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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1913)
. First Prize Yorkshire Sow. The hog is more an individual than ' a machine, mere perhaps than the j average farmer who raises hogs sim-1 ply because they seem to be one of the farm’s many equipments, realizes. Hogs can be. with common sense attention to its environment, feed and other necessary attentions, produced and marketed as quickly as a crop of grain, and added to this the fact that a grain crop makes an income only once a year and there Is no rea son why hogs cannot bring in money trice in the year, and all the more I should a hog’s needs and individual taste be catered to. A pure bred boar costing $25 to $50 and a small herd of grade sows are all that Is required for a very j decent start in the bog business, but: to get out with profit an abundance of feed that the hogs can harvest should be provided before the hogs are bought or bred. In the selection of the male hog , 1t should be borne in mind that he , ■will be apt to stamp his outward form and appearance on the offspring. The internal structure and all the l result of its action will be determined ] for the most part by the female par ent. This is not only theory, but a well-known law of breeding. Therefore, success in hog raising depends largely on the selection and treatment of the male. It matters less how good the sowb may be than is imagined unless careful selection in the males is looked to. The boar should be of fine external form for this is the result of a superior internal organism. Width between the lore legs and large heart girth just behind them denotes a large, active heart and lungs, the very foundation of any animal. Straight, strong, clean limbs, with hoofs erect, denote a good, solid frame1 work. Smooth, mellow skin covered with soft, silky hair denotes the healthy liver and an absence of in ternal fever. A short concave face and sllightly dropping ear are the sure signs of an easy keeper and of the quiet dis position. Such are some of the feat-, ures that should be demanded in the male hog, not for appearance but be; cause they indicate qualities of real value. It is important, of course, that the male hog should be chosen with ref erence to the females with which he is to be mated. It is always of interest to note the faults of the dam which may be corrected, or at any rate, modified, in the offspring with careful selection of the sire. If she is sharp-backed and slab-, sided he should be broad on the back with well-sprung ribs. If she is long nosed and coarse about the head he should have a short, concave face, with a fine ear and a heavy jowl. If she is too coarse, too lazy, too active, too anything, in fact, the op posite characteristic should be promi nent in the male with which she is to be mated. It is sometimes desired to make a direct cross between two breeds. In this case the male should be selected from the smaller of the two. Where ! it is not desired to cross breed it is I best to have the male somewhat smaller and more compact than the female with which he i6 to be mated. ; The male chosen to fill the responsl- ! ble position of head of the herd should not only be a good individual j animal, but should come of a family that shows uniformity of breeding. He should also come of a strain that is known to be prolific. It is a losing game to keep a sow a whole year that raises but six or seven pigs in that time. This is often done and the fault iB not always on the female side of the house. The strain that has no two pigs alike, that farrows small, weak litters, that he lacking vital ruggedness, should be shunned with all possible care. TIMELY NOTES OF THE POULTRY YARD Caponizing Should Be Done in Fall, So Birds Will Secure Highest Prices. (By C. S. MILLER ) This is the best time for capcniz ing, for the reason that the cockerels are the right age and w eight, and will arrive in market during January, Feb uary and March, when the demand is greatest and prices are highest. The drone hen Las no more use in the poultry yard than the robber cow has in the dairy herd. Cut them both out and save feed. The only way to detect the robber cow is by the Babcock test, and to spot the drone hen is by the trap nest. Fowls that are dry-picked present a much better appearance than those that are scalded. Do not deceive yourself with the belief that you can successfully raise poultry without admitting plenty of sunshine to the poultry yard and the houses. Every poultry yard should be so constructed that It can be moved without much difficulty. This is often necessary when a disease strikes the flock. While grass is necessary to a fowl's proper condition, it is not fair to ex pect a hen to live on grass alone. Geese will make a pretty fair liv ing if they have plenty of grass, al though a handful of grain every day, even during the summer months, will do them all the more good. Fowls do not thrive during the winter unless they have some green feed. The natural food of domestio fowls is that which they pick up on range, and if suddenly deprived of It, both as to green vegetable matter, and meat in the form of bugs and worms, the evil effect is quickly seen. Stagnant water will make young chicks ill about as quickly as any other bad thing that may be intro duced into their systems. Spade up a part of the poultry yard and sow it to some quick grow ing legume, confining the fowls In the other part; when the crop is well started, change the fowls over to It and plow up the other side. Do It now. Excellent for Table. With a strawberry bed, a few berry bushes, and some plum and apple trees the table can be constantly sup plied with a variety of desserts easily and quickly prepared. Hay Machinery. Borrowing hay machinery is a hard test for neighborly (feeling, while even co-operative use and ownership is not easily arranged in the rush of hay time. Better buy outright and try to improve the income by doing a little work by the hour