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Reading, A bout Meats
one wnuhl think thee areonly
wltlm. ill - ifiirli of th 'wry
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reusi'iinlili mil our meats of
the Imicrst ki'hIh -' the
such I i' cheap cms are finer
than the h-st nf those, from
lower tirade at nek.
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WIFE'S CHRISTMAS CIGARS,
Christmas cornea but ones a year,
And that meana smokes from wlfey dear.
But, no; those clears I don't smoke.
I dj not care to die or choke.
1 do not bother keepln' rata
I use those amokea to chaae the rata;
Just drop one where thuae bin rata stay.
And they drop dead or run away
1 put those amokea In the hen', nest.
Where nasty mltea and lice Infect.
And quick aa lightning they go dead.
The amell buata somsthln' In their head.
Our hoKa no longer have the fleae.
Nor do the vermin Towier tease;
1 rub a cigar on their coata
And bugs vamoose from doc and ahotea.
Now no on aaka "Have you the mater
Since I get Chriatmaa amokea from Kate.
I freely passed the thtnjra around.
And now the fellow can't be found
In store, on afreet or on the car '
Who wanta the mate to my clear. ;
1 do believe Kate's paralyaera
Are made of low grade fertilisers.
a M. UAItNITZ.
EGO GAMBLERS TO BLAME.
People bark up tbe wrong tree when
they blame the egg producer for the
high price of eggs. Tbe department
of agriculture. Washington, puts the
responsibility where It belongs on
the big cold storage companies, the
egg gamblers. These tricksters de
clare It's tbe weather or that the
growl uk population has so IncretiMed
the demand that tbe supply cannot
meet 1L This Is all fnke. Tbe niost r
tbe egg consumed In winter are lnil
Id early summer: some several sum
mers before.
Farm beus. from which wont of the
winter egg sspply wines from. In gen
eral Iny but little out of the warm
seasou. and only a mild winter like
last year makes them change tbe bnh
It. and then eggs tumble in spite t
all the trust ran do.
Tbe population bus Increased, the
demand for eggs bns increased, bill
the production of eggs bas greatly in
creased and. wonderful to relate, has
kept ahead of the imputation. In ten
years eggs Jumped from 1.203.0.2.0ti
dozens t l.'iltl .31 1.371 dozens.
This is only on farms and does not
include the uiillious produced on town
and city lots
In 1M!! tbe per cnplta was 17 dozen.
204 eggs to every person: in l!Ki9 the
per capita was 17.3 dozen, in 1012 It
was 177. and In 1913 the increase
guarantees a per capita of 17.8 dozen
to every man. woman and child in
the country.
All this time, in tbe face of increas
ed production, egg gain biers have been
pushing up the price. In 1S!(0 the
highest wholesale price at New York
for "average fresh eggs" wns 31 cents.
In 1004 it was 47 cents and In Novem
ber. 1912. 00 cents. In November. 1913.
there were 10.000.000 dozens stored la
Pennsylvania and many millions more
In other states, and. not content with
a corner on summer eggs, tbe storage
companies have their agents out after
all tbe fresh winter supply, and at this
writing the fresh winter egg is mov
ing toward the dollar mark. While
warm winter weather occasionally
knocks out the (ramblers and a general
boycott has some effect, tbe only rem
edy is a national law thnt restricts
tbe storage of eggs to six months, so
that they must be turned on tbe mar
ket In normal quantities and thus sell
at a normal price
This law the United States author!
ties are advocating, and while attend
ing to the egg trust the government
should also put the screws on the
grnin trust for with these two work
ing against him the honest egg pro
ducer is rather between the devil and
tbe deep sea.
DON'TS.
Don't pack dressed poultry in straw.
Line your box with white paper, wrap
tbe fowl's head to prevent blood
smearing the birds and pack them
tight without wrapping.
Don't expect to get rich wishing;
that's just as lucky as mud puddle
fishing.
Don't expect Leghorns not to go
through a fence thut grows larger In
mesh toward the top.
Don't buy more eggs from the same
party until you have tested the first
ones and with butter taste and try be
fore you buy.
Don't buy market eggs from every
Tom. Dick and Marry. Buy from an
egg fancier, and be satisfied.
! Don't waste time trying to Improve
a mongrel nock Creed thoroughbred
and go up head
Don't luck that spirit which aims to
Improve your talents, your product
and your property as time progresses.
Don't spend life wishing you were
as fortunate as others Good luck de
pends on push and pluck.
