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    MercolizedWax
Keeps Skin Young
Get an ounce and -t*» 11 directed. Fin* particle* of ac*d
Ada peel off until all defect* neb a* pimple*, lirer
•pot*, tan and freildei disappear. Skin 1* then soft
and velvety. Your fee* look* year* younger Mer-’otited
Wax brine* out the hidden beauty of your skin. T*
VUineva wrinkle* on* ouooe Powdered Scroll to
dtardv©d in ooo-haLf pint witch haxel. At drua store*.
~Odd Wall Design
A petrified snake, outlined in baa
relief on a stoue perhaps millions of
years old, wdl appear in the wall of
the first stone house to be built In
Warren county, Pennsylvania, in sev
enty years. The fossil form, about
two feet long, resembles a garter
•nuke. A1 Westren, builder of the
bpuse, was showing visitors over the
scene. While inspecting the stone to
be used In the construction, all of
which is being used just as it ie
found on the hillsides, one of the vis
itors noted tiie form of the snake.
We-1 ren denied to use the stone in
the construction.—Indianapolis News.
Dr Pierce’s Pillets are best for liver,
bcweis and stomach. One little Pellet for
a las alive—three for a cathartic.—Adv.
The Centuries
The Nineteenth century Included
the whole of 1900, just as the First
century, beginning with January 1 In
the year 1, would include the whole
year, 100. The Twentieth century,
therefore, began with January 1 in
1901, and it wit! not be completed un
til December 31, 2000.
[kill COLD germs!
; Clears head instantly.
Stops cold spreading.
Sprinkle your
handkerchief during the day
—your pillow at nighf.
Relic of Old Days
A btriking relic of the old Com
stock days was unearthed at Virginia
City by Albert Dressier, of Berkeley,
a souvenir hunter, when he found an
imitation glass cigar five feet long
that was used to advertise a famous
cigar store 50 years ago. The device,
forerunner of electric signs, was
lighted with gas and Is constructed
of If 000 to 20,000 glass prisms.
STOP RHEUMATIC
PAINS WITH HEAT
OF RED PEPPERS
Relieves Almost Instantly
Good old Nature has put into red
peppers a marvelous therapeutic heat
that gets right down to the source of
trouble and almost instantly relieves
the pains and aches of rheumatism,
•tiff joints, lumbago and neuritis.
Thousands have found it the one safe
guard against chest colds, too. Now
this genuine red peppers' heat is con
tained in an ointment that you just rub
on. In less than 3 minutes you feel re
lief come. It is called Rowles Red
Pepper Rub. Safe. Will not burn or
sting. Geta small jar from yourdruggist.
Figuratively
"That woman, Mrs. White, has a
fine figure.”
"A fine figure! Why, the only
iking she can buy ready made is an
umbrella.”—Passing Show.
Magic carpets are never nailed
down.
Unfortunately, one can't make a
Wring being a tourist.
Los Angeles Boy
Needed Help
Leroy Young, 111G
Georgia St., Los An
geles, is a “regular
f e 11 o w,” active In
sports, anil at the
top in his classes at
school. To look at
him now, you’d think
he never had a day’s
sickness but his mother says: “When
Leroy was just a little fellow, we
found his stomach and bowels were
weak. He kept suffering from con
ttfpation. Nothing he ate agreed
with him. He was fretful, feverish
and puny.
“When we started giving him Cali
fornia Fig Syrup his condition im
proved quickly. Hi< constipation and
' biliousness stopped and he has had
no rrcre trouble of that kind. I have
since used California Fig Syrup with
hire for colds and upset spells. He
likes It because it tastes so good and
I like it because it helps him so
wonderfully!”
California Fig Syrup has been the
trusted standby of mothers for over
GO years. Leading physicians recom
mend it. It is purely vegetable and
works with Nature to regulate, tone
snd strengthen the stomach and
bowels of children so they get full
nourishment from their food and
waste is eliminated in a normal way.
Four million bottles used a year
shows ljow mothers depend on it. Al
ways look for the word “California”
•on the carton to he sure of getting
the genuine.
MADRID LOSES
BIG CITY TITLE
Barcelona Also Falls Below
Million Class in New
Census Count
Madrid—(UP)—Spain has com
pleted another census, which reveals
that it yet has no city with a mil
lion residents.
