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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1913)
h NOTES c INEXPERIENCED CATTLE FEEDERS SUFFER HEAVY LOSS IN PREPARING FOR SHIPMENT NEWS rortfie YOUNG PEOPLE PASTIME FOR YOUNG AND OLD JWBROOK FARM t - Larger Amount of Feed Is Consumed by the Beef Animals Than Any Other on the Farm As a Rule Feeds Are Lacking In Protein Secret of Shipping Is to Have Them Well Fed. Why Mot ? S " arTPfcpa Jry r m m vfcs. - X i A Keep tho sows warm. Tho busy hen lays best. Keep tho boar by himself. Maintain regularity In all things. Green bono Is very rich In phos phate of lime. Chickens will not stand crowding, they are too warm blooded. Nothing Is more desirable In horse flesh than tractability and gentleness. When the days are loug, souio peo ple have just that much more time to kill. If tho market valuo of feed Is un satisfactory, sell It to the cows and shoats. Sheep, If given half a chance, and If of good healthy stock are sure to pay their way. Keep off tho surplus fat by feeding mutcle-produclng foods and giving plenty of exorcise. Remember that the wood ashes are the best kind of fertilizer for tho or chard, lawn or garden. Skim milk from the right kind of separator has left In it only a half of J per cent, of butter fat. Beg, borrow or buy all tho wood ashes you can to use In the garden; work It well Into tho soil. Celery delights In a low, rich, heavy, moist soil and is usually grown upon tho samo land year after year. Save every bit of tho hen manure. Keep It dry and put It on some crop next spring. Worth its weight in gold. Keep a close watch over the suck ling colts. A blemish or an injury now may ruin the value of tho future horse. Cows will not glvo better milk than the feed you place before them. They can't. Give only the best and the pur est food. Experienced onion growers do not advise or follow the practice of plant ing onions on raw or new land as a first crop. Tho man who dubbed the hog a "mortgago lifter" was posted; he knew something of the possibilities of tho animal. A small flock of vigorous sheep on the farm, if given good care, cannot help but yield good returns for the money Invested. Tho land that was plowed In the fall for next year's garden will work up better than that that must be plowed In the spring. . A mixture of corn and oats two parts oats to one of corn is a good working ration. Cracked corn is pre ferable to finely ground. Breeding ewes and store sheop will winter well on good, bright wheat straw and stubble grasses and half pound of corn given to each dally Draft horses continue to be the lead ing market animals, best on tho farm, host in tho market and ono of tho prosperous Hvo stock propositions for 1913. A feeder may have his bin full of grain, but unless ho has sufficient joughago to balance up tho ration he will be shy on his profit at the end of the season. Frequent cultivation of tho garden reduces the damage done by cut worms. Cultivation exposes tho worms to the sun, which Is often fatal to them. Keep over a few of the best ewes of your own breeding each year, even though they are not so good as you might buy. It will iaako your flock more uniform all the time. A successful way that turkeys can bo grown Is to hatch them under hens (chicken hens preferred) and, brood them with turkey hens that are two or more years of age. Tho cellar needs a little thought these days. Ventilate well at night and shit tho doors and windows dur ing tho daytlmo. l You can kcop the cool night air ii and the warmer air out. Tho value of sklmmllk as a food for young and growing pigs has long been recognized and several experi ment stations havo made comparative tests with other feeds obtaining quite similar results. liens need green food. Ventllato tho hen house. Fruit Is splendid medicine- Dogs and chlckons don't mix. Half-bred cowb give hnlf-palla of milk. A draft horse should havo a largo chest and square shoulders. Keep the stablo clean and woll ven tilated, and freo from draught. Put not your faith In the gcntlo bull moro than In tho vicious ono. Wash your hands with clean water before, commencing to milk each cow. Tho most Important factor In soil Improvement Is growing leguminous crops. Tho easiest way to eradlcatn wccd3 on tho farm Is to prevent their going to seed. A shed of crotches and poles, cov ered with straw, Is cheap, warm