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COLORADO SUMMER SERVICE.
On the Santa Fo Railway.
The Santa Fe has announced re-
sumption of lta luxurious Colorado
Flyer, leaving Kansas City Union De-
pot 6:56 p. m. dally through the sum-
mer season.
The equipment consists of llbrary-
cmoking car, free reclining chair car
and twelve-section Pullman sleeper,
Kansas City to Colorado Springs;
twelve-section Pullman sleeper, Okla-
homa City to Colorado Springs via
Newton; ten-section Pullman observa-
tion sleeper, Kansas City to Colorado
Springs. Excellent library In observa-
tion car; also current weekly and
monthly Illustrated publications for
use of Pullman passengers only. Cur-
*ent weeklies, monthlies and daily
newspapers in library-smoking car for
use of all train patrons.
East-bound, this train Is known *s
the Missouri River Flyer. The equip
ment Is the same as that west-bound.
Departure from Denver at 12:15 p.
m.. Colorado Springs 2:50-p. m., Pueb-
lo 4:05 p. m., reaching Kansas City
at 9.05 a. m. Oklahoma City Is reach-
ed at 12:55 p. m., next day, and Gal-
veston at 9:55 a. m.. the day follow
ing, by connecting train from Newton.
They do say that Breathitt county
looks on her sister county, Teller, of
Colorado, with something akin to jeal-
ousy.—Cincinnati Commercial-Trib-
une.
Plso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible
medicine for roughs and colds.—N. W. Samuel,
Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17,19C0.
POULTRY
A Counter-irritant
"What is a counter-irritant?" asked
Mrs. Smithers. "A counter-irritant."
replied Smithers, "is a woman who
makes the clerk pull down everything
from the shelves for two hours and
then buys four cents' worth of hair-
pins.—Cleveland Press.
If Hypocrisy had not a wholesome
fear of Sincerity he would not in-
variably have his cloak cut after the
same pattern.—Minna Thomas An-
trim in the Chicago Record-IIerald.
They Should.
"My honeBt conviction, based upon
my own experience and that of my
friends, is that 'Hunt's Cure' will cure
a larger per cent of skin troubles,
especially of an itching variety, than
any other remedy. Certainly those
afllcted with any form of itch should
try it." J. O. Moore,
Atchison, Kas.
50c per box.
A LI, DMO-BATE HOU8KKEFPKR9
Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes
clean and sweet as when new. All grocers.
Police Protection In Cities
According to the last bulletin of the
United States department of labor,
the average yearly appropriation for
maintaining the police departments
in the six principal cities in America
is: New York, $10,000,000; Chicago,
$3,GOO.000; Philadelphia, $3,000,000;
Boston, $1,700,000; Baltimore, $970,-
000. This is equal to $3 per capita
for New York, $2 for Chicago, $2.75
for Boston and $1.75 for Baltimore.
CITC permanently mm!. Ho flt«or nwTonnnww" after
ill w nrtt dyr'a um of L>r. Kline's Oroot
r. Hend for FKKIi 83.00 trial bottli" and tr.-atw®.
L a. it. il. Hunk, Ltd., Ml Arch Utrvet, I'luUdci^U, i*
Worse Than Women's Hat .
A spectator In a Japanese theater,
on payment of a small extra fee, li
permitted to stand up; and the per
Bon behind him cannot object, al-
though the latter's view of the per
formance is obstructed.
All Up-to-Date Housekeepers
use Defiance Cold Water Starch, be-
cause it is better, and 4 oz. more of it
for same money.
Most Powerful Port Light.
Giving a flash of 150,000 candle-
power, the most powerful port light in
England, beams from Roker pier, Sun
derland.
Fatherly Pride
"When I have occasion to punish
my son," said the austere man, "I al-
ways tell him that it hurts me more
than it does him."
