THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
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Feed alfalfa to the hogs.
Keep the laying hens active.
Give the colt needed exercise.
It does not pay to send half-fat sheep
to market.
Change of feed occasionally serves
as an appetizer.
Fowls In confinement, to do well,
need a variety of food.
Concrete floors In the barn help a
great deal In saving manure.
Sweet food for hogs Is bettor than
any that has fermented or soured.
Only sound fruit and vegetables
should be stored In the cellar for win
ter UBe.
Red clover In bloom Is not good for
hogs, but when young It makes a flno
pasture.
Au egg may be fertile and hatch and
still the chick will not live because
of lack of vitality.
Strong brine, thickened with soft
toap, makeB a good mixture to rid
cows and calves of lice.
Do not haul -waste products back to
the farm from the creamery in the
same cans used for delivering milk.
A calf from a poor cow is a doubt
ful proposition, but a calf from a good
cow poorly raised is almost a crime.
Animal feeding saves the cost of
hauling farm products to market; it
crcateB a demand for the crops on tho
farm.
Don't hurry tho cows from the stable
to the pasture or vice versa. Dogs
have no place on a dairy farm to help
In driving cows.
One advantage in keeping sheep on
the farm Is that whenever they are
kept the farm presents a neater and
cleaner appearance.
Never grease tho hen that is set
ting, as grcaso getting on the shells of
the eggs will closo tho pores and
smother the chlckons.
Horse breeding requires more capi
tal, is more profitable if succcsful and
involves larger losses if not, than any
other kind of stock breeding.
Coarse, masculine-looking pullets
never mako the best layers. Select
tliOBo whose heads have a distinctly
feminine appearance and expression.
Hearty eaters are most to be de
sired for cows, and they may usually
be selected whilo they are calves.
You will find a dainty calf to be a
dainty cow.
The food properties of wheat bran
and high grado alfalfa meal are
very much the same, though it is
best to use both when availablo for
variety's sake.
Every farm ought to be equipped
with a crowbar and a ten-foot Iron
tipped wooden splko for moving heavy
objects. They save time and take tho
place of muscle.
Build silos, grow less acres of corn,
but utilize the whole crop In Its best
form, and grow alfalfa on the corn
acreage saved for a cheap, palatable
home-grown balancer for corn.
Just because an ear of corn Is large
does not necessarily make it the best
for seed. See that tho rows aro
straight from tip to butt, and that tho
kernels aro all well formed and
plump.
Let us not wait until spring to
make up our minds about what we are
going to do In tho way of poultry
raising. But in our planning, let us
not neglect the presont work In tho
poultry yard.
The perfect bird in any variety or
breed Is very hard to find. Occasion
ally wo find oomo very flno specimens,
but when wo go over the birds from
head to'toe wo are sure to find that
something is not Just as It should be.
Of course you havo saved your best
grain for seed. N,ext Is to see that it
Is clean. Right hero Is whore tho fan
ning mill pays big dividends. It in
creases the crop, provents foul woods,
and best of all makes better seed for
next year.
It is not best to keep the colts tied
up day after day, nor is it best to
nllow them to run with tho mothers
whilo tho latter aro at work in tho
fields. Keep them in a lot that has
good fences, whore they can run and
pjj- rwi vot bo lu the sunshine.
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Got rid of the old hts.
Roup is a dangerous disease,
Geese rarely contract disease.
Give the hogs what thoy will cat
Keep pure, fresh water always with
in reach.
Having things convenient saves labor
and discouragements.
To avoid disease, It is betotr to
breed away from It,
Regularity of feeding and work
makes long lived horses.
Salt should always bo accessible, as
well as fresh, pure water.
Thero aro 4.3SG.000 mules and 20,
507,000 horses In tho United States.
If keroseno is rubbed Into leather
hardened by water, It will soften it
well.
Bo careful and not closo a can con
taining warm milk which has not been
aerated.
Animals must be fed on food that
thoy relish, In order to produco tho
best results.
The guinea fowl Is a great forager
and destroys many insects that other
fowls will not touch.
The Mediterranean or egg breeds
aro Leghorns, Mlnorcas, Spanish, Blue
Andaluslans and Anconas.
Don't hoUso the shcop too closely.
Cold Is not as bad as damp, foul air.
Give shelter Instead of warmth.