and businesslike. Don't feed tho brood sow heavy ra tions of corn when within a month of farrowing. Keep dust and stuff out of your milk. You can't strain It out. Re member that The ability to produce profit is n standard by which all farm stock must bo measured. Silage inado tf corn and soy beans Is moro digestible than that mado from corn silage alone. You can weaken tho constitution of your horse by making them carry a burden of useless flesh. Whole oats placed on a dry, raised platform nro a most profitable feeds for young and growing pigs. To be of much" good for feeding, corn ought to havo pretty good ears on it. These are what count Oat Btraw is a pretty good substi tute and. makes .very good roughage when fed with plenty of grain. Tho AyreBhlre and Guernsey typo of dairy cattle are Increasing in fa vor in tho middle western states. Individual excellence Is the only safo guido to bo depended upon In selecting cows to build up a good herd. Some day wo are going to find that as good a way as any to uso the sur plus sour milk is to givo It to tho hens. Ono good dalry'cow of the right con formation is moro of nn adjunct than several beefy animals with poor udders. Has tho kitchen garden a raspberry patch? They are hardy, excellent bearers, and certainly one of the most delicious fruits. The cow that comes fresh In tho fall is really fresh twice during tho year, tho second time when grass comes In spring. If corn is to be tho main grain ra tion for the cows, some bran or altalfa hay will balance It nicely. But It Is not necessary to feed both. Tho mangel grows well, both north and south, and on good soil will pay as well as any other feeding crop In Its proper place In the ration. The wise dairy farmer has provided himself with a bunch of shoats and will make 0 or 10 cent pork out of cheap skim milk this winter. At all tlmoB keep plenty of oyster shells, coarse gravel, fresh water, and milk before the chickens. In cold weather glvo, them warm water and milk. It Is wrong to expect the" cow to yield a largo profit simply because sho Is well bred. Sho must have feed and caro or tho breeding will nmount to nothing. Snap beanB, lima beans and navy beans are tap-rooted plants and re quire deep, mellow soli. Break the soil deeply and pulverize it well be fore you plant beanB, Experimenters say ft takes about ten bushels of corn to mako 100 pounds of pork, but vhen tho corn is fed with sklmmllk, seven bushels will make tho samo weight Tho successful dairy farmer must provldo winter feed of a succulent na ture. Tho silo is tho best answer and next to this Is roots. These aro be coming more popular every year. Don't Imagine that the profits of tho dairy business depend entirely upon tho creamery, and not upon the farm or farmer. The dairy must be right before tbo creamery can bring the money. If you haven't a respectable sized orchard on the plboo, don't stand in your own light any longer but sot one out. Tho preservoB, Jams, marma lades, etc., that you enjoy so much through tho fall and winter should remind you of the necessity of hav ing a first-class and good e7,a.d orchard. A Prize Winning English Shorthorn Steer. Beef cattle should bo found on overy farm where cattlo are not hnndlpd for the exclusive production of milk Whether or not tho fnrm er enters tho dairy business or handles beef cattle, should depend upon tho amount of labor available in proportion to the crops produced, the demand for milk and Its product, and tho equipment for tho proper production of milk. Beef cattlo will consume a largor nmount of feu,! than any other class of farm animals In proportion to the labor necessary in handling them. Thoy aro especially adapted to the utilization of rough age, require a small outlay for build ings and equipment, and return to the soil a very large percentage of the plant food consumed, thus reduc ing expense of fertilizer. It Is not always tho heaviest feed ors who get the best results. Every animal requires certain nutrients that enable It to perform Its best work. If these nutrients nro not supplied in the proper proportions, it means that the animal must consume and adjust larger amounts of some of the ele ments that it can uso, In order to got enough of the others. Economical feeding requires that nutrients bo supplied to animals in the proportion needed. As a rule, farm feeds aro lacking In