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    THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
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FOR SECURING FERTILE EGGS
Strong, Vigorous Male Birds Should
Be Used and Inbreeding Avoided
Cull Sickly Hens.
Tho first essential Is to handle the
breeding flock of hens In such a man
ner ns to secure a high percentage
of fertile eggs. To accomplish this
all small, weak or sickly appearing
hens should be removed from the flock
and only eggs from strong, vigorous,
healthy hens should bo used for hatch
ing. Tho flock should be allowed con
Buff Orpington Male.
sldernblo range if this is convenient,
though extensive range Is not neces
sary to secure fertile eggs. If tho
hens must bo confined in small quar
ters, green food or meat meal must be
used In the ration and tho hens must
be compelled to scratch In clean Ut
ter for part of their feed in order to
insuro sufficient exercise.
Strong, vigorous cock birds must
also be used, and inbreeding should
bp nvolded. For all meat and egg
breeds one cock should bo allowed for
ten hens and for tho lighter weight
egg-producing breeds ono cock bird
for every 15 hens.
MAKE PROFIT WITH TURKEYS
More Profitable Side Line Can Hardly
Be Found for Those Who Are
Favorably Situated.
For those who are favorably situ
ated for raising turkeys, a moro profit
able side lino can hardly bo found.
Given plenty of range where the tur
keys can find grasshoppers and other
Insects, green vegetation, the seeds of
weeds nnd grasses, waste grain,
White Holland Turkoy.
ncorns nnd nuts of various kinds, the
cost of raising them is very small and
the profits large.
Grain and stock farms nro particu
larly well adapted to turkey raising,
and it is on such farms that most
of the turkeys are found.
Llttlo has ever been done In the
wny of raising turkeys In confine
ment, nnd where it has been tried the
results 'have been discouraging.
Plenty of range Is essential to-sue
cess In turkey raising.
CAP0NIZE BIRDS FOR MARKET
Rhode Island Reds, Plymouth Rocks
and Brahmas Make Best Capons
Dress In "Style."
(By M. E. DICKSON. Wisconsin Experi
ment station.)
Don't sell lato chickens cheap; ca
ponlze them.
Capons sell in winter at from 25 to
30 cents n pound.
Rhode Island Reds, Plymouth Rocks
and Hrahnms make the best capons.
Keep fowls without food 24 hours
before caponizlng.
Bo careful to cut awny from, and
not toward, the backbone when making
Hie Incisions.
Always dress enpons in "style"
leave feathers around necks, hocks,
on wing tip and end of tho tail.
Dry-pick cupons to get the eat re-
BUltH,
Ship capons In aozen lotri tut
oring better prices.
Tl I IT jf
INJURY BY LEAF ROLL
Better Seed Stocks Offer Best
Means of Control.
Whero Disease Has Appeared This I
Seaton It Is Wise Precaution to
Import 8eed From Other Sources
for Next Crop.
mv w. on.TON.1
No measure offers moro hopo of
buccoss In controlling leaf roll than tho
uso of better seed stocks. Throo
means may bo used to bring this
about: First and simplest, tho Impor
tation of seed potatoes from districts
where tho disease is unknown. This
affords relief, but may not greatly
raise tho stnndard of quality. Second,
iilll selection, to pick out from weak
varieties strains that will withstand
tho disease. This has been done nl
ready by Von Lochow, who took sev
eral types from the variety Professor
"Wohltmann and bred them In pure
lines. Tho result wns that certain of
these pure strains showed susceptlbll
lty to leaf roll, whllo others remained
entirely or nearly free from It. Third,
new vurletles may bo bred from seed.
This, whllo requiring tho most time,
may bo tho best means for mpctlng
the requirements where whole ills
trlcts are attacked, as In the Colorado
outbreak a few years ago. That such
good varieties can bo produced one
can hardly doubt after seeing the col-
In'MInn , nnnlH.rnl .lnnnrtmonf
of over 10,000 seedlings with Its Inn
nlte variety of disease-resistant qual
ities.
It is the prevailing opinion of Eu
ropean investigators that leaf roll Is
Inherited 1. e., that the tubers from
diseased hills will produce diseased
progeny. Cases aro cited where the
first crop after tho appearance of the
(A) Plant Showing Aerial Tubers
Caused by Leaf Roll (B) Plant Af
fected by Leaf Roll, Showing Tend'
ency of Tubers to Cluster atN the
Base of the Stem.
disease was normal, but later harvests
fell to nothing. No reliable results
are available In this country. Conflict'
lng reports come from farmers In the
urceiey section or uoiornuo; out, as
no pathologist accustomed to the diag
nosis of leaf roll saw either crop, tho
relative umount of disease in home
grown and outside seed remains un
known.