Great pains were taken to count
every one in Barcelona, the larg
est city of Spain, in the hope that
the census would show 1,000,000
residents. But the tabulations de
veloped that Barcelona had failed
by 22,869
Even though the Catalan capi
tal is not in the million class, it
has had a remarkable growth. Ac
cording to the census of 1920, its
total population was 710,335, and
according to the calculations made
by the municipal government in
1928, it had 840,931 inhabitants.
As in most continental European
cities, there is a big surplus of
women over men. The difference is
87,138, which means ther„ are ap
proximately 9 per cent more wom
en than men.
Many years ago Barcelona and
Madrid were big rivals in the ques
tion of population, but recently
i Barcelona has forged ahead. In 1920
Madrid was still ahead, with 750.896,
but in 1928 it already wras behind
Barcelona, Madrid then having
809,400 inhabitants.
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YE SPORT OF YESTERYEAR
Out in the shed wherein I keep
Reminders of old times,
T came across, this very morn,
A string of sleigh bell chimes.
Each bell is fastened to a strap,
Old Dobbin used to wear,
When snow and ice were on tha
ground
And frost was in the air.
\nd so attuned, on moon lit nights
We hitched him to a sleigh
Of graceful, swanlike curves and
shape,
And jingled down the way.
And »o we drove the miles alonfc
Nor scarcely needed fur,
Because, you’ll mind, beside us
there
We felt the glow of "Her.”
Oh modern youth, in speeding cars*
You’ll never have our chance
To know the beauty of a night,
Nor flavor of romance.
—Sam Page.
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Cultured Gasoline.
From Christian Science Monitor
The plain and fancy brands of
gasoline which are entering tha
market bid fair to outdo the pickle
industry in variety. Where once the
motorist drew his machine up
alongside the curb and called for
five gallons of "gas,” he calls today
for a tankful of “forked lightning.’*
or "orchid streak,” or “blue spit
fire.” or something else which is
supposed to push any “old bus” over
the turnpike at a rate of speed and
a facility of movement that no
plain gasoline ever could hope to
produce.
He backs up to an array of filling
posts that resemble a denuded for
est. Gasoline here to fit anv pock
etbook and more names for it than
there are ingredients in an end-of
the-week stew. And the color
schemes are not neglected. One may
now have his favorite tint carried
into his gasoline tank. Whether
one’s taste favors pink or green,
blue or yellow, the chemist appears
to be quite ready to meet it.
To top <t all, the automobilist
learns that he need no longer linger
In out-of-the-way places while seek
ing assistance to start a balking car.
He is told the new products not only
start it instantly, but can keep it
going for some time after the tank
is empty.
Add id tnese reunements wio
possibility of scented gasoline, and
the time may come when exhaust*
will fill the highways, not with car
bon monoxide but with attar of
roses. Then it may be said that
gasoline is not only refined, but cul
tured.
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EVENING SLIPPERS
A pink and brocade slipper has a
tiny vamp yoke of gold and silver
kid, a gold and silver ankle strap
fastened in front with a tiny bril
liant and a square heel of silves.
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PURE LUCK
From Wampus.
Stern Father (to son departing
/or boarding school)—Now, dotfT let
me hear any bad reports about you I
Son—I’ll try hard, dad. But you
know how these things leak out.
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Must Have Her Way.
From Answers.
Harrassed Carpet Salesman (ap
pealing to .husband)—You won’t
beat this, sir.
Wife—Excuse me—he will If I
want him to.
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She’ll Tell You, Then.
From Manchester News.
Lovesick Nephew: Uncle, what's
fhe best way of finding out what
she thinks of me?
Bachelor Uncle: Marry her, my
boy.
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Helping the Wife.
From Answer's.
"What are you writing?"
“A letter to my wife."
"Why do you write so slowly?”
‘Because she can’t read very
/ast."
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Surprise to Both.
From Passing Show.
Walking Tourist (after 10-mile
flft»: Well, good-bye and thanks for
the lift.
Motorist: Lift, I’m a taxi driver
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Getting Revenge.
From Answers.
Dentist: What is your occupation?
Patient: I’m a comic artist on a
newspaper.
Dentist: Then I’ll try to live up to
m.v profession as you fellows maw
me.
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The Peace Conference.
From Judge.
Those who think it is impossible
to substitute amity and arbitration
tor hostility and fighting haven’t
oeen to any of the recent heavy
weight bouts.
