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WORK FOR SUCCESS WITH SHEEP FLOCK A Prize-Winning Shropshire Ram. (By A. C. CHOATE.) By this time the sheep have been turned into pasture and I desire to give a few points on the feed for the flock during the time they are on grass. When you fasten the gate behind the flock when they are turned on the pasture do not think that your duties are ended until November. In tbe business of raising sheep it is the shepherd vith the ever-watch ful eye who is reaping success, now as always. A little time w ill insure a good start and cost but little. As soon as the ground can be worked, take a little strip of land, pre pare a good seedbed and sow in rape. In three weeks sow a second strip and so on until the last of July. These plots should be adjacent to the pas- ' tare and can be temporarily inclosed | by woven w ire, giving the sheep a new ■ feeding ground every four or five days. As sheep want short, crisp grass it can be secured by this method with out overstocking the pasture and it would be well to have it so arranged that the sheep can be changed from one division to another once in two weeks. It is surprising howr soon a lot of lambs will begin to eat bran, oats. 1 and cracked corn, wheat screenirgs, etc., if such feeds are placed wi'liin their reach. The best w ay to feed grain to lambs is to make a creep for them. This is a pen in the pasture with an opening on each side through which the lambs can creep but small enough to keep the ewes out. If such a pen is made of slats set upright, the slats may be far enough apart to allow the lambs to creep through anywhere at pleasure. This pen or creep should be cov ered so as to protect the grain from rains and should have a trough in it in which the grain should be kept all the time. The lambs will grow and thrive wonderfully and when weaning time comes they may be taken away from the ewes without any setback at aU Lambs mature quickly and make a better size if they are taught t<? eat grain as quickly as possible. While it is advisable to see the sheep often while they are on pas ture, still it is not necessary to stay with them all the time and good re sults may be obtained with plenty of good water, salt and feed and a week ly visit, if the dogs do not trouble them. If, however, sheep-kiiling dogs are around, be cn your guard w ith a good shotgun. RAISE PEANUTS IN NORTHERN SECTIONS Spanish Variety Grows in a Bunch and Can Be Planted Closely—Matures Early. HUGH G GRIX5TEAD.J A few years ago it was thought that peanuts, or "goobers" as they are called in the South, could be raised only in the southern states, but now it is known that they do fairly well as lar north as Iowa, while they grow almost as well in Missouri as in the more southern states. The best variety to plant so far north is the Spanish, which grows in a bunch, can be planted closer, and matures earlier and more even than the old Virginia varieties. The soil best suited to the growth of peanuts s sandy or warm and well drained. They should not be planted till the ground is warm, about the same time you would plant melons. Prepare the ground well, and drop the seed two in a hill 14 inches apart for the bunch kind, and about 20 inches apart for the vine kinds usually grown in the South They should be kept clean. It is lot necessary to cover the vine with dirt in order to get it to form nuts, as was once done, for the vines will ibrow out runners on which the nuts form by little roots running into the cround.__ I never saw a peanut plant quit nearing. Like the cotton plant, they baie fruit of all stages of growth when the crop is harvested, and. of rourse. the longer the season the larger the crcp. As Foon as there is danger of frost ;he vines should be pulled up. A lork should be run under the hill, loosening the ground so all the nuts may be pulled up with the vine. The i lues may be allowed to remain In the field if the weather is good, or they may be taken to the barn and the nuts picked off at any time. If the vines are not allowed to get wet they make excellent hay. There will be many culls or imperfect nuts that are worth nothing and should be left on the vines for the stock. A pound of nuts from any good seedsman will plant enough for home use. They are healthful food and contain much nourishment. Dairyman Must Be Orderly. The dairy farmer must be orderly and he must be systematic. He must like his work and he must be proud of his cattle. If he is not any of these he will seldom prove successful. Decide on Breed Yourself. Which is the best breed to handle? Here's a question that very often pre sents itself and the only answer is found in the personal equation. It's up to you to decide for yourself. By-Products Help. The by-products of the dairy cheap en the expenses of production; the hogs, chickens and the eggs all help to bring down the cost of dairy work. Beginning With the New Crop. Are you planning to try some new crop this season? Begin on a small scale. Prevent neg Weakness. The flock that gets bone meal and oyster shells in its feed will have few , cases of leg weakness. I BEST TIME TO HAVE THE COWS FRESHEN