SUGGESTIONS FOR TREATING THE COLTS F.r»« Work Team, Gentle and Strong. »**«** i»r»-.-dcr» are bold enough to cast rale ihr.T oars animals, still more 'mplsr • man a be makes a living as a geider but does not pretend td be a »e*enaary surgeon. The danger In enmrMiua is in rupture bo king aa the testicles are m the • purse, and their cords are occupying to a great extent the ondres in the briir the obtrusion into the scrotum mi a smail knuckle of .ntestine mar he overlooked unless a very careful exam mutton is made, indeed it may * eucape the intending operator t aottee if the colt has bee* well fast emed ate placed upon bis buck re main. ng there for a minute or two as during this time the small portion of gw* win often slip buck into the abdo For this among other reasons, as aid baud will prefer to have the aai mal ou his a.de while making an ex amtuaftoa tw-e* will squeeze the .Ikrya* to take the ktumkJ cough by way dt a best !f another person doe* the auuiiegiag as for w.nd patients of adults the eastrator * fingers upon the cords of the testicles will tell him of a bulge and he will then exercise ■Uii'Hul precaution - It jt far better to let th* colt get up again and aaerihe* the nme than to pruut'd without all oe- ■ sssry appli unewu Raptured emits should never he entrusted to geiders without ana tomical knowledge or nut possessing i reputation far operating upon such Tfrr bfuraai should b* prepared by lo&C tamuag piar*-d uprn tu* berk rewdered limp by tfrr iehaiatlon of efrtoeotarta and the tret idea removed •hike tbe bora* tg mat aalM* tsd no 8My a «tr-_cr e Tfrr r*t»maarj surgeon may choose to pet to two m more at cbe* of aohi Mr «sat«-r»ai icnw the urthee bo* bo loader jiwrtly occupied fry the cord If baa teed* tad all U tea used by haw bate bees rendered antiseptic tbaa mm pronably be the best plat "•frere ell! fre joat cnouce adhesive to Taw-mat tat art up by tbe sutures to GOOD TREATMENT OF ANIMAL WOUNDS Fe* him Are Materially Bene fited Ur.!ess Treated by Professionals. ». OR M Si REYNOLD*. V. S 'arm** pr-parsuoa* at turpentine. *-*xa<4, i negar carbolic acid, smtat '** otia. and »>*t mtf rai acid* are freosep;.' used l» the. trea'sent of a*i.ir,ai «vaU> and then because the hat ett rmiim in spite of a-tiarouf treatment pet-pk- erroneously con chide that the mecjt-ine cured Hioedias can usual s be checked d«tt* easily if the Mood is from a -arse number of small vessels, bi — i rtnae car te checked and final If stopped by the means of .ce and hj *er> Ik* or very cold water, or the wound may he packed in clean cooos or uaaam and neb t If bandaged la case a -arye hiood vessel is sev ered the artery may be secured by •town* of email torceps or even a hook mad* by amdit* a pm or piece of •m* is. some race* hemorrhage can t#t »•*.!» cwotriiiied by a t .ah', bandage pieces chore er below the wound If the Moot Sew, xn b steady stream the hand* re should be oa the side farthest from, the heart. If a flow* la Jets the bandar* «haM be tied between the wound aad the heart ■ omparat >*s assumption thai every colt is normal, and that no such precautions need r^- taken that «e offer these suggestions, there being ao uae in idle regrets when an hour after castration a colt is found with his bt wels hanging out and oeyond as •lstance One may say ’hat such cases nave been successfully desi: with, but the delay Is nearly always fatal If the an ,o.r 1 can be secured and the bowel held op by a sheet saturated with a disinfectant until the veterinary sur geon arrives it may oe possible to re turn -hat portion of intestine and re tain it while anticipating subsequent inflammatory troubles by proper treatment Vfr alone. Occasionally a wound is such that the edges tan be held to gether b> means of bandages. If this can be done there may be consider able advantage In doing so. but these wounds are rare Bandages should tie cfcangej frequently and the wound kept clean ^***ots may be prevent ,-d in small »ootids by smearing the following m' store around the border Turpen t t.e. on, par tar. three parts, fish oil. two parts. If a wound becomes infested with maggots, ise chloroform by spraying or sprinkling the pars by throwing it from a sponge. FEW TIMELY HINTS FOR POULTRY YARD Pleasure and Profit Found in Fowls When Rightly Fed and Sheltered. KighMy bred, rightly fed. warmly and cleanly tious-d the fowls at Snow bird poultry yards are a never fail ing source of pleasure and profit. The ground feed :f compounded at h me was composed of one scoopful of w neat bran to one of chopped corn and oats equally halved. Vegetables were substituted for the e-mmerume green food Cabbage hung by the roots within easy reach, mangel w urrels split in half then im pal-d on spikes so the biddies might pick the flesh from the outer covering :n a cleanly manner, with added suc culeucy in the form of chopped onions and uncooked potatoes together with clover-chaff and dried leaves as scratch material and roughage, mini tr .zed be grain bill and kept the fowls comfortable, vigorous, produc tive. Meat was either ground green bone or beef meal If the former, one-half ounce to the fowl daily, if