Don't Joy ride through life on bor
rowed capital.
Don't forget that every Job has Its
drawbacks If you spend time worry
Ing because you think some other fel
low has a snap, you lack anap.
SOME FOOD VALUES.
One exhibit st the national dairy
how held sumo weeks ago In Chicago)
was both unliiio and Interesting. It
wag arranged by the Milk Producers'
Association of Northern Illinois and
consisted of an exhibit of doscn dif
ferent kinds of foods, Including milk,
eggs, beef, fish, nuts and several kinds
of fruits and vegetables, the amount
of each article shown being that
which was required to furnish tbe
mount of nutriment contained In one
quart of tullk, the cost of the several
articles being baaed upon current re
tall prices. The exhibit was illumi
nating and Instructive and doubtless
had suggestions for those heads of
families who are bit perplexed with
tbe high cost of living problem. The
coat of the twelve articles shown is
given In tbe following declmsl frac
tion of a dollar: Milk, .08; eggs, .21);
boat, .148; codfish. .141; cornmeal,
.OOP; potatoes, .02il; cabbage. .10; or
anges. .2'Jil; apples, .ON2; bnunuss, .10
prunes, .Wit: nuts. .1(13. Prom these
figares It will Ik seen at a glance that
far and away the cheapest food arti
cle of tbe list Is cornmeal, which
coats but one-third ns much as pota
toes, while the latter food costs but
one-third ss much as milk. Milk, on
the other band, at S cents a qiiHrt.
rosts less than a third as much ns
eggs at 33 cents !er dozen. Cabbage
and bananas cost the same, prunes
about two-thirds as much as these,
while meat and fish cost about the
same and tints a trifle more. F.ggn
were the most expensive food shown,
and oranges rank next to them.
A SERIOUS PEST.
For a good many years the onion
was considered practically est free,
bat within recent years what Is
known as the onion smut has spread
to many sections of the country, at
1U worat being so serious a handicap
aa to render the culture of the vege
table unprofitable. A serious feature
of this pest is that the spores of the
fungii s are not eradicated from the
oil by crop rotations covering a period
of five years. Tbe disease Is spread
by the tools with which an Infected
field Is worked more than by the seed.
Large growers In some sections have
found effective a solution made by di
luting 40 ht cent formalin In thirty
gallons of water and applying with a
drip attachment on a m ed drill at the
rate of from rsto to 70o gallons of the
solution per Sere.
MORE EGG LAYING CONTESTS.
Within the past three or four weeks
new egg layii.g contests to run u year
have Is'en started at both Storrs col
lege. Connecticut, and at Mountain
Grove. Mo. The remarkable Interest
that lias been aroiiseI among poultry
raisers everywhere In these contests Is
shown in the fact that In the contest
wuicb is being conducted In Missouri
there are entered six pens of layers
from New Zealand, three from Austra
lia, two from Canada, three from P.ng
laud, one each from Germany and
Sonth Africa, two from Vancouver
nnd sixty-six pens from the I'tilted
States. The world's record for egg
production Is held by a pen of six
Australian birds that averaged 24.M
eggs each during a year.
PIG PROGRESS.
With a view to increasing the Inter
eft of Oregon farmers In growing hogs,
tbe Portland In Ion stock yards has
agreed to furnish a young pig to ev
ery school in the state thut will take
care of one. Tbe gift is made on the
condition that some pupil In each
school shall keep an accurate record of
what tbe pig eats and how It is cared
for. Tbe company further agrees to
buy the pig back when It Is. ready to
market and pay full price for It. Au
Oregon paper, In speaking of the plan,
remarks that in ten years it will not
be surprising If every country school
la tbe state Is not only supplied with
pigs, but with a flock of poultry and
one or more dairy cows. Tbe Idea
would seem to be a capital one.
BREAK UP THE 8UBS0IL.
While theoretically a farmer gets ev
erything In tbe air above bis land and
In the earth beneath, he seldom actual
ly uses more than six Indies of tbe
surface soil. The productive period of
many a farm could be extended were
deeper plowing to be resorted to ou
such farms and upon those where the
soli is plowed more shallow still. Deep
plowing would not only break up uud
mellow the subsoil and thus make
avullable its fertility, but would In
crease the capacity of the soil to re
tain moisture during a protracted dry
spell. Many u farmer appreciates the
facts stated and by deep plowing has
Increased his farm value by a half
without adding to the number of his
acres.