Seo that tho garden tools aro dry
and properly stored. A llttlo paint and
oil will mako the mattor surer.
Remove from tho dairy herd at once
any animal suspected of being in bad
health and do not use her milk.
I Stock can be fed with profit only
when they make a steady gain. Any
falling off costs double to regain.
Dairy cows should be fed twenty-five
to forty pounds of silage, supplemented
with five to ten pounds of hay, dally.
Scratches, grease-heal and other ani
mal diseases come directly from not
taking propor caro of the horses' feet
Blackberries should bo given space
in the gurden, for thero aro few, if any,
fruits that give quicker and better re
turns. Use a metallic Btralner; it is prac
tically Impossible to keep cloth strain
ers sweet and clean, and free from
bacteria.
Aim to bring tho pullets into laying
condition at a time which will bo most
consistent with a continuous winter
production of eggs.
It costs no more to keep a flock of
known good layers than It doos to
keep a flock of poor layers and tho
first kind is profitable.
In selecting tho brood sows, as In
other lines of farm work, the man who
can think threo or four years ahead
Is the man who will succeed.
Water scalding hot Is not good to
thaw out the grindstone with in cold
weather. Better take a little longoi
and use water fairly hot, but not boll
lng hot.
Root crops, such as parsnips, beets
and carrots, may bo prevented from
shriveling in tho winter If thoy are
covered slightly with dry sand in the
bin or box.
Plan to put away some good clover
or alfalfa hay to feed the hens. Thoy
will more than pay you for your trou
ble by the increased amount of eggs
that will bo produced.
Every farm ought to havo a little
work shop stocked with a fow good
tools and plenty of bolts of various
sizes, nuts, rivets, a fow pieces of
round and strap iron and such things.
Green forage crops of somo sort
can be grown on most any farm, and
they yield a large amount of flno feed,
Oats and field peas, ryo, rapo, corn
and vetch are some that can bo sown
with results.
A pig's tall Is said to indicate un
erringly the condition of tho animal.
If it hangs loose it shows that the pig
Is not well and that Its food should be
changed; if it 1b colled tightly, tho
pig Is healthy and happy.
The successful poultryman must
plan each year to raise a fow more
chickens than he has hens. In this
manner he will bo enabled to cull
freely. Keep only the best and carry
ovor at least half as many pullets
as hens.
.
If any of tho fowls have rough,
mealy scales on their shnnks, wash the
shanks with kerosene, then apply vase
line and apply tho vasellno continu
ously every other day until tho scales
havo returned to their normal ap
pearance. Keep tho hens active by making
them work for their food. Put it In
straw or othor similar material so they
will have to scratch for It. This will
provent them from getting fat, and
this Is important, as fat hens do not
lay a great number of eggs.
POINTS A DRAFT HORSE SHOULD POSSESS
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Excellent Percheron,
A good draft horse should bo fairly
low set, blocky, deep and wide, and
Bhould bo symmetrical or well pro
portioned and should stand squarely
on comparatively abort, straight legs.
Tho good stallion Bhould Bhow lots of
Btylo, carrying hia head well with ears
erect and showing llfo and spirit
Tho draft stallion should havo a
strong maocullno, yot roflned head,
with good width of forehead, clean-cut
face, large, bright eyes, well set ears
and Ann lips. Heads too fine aro ob
jected to, as 1b also tho dished face;
but an Inclination to a Roman noso In
tho stallion considered desirable by
most horsemen.
The neck should be ratbor long,
cloan-cut throat latch and set up on
top of the shoulders and not straight
In front like tho head of a cow. Tho
shoulders should havo good slopo and
the withers should bo strong and well
laid Into tho back. Sloping sbouldera
allow tho head to bo carried well up
and distribute tho draft evenly along
tho collar. Tho back should bo com
paratively short with arched ribs, giv
ing tho barrel-like appearance of
roundness. Tho loin should be short
well packed with muscle, and the
flanks should be low. Short coupled,
low-flanked horses are generally
strong and easy goers.
Tho forearm and gaskln should bo
heavily muscled and strong. Below
tho knees the leg should appear wide
and flat with clean, strong bone and
tendons. Tho pasterns should bo of
fair length and should slope about 45
degrees from a largo, well-rounded
foot Tho foot should havo consider
able depth, and width at tho heel Is
also, important. The hind legB should
bo straight with a wide, clean hock.
