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YOUNG
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THE FATE OF
SMARTY SOL-BEAR
By CALEB B. WHITFORD.
"Hello, there, llttlo bear, you ap
pear to be working mighty hard for
your supper. Excuse' mo for calling
you llttlo bear, you was all humped
up bo catching bugs you looked llko
a llttlo bear, but when you come to
straighten up I seo you're a middle
size bear, almost aB big as I am. But
tell mo, what's your name?"
"My Daddy calls me Billy Bear be
cause ho says I'm always busy hunt
ing llko Old Billy the hunter was who
used to live and hunt In Jhis bottom."
"I might as well toll you my name.
My Dad calls mo Sol, because ho Bays
I am a very wise bear. Old Solomon,
Dad says, was tho wisest man In the
world."
"Well, Mr. Solomon H
"Don't call me Solomon. Call me
Sol. It's more friendly like."
"All right, Sol. I was going to toll
you that my Daddy Is ono of tho
wisest bears In this canebrake bot
tom, although he don't pretend to
know very much, nnd ho always told
me not to get too friendly with bearH
that protend to bo so wise."
"Surely you're not afraid to have a
chat with a sociable bear llko mo?
I've soon mora of tho world thnn you
have and can toll you a lot of thlngB
worth knowing. For Instance, here
you aro working yourself almost to
doath to get a poor meal of bugs and
nuts and berries."
"Yes, It's pretty hard work," said
Billy. "But my Daddy has lived to a
good old ago In this bottom here, and
he often told mo that tho only safe
way Is to work hard for a living."
"Ha! Ha! Ha!" laughed Sol. "You
talk like a llttlo baby bear. Why,
Billy, your father Is old and never
learned tho tricks some of ub young
bearB have learned. If you keep on
llko you aro doing now you'll bo a
poor, lean, half-starved bear working
All night and never knowing what It
Is to have a good meal. Look at me!
I'm rolling fat, and yot I don't work
is hard as you do. JuBt feel my sides.
Thousands of
Bees Were Stinging
Him.
See how sleek my coat Is! Do you
foel that big lump In my stomach?
That's a nice lamb I had for supper!
When I met you I was on my way to
got-somo honey. I always llko to have
something sweet after I have eaten a
big meal."
"Honey! Honey!" said Billy. "I
often heard my old. Daddy talk about
eating honey. Can I go with you and
get a taste of honey? I never ate
any In all my life."
"Come along with me, and on our
way I'll tell you all about It."
So tho two bears walked leisurely
ilong through the bottom, and out
into the big woods on the higher
ground.
"I told you," said Sol, "I was a
ivlso bear. I work with my head,
thinking about schemes to get a good
living without much labor.
"When I am out in the woods and
jce a llttlo boo flying along as fast
as he can go on a straight line, I
know he is going homo with a load of
honey., I get his course and follow
along after him. Pretty soon another
beo will como flying along. In tho same
direction, going home with his load
Df honey, and bo I keep following the
bees until I como to the honey tree
where tho beeB llvo. This tree wo
are going to now I found yesterday
while I was taking a little walk
through the woods."
By this time they had como to the
honey treo and Sol pointed it out to
.Billy.
"Do you see that big hole away up
by that big limb?" said Sol. "That's
whore tho bees Hvo. There Is a lot
af honey In that old hollow treo, and
we'll eat just all we want of It.
"I'll go up and pull the big chunks
of honeycomb, filled with honey, out
of tho tree and throw it down to tho
ground. While I'm doing that you
can keep watch." And Sol strutted
off to tho tree, put his arms around
the trunk and pretended ho was try
ing to climb up and get the honey.
"My! My! I am getting ao fat,
and I've eaten so much I'm afraid I
can't climb that treo tonight."
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"I'll go up there," said Billy. "That'.
easy for mo."
And Sol put his paw to his mouth
and chuckled, becauso ho novor had,
any notion of going up that treo.
"Just put your paw In tho hole,
Billy, pull out tho honeycomb and
then como down and have the Bwcot
est supper you evor had In your llfo."
Billy was up to the nolo In a few
moments, peering In and licking his
chops.