CARE OF THE LAWN8.
We usually think of care of the lawn
aa extending over the period between
the first and lust cuttings of tbe sea
son. The average lawn, where tbe
gTAss Is clipped and removed, needs
cure besides this that Is all too seldom
given. This consists In giving it at In
tervals of not more than two or three
yeurs a generous top dresslug of well
lotted manure. This should be applied
ftftor the ground is frozen solid and
should be ullowcd to remain until
spring, when the coursest of it may be
raked off. The fertilizing elements will
have leached Into the soil, and the finer
particles of manure will have settled
tisxn tuto the roots of the grass.
CONVICT WORK ON
PUBLIC HIGHWAYS
Majority
of States Now Use
Prison Labor.
DISCARD CONTRACT SYSTEM
During the Present Year Thirteen
States Have Passed Laws Allowing
th Uie of Convicts In the Construe
tion and Repair of Roads.
Thirteen states havo passed laws
thJ
JSI
during the present year allowing
use of convicts lu the construction
repair of highways, according to a
compilation by Dr. E. Stagg Whltlu.
assistant tu social legislation lu Co
lumbia university and chairman of the
executive committee of the nations!
committee on prison labor. They are
Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois,
lndlaua, Kansas, Maine, New Jersey.
North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Vermont.
Wet Virginia aud Wisconsin. As
many other state bad previously
passed similar legislation, but few of
the forty-eight states bare not adopted
tbe policy of using prisoners to build
and maintain public roads.
West Virginia and Iowa are the two
ststes whose laws rrgsrdlng tbe work
ing of convicts on highways stand out
most prominently. So anxious was
the governor of the former state to se
cure an effective law that be went to
New York and with the assistance of
representatives of the national com
mittee ou prison labor, of tbe road de
partment of Columbia university and
of tbe legislative drafting bureau
worked out bills making compulsory
tbe employment of convicts on tbe
roads. Tbe West Virginia law author
ises tbe county courts to mske appro
priations out of road funds for convict
work; It states that the court shall sen
toncu any mule person over sixtceu to
road work Instead of to the county
Jail; persons charged with misdemean
ors unable tu furnish ball shall work
OONVieiS AT WOHK ON A STATIC HUAI.
on the roads ami If acquitted when
tried shall be paid 50 cents a day for
each day's work they perform; Justices
of the peace shall sentence to work on
tbe roads persons convicted of crime
whom otherwise they would send to
tbe county Jail.
Another feature of the West Virginia
law Is the establishment of a state
road bureau to supervise any plans
proposed by a county for using prison
labor In road building. The plans ap
proved, the county shall apply to the
board of control for the number of
prisoners required and shall state the
length of time they shall be needed.
The board shall, as far as possible,
give equnl service to each of the coun
ties and shall determine which prison
ers may be assigned to such work.
The warden Is to provide suitable and
movable quarters, which shall be built,
where possible, by convict labor The
convicts shall remain under direct con
trol of the warden, their work, how
ever, being under the supervision of
the road bureau.
In lown the board of control of the
state Institutions with the advice of
the warden of any penal institution,
may permit able bodied male prisoners
to work on tbe roads. The law spe
cifically st'ites such labor shall not be
leased to contractors. A prisoner op
posed to such work, or whose character
and disposition make It probable that
be would attempt escape or be unruly.
Is not to be worked on the highways.
Although the prisoners are under the
Jurisdiction of the warden while build
ing or repairing roods, their work ll
supervised by the state highway com
missioner. Prisoners employed on tho
highways of Iowa receive aucb part of
their earnings above the cost of tbelr
keep as the board deems equitable, the
earnings either being funded or given
to their dependent families, Before
Iowa passed her present prison labor
laws, George W. Cosson. attorney gen
eral of the state, made a thorough In
vestigation of the prisons of bis own
and other states, and strongly de
nounced tbe contract system, unlaf
wblcb tbe prisoners were employse tea
to that time. Mr. Cosson drew up b
road bill and la of the opinion It WIK
do much to drive tbe contract sysU.it
out of the state.
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THI SWINEHERD. 2
Soft coal or coal cinders are
relished by pigs and hogs be
cause of the mineral matter they
contain.
A rigid system of selection of
brood sows shujild be practiced
by all swine breeders.
If hogs sre crowded In cold
weather In a cold pen they will
pile up aud smother the weaker
ones.