for those who need to hire. Breeding Sows. 4ows should not be bred before eight months of age, and some good hogmen do not breed their sows until ten or twelve months old. STERILIZED SOIL ! FOR THE FLOWERS Destroys All Vegetable and Ani mal Life, Keeping Out Weeds and Worms. Pew persons are aware that the soil used by florists for filling window j boxes and flower pots is sterilized. : This is not done to kill the germs, but to destroy all vegetable and ani mal life in the soil, so that the weeds will not be springing up along with ' the flowers, and worms eating their way through the wooden boxes. The sterilizing plant consist of a I large bin. with steampipes running | through it about four apart. Along these pipes there are holes every i few inches. The soil, which is sod, plowed up and left to decay for a year, is. dumped in. Then the steam is turned | on for half an hour. A* the end of I that time the pitjcess is completed. “It’s simple enough.’’ said a green ■ house man. “but one thing has to be avoided. If the soil is heated too much it becomes useless. Some of i the elements are destroyed by exces sive heat.”—E. V. B. EASY METHOD FOR KILLING GOPHERS Piece of Parsnip, Baited With , Strychnine, Will Prove Quite Effectual. (By JACKSON TATLOft.) Whenever I find fresh dirt thrown | out by a gopher I uncover the hole and take a piece of parsnip about one inch long, cut a circular piece out of one end, scrape some of the parsnip up in the bottom, then mix as much strych nine with it as can be taken up on ! the point of a large penknife, put the i circular piece back and the bait is ready. I then put the bait in the hole, push ing it back a foot or more, and leave . the hole open. Now Mr. Gopher will always come out and stop up the hole, for he does not like the light; the parsnip is a great temptation to him, and he eats it, stops the hole, and j seals his grave. Sometimes there may be the second 1 gopher in the run, but not often. I : have never faiied to get the gopher, and 1 think it tends to keep others off, for 1 have been troubled but little 1 since using this plan. — Insure Against Canker. Barrett says that ten cents worth of creolin will insure a flock of 400 I pigeons against' canker for a year; i and two or three drops in a spoonful of water, applied to the throat and ' mouth with a soft camel's hair brush, twice a day, will cure a bird when it is so bad that you are ready to wring its neck. If he finds any trace of the disease, the affected birds are re moved and cooped alone, and a few drops of the creolin is put is the drinking water of all the rest This acts as a preventative. PUT TO JE TEST By CLARISSE HORTON. “If you can love me without seeing me or hearing from me for a whole year, then I will marry you,” she had said; and the year had passed and j Rankin still loved her. He was standing by the same Ad- | irondacks lake where they had met I twelve months before. It was a cool j day in July; the wind was skimming over the surface of the water, the 1 pines rustled, a loon was crying far j away. Everything in nature had con- j tributed to make that day one for j perfect remembrance. And it was the same today as it had been. She was secretary to the president of a \ corporation, Rankin had learned, and i she was recovering from a serious | illness. Their hotels were separated ; by half a mile of undergrowth which j covered the projecting flank of Big j Mountain. They had met at the point j of the lake where Rankin fished, and | he had ventured a “good-morning.” j After that their acquaintance was a rapid one, and love perched in the i background till, growing bolder, he t stood between them. Those days of meeting! That de-! lirious happiness of love confessed! i This was no flirtation. They were j made for each other. But Ehe would | not tell him her name, nor let him , come to her hotel. “I have a very good reason,” she answered when he protested. “You must not try to find out anything more about me now. But if you can love me for a whole year, then I will I marry you. .-Aiiu xit: v ci wiu w w uu * uu aic. he cried. “O, I’m nobody mysterious, just a i plain workaday woman." she answer ed, smiling. “And when the year has passed?” “I shall be here next year. I shall wait for you here—let me see, today is July 2S. A year from today." j And all his pleas were unavailing. Despair alternated with unspeakable happiness. He praised her beauty, j her eyes, blue as the lake water; her hair, soft as yellow silk; her gait, her gestures, all intoxicated him. She heard his compliments musingly, and w'ith a slight frown. “If you could love me—1 mean me, apart from these external things,” she j sighed. “I adore you," insisted Rankin. That was on their last day together. He 1 I-1 | Stood Staring at His Trophy. gathered her into his arms and, kiss ing her, knew that his love was truly returned. A trout leaped in the lake among the lily pads, and Rankin drew a length of line from his reel. “I believe I’ll have a cast for that fellow,” he said, and raised his rod and threw it forward. The line caught behind him. Rankin heard a stifled try and turned. Upon the barbed fly j was the girl's hat, and, under it, a complete toupee of hair. Before he could stir, the girl, with a low cry, pressed her hands to her head and darted into the under growth. Rankin heard it crackle as she ran; then the crackling died away and he stood staring at his hideous trophy. tie understood now what she meant by her disparagement of his praises, and the remembrance, the rising pity, made his love truer and more intense than before. During the year that followed, throughout the fall and the long, cold winter months he dreamed perpetually of a lake studded with sunshine and a girl who stood beside | him on its brink. He understood the shame in her heart, her swift dis armament by his discovery' of her secret. He longed for her. He locked for her on every street, but he never encountered her. If she came back now he would prove his fidelity. But