Sol sat back in tho bUBhes laugh
ing. Ho laughed so hard tho tcara
camo to his eyes. Just as ho looked
up, Billy iJut hU paw In tho holo and
pulled out a great chunk of honey.
At tho same time poor Billy put up
tho awfulost howl over heard from a
boarl Thousands of bcos wcro all
over him, peppering him with their
sharp llttlo stings! When ho opened
his mouth to say "Oof! oof!" tho beeB,
stung him 'on tho tongue.
All this tlmo ho was backing down
tho tree as fast as ho could, and all
tho tlmo tho busy llttlo bees were
stinging him with their little Btlngcrs
that were as hot as fire. Billy ut
tered every sort of growl and scream
and snarl that a bear ever thought of,
while he was hurrying down tho treo
and finally tumblod to tho ground
with a hard bump. Ho pawed tho alt
and Jumped about, shaking his head
and howling, all to no purpose. Then
ho started to run. Ho went through
tho woods rolling llko a big black
ball, and he novor stopped running
and screaming until ho got to tho
rlvor.
In ho plunged and under tho water,
ho wont. After a whllo ho camo out,
puffing and tried to find a soft place on
tho bank whore ho could Ho down and,
rest. But no matter, what sldo he
tried to He on there wore a lqt of sore
spotB. So ho concluded to stand up
and rest.
He certainly was a poor, dejected
looking bear. His lips woro badly
swollen, one oyo waB closed and tho
other half shut. All over hlB body
were soro spots that felt as though
they had been made of hundreds of
sharp wires. All tola tlmo Sol was
filling hlmaolf with tho delicious
honey that Billy had thrown to tho
ground.
"It's too bad," he Bald, "to laugh
at. that Billy Boar, but I can't holp it,
it was b. funny. Anyway, Just to show
him I am not altogether bad, I'll take
a nice chunk of this honeycomb and
go and find him."
And what a woe-begone-looklng
bear ho saw when ho came upon Bil
ly! He tried to sympathize with the
poor afflicted bear and explain how
sorry he was to have permitted an
Inexperienced friend to tacklo such
a difficult Job.
"Next tlmo I'll show you how to
do It without getting you into such
trouble," ho said.
"Never mind," said" Billy, "there'll
be no next time. When I want to
learn how to got honey out of a tree,
I'll have my good old Daddy show
me."
"Hero's a nlco chunk of honey I've
brought you," said Sol, "eat that and
you'll feel better."
"No, thank you, Mr. Solbmon. You
eat your honey, I'll go back to my old
Job hunting hugs and nuts nnd ber
ries. Maybo this kind of food isn't aa
sweet or as fattening as your lamb
and honey, but there aro lio stings in
it."
And Billy started off for homo and
Sol went along with him for a Bhort
distance.
"1 declare," said Sol, "I am so fat
and full of good things it really Urea
mo to walk, so I'll Just bid you good
night and hunt up a nice bed here
In tho canebrake."
Billy didn't oven say good-night,
but kept on until ho got homo.
Old Daddy bear did not scold him,
just laughed at him.
"Maybe," said he, "somd of these
smart young bears have got a way of
living without work. But I notlco all
the bears In this bottom that Hvo to
a good old ago, go right along, tend
ing to their own business llko a bear
ought to do, and the smart
"Listen! I hear the hounds! Let's
cut acroas tho fringe of cane and get
on tho other side of tho river! H'b
a good thing wo aro not too fat, and
can outrun the hounds!"
On camo tho hounds through tho
woods at full cry and at a fast pace!
Crossing tho river, old Daddy bear
and Billy Bear took a seat on a plcco
of high ground.
"The hounds aro driving down the
bottom," Bald Daddy Bear, "and from
this place we can Beo them pass aud
then we can go on back home."
"There comes' a bear down tho bot
tom! And tho hounds aro pretty
claje to him! My, but ho is a fat
sleek bear!
"Why, Daddy, that'B my frlond tho
wise bear!"
"Well, it's good-byo to him, for I
can boo by tho wny that he ia rolling
he can't go much further! Hera
comes tho hounds and there are tho
hunters right behind the pack, riding
at top speed!"
