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BUILT OF DUGOUT IRON
YELLOWSTONE DEER DRIVEN TO HOUSES FOR FOOD
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Severe weather mill heavy Slum are phiyinu havoc with the deer and other animals of the Yellowstone
photograph shows a number of deer tiiat were waiting outside a residence at Fort Yellowstone fur food.
park.
A WILD AND WOOLY MOUNT
When thN great elk was only a day
fild its mother was killed »>y hunters.
It was carried to the ranch house of
Scout Younger and raised by a mother
goat. The young elk was persuaded
to wear a halter, and in due time
agreed to a saddle. It has become as
affectionate as a horse, and boasts
manv accomplishments.
ske<l tli>’ washing ma
ll (> looked exceedingly
His Error.
“Wliaf Is the matter with Constable
Slackputtor:
chine agent,
disgusted about something.
••n,. is suffering from the accident
al discharge "f his
tandloro of the Petunia tavern "lie
tho„..ht the tight was just a friendly
(>1)ni»* rial rushed right into the mid
of'|, before he discovered Ins mls
Then, naturally, he was obliged
,i,0 whole hunch, and In the
liepms.. ef his authority he got con
siderably tromped on
Star.
Kansas City
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Unsophisticated Dad
■•I.ame experts suggest that
ff,ny practice the new steps
s.f.,r a partner.’
‘ well, that explains much
rvt. fjedCed my daughter with u broom
lively "
:?;Smv fatuous way I thought she
THP avveephiK*” Louisville Courier
li.urnat.
EGGS DROPPED FROM AIRPLANE UNBROKEN
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Postmaster Chance of Washington, 1 >. C„ taking i;:i|hii> of unbroken
eggs from a hag of mail dropped via parachute from a mail airplane Ilyins
over the capital from College Park. Md.
SENATOR JOHNSON'S UNUSUAL HOME
'll,,, unusual home «>f Senator Hiram Johnson of California, taken from
<lri‘*‘ii street. San Francisco. Situated on an elevation, the home Is heau
tlful as well as unusual, contnlnlnj; many novel features In architecture.
VERMIN ON HOGS EXPENSIVE
One Cent Per Pound Is Added to Cost
of Producing Pork by Presence
of Insects.
< 'pared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
I.ii’o add a cent it pound to the cost
of producing pork. This has been
found in tes>ts just completed at the
exp< riment farm of the United States
department of agriculture at ltelts
ville. Mil. Twenty-four lousy hogs
were secured and divided into two
lots as nearly equal as to quality of
animals as possible. The two lots
"ero managed and fed the same way
with the exeeption that one lot was
treated to prevent lice. The animals
were weighed at regular intervals and
at the end of the fattening period It
was found that the hogs infected with
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Lice.
lice cost a cent a pound more to fatten
than those which were free of the trou-i
hiesome pest. The officials who had j
charge of tills experiment give an in- !
teresting side light in connection with
securing the lousy animals. They
communicated with some of the de
partment’s field men, asking them to
locate lousy hogs. It was s*une time j
before a reply was received to this \
surprising order. After the lousy hogs
were purchased the owner learned ;
why, and he immediately built a dip- ;
ping vat and began to treat the an- i
imnls to prevent lice.
COUriTY BREED DIRECTORIES
Catalogues Are Valuable in Identify
ing Owners and Effective in
Promoting Sales.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Indexing counties as to dominant
I breed of livestock maintained, through
itio use of eotmty lireed directories,
i has* won grout favor in Iowa, where
several tears ago Linn county inaugu
j rated this work. Such catalogues are
I valuable in identifying the owners of
! different breeds and are effective in
I promoting sales and in attracting
j prospective purchasers to the locality.
They constitute a relatively perma
nent form of advertising, as ordinar
ily they are kept for future reference
by those who receive them. The di
rectorb s arc liest issued under tiie
authority of a county live stock breed
ers association or the local farm bu
reau. Ordinarily tin* expenses of these
booklets are raised by the side of ad
vertising space to breeders. I'racti
; callv any rural printing office can put
i out creditable productions of this
class.
