The Comanche Reflex (Comanche, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, September 28, 1917 Page: 3 of 8
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LIFT YOUR CORNS
OR CALLUSES OFF
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the Just lift them awa y
with finger
THE COMANCHE REFLEX
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ROADS REDUCE LIVING COST
SUCCESSFUL FEEDING 71UST BE EFFICIENT
MOST DESIRABLE TYPE FOR DAIRY PURPOSES
(Clemson Collets Bulletin)
Successful feeding must be efficient
and economical All feed should be
palatable succulent and substantlaL
No single feed excels pasture no com
' blnation of feeds can excel legume hay
concentrates and corn silage 80 far
as practicable the feeds should be
grown on the farm Cows must be
good producers to feed With good
dairy cows liberal feeding always paya
Succufent Feeds
To keep cows In full production suc-
culent 'feed Is essentlaL There are
two Bources of succulent feeds si-
lage and roots Corn silage Is usually
the cheapest feed The quality to feed
usually varies from 25 to 60 pounds
according to production For small
herds however It may not be prac-
ticable to build silos and In such cases
mangelwurzels or some other root crop
may take the place of silage Linseed
meal Is laxative and Is especially val-
uable as a part of the grain mixture
when no succulent feed is available
The farmers should make special pro
vision to have the above feeds on
band for the coming winter when suc-
culent feeds are not easily available
Dry Roughage
Legumes make the best hay for
dairy cows Alfalfa clover soy beans
velvet beans and cowpea hay are the
cheapest sources of protein and when
possible should form part of every
ration Other roughages such as tim-
othy ' millet and corn stover require
more protein In the grain mixture
Grain
"Farmers’ Bulletin Number 743"
