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PROGRESSIVE YOUNG FARMER
-Southern Boy Cultivates Acre of Land
With Extremely Pleasing Results
Member of Corn Club.
The corn club boys aro certainly
coming to the front, and thoy are,
many of them, In a position now to
teach their fathers and grandfathers
Southern Boy'3 Good Work.
something about raising corn. The
illustration shows a southern boy
standing In his corn field that pro
duced 140 bushels. This boy selected
nn acre of ordinary cut-over pine land,
propared it, properly fertilized and
cultivated intelligently with the abovo
result.
HAPPY OLD AGE AND YOUTH
Ambassador Choate Discovers Eighth
Decade of Life Was Best of All
Good World to Live In.
Each era of our lives has its pe
culiar compensations, the Philadelphia
Ledger declares. When a young man
is in college, or a lad at school, he is
often told by his elders that these are
the happiest years of his life, and that
ho should mako the best of their brief
duration. Old ago will creep upon
him and life will impose an increasing
burden of responsibility, and ho must
gather tho roses while ho may be-'
fore tho cruel frost of custom, as
Wordsworth called It, has nipped his
budding aspiration.
Mr. Choate, while ambasaador to
England, said he had discovered that
tho eighth decade of life was the best
of ull. It an old man does not let
himself relapse into egotistical gar
ru'lty his recollections of n useful past
may be a source of unfeigned pleas
ure to others as well ns to his own
retrospective mind. It was tho satis
faction of a life well lived to which
Sir Walter Scott could bear testimony
to Lockhart, when tho Wizard of the
North knew that the end was near.
Youth starts out on the long road
eagor and hopeful, buoyant to try con
clusions and refusing the thought of
failure. It la a fine thing when a man
Imports into maturity and even into
old age tho "Indomitable soul" that
will not surrender to the years and
has not been saddened by disillusion or
by tho loss of faith in human nature.
It is a good world to llvo in at four
score or -at the rounded century an
even better place than it was when
childhood accopted without question
ing an earthly paradise.
All Gone.
A veteran, talking- to his great
grandson, a little lad of eight or nine
years, remarked:
"Nearly a generation and a half ago
my head was grazed by a bullet at
the battlo of Chlckamauga."
Tho littlo boy looked at the old
man's head thoughtfully nnd said:
"There isn't much grazing there
now, is there, .granddad?"
Twisted History.
Sunday School Teacher And now,
Johnny Hapgood, it's your turn.
What did his fathor do when tho
iProdlgal Son returned?
Johnny (who can't help reading tho
sporting editions of tho dally press)
Pleaso, sir, ho Jumped on his neck
and kissed him. Puck.
IN8IDE INFORMATION.
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Jac&Zl
Tnmmv Wlllln'a irnt mv Tnnrlllfln
and he's going to keop them.
His MotherHow do you know?
Tommy He's swallowed them.
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OUR MUCH ABUSED LANGUAGE
Americano Notorious the World Over
for Their Faulty Articulation
Reform Is Needed.
That a reform In our habits of
speech Is necessary haB long bcon
conceded by tho inoro Intelligent per
son. Americans are notorious, tho world
over, for their faulty articulation; and
this unwlso economy of vocal enorgy
has not only disfigured our language
to the car, but has also given aid and
comfort to tho so-called reformers of
our spelling.
If the word program, for Instance,
1b repeatedly heard as program (or
program), with strong accent on tho
first syllable and almost no vowol
sound In tho second, why, It 1b asked,
should It not bo written as It Is pro
nounced? No wonder that our coun
try takes the lead In "spelling re
form" having already so effectually
divorced tho spoken from tho wrltton
langurgo.
Strango and startling are tho trlckB
that mispronunciation plays with
spelling. Lamentably common Is it
to meet with the expression "would
of" for "would havo" in tho corre
spondence of tho careless In speech.
Tho new all but universal use or
will for shall and of would for should
Is probably due largely to tho greater
ease of saying "I will" or "I'll," "wo
will" or "we'll," "I would" or "I'd,"
"w'd," than of articulating "I shall,"
"I should," etc.