It seems a wise precaution to uso
only selected seed from such sources
ns Minnesota and Wisconsin for plant
ing next year whero leaf roll has oc
curred this season. It may be that
tho disease will not appear on crops
from home seed, but the chances are
that It will.
USE REPELLANT FOR GAD FLY
Mixture of Tar and Lard on Nose of
Sheep Is Recommended Keep
Animals In Dark Barn.
Tn tho summer or early fall the egg
of the gad fly Is laid thut causes grub
In tho head of sheep A fly docs tho
work, und tho best -way to prevent the
grub Is to prevent tho egg being laid.
A mlxturo of tar and lard smeared on
tho noses of tho sheep herds repels the
by forcing the sheep to take their salt
out of auger holes mude In logs or In
boxes provided for tho purpose, In ily
season. Then keep theso holes
smeared with the tar and lurd. It ulso
helps to have a dark barn whero tho
phcep can stand during the day, as the
ily will not bother them much lu there.
LAND RESTED AND IMPROVED
Old Notion About Crop of Timothy Is
Erroneous Plant Food Is Taken
More Slowly.
It Is an old notion that land seeded
to timothy, oven though the crop be
removed, Is being rested and improved,
this, However, is not truo in any other
senso than that n horse thut has been
driven rapidly may bo considered as
being rested by being driven more
slowly. That Is to say, Jlmothy re
moves tho plant food from tho soil
moro slowly than does corn or wheat
because n smaller amount of plant food
Is required to muke the crop,
PLAN FOR SHOCKING WHEAT
Tops and Bute of Two Bundles Are
Spread In Mannor to Turn Water
and Protect Grain.
Twelve bundlrts miike a good
snoek. Three pairs of bundles are
set In n row against each other. Tho
spaces on the sides are filled by set
ting two bundles on each side. Then
Ihe tops of tho bandies ure drawn to
gether by "hugging" the shock. The
tops and nuts or two minutes are
spread nnd put on top of the ho"k
lu n wny to turn water and protect 't.
6RA,N machine is portable
Designed to Handle Considerable
Acreage With Little Help Engine
Has Flexible Shaft
Stacking small grain may be n "lost
art" lu some sections, but In others.
especially whero tho acreage Is not too
bfg and the problem not too ncutc, It Is
not lost; In fact, It Is coming back, nnd
the wet yeur of 1015, anil the resulting
low grade nnd loss of grain has done
much to bring It back. For tho handling
of considerable ncrengo with llttlo help
such u machine ns the one shown here,
Unloader and Stacker.
n recent pntent of two Oklahoma men,
Is especially designed, nnd will Imme
diately appeal to many readers who
suffered heavy losses lust year. This
machine Is portable, being set on front
nnd rear trucks. On the rear truck Is
a horizontal conveyor onto which is
pitched the bundles to be carried to the
rear truck and then upwards to the top
of tho stack, or into the barn. An en
glue is mounted on the front truck in
the rear of the stand, this engine lmv-
'nB OXlbIe Sllllft. FurUllllg Bust
ncss.
MOLTING PERIOD IS tRYING
Poultrymen Wishing Winter Eggs Arc
Anxious to Get Hens Through
Ordeal at Early Date.
Tho annual molt, which starts with
the arrival of dog days, Is a most
critical tlmo In the life of hens. Shed
ding old feathers and growing new
ones comes when tho vltnllty is at n
low ebb. In a normal molt about four
months nro required for a complete
change of plumage, the first feathers
beginning to fall about July 1. At
first the egg production doc? not
materially decrease, but as the pro
cess advances tho drain on the sy
tern increases until the production
gradually diminishes toward Scptcm
her 1. Usually egg-laying will not
commence again until the new set ol
feathers Is complete.
If, however, the poultrymnn Is for
tunate enough to bring his hens sue
ccssfully through the molt and get
them laying by mid-November, the
fowls will probably conttnue to lny
throughout tho winter. Thus poultry
men wishing to produce winter eggs
for mnrkcts are very anxious to got
their hens through the molt ut an
early date.
BEST QUALITY IS ESSENTIAL
Margin of Profit Worth Considering In
Peach Business Thinning Is
Important Factor.
Pench profits are greatly reduced
by the cost of picking nnd packing
nnd marketing. It Is tho best qunlttj
of fruit that brings the profit and
there Is really very small chance tc
make a profit on uny other kind ol
peaches. It costs more to pack a basket
of small fruit than It docs u busket ol
largo specimens ns there ure more tc
handle. The same thing applies tc
picking. The package costs tho same
regardless of the quality of the fruit
There Is no difference In the shipping
cost of a basket of culls and a baskei
of fancy fruit. It follows thut It Is the
margin of profit which is worth con
sidering in the peach business the same
ns In uny other business. It Is not
the cull thnt pays nnd thinning is the
most Important factor in 'eliminating
the cull peach.