Place feeding platforms at
some distance from the pens. In j
stormy weather feed In the pens.
The hog la pretty nearly all ?
x bundle of money, and he should
t not be ueglected In any manner. ?
2 Kali pigs or any other pigs, for Z
thst mstter, should lie kept off T
t the manure pile during tbe wlu- X
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SILAGE FOR BEEF MEN.
Eaeellent for Fattening and For Feed
ing Stook Cattle.
For a period of four years tests have
been carried on with ateers at the Wis
consin College of Agriculture to deter
mine tho value of silage as a feed for
the fattening steer when fed a lose
with a suitable grain ration or in con
nectlon with either good alfalfa or clo
rer hay roughages fed with grain ra
tion. In every Instance It was found
that silage lowered the cost of grains
when lutnsluced Into the ration, aud
wheti fed as the solo roughage (al
though gains were not so large as
when clover or alfalfa bay was added
to the rstion) the gains were made the
most cheaply.
It Is unwise for tbe farmer to feel
thst because silage la a gistd feed It
can be made the sole feed for stock,
says tbe Iowa Homestead. Uy nature
It Is high In water content low In pro
teln and high In carbohydrate mate
rials. To be properly balanced the r
tlou should contuin some feeds that
are low In water content and carlsihy
drate material and high In protein.
Kor fattening purposes a good day's
ration for a 1.000 Mund steer would
consist of from fifteen to twenty
pounds of "lingo. flv- or six pounds of
alfalfa or clover hay. fifteen to eight
een M)iinds of broken ear corn and twi
or three pounds of cottonseed meal.
Not only Is silage useful to the beef
man for fattening purposes, but It Is
useful for "tis-klng cottle over the win
ter. aud a fni'in test made upon a Wis
eonsln farm under the supervision of
the College of Agriculture showed an
average dully gain of over a pound per
da v. and the steers came, out lu the
spring In good condition to go ou grass
Tln'se steers were led about twenty
pounds of silage dally, together Willi
what timothy the.v would consume
When stis-klng over young cattle ou
silage It would t preferred to have
clover hay or alfalfa hay, as It Is high
er In protein thau timothy buy.
THE HARD MILKING COW.
Make 8ure of the Animal's Value Be
fore She Is 6old.
At the recent meeting of the Oregou
Dairymen's association one of the
meiiilH-rs relalisl how lu one Instance
the testing association bud been of help
lo Ii I in. says the Kansas Parmer lu
hi herd was u short leated cow. to
die milking r will Ii Hie boys objected
strenuously.
1'lie cow was sold for $.V ou tbe
pimulse to pay plan. It waa necessary
for the original owner to take back the
r.jV'js-rJl
i mm n - i r w i
M (lie recent International live
at nek allow at Clilcugo considerable
Interest centered around the two
ilny milking tent of dulry bred
Shorthorns. Two clusaea were ar
ranged for cows In milk, one tak
ing those tlueu years old and over
anil tho otliur thoao under throe
year. Five herds had entries In
the first class nnil three In the h po
und The Ii lu hest pruiluctlnn record
made wits 10-1.9 pounds The next
Ii IK Ill-Hi record was 97.4 puiinila.
Hume of the oilier very sood uhow
loss were W.M, Kf, 3, H7 and K3
pounds, all miulo by cows three
yearn old or over The best record
In the heifer china was Co. 3 pounds.
The inllkliis Hliorthorn row shown
Is lCiistover Klrklevlmtton, Import
ed by J. J. Hill for his furui near
Bt. Paul, Minn.
cow. This he did, and In the mean
time he bud Joined the test association,
and his entire herd was ou test. The
much despised short tested cow led
the herd the first mouth she was In It,
with a product vulued ut f:i0.51. When
her relative profit as compared with
other cows in the herd became known
there was uot the same objection to
tbe short teats that there was former
ly, aud the owner wus glad he hud a
chance to get the cow buck.
On general principles we do uot be
lieve lu u man fooling his time away
milking u short tented, a bard milking,
kicking cow or a cow having other bad
habits, but if one reulizes that such
cow Is highly profitable and may he
the best milker lu the herd the money
Income goes u long way towurd mini
mixing her faults The fact Is that
the so culled drudgery and displeasure
of milking cows are to n great extent.
If not wholly, overcome by the realiza
tion of good proins from the herd lu
other wurds. If the milker feels that he
Is being well repaid for Ills labor mid
feed he Is pleased with his work.