protein. If one Is feeding cornstalkB or wild hay, tho farm grains will supply enough protein to meet the animal's needs for best work. This Is especially true of dairy cows and young stock. When this form of roughnge must be fed, somo such feed as bran, middlings or oll-menl must form a reasonable pro portion of tho grain ration, in order that tho protein supply may be main tained. Inexperienced cattle feeders fre quently suffer quite a heavy loss on account of the shrinkage In weight between the time the enttle aro taken from tho pasture and the time they reach tho market The shrinkage Is usually duo to the careless feeding In transit, or lack of preparation of tho cattle before they aro put on the KAFIR IS AS GOOD AS CORN FOR FEED Silage Made From It Is Even Bet ter Than Ordinary Kind for Live Stock. Kafir Is as good a feed as corn. Bocauso farmers are. learning this, kaflr has becomo one of the most Im portant crops grown In Knnsas today. The grain 1b valued highly as a feed for all classes of live stock. In feed ing, five bushels of kafir seed aro con sidered as being equivalent to four bushels of shelled corn. It should be ground for all classes of live stock, ex cepting poultry, as it Is so hard that they do not masticate It thoroughly if it is fed whole. It should never be fed wet. Silage made from kaflr excels corn ullage as a feed, as the percentage of grain and leaf to stalk Is much higher In tho kaflr. The same thing is true In regard to kaflr foddor and corn stover. Some of tho farmers over the state cut their kaflr with a corn binder. Thoy then cut tho heads off with a knife, similar to a tobacco cutter, only much lnrger, which Is attached to tho side of a wagon box. Tho heads are allowed to fall into tho wagon box and uro then threshed. Tho fodder which Is left Is excellent feed Somo persons havo advocated tho feeding of this fodder to horses suffering from the heaves, but Dr. C. W. McCampbell, assistant professor of animal hus bandry at tho Kansua Agricultural college, says that It has no more val ue for this purpose than any other similar feed. Keeping Sheep In Condition. Doctoring sheep Is expenslvo and often -unsatisfactory, unless tho symptoms of tho disease are clearly understood. If sheep are not exposed to bad weather In the lato tall, and aro given proper caro and feed, there is not much show for disease, unless brought In from other flocks. With sheep an ounce of prevention is worth considerably moro than a pound of cure. cars. Experienced shippers seem tq bo ngrccd on tho point that cnttlo. which have been heavily fed for some weeks, should ho prepared for ship ment by withholding tho usual grain feed for n day or two previous to ship ping, and substituting for this grain feed roughage In the shape of good hay Some very good ndvlco along this lino Is givon by John Clay in Henry's Feeds and Feeding, nn fol lows: A day or two previous to shipping, feed tho cattle In a pen, and feed hay only. Tho secret of shipping nil classes of cattlo Is to place them on tho cars full of food, but with as lit tle moisture as possible. A steer full of wator Is apt to havo loose bowels and show up badly In the yards; properly handled, cattle should arrive In the salo pons dry be hind and ready for n good All of water not very thirsty, but In good condition to drink freoly. Many shippers think that by salting their cattlo or feeding them oats they can fool tho buyers, but It always goes against them to uso unnatural amounts. As to feed on the road, nothing equals good sweet hay, which excels corn or other grains, becnuso It Is easily digested and does not fover tho animal. Of wator In midsummer, caro must bo taken to supply tho ani mal wants, whereas In winter a steer can go for many hours without n drink. Cattle should arrive at the sale yards at from G to 8 a. m., ap pearing on tho scene as near the lat ter hour as possible, slnco thoy al ways look better Just aftor they havo been fed and watered. FunkhoUBer advises feeding all tho hay the cattlo will eat, and reducing tho grain .feed at least one-half two or threo dnyB boforo shipping, For steers In transit, allow 250 pounds of hay and one and ono-half bushels of grain per car. Steers on pasture that havo had corn Rhould ho taken oft pasture twenty-four hours boforo shipping, and allowed half a feed of corn with plenty of hay. PREVENTING GRUB IN HEAD OF