"I don't," replied the plain, practical
citizen. "Johnny may be a little head-
strong and disobedient, but he has too
much sense to believe anything like
that."—Washington Star anions I
so powerful :is to I
,Ao"fi'is c andidacy irresisti- j
fi!e"stren$;th. It was not that all
his fellow republicans believed
him to be a better man, or citi-
zen, or candidate, than any other
aspirant to the Presidency, but
that they, believed him to be dif-
ferent. His individuality is his
most striking, most attractive ■ — - |mportant to Mothers
characteristic. lie is ont: of the M carefully every bottle of castoria,
most picturesque figures in our ! lo ind euro remedy for InfmU and children,
recent political history. He has11")SL, th* u
been for years in public life, in
both the civil and military ser-
vice. He has stood in the open,
World's Fair Accommodation*.
Reliable and rounonable accommodations; ad-
joins World's Fairgrounds on the south side,
with private (rate; direct from tTulon Station by
Market, rtreet car. Write for reservations
gj View Fraternal Hotel, St. Louis, Mo.
In To Make Glass Opaque.
facti( you want to shnt oft the view
, any window you can do it verj
| f'y by dissolving in a little hot
'e ° as much Epsom salts as the
W if,j w'" absorb. Paint over the win-
'^Vhlle hot, and when dry you will
are fca very good Imitation of ground
they v
elt a
doing and saying things that have
appealed to the American fancy.
He has stood in the full glare of
publicity, and his countrymen
have recognized in him a man of
courage and integrity; an itji'^ex-
sive, radical, selfpoistulalization of
ing man. It '"What can a man do
he finds, on the one hand, steam-
boat owners willing to pay him for
leaving his duty undone, and on the
other his chiefs ready to make a fool
of him for doing his duty?—New York
Post.
| th t it
. j For Over 30 Years.
Sort. Kind You liavo Always Bought.
ing t
sibili Troubles of Wealth
Qjvf,erson Pete—I dreamt last night
ji had a million dollars.
racked Oates—Did you enjoy It?
Paterson Pete—Nit! I wuz sued
fer breach of promise, operated on fer
appendicitis, an' mentioned fer de
vice presidency 'fore I'd even got It
counted.—Judge.
coil*
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local application!, m thejr cannot reach tho d!§-
— There Is only ono way to
r constitutional remedies.
eased portion of the car. There la only one way to
cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness Is caused by an Inflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube Is Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Im-
perfect hearing,and when It la entirely dosed. Deaf-
ness Is the result, and unless the Inflammation can bo
taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condi-
tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases
put of ten are caused by « utarrh, which Is nothing
but an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of
Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured
by Hall's Catarrh Curs. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, O.
Loyal to Their Ally.
One result of the Anglo-Japanese
alliance is that the gardens of many
Buddhist temples in Japan have dis
plays of English flowers.
RID CROSS nALl BI.l'E
Should be in everv home. Ask your grocer
for it. Large 3 uz. package only 5 oeuts.
How to Become Japanese Subject.
Baron Suyematsu, In an address be
fore the Japan Society In London,
said that one of the easiest ways ol
becoming a Japanese subject was to
marry a Japanese woman. Then the
husband became n Japanese subject
Every houseKeeper should know
that If they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never sticks to the Iron, but because
each package contains 16 oz.—one full
pound—while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up In ?i-pound pack-
ages, *nd the price Is the same, lu
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch li; free from all Injurious chem-
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you a
12-oz. package it is because he has
a'stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Denance.
He knows that Defiance Starcb has
printed on every package In large let-
ters and figures "16 ozs." Demand
Defiance and save much time ana
money and the annoyance of the Iron
■ticking. Defiance never sticks.
Women's Chief Desire.
Women have always aspired to be
beautiful and have painted their faces
and "tired their heads" sinco time im-
memorial and In all countries The
geieha of Japan changes tho color of
her lips three times in one evening,
and no little Japanese lady ever misses
an opportunity of whipping out the
rouge pot and mlrro.', which form in'
dispensable parts of her toilet.
50 CENTS FOR YOU.
Show us" whether this paper pays to adver-
tise in by mailing us this adv. and the date line
within ten daya, and we will send you a certitt-
cate worth 5U cents to any ono who visits the
greatest of all World's Fairs. It may save
them $10 or even more. We will also send a
tree map of the World's Pair. We give clean
beds in clean rooms for 50 cents a day and up, If
reserved at once. No flre-traps, hut substantial
brick and stone homes. No party too large,
none too small. Ono to ten thousand accommo-
dated. Our references are Hon. W. B. Stevens
Secretary World's Fair; Hon. Lon V. Stephens.
ex-Governor of Missouri; Vice President Mis-
souri Trust Company; W. J. Atkinson, ex-
President United States Trust Company; Gen.