GOOD FEED ONLY
MAKES DAIRY PAY
Cow Cannot Produce Good Milk
Unless Given Ample Supply of
Nourishing Food.
(By QEOItQE H. HL1TZKE.)
With good cows thero must also bo
good feeding. Tho dairy cow can not
produco good milk without a good
supply of nourishing food from which
to produco milk. Also the food given
might bo very rich in feeding value,
but often not enough of It is fed to
tho cow.
Thus tho cows got only food enough
to maintain their bodies and very llt
tlo of it goes to production of milk.
This, of course, would bo feeding at
a loss, when a little moro food added
to this would all bo turned to milk, as
tho other food has already supplied
tho wants of the body, and this extra
is tho paying food. Tho milk It pro
duces pays for tt and leaves a clean
profit besido.
Therefore, can we afford to with
hold this extra food and feed only
enough to maintain tho body? Such
feeding would certainly not bo profit
able. So In place of economizing with the
feed, it would be better to give the
cows a rich supply, and get tho milk
which, after all, is what we are feed
ing for.
But there comes tho question of
what Is a good supply of food? We
might supply tho cows with an unlim
ited amount of food in fnct, we might
supply them with all thoy can con
sume and still got no milk-flow of
worth, if such food does not contain
the proper nutriments.
It is not only a bulk of food that is
necessary, but it Is tho nutritive valuo
of tho food given, that counts.
As concentrated foods are tho rich
est In food value, tho cows should
be supplied with such food as wheat
bran and ground corn at least twice a
day with their ration.
This.glves thorn a high por cent of
protein and fat which they cannot get
from tho hay.
Poor feeding Is an utter waBto of
tho food that tho cown oat, and tho
time and labor of acring for them
whilo tho good feeding will pay for
the feed and the labor, and loaves
a cloan profit. Can wo then afford to
withhold tho necessary food?
If the dairy Is not paying there la
something wrong. Either the cows
aro poor, or tho management Is poor.
Thero la a way to make Jt pay. Lot
us study our business and seok this
profit.
WoAt
Winner of First Prize.
showing no puffs or bony enlarge
menu. A wide, flat appearance to the
log Is again wanted, but tho hind pas
terns, though they should be Btrong,
need not slope ob much aB tho front
ones. In action tho horso should
show a good, fast, squaro, Btralght
walk, and at tho trot should go fairly
high in front and behind. Do not get
slow, logy, careless walkors. Thoy
never elre good horBes.
Be Buro to get slzo and blockiness,
coupled with good, strong, straight
legs and plenty of style and llfo. In
selecting, look tho horse ovor care
fully, examining minutely ovory part,
but do not pay too much nttcntlon to
minor particulars and bo miss tho Im
portant foaturea. Pay most attention
to feet and legs, head and coupling,
action and style. ,
Extreme care should bo taken to
see that the eiro you aolcct for your
colts does not have any of tho fol
lowing diseases. These ore defined as
Infectious, contagious or transmlss
able diseases or lnsoundness:
Eye diseases. As cataract, amauro
sis (glass oyo), periodic ophthalmia
(moon blindness).
Respiratory diseases: Laryngeal
hemiplegia (roaring or whistling),
pulmonary empyscmla (hoavea or
broken wind).
Nervous troubles: Chorea (St
Vitus donco), constituting string holt,
shivering and cramplnees.
Bone diseases: Bono spavin, ring
bono, side bones, navicular disease,
bog spavin and curb, and abnormal,
hocks.
Infectious and contagious diseases:
Glanders or farcy, mango, tumors,
and any malformations liable to be
transmitted.
BREED AND HANDLE
HORSES AND MULES
Each Mare Should Have Special
Place Where She Is Tied to
Receive Daily Grain Feed.
The ploasure and tho satisfaction
of breeding and handling good horses
remain, long after tho cost of tho
foundation stock is forgotten.
In mild weather mares muBt bo kept
outside in the open sheds, both day
and night. Each maro Bhould havo a
special place where sho is tied to re
ceive her grain feed. If fed from an
ordinary trough, tho moro vicious
mares mr.y kick the others, and gob
ble most of tho feed. Roughago may
be fed safely from tho racks In the
yard.
Wheat, bran and oatB for grain, and
clovor, alfalfa, or mixed hay makes a
flno ration for tho grqwlng colts.