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Health Service
Why People Take to Drink
MOST ALCOHOLICS HAVE DEFE CTS IN HEREDITY. AND DRINK
TO ESCAPE REALITY AND FIN D SUSCEASE FOR THEIR PROB
LEMS
BY DK. MORRIS FISHBEIN.
Editor, Journal of the American
Medical Association, and of Hy
geia. the Health Magazine.
The question as to why some peo
ple indulge excessively in alcoholic
liquors, whereas others do not, has
been one which has long given
concern to the experts in phar
macology, physiology, psychology,
nervous and mental diseases. In
general, all are agreed that chronic
alcoholic* are the result of some In
adequacy to face the problems of
life, and In most cases have some
defect of heredity.
The defect in heredity does not
Indicate, as most novelists presume,
some alcoholic ancestry, but rather 1
the occurrence In previous gener
ations of some mental weakness
The chronic alcoholic, before suc
cumbing to his habit, has usually
suffered some nervous symptoms
of one kind or another, quite fre
quently a state of depression which
alcohol for the time being relieves.
* • *
This virtue in alcoholic liquors
is one of the reasons why physi
cians prescribe them. Scientifically
they have the ability to Induce a
state of euphoria or a feeling of
well being, which particularly in
the aged is of great importance.
One of the British physiologists
expresses this particular virtue In
alcohol in the following manner:
‘‘In the terrific conflict between
what he has been taught to desire
and what he is allowed to get, a
man has found the alcohol a sin
lster but effective peacemaker . . .
a way out of the prison house of
reality.”
Another British observer. Dr. D
Yellowlees, points out that certain
cases of alcoholism represent an en
deavor to relieve an unconscious
mental tension. In a case of those
who are periodic drunkards, that
is those who only occasionally in
dulge in excessive drinking but who
are usually temperate or who may
even abstain entirely from alcoholic
liquors in the intervals, it is found
that the outbreaks occur when some
unconscious mental tension has ac
cumulated until the breaking point.
The discharge err the escape from
reality occurs in a sudden debauch.
In those cases in which the drink
ing is habitual, the mental prob
lem is more constantly in the mind
of the individual, and he is fre
quently found to have not a weak
will or a bad character but an un
satisfactory emotional life.
The physiologists who have been
primarily concerned with the effects
of alcohol on the human body be
gan with the generally accepted
view that alcohol is not a stimulant
but a depressant of the nervous sys
tem. The lower centers of the ner
vous system are the first and the
easiest to be depressed; hence
there seems to be a stimulation of
the higher levels. It is this stimu
lation and the removal of the re
pression which gives rise to the
feeling of exaltation, and which
makes the alcoholic talkative, emo
tional and easily disturbed.
Glorifying Yourself
By Alicia Hart
Are your fingers smooth, soft and
white?
I know of a young woman with
perhaps the most shapely pair of
hands I have ever seen. But she
recently had a harsh surface along
the outer edge of her first fingers
on both hands. She didn't know
what caused them. The rest of
her hands were their usual soft,
white, firm selves.
However, she set to work to rem
edy the defect. She used her little
facial brush with tepid soap suds
and carefully rubbed and scrubbed
the surfaces. Next, she used a piece
of fine pumice stone, again not over
doing it but going at it patiently.
After this she used warmed olive
oil for a few nights, bandaging both
fingers with tape, loosely, just to
keep the oil on them. After that she
used a new hand cream just put on
the market this winter and the to
tal effect of all of her care are two
perfect fingers again.
For Callouses Too
The ends of some fingers become
calloused. Across the mounds of the
fingers inside the palm of the hand
is another spot for callouses. A per
son who writes much by hand or
sews is apt to have one blemished
finger that sends out callouses to
protect itself. The above treatment
is good for them all.
One of the most unsightly stains
on a really womanly hand is a
brown nicotine stain. Sometimes
both the first and second fingers of
one hand become temporarily blem
ished by this brown stain. It needs
soaking, scrubbing, a good soften
ing with cream and then a bleach.
After the bleach use a hand cream.
And, if you think you are going
to stain them again, use a holder
for your cigaret.
British smokers pay $20 > 000,000
Into the nation's treasury every
year. __
PROTECT THE COBS
Cows that are accustomed to be
ing comfortably housed during the
winter months are not in condition
to stand sto: my, cold outside tem
perature and conditions that are a
normal part of winter. One cannot
turn feeds into milk efficiently with
cold air and Ice water. Cow barns
need not be warmer than 46 to 50
degrees F. ft ; cows. There is a lot
of differenct however, between 45
degrees F. id i&ero temperature
Try it vour. If. Don't blame the
cow if she c ects to too much cold
air.
