one
cracker, powdered fine, one-half cup
ful of milk, grated rind and Juice of
half a lemon, one-half teaspoonful of
salt, one-third teaspoonful of cinna
mon, one egg nnd one-third of a cupful
of cream. Mix all together and bake
In a pastry-lined pie plate.
nnd Important profession, one for
which ndequate training is essential,
and which has the right to claim re
spect nnd consideration.
There Is a big future In domestic
work. With the tremendous tdvance
In electrical machinery for the home
the actual work Is growing to be both
easy and agreeable. It la, high time
that the social stigma should disap
pear, and -the advance in salaries Is
going to help largely to accomplish
this result
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