The County in General
The “Doings” of Our Country Friends
and Neighbors.
South Nemaha
Otto Stabler is down with ty
phoid fever.
.1). Brannon sold his apple or
chard for WOO.
Dorothea Wittwer will attend
the Bern Normal this school year.
Salome Wittwer will attend the
Salem high school.
Miss Rachel Wittwer left last
week for Grand Island where she
has engaged to teach school.
The public schools opened their
doors, Monday and began once
more the seasons grind.
Mr. and Mrs. M. VonBergen
have returned from their some
what extended trip to Colorado
in search of the fountain of youth
The high price of alfalfa and
corn is tempting some of the cat
tle feeders to sell their feed and
not feed any cattle this fall and
winter.
Sunday, will he Harvest Home
service on Zion. Rev. Kerlin of
Sioux City, Iowa will be the visit
ing pastor. There will be morn
ing and evening services.
A series of special meetings
will begin at the Christian elm re
next Sunday. Rev , Adams of
Humboldt will be in ehargeof the
meetings, and will have the assist
ance af an evangelist.
Mr. Bred Feldman, Who went
to Colorado this spring to find
relief for the asthma is taknig a
course of special treatment that
promises to help him permanent
ly. He expects to return home
soon.
All's. Nellie Keechley met with
a very painful aeeient Iasi week.
While on her way to the station
at Dawson to take the train, the
team became freightened and
threw her out of the buggy dislo
cating her shoulder and breaking
the arm bone near the shoulder
She is in Dawson and is getting
along nicely.
Verdon.
Mrs. Clemons returned to Stel
la Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. G. O. Knapp is visitingin
Jtiverton at the present time.
( 'has W. Oca mb went to Omaha
last week to buy his fall goods.
Mr. Friedly received a car of
cattle Wednesday morning.
Kev.Esley of Maple Grove was
in town one day last week.
John Crane left Tuesday after
noon for a visit with his parents.
Mr. and Airs. Clarence Smith
were up from Falls City Tuesday
Mrs. Clemons returned to Stela
(Saturday afternoon.
Misss Helen Conover and Hazel
Duglas visited Shubert recently.
Mr. and Mrs. ('. G. Ilumprey
were Falls City vissitors Wednes
day.
Mr. Quinton Strunk returned
Tuesday from Excelsior Springs,
Missouri.
B. F. Yearh shipped a earload
of hogs to Kansas City Friday
morning.
Miss -Martha King entertained
Mrs. George Coddigton of Auburr
this week.
Mrs. .1, .1. Fangney and childrei
came up for a visit with the Mis
es Keley.
Fred Ileinerman enjoyed a visit
from his sister Mrs. Shafer and
son John of Shubert a few days
of last week.
Misses Etha and Doris Jones ol
Kirksville Mo. are the guests of
Mrs. ('land Saylors.
Mrs. Robert Tompson removed
her household goods to Falls City
Wednesday.
Mr. Clemmons and family of
Stella were called here by tli
death of the infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Estes.
Mrs. Elmer Eumhaugh and lit
tle daughter Vera left last week
for Grand Island where they will
visit relatives.
Walter Banks is making pre
paration to move to Kansas in the
near future where he has a posi
tion in a dry goods store.
Mrs. A. J. Ileinzelman enter
tained Mrs. Charley Harrison of
Howe and Mrs. Maud Jorn of
Peru last week.
Mr. G. II. Rice of Paintsville
Kentucky who has been visiting
friends here left Wednesday for
Denver Col.
Dale Franklin the three months
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Estes
died Tuesday afternoon after an
illness of four weks. Funeral
services were conducted by Rev.
services were conducted by Rev.
Gearies at the home Wednesday
afternoon at two oclock. The re
mains were laid to rest in Verdon
cemetery besides those of his bro
ther onald who passed to the
ther Donal who passed to the lain
ol rest just one year ago. He
leaves bis father, mother and
little sister to mourn his loss.
Stella.
S. II. Hail y of Falls City spent
Sunday with home folks at Stella.
A. .1. Baldwin transacted bus
iness in <hintlni, .Monday.
*1. M. Cootlloe took in thi* state
fair the first of I lie week.