During tho first winter, provide
some sort of sheltered yrfrd for the
colts, so that thoy may, run about and
oxerclso for a fow hours every day
when tho weather Is not too stormy.
Largo draft horses furnish tho
brawn to save men's energies for tho
work thnt requires skill and caro.
If you havo mules on tho farm that
are coming two years old, break them
now that Ib, work for half a day at,
a time It won't hurt them; but on
the othor hnnd will do them good,
Tho mule is easily broken, ob all
farmers who havo handled them will
testify, but It is a good thing to get
them used to blng handled before
thoy .i;et too old; then they are read
for tho regular work when youneed
them.
Tho groat superiority of the mulo
conclatB In his gronter endurance of
heat and Hevere labor, and ability to
subsist on loss food. Ho Is undoubt
edly tho most economical machine for
tho production of power.
Salt as a Fertilizer.
Almost any sort of material that
contains soluble potash, phosphoric
acid or nitrates has more or less fer
tilizing value, but salt has not a trnco
of any of theso. Sodium and chlorine
are all It has to offer. Salt might
possibly havo some llttlo offect on tho
physical condition of the soil under
some conditions, but even this would
bo too Blight to warrant its use.
Feeding Molasses.
Molasses in ono form or another is
greatly relished by cows nnd horses
as woll, but it is an unpleasant thing!
to feed nnd drawB files by the mll-l
lions.
MODISH TAFFETA
DRESS FOR LESS
THAN TEN DOLLARS
(TAFFETA whioh promises to bo tho
,1 most fashionablo of silks, by tho
way la ono of tho moBt beautiful of
fabrics and ono of tho least expensive
It is woven In widths varying from
about twenty-four to thirty-sir inches,
with both nnrrowor und wider widths
occasionally shown. Tho prlco ranges
from about sovonty-flvo conta to a
dollar and a half a yard for avorngo
weight In tho twonty-four and thirty-six-Inch
patterns.
The thlrty-slx-lnch width is most
convonlont for cutting tho present
styles in gowns, nnd ono may calcu
late tho amount required as equal to
four times tho height of tho figure,
with a llttlo allowanco for boms, la
the narrower widths. In thoso a yard
wide or moro only twlco tho length of
tho figure, plus a half-yard, will bo
needed. This extra half-yard is con
sumed by homB nnd scant drapery in
tho skirt.
If tho design selected calls or an
overdress or extra drapery, moro ma
terial will bo required. Patterns des
ignate tho amount noeded, but for a
slmplo dress tho allowanco glvon
above 1b sufllclent.
In tho slmplo nnd attractlvo dross
Bhown in tho plcturo a taffota a yard
wldo was used, and four yards made
the garment. It Is in a sapphire blue
(shot with black), with a high luster
which is very brilliant and offectlvo.
Tho skirt Is in two widths, shaped
at tho sides to fit tho hips. Tho bnck
breadth has a small cluster of gathers
at tho mlddlo of the belt to gtvo tho
Neckwear an Important Accessory
AREFUL attention to tho finishing
details of tho toilette Is u mark of
distinctive dressing. This Is apparent
In tho mattor of nockwear, and new
Ideas uro advanced constantly by
manufacturers of this Important ac
cessory of drosH. A stylo Is Introduced
and mukos good with the public, be
coming a fashion. Its manufacturers
thon vary it to Bult women of various
types and ages.
Tho sailor collar and fichu motifs
have predominated this soason, and in
numerable changes have beon tho re
Bult of tholr Inspiration. But they
aro designed for tho attractive and
youthful nock and must be adapted to
thono who do not possess a round,
plump throat.
A gulmpo of perfectly plain, One not,
with high, smoothly fitting collar, is
worn by tho woman whoso neck Is not
sightly when bare. This not Is so fine
and so well fitted that it is as smooth
as tho skin and smoother.
Besides the fichu nnd sailor collar
ideas thero aro many small fancy
bona, ribbon flowers and Mallne orna
ments for wearing as a finish at tho
neck. Jabots are ulways worn and
when thoy aro not featured aro ro
placed with frills finishing tho "V"
shaped opening at tho neck of blouses.
Thoy aro especially becoming to slen
dor womon, and tho fine laces In stylo
at present mako beautiful ones. i
In designing nockwear thoso who
produco It must consldor how to mako
'it becoming, and womon In selecting
lit must consider whothor It is suit
able or not for them. The jabot with
required fullnoss, and is hemmed along
ono odgo. This edgo 1b folded over
tho front breadth, curving In toward
tho bottom, nnd Is stitched down to
within eight Inches of tho bottom.