the lattei. it was hopper fed they eating as much as desired and whenever inclined to. A triweekly cleaning of drop boards: a weekly spraying of jierches; a semi-annual house-cleaning, together with the usage of effective insecticides kept down the vermin. abundance, where cattle can get it without wading through mud. belly deep U favorable to good gains Prob ably the most common trouble in the feed lot is scours. When a steer suf fers from scours the feeder is losing money. The most common causes of scours are over feeding, irregular feeding, changes of feed and some times toe much ralt. A handful of shelled grain is always more effective than a clvh in inducing a pig to travel where you want It. UNCLE SAM, M. D. Specialist in Cereal Diseases ! ,lTrpar°d by tb«* United States t>epa.rt- ] ment pf Agriculture.) j The total annual loss from cereal diseases in the United States is esti mated to be $45,000,000. Moreover, over I one-half or nearly $25,000,000 of this i loss Is caused by preventable diseases. ! remedies for which have been devel ' oped and placed in usable form for the farmers by state and federal au thorities. The department of agriculture, through the office of cereal investi i gations of the bureau of plant indus try, has specialists in grain diseases working in laboratory, field and green house in an efiort to solve many sci entific and practical problems of dis i ease control which confront the grower of cereals. The state experi ment stations of Minnesota. Kansas and Washington are co-operating with the department with a view of con trolling and eliminating plant dis eases that are causing such an enor mous loss in the grain- fields. In ad dition. a well-equipped laboratory is maintained at Washington, where mi . croscopic, cultural and other studies of the disease-causing organisms are carried on during the greater part of the year. While rusts and smuts of cereals ire perhaps the most widely distrib uted and most harmful diseases which have been studied, there is another class of ’cases" which our plant doc tors must now consider. These dis eases are commonly called scabs, wilts, blights, a number of other popular names. They are nearly all of them properly called soil diseases, because their spores have the power of living in the soil, as well as on the straw, leaf or seed of their host plant They are caused, as is the case with rusts and smuts, by parasitic fungous plants which get their nourishment from our cultivated green plants. Among the preventable cereal dis eases is the stinking smut, or bunt in wheat, common in all grain-growing sections and especially troublesome in the f’alouse country of the northwest, where it is harder to control, owing to the fact ’.hat It lives over winter in the soil. The estimated average an nua. loss is two per cent, of the crop. Thie smut is easily distinguished in the field when the grain is almost ripe The smutted plants are usually slight ly stunted and the heads stand more erect than the heavy, sound heads The chaff is spread apart more or less by the dark, swollen kernels, giving the head an open appearance. When the tough membrane, or skin, of such a kernel is broken, a dark, smeary, dust-like mass is disclosed which has a peculiar fetid odor like that of de cayed fish. The smut can be controlled and practically gotten rid of by any one of the seed treatments which have been worked out and recommended for a number of years by the state experi ment stations Of these the forma lin treatment is probably the best. There are several ways of applying this treatment. It may be either sprayed on the grain or the grain may be soaked In the solution. The fol lowing method of treatment is recom mends by the Washington experi ment station: Construct a water-tight trough 8 feet long, 14 inches deep and 24 inches wirje Kill this two-thirds full of the formalin solution, which has been made up by dissolving one pint (a pound i of 40 per cent, formaldehyde In 40 gallons of water Into this pour slowly the seed wheat until the trough is nearly half full of grain. Then stir thoroughly with a long-handle shovel in order to float to the surface any smut balls that may have been car ried in by the grain. These should be skimmed off and cieetroyed. Leave the grain in the solution about one half hour. It may then be lifted out and piled op on a granary floor or on •he bottom of a‘ wagon box and cov ered with moist sacks, where it is left over night. On the following morning it will be ready to sow. If it is de sired to sow the grain in a dry condi tion, it will be necessary to spread tbe Treated seed out on the floor to a depth of two or three inches, stirring frequently in ordpr to hasten the dry ing process. If the seed is sown wet. allowance should be made for its swollen condition by setting the drill to sow a larger quantity per acre. The oat smut, another destructive disease, is widely distributed, some fields having shown as high as 30 per cent, of smutted heads. Estimated average annual loss is about two per cent, of the crop. This smut is most easily noticed a little before the grain i is ripe, when