Thus the ovll results of slovenly ut
terance show themselves In grammar
as well as hi spelling, awl tho stately
structuro of our ancestral tongue Is
slowly but surely yielding to tho In
sidious assaults of carelessness, abuso,
indolence, mistaken zeal in efforts at
reform and other Influences.
PRINCE WHO HATES PORRIDGE
Queen Mary Compels Wales to Eat It
Desplto Strong Dislike Good for
the Complexion.
From time immemorial oatmeal haB
had a reputation of being good for
tho complexion. Whether it Ib duo
to oatmeal or not, the complexions of
the royal children, liko that of their
mother, Queen Mary, have always
been admired and envied; but Scotch
porridge has always formed tho first
course of their breakfast.
The prince of Wales alone among
tho family hates it, says a London dis
patch. Ono morning lately ho
"funked it" and begged his mother to
let him off "Just this once." But the
queen replied promptly: "I want you
to grow up tall and muscular."
Tho prince, who is known to be very
jealous of his sister Mary's inches,
gulped it down.
CHILDREN ARE GIVEN TOYS
English Railway Furnishes Playthings
to Little- Folks Who Are Trav
eling First-class.
Playthings are supplied free by the
London and Northwestern railway to
all children who aro traveling first
class and have a long journey before
them, says tho Popular Mechanics.
These playthings consist of miniature
English Railway Relieves Tedium of
Travel by Supplying Playthings to
the Children.
locomotives, cars, and othor railroad
equipment, which nro delivered to the
children without tho making of any
record, but with the understanding
that thoy aro to be left In tho car
at the end of tho journey.
Juvenile Football.
When WIlllo came into tho house
his face and clothes lookod as If ho
had been poked through a concrete
mixer.
"Gracious! my son," cried his moth
er, "what in tho world huvo you been
doing?"
"Plnyln football," said Willie.
"Dut how did you get so dirty?"
"It's the way the game goes," Wil
lie explained. "You see, one of tho
boys holds tho ball In his hands and I
stand right back of him. Ho yells
'One, two, throo, four, flvo, six, Bev
enl' and passes tho ball back to mo,
then all the other boys jump on me
and rub my noso In the mud."
"According to Gunter."
In America tho above phrase is used
in tho same way that the English use
the phrase "according to Cocker." Gun
ter was an eminent English mathema
Melon, who died in the seventeenth
century. His nnmo still survives In
connection with tho Gunter's scnlfc and
the surveying chain, which Is often
called Gunter's chain.
Beth.
Beth, in tho names of places men
tioned In tho Blblo, Is the Hebrew
word for houso. Thus, Uothlchem is
tho houso of bread; Deth-el, the house
of God; Beth-salda, houso of mercy. In
Birmingham there is a thoroughfare
called Betholom Row, in which is an
old Hebrew burying ground. Beth
Olom means tho houso of eternal rest.
NOTE'
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William Piitr
Got tho grain seed early.
Wlntor spraying ts valuable
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Sunlight Is a good disinfectant
Tho hen may bo relied upon, but her
son never seta.
Remove manure as fnr from tho cow
stable as possible
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Successful lamb rearing la tho koy
to success with sheep.
When horses nro not thrifty It may
bo duo to samencsB of diet.
Fowls having n free rango will find
their own feather-making food.
Know tho Boll and tho crops to fit
tho soil. Low yields soon bring ruin.
A bunch of good shoats will make
tho best market for skim milk this
winter. '
Much of the disease among live
stock may bo attributed to Injudicious
feeding.
Do not condemn a breed simply be
causo a few fowls do not coino up to
your expectations.
Feeding a little linseed meal occa
sionally to stock is beneficial, keeping
tho system regulated.
After tho dairy utensils have been
cleaned, Invert them in the pure air
and where the sun will striko them.
Churning at too high a temperature
or churning too long will produce a
greasy butter in which tho grain Is In
jured. So far ob' possible each animal
should have just tho kind of food
which i3 suited to its condition and
appetite.
Do not allow the milk enns to re
main in stables while they are being
filled, and avoid contamination of tho
milk bacteiia.
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Those spongy places In tho road
may be successfully drained with tile.
Drainage Is the first essential in tho
improvement of a road.