B. G Farrar, ex-Assistant Treasurer of th«
United States. Write to
ST. LOUIS ROOM CO., ST. LOUIS, MQ
Judge Was to Blame.
There Is a story of an English
Judge, newly appointed, who remon-
strated with counsel as to the way he
was arguing his case. "My lord,"
said tho advocate in Question, "you
argued such a case in a similar way
when you were at the bar." "Yes, I
admit it," quietly replied the Judge,
"but that was the fault of the Judg«
who allowed It!"
Is it Not Worth While
if you travel, on business or pleasure,
to get the best service for the lowest
rates?' Ask the Erie Railroad Com-
pany, 555 Hallway Exchange, Chicago,
for full Information. Booklets free de-
scribing Summer Tours and the Beau-
tiful Chautauqua I-ake Region; also
Cambridge Sjrlngs.
Farm Laborers In Liberia.
Farm laborers In Liberia receivt
from $2.50 to $4.50 a month and ra
tions of rica and fish. Men do all
the work done elsewhere by horsey
because horses would cost more.
Best in Existence.
"I sincerely believe, all things con-
sidered, Hunt's Lightning Oil is the
most useful and valuable household
remedy in existence. For Cuts, Burns,
Sprains and Insect Bites it has no
equal so far as my experience goes."
E. G. Huntington,
Eufaula, Ala.
25c and 50c bottles.
Starch from Sweet Potatoes.
"The day will, I believe, come when
tho sweet potato will furnish the
starch of Jhe world." So said Dr. Har-
vey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of
Chemistry in the Agricultural Depart-
ment, In reply to the appeal of Con-
gressman Brantley of Georgia, that
the government, having developed the
possibilities of the sugar cano syrup
Industry, should make a somewhat
similar study of the sweot potato.
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LIVESTOCK
Poultry Raising In Oregon.
In the Review of April 7 there was
an article on gapo worms In poultry.
It assigned angle worms as the cause.
This I think is a mistake. I have been
In the poultry business for the past
50 years in the states of Indiana, Mis-
souri and Oregon, and have seen many
little chickens turn up their toes in
Indiana and Missouri as a result of
the attacks of the gape worm, but I
have never had a case of the kind in
Oregon. The poultry business in this
state is very extensive, and on ac-
count of our warm and damp climate
angle worms are more abundant than
in the eastern states. The tempera-
ture of young chickens is about 100
degrees and that of angle worms 60
degrees. The angle worms will not
live at the temperature of chickens.
I wish to tell you how to prevent
gapes: Last year at the expiration
of the setting season I had three hens
bring off broods on the same day. But
In place of removing them to the
chicken yard I let them remain in the
shed. At the expiration of the first
week I removed one of the hens and
at the expiration of tho second week
I removed the second hen, leaving the
third hen with 37 chickens. I let them
remain there till they were eight
weeks old and did not lose one. They
were all healthy and in good condi-
tion. I always kept pure water in a
shallow dish before them and also fed
them wheat. As the shed was In the
corner of the garden, all the weeds
th<3y would eat I threw in to them.
For the place to set my hens I have
a shed 12 by 24 feet in size. The
boards used to inclose this were 1 by
10 inches and were put on green,
without battens. This now gives
cracks one-fourth inch wide, which
insure good light. The floor is of
plank. This building we call our sit-
ting room. Our nests are portable
boxes and nail kegs. These are filled
about one-third full of straw, and
when biddy shows signs of sitting the
straw Is removed and new nesting
material is substituted. Then we put
in the eggs, and at night the hen and
nest are removed to the sitting room.
We keep the doors closed and give
plenty of water and feed.
I have a new poultry house to pre-
vent predatory animals from getting
in. If the readers of the Review
would like, I will send description.
David Ruble.
Lincoln County, Oregon.