CAUSES FOR SCOURS IN PIGS
Quartern and Troughs Should Be Kept
Clean to Prevent Trouble From,
This Source.
Scours In pigs is a symptom of in
digestion nnd is usually cuused by too
much feed, chunglng the feed of the
how, dirty pens or chilling tho sow in
mill rnlnn nr tvlrwla Tlw. mmntnva .!
troughs should be kept clean with
plenty of sunlight nnd good ventllntlon
to prevent trouble from this source.
If scours should uppenr In pigs In
spite of nil precautions, tho following
treatment Is recommended by the Mis-
sourl agricultural experiment station:
Clean up moro thoroughly thun before,
reduce the sow's feed and give n table-
spoonful of sulphur In euch feed for
several days. It Is also well to glvo
tho sow n good dose of epsom suits. If
practicable, each pig may bo given a
teaspoonful of castor oil or epsom
suits. Charcoal also should bo pro
vided. INTENSIVE METHODS ON FARM
Average Crop of Strawberries Is 1,700
Quarts to Acre Maximum
Placed at 16,000.
Just to show the difference between
an average crop und what may bo
grown under Intensive methods, it is
stated that tho average crop of straw
berries Is 1,700 quarts to the acre,
while tho maximum record of produc
tion is 10,000 quarts. Whllo this vari
ation is probably much greater than
that generally found In other cropx, yel
no doubt the proportion Is not very fat
from correct in ku application o n
furm crops, us well as fruit.
BLIND PLEAD WITH INVENTOR
Liquefied Radium Helps to Restore
Sight May Be "Great
Discovery.
Moro than six thousand blind per
sons, by deputy or directly through tho
malls, linvo besieged Ethan I. Dodds,
tho Pittsburgh Inventor of radium
screen "eyes," pleading plteously with
him to restore their sight
Mr. Dodds, with tho nld of liquefied
radium, did succeed some months ago
In Improving if not restoring tho vision
of a mnn who suffered n peculiar visual
ailment that had mado him blind. Talk
ing of that achievement, tho Inventor,
who already nnd spent two fortunes
experimenting along that line, said
ho'd give nil ho could ever hopo to pos
sess In this world If he could only
promise sight to n few of the blind who
had thus nppcalcd to him. But, as yet,
he va3 "only on tho edge of a great
discovery," nnd could not, without
many added qualities, hopo to apply It
in- any general way to tho restoration
of sight
Now Mr. Dodds has received from
sightless sulferen? moro than six thou
sand pathetic appeals; somo of them
accompanied by signed checks In blank,
saying: "Fill out for any amount you
choose, If you can give mo back my
eyes." Pittsburgh Post
"Rile" Rebuke.
Tho prince of Wales has endeared
himself to the British soldiers fighting
In tho trenches.
Tliero is a story about n regiment
that tho prince recently reviewed. A
soldier In this regiment wns noted
cqunlly for his bravery and his untidi
ness. The prince tnltccd to him for n
few minutes, nnd tho man In his confu
sion could stammer nothing but "Your
rllo 'Ighness," "Yes, your rllo 'Igh
ness," "No, your rllo 'Ighness."
At tho end of tho Interview tho
prince said, with a good-natured glanco
nt tho soldier's accoutrements disor
dered ns 'usual:
"Very good, my mnn, very good ; but
In future, please, not so much of tho
rile 'Ighness and a little moro of tho
pipe clay."
BANISH PIMPLES QUICKLY
Easily and Cheaply by Using Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. Trial Free.
Smear tho pimples lightly with Cuti
cura Olntmont on end of finger and
allow It to remain on five minutes.
Then batho with hot water and Cuti
cura Soap and contlnuo como minutes.
This treatment la best upon rising and
retiring, but la eSoctlve at any time.
Froo cample each by mall with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Bbld evorywhoro. Adv.
Hammers.
The famous hammers of history,
ntnong warriors and saints, are Plerro
d'Allly, hammer of heretics, who pre
sided over the council which con
demned John Huss (1850-1425) ; Judas
Asmonncus (Maccabeus), tho Hebrew
warrior (B. C. 100-130); St. Augus
tlno, "hnmmer of heresies" (305-430) ;
John Fnbcr, who wrote a book, "Ham
mer of Heretics" (1470-1541) ; St HI
lary (850-308), tho "hammor of tho
Arlans, and, most generally so named,
Charles Martel (080-741). Phlladol
phla Evening Ledger.