"Too bad," said Billy, "I'll warrant
that bear wishes ho didn't havo so
much honey In his stomach! and if
that lamb he had for supper was back
In tho pasture ho might run away
from tho hounds!"
"He's done for," said Daddy Bear,
"tho hounds havo him at bay! No
more lamb and honey for him! He's
Just about got time to wish ho had
stuck to tho honest bear's buslnoss of
hunting bugs and nuta nnd berrles!''
Bang! bang! went tho hunter'B
rifle.
"There goes another bear," said old
Daddy Bear, "that thought ho could
make an easy living by fooling other
bears and practicing all sorts of cun
ning tricka."
(Copyright
1811, by Universal Prcat 8ya
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Named your farm yot?
Clover lo a cleansing crop.
Got sunligh. Into the dairy barn.
Grain raising doplotes fertility of tho
soil.
Never throw
ground.
soft feed on . tho
Sorghum makes a -good material for
filling tho silo.
Dirty palls cause much
among the calves.
sickness
. If you wnnt your cowb to do well
mako them comfortablo.
Bright clover or alfalfa hay should
be kept In a convenient rack.
Remember that tho swlno family
aro not protected by furry coats.
it 1b generally estimated that broil
ers Bhrink one-half pound each when
dressed.
Are the mice or rabbits girdling tho
trees? Removo rubbish and wrap tho
trunks in paper.
Get your spraying equipment in
good order several days beforo you
must begin spraying.
Tho cream separator should be
firmly fixed on a solid baso if good
work Is expected of it
Tho average yearly butter fat pro
duction per cow in tho United StateB
in 1900 was 145 pounds.
Salt the hogs as often aB you do
tho other stock. They will be health
ier and digest their food better.
It Is almost Impossible to crowd
tho young pigs too fast, provided you
havo tho right kind of food and care.
Some people havo gone so far as to
claim that the corn stalks in tho silo
are worth aB much as the ears In tho
crib.
Wash and dry tho cows beforo milk
lng and keep 94 per cent, of tho dirt
out of tho milk that usually gets In
otherwise.
The garden should be well fertilized
In tho fall or winter. This makea It
possible to work it more quickly when
spring comes.
The dairy farmer ought to havo
pigs for market every year. This is
tho best way to sell tho by-products
at the top price.
Ono reason why puro brod sires
aro so necessary on the farm is be
cause defects aro Just as easily trans
mitted as good points.
Tho heifer that Is to bo retained in
the herd should bo bandied from hor
early calfhood so that she will have
confidenco in her keeper.
It is well to order a fow catalogues
from tho reliable seed and nursery
companies. They arq educators oven
if wo aro not intending to buy.
Seo that the hens have all tho puro
water they can drink at all times. If
you havo skim milk to spare, that also
can bo placed before them constantly.
Keeping any machine well oiled nnd
In proper repnir not only Increases
efficiency, but decreases tho amount
of power required to run tho machine,
Tho milk pall Ib always more nearly
full when pasture la at ita prime than
during any other season, and the silo
will produce the same conditions in
the winter.
t
Tho manure spreader and syste
matic crop rotation form the two
strongest links In tho chain for the
maintenance of boII fertility and
heavy crop production:
Tho Ideal cow! Everybody's look
ing for Jjor, but few find her, though
she is the most valuablo asset on tho
farm. How many possiblo Ideal cowa
are dono into veal In this country ev
ery year nobody knows.
Too much caro cannot bo exorcised
by1 breeders In sending out egga for
hatching. A good wny Is to wrap each
egg in paper separately and placo
them In a basket, doubly ltped with
newspaper and packed with excel
sior. For poultry food, pea meal will be
found nutritious, rico easily digested,
linseed meal cathartic, potato starch
digestible, barley nutritious but lax
atlvo, and oatmeal more nutritious
than either wheat or barley. Thero
Is fully 5 per cent, of fat In oatmeal.
Corn contains from 7 to 8 per cent
of yellow fat
Flowers beautify u yaro.
