The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, September 20, 1928, Image 3
SAME PRESCRIPTION HE WROTE IN 1892 When Dr. Caldwell started to practice medicine, back in 1875, the needs for m laxative were not as great as today. People lived normal lives, ate plain, wholesome food, and got plenty of fresh air. Bub even that early there were drastic physics and purges for the relief <k> constipation which Dr. Caldwell did not believe were good for human beings. The prescription for constipation that lie used oarly in his practice, and which bo put in drug stores in 1892 under the name of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, is a liquid vegetable remedy, intended for women, children and elderly people, and they need just such, a mild, safe bowel stimulant. This proscription has proven its worth and is now the largest selling liquid laxative. It has won the confidence of people who needed it to get relief from headaches, biliousness, flatulence, indi gestion, loss of appetite and sleep, bad breath, dyspepsia, colds, fevers. At your druggist, or write ‘'Syrup Pepsin,” Dept. BB Montioello, Illinois, for free trial bottle. A California Man (lair Fm land to bomc ueokoi.s anti kept the In-between acres. More about such opportunities In Little Farms Magazine, 3 months’ subscription 5c. BOX 916 .... TUJUNGA, CALIF. Auto Parts FOR ALL CARS old and new. Rlma, Wheels, Accessories, etc. Write or call. AUTO SALVAGE A EXCHANGE CO. Dlstri butors of Cupples Tires and Tubes SOI Jacluon St. Sioux City, Iowa Advice for Speed Maniac Mary, four years old, sat dangling her chubby little legs from a park bench, watching with wide-eyed Inter est the antics of the many tame squir rels that abound there. Suddenly a squirrel darted rapidly down a tree trunk just In front of Mary’s anxious eyes. As he speedily neared the ground, head first, Mary’s Interest and alarm grew until she no longer could restrain herself. She clapped her little hands in excitement and cried, “Put on your brakes, Kitty, nut on your brakes!’’ Out of Father’» Control Visitor—How many controls have you on that radio set? Host—Three, my wife, son and daughter.—Vancouver Province. Arc you When your Children Cry for It Baby hag little upsets nt times. All your care cannot prevent them. But you con be prepared. Then you can do what any experienced nurse would do—what most physicians would tell you to do— give a few drops of plain Castoria. No sooner done than Baby Is soothed; re lief is just a matter of moments. Yet you have eased your child without use of n single doubtful drug; Castoria Is vegetable. So It’s safe to use as often as an infant has any little pain you cannot pat away. And It’s always ready for the cruder pangs of colic, or constipation or diarrhea; effective, too, for older children. Twenty.fl.ve million bottles were bought last year. e ___ CONSTIPATION RELIEVED • . .. QUICKLY Carter's Little Lhsf PiHs Purahr VagstaWa Laxative move the bowel* free from (Mi* and unpleaaant aftet rffecti. They relirv* the system of couilpt tion poiani wtikh cause that dull and aching feein g. Remember they are a doctor’s pre scription ami can be taken by the entire family. All Druggists 23c and 75c Rad Packages. g CARTER’S Hus POLLS 610UX CITY PTG. CO.. NO. 38-1928 OF INTEREST TO FARMERS rROPF.R FEED FOR COWS Good grass pasture furnishes dairy cows one of the most suitable ra tions for milk production, but it is usually for only a short season, in Jung and early July, that grass pasture is both prime and abund ant. The hot, dry time of mid summer usually finds them short and dry, and furnishing scant ra tions for cows that are producing a pound or more of butter fat per day. Such cows should then be fed some grain. Cows that have just freshened or that freshened in the early sum mer should have particular atten tion in the dry pasture season. It is important to keep such cows in good condition and up in their milk flow during this period to insure good production during the fall and winter months. They may other wise fall off in production to the extent that to make a profit on them during the rest of their milk ing periods is impossible. How much grain and the kind of grains to feed to cows on pasture de pends upon the condition of the cows and the condition of the grass. Thin cows will need more grain than those that are in good flesh, and as a rule will also need grain rations that are not quite as rich in pro tein as the latter. If the grass is still fairly fresh and succulent less protein is also needed in the grain ration than if the grass has become mature and like hay and scanty. A mixture of equal parts by weight of ground oats, bran and corn meal, or of oats and corn alone, serves the purpose well with fresh green grass pasture; but as the summer ad vances and the grass becomes short and dry, grain mixtures suitable for winter feeding with silage as a part of the winter ration will meet the needs of the cows to better purpose. More protein and greater variety are then in order. These may be add ed by the use of some cotton seed meal and oil meal to the oats, bran and com mixture. It is a good rule in winter feed ing to allow one pound of grain or concentrate feed per day to cows for each four pounds of milk they pro duce testing 3 to 3per cent, fat: or one pound per day for each three pounds of milk if it tests 5 per cent, or more of fat. This rule may be used as a guide to determine how much grain to feed during the pas ture season. With the grass still in fairly good condition one third as much grain as is required in the winter season will ordinarily be enough, but as the season advances and the grass shortens and