More Tirrue for Caring for Animal and Her Products in Winter Than in Summer. • By C. A. HUTTON. University of Ten nessee.) There are several advantages in having the cows freshen in the fall of 1 the year instead of in the spring | There is more time on the farm foi caring for the cow and her products j during the winter months Cows will give a better yield of milk j than if they freshen in the spring. It they are properly cared for and fed they will milk well when fresh; then when the grass comes in the spring, it helps to keep the milk flow, bo that the fall fresh cow will milk better through out the year than the one that fresh ens in the spring. The cows will be dry during the hot summer months, when pastures are short and flies art bad. More attention can be given tc caring for the calves, and they will be ready to turn on pasture in the spring when grass comes. There is more demand for milk and butter during the winter months, and tne price is higher than in the Bummer If cows are bred so as to freshen iD the fall, they will give better cash re turns from the sale of their products. SUPERIOR QUALITY OF BERKSHIRE HOG Animal in Good Condition Is At tractive in Appearance—Noted for Prolificacy. In general form a modern well-bred Berkshire, in good condition, is sym metrical throughout, attractive in ap pearance and recognized at once as an animal of more than ordinary worth. The improved Berkshire is furtbei characterized by the superior quality and proportionate quantity of its flesh which iB tender and juicy, the hams and shoulders being nicely marblec with fat and lean meat, while the sides are also noted for their excellence in these respects, making them espe cially desirable for curing as bacon. There is less loss in dressing a well fitted Berkshire than in dressing any other kind of bog. From the fattening pen to the packing house he suffers less loss than any other breed, and after he has gone through the curing process and has found the consumer the percentage of waste is the smallest of any breed. Berkshire swine are also noted for their docility and prolificacy, the scwe usually bringing large litters and proving themselves gentle mothers. Pasture Needs Attention. It's a possible thing to make the pasture a profit-yielding field, but it must be handled year after year in a systematic manner and not simply turned over without any attention whatever. — Deserving of Punishment. A man who will work a horse with a sore shoulder and make no attempt to cure it or change the collar ought to be compelled to wear ill-fitting | shoes that would raise a new crop of i blisters every week. QTFof GSdiaary <r People iP jHAMMERING THE TURK Gen. Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton*, in supreme command of the British-French army now landed on the Gallipoli peninsula to co-op erate with the British-French fleet for the conquest of the Dardanelles and Constantinople, is a poet-soldier, with the tough, wiry frame of the Scotch and the Scotsman’s long, narrcw head, strong nose and bold chin, and with the big ears of the generous Irishman and the Irishman's iugratiut- * ing smile. The eyes are shrewd and calculating, as becomes a canny Scot, hut no less emotional and full of fun —the endowment of a son of Erin The son of a Scotch father, stern industrious and far-sighted, a distia guished military man himself, and of an Irish mother, fascinating, vi | vacious and artistic, Hamilton was born sixty-two years ago in th* : fortress at Corfu. Hamilton came under the notice , of Roberts in the Boer war of 188) j where he went with the Gordon Highlanders, and where, at tne British de feat at Majuba hill, he discovered that there wasn't a British soldier in a hundred who knew how to handle his musket, and not one in a thousand whc j appreciated the necessity of learning how. Wounded at Majuba hill and taken to the hospital, Hamilton was given up for dead. He revived when Sir Evelyn Wood dashed up. covered with mud from a long ride, to tell him that the dispatrhes home were going ro i niention his bravery. It was the first of a series of honor records which now have become so numerous that they would fill a book, while his medals and clasps, if he wore them all at the same time, would weigh him down like a coat of mail. Hamilton has written books of poetry and ballads, a history of the Jap anese campaign in Manchuria and a book ou military methods. He is married j to a Scotch-Irish wife, one of the best-dressed women of London society, w hc ! also has literary tastes, but who has not presented her gallant husband witt ] any children. ,_____- _ - —--- _ _ _ — . -— SING SING’S NEW WARDEN When Governor Glynn appointed Thomas Mott Osborne warden of Sing Sing prison he said he did so that those who claim the present method of trying to reform men who have gone had is wrong might have a chance to prove that their theory is the correct one. Mr. Osborne is un hampered by any power except the ’■aws. and the trial of his system of treating prisoners is being watched by the country with keen interest. Mr. Osborne, who is heir to a large fortune, has been intensely in terested in prison reform, and