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PLANTER l
Poultry as a Special Industry.
It is to be said in the favor of the
. ultry industry that while panics and
nancial depression have occurred
leveral times in the history of this
finery the markets have always ac
ited the supply of poultry and eggs
lered, and at better prices than
bse derived from many articles in
her lines. The great drawback with
niltry and egg production is that the
rmers do not produce enough, for
though millions of dozens of eggs
me east from the west, yet eggs
em to find new customers every
ar, something required in the arts,
creasing the demand, and it is the
ct not generally known that the
gs used .for the purpose of supply
g albumen is enormous, the manu
cturers competing with the consum
s who use them for food. It has
fcquently been made manifest that
ten the production of an article is
excess of the demand for one or
o years, the low prices serve as in
cements to stimulate investments
some direction in which eggs per
rni a prominent part (perhaps
jnte invention), and the demand soon
jeps pace with the supply. At pres
it this country imports eggs, which
|a sure indication that farmers are
it taking advantage of the markets.
! seems almost impossible to prevail
ion farmers to make a business of
mltry instead of keeping but a few
ins which are not recognized as hav
lg prominence on the farm. With
|i improvements now gradually he
lming accomplished by the use of
ire breeds, and the fact that con
mers are learning that quality may
? from choice stocks, prices "'ill ad
tnce and farmers be forced to resort
f poultry as the source of profit be
mse they cannot ignore the advant
[es of fowls over larger stock. There
a fair profit even when prices are
iw. and the fact that eggs have
fought higher prices at some seasons
akes it difficult for farmers to look
pon lower prices in summer very fa
brably; yet eggs in summer really
bst (he farmer nothing at all.—Pcul
y Record.
The Labor Problem.
A man keenly interested in the silo
levelopment says that the greatest
[tumbling block in the farmer's path
i the question of labor. He has be
anie convinced that the work of fili
ng the silo, handling the silage and
eding is much greater than other
fcethods of harvesting the corn crop,
ie will admit that the feed is possi
a little better when it comes from
the silo, but he does not realize to
Iny appreciative extent the decided
raiue of corn silage over fodder or cth
fcr classes of roughage. As a matter
pf fact, a little study will convince
Pirn that the silo is a labor saver rath
pi' than a creator of labor upon the
(arm It is easier to put the corn in
lln silo during the early fall than to
fchock and shred later in the winter. In
(ae . the whole process where the silo
used is about equal to the labor of
JciKting and shocking the fodder. You
(tavs left for your winter amusement
irawing the stalks from the field and I
[feeding while or shreding and husking
machinery, an altogether expensive
Job when days are short and inter- |
Iruptions frequent. In the matter of I
■feeding it is always much easier to I
■take the feed from the silo than to |
■handle the whole stalks, and it is i
linore convenient than to handle the
|shredded fodder.
Another labor item is found in the
■barnyard. The manure from silage
|fed cattle contains none of the long,
Icoarse stalks that naturally work into
■the barnyard where the whole corn
jis ted. Taking it all around, the silo j
■ reduces ihe labor upon the farm dar
ling the entire process of handling the !
jcorn chop with the exception of two
I or ihree days in the early fall when ;
['he silo is being filled. It is a matter :
1doing ihe work all up at once and !
| having the balance of your time free
j front the drudgery incident to dry
[fodder, whether whole or shredded.
A goose can cover as many as 15
good-sized eggs, and these should not
be touched during incubation, neither
should the goose be interfered with.
As she is heavier than the hen, her
food and drink should be left rather
nearer to her than would be required
with common poultry, because if she
chance to absent herself front the
eggs so long as to allow them to get
cool, she may abandon the process of
incubation altogether. The period of
incubation is about one month. It is
sometimes necessary to remove the
early-hatched goslings from the nest,
iest the more tardy ones be deserted.
About the twenty-ninth day these ear
i> birds begin to chip the shell, and
should their own capabilities prove in
adequate to their liberation, aid
should be rendered them. It is best
if the eggs are, as nearly as possible,
°f equal freshness, so that they may
be hatched at one time.
Roots for Dairy Cows.
• he New York Experiment Station
shows that with cornmeal at $20 a
’°n it is more economical to feed
roots, but if it drops to $10 a ton corn
nteal would probably be cheaper. The
Present high price of feed is forcing
fat
nters to use more roots in their
feeding ration and to their advantage,
as a rule. The beets in the upper
Part of the picture are half sugar
white mangel, and were sown very
early. Those in the lower row are
of the same variety, but were sown
late.
Refusing Nature’s Gifts.