smutted plants are found to be shorter and to stand more erect than sound ones. In place of the kernels there are dark masses of smut dust which, sometimes, are covered by the chaff or glumes and sometimes are left fully exposed and are then soon blown about by tbe wind, leaving -vbe i stalk of tbe head bare. Oat smut may be preven-.ed by a similar seej treatment to the one given for the stinking smut of wheat. There is not as much danger from smut balls remaining in the treated seed, but if any smut masses are seen they, of course, should be 6kimtr.ed off and destroyed just as in the case of wheat smut. The covered smut of barley is an other cereal disease with an estimated average annual loss of two per cent, of the crop. This smut is most no ticeable several days after the barley has fully headed out. The smutted beads are darker in color than sound heads and the kernels are composed of greenish-black masses of smut. These are not blown away by the wind but remain until tbe grain is harvested and threshed, w hen the smutted heads are broken up. Many of the smut masses are not blown out by tht threshing machine but remain with the grain, smearing it with smut. The spores of the smut get on to sound seeds and are lodged in cracks and crevices of the seed coat until the seed germinates in the spring, when the young smut plant also begins to grow inside of the barley plant. This smut also can be prevented by treat ">g the seed with formalin in the same manner as for the stinking smut of wheat and os.t smut. The kernel smut of sorghum is seri ous tn crop* of kafir, broomcorn and the sweet sorghums tcaoe*. particu larly in the arid regions of the West and Southwest. It is not so easily ob served by the farmer as are most of the other grain smuts. The young smut head takes oc a gray or whitish appearance, and as it develop* the smut masses in the kernels become dark brown or black Usually smut masses are not broken and blown r.bout to any extent in the field but remain as they are formed until har vest and threshing time. They are then broken up and the smut spores get on to clean seeds, w here they stay, just as in the case of stinking smut of wheat, until the seed is planted and the sjoros grow and infect the young seedlings. As in the stinking smut of w heat, careful seed treatment wiil kill the smut spores on the outside of the seeds. The treatment recommended is as follows: Mix one pint tone pound> of full strength 40 pier cent, formaldehyde with 30 gallons of water and use this solution in the same manner as di rected for stinking smut of wheat. The loose smut of wheat is widely distributed wherever wheat is grown. The estimated average annual loss is one per cent, of th° crop. This smut is most noticeable at the head ing time of the stain. In smutted heads the kernels and chaff are re placed by dark sooty masses, which are soon blown away by tfae wind, leaving bare stems that are usually not noticed at harvest time. The smut matures and ripens its spores when the wheat is in bloom, that is. soon after heading time. The spores do not remain inclosed by the chaff, but are loose and are immedi ately blown about by the wind, fall on healthy wheat heads and some of them get on to the young ovary or seed of the wheat flower. Here they germinate aud send little filaments or | germ tubes into the youug forming kernels. As the kernels grow ar.d en large tiny smut plants are formed in side of them, but remain hidden and allow the kernels to develop and fill out like other seed. The loose smut cannot be prevented I by the ordinary' formalin seed treat- j ment. as it lives over the winter in side of the seed instead of on th; j outside of the seed coat. The only seed treatment which has proved to be a preventive for this smut is the hot water treatment. This is a delicate operation for the average farmer to perform, as the death point of the j wheat seed itself is so closh to the death point of the smut in the seed that very accurate thermometers and careful handling are necessary. The estimated average annual loss of loose smut of barley is two per cent, of the crop. The time of ap pearance and other characteristics of this smut are almost identical with the loose smut of w heat descrioed | above This smut cannot be pre- j vented by tire formalin treatment be cause the smut passes the witte* in side the seed. The hot wer treat ment will prevent it. but it is not rec ommended for the average fanner who must treat a large amount of seed , in a short time at his busiest time of the year Tm* study of corn smut is receiving considerable attention by the depart ment. The losses are variable, being largely dependent upon the locality and the season, but are often serious. No adequate amans of control are at present available, though it is kn)« that the losses from corn smut are less where a rotation of crops is practiced and where care is taken not to teed smutted corn to livestock and then .use the fresh manure on i-orr land: because corn smut spores pass through the digestive tract of farm ' animals uninjured and can live and multiply in the manure. Each of the cereal