he had little hope that she would come. Yet, be cause his love was stronger than his disbelief, he stood upon the wooded point of the same lake a year later and waited. The sun dropped in the sky, the loon called, a trout leaped among the lilies, and then, sadly, he turned to go. She would not come. He had known it; and something went out of his life like the sun that suddenly went out of the sky. And then—she stood be fore him. “You:" he exclaimed, catching' her by the hands and looking at her with utter incredulity. "You:” she answered, and the Joy in her face reflected that upon his own. “O, I never dreamed that you would come.” “Then why did you come?” asked Rankin. “Because I had pledged my word,” she answered. “But you—why have you eome here? Surely—surety—” her voice was tremulous—“that was all a jest last year.” “I have come back to prove that it was no jest,” Rankin answered. “No,” she cried, ana her cheeks grew scarlet, “you have comn back because you are an honorable »»■» ' You think you are pledged. Hut you cannot want to marry me now.” Her vo'ce fell. "You can't want to marry me after—after that,” she whispered. "But I do want you," he answered, taking her by the hands. ‘1 love you just as much, I have dreamed of this meeting all through the months of our separation. Do you think my love is so weak that it is to be influenced by that unhappy accident? If you had never told me, but married me, and I had discovered it afterward, 1 should have been just as glad.” She faced him squarely, looking full into his eyes. "Suppose I put you to the test,” she said. "Dare you look upon me now—as I am—and then say that you wish to marry me?” “I am ready,” Rankin answered quietly. “But surely It is not neces sary to put me to such a test as that. It would only cause unnecessary suf fering to you. Take me at my word as I took you at yours.” For answer she unpinned her hat and placed it on the ground. Then she shook out her hair, fold upon fold of rippling beauty, till it en folded her to the waist. She swept it back carelessly and looked taunt ingly at him. “Take it,” she said, and held out the glittering strands. Rankin stood watching her, his arms folded; it was. indeed, the supreme test of a man’s love, to see his sweetheart disfigured, shorn, her beauty suddenly become grotesque. Suddenly, with an impetuous motion she flung her arms round him. "O, my dear, 1 believe in you now,” she cried. “Listen! I told you I had been very ill with typhoid last sum mer. They cut my hair when I was unconscious. Then I came up here to get well, and—and I wore a wig. And when you discovered my secret I t! ought 1 would die of mortification. That, too, was why I wouldn't tell you anything then. But now, my dear, I don't have to wear a toupee, because my hair is mine—do you understand? I can't cause you any humiliation or regrets because—” “Because I love you.” answered Rankin; and the loon's distant laugh seemed less ironical than of usual. (Copyright. 1913, by 3V. G. Chapman.) CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Texas has 1,034,000 milch cows. There are 721,813 school children in Kentucky. West Africa in 1912 produced 11,890 bales of cotton. One Oldham (England) machine shop employs 10,000 men. New York's mine output in 1912 was valued at $35,519,382. In 1912 some 751 ocean vessels were built in German yards. Missouri in 1912 produced 24,530 tons of barytes, valued at $117,035. Washington provides huge station ary umbrellas for traffic policemen. The new Atlantic coast port of Uru guay is to be named Atlantida Nebraska expects a 1913 wheat yield of more than thirty bushels to the acre. German railroads in 1912 received $474,000,000 from freight traffic. There are now more than two mil lion farmers in the United States using the telephone. A press weighing 12,000,000 tons has been manufactured in England for bending armor plate. The newest skyscraper in New York is to be 750 feet high and to consist of 55 stories. It will be only 50 yards shorter than the Eiffel tower. The foreign commerce of Uruguay in 1912 passed the $100,000,000 mark, while more recent returns promise that during the current year even these figures will be exceeded. Every boat engaged in the Jamaican sponge industry has a water glass or pane of glass inserted in the bottom of a box or bucket, through which the sponges are readily detected. California prune exports In the ten months ending April 30, 1913, were 106.000. 000 pounds, and raisin exports 27.000. 000 pounds, both being about forty per cent, more than in the pre vious year and about one hundred per cent, more than in 1911. Heat Pointers for'Blonds. It's easy to keep cool and not mind the heat if you know how. Here are some hints from an English physician. "Being cool.” he says, “is largely a condition of mind. Keep still, watch what you eat and drink, avoid meat, ventilate your clothes as well as your home, bathe freely and avoid extremes of heat and cold in the water. Kill the fly and don't get chilled at night. “If you are a blond, avoid the bright lights, because they are rich in chem ical ether waves. In persons that have considerable pigment in their skins— in brunettes—these short, rapid, acti- i nic waves are transformed into long and slow heat waves. These actinic waves have a deleterious effect on the | nervous system of those whose skin cannot reduce their potency. “Blonds should avoid sunlight as ; much as possible, and when they do go out they should wear colored glasses, hats with orange lining and their clothes outside should be white, to re flect the heat rays. Their underwear should be colored, preferably orange or blue. This is to protect the skin.” Household Cavalry. King George's review of the House hold cavalry recently was the first which has taken place since Queen Victoria reviewed the crack troop in 1880. The Household cavalry con- 1 sists of the First and "Second Life ! guard and the Horse guards. 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