• * •
We are sure our readers will be
pleased to see a description of the
poultry house to which our correspon-
dent refers.
As to the gapes, we see that Mr.
Ruble has misunderstood what was
said. The angle worm does not cause
gapes, but the disease is caused by a
parasite of the angle worm, which is
also an intestinal parasite of chick-
ens. The scientific name of this worm
is "Syngamus Trachealis.'1 It is of a
reddish color and varies in length
from three-eighths to three-fourths of
an inch. The two sexes are perma-
nently united, which fact has caused
it to be also called the "branched
worm." Some people call it the red
worm on account of its color. Tests
have been made in which angle
worms infested with gape worms have
been fed to chickens, robins and other
birds, with the result that these birds
were all infected with gape worms.
There may be no gape worms in the
locality in which our correspondent
resides. He is doing the right thing
in any case, as he is keeping his
chicks on a plank floor till they are
eight weeks old. By that time most
of them will be able to bid defiance to
the gape worm, as only the young
chicks, and weak ones at that, usually
succumb. We shall be pleased to hear
from Mr Ruble again.—Farmers' Re-
view.
Don't Forget the Grit.
It would seem unnecessary to re-
mind poultry raisers of this very
essential element In the feeding of
poultry, yet a very largd number of
people annually forget, and their fowls
suffer In consequence. This is more
usually the case on the farm than in
the poultry establishment of the poul-
try fancier. The reason for this Is
plain. The poultry fancier has to keep
this factor In mind tho year round.
His fowls are kept shut up all the
time and have to be supplied with
grit to make ready digestion of the
food possible. But the fowls of the
farmer run out during a considerable
part of the year, especially In the fall
when the garden has passed its bloom,
the fruit is ripe, and the grain Is har-
vested. During this time at least the
birds pick up all the grit they can use.
When the snow comes the grit Is bur-
ied out of sight and is frozen hard to
the soil when it is not so covered. The
farmer seldom thinks of this matter.
It would not be hard for some of our
farmers to collect the proper sub-
stance from pits of coarse gravel, but
most of them have no nearby supply
of such material. Doubtless the read-
iest way out of the difficulty Is tho
purchase of some of the commercial
<rits. In any case grits must be se-
cured or the food used by the poultry
will be poorly ground or not ground
at all, and before spring the digestions
of the birds will be seriously impaired.
We believe the lack of grit is one of
the chief causes of the winter indis-
position of our fowls. Also In the
summer time, lay in a Btore of grit
for winter, If it Is obtainable from
natural sources.
No weeds grow on either side of
the fences of the thrifty farmer.
Dirty Water Troughs and Stagnant
Water.
Sometimes the milk gets a flavor in
it that is not relished, but the cow
owner is unable to discover the rea-
son for it. Good authorities on cow
feeding d«"1are that it is possible for
the drinking water to be the cause.
Others will dispute this; but in any
event it is an open subject, and the
water mai fairly well be under suspi-
cion. We do know, at least, that wa-
ter does sometimes contain sub-
stances that cause sickness among
cows, and whenever a cow is sick her
milk gets "off," whether anything
passes directly through the cow and
Into the milk or not. We have pub-
lished much against cows being al-
lowed to drink dirty and stagnant
water, but there Is always something
more to be said. We have seen old
moss-grown watering troughs in the
pastures that were never cleaned out
from year to year. A wooden trough
led back to some rill at the foot of
a hill, and this perennial rill fur-
nished water for the cows during all
the summer. The water consisted
largely of the rain water that had fall-
en on the lainl and reached the trough
after being laden with rtiucli vege-
table matter of various kinds. In the
trough it lies under the hot sun, while
the germs in its slimy depth luxuriate
and multiply, having for food the veg-
etable matter that the rill has brought
from the hillside.
E^en worse is tho stagnant pond,
for in it the cows can stand and can
thus stir up its muddy depths, which
indeed are not generally very deep.
The old trough, bad as it is, has one
Fattening Cattle in the South.
Any man that travels through the
South, especially if he is acquainted
with the great stock rulsing districts
of the West and Northwest, will be
struck by the fewness of the beef
cattle he sees on southern meadows.