GIVE POl'1 i KY PLENTY LIME
Oyster she I and high grad- lime
[ atone grit c - l’t make up a verv
BARBS
A Chicago woman gave her sweet
heart a set of false teeth and then
he Jilted her. Probably enabled him
to snap at other opportunities.
• • •
The United States protests that
Japan’s invasion of Manchuria Is
illegal. But Japan probably knows
that Uncle Sam has been protest
ing for several years about selling
liquor, too.
* • •
Yet, if most of us could see our
selves as others see us, we’d think
it was two other fellows.
• • •
Frozen booze stopped sewage in
a Missouri city. Prozen assets have
stopped more thay that.
* • *
Dempsey suid he would fight 10
rounds with'Johnny Risko in Cleve
land If promoters could scrape up
$500,000 for his purse. If there’s
room for $500,000 in his purse, it
must be pretty flat,
* • •
Anyway, Dempsey is just a big
time boy coming back. But from
this it would seem he had never
been gone.
M1T.K PRODUCTION
Producing a quality milk on the
farm is very little harder to do
than producing a poor milk. The
added expense is ?. very small mat
ter indeed. Proper washing and
sterilizing of milking utensils will
work wonders in Keeping milk as
nature intended it. Cooling, use of
small-top milk palls, wiping of the
udder with a damp cloth, and clip
ping the long hair from the flanks,
udders, and bellies, all are examples
of the little steps that mean so
much to this important part of
making more money milking cows.
FARM TRADE INCREASED
Washington — <AP> — Higher
standards of living among farmers
has brought Increased trade to
towns of between 1.000 and 10.000
population, Dr. C. 3. Galpin, of the
bureau of agricultural economics,
believes.
! large percentage of the ration of
the properly fed laying hen but are
extremely essential. Having calci
um in one or both of these forms
available at all times is the only
sound plan that will guarantee that
the hens will get all they need. If
they don't, egg production during
the winter months is bound to come
down.
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The burner on the oil brooder
stove should be carefully cleaned at
least once a week and if carbon
collects excessively, it should be
cleaned oftener. The automatic feed
on the stove needs attention to see
that it, is working properly and
•moothly at all times.
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
CLEANING DAIRY UTENSILS
There aie various compound.*
.hlch may used to dissolve the film
4 milky coating that forms in the
ewer Uning. A strong solution 01
odium carbonate (sal soda' may be
used to good advantage. This should
oe mixed at the rate of one pound
of the crystals to two quarts of hot
water. If tills does not work, a
stronger solution may be used which
is made from either caustic soda
or potash. The soda is usually the
cheaper. Two quarts of such solution
should contain about ont pound of
i he caustic. Usually it is quite dil
iicult to clean dairy utensils when
lhe milk has dried on them. This
may be prevented by rinsing the
utensils as soon as they are used
in tepid or luke warm water. Most
any cleaning compound that you
might purchase would have a ten
dency to blacken the tin provided
vou soakedithe utensil In a solution
of it. One of them, however, a pro
duct containing sodium chromate
and tri-basic sodium phosphate,
does not seem to affect the tin to
any great extent. If the utensils are
rinsed as soon as they are used,
any good soda cleaner should work
satisfactorily. It is usually a poor
plan, however, to soak tinned uten
sils,
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COOKING SOY BEANS
One agricultural experiment sta
tion has found hat the cooking of
cull beans improves their feeding
value lor swine. Another station
found that feeding cooked soy beans
saved 115.7 lbs feed per 100 lbs.
gain. In a ration including raw soy
beans, pigs fed 30 weeks averaged
198 lbs. weight as compared with an
average of 247 lbs. for similar pigs
led a ration including cooked soy
beans but limited to the same
a mount of total feed as was fed the
pigs having raw soy beans. Where
pigs were allowed 0.71 lb. cooked
soy beans daily plus other feeds to
the limit of appetite, they were
ready for market 84 days earlier
than' similar pigs fed raw soy beans.
In these trials corn, ground alfalfa,
and minerals w'ere fed In addition
to soy beans. Too many soy beans
produce soft pork. Another station
says that a ration for fattening hogs
should not contain over 12 per cent
of soy beans.