On tho majority of farms the
money Invested In good breeding nnl
mals will earn much bettor interest
than if deposited In the bank.
When purchasing a cow bo suro to
know whether she Is free from tubor
culosis. Havo her tested. ThlB last
rule applies to cattle of all breeds.
Hens are better than pullets for
breeders. Hens lay larger oggs than
pullets and I have noticed that tho
chicks hatched are strouger and mora
vigorous.
Tho male that Is always alert, ready
to defend himself and his mates, and
apparently full of Jifo, Is tho ono that
should bo kept to head the breeding
pen next spring.
Separate tho cream while the milk
Is still warm and In cold weather first
run hot water through tho separator
to warm it. Strain tho milk into tho
separator through n wiro gauze.
Buying cows and selling them ob
fast as they stop milking never built
up a high class dairy business. The
city milk producer Is not a truo dairy
man; he is more a speculator In feeds
and cows.
The strawy stalky manure makes an
Ideal mulching fertilizer for both young
and old apple trees. A great many are
literally dying from starvation. This
coarse manuro will conserve moisture
and fertility.
The usefulness and value of a horse
depend upon his early training. He
bkould bo handled nnd taught when a
colt. This will develop his intelligence
from tho start and very much increase
his subsequent usefulness.
Now that the plowing Is all done,
wipe off all dirt from wood and Iron
work. Glvo a good coating of oil to
tho metal parts next spring, ho therp
will bo no delay In getting tho plows
to scour.
When cows aro salted only once n
week they eat too much at a tlmo nnd
it causo looseness of tho ignore
They will eat a littlo salt nearl;rt ,
day If It la kept where the- Bl,oweu
at It, especially wnC M
fresh and abundant. lh register.
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Tho manuro spreader Is C Friday
llBpensable on tho farm. 11. f Mrs.
manuro from tho barn aB neighbors
load accumulates and sprt J nnniver
land at onco, nearly all of tl.1 Kames
is saved, and by tho use of ti."""
er will go farther nnd prove-.
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Store only sound rutt
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Use a metallic milk strainer.
Hens need a vnrloty of feed.
Disinfectants aro cheaper than dis
ease. Regular nttcntlon to all llvo stock
Is very important.
The first requisite In feeding cnttla
for profit ts good stock.
During tho fall nnd winter Is a good
tlmo to dig that pit silo.
It Is said that sheep will cat 4,330
different kinds of weedB.
Fresh air night and day Is vjtal to
poultry. But drafts aro fatal.
The ultimate succcbb of tho farmer
depends on diversified fnrmlng
In selecting n location for u poul
try yard, chooso a light, sandy soli.
Tho falling ovor of tho rooBtor's
comb shows htm to bo In bad health.
There aro few crops raised on tho
fnrm that vary as littlo In prlco as
wool.
Menl should bo mixed dry and
crumbly, since it causes Illness when
fed wet
Fill tho pig's stomach while ho Is
young, and ho will fill your purso when
ho Is grown.
Do not attempt to 'churn poor or
thin cream, at. a low temperature, or
there will bo trouble.
Don't burn tho straw. Uso it for
bedding for the stock, and return it
to soil to renew fertility.
Young chickens need nnlmal food,
but they will not thrlvo well If given
too large rations of rich food.
Abovo tho food of production that
goes to milk, a cow demands food of
support In proportion to her slzo.
Keep an eye on tho seed corn and
see that plonty of ventilation 1b af
forded tho room In which It Ib stored.
Keep the windows of tho hen houso
clean so that tho lnsldo of tho houso
mny get all of tho light that Is pos
sible. Eggs from hena that havo mado a
fair showing In laying this winter will
be more fertile than thoso that did
heavy laying.
Savo every ounce of grain and every
pound of fodder thlsfall. What you
don't need can bo sold for good prices
before spring.
Do not forget to salt tho ho; ,9 onco
a week; or, better Bttll. keop bt al
ways beforo him. Ho knows best kw
much ho needs.
Too many farmers havo not learned
that it Is nil wrong to feed a sow on
feed that produces heat Instead of
bono and muscle.
Young birds aro good breeders only
when they are practically full grown
and well matured. Immaturo birds
should never bo used.