Here and there a family cow is to be
seen, but, for the most part, the beef
animal is wanting. Yet the South
needs live stock, and, on account of
the mildness of the climate, live stock
Bhould bo easily and cheaply raised.
This la the view taken of the matter
by some of the leading agriculturists
of tho South. As a demonstration of
the ability of the southern states to
fatten and market cattle of high qual-
ity the Louisiana station undertook
the growing of 16 Angus calves which
they purchased in November, 1901, in
Illinois and immunized against '.e
Texas fever. The calves were thes
taken to Louisiana and fed largely on
by-products from the three great sta-
ples of that state, cotton seed oil, rice
bran and molasses. This last winter
the 16 steers were sold in the Chi-
cago market at the top price for the
week. The journey to Chicago re-
qulred^is ''ays from Baton Rouge,
and some severe weather was encoun-
tered during the trip. As the animals
took the highest price for the week,
the natural inference is that as good
beeves can be made on the by-prod-
ucts of Louisiana crops as on the
corn of the corn belt; and the by-
products of Louisiana are cheap in
price, and labor Is also cheap there.
At Baton Rouge the beeves were
grazed on the pastures during the
spring and fall, but received all the
virtue, in that the water is not only time au extra feed of the material!
always running in, but also running ! we have mentioned. This test was
out; and running water is supposed to j 0f calves born above the quarantine
have some virtue. The old pond does j nne. The station is now about to
not supply enough water to keep its j enter on another test of feeding calves
outlet open after the beginning of j born below the quarantine line, to
summer. Its only supply is the drain- j demonstrate that it pays to raise
ing of the land with any disease j beeves in Louisiana as well as to feed
germs the land may have received | them there.
from any source. If the eggs of
tapeworms have been dropped by oth-
er animals, as is sometimes the case,
they find a ready access into the pond.
As the summer heat becomes greater
the surface of the pond sinks ever
A few tests of this kind will doubt-
less start the southern farmers to the
growing and feeding of cattle. The
great bugbear has been Texas fever,
and it was supposed that no live stock
industry could thrive below a certain
Ing that the farms of the Gulf States
would yet carry great herds of well-
bred cattle.
lower and lower, and the cows stand J bad]y defined line. If the South goes'
each day further out in the water, j 1[lto gtock raising, a new day will
The warm water becomes alive with have dawne(j there, and agriculture
all kinds of water insects, and who ,n the gouth wl„ rece|ve a new ,m.
shall say that it does not also become j p6tua There are northern stockmen
alive with vegetable growths some whQ haye been {or ten years pred,ct
of which are the organisms that man
ifest themselves as bovine diseases?
Both the dirty watering trough and
the stagnant pond should be elemi-
nated from the pasture. Good, pure
water is the only kind that should be | Pure-Bred Cattle in Argentina,
given to animals or humans. In these | Americans are interested in the
days of cheap windmills, there is no | cattle conditions in Argentina for two
reason why every cow pasture should j reasons. One is that Argentina is a
not have a supply of pure and safe I competitor of the American stockman
water from some point. j ^ the English market, and the other
j is that the Argentine farmer is becom-
p __ . _ . „ ing a large buyer of blooded bulls.
T, . f , .. . . t ! Whether these bulls are to come from
The question of feeding at into milk nd Qr
has been long and heatedly debated Amerlcan 8tockman ls lntere8ted. In
The experiment stations generally ( . .. . . .
. . v . . , . .. , -1 either case it raises the price of Amer-
have demonstrated, by a multitude or . , , „ . ., .