How men do struggle to avoid ac
cepting Nature’s gifts! Through ac
cident nearly a hundred years ago,
the packing of an importarlon of crock
ery was scattered about in one of
the Southern states. It grew! 1
spread! Fastening itself firmly upon
the shifting sands and slippery clay,
it held them firmly and healed the
scars. It reached out toward the cot
ton patch and found work there. The
impoverished soil needed humus and
the creeping grass endeavored to sup
ply it. The gullies were growing
deeper and the grass sought to hide
their ugliness and to round them over.
It saw hungry live stock and sought
to feed them. The patient, hungry
cotton mute tasted it and found a de
lightful confection. The razor-back
hog sought out the spots of grass and
deserted the “mast.”
But man noticed it! He saw that
it grew persistently and spread rap
idly. He observed that wherever it
approached a cotton stalk the plant
was weak and puny. So—away with
it! It’s a pest! It harms the cot
ton!
And so for nearly a century, men
have fought the thing which led to
ward the easy way—toward fertile
farms and grass-grown hillsides—to
ward prosperity and peace; and chose
the hard way—yoked with a mortgage,
a mu’.e. a middle-buster, a cotton hoe,
and a coUon sack.
It is so in Oklahoma. Instead of
letting this gift of Nature to the
Southern people help them on to
plenty, men fear and fight and falter.
They desert the blackjacks with their
timbered vales, where every condition
favors the making of real homes, and
start wandering. They abandon fer
tile bottom lands to cottonwoods,
weeds and shifting sands.
What is this grass? Bermuda.—
Oklahoma Farmer Journal.
The Milk Room
The room in which milk is kept in
winter should not be allowed to get
cold, and the milk and cream to
freeze. A low temperature will do
no iujury to skimmed milk, yet it
will injure cream in making it dif
ficult to churn. Bacteria cause the
ripening of cream, and they can grow
and do their work only when the
temperature of the room in which
| the cream is kept is mild. If the
temperature aises too high harmful
results will follow.
The milk and cream house and
room should be constructed on the
most careful plan with non-conduct
ing walls, provision for ventilation
and means for maintaining a fairly
mild and even temperature. The
milk room which is built so as to be
mild in winter without artificial heat
or with only a small amoum of arti
ficial heat, will be cool in summer.
If the walls and ceiling are double
and well lined with heavy paper or
the space filled in with sawdust so
that 'he room is frost proof, a small
oil stove or even a common lamp or
lantern will create a temperature at
mosphere.
When butter is made at home there
is usually difficulty in handling the
cream. In real cold weather ripen
ing is checked which not only makes
churning tedious, but the quality of
the butter is impaired. Instead of
it being yellow and of high flavor
it is white and tasteless. A room
with mild and even temperature for
keeping the cream will correct this
I evil.
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Give Alfalfa a Chance.
j The critical time for alfalfa Is ap
proaching. Feed has been high iu
price and it has been good business
to make the alfalfa fields pasture as
much stock as possible during the
winter months. These same fields
j must continue providing feed until
grass is ready for pasture. But al
falfa is seriously harmed by heavy
[ pasturing in .March when ihe plants
| are putting out new growth and strug
gling to establish themselves for their
summer job. Then is when they need
help.
With the exceedingly wet season of
I 190S, and the tramping of stock all
through the winter, the soil in the al
falfa field is likely to be pretty hard.
The air has been tramped and soaked
out of it and the soil is in no condi
tion to encourage growth. It needs
a disking to help it out. That disking
should be given before the middle of
March and the stock should be kept
off for a little while at least. But the
important thing is to disk the alfalfa,
to loosen up the soil and let air into
it, to put it in shape to take in and
hold moisture for the heavy crops
that the plants will struggle to pro
duce.
The spike-toothed disk harrow, call
ed the alfalfa renovator, is the best
tool for this purpose. It digs the
soil up and does no damage to the
plants, even on quite sandy soils. But
a good job may be done with an or
dinary disk harrow if attention is
given to adjusting and running it. A
double disking and a harrowing with
a smoothing harrow will put the soil
in fine shape and greatly stimulate
alfalfa’s growth.
A Woman’s Poultry School.
Alternate males in the breeding
pens, using one bird three or four
days, then removing him and use
another for the same length of time.
This practice insures better fertility.
Feeding heavily on whole corn has
a tendency to induce hens to become
broody.
Feed only twice a day. Scatter
corn, oats or wheat in the litter in
the morning and give soft food in
the evening about an hour before
roosting time. Do not leave aiiy
mash in the trough.
THE CRACKING OF PAINT.
Property Owners Can Save Money
by Learning the Cause.
Do you know what is wrong when
pamt peels, or cracks, or otherwise
necessitates premature re-painting?
Well, sometimes it hasn’t been
properly applied—the surface being
damp or there being too much turpen
tine or too much drier.