he be lieres there is something good in everybody, even in the unlucky wretch who has to wear prison gray and sleep in a cell. Not only does Mr Osborne believe in the men in the cells, hut he goes further. He does not beKeve in the cells. If he could have h*3 way, there would be no Sing Sing; there would be no more of the dank cells, dark ana gloomy, witn tneir walls dripping moisture and breeding disease; there would be no more of the wearing down a man ttitb solitary confinement, shat tering his health and ruining his self-respect so that he is indelibly stamped "prison made-' when he again gets out and tries to get a job. He believes that a lot of the fellows behind the bars are no worse than s ■ lot who are at large, he believes that a lot of them are the victims of cir ?utristanres. driven to crime maybe by the extremity to which they have been . put; be believes that some of them are there because they never had a better ! training in their youth and did not know a crime when ihev saw one. A lot more, he knows, had good bringing up. but fell victims to evil associates. ILLINOIS’ FIRST WOMAN MAYOR -- ■ -— Mrs. Angela Rose Canfield of i Warren, first woman mayor in llli i nois. who was elected over two other j candidates by a plurality of four I votes, has ideals for her little city. Warren, situated w ithin half a mile of the Wisconsin state line in Jo Daviess county, is not a bad place at all. she says. She will try to make the city even more attractive than it j is during the two years she will over * see its municipal affairs. The first woman mayor in Illinois. ! and. incidentally, the second in the j Cnited States, is seventy-four years j young. "Young as I certainly am,” she said. I "I am confident th-tf I have reached \ years of discretion. I know 1 can run Warren's affairs better than they have been in the past. “There are things in the city of Warren that need to be remedied I have not lived here for "5 years with out knowing all about them. First and foremost among them is graft. Graft has got to go from this town.” Mrs Canfield was born in New York state. During the Civil war days when she was Mrs. O. J. Hildreth—she has been twice married—she was superintendent of the Nashville ntesshouse of the United States army. Ween the “Molly McGuires” were keeping the eastern Pennsylvania coal region in terror and destroying lives and property, Mrs. Canfield wat an oper ative for a detective agency. For the most part she worked inside, but on a number of occasions was sent out into the region on missions which she invariably carried through successfully. Now she is a milliner. “DEAR OLD BEN” His intimate friends refer to him iffectionately as ‘ Dear Old Ben.” His superiors describe him with the single word "loyal.” His subordinates call him “human.'' And. in brief, coupled with his record for steady advance ment and absolute dependability, which has made him the prototype in the navy of what Brig. Gen. Hugh Scott, chief of staff, stands for in the irmy, these characteristics give per haps as good an idea as can be ob tained of the kind of man Rear Ad miral William Shepherd Benson, chief of naval operations, really is. But be not misled by the nick name, or by the fact that he was graduated in ’77, and is nearing his sixtieth birthday, into picturing him as a crotchety and bewhiskered old seadog; for after you have heard his friends call him "Old Ben” and have heard how he has spent 22 years at sea, circumnavigating the African coast at one time and going to the Arctic with the Greely relief expedition at another, meeting Admirai Benson includes considerable of a shock. 1=11 In nT wranC!. “°ld iS a "fiDe uP8tandin’ man” of forty-five He is compactly sinewy. His dark hair is closely cropped and shows traces of graying His mouth is large and friendly, and his eves dark hat ,oLv ’tHnaP Hfht °f iDStant comPrehe'nsicn. for Vou'don; hate to saj a thing to Old Ben ' more than once ALCOHOL- 3 PER CENT I ^ A Vegetable PrcparalioaforAs- I v^INL similatingthc Food and Reyjula I 7«r tingtheStomachsend Bowels of I otes == ===== ----- -1 —.• -- ^ Promotes Digestioi\ChecrfuP it e ness and Rest.Contains neither |j'. Opiiim,Morpliinc nor Mineral. Not Narcotic. >;* Jk*r ofOU Dr.SVfl'U PilVHER Pumpiu* Sssd 0w£ Abe Senna * \ f ffockell* Salts* I i C Anisa Saad • | eJjj /t?35%Z£j, Sodm- } »!"> borrr. ,W/ I *i» - — ’a* A perfect Remedy ForPotisTIpa ;hl> 7i°n ^°nr Stomach.Diarrhoea. Worms. Feverishness and lFn» Loss of Sleep. !{<a« - M)0Q Fee Simile Signature of °Qvf . •J The Centaltr comhmo\ | NEW YORK. \'PH9 Exact Copy of Wrapper Children Cry For What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor OO, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrnps. 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Besides they meet every want it toilet preparations and ere most economical. