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FEEDING POTATOES TO HOGS
Fed to Beat Advantage When Cooked
or Steamed and Mixed With Vari
oua Other Feeds.
On account of the low price of po
tatoes in many sections fanners have
been seeking information as to the
possibility of feeding them to hogs.
Many experiments have been con
ducted in Germany and other foreign
countries as well as a few in the
United States to determine the value
of potatoes as feed for swine. In Ire
land and Germany farmers feed large
quantities of potatoes annuully. From
experimental data it has been con
cluded that 4 to 44' bushels of pota
toes when cooked are equal to about
one bushel of corn for putting gains
on hogs. Therefore, if corn is worth
SO cents a bushel, potatoes when fed
to hogs would be worth only 18 or 20
cents a bushel. There may, however,
oe instances where it would be more
'advantageous for the farmer to feed
to hogs right on his own place at least
part of his crop rather than to haul
these potatoes to an already over
loaded market.
.' According to the consensus of opin
ion, potatoes are fed to the best ad
Tantage when cooked or steamed and
mixed with other feeds. Experiments
In which raw potatoes were fed alone
have been reported. In certain in
stances the raw potatoes are said to
have caused scours. However, raw po
tatoes In small quantities and in a diet
lacking succulence may be conducive
tohea1th'ln pigs.
In cooking potatoes only enough wa
ter should be used to make a mealy
mash and prevent burning. The re
sultant meal should then be mixed
with corn meal or other grain supple
ment Tankage, skim milk or meat
meal would probably add to the profit
of the mixture. Potatoes when pre
pared in the manner described and
finder the conditions mentioned can
often be fed to pigs with advantage.
SUPPLYING WATER TO SWINE
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One of Difficult Problems Hog Pais
ers Must Solve in Winter Tank
Heaters Are Beat.
It Is true that hogs, especially pigs,
'do not get as much water as they need
during cold, freezing weather. The wa
' ter should be heated in cold weather to
. t least 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and it
Is better if It is heated to 70 or 80 de
. trees. How to heat the water and
keep it warm is one of the difficult
.problems hog raisers have to solve in
winter.
Some folks water the hogs several
times during the day and pour all the
,VA water that is left out of the troughs
ate soon as the hogs drink.
Others have arranged various de
vices In which they can use tank heat
ers. This is the most convenient and
satisfactory way if a large number of
bogs can be watered at one place. The
method to use will have to be deter
mined by local conditions.
' Hogs do not thrive or make good
Cains when Ice water Is given them In
troughs that already are halt filled with
Ice.
IMPROVING THE FARM HORSE
Up to Owners of Breeding 8tock to
Breed to Beat Sires In Their
Locality Discard Scrubs.
Improvement in the horse stock ol
this country has never .been offered
greater opportunities than now. The
surplus of common horses,, fit for use.
bave been bought and shipped out,
leaving the best and the poorest in
quality.. Horse owners have had the
opportunity to sell those they did not
care to keep for use on the farm. It
Is now up to the owners of breeding
itock to breed to the best sires in
Serviceable on Any Farm.
their locality. There can be no excuse
tor breeding to any but the best pure
' bred horses from now on, and the
vorthlsss old scrubs that are not now
' tit to sell will soon all be wiped off the
arth and a new condition of horse
- quality should aud will prevail. Own
, era of breeding stock must aim to
i- breed for the highest priced animal
the most serviceable to satisfy the de
I mands for horBe power.
Fresh Water for Hogo.
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, ' Slogs should have plenty of fresh
f -water at all times, but it is always
V best to have this furnished from a
' well or spring on your own farm, for
If they have access to streams that
run through other farms before reacli
; Ina yours, there is great danger o
disease being carriwl down this etrean
Up-to-Date Thief Would 8corn to Use
the "Jimmy" Employed by
His Predecessors.
In tho American Magazine is an
exceedingly interesting story entitled.
"A Fool and His Money," which has
been written by a sixty-year-old crook
who has earned a dishonest but com
fortable living for 30 years. Follow
ing is an extract In which the author
describes a "gentleman burglar:"
"He was young and handsome, an
excellent dancer, and always dressed
to the minute. The women were only
too glad to get the chance to dance
with him. and he made many appoint
ments of which their husbands or
parents at home knew nothing. He
did thing on an elegant scale, and
would escort his admiring dance part- j
ner home each night, using a taxi, of
course.
. "At the door he would take the
night key of the lady and open for
her. Generally there would be a chat
on the front stoop, and at its close the
admirable dancer would depart, tak
ing the key with him. If the robbery
of the house promised good loot and
the lady was thoughtful enough to ask
for her key he would return It, but
on the next night of appointment he
would make a quick impression of the
key in soft wax.