But, nine times out of ten, the
trouble is caused by adulterated
white lead.
To avoid all such trouble, every
houseowner should know in a general
way, when a surface is in proper con
dition to receive paint, what kind of
primer and finishing coats different
surfaces require, and how to avoid
adulteration In materials.
A complete painting guide, includ
ing a book of color schemes, specifi
cations for all kinds of painting work,
and an instrument for detecting adul
terations in painting materials, with
directions for using it, can be had
free by writing National Lead Com
pany, 1902 Trinity Bldg., New York,
and asking for Houseowner’s Paint
ing Outfit No. 49.
This company, the largest makers
of pure white lead, invite tests, by
means of the blowpipe (included in
outfit), or in any other way, of the
purity of the white lead sold under
their famous “Dutch Boy Painter”
trademark. That trademark on a keg
of white lead is in itself an absolute
guarantee of purity and quality.
SNAP FOR JIMMIE.
v _.—.-r
“Oh, Jimmie, our pa’s been appoint
ed postmaster!”
“Good! Now I won't have ter put
any stamps on de letters I sends
youse!”
MUST BELIEVE IT.
Every Reader Will Concede the Truth
of This Statement.
One who suffers with backache or
any form of kidney trouble wants a
lasting cure, not
> merely a temporary
i* benefit. Profit by
the example of
Rev. J. M. Suffield,
of 2179 S. 8th St.,
Lincoln, Nebr., who
confirms a report
of his cure after
several years. “I
told in a state
ment made for pub
lication in 1900 how
Doan's Kidney Pills
had relieved me
after other reme
v dies had failed,
said Rev. Suffield. “I have no hesita
tion in confirming that statement now.
I have used Doan's Kidney Pills at
various times and they have never
failed me.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
His Burst of Generosity.
‘‘Your boy's injury is not as severe
as I had anticipated,” the surgeon as
sured him. “I shall not have to ampu
tate his leg.”
‘‘I am glad to hear you say so,” said
Mr. Tyte-Phist, with emotion. “Still,
if it had been necessary, in order to
save his life, I—I was willing to bear
the expense of it!”
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach the dis
cmmpU portion of the car. There is only oik- way to
cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an juflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. \\ hen tills
tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or im
perfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed. Deaf
ness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal condi
tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine case3
cut of ten arc caused by Catarrh, which is nothing
but an inflamed condition of the mucous surface's.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of
Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured
by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
1-. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 5c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Hops Springs Eternal.
He was addressing a crowd one Sun
day morning on the quay at Newcastle.
“I can safely say that no man ever
attempted to bribe me, gentlemen,”
said the speaker
"Don’t be down-hearted, old chap,
your luck may change,” shouted a man
in the crowd.—Tit-Bits.
We Reiterate.
That for more than fifteen years
Hunt's Cure has been working on the
afflicted. Its mission is to cure skin
troubles, particularly those of an itch
ing character. Its success is not on
account of advertising, but because it
surely does the work. One box Is
guaranteed to cure any case.
Wasted Years.
Nan—So, after six years' courtship,
all is off between Tim and Tiny.
Fan—Yes; they loved not wisely,
but too platonicaliy.
Wise people use Hamlins Wizard Oil
to stop pain because they know it always
makes good. Foolish people try experi
ments. Ask your druggists about it.
. - '
It’s difficult to get a crooked man
interested in the scenery along the
straight and narrow path.
Actual Facts.
For upwards of fifteen years Hunt’s
Cure has been sold under a strict guar
antee to cure any form of itching skin
troubles known. No matter the name
—less than one per cent, of the pur
chasers have requested their money
back. Why? It simply does the work.
Polite Interruptions.
"And it’s awfully impolite to inter
rupt one who is talking, isn’t it,
mother?”
“Except when a woman is describ
ing clothes, my dear, and then it is
polite to constantly ejaculate ‘How
lovely!’ or ‘How ridiculous!’ as the
case may be.”—Kansas City Times.
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of|
In Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Questionable.
"Has she a sense of humor?"
"I can’t tell.”
"Why not?”
“Because she looked serious when
she told me she admired your sing
ing.”
Don’t Delay.
Save a possible serious spell of fever
later on by cleansing your system now
of its accumulation of impurities. Sim
mon’s Sarsaparilla will do it. It
makes fine blood, fine appetite, great
strength and grand ambition.
Honor is but the reflection of a
man's own actions shining bright in
the face of all about him, and from
thence rebounding upon himself.—Mer
riam.
For Colds and Gripp—Capudine.
The best remedy for Gripp and Colds is
Hicks’ Capudine. Relieves the aching and
feverishness. Cures the cold—Headaches
also. It’s Liquid—Effects immediately—10,
25 and 50c at Drug Stores.