crops has one or more kinds of rust affecting them The black, or stem.»rusts of wheat, barley and oats are the most serious. Each of these three crops has an early or so-called leaf rust, which nearly always is present, but seldom does serious damage. The rusts, as their name would indicate, first appear as reddish or yellowish spots on the leaves or stems of the grains. The stem rust forms long spots of this yel lowish powder, which turn black as the grain ripens. It is this black rust stage with which most farmers are familiar and which they fear the most. The rusts we perhaps the most se rtous of all cereal diseases, for no practical preventive measures are at present know, other than the use of wheats of the durum group, and the selection and breeding of new vari eties resistent to rust. No seed treatment is of any use whatever, as the rust is an external parasite, not living over in or on the seed. Neither has any spray for the growing plants been devised which will give results at all in proportion to the cost of its application on a large scale. In fact, experiments car ried on with sprays on small plo's have not given very promising re sults. • It is hoped eventually to furnish the farmers of the great grain-producing sections with new varieties which shall be equal to the old. commonly grown sorts and. in addition, will have the added value of being immune, ir , at least resistant or tolerant to rust. L03~-f *N{> STINK.N G SMUTS OF WHEAT. A. Normal Head of Wheat, Showing Kernels Below. B, Head of Wheat. Affected by Stinking Smut, Showing Smut Balls at a. C. Loose Smut. Fox a God in Japan. Hiet Takahasbi. the quaint ata of ( Nippon who attends William Jewell college and labors betimes in the Advance office, is always talking in terestingly to his fellow employee about his country and its customs and superstitions Chief among the superstitions is the few of the fox. which is believed to have superna ! tural powers. Thrones called “In&ri | Jinsha. in which the fox is enshrined j as a deity, are numberless. The name of the deity written in Japanese char The Man and the Machine. “No; 1 don’t want any more of your labor-savin’ machines.'' said Farmer Jones, reflectively. *Tve had enough of 'em! Look in that cupboard. There's a typewriting machine in there. The missus spent all her egg and butter money to buy that for me. 'cause I ain’t so overhandy with the pen. Just look at the swindlin' thing!” ‘‘What's the matter with it?” said Farmer Bfown. “Matter!" said the old man Indig nantly “Why, you can't even write •cters signifies fox. and fr>rr this it flat to be believed that the deity really was a fox. Its natural con ntag la greatly enlarged upon and It la bettered to be . capable of mis leading and deceiving bcman beings. —Liberty Advance. Enjoys It. Gabe—There goes a fellow who en joys ill health. Steve—Enjoys it? What is he, a hypochondriac ? Gabe—No, he's a physician. your name with the confounded thing unless you know how to play the plan ner or a church organ!" Truth From the Child Witnesses. “Children are .always the best wit nesses at this age,” said Mr. Walter Schroder at a St Pancrns (Erg.) In quest. after hearing the evidence of a boy of twelve. "They are at an age when they have no desire to varnish the truth or diminish its significance. It is Just a plain, simple tale they tell.” One on Ginter. Jesse Carmichael was walk ng down town in New York with his tri end. Bob Ginter. Bob was pulling industriously on a fat. dark cigar, and had succeed ed in consuming about half of It caus ing the covering to curl up with the heat "What in thunder are you smoking T” asked CarmichaeL “A fine cigar," replied Ginter. “Oh," said Carmichael. “1 though* it was an umbrella."—Popular Maga zine. Cabling for a Doctor. An example of how the world has been reduced in size by the telegraph is forthcoming from Vaientia island. 11* miles off the west coast or Ireland. A woman was seized with illness, and the nearest doctor was on the main land at Waterville. The Vaientia cable operators sent a message to Newfoundland, whence it was trans mitted to Waterville, and thr doctor was on the island within two hours, landing amid the cheers of the island ers.—Cardiff Western Mail l Dancing Frocks for Sweet Sixteen OCWEET SIXTEEN'" must be con W s trued these dirts to mean, in reality, sweet eighteen to twenty-four; for sweet sixteen of these days is a little too young to prove interesting outside her own circle of relatives or schoolmates. The two pretty frocks for a young girl, pictured here, are suitable designs for any of the festive occasions. It will be seen that they allow plenty of freedom for the frolicsome dances to which youth is just now so devoted. The materials are supple, and the skirts sufficiently full. for these fascinating dresses soft sheer fabrics are to be chosen. There j are plenty of them. Voiles i plain or 1 flowered), chiffon, silk or cotton \ crepes, wool or cotton challies. nets, chiffon taffetas and other light silks, crepe de chine, flowered mull, besides numbers of novelties that have been brought out. Probably the two most satisfactory