Try poultry and fruit togothor.
Test seed corn boforo planting.
Oyster Bholls aro too soft for grit.
Dairying dovolopa fertility of tho
soil.
Don't glvo tho sow too much bed
ding.
In feeding grain In tho runs broad
cast It
Ryo and vetch will make a
fair
grado of sllago.
What Is known as a yearling hen Is
ono having laid 12 montliB.
Bottor seed grain menns hotter
crops at no Increased oxpenso.
Soaking tho churn In brlno will oc
casionally holp to keep It Bwoet
Half tho crop of corn can bo turned
Into five-sixths of a crop by Bavlng tho
fodder.
A. reader recommends powdored
charcoal given In tho milk as a rem
ody for scours.
Alfalfa hay and corn balanco each
othor. In addition they aro tho best
rellBhcd of any foods.
Sometimes a week's chill rains or
cold weather will Bet the plgB back a
month In their growth.
Indigestion and llvor troublo In
fowls aro paraded under tho namo of
cholera very frequently.
The co-operatlvo creamery that 1b
well patronized and well supported 1b
a bloaalng to any community.
It docs not pay to hold old hogs in
order to got great weight If you havo
younger ones to eat tho corn.
Don't lot tho pigs get louBy. 8pray
them with keroseno omulslon, whllo
eating, onco ovory two weoks.
When spraying do not work with
baro hands. They'll bo soro If you do.
Put on a pair of rubbor gloves.
Aro the horses coming up In flosh,
and aro thoy getting a llttlo harness
work to condition tholr shouldors?
A feed of choppod onions occasion
ally will bo greatly relished by tho
fowls as well as conduco to their
health.
Hogs that aro fat should not bo
hold, but sent to market when fit.
Thoro Is no profit in killing a hog un
til It is fit
For tho man who still has not a bIIo:
Build ono, and If you can't till It until
next fall, food soiling crops this com
ing summor.
If you havo novor tried rape, raise
a small field noxt spring. It is very
popular with hogs, nnd does thorn
a world of good.
Botter not got reckless with the feed
yot. It Is easily possible that thero
Btlll aro eight to-'ten weoks of bad
weather on tho way.
Ono fatal mlstako mado at tho end
of tho hatch 1b to keop tho door of
the incubator open too long after tho
eggs have begun to pip.
Tho criticnl period of tho turkoy
la the first eight weeks of lta llfo.
About forty-olght eggs la tho aver
ago yearly record of tho hen.
Are tho young pigs to bo allowed to
shiver and freozo in tho cold, damp
winds of early spring? And dlo at tho
rate of ono to flvo out of every ten?
One aero of corn well grown and
put in tho silo will furnish more food
for tho cows than enn bo obtained
by any other manner of handling tho
soil.
Tho farmer who has never used a
fanning mill should get ono as soon
ob possible so as to get well acquaint
ed with It beforo the busy season
cornea.
Turkey culture la a succoss only
whero tho stock can havo a good
.range. There la too much wild nature
In turkeys for them to thrlvo In con
fined quarters.
The fruit treo agent is not all bad.
But for him a good many orchards
would not now bo growing and doing
well. But It Ib woll to know tho
standing of his company boforo or
dering. . Moat of thoso who run tho dairy at
a loaa nover read literature on tho sub
Ject Tho loasea aro largely duo to
thla fault, for It Is certain that there
la no longer any uso of maintaining
any farm animal at u loss.
It Is advisable to Increase tho quan
tity of corn in tho night feed, as tho
nights are growing colder and extra
fuol la needed. Corn dlgeata slowly,
and, being of a heating nnturo, adds
wonderfully to tho comfort of tho
fowls.
Leg weakness In chicks is often duo
lo tho food being of a fattening na
ture, and tho bodies in consequenco
becomo too heavy for tho muscular
strength of tho chick's legs. Thero
should be bran in the soft food that
la fed, it being ono of tho beat bone
and muscle foods that could bo glron.
PREREQUISITES ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
TO SUCCESS IN PRODUCTION OF LAMBS.'