COMMUNITY BREEDING PLANS
Farmers in Certain Section Agree to
Stick to One Breed and Use
Purebred Sires.
Community brooding simply means
Hint tbo farmers in a certain com
munity agree to do two thing.;:
First, to breed but one breed of cat
tle, sheep or bogs.
Second : They agree to use none but
purebred sires, these sires being own
ed either individually or collectively.
Everyone is absolutely free to do as
he pleases just so long us be sticks to
one class of stock and uses :t purebred
sire. Those ideas can best lie carried
out if tlie farmers are organized in a
body and get together at stated peri
ods.
I LIVE STOCK NOTES §
Mutton lambs are sure sale tit good
prices.
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I'se the best boar that you can
secure.
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Keep the fall pigs growing sill
through the winter.
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Parasitical diseases of sheep are
hard to tight and overcome.
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Weak lambs should be nursed and
given extra care and it little extra
milk.
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Arrange to have tlie sows fnriow
early. The early pigs have the ad
»uut of a better market.
RETURN OF LANDS TO HAY CROPS MEANS
LARGE SUPPLY OF BOTH MEAT AND BREAD
In Feeding America, This Is Just as Important as the Golden Grain Field
(Prepare*! by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
You have heard a great deal about
♦ he problems of reconstruction that are
pressing for solution. Hut, like most
men. you have probably thought of
them as tremendously big problems
that had to be solved, nationally and
internationally, by statesmen and dip
lomats and high executives. They are
that—but not just that. Every man—
certainly every farmer.has a recon
struction problem till his own.
The war unbalanced the agriculture
of the United States by unbalancing
tile agriculture of individual farms.
There had to bo produced the kind of
food that could be transported over
seas. Wheat is pre-eminently that
kind of food, and other grain crops are
to an extent such. Very many farms,
therefore, got too heavy on the side of
tilled and cereal crops and too light
on the side of liny crops and pasture.
Many farmers increased their tilled
and cereal crops beyond what they had
any basis of experience in carrying.
Labor requirements were Increased.
Rotation practices were interfered
with. To the extent that the wheat
acreage was increased, the climatic
hazard was Increased, because, under
the extensive farm practice that char
acterizes American agriculture, wheat
is a crop that is very sensitive to cli
matic uncertainty. Such a practice
long continued was likely to result,
therefore, not in Increased food pro
duction at all, but in actually reduced
food production. Tn the long run, that1
would be the inevitable result. Even.
If by some miracle, the hazard of
weather could be escaped, the practice
would reduce soil fertility until yields
would lie greatly cut down. But, be
fore that even, meat production would
be harmfully reduced, l"or it is as
true physically as spiritually that man
does not live by bread alone. Very
largely, be lives by meat. And meat
animals and milk animals—do not
grow on grain alone. Most largely.
they grow and produi.. green grass
and dry grass—pasture and bay.
Return to Sound Farming,
Those are some of the reasons why
the 1'nited States department of ntrri
eulture began urging, almost immedi
ate!} after the signing of the armistice
and continuously since, a return to
sound agricultural practice-—returning
to pasture and hay lots, to clover and
other fertilizer-fixing crops, some of
the land that had been used for grain
during the war emergency. The sug
gestion lias been criticized from some
'.tuarters, because in some quarters it
has been misunderstood’.
Specifically, the department recom
mended that it was not advisable to
undertake to maintain the wheat acre
age sown for the crop of 1919. That
did not imply that the department
urged a smaller food production iri the
country. It did mean that the depart
ment was urging an increase in the j
food production of the country by 1
steadying agriculture, by reducing the
hazards that necessarily play into the j
hands of speculators, by returning agri
culture to a peace basis that would in
sure adequate production of all kinds
of food, for this year and for other
years. And that meant restoring pas
tures. restoring hay fields, insuring
feed for the meat animals upon which
the tables of the nation depend.