materials are chiffon taf feta and voile. The frock with the accordion plaited skirt is worthy of some study. It is of cream-colored Toile with girdle of rose-colored moire ribbon and long ends crossed at the front. They are fastened there and brought to the back, where they tie in a bcw with short loops under a narrow scant flounce of the material. This flounce is double, having the effect of a hang ing puff. Added to the girdle at the back is a ruffle of the ribbon, giving the effect of a short basqne finish. There is an apron of lace at the front, with bands extending upward to the bodice, over the shoulders and around the low neck The sleeves are short puffs fin ished with double ruffles and lace. Very small flowers of narrow ribbon make a slender wreath which outlines the apron and bodice and follows the line of the flounce at the back. Chiffon taffeta and lace are used, with a little plain chiffon for the sec ond dress. The picture shows so plain ly the composition that it hardly needs description. The skirt of chiffon taffeta is nar row and extends to the calf of the leg. It is finished with a wide flounce of lace and is caught up in front with two ribbon roses. There is a tunic, girdle and tiny eton jacket of the silk, with underbodice and sleeves of chiffon in the same color as the silk Tfce tunic is finished with a pattern cf light embroidery about the bottom, and the bodice is embellished with a big butterfly bow of the silk mounted above the waist line at the front. Each of the youthful wearers is pro vided with a strand of pearl beads for her neck and black satin slippers for her feet. These are simple and taste ful dresses, not at all expensive and entirely appropriate to young girls Nothing more elaborate is to be con sidered for them Petticoats With Hand Embroidery HERE are two beautiful new designs in petticoats to which a little hand embroidery gives a touch of real ele gance. The designs are simple and the work not of the kind which proves trying to the eyes. Now that Lent is here and our time is not too fully occupied it is a real pleasure to sit down to a little old-fashicned sewing. One of these petticoats is of white nainsook with a ruffle of batiste ma chine stitched to the bottom. The ruf fle is scalloped and buttonhole-stitched along the lower edge. It may be pur chased with the edge ready finished. The buttonhole stitching is extended to form smali panels. in each of the panels a spray of flowers, very simple and easily done, is embroidered. The sprays are not all alike: twoi or even three, pat terns are used, or only one. accord ing to the choice of the individual. The top of the ruffle is cut into short slashes, the edges carefully fin ished with the buttonhole stitch, and a satin ribbon threaded through these slashes by way of a dainty finish. Bine. pink, lavender or a soft geld color are shown in satin ribbons to be used for this purpose A practical petticoat to be worn with street suits is made of un hreached linen or chum bray. Plain ginghams also provide a suitable ma terial. The petticoat is plain and nar row, about a yard and three-quarters wiae. It is slit up at one side along a seam. The bottom is finished with a shallow scallop button hole stitched with a coarse floss. Two sprays of embroidery, placed at the sides of the slash in the skirt, finish its decoration. The embroidery is done in white. Stitches are long and easily done Skirts of this kind are made up in blue, pink, lavender, tan, linen color and white. They are easily laundered. Worn with a fancy corset cover they provide a foundation for wh te dresses in the new crepe-like fabrics which axe not sheer but still allow a color to glow through them. But these durable and attractive pet ticoats are to be worn with utility dresses and are not made for those of airy fabrics, which will be used for other wear. • There is a certain satisfaction in hand-wrought undergarments, and a certain pride in one's own work which more than pays for the time spent upon such simple and practical gar ments. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Extension Side Girdle. !£ost effective of ai] the new fur bishes for costumes is the extension, side girdle. So broad that it gives the very becoming Empire effect above the waist line, below that line it fits smoothly over the hips and lends to them the much-desired appearance of extreme slenderness. At the left side this girdle extends into a single broad sash end—cut in one with the acces sory—which tapers gradually toward the knee, where it terminates In a deep fringe. The girdle, which obvi ously must be carefully fitted to the fig Jre and skillfully boned into perma nent shape, is most effective in velvet but often a very heavy silk Is used anl occasionally duvetyn or thick broadcloth. The choice of the fabric defends, of course, wholly upon the street or house coetume with which it Is to be worn. Cleaning Piano Keys. Water should never be used to clean the keys of a piano, as It removes t&sir polish. Rub them with a cloth dampened In alcohol, which will re move all yellow stains and make the keys perfectly white again.