From hero down It falls opon, but tho
front breadth Ilea undor tho opening.
This gives room for an easy atop.
Thero Is a thrco-Inch hem at tho bot
tom of tho skirt.
Tho kimona waist la cut with body
and sleeves In ope, with two plaits
over tho shouldors. This glvcu the
offect undor tho arms of tho fashion
ablo "bat wing" alcove.
Tho opon nock and aloovca aro outj
ltnod with a narrow border of black!
fur, of which about two and a quart
tor yards aro required.
Anyono who knows oven a llttlo)
about sowing can put this very simple!
dress togothor. Tho skirt fastonaj
with hooks and eyes (very amall ones)
at tho loft side, under tho hem in thoj
back breadth. It Is hung to a fitted!
glrdlo. Tho kimona blouso Is worn
over a not waist or ncckplcco ana
fastens surplico fashion In tho front.
A glrdlo of ribbon or a fancy belli
Is neoded to finish thlB gown, and
thero aro several stylos that look weld
with It Tho handsomest is tho Ro
man striped glrdlo showing brilliant
colors. This Is made of ribbon about
eight InchoB wldo, finished with a
loop and short ends at tho front
A crushed glrdlo of brocaded ribbon
In tho rich colors of tho season, fast
onod with a black velvet bucklo at tho
loft Bldo, la very pretty. It baa no
ends, but Is finished with an over
lapping rufflo.
A glrdlo mado of black satin ribbon
laid In folds about tho waist and fin
ished with a Blnglo long tab, makes a
quiet finish. This tab should bo
rounded at tho end and embroidered
in bright colors, or gathered wl.th a!
long tassel of silk or beads.
Allowing four and a half yards of
silk at a dollar nnd a quarter a yard,;
two and a quartor yardB of fur nt
forty conta a yard, tho materials, in
cluding sowing silk and hooka and-
eyes, may bo bought for seven dollars,
This leaves throo dollars for tho
glrdlo and undor waist, out of an ap-
proprlatlon of ten dollars. But nearly
every ono possesses a thin waist that
Is availablo for theso kimona blouses,
and girdles aro a part of ovoryouo'a
wardrobe this wlntor. At any rate,
ten dollars will cover tho expense oft
all tho materiala needed to furnish!
tho gown, tho glrdlo and tho net un-j
dor waist.
Somo of tho now shades of dark:
greon, tho light shades of brown r.nd!
tho dull reds mako up In this Btylo
Into gowns as satisfactory as tho onoi
pictured, which Is smart and very uso-i
ful. JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
straight band mado of not finished at
tho top with threo tucks, shown In tho
picture, Is suited to tho woman with
a slim, long neck. Below tho tuckB
a row of tiny Jot boado or French)
knots mako a pretty finish and lesson;
tho apparent width of tho collar.
Tho Jabot attached to tho band 1b
of finest shadow laco and simulates
fichu ends. Black velvet ribbon out
lines an .oponlng at tho throat whero
tho flno net of tho collar is let in
In a small narrow "V." Tho jabot la- '
flnlshod at tho bottom with a llttlo
volvot bow. Very small fostoonB of Jot
beads faston the upper ends of tho
velvet to tho neckband. Thoy mark
tho point of tho "V" and aro placed
on the llttlo bow.
Still moro cleverly dealgnod to tho
needs of a too-slender neck 1b tho
othor collar and Jabot. It is made o
laco and black Batln. Tho band is a
Btralght plcco of laco with tho seal
lopod edgo foldod down llko a turn
over collar. Tho Jabot Is of tho Bamo
laco cascaded to tho front Two
shaped pIoceB of Batln aro cut out
and llnod with flno muslin or mull.
Thoy aro Bowed to tho collar and
upper part of tho Jabot and flnlshod
with French knots in bluo silk.
Tho gracoful Bailor collar of laco
and tho not collar with frill of laco at
tho front nro now patterns In theso
populnr neck plocea. Tho net collar
Ib doublo with Insertion and edging In,
a flno Cluny pattern of Inexpensive
laco. This collar ia qulto new In de
sign and combines tho advantages o '
tho fichu and Jabot.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.