"In evening clothes and opera hat
this burglar-dancer would tide up to
the house in a taxi in the early hours
of the morning, and before the very
eyes of the cop on the beat enter the
house and proceed about his business
of collecting the family silver and
cash. He robbed a dozen and more
houses and apartments in the West
side before be was trapped. He put
up a fight and was shot twice before
he surrendered. His career made a
mild yellow Journal sensation for a
day or two."
DIFFER ON TEMPORARY STARS
Astronomers Have Two Views as to
How the Somewhat Mysterious
Bodies Originate.
Most of the textbooks suggest that
temporary stars, or "novae," may re
sult either from the collision of two
bodies In space or from a sudden ex
plosion or eruption of a single body.
Professor Hale, in 'his recent review
of the last ten years' work at Mount
Wilson, states that a more plausible
hypothesis is t". . ' r " a faint star sud
denly plunging into a gaseous nebula.
The spectra of novae, after passing
through remarkable changes, have usu
ally been supposed to correspond
closely in their last visible stage with
the spectra of nebulae. Observations
at Mount Wilson, however, are In har
mony with an observation of Hart
mann in showing that there is, at least
in some cases, a still later stage, in
which the characteristic lines of the
nebular spectrum disappear, as if the
star had finally passed out of the ne
bula which caused its sudden outburst
of luminosity. On this hypothesis, the
temporary brightness of these stars
would be analogous to that of a me
teorite passing through the earth's at
mosphere and raised to incandescence
by friction. Scientific American.
Tolerance In Russia.
There is one test of a civilized
country which is now universally rec
ognized. Religious freedom is held
to be essential to national greatness.
Let us see briefly what this means
in all the Russias. The governing
class, drawn from inner Russia, be
longs, of course, to the strict orthodox
Greek church.
The Baltic provinces are Lutheran,
Finland is Protestant, the southwest
ern provinces contain a large propor
tion of Roman Catholics and Jews; in
the Crimea and is the middle Volga
are Tartar Mohammedans; in the
Caucasus is a perfect babel of lan
guages and consequently of creeds.
Religious tolerance, initiated by the
reforming czar, Alexander II, is one
of the tenets of government, and is
nominally in force all over the em
pire. Consumption of Gasoline.
In estimating consumption of gaso
line statisticians usually figure con
sumption by motor owners as the prin
cipal demand on refiners and lump
other consumption as not of great im
portance. However, President Brace
of the National Association of Dyers
and Cleaners, recently called atten
tion to the great amount of gasoline
used by cleaning establishments. He
says that the annual consumption of
gasoline for thts purpose in the Uni
ted States exceeds 70,000,000 gallons
and is increasing all the time. Clean
ers, according to Mr. Brace, use gaso
line as laundries do water, and in fig
uring on the consumption of gasoline
in this country he says the statisti
cians must not forget the great de
mands made on the refiners by the
cleaners. Wall Street Journal.
Made Right at Home.
Dorothy lives In Kenwood avenue
and Is spending a part of the fourth
year of a busy existence In kindergar
ten. Returning home one afternoon
after an entertaining talk by her
teacher, Dorothy hurried to the home
of her grandma nearby and informed
that person of how clothes are made.
"You see, grandma," said the ex
cited and well Informed miss, "we
don't have to go across a big ocean to
get our clothes. All the nice, warm
things we wear are right here at
home waiting for us. All you have to
do is to go out and get a sheep, for all
our warm clothes are made right from
the fleas of a sheen." Indianapolis
News.
WHEN CHOLERA IS SUSPECTED
Take Temperature of Apparently
Healthy Animal .Make Pott-Mor
tern Examination of Dead Hog.
When a disease that is contagious
appears among hogs, spreading more
or less rapidly, Is quite uniformly fa
tal, and is accompanied by a high
temperature, it is quite safe to as
sume that it is cholera.
Where cholera is suspected, it is
well to get a thermometer and take
the temperature of a number of these
that are apparently well. The nor
mal temperature Is from 101 to 103
degrees in winter and about 1 degree
higher in summer. If cholera Is pres
ent, the temperatures will be found as
high as 105 to 107 degrees.
Make a post-mortem examination on
a hog that has Just died and examine
the kidneys for small, dark red spots
resembling those on a turkey egg.
Look for small red spots along the
small Intestines and somewhat larger
ones cn the lungs. The lymphatic
(lands, which are found in the flank,
along the Intestines and between the
lungs, and which are a light amber
color In health, will be found congest
ed and varying from a pink to a very
dark color.
Where the services of a qualified
veterinarian can be obtained; he
should be called to make a post-mortem
and to give serum. Department
of Animal Pathology, University of
Nebraska.