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CASHING CHECKS
There has been no end of trouble
in Iowa of late, due to folks taking
checks in payment for products and
then holding the checks a few
weeks, only to find them no good
when presented for payment. Some
times it’s a closed bank, and at
other times It's bankruptcy that
beats the farmer. When you get a
check, send It to the bank at once.
The law allows a reasonable time
to collect a check, but when you
hold it a week or so and something
happens to the writer's bank ac
count. you lose. Remember, when
you take a check the law protects
you If the writer hasn’t any money
on hand. But If you hold the check,
you lose your protection. If you can
not get to town at once to present
the check for payment, endorsp It.
Payable to the-bank for deposit,"
and mall it to the bank. Then the
bank eollects the check and you
have the cash coming.
CORN STALK DISEASE
More or less corn stalk disease oc
curs every fall when cattle and
horses are turned out into the corn
stalks. The disease is more prevalent
some years than others, and no one
can tell whether It will be prevalent
this year. When attacked by the
disease, the animals become delir
ious, get down and thrash around,
and within a few hours are usually
dead. The first symptom is nervous
ness. A sort of intoxication takes
place, the animal becomes weak and
wabbly, some being so crazed that
they nave a tendency to fight any
person giving them attention. The
cause of the disease is not really
known. The most reasonable opinion
which has been ventured Is that
corn stalk disease is due to some
form of poison, either prussic acid
or potassium nitrate, or both. Treat
ment of sick animals, especially cat
tle, Is practically ineffective, and
the only absolute preventive is to
keep cattle and horses out of the
corn stalks.
FORCING LATE PULLETS
“How can one best handle late
pullets to get them Into lay before
winter weather arrives?” has been
asked many times. Warm houses
and a good ration, with plenty of
green feed or alfalfa hay, are es
sentials, of course. Separation of
the pullets from the older and more
mature fowls is also necessary if
the best possible egg production is
to be obtained Milk is really the
magic feed for such birds. Some
how, it makes up for whatever our
good rations lack of being ideal. It
partly replaces the grass and sun
shine that the earlier maturing
birds had to help mature and de
velop them. Probably liquid milk is
best, but if it is not available, milk
paste fed straight or diluted is an
excellent substitute, or one can re
place 8 or 10 per cent of the meat
scraps or meat and bone in the
mash with dried skim-milk or dried
buttermilk.
SEEKING A REMEDY
In attempting to secure better
prices for farm products, it has been
discovered that a slight surplus has
too great an effect on the price of
the entire commodity. Therefore,
some people, who have not thought
deeply on the necessity of an ade
quate food supply, look upon sur
plus as an evil, and effort is made
toward controlling production of ag
ricultural products.
WATERING COWS IN WINTER
A leading agricultural extension
service gives an interesting observa
tion on watering cows. One dairy
farmer found that it took 20 cows to
give nine cans of milk a day when
they drank water from the creek
in winter, whereas 18 cows gave the
same quantity of milk when their
water was supplied from drinking
bowls attached to the stanchions.
Winter weather is here. It takes
PASTURAGE MONEY MAKER.
Time was when virgin fertility
gave us considerable grazing with
out much work. This no longer holds
true. Good pastures are the result
of the same careful planning and
carrying out of practices that we
would expect to use with other
crops. _
A GOOD THING TO KNOW
It is a simple matter to find pul
ley sizes and speeds if one only re
members that either pulley’s speed
multiplied by diameter equals the
other pulley’s speed multiplied by
that pulley’s diameter. Then mul
tiplying the speed of either util
more than cows and feed to make
profitable quantities of milk. It
takes quite a lot of water. Normal
average milk Is about 87 per cent
water. The conditions under which
water is offered to cows has a lot
to do wdth how much they will ac
tually drink. Try it yourself. Take
a drink from the unprotected, un
heated water tank some morning
when the temperature is down to
zero.
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SOV BEANS FOB BKOOD SOWS
Tests at one university have
proved soy beans are satisfactory as
a supplement to farm grains far
brood sows during gestation. About ,
two-thirds to three-fourths of »
pound of beans a head daily was
fed. One and a half bushels of
beans, therefore, will carry a sow
through her gestation period of 114
days. In addition to farm grains
and sov beans, sows should be given
what legume hay of good quality
they wdll eat. The hay can be fed
from a simple feed rack or on a
leeding floor. Alfalfa hay is ths
standard, although soy bean hay ot
good quality also has been fed suc
cessfully. The sows also should hava
access to a mineral mixture. Aa
item fully as important as the ra
tion is the exercise the sows get.