One of First Essentials Is to. Secure Strong, Uniform Ewe Flock
Should Be Rugged in Constitution, Active Foragers, Reg-,
ular Breeders, Good Milkers and Shearers.
MW3svflMtj9aifl
Profitable Mutton
rjy PnOF. W. C. COFFEY, Unlverotty
of Illinois.)
Mutton production has becomo
largely a question of furnishing lambs
for tho market. Tho buyorB at Chi
cago Union stock yards assert that
about 80 per cent, of all tbo Bheop
reel) lng that placo aro lambs. Whllo
tho vory nature of things assures us
thero always will bo mature sheep
sold as mutton, wo aro constrained to
bollevo that In tho future tho demand
for lamb mutton will bo oven strong
er than It la today. U Is surely truo
that tho demand for lamb mutton of
tho higher grade will becomo greater
If our peoplo keep up tholr present
pneo in learning to consumo mutton,
because their tastes will becomo edu
cated to discriminate closely betwoon
ordinary and choice mutton products.
It Is within tho possibilities of tho
natlvo grower to produco cholco
lambs for tho market but thero aro
certain prerequisites absolutely neces
sary to succcHs In thla work, nnd also
somo boBottlng sins of which cur na
tive producorB are guilty, which must
oo aonndoned beforo wo enn do It
Evory ono win doubtless ngroo that
tho strong, vigorous, rapidly growing
lnmb Is moro profitable to tho pro
ducer than his weak constltutloned,
backward brother. And henco, to got
at tho profitable production of lambs
wo must search out tho essentials
necessary tc tho production of tho
former sort. Ono of, the first things
to seek Is a strong, uniform owo flock
owes that aro Btronn In constitution,
actlvo foragers, uniform and regular
brooders, deep milkers and good
Bliearers.
It rcqulrcB a owo with strong
well doveloped vital organs to bring
forth a lamb with enough vitality to
battlo for l!fo Bhould conditions bo
roverscd, and It Is enough to discour
age a shepherd If, at tho lamb's birth,,
both tho lamb and tho owo aro Indif
ferent about coming together and liv
ing together courageously. Tho owo
Is not worth much If alio hns not tho
ability to caro for hor lamb well. To
secure tho deslrablo bloom on tho
lamb, which Is characterized by baby
fat and plumpncBB, requires a liberal
supply of milk from tho mother, and
this la hardly possible if alio ia not
robust and an eager feeder. There
fore, tho things of flrBt Importanco In
selecting tho ewe flock aro robustness
and strength of constitution.
Moat natlvo Bheep growers aro open
lo crltlclam In that they do not so
loct tho owes that nro uniform and
regular breeders. Observations havo
led mo to bellovo that fow havo given
these things duo regard. Most of us
prcfor a lot of ewes uniform In up-
SEASONABLE WORK IN
THE POTATO GARDEN
.
Experiment With Poultry Manure
and Superphosphate Favors
the Former.
(By A.' J. LEGO.)
Last spring I put a small handful
of dry poultry manuro In each hill I
planted my potatoes except four pieces
of rows.
On these I used a 14 superphos
phate In the hill at the rato of about
250 pounds per acre.
1 noticed throughout tho growing
ioason that the potatoes manured with
poultry manuro wero growing much
faster than the others. Tho soil was
JuBt about tho samo in both places, aa
waa tho cultivation
When tho potatoes reached maturity
I dug 24 hills of each of two rows
lying adjacent to each other. Ono
was fertilized with poultry manuro
and tho other with superphosphate.
Tho potatoes from ench 24 hills wero
carefully weighed wJth tho following
results.
Twenty-four bills with superphos
phate yielded 20.5 pounds.
Twenty-four hills with poultry
manuro yiolded 35.7G pounds.
Difference In favor of poultry ma
nuro 15.25 pounds.
Tho variety of potatoes planted waa
common No. 1. All of tho potatoes
wero practically freo from scab aa I
only noticed one scabby potato and it
was found among tho ones' grown
with poultry manure.
Poultry Profits.