Never feed more than hogs wl)J.eat
up freely. Many farmers do'v8
tlco this, but keop a quantity0 nt mi-
eaten food lying about tho
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Peanuts mako n splenCifrt'ced for
both hogs nnd cows nn fJwhenover
thoy can be grown tho1 Vshould be
used, for thoy furnish fiourishment
and vnrloty. in"
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Build the lino fence "Wong enough
to keop your own nnd your neighbors'
stock on tho rlghf sldo, but do not
havo It so high that It wjll prevent
you from being neighborly.
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Laying hens must havo bread or
milk; eggs ennnnot bo produced with
out nitrogenous material in somo
shape. Keep a supply of bono meal
or oyster shell convenient.
Remember that fowls that "look,
alike" will nttract better attention nnd
sell better than the hit-and-miss kind.
Furthermore, tho pure-bred stock will
average about tho snrno in slzo bird
for bird.
Tankngo Is n highly profitable win
ter food for fall pigs. Uso ono gallon
for each CO pigs, fed in tho slop. You
will got your money back, with com
pound Interest, nnd got more for your
home-grown food.
When you uso a trough In grinding
In cold wenther, let tho water out
after you aro done. To let the lowor
part of tho stono stay In wator, freez
ing and thawing, is n pretty suro way
to ruin tho phtco which touches tho
wator.
Poultry products may roplaco th
meat shortage They may help fill
cap, ror poultry can bo raised
kitcneir:Viuciy.t8. The
North Side Grocery
F. D. WESTENFELD, Prop.
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MAINTAINING YOUNG
A Good Type
It Is held by most farmers that tho
brood sow must bo kept in thin flesh.
Following this rulo, which la good In
n way, many fnrmors allow tho sous
nn insufficient amount of feed, nnd
honco both sow nnd pigs suffer,
writes W. II. Underwood In tho Iowa
Homcstoad. Also tho young sow far
rows boforo slio Is mnturo In slzo, nnd
through light feeding alio never at
tains tho slzo and breeding cnpaclty
that sho would had sho been given
larger amounts of feed during hor
growing period.
Tho sow for sovornl well understood
reasons should not bo kept too fat, es
pecially in farrowing tlmo. Sho has,
however, lnrgo demands placed upon
her, and honco requires lnrgo
amounts of feed to sustain normal
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Medium Type of Yorkshire.
vitality. Sho noeds much food during
pregnancy for tho development of tho
unborn pigs and for her own vital
needs.
After the pigs nro born, during tho
suckling period, tho saw requires an
extra largo amount of nutritious feed
in order to furnish a full flow of milk
for tho littlo plgB and maintain her
own flesh.
Too often tho bow at tho close of tho
suckling period becomes poor nnd do-
DAIRY PROSPERITY
. BY USE OF A SILO
Dairymen Should Take .Advant
age of Every Opportunity to
Reduce His Expenses.
(Ily J. E. WORMAN.)
If a. dairy fanner wcro told that
ho could roll silver dollars down a
hill and then pick up two dollars
for every ono he rolled down, and this
stntoment was verified by somu of
his neighbors, and hundreds of oth
er dairy farmers In tho country, that
farmer would stay up nights to roll
the dollars.
But when told that he could doublo
the profits by tho uso of tho silo ho
becomes very indifferent nnd keeps
on In the snmo old rut, feeding dry
feed, wasting nearly half of his corn
crop and doing a lot of unnecessary
work.
In these days of closo competition
dairymen should be ready to tfcko ad
vantngo of every opportunity to re
duce tho cost of production, and it
will bo found that it Is easier if the
pro'por methods are used to do that
than to raiso tho selling prlco of tho
dairy product. Tho results are tho
same; a large net profit.
In tho corn plunt about 40 per cent
of tho feeding valuo is in tho stalk
and CO por cent. In tho ear. When tho
car nlono Is fed noarly half of tho
corn crop Is wasted.
Where tho dry stalks nro fed nt
least halt of them remain uneaten,
whllo if Btored in tho silo tho loss Is
almost nothing.