They should be forced to exercise if
they do not do so voluntarily. A
large pasture or corn field in which
the sows are gathering part of their
feed is excellent.
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FATTENING LAMBS
Because many inexperienced
feeders are handling lambs this
year, market men are now proph
esying that an abundance of low
grade, half-fat lambs will be on tho
market this winter, according to
an extension specialist in sheep and
wool. The owner may tell whether
the lambs are fat by walking along
back of them while they are feeding
and placing the hands on the backs
of the lambs. If the backbone is
still sharply defined, the lambs are
not fat. Another method of deter
mining the condition of the lamb is
to grasp it around the loin. In »
thin lamb, it is possible for the fin
gers to pass well over the edges of
the loin. As the lamb becomes fat*
the loin fills out.
count your chickens
There e going to be a lot 01 steal
ing this winter. Farmers will loso
along with others. Therefore, it’s
extra important that you know
what you own. If you raise live
stock, poultry or grain, know how
much you nave. Count now and
then, and if you think there’s bcvu
a loss, you will have time to notify
your stieriff before all clews am
gone. When you go to town, lock
your automobile. That will sava
you some trouble and considerable
property. The average thief is aa
amateur, and will not go out of tha
way to rob you, but if you are care
less and leave your property about
recklessly, you merely help him to
help himself.
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KEEP TANK WARM
Hogs as well as dairy cows ap
preciate warm water in winter amt
repay their owners in more effi
cient production, according to ex
periments. A lot of fall pigs wtuc4
received warm water returned abou#
17 per cent more profit than a lott
of similar pigs which got cold wa
ter. It takes food energy to wand
up the cold water which the ani
mal takes in. It is profitable, there^
fore, to bank and cover the stock
tank during the winter. The water
may be warmed with a tank heater
or by the heat generated in a bunk
ing of fresh horse manure.
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HANDY FARM TOOL
The time and labor required to
handle ensilage with a makeshift
tool may be cut in half through tha
use of a fork which has been spe
cially designed for this purpose. The
face of such a fork is dished to
hold a sizeable load, and the tinea
are close enough to pick up an<t
carry ensilage, chopped feed of
shavings. One fork should always
be left in the silo during the feeding
season, and it will be found most
economical from a standpoint o£
saving time to have as many other#
as needed around the barn.
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READ AM) REFLECT
It has been said that the char
acter of a farmer can be judged by
the appearance of his fence cor
ners, but there is reason to believa
that the condition oi' the front
lawn is more often the index by
which opinions are formed. A well
clipped lawn, free from weeds, not
only impresses passersby with tha
evident thrift and progressivenesa
of tne owner or tenant but also in
spires pride and gives pleasure to
those who live there. A slovenly
appearing front lawn offers a poor
basis for credit just as a slouchy
appearance oiten mils to inspire
confidence in a person’s ability.
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VENTILATI f) CELLAR
Enough ventilation should be pro
vided throughout the winter to pre
vent the cellar from becoming ciosa
or stuffy, which indicates that insuf
ficient oxygen is being supplied and;
carbon dioxide is accumulating.
Sufficient air changes to prevent
the accumulation oi moisture on tho
skin of the stored products is neces
sary, but undue ventilation should:
be avoided as it will decrease tha
moisture content oi tiie air, so that
lass of moisture from the product
will be greatly increased.
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GOOD FLEA REMEDY
Denis powder, an insecticide con
sisting of the finely ground roots of
the tropical plant known as denis,
is effective in killing fleas on cata
and dogs, says the United States
Department oi Agriculture. Scatter
ing a teaspoonful of the powder
along the back of the animal is tha
method suggested. The department
also suggests fresh pyrethium powder
for the same purpose. Neither is
poisonous to humans or animals.
ley by diameter in inches and div
iding by the speed of the other pul
ley will give the diameter in
inches of the other pulley; or di
viding by the diameter in inches
of the other pulley will give its
speed.
THOSE HATCHING EGGS.
Using eggs as soon after laying aa
possible also will improve hatch abil
ity. rt is best to held them no long
er than about 10 days after laying
before setting. Eggs held at a tem
perature of from 45 to 50 degree*
give be3t results. Lower or higher
temperatures are apt to weaken tha
germs.