tests that a cow's caDacltv to Droduco Can buUs' by drawinS the Ameri-
butter-fat cannot be increased beyond i C8n SUppIy °r (Hvertlr's the exP°rt"
butter fat cannot be Increased beyona ab,e E „sh , from th Unltpd
the normal of that animal. Oh the gtates Argentina. Just now the
other hand a few isolated cases of j . ,. . B, : ,
carefully tested cows have seemed to ,ArQge" lne "^kmen are making ex-
show that it was possible to feed but, th®
ter-fat into milk. The problem has ^aI"y °'tbeir "Ule'as 19 evidenced
been recently attacked from another )y the„b'gb prl=es 'he„yr „pay ng
side, and the experiment tried of re- '"J0?* bul'8' fFrank B cknell, a
ducing the fat content of the milk by ; fecial agent of the Department of
poor feeding. This has been accom-1 AKricultvire of the United States, says
plished both at home and abroad. hat the demand for Shorthorn bulls
Cows were fed on Insufficient rations 9 In"®aalnf at a *reat "te. There
for a period of two weeks or more. In 9 a bett®r ^mand foryo,ung bu',s of
that time the average fat content oi this breed than ever before. Every
all the cows dronDed from 4 Der cent ranchman is endeavoring to raise up
to 3.25 per cent of butter fat. This' 'he standard of his herd. The aim is
will explain some of the cases where prflod«che :tor ™t of such
it was claimed that the feeding of a j flne flflah that h,®y w b« able °
richer ration increased the amount of corapete <"^essfully with the cattle
butter fat. Cows that were too poorly
fed had been used and naturally tend-
ed to come back to the normal of
their capacity. The practical ques-
tion, however, is not, if poorly fed
cows can be made to give normal milk
by normal feeding, but if cows that
being shipped from the United States.
This demand for bulls has been stim-
ulated by the planting of alfalfa on
the great stock farms, for this has
enormously increased the animal-car-
rying power of the ranches. In some
cases three times as many animals
being fed normally and are giving I be a9 when the ranges were
normal milk already can be forced to
give abnormally rich milk by feeding
a richer food than usual. We believe
that it is well demonstrated that this
cannot be done.
Be Clean.
It has been said that successful
dairying can be summed up in two
words, "Be clean." Tills is overdraw-
ing it just a little, because, no matter
how clean you keep the milk of a poor
dairy cow, it will not be profitable.
But as to the quality and flavor of
butter, the truth is largely told in
the two words given. It is easy
enough to cure bad salting, bad color-
ing and bad working. The great
struggle comes in trying to keep the
milk, cream and butter clean. This
is because dirt is almost universal.
left to the native grasses. The Eng-
lish quarantine against Argentine cat-
tle has rather helped than hindered
the business, as It has determined the
Argentine farmers to send out chilled
meat, which costs only one-fourth as
much to transport as did the live
cattle, and sells for as much In the
English market. Last November the
highest price ever paid for a bull in
Argentina was paid for an imported
Shorthorn, the price being $7,260. At
the same time two other bulls were
sold, one for $3,960 and the other for
$3,080, It is evident that our stock-
breeders have strong competitors to
face In the stockmen of Argentina.
Question of Speed.
The general farmer has little or no
Interest In the trotting horse except
It ls in the water, on the ground and In so'far as he may be used to cross
in the air. It fastens itself to the
cow's udder, her sides and her hair.
It attaches itself to the hands of the
milker and to his clothes. It gets into
the milk as soon as it leaves the teats,
on slower horses to give their prog-
eny enough speed to make them use-
ful as carriage horses. The farmer
cannot afford to waste his time trying
to develop trotters. The trotting
and often it continues to add itself to horse is not a farm horse, as his great
the milk during all the processes of speed can be of no use except as a
handling and of skimming. Dirt in, means of gambling. Who wants to
this sense includes many things that j drive a carriage horse at the rate of
ordinarily are not considered dirt,! a mile in two minutes? What we do
like the smells that arise from tur- want in horses for the farm is tho
nips, cabbages In the cellar and cook- speed that appears In the walking
ing vegetables and meats in the gait_ jf olir (a|r managers wanted
kitchen. To quarantine against these to really improve the speed of farm
is a colossal task, too great to be ac-
complished by the tazy man or the
man that does not think. That is
why we have a few eminent dairymen
and a good many that are failures.
horses they could establish contests
In walking.
Weed Out the Poor Sheep.
Ewes Intended to bo used in the
flock must be only of the best, wisely
selected for the object in view, says
W. W. Cooper. The flock is now well
established, and should be kept well
weeded out, only the best representa-
tives of the breed ' being retained.
