'AUGUST 16, 1906
The Nebraska Independent
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Monogram Dinner Sets are all the rage. fJever so Popular as now,
JUST NOTICE the beauti
J ful decorations and the
exquisitely traced design. The
ware is semi-vitreous, temi-por-celain
decalcomania, and the
glaze is put on so perfect and
the decorations are burned on
underneath so carefully, that
we guarantee this ware never
to craze, should last a lifetime.
It makes no difference what
initial your's may be; and we
use only the most beautiful
style of lettering. An oppor
tunity to secure a beautiful
Monogram Dinner Set made to
order with your initial on each
dish, at half the usual price
does not come very often, and
may never, come again. Our
contract with the factory calls
for a limited number of sets at
a special introductory price,
which enables us to make the
uuparalled offer we do. The
price to the press, for the pur
pose of advertising the wares,
is lower than factory price to
jobbers.
Order a set at once.
The Independent ne Year and the Dinner Set $4
Each Dish Decorated
With Your Initial.
THIS DINNER SET WILL BE SENT FREE to any one send
ing us $10.00 to pay for ten yearly subscriptions to
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Wild Rose Designs in
Colors and Edges
Traced in Gold.
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and is a good thing to feed once in a
while. In feeding hogs that were
down in their hind parts I gave them
all they would eat. They did not like
it at first, of course, but I got those
having the trouble to eat about a gal
lon each, giving them as much as pos
sible at a time by soaking the ear
corn in water and rolling it in slacked
lime or by mixing it with their slop.
It is nor. much trouble to get them to
take it after they once get started.
Handling Cut Worms
Early fall plowing will usually pre
vent the presence of worms in the
fields, for it leaves no vegetation upon
which the eggs may be laid. Clear
away all rubbish from the borders of
trash to harbor under during the fall
and winter season. Leaving the land
perfectly fallow will give the best
results.
' Bad Odors of Milk
. Milk absorbs bad ordors very read
ily, consequently as soon as it is
drawn remove at once from the stable
and take to the milk house. Always
milk in a place free from objectiona
ble ordors. This is especially import
ant when silage is being fed. Do not
milk while the fresh silage is in the
mangers. Milk before feeding.
The Poultry Yard
I don't believe in spoiling chicks.
I keep them hungry all the time.
Never over-feed either the old or the
young ones, as they need exercise as
well as a person if they are to be
healthy. As it is nearing the time to
think about marketing poultry, select
those you wish to dispose of and shut
them up in close quarters for at least
a week or ten days. Feed them fat
tening products and all the fresh wa
ter they want. Keep their quarters
clean and give them plenty of fresh
air, as nothing can thrive well in
filthy places except disease, which
means disappointment and loss to the
breeder. Don't pen up those you wish
to keep for next year"s breeders, and
if you intend to purchase males for
your flocks next season, now is the
time to do it. Dont wait until the
breeder has disposed of all his best,
then send your order in and expect
a "crackerjack" for a song, as they
are getting cheap these days (songs).
You can get a bird at this time of
the year for less than one-third its
cost shortly before Christmas.
Sorghum as Forage
The practice of planting a strip of
sorghum alongside the pasture is to
be commended. When the grass dries
up in August and September, as it
often does, the sorghum may be cut
and fed while green and thus prevent
the usual shrink of cattle which often
comes at that time of year. Dairy
sort and as dairying develops, more
dependence will be placed in sorghum
as a feed to be cut and supplement the
pasture.
Sorghum is popularly supposed to
be "hard on the land' and it is. It
produces a large amount of forage and
it takes plant food to produce the big
yield. The crop is also a drouth-register
and it pumps the soil dry and
often leaves it 'as hard as a brick.
Wheat after sorghum is not practic
able. But a heavy growth of sorghum
plowed under late in the fall will
greatly improve very sandy soils or
very tough soils and put them in fine
condition for spring crops.
Sorghum fed alone will sustain life
and mature cattle may winter on it
satisfactorily. But growing stock re
quires for its best development some
thing which the sorghum does not
supply. That something is the nitro
genous matter that makes the muscles
and the growth of stock of all sorts.
This must be supplied by alfalfa or
oowpea hay, bran, cottonseed, or cot
tonseed meal. These feeds are needed
to balance the ration so that stock
will have the food requirements sup
plied and true economy in feeding con
sists in supplying what the animal
needs at least cost. There is waste,
both of vitality and of feed, when the
wrong kind of ration is supplied.
A stack of sorghum' hay should al
ways be one of the items in the win
ter's food supply. It may be raised
the dry year comes, sorghum may bo
depended upon to make a yield even if
corn dries up and blows away. Okla
homa Farm Journal. -
Locust the Best Fence Posts
Within the range of its occurrence
the black locust makes out best post
timber, for it is very durable, easy
to grow, a rapid grower, and is orn
amental. For these reasons it is be
ing planted on the farms for a future
supply of posts, for ornament and for
shade; being the only trees that fills
the bill so well.
cows particularly need feed of thison a small area at little cost and when
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