Mr. and Mrs. Steele of Colorad
City arrived the later part of the
week for a visit with relatives.
Mrs. K. Wheeler spent Monday
in the country with her parents
Mi-, and Mrs. <!. L. Slocum.
Fugene Clark and Family of
of Covington, Ky. arc visiting liis
brother Ralph and family.
II. C. Faukall was to Lincoln o
business the first of the week lie
saw the big pumpkin at the fair.
Mrs. (trace Richardson of Ark.
is visiting her mother, Mrs, Mat
tie Hodge.
Mrs. S. 11. Bailey spent the
latter part of last week in Falls
(’ity with her husband.
Miss Nellie Davidson left last
Vandeventer, from Iowa, has been
spending the week at the Vande
venter home,
week for Big Springs Nebraska
where she has been employed as
principal of the schools.
Mrs. Noal, a cousin of M. II.
Mrs. Joseph Wagner and sons
and Miss May Larimorc returned.
Friday, from their Visit at Colo
rado City.
Mrs. I*. I). Ailor and son How
ard of Auburn visited the first of
the week at the home of C. F.
Ailor and wife.
A number of the Commercial
Club went to Omaha Sunday to
be sure of the Monday night sess
ion of the Aksarben.
Miss Blanch Moiiette returned
to Atchison, Tuesday, where she
will resume her studies at Mid
land ('ollege.
School began .Monday with a
lull enrollment, the High School
being compelled to supply extra
seats.
Mrs. Kohhins and daughter
i Goldie of Cusheon, Oklahoma,
visited the formers neiee, Mrs. J.
.M. Goodloe the first of the week.
Roy Tomlinson and wife are
now occupying the house vacated
by S. II. Bailey and wife. Mr.
Kizinger and family having taken
the house vacated by Mr. Tom
linson.
Rulo
Olney Graham is visiting with
a brother in Iowa.
Dr. Henderson was a Falls
City visitor last week.
J. A. Osborn was to Kansas
City last Friday.
Frank Harrison of Lincoln was
in Rulo one day last week.
Mr. Crook of Salem visited
with Rulo friends last week.
Deputy sheriff, .McFarland of
Falls City was in Rulo, Monday
Mrs. Roy Hart and two chil
dren returned, Saturday, to their
home in St. Joseph.
Alta Gilbert left for York Xeb.
to resume her school work for un
fit her year.
John Sullivan of Lffingham,
Kansas, was a Rulo visitor one
day last week.
The steamboat, t'ity of Beoria
anchored near the ferry landing
Last Thursdav.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Bike,
moved from Braddy v ille, Iowa
to this city last week.
A mini her ot Kulo boys are
picking apples for Henry Kloep
fel this week.
.Mrs. J. ('. Robison was a St.
Joseph passenger Tuesday morn
ing.
Charley llaldiman and family
returned to their home in Howe
Sunday afternoon.
Principal A. 11. Voegelcin. came
from Napiersville, 111.. Friday, to
he ready for school work.
.Mr. and .Mrs. Will Collins of
Medicine Lodge, Fans., visited
with relatives in Kulo last week.
Mrs. Hadden and children of
Cniversity Place, visited relatives
here, several days last week.
•John Inks came from Iowa,
last week to visit relatives in
this community.
Mrs. Ratekin and daughter re
turned, Saturday, from a ten day
visit with relations in Kansas City
Bessie and Carrie Harrison re
turned to Lincoln, Saturday af
ter a three months visit in this
city.
George Ward and son shipped
a car load of apples to the wester
part of the state the first of the
week.
Rev. Orr who has been attend
ing the conference at the Holiness
Church, left for St. Joseph, Sat
urday evening.
Miss Bertha Kernen came up
from Clianut Kansas. Friday to
, take up her work in the High
School.
SECURES WATER FROM DRAIN
Farmer Didn’t Want to Dear expense
of Drilling Well, So Constructed
Cement Trough.
f have a large pasture In which
there Is no natural water, writes
Scott Adams in Farm and Home. I
did not want to go to the expense of
drilling a well, so 1 dug a hole over
the drain that runs through the Held
I constructed a little trough with a
Watering Place in the Field.
cement bottom ami sides of wood. The
water of the drain runs through this.