Intelligent Comment.
Mr. Smith What do you think of
this? They say In somo parts whero
our trons are It Is a hundred and
more In tho shade.
Mrs. Smith Dcnr mo I Would you
suppose It was so much hotter than In
the sun?
The roan who sits nroimd and boasts
of his bravery is usually tho first to
hike for tho tall timber when dnngcr
threatens.
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WANTED 30,000 MEN
For Harvest Work
Immense crops; wages $3.00
railway rates from boundary points. Employment bureaus
at Winnipeg, Regina, North Portal, Saskatoon, Fort Frances,
Kingsgate, B. C, Coutts and Calgary, Alberta.
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For all particulars apply to
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Canadian Government Arcnt
Too Much to Believe.
"Tho late Blshon Hare." said n Sioux
Falls physician, "used, very reason
ably, to Impute skepticism to misun
derstanding.
"Ho once told mo about a Philadel
phia business man of skeptical ten
dencies, who said to him:
'"My dear Mr. Haro; I do not ro-
fuso to bollevo tho story of tho nrk.
I can accept tho ark's enormous size,
Its odd slinpo and tho vast number of
nnlmnls It contained, but when I am
asked, my dear doctor, to believe that
tho children of Israel carried this un
wieldy thing for forty years In tho wil
derness well, there I'm bound to sny
my faith brenks down.' "Living
Church.
American Date Trees.
A number of dntc-pnlm trees hnvo
been brought from Africa to Califor
nia, where dates nro now raided suc
Th8 Wheat Yield
Tells the
of Westirn Canada's Rapid
In Western Canada
new rirnnfa tn he made in the handling of grains
U.. tl.-nJ- T?- Militia. Un KinmmMf nf tlipaa
heavy shipments has been wonderfully rap d, the
resources of the amereni roaas, aespiic cmuiucu
equipments and increased facilities, have been
strained as never before, and previous records
have, thus been broken in all directions.
The largest Canadian wheat shipments through New York ever known
are reported for the period up to October 15th, upwards el lour and
quarter million bushels being exported In leas than six wmki.
and tills was but tho overflow of shipments to Montreal, through whlca
point shipments were much larger than to New York.
Yields as high an 60 bushels of wheat per acre are reported from all
parts of the country; while yields of 45 bushels per acre are common.
" a . 1 kiAA
Thousands of American fanners
duction. Land prices are stui low nna
in good foctdltles, convenient to
Tbera U no war lax en land
Write for illustrated pamphlet, reduced railroad ratea and otuer
information to superintendent iBwugrauoa. vrnawa.
Canada, or
W. V.
Boom 4,Bee
Canadian Government Agent
Children
What is CASTORIA
Castorla is a harmless snTistltute for Castor Oil, Pare
porlc, Drops and Soothing Syraps. It la pleasant. It!
contains neither Opium, Slorplilno nor other Narcotio
uubstanco. Its ago Is its guarantee. It destroys "Worm
and allays Fovorishncss. For moro than thirty years ib
Iins hocn In constant uso for tho relief of Constipation.
Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teothlngr Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates tho Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates tho Food, giving healthy and natural sleep
She Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
iBears the
s
In Use For Over 30 Years
Th Kind You Have Always Bought
TUB CSNTAUN OOMPANV.NIW VK CITY,
For sale by dealer
everywhere
at reasonable prices
iiooflno ana uumma iupers
dmltaj rtluWirjV Dtnll SutYudM O..U..U
U4iupn AUi.u klakn.4 tlwua Ualn
Western Canada
per day and board. Cheap
The Best Passage.
A somewhat conceited clergyman,
who was moro celebrated for the
length of his sermons than for their
eloquence, onco asked the lato Father
Ilcaly what he thought of tlio one
JiiRt preached.
"Well, sir,!' replied the humorist, "I
llko ono pnssugo exceedingly well."
"Indeed Fnthcr Healy, nmP pardon
me for asking which pnssngo you refer
to?"
"Well, my dear sir," replied tho wit,
"the passage I refer to was from tlisi
pulpit In the vestry room."
Partners.
Messenger Who's tho swell ye was
tnlkln' to, Jlmmlo?
IJowsboy Aw 1 Him nn' rao'a worked
together for years. nb' tho editor o'
ono o' my pnpersl
A homely girl Is always pretty in ths
eyes of tho man In love with her.
Story
Progress
have caused
have taicen part in mis wonacmu pre.
ireo nomaiciu iwiu. )' ""-"'V
churches, schools, msrkett. railways, etc
ana conscription.
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