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Old Manx Hospitality. The Isle of Man government, which Is concerned at the financial loss caused by the requisition of passen ger steamers for military purposes, used at one time to legislate against visitors from the mainland. One of the very earliest laws on the Manx statute hook enjoined "all Scots to avoid the land with the next vessel that goeth into Scotland, upon pain of forfeiture of their goods and bod ies to prison." Another enacted that "Irish women loytering and not work ing be commanded forth of this isle with as much speed as may be." The first-mentioned law was the result of a series of raids on the Manx coast by a Galloway rover called MaeCulloch. Mercenary. “Did you ever stop to consider how many germs accumulate on a dollar bill?" asked the cautious man. 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I happened to mention the matter to my grocer one day and he suggested that 1 give Postum a trial. "Next day it came, and we liked it so much that we will never change back; for i am a well man today and have used no medicine. “My work as chief bookkeeper in >ur Co's branch house here is of a very confining nature. During my cof fee drinking days I was subject to nervousness and the blues' in addi tion to my sick spells. These have left me since 1 began using Postum and 1 can conscientiously recommend it to those whose work confines them to long hours of severe mental exer tion.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal—the original form— must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pack ages. Instant Postum—a soluble powder— dissolves quickly in a cup of hot wa ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30c and 50c tins. Both kinds are equally delicious and cost about the same per cup. "There's a Reason" for Postum. —sold by Grocers. Unless you have money to burn don't try to keep the pot boiling in a poker game. EXCELLENT FARMIKG Letters from Settlers Indicating Growing Prosperity. The present year will add another proof that fanning in Western Canada, when carried on with the same energy and system devoted to other lines of Dusiness, will bring about results fully as satisfactory. Mixed farming as a tocsin has been sounded for a number of years, anti today it is being adopted pretty gen erally throughout the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta There are those who have made no greater success of it than they did when they pursued grain growing alone, but where one has failed to ac- i complish what he had hoped to do, dozens have scored success. From Sedgew ick, Alberta, we heartof ' E. L. Deputy, for past twelve years manager for Frye & Sons, packers. Seattle, who during 1914 were the largest buyers of hogs on Alberta markets. He is taking up active week on his 1,200-acre farm near Sedge wick. Although he was one of the highest paid salaried officials on the Pacific Coast, his frequent visits and personal knowledge of farming condi tions in Western Canada convinced him there are greater opportunities in farming Alberta land than in commer cial life, with greater assurance of ultimate independence and prospects of home-making under the most de sirable conditions. Thomas McKay, a farmer near Har disty, Alberta, has this to say about the country: "I came to Hardisty from Osage City, Kansas, nine years ago and took up a homestead here. This is a good district for the farmer who wishes to raise grain exclusively, and as a mixed farming country it cannot be beaten i anywhere in the world to my knowl edge. I had ten cattle, which ranged out side all last winter, and this syi#ng they were fat enough for the market, this without being fed but one sight during the entire winter; they were fine fat cattle and looked beautifvl. 1 raised some winter wheat here v, hich weighed sixty-seven and a half ptuuds to the bushel, government weight, and which I shipped to Calgary. Tus mil ler who bought it said that it was the best wheat that has ever gone into Calgary. Wheat in this district yields as high as forty bushels to Cue acre, oats average sixty bushels. Alfalfa does well here "All in all 1 think the farmers are very well satisfied with the country, and the farmer who farms hip land intelligently is sure to make a suc cess. The climate here ts the nest I have ever lived in, the summers are delightful and the winters ore mild. There has never been a blizzard dur ing the nine years 1 have lived here nor any cyclonec or wind storms.” A settler in the neighborhood of Gleichen. Alberta, spent $2,000 in im proving his qiarter section, has 125 acres ready for crop, keeps TO head of stock, believes in mixed farming, keeps two hired men, one all year, the other in summer only. He milks 12 to 18 cows, and receives an average monthly cream cheque of $110. Last June he sold S 1,200 worth of hogs and in NovemDer two more carloads, be sides supplying his own requirements, and is not only making money but building up a good home amid desir able surroundings. This is an example of the possibilities open to the indus trious in the Gleichen district. It is stated in the last three months $28,000,000 of American capital has been invested in Canada, showing that United States financial men are satisfied of the solidity of Canadian in stitutions. Western Canada has been a heavy borrower and Western Can ada's great resource iE agriculture. U. 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