dries a gradual increase becomes neces sary. Judgment, however, must be the main rule always. The aim should be to maintain production and the condition of the cows with as little tendency to drop off as possible. Cows in the advanced stages of their milking periods that are only pro ducing 10 to 15 pounds daily will not ordinarily require concentrate feeds during the pasture season. AVOID EXCESS PROTEIN It is not always easy to balance a ration, and there is just about as much danger in feeding too much protein as too little. In many parts of this country we have a super abundance of protein feed, and it is in such districts that we find too much protein in the ration. The al falfa districts are especially given to this bad practice of feeding, and animals are ruined or made unprof itable on a good many farms. Some years ago, writes an experi enced dairyman, I fed a number of cows on alfalfa hay alone. At the end of one year, practically all of the animals were ruined. Of course, we know that alfalfe has about twice as much protein as the animal needs, and it is deficient in carbo hydrates. Many farmers say they do not need a silo because they have alfal fa. This is just like saying they do not need .bread because they have meat. Or tnat they do not need pork because they have beans. A stock farmer with plenty of alfalfa is in crying need of a silo, for silage makes the best balance for alfalfa hay. We hear a good deal nowadays about the splendid sweet clover pas tures, and how they withstand drouth and will carry three or four times the number of stock that the average bluegrass pasture will. Sweet clover is not a balanced ra tion, though we generally find it associated with other plants so that the animal can. by selecting its feed, balance the ration, but it is a pretty good plan to supply carbohydrate feeds along with sweet clover pas ture. and corn or cane is about the cheapest and best to make up the balance. Corn or cane in the form of silage furnishes the cheapest source of carbohydrates and makes the cheapest and best balance tor legume hay or pasture. A succulent ration is especially valuable to feed with legume hay or pasture, and such feeds can best be furnished in the form of roots or silage. Silage is preferred, for it requires less labor to raise or handle and keeps for several years. As sweet clover pastures are now becoming quite numerous, we must give added care to furnish a proper balance, and from tests already made we have found that silage makes the best and cheapest carbohydrate feed to go with the legume hay or pas ture. WINTER STORAGE Vegetable and fruit growers who cater to local markets must neces sarily store some of their products for winter sale. Farmers must also store their supplies of apples, pears, beets, carrots, turnips, potatoes, and the like. In providing for a storage cellar, certain provisions must be followed and principles observed: (1) See that the room is entirely shut off from the rest of the house or cellar, away from the furnace. KEEP ONLY BEST A flock owner cannot afford to keep over one-third of the old birds in the flock the second year. It is certainly reasonable that they should keep only the very best of the flock and careful selection is the only possible way without the use of trap nests. SPRING SEEDING BEST Spring seeding of alfalfa, with a nurse crop, is best in Iowa, as a rule. Not only cheaper, but more certain to make a stand, and produces a heavier crop of hay the following season than summer or fall seed in gs and preferal’/ on the north or cold side of the h use. (2) Have it Tully insulated by us ing tight wal.u and ceilings. Double walls, the dead air spaces rilled with shavings, sawdust or cork, and with all cracks plugged, are more effec tive. (3) Have a window in the small storage room, or a ventilator in the large room; keep open whenever the outside temperature is lower than the inside temperature, unless there i3 danger of freezing. (4) Keep vegetables as near 34 to 38 degrees as possible, except squash, pumpkins and sweet potatoes, which need a warm room. 56 to 65 degrees. For apples 30 to 32 degrees is desir able. (5) Keep the atmosphere damp to prevent shriveling. An earthen floor is best. Sprinkle concrete mloors or cover with a layer of earth, which may be dampened occasionally. (6) Keep the room clean and san itary to prevent the growth of bac teria and other decay organisms. (7) Keep the room as dark as pos sible by shading the windows from the outside. (8) Screen all openings to keep out rats and mice. (9) Store products on shelves, racks, slat bins or slat crates. Keep onions and cabbage on open slatted racks; potatoes in slatted bins, two to three feet, and raised an inch or two off the floor; apples in slat bushel crates; canned goods on shelves. Store carrots, beets, turnips and similar root crops in boxes of moist sand or soil to prevent shriv eling. Don’t store fruits or celery with anything that gives off an odor, such as onions. (10) Store only sound, dry speci mens, for frosted, diseased or bruised fruit or vegetables will soon rot. PUBLIC IS INDIFFERENT There is material for unlimited comment in the consumer’s objec tions to the present price of beef. The familiar principles of economic law appear in full action. A prolonged period of surplus sup plies, a steady decrease in produc tion with the marketing of breeding stock, a low level of retail prices, public indifference to the troubles of the stockraiser; a fallling off of the supply of beef, a strong advance in prices, an outcry against the price and quality of beef, threats of a boycott, public indifference to the real reasons for the situation. The