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The Commoner
OCTOBER, 1914
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of three weeks for the required fine
finish. They are then killed and
plucked, leaving head, feet and en
trails for the consumer to pay for,
making six to eight pound carcasses
for pullets and roosters.
The secret of being able to get
these extreme prices for such de luxe
roasters is to have the tender pen
fattened birds not over seven or eight
months old to offer just before tlia
broiler season opens up, and when
young, fresh killed roasting stock is
practically out of the market. Late
May arid early "June always find ff
strong demand for such birds in
every big city for use at high class
banquets and special epicurean func
tions. Those who have the duty of
providing for this kind of banquet
know that the cold storage stock will
not suit the discriminating palate of
those who want the best.
In order to reap the advantage of
this special demand a poultryman
should be in personal touch with the
big cities, and should Bee to it that
they arrange with the buyers of this
fancy roasting stock to deliver just
when the price hits the high mark.
that our orchard interests are a
sounder and more promising line of
investment than ever and that Cal
ifornia is going straightforward to
fulfill her destiny as the great fruit
garden of the United States and the
greatest source of cured fruits in the
world's commerce." Woodland,
(Cal.) Democrat.
EVIDENCE OF GOOD FARMING
An Illinois farmer, Ralph Allen of
Tazewell county, has made an avei
age yield of wheat of better chan
forty bushels of wheat per acre for
the last five years,, says the Okla
homa Farmer. Ho made this yield
on more than fifty acres every year
and, with the exception of this sea
son, most of the years have been con
sidered poor wheat years. He prac
tices a six-year rotation corn three
years, oats, wheat and alfalfa. Phos
phorus is spread with the wheat at
the rate of 2,000. pounds of ground
rock per acre. Mr. Allen has found
that the seedings of alfalfa with grain
crops in, the spring have proven more
successful than with clover.
HOW TO TREAT THE HORSE
Do not buy a horse that is too light
for your work! You will gain nothing
by overburdening him; he will soon
. become unsound, and wear out, says
Dumb Animals.
Feed him well, if you wish him to
work'well. Give him three good meals
per day (four if 'he does an extra
long day's work), and ample time to
eat them.
Let the horse have one day's rest
every week. See that he is comfort-
,able in his stable, that it is neither
dark nor damp, and that he has a
good bed to lie on.
See that his harness fits properly,
and is kept clean!
Horses, like human beings are
often thirsty when nard at work, so
offer them water frequently. A little
oatmeal in the water is very refresh
ing and sustaining.
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GAMBLERS IN FOOD
The men who conspire to prey upon
the poor in this time of emergency
are playing a more dangerous game
than tbev seem to realize. They are
inviting upon their heads the wrath
of a people who have been long suf
fering under many abuseaT The peo
ple of this country will not passively
submit forever under the outward
forms of law to the kind of extortion
to which they have been subjected by
a conscienceless class of food-gamblers
and money-grabbers. , New
tYork World.
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CHANGED ITS TUNE
'A few months ago the pacific
rural press was bemoaning the cer
tainty that the new tariff bill would
materially Injure the California fruit
industry. In a recent Issue it states
that the fruit shipments this year ex
ceed those of the last by 1..P00 car
loads, and concludes as follows:
"There' lis evry reaioii to believe
TIH3 OUTRAGEOUS CAMPAIGN OF
DEFAMATION
Whether it bo called a conspiracy
or not, there has been a campaign of
defamation of the business conditions
of the country, conducted solely in
the hope of defeating democratic can
didates for congress and securing a
republican house this fall. It is a dis
reputable campaign, and a dangerous
one. Any merchant's credit is liable
to be impaired by the circulation of
rumors that he is embarrassed. The
effort to convince the country that
the state of business is very bad is
directly calculated to make it bad,
and that is the purpose. The protec
tionist propaganda would be glad to
see a panic. The last one we had
was when thiy were in full possession
of the government, but their effront
ery is equal to charging any dullness
of business now on the democratic
party, while denying that they Were
resp nsiblo for the panic in 1907.
The effort of men in congress and of
the distinctively protectionist organs
to collect and repeat and enlarge on
every indication of dullness of trade,
and to predict worse conditions in
the near future, is a wicked and de
liberate effort to bring about a bad
state of busiiesj in the hope of mak
ing some political gain out of It. The
banker in Fort Wayne who refused
to answer the inquiries of the pro-,
tective tariff league and told the lea
gue what he thought of its efforts
was a patriotic man who was trying
to make business better, while the
league is openly trying to make it
worse in the hope of changing some
votes in November. It might as well
save its efforts. A republican house
could not change the tariff. Phila
delphia Record.
THE DEAR OLD TOWN
In days gon3 by I loved nfc walk
A-down the village street,
And well I knew each boy and girl
That I should chance to meet.
How large the courthouse used- to
loom,
And wonderful the stores,
And most imposing churches stood
With widely opened doors.
But happy boys and happy girls
To men and women grew
And roamed away from village
streets
As folks are wont to do.
But when they finish work and play
And lay their burdens down,
They always seek a resting place
Close to the little town.
And there among the quiet hills,
Hands folded on the breast,
Each boy and girl of that deaT town
Comes home for last long rest.
Frank Fair in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
If Ho Wero President
If I were president of this country
I would build a big cage on Ellis Is
land, in New York harbor, and every
American who had been abroad for
the first time would have to spend a
week In the cage before landing. In
this way about half of the nuisances
would talk the other half to death
about "When I was In " and
"When I was in ," and the home
folks would live longer. - Luke
North. . , v
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No Flood Wanted
An Oklahoma editor was much in
terested in a scientific note he en
countered in a New York paper to
the effect that if the earth were flat
tened the sea would he two miles
deep all over the world.
The editor reprinted the note with
tne xoiiowing comment:
"If any man is caught flattening
the earth, shoot him on the spot.
There are several of us in this state
that can't swim." Kansas Farmer,
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