Every dairyman knowa that cows
will do their boat on fresh Juno pas
ture. Tho grasB is succulent and pal
atablo and tho conditions for a max
imum milk flow aro ideal. Thoso
conditions, however, do not last very
long
as near to supplying
mythlng that
ry
SOWS IN GOOD FLESH
of Hog Cot.
pletcd In strength. Frequently sho is.'
absolutely exhausted, and required
ninny weeks to regain flesh nn
strength, if It Is possible to regain tho
Iosb. Thoro Is no doubt but that this
frequent flesh nnd vitality weakening
Impairs tho honlth nnd valuo of tho
animal. Were sho kept In good round
flesh at all times thero Is no question
but that sho would llvo longer and bo
moro productlvo In ndvancod years.
Tho young sow often growB until
after hor second or third litter ot
pigs. Then Is tho period when rantorn
ity tolls on nn nnlmal moBt If to tho
physlcnl strain of giving birth to plga
and suckling them ts nddod tho stunt
ing effect of too light feeding tho
young bow cannot possibly attain her
higheBt development. Thla will not
only affect hor futuro earning power,
but will also affect tho profits tn hor
pigs. Thoy will to somo oxtont Inherit
hor undorsizo and weakness, and tho
futuro stock will thoreforo bo smalt
and poor.
If tho young sow Is kept In good,
round flesh until nftor full maturity
sho will have n chnnco to dovelop Into
a largo mother animal, and bo nblo to
transmit her slzo and strong vitality
to hor offspring. If Bho carrieB an
abundance of flesh nnd somo fat near
ly equal to that of tho prlmo finished
hog for market sho will havo n sur
plus for tho draining weeks of matern
ity and not bocomo so poor at any
tlmo that her syBtom la materially
weakened.
It Is much eaBlcr to maintain n sowi
in good flesh than to restore It nfter
It haB been lost, and It Is better in,
ovory way for tho nnlmal. A good sow
may bo fully half tho hord in giving
quality to the pigs if sho is given suf
ficient feed nnd caro to make manl-
fest her full powers.
from fall pasture to dry feed is alwayal
followed by tho shrrnkngo In thoi
milk..
In changing from tho pasture to
tho sllago is not so great, nnd
often tho cowb increnBo tho flow when
started on sllago.
Silago Ib not a comploto ration for
a dairy cow. Silago Is high in carbo
hydrates and somo concentrates or
roughngo with a high protein content)
should be fed with it; such as wheat
bran, oil meal, cottonseed meal or
alfalfa or clover hay.
At tho Illinois experiment station
It is reported that a selected herd of
dairy cows wcro being maintained on1
alfalfa hay and corn sllago alono-
and havo mado good yields and a good)
profit.
ICvory dairyman should mako an
effort to grow alfnlfa and put up sll
ago. It is a great combination and all'
homo grown. This constant buying of
milk feed Is what cuts down tho
proiltB, and should bo eliminated us.
far as possible J
When It Is considered that corn
can bo grown so easily and in overy
section of tho country, it stands at
the head of the list of forage crops
for this purpose.
Tho yield in foeding valuo and tho
convenience of handling makes It the
best sllago crop.
Tho yield will rango from 10 to
20 tons per acre on good soli, and
even higher yields havo been re
ported. At 15 tons per aero, one
aero will furnish roughago enough for
two cows for every day In tho year
or four cows during a feeding period
of six months. What other crop will
do that?
Othor crops can bo used, such a&
sorghum or cow peas in combina
tion with either sorghum or corn, Tho
cow pens improve tho sllago, for it
adds protein, but tho yield Is small,
and difficult to harvest.
Stick to the Farm.
Tho young men nro beginning to
tnko notice. Tho old ndvlco for boys
to stay on the farm Ib certainly ba
iling hooded. Progress In thla resnect
nru nllowiil for creditors Ui"l)WJU-tnL'ir cla'lrtis
and ono yuor for tha l'.xucutor to settle said
estate, from tho 29th day of December. 1913. A
copy of tills ordtr to bo published In tho North
l'lritto Tribune, a leifal seml-wcekly ncwBpapor
pr nted in said county for four successive weeks
prior to Feb. 23, 1914,
JM . JOHN CKANT,
County Judge.
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