SYSTEM OF FLOCK NUMBERS
Ear Notches Serve as Identification at
All Times Also Used With
v. Cattle or Hogs.
(By C. B. ANDERSON, Colorado Expert,
ment Station.)
In most flocks of sheep, especially
of purebred animals, It Is advisable to
use some system of flock numbers
aside from the registry number. It Is
easy for an ear tag to be lost out, but
a good system of ear notches serves
as an identification at all times.
The system used at the Colorado
Agricultural college is one which can
be recommended for small flocks. One
notch in the base of the lower part
of the left ear, 1; two notches at the
same place represents 2; one notch
in the lower and one in the upper part,
4, and one notch in the point of the
left ear 5; one in the point and one In
Punch Used for Notching.
the base, 6; one at the point and two
on the base, 7; one on the point and
one In the upper part, 8; one in the
point, one in the base and one in the
upper part, 9. The right ear repre
sents the tens, number ten occupying
the same position as number one on
the left ear. In breeding ewes certain
markings such as holes In the middle
of the ear can be used to designate
the year of birth.
The system is only applicable to
the small flocks of about a hundred
sheep. If one wishes to mark a larger
flock, there is a more complicated
system by which sheep numbering up
to 10,000 may be earmarked. It Is
not commonly used. These systems
can also be applied to the marking of
cattle or hogs.
PRODUCTION OF LIVE STOCK
Not Keeping Pace With Increase In
Population Manure Needed to
Maintain Soil Fertility.
In raising live stock the successful
farmer fully appreciates the value of
good breed, proper care and scientific
feeding. If any one feature is neglect
ed the full value of the feed is not
secured. The production of live stock
is not. nor has it been for several
years, keeping pace with the increase
In our population and the demands
from abroad.
Western ranges have been devel
oped into farms so well satisfied with
the high price obtained for corn, hay
and other products that they have not
bothered with live stock.
Because of the Increasing demand
for meat at home, ' and the deficit
abroad partly because of the war, meat
will command a very attractive price
for many years to come.
Another reason why stock raising
should not be neglected is because the
manure from the live stock Is indis
pensable In maintaining the fertility
of the soil.
Cause of Ropy Milk.
Ropy cream or milk is caused by
germ. The germ may come from a
dusty stable or a stagnant pool of
water through which a cow has waded.
The difficulty may frequently be reme
died by thoroughly scraping tue dried
manure from the barn and then white
washing the Interior, and by a thor
ough scalding of all palls, cans, and
the separator. R. M. Washburn, Uni
versity Farm, EL PauL
Simplify Work at Farrowing.
Having the pigs farrowed as near
one time as possible greatly simplifies
the work of feeding and caring for
them.
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SEEMED LIKE HOME TO BIRD
Canary Finally Successful In Breaking
.Into Jail, and May Serve a
Life Term.
Having been born in a prison cage,
it was only natural that a canary, re
gretting the breaking of home ties at
a moment when the door was left
open, should pause In his recalcitrant
career when he saw the hundreds of
barred windows of the Tombs prison,
remarks the New York Herald. He
always had associated bars with a
well-filled seed dish.
This runaway canary had been try
ing for several days to break into Jail,
mistaking It probably for a bird cage
a Jail bird cage. A "down and out
er" at the penny coffee stand under
the Tombs wall caught the hungry
and remorseful bird. John Crowley, a
turnkey, who had watched the little
fellow for days, gave the outcast 16
cents for the bird and took him Inside
the prison.
There the canary was happy again.
He flew about the cagewalls, ate
greedily from the bkd seed dishes,
took a splashing "bath In the bright
sunshine, and sang Joyously. The bars
made him feel at home, and he may
serve a term for life there. ,
Admired American Inventions.
As far back as 1876 some of the for
eign commissioners to the Centennial
Bhowed their keen appreciation of the
importance of invention and the ad
vantages derived by America from its
encouragement. One of the Swiss
commissioners Bald: "I am satisfied
from my knowledge that no people
have made in so short a time so many
useful inventions as the Americans,
and If today machinery apparently
does all tne work, it nevertheless by
no means reduces tho workman to a
machine. He UBes a machine, it is
true, but he is always thinking about
some improvement to introduce into
it, and often his thoughts lead to fine
inventions or useful Improvements.'.'
The reports to parliament of the Brit
ish commissioner said that "as re
gards extent of invention and ingenu
ity, the United States was far ahead
of other nations," and that "Judged
by its results in benefiting the public,
both by stimulating inventors and by
giving a perseverlngly practical turn
to their labors, the American patent
law must be admitted to De the most
Huccessful."
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