SHEEP Noses of Animals Should Be Tarred Often During Fly Time to Repel Pests. The condition known ns grub In tho head Is caused by the prcsenco In tho cavities of tho head between the eyes of tho larva (worm stage) of tho sheep hot fly. Tho trouble Is confined to sheop nnd occasionally goats. The eggs arc laid In tho nostrils of tho sheep during tho summer by a yellow-ish-gray fly somewhat larger than tho houso fly. The eggs hatch nnd work their way up Into the cavities of tho head between tho eyes, according to tho Southern Agriculturist, but not In tho brain. Thoy nttach thomsolves there and remain about ten months, when thoy loosen thulr holds and nro sneezed out and burrow Into tho ground. There thoy pass tljrough an other stago, emorglng in a .month or six weeks an adult fly. and tho life cyclo Is begun over ugaln. A fow grubs may not cause enough trouble to be noticed. However, If thoro are many a thick, dirty, white or yellowish dlschnrgo Is caused; coughing nnd sneezing .tossing of the hoad and weakenled gait. Sometimes death results, A veterinarian can relieve the sheop by trephining, but prevention of Infec tion Is a better practice In fly timo tho noses of tho sheep should bo tarred often. Some foico their sheep to take their Halt through an augur hole and keep It Bmuared with tar dur ing fly time. A dark shed whore tho sheep may escnpe from tho flies Is a great help. Small Farme. A farmer near Philadelphia took a little farm of 1G acres. Upon that farm ho was ennblod to grow tho llrst year enough to winter two head of cut tle and a horse, and in n numbor o. years ho was ablo to winter 30 head of cattlo and two horses, and had hay to sell. Ho employed n man und a boy. If you figure that up it comoB to about 20 men on 100 arreB of land Swedish Paper Describes Interesting Game to Be Played on Ice Um pire Is Needed. A novel nnd Interesting winter gamo for young and old, described as a novelty by a Swedish paper, Is played us follows; Two polos of convenient height uro erected on tho Ice; If skating on n shallow pond thoy may bo driven through the Ico nnd Into tho ground, hut If tho wnter Is deep, holes must bo bored through tho Ico and tho poles will soon frcczo solidly In thorn. A ropo Is stretched botwecn tho poles nt such a height as Is suited to tho slzo of tho players or nB ngrecd on to mnko tho gamo moro or less difficult, and on this nro strung a numbor of pieces of board, A, each having n ring of spring bteel, B, nttached to Ub lower end. Tho purposo of tho game Is to run nt good speed btwecn tho polos and catch a ring on a spear, ouch plnyer being en titled to mako a certain numbor of runs, nnd tho winner being tho one who can catch tho most rings. Tho spears may bo mado of broom handles tapered toward the end, und Player In Action. with n shlold mado of tin and attached at a suitable distance from tho thicker end (Pattern O). Tho line Is fastened at tho top of ono polo nnd run through a pulley, D, nt tho top of tho othor, thonce to n weight or line fastonor. Each player should start from tho samo bnse line and pass between tho polos nt such a speed that ho will glide at least 100 feet on tho othor sldo of tho poles without pushing him self forward by tho aid of tho skates. Twenty runs nro usually allowed each player, or ton playerB may divide Into two parties, playing ono against tho othor,-etc. An umpire will bo nooded to boo that fair play la maintained and settle any disputes that may arlso. NEAT WINTER EVENING TRICK Allow Person to Think of Card and Then Make It Appear Where Com pany May Decide Upon. To allow a person to think of n card and to mnko that card appear at any numbor In tho pack which tho rest of tho company mny decide upon: After tho cards havo been thor oughly woll shuffled ctlcr tho pack to ono o( tho spectators and ask him to select any card he chooses and to remember tho numbor at which It stands from the bottom of tho pack. This done, you offer to mnko tho card selected tako any position In tho pack that tho rest of tho company mny choose to name. We will suppose tho nudlcnco to dccldo that thoy wish tho card to appear at number eighteen. Careless ly remark that It Is not even neces sary for you to boo tho cards, and hold tho pack cither behind your hack or beneath tho tablo, whllo you rapidly count elghteon from tho bottom of the puck and placo them on the