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Poultry as a Special Industry.
It is to be said in the favor of the
poultry industry that while panics and
financial depression have occurred
Eeveral times in the history of this
country the markets have always ac
cepted the supply of poultry and eggs
offered, and at better prices than
ifiose derived from many articles in
other lines. The great drawback with
poultry and egg production is that the
farmers do not produce enough, for
although millions of dozens of eggs
come east from the west, yet eggs
seem to find new customers every
year, something required in the arts,
increasing the demand, and it is the
fact not generally known that the
eggs used for the purpose of supply
ing albumen is enormous, the manu
facturers competing with the consum
ers who use them for food. It has
i. . n rl n rvi n n i f e ^ * 4 Vi o 4
when the production of an article is
in excess of the demand for one or
two years, the low prices serve as in
ducements to stimulate investments
in some direction in which eggs per
form a prominent part (perhaps
some invention), and the demand soon
keeps pace with the supply. At pres
ent this country imports eggs, which
is a sure indication that farmers are
not taking advantage of file markets.
It seems almost impossible to prevail
upon farmers to make a business of
poultry instead of keeping but a. few
hens which are not recognized as hav
ing prominence on the farm. With
the improvements now gradually be
coming accomplished by the use of
pure breeds, and the fact that con
sumers are learning that quality may
be from choice stocks, prices will ad
vance and farmers be forced to resort
to poultry as the source of profit be
cause they cannot ignore the advant
ages of fowls over larger stock. There
is a fair profit even when prices are
low, and the fact that eggs have
brought higher prices at some seasons
makes it difficult for farmers to look
upon lower prices in summer very fa
vorably; yet eggs in summer really
cost the farmer nothing at all.—Poul
try Record.
The Labor Problem.
A man keenly interested in the silo
development says that the greatest
stumbling block in the farmer’s path
is the question of labor. He has be
1 come convinced that the work of fill
ing the silo, handling the silage and
feeding is much greater than other
methods of harvesting the corn crop.
He will admit that the feed is possi
bly a little better when it comes front
the silo, but he does not rcsglize to
i any appreciative extent the decided
t value of corn silage over fodder or cth
: er classes of roughage. As a matter
! of fact, a little study will convince
J him that the silo is a labor saver rath
; er than a creator of labor upon the
farm. It is easier to put the corn in
th** cilrt rlnvino- tho oorltr foil than tn
shock and shred later in the winter. In
fact, the whole process where the silo
is used is about equal to the labor of
cutting and shocking the fodder. You
have left for your winter amusement
drawing the stalks from the field and
feeding while or shreding and husking
"by machinery, an altogether expensive
job when days are short and inter
ruptions frequent. In the matter ot
feeding it is alw-ays much easier to
fake the feed from the silo than to
handle the whole stalks, and it is
more 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,
coarse stalks that naturally work into
the barnyard where the whole corn
is fed. Taking it all around, the silo
reduces Ihe labor upon the farm dur
ing the entire process of handling the
corn chop with the exception of two
or three days in the early fall when
the silo Is being filled. It is a matter
of doing ihe work all up at once and
having the balance of your time free
from the drudgery incident to dry
fodder, whether whole or shredded.
A goose can cover as many as IE
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 from the
eggs so long as to allow them to get
cool, she may abandon the process of
incubation altogether. The period tot
incubation is about one month. It is
sometimes necessary to remove the
early-hatched goslings from the nest
lest the more tardy ones be deserted.
About the twenty-ninth day these ear
ly 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,
of equal freshness, so that they may
be hatched at one time.
Roots for Dairy Cows.
The New York Experiment Station
shows that with cornmeal at $20 a
ton it is more economical to feed
foots, but if it drops to $10 a ton corn
meal would probably be cheaper. The
Present high price of feed is forcing
farmers 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.
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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 importation of crock
ery was scattered about in c-ne of
the Southern states. It grew! It
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 mule, a middle-buster, a cotton hoe,
and a cotton 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 read 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
cnl.t nnd the ntilk and cream tn
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
temperatufe 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
mcst 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 amount 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 the 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
evil.
Give Alfalfa a Chance.
The critical time for alfalfa is ap
proaching. Feed has been high in
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
must continue providing feed until
grass is ready for pasture. But al
falfa is seriously harmed by heavy
pasturing in March when the 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
1908, 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
j March and the stock should be kept
1 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
corp, 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 any
mash in the trough.
THE CRACKING OF PAINT.
Property Owners Can Save Money
by Learning the Cause.
Do you know what is wrong when
paint 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.
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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
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
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told in a state
ment made for pub
lication in 1900 how
Doan's Kidney Pills
had relieved me
after other reme
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said Rev. Suffield. ‘‘I have no hesita
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I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills at
various times and they have never
failed me.”
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oil dool oro C!n
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.” j
“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
eased portion of the ear. There is only one way to
cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition ol the
mucous lining of the Eustachian lube. When this
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 cases
out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing
but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
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.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Hope 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 alwava
makes good. Foolish people try experi- I
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
lure has been sold under a strict guar
ntee to cure any form of itching skin
roubles known. No matter the name
-less than one per cent, of the pur
hasers have requested their money
iack. Why? It simply does the work.
Polite Interruptions.
“And it’s awfully impolite to inter
upt one who Is talking, isn’t it,
nother?”
“Except when a woman is describ
ng clothes, my dear, and then it is
Dolite to constantly ejaculate ‘How
ovely!’ or ‘How ridiculous!’ as the
iase may be.”—Kansas City Times.
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
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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
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Don’t Deiay.
Save a possible serious spell of fever
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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
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The best remedy for Gripp and Colds Is
Hicks’ Capudine. Relieves the aching and
feverishness. Cures the cold—Headaches
ilso. Tt’s Liquid—Effects immediately—10,
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Giving money will have no value
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Women like to talk of the days
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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 Powder
For swollen, sweating feet. Gives instant relief. The
original powder for the feet. 25c at all Eruggiats.
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
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The best thing to do when you catch
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Itch cured in 10 ..minutes by Woolford's
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It sometimes happens that a distant
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Western Canada the Pennant Winner
“TheLast Best West”
The government oi
Canada now gives
to every actual set
tler 160 acres c!
wheat-growing
land free and ar
additional 160 acres
at $3.00 an acre. The 300,000 contented
American settlers making their homes ir
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the superiority of that country. They are
becoming rich, growing from 25 to 5C
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 Canadr
in the lead. The world will soon look to it as
its food-producer.
‘‘The thing which most impressed us was the
magnitude of the countrj that is available fur
agricultural purposes.” — Rational llditoria*
Correspondence, litua.
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markets convenient, prices the highest, climati
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Lands are for sale by Knilway and Land Com
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'or railway rates and other information apply h
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the authorized Canadian Government Agent:
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having what they ask (or, refusing all
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