1 built a fence around it to keep stock
from falling in, and once a day I dip
water out of this into the tank near
by.
WEAN PIGS AT PROPER TIME
Much Depends Upon Their Thrift,
Season of Year, Accommodation
and Their Feed.
DY W. H. UNDERWOOD.
The age at which pigs can be
weaned is indefinite. The time de
pends largely upon their thrift, the
Beason of the year, the accommoda
tion and the feed one has for them. I
do not consider it advisable to wean
pigs before they are two months old, I
prefer more, to less age.
I generally wean my early pigs In
May, as I like to raise fall litters
from a portion of the sows. Sows
can ordinarily be bred within a week
after the pigs are taken away.
Sows that farrow in June will he
too late to breed for fall farrow. It
has been my custom to let these run
with the sows until they wean them
selves.
1 prefer to have iny sows with lit
ters in as small bunches as possible
prefer a house anil small yard with
plenty of grass for each sow. If they
are thus divided, and any of the pigs
get out of order, you at once know
what litter It Is, anil feed accordingly.
Watch the little pigs closely and
if they look thin and hungry see that
their mother is better fed and swilled.
As it Is next to impossible to raise
a litter of pigs without some of them
getting the scours at one time or
another, I will give my treatment for
this ailment, which has proven suc
cessful to me.
I watch them closely, and if any
of them are too loose at the next feed
ing I dissolve a teaspoonful of cop
peras, in a little warm water and feed
It to the sow in her swill. If the first
dose does not prove effective, I give
another the following day.
When the pigs get from two to four
weeks old I fence off a corner In the
nrd, where the i.*m cannot go, and
give the pigs all the shelled corn they
will eat.
As soon as they are accustomed to
coming for the corn I begin by feeding
a little fresh milk diluted one-half
wit water. I begin with one cupful
and increase the amount as they learn
to drink.
As the stomach of a little pig Is
as sensitive and delicate as that of a
child It Is very important that no milk
is left in the trough from the previ
ous feed as it tends to sour the trough
and the new milk.
After I have the pigs eating and
drinking, so they will come when
called and their stomach thoroughly
accustomed to the feed they are ready
to wean.
Livestock
(iff
Armed with alfalfa and corn, the
stockman can simply do anything.
A sheep must produce a variety of
products If it is to he most profitable.
The essential requisites for a work
ing horse are good size, quick action
and strength.
Keeep a pair of nippers handy to
snip off the sharp points of a sucking
pig's teeth.
In proportion to its size, the horse
has a smaller stomach than any other
quadruped.
Grubb flies worry the sheep in hot
weather. Provide a dark, cool shed
or let them run in thick underbrush.
It weakens the horses to keep them
shut up in a close stable during the
hot nights Turn them out.
Every effort should be made to have
the stock enter the winter In good
flesh and heart.
It does not pay to give water in
dirty vessels to any farm animal.
Hogs are no exception.
Pasture is the cheapest pork pro
ducer and the longer the season of
pasturage may be provided, the better.
A poor appetite in any farm animal
is greatly against its doing its best,
no matter where it is working.
Hog pasture is getting dry and
short? Cut a little green corn and
toss it over, stalks nd all, to the
hogs. It will help them out wonder
fully.
It is not the quantity of food taken
into the stomach, but the amount ab
sorbed by it, which benefits the sys
tem.
He considerate of your horses’ com
fort on these torrid summer days and
offer them water frequently. They
suffer with thirst as badly as you do
and work harder.
CRATE TO FATTEN POULTRY
Some Farmers Follow That Method
for Quick Profits—Some Ex
cellent Firmu'as.
Orate fnttenii *; of fowls Is followed
by some for quick profit. Tty keeping
the chickens in confinement they do
not form sinew and muscle ns they
do when allowed to run at large
Some coops are divided Into partitions
or stalls, each of which will hold two
or three young chicks or one full
grown fowl. They should be fed three
times a day all they will out In 15
or 20 minutes. Here arc some formu
las for fattening poultry In crates:
Equal parts of bran, corn meal and
oat meal or rolled breakfast oats,
mixed with skimmed milk, fed three
times a day.