Giving money will have no value
except we first give ourselves.—Mur
ray.
ONLY ONE “51ROMO QUININE.”
That is I, AX AT IV K 11KOMO QClNlNK. hook fol
the si {mature <»t' 10. W. (JKOVIO. Used the World
over to Cure a Cold in On-; Day. l&c.
Women like to talk of the days
they were single and had a good time.
Dyspepsia and constipation are avoidable
miseries—take Garfield Tea, Nature's Herb
laxative.
From the blackmailer’s viewpoint,
keeping secrets is a paying business.
Allen’s Foot-Ease, a Fon der
For swollen, sweating feet. Gives instant relief. The
original powder for the feet. iiac at all Druggists.
One way to remove paint is to sit
down on it before it is dry.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrnp.
For children teething, softens the gums, reduces in*
Summation., allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle
The best thing to do when you catch
a cold is to let go of it.
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remedies when required axe \c assist
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“I am getting along fine and feel splendid, since
taking Cardui,” writes Mrs. Stella Halquist, of La
porte, Minn. “I am not troubled, like I used to be,
with backache, headache, and those pains and that
tired-out feeling. I had other female troubles too,
but they have almost disappeared now. I cannot I
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The Woman’s Tonic
earn
Cardin can be depended upon to help you, too,
[ if you will give it a fair trial.
Women who need strength, should find it in
I Cardui, for Cardui is a strength-building female
tonic.
Women who need health, should
find it in Cardui, for Cardui has been
found to cure female disorders, by its
curative action on the female organs.
Try Cardui.
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AND ALL NOSE
AND THROAT DISEASES
Cures the sick and acts as a preventive for others. Liqxdd given on
the tongue. Safe for brood mares and all others. Best kidney remedy; 20
cents and $1.00 a bottle: $5.00 and $10.00 the dozen. Sold by ail druffadsta
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Western Canada the Pennant Winner
The government of
Canada now gives
to every actual set
tler 160 acres cf
heat-growing
land free and an
additional 160 acres
at $3.00 an acre. The 300,000 contented
American settlers making their homes in
Western Canada is the best evidence of
the superiority of that country. They are
becoming rich, growing from 25 to 50
bushels wheat to the acre; 60 to 110 bush
els oats and 45 to 60 bushels barley, be
sides having splendid herds of cattle raised
on the prairie grass. Dairying is an im
portant industry.
The crop of 1908 still keeps Western Canada
in the lead. The world will soon look to it as
its food-producer.
“The thing which most impressed us was tho
magnitude of the couiltr; that is available tor
agricultural purposes.' — National Editoria
Correspondence, fsus.
Low railway rates, good schools and churches,
markets convenient, prices the highest, climate
perfect.
Lands are for sale by Railway and Land Cnm
? antes. lieseriptive pamphlets and maps sent free.
or railway rates anil other information apply to
Superintendent of Immigration, on a.va. ('at.a'da, ur
the authorized Canadian Government Agent:
S. CBAWFGB2,
No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri.
This Trademark
Eliminates Ail
Uncertainly
in the purchase of
paint materials.
It is an absolute
guarantee of pur
ity and quality.
For your own
protection, see
that it is on the side of
every keg of white lead
you buy.
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY
1S32 Trinity Building, New York
I ) f of this paper dc
i\€dCl€TS ,ifi??lo.buy
anything adver
tised in its columns should insist upon
having what they ask (or, refusing all
substitutes or imitations.
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TOILET MTISEPTIO
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TtlF TIFFTM tssab-vaf dadSncm
■ slSt fi EiLb a in cleoanii^ vrhizcniag aad
removing tartar from the teeth, beskScs <ie*&oying
all germs of decay and disease which ordinary
tooth preparations cannot da
SLC (ft I 5^*0 Paxhxre utedf ss & xuiutlx
Bvfi VUflll wash dhinErxS*the aaouth
and throat, purifies the breath, zvd ki&» t:« germs
which collect in the mouth, catutag note throat*
bad teeth, bad breath, grippe, and axiadb shines*.
ET\y73al'SJ when infkmr^, tired, ache
1 iHto As H nv and burn, may be instantly
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ff*1 fiSrSLI P**1*®® wifi destroy &e germs
%£r% c Ann STB that cause catarrh, t«al (the in
flammation and stop the discharge. it » a swo
remedy for uterine catarrh
Paxtine is a harmless yet powerful
germicide,disinfectant and deodbracr.
Used in bathing it destroys odors and
leaves the body andseptically fkm.
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one when the doctor was treating tens far earner r
ot the stomach. The next mornixj be passed
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