This system wisely followed for a
number of years will tend to estab-
lish in a higher degree the uniformity
of the flock. The poorer ones may be
culled out and fed for the block. In
no case are they to be retained or sold
for breeding purposes. Scrubs will ap-
pear In tho best of flocks at Intervals,
through freaks in breeding; conse-
quently, one requires to be evfer on the
watch. Much can be accomplished in
the successful management of sheep
along these lines. It is a matter of
some importance to have your flock
well at all times. Something can be
done In this regard to add to their al-
ready good form, by dressing and
trimming the wool from time to time.
This remark applies more particu-
larly to the Down breeds. A flne,
smooth appearance Is presented to the
eye on the surface of back and sides.
It ls always to the advantage o$ a
breeder to have his stock look wej
at all times and seasons of the year-
A flock well kept is always to be pre-
ferred to one such as is too often seen,
showing the appearance of neglect.
Sheep are very unsightly when not
cared for properly, but when in a
healthy condition and well looked
after there are no other animals of
the farmyard more worthy of your pro
found admiration.
Good Breeding Stock.
Very few men can make money out
of bogs if they have poor breeding
stock. It may be that here and thero
a man can raise scrubs and make
money out of them, but it has to be
under conditions where the feed costs
practically nothing. That is not the
circumstances under which most of
our readers are raising swine. With
them the competition with other
breeders is strong, and feed has to be
purchased often at a very liigh price.
This high-priced feed must be put into
an animal that can make the most
possible out of it in a short time, and
this is the reason why good breeding
stock only is safe for the farmer on
high-priced land. Then the farmer
must have good bleeding swine be-
cause he wants animals that will give
him numerous progeny. It is safe to
buy sows from men that make a busi-
ness of breeding and who consequent-
ly feed their animals In a way to give
them both strong bone and muscle.
Such animals have vitality and tend
to produce a large number of pigs
rather than the small litters that
some are in the habit of bringing
forth every year. It is no easy mat-
ter to secure the kind of stock a man
needs. A good many herds will need
to be looked over before the purchas-
es are made. The good animals will
cost considerably more than the poor
ones, but, for the foundation of a herd,
the expensive ones are likely to prove
the cheapest In the long run.
Spraying a Preventive, Not a Cure.
The man that believes in spraying
should spray whether there seems the
least call for it or not. Spraying does
not make up for losses already sus-
tained from the attacks of fungi or
insects. It will not cause new 'eaves
to grow where the old ones have
been eaten off, and it will not cause
the fruit to improve after it has been
shrunken by reason of being deprived
of food that the leaves failed to elab-
orate, they having been destrbyed by
either insects or fungi. Some of ouf
most enterprising horticulturists have
accomplished wonders by simply
spraying, on the principle that they
would thus insure themselves against
the presence of their enemies in the
fruit orchard. Their trees have re-
sponded remarkably—so well indeed
that they have been led to believe *.hat
previously their trees were assailed
far more seriously by insects and fun-
gous pests than had been supposed.
There is no other way to spray suc-
cessfully. The man that does not
spray till the leaves of his trees are
eaten up by insects, or till they have
turned brown from the attacks of
fungi, will pronounce spraying to be
a failure.
See that the waste land ls clearnd
up and put Into service.
Tests with Oats.
The Farm Crops Department of the
Iowa Agricultural College is making
a test on the College farm of 29 of
the leading varieties of oats. In addi-
tion to the test, Prof. W. H. Olin of
this Department, has arranged with
Mr. A. E. Cook of the Brookmont
Farm, Odebolt, Iowa, for a co-opera-
tive test on a large scale of three of
the varieties of oats best adapted to
Iowa conditions. Six hundred acres
have been seeded to oats on the
Brookmont Farm for this experiment.
One variety has been selected as the
best oats for feeding horses and as
a heavy yielder. A second variety
has been selected to meet the de-
mands for a choice milling oats and
samples of the crop will be submitted
to the great oat meal combination to
be tested for milling. A third variety
was selected for good feeding quali-
ties and high yields, it having shown
a yield of 102 bushels per acre on
large fields. Prof. Olin will make a
careful study of the habits of growth
of these varieties, their yield and
adaptauon to Iowa soils; and will re-
port through press bulletins.
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