Buckwheat flour, pulverized oats
and comment. In equal parts, mixed
with buttermilk.
Equal parts barley meal and oat
meal and half n part of corn meal,
mixed with buttermilk or skimmed
milk.
A favorite French combination is
two parts barley meal, one part corn
meal and one part buckwheat Hour.
A little salt and coarse sand should
be added to their food. Three weeks
is the length of time to continue the
feeding. Chickens do not seem able
to stand the confinement for a greater
length of time. During the last week
of tlie fattening process five per
cent, of cotton seed meal and a little
tallow may lie added to any of the
above formulas.
A fattening crate is usually made
0 feet (! inches long, IS to 20 inches
high and 10 Inches wide, it is di
vided into three compartments, each
holding four to five birds, according
to the size of the chickens. It is
made of slats, except the ends and
partitions between the compartments,
which are of solid wood. The slats
on the top, bottom and back run
lengthwise of the coop, while those
on the front run up and down. They
are usually 1 % Inches wide and %
inch thick. Those in front are placed
Single Crate for Fattening.
two Inches apart to allow the chick
etis to put ttieir Heads through for
feeding. The slats nil the bottom are
placed about % of uu Inch apart so
as to permit the droppings to pass
through to the ground. Care should
be taken not to have the first bottom
slat at the back tit closely against the
back. An opening at this point pre
vents the droppings collecting and de
composing. The slats on the top and
back are usually 2 inches apart. There
is a small V shaped trough arranged
In front of the coop for feeding nnd
watering the chickens. The trough
Is 2 to U Indies deep and ts generally
made of :’.,-lneh lumber.
Very fair coops are made from old
packing lioxes, b\ taking off the front
and bottom and substituting slats in
their places, as shown in the Illus
tration. Whi'ti fattening chickens In
side of a building II Is well to darken
the building and keep the birds ns
quiet as possible.
Don’t gorge them one day nnd starve
them the next.
Don’t fall to divide the buttermilk
between biddy and the pigs. She rel
ishes It us much as they.
Remember the lien when laying
needs about twice as much food as
she would when not laying.
lSggs tested as Infertile from the In
cubator may be hard boiled and fed
to chicks. They are not spoiled.
Too many hens with one rooster
means more Infertile eggs. Keep
plenty of roosters and produce hatch
able eggs.
To break broody liens from wanting
to sit, shut them up In a coop where
they ran only roost on an elevated ob
ject and feed lightly for a few days.
Chicks cannot grow and keep
healthy unless they take proper ex
ercise and lots of it. Bury millet
seed In litter and let them work for it.
Many are raising pure bred poul
try and others are starting. This is
what we call good chicken sense. We
have advocated Ibis for a long time
One of the best ways to disinfect a
brooder is to open it wide, take out
the hover and let the midday sun
shine on both for a couple of hours.
(live the turkey lien a feed of grain
at night. If fed heavily in (lie morn
ing sbo will not range so far with the
youngsters as if she starts out to find
her own breakfast.
Greens belong naturally in the
chicken feed list. In the wild state
fowls live on vegetable matter, wild
seeds and inserts. In captivity ttiey
require the same tilings.
When the lien Is through setting
burn all the old nest material, disin
fect the nest box and give it a coat of
liquid lice killer to mnke a good job
of it, and then put In fresh straw.
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Horses, Mares and Mules
For Eastern. Southern and Foreign Markets
As I have bought and owned more horses and mules in the last twenty years than any
other one country Imver in Eu’opc or America, and as I buy hors« s and mules for eight or ten
different markets. 1 can pay you more money than any other moil in America for any kind
of a horse or a mule you have for sale. |
Falls City, Saturday, Sept 17
Now if you have an extra draft horse, trotter or pacer, chunk or southern horse, dont sell
them until you show them to me. I want mules from fourteen hands high to as big as they
' grow. 1 want them from three to ten years old. I m coming to buy not to look.
You’ll Get the Same Square Deal that I’ve Given You for Years
W. J. Owens
Most Extensive Dealer in the U. S. Wait for Me—I’m Coming