top, Then, producing the cards, you usk tho nudl cnco to tell you tho original number of the card, as you will begin counting from that number. Suppose thoy toll you that tho num bor of tho original card was fourteen. You commenco counting, culling tho first card fourteen, tho next fifteen, the next sixteen, then seventeen, and last Hero, In order to mako tho trick aB Impressive ns possible, It would bo ns well to pauso and sny: "Before I turn It over will you kindly toll mo tho name of the card selected?" The card being named, you turn It up, and, to their uttor astonishment, tho company perceives that It Is tho right one. RIDDLES. Why nre thoro three objections to taking a glass of brandy 7 Becnuso there uro threo scruples to a dram. Why Is a pretty girl like u loconio tlvo7 Becnuso sho send off tho sparks, transports tho mail, und has a train following her. What aro the mobt unsociable things in the world? Mllo stones, for you uovcr boo two of them togethor. Why is the letter F llko donth? Because It makes uli fall. When mny a man be considered to bo really over head nnd cara In dobt? When ho owes for lus wig. What is It that a gcntlcmuu has not, never can have, and yet can glvo to a lady? A husband. What fruit does a nowly mnrrlod couplo resemble? A green pair (pear). Whut is tho difference between a mouse nnd a young lady? Ono harms the cheeuo, tho othor charms tho lies Pollv hs A, . voice vmo'mp se s n e s beJ! And -the neto'hbors .il t .. ,,iA. I vrOuod -f-Uve dubbed h?v- BOYS WHO LACKED TRAJNINQ Interesting Investigation Made by Juvenile1 Protectlvo Association Few Had Trade, Failure properly to train boys for usorul work is n prolific source of vagabondage and crime. An Investi gation mado by tho .Tuvenllo Protec tlvo association of Chicago and re ported by Its president, Lou I so De Kovon Bowen, In tho Survey, devel oped striking facts. A study wnu mndo of cnHCs Boloctcd from union;; 1.32S confined In tho Cook county Jail In 1011. Mrs Bowen , writes; "Tho Investigation emphasizes tho fact that only threo out of tho hun dred boys had n Irado. Only six had boon allowed to work nt tho occupa tion which they ronlly deBlred. Most of thorn hnd been put to work nt anything attainable SIxty-alx had begun to earn their Jiving nt fourteen yenrs of ago or younger. According to tho government reports, tho wagon of unskilled laborers who lenvo school before they nro fourteen Increase slowly from $3 to $10 per weok unlit thoy nre twenty yoais of ago. Horn thoy remain stationary until thoy nro forty years of ago, when their earn ing cnpaclty again begins to decline. "Out of tho 1,328 boys In tho Jnll, 721 had been engaged In unskilled oc cupations. Nineteen boys had wished to become machinists; out of thlti numbor four drove wagons, ono wna a farmer, throo wero messongor hoys, ono an offlce boy, four wore laborers, threo wore errand boya In stores, ono was a chauffeur nnd two wore gro cory clerks." GAME FOR WINTER EVENING Dliks Flipped Upon Cardboard Blocks of Various Values Variation of Tlddle-de-Wlnks. A now kind of gnmo.that Is n sort of variation of tho old gamo of tlddledo wlnks, and will afford much aiuuso ment for a cold winter's evening, has boon dovlsod Jay a Pcnnsylvnnln man. A flnt rectangular box has spread out over tho bottom n lot of cardboard squares, ench bearing tho picture of an anlmnl nnd a certain valuation. Inter sporseil among thorn nro othor pieces representing fines. Tho player Is pro vided with two disks of different sizes, New Kind of Gamo. tho larger ono to bo used In flipping tho smaller ono into tho box. Each player counts the valuo of tho pleco ha lands on, or If it happens to bn a "flue" ho subtracts that amount. Thoro can nlso bo a penalty provided for failure to enter tho box at all and u number of rules may bo mado to add to tho Interest of tho gnmo or muko It moro dlfllcult. Proof. Tommy went homo ono day with a nioo new golf ball. "Look nt the lost ball 1-found, on tho links, futhor!" ho said. "Built you are sure, Tommy," snld Mr. Traddles, "that It was a lost ball really?" "Oh, yes," Bald tho boy, "I saw tho man and his caddy looking for It." Ixmdon Opinion. Surgical Lore. rtFathor, whnt Ib a minor opera tion?" "A minor operation, my boy, is one for which tho patient cheerfully puyn tho bill." "And a mnjor operation?" "Oh, that's ono for which the bill I Is settled by tho heirs." Judgo