A poultry raiser's profits do not
como from tho number of chickens ho
hatches, but tho number raised to maturity
and Wool Flock.
pcaranco, and it la commendablo In
ub that wo do, but thL la not all, bo
causo wo must Book thoso ewes that
will all lamb at about tho samo tlmo.
Unovenucfls In a band of latnba
works a hardship upon tho Individual
worth of tho lambs because thoy are
hard to Judge by tho buyor and ho
bids low to make himself Bafe. Native
lambs aro described on tho mnrkot a
tho "up nnd down sort," and tho fact
that thoy aro bo roflccta upon tho skill
of tho native produco? In tho'oyoa of
tho buyor. Our cousins on tho range
aro compelled, througr forco of cir
cumstances, to havo their lambs horn
all within a period of about 15 days,
becauso tho lambing grounds will not
maintain tho band of owes for a long
period. Ewes, failing to bring lambs
within this short period, aro sorted"
out and cold for mutton. As a re
sult bands of rnngo lambs como upon
tho market In condition and wolght.
and whllo thoy do not soil &b woll na
tho bost natlvo lambs, thoy average a
much bottor salo As r. wholo. Even
ness Is ono of tho things In their fa
vor. Tho range men, though reject
ing tho oweB that failed to conceive
In 10 days, havo built up' bands or
oweB that brood quite regularly, and
It Ib qulto poBBlblo, I think, for the
natlvo flock owner to do something in
this direction. With our email flock
wo cannot bn bo rigid aa tho range
men, but wo can do much toward se
lecting thcBQ owes that will brings
forth tholr lamba nt about tho Bame
tlmo. Ho? can thlB bo done? Br
soiling off tho owes that persist In
breeding lato and by not reserving;
tlio oxtromoly Into born lamba for
breeding owos. A ewo onco started
to brood lato, nearly always contracts
tho lato breeding habit, and It la hardly
worth whllo to jattompt to hor reform.
Lato born lamba aro much moro like
ly to breed lato than the early born
Iambs. Wo can avoid tho Into appear-,
ance of lambs by using tho most vig
orous, actlvo rams possible. Hero
Is something that should never bo
overlooked. What Is demanded of the
ram, besides hlB individual excollcnco,
la n Bhort, hard, serviceable season.
If ho Is not capable of this, It Ib
unfair to tho owo flock to lay tho sin
of a long drawn out lambing aoason
against them alono. Aud ho will not
bo capable of a short, liar dsorvico un
less ho ia of tho highest typo In consti
tution and vigor. In selecting n rain
tc alro mark-1 lambs, tho loading ques
tion tho breeder should ask himself Is
"Do I want lambs llko thla sheep?"
If you do, and If ho la vigorous and
woll "brod, you will meat likely bo re
warded In so far as tho aire himself
can reward you.
LITTLE SONGSTERS
ARE EARLY RISERS
Lark Does Not Deserve Reputa
tion for Getting Out Early
Is a Sluggard.
A student of bird llfo, who has beon
Investigating tho question aa to the
hour In summor when tho commonest
small birds wake up and begin lo
sing, says that tho groonflnch is the,
earliest riser, as It sings about one;
thirty o'clock In tho morning. The
blackcap begins at two-thirty and the
quail half an hour later.
It is nearly four o'clock, and the
sun Ib well up, boforo tho first real
songster appears tbo merry black
bird. Thon comos tho thrush, followed
by tho robin and tho wron; and last,
tho houso sparrow and tho tomtit.
Thus It will bo seen that tho lark'a
roputatlon as an early riser Is not de
served. In fact, ho Ib a very sluggard,
for he docs not riso until long attor
muny hedgerow birds havo beon about
for some tlmo.
To Choose Fruit Varieties.
First know what tho fruit la to bo
used for, then learn what kinds that
moot that demand do beat In the
neighborhood. It will pay to bo de?1
liberate in this cholco and to confine
tho list to leas than half a dozes'
kinds If market is tho aim.
Labor on Orchards. .
Thero aro fow who appreciate the
amount of labor and money nocossary
In developing and maintaining an or-
chard of 100 or 150 acres, to e noth
ing of tho oxperienco and executive
ability necessary In handling such
I largo crops. '