This return to sound agricultural
practice is important to the farmer,
certainly. Rut It is not more impor
tant to the farmer than it !s to the city
man. It lias to do just as much with
reducing the high cost of living as with
reducing tlie high labor requirements
and the lertllity-druinlng practice of j
fa ruling.
Wheat, officials of flic department of
agriculture point out, does not key the
cost of living. It is merely one of a
number of co-ordinate elements.
“One honest John Tompkins, a hedg
er and ditcher," that perfectly con
tented man whose praises are sung in
the old verse, had a habit of saying:
‘‘If I can get meat. I can surely get
broad." Maybe his reasoning was
faulty. Rut it was not a lilt more
faulty titan that of some business and
industrial leaders who say, by infer
ence: "If we can get bread, we can
surely get meat.”
Lack of pastures is a serious handi
cap to production of low-cost milk.
The man does not live who can pro
duce beef economically without pas
ture.
And, Just as surely, the man does
not live who can produce low-cost pork
without pusture.
Milk! U.oef! Pork! Is there a more
Important item in the lush cost of liv
ing than these?
Plenty of Feed for Live Stock.
And so the United States depart
ment of agriculture, for the good of
everybody concerned, continues to urge
the sort of safe and sane agriculture
that provides plenty of pasture and
plenty of hay which means providing
plenty of meat and milk.
The farmer, unless he chose to head
straight for bankruptcy, could not think
of maintaining a wheat acreage equal
to that sown for the 1019 crop. With
decreased man power—and farm labor
appears to he just as hard to find now
as it was during the war—farmers can
not maintain a materially larger acre
age of tilled and cereal crops than
they did with larger man power sev
eral years ago. If they should under
take it as a permanent policy, city
families would nyt only have less meat
and milk than they are accustomed to,
hut they would actually have less
bread, also.
War needs caused the plowing up of
many pastures that, under peace-time
conditions, are worth more in the
economy of the farm in pasture or hay
than In cereal or tilled crops. Some of
them are bnck in grass now. There are
others that should go hack in grass.
Specialists of tin* department of agri
culture suggest that every farmer, dur
ing the winter when he has leisure to
lay his plans carefully, work out his
own problem of reconstruction, make
his plans for planting the kind of crop**
next spring that will enable him, if not
at once then as soon as possible, to put
his farm hack on its proper basis of
diversification and rotation. His coun
ty agent and his state college of agri
culture are ready to help him at any
point where he may need help. The
United States department of agricul
ture is ready to advise hint on prac
tically any phase of the matter. A
great deal of thought has been given
to the subject.
MONTHLY DISPOSAL OF CORN
. More Evenly Distributed Throughout
Year Than Supposed—Sales
for Year of 1918.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture )
Dorn is sold by farmers month by
month throughout the year much more
evenly than may be generally suit
posed. The bureau of crop estimates
has ascertained that, while as much as
15 per cent of the year's sales, begin
ning with July 1. 191S. was sold in
January, 11)1!), and 12 per cent in the
month before, the monrnly sales dur
ing the remaining ten months ranged
only from d.l to 8.4 per cent or the
year’s total.
GOOD FOR RURAL SOCIETIES
Various Marketing Problems Are Ex
cellent for Discussion—Other
Topics of Interest.
(Prepared by the I’nlted States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Marketing methods and marketing
problems are excellent subjects for dis
cussion by various rural organizations,
many of which resume their meetings
in winter. A number of such societies
already have questions relating to
farm management, disposal of farm
produce, as well as many topics of
general interest.
Live- Stock
Notes
Clean hog pens mean greater profits
from that source.
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Sheep will do much toward keeping
the goodness of our lands.
Crusted wheat produced good gains
In feeding lambs at the Utah experi
ment station.
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Oiven the right conditions, a few
sheep may well be kept by gen
eral farmers.
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There is some danger In feeding
molded feed of any character, espe
cially to horses.
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Damp quarters—rheumatic hogs;
rheumatic hogs—unhealthy animal*
and unprofitable production