consuming public objects to paying any price, however fair, that is higher than it used to be. The public can afford to pay any reasonable price for anything it really wants; and its memory is short. The public cares nothing for the interests of the producer, and has no fear whatever of a food shortage. It will always be so. If the producer is to have his interests looked after, he himself must do it. SOYBEANS AND BUTTER Since the Increase in the use of soybeans hay has become quite com mon throughout the corn belt states, dairymen have found their butter to be somewhat adversely affected in body, when the groiaid brans are red In large quantities. The flavor of the butter, however, does not seem vo be affected by the feeding of either soybean hay or the ground beans. This is a matter that has been thoroughly investigated by an accredited experiment station, and a report has been issued to the ef fect that the feeding of soyban hay does not materially affect the body of butter, but it is unwise to add soy beans in too large quantities to the grain mixture. Soybeans affect the body of the butter adversely because they are very rich in fat and the fat is of different composition from that of other grains. Whenever the fat is extracted from soybeans and the remaining soybean meal is used as a protein supplement, the butter is not adversely affected. TO KEEP RABBITS AWAY To protect young trees from rab bits, we melt laundry soap and make it into a thick jelly, and on a day when the sun shines brightly and there is a little air, if possible, wash these trees up to a height above the rabbits’ reach. We pull the soil back just a little and wash down, then put the soil back. If the job is done thoroughly, postlvely no rab bits will bother the trees. Besides, this treatment gives the bark ol trees a healthy look. Don't let hogs run in orchard after soaping or they will peel the bark off. For that mat ter, hogs should not be allowed to run in any young orchard. If it rains a lot, repeat the soap wash in middle of winter for pro tection, but I've never in over 50 years seen this treatment fail where used but once. REDUCE PRODUCTION COST There are many things for the engineer to do in agriculture, aside from designing the necessary ma chinery and making it efficient. For one thing, he can do the same as he has done in other industries— reduce costs. We hear much about the exportable surplus. It will al ways be the farmer’s problem until the right kind of co-operative mar keting enables him to dispose of it an orderly way. And until that is as other manufacturers have done —reduce the cost of production. Other industries have increased their output per man many times. It has been done in agriculture also, but not in the same ratio. And that is the thing the engineer can do. GUARD THE WOOD UOT The annual loss to our forest re sources due to fire is exceedingly large. The extent of this loss will be partially understood when it is re membered that on the average we have fult 80.000 forest and wood land fires a year. TRY THIS FOR ANTS Make a sirup of one ounce of sugar, 10 grains of arsenate of soda, two ounoes of hot water. Put a small piece of bread in it and set near where the ants travel. Keep children, pets, etc., away from this material, as it is poisonous. THE MARKET LAMB The market discriminates very severely against lambs that have not been castrated and against lambs that have not been docked. These operations are simple and easy if perfermed while the lambs are young. Both should be done before l lambs are three weeks old Grieves for Wife Frank Melius, millionaire Los Angeles manufacturer, photo graphed in court at murder trial of Leo P. Kelley, handsome “butcher’s boy.” The latter is accused of murdering Mrs. Melius in the living room of her palatial suburban home. (International Newsreel* Steers Mexican State Dr. Emilio Portes Gil, new Mexican secretary of state and is such heads the cabinet of President Calles. He formerly wa$ governor of the state of Tamaulipas. 'international Newareei: Injured in Crash Mrs. Josef Hofmann, bride of the famous pianist, who was hurt when a sightseeing bus rolled down an embankment in Spain. Her injuries wen; pro nounced painful but not serious. (International lUuotrotod Now) New Jap Minister Viscount C. Okabe, of Tokyf\ who will occupy the recently created diplomatic post of Japanese minister to Canada. (Inttrnatlonat Nawarsal) She Speaks Six Languages Lorraine Jaillet, who lives at No. 393 Central Park West, New York City, writes and directs her own dramas, composes poetry, paints and conducts her own correspondence. She speaks six languages and is a protege of Dr. Winifred Sackville Stoner, whose own daughter was the marvel of educators. Lorraine* shown here writing a little piece for the papers with her dog, Buster, lookinc on. (International IIIu»trm»e<I New») “His Memory Aisles Are Blocked” Walter Collins, nine, recently returned to his parents in Los Angeles, Cal., after being held for six months by kidnapers, is afflicted with strange gaps in his memory which it will take'! years to overcome. Photo shows boy being examined by Dr.j Earl M. Tarr. children’s specialist. 'International Neweroel) Air Is Frosty As Beauties Meet Pegey Hopkins Joyce (left), happened to run into Mabel Boll (right), in the bar of the Excelsior at Lido, Venice, recently, and they do say that the internationally famous beauties would both be dead if looks could kill. You see, Peggy was wearing that 120-carat diamond pendant which Mabel tried in vain to purchase last year. Society had a good laugh watching the girls glaring at each other all evening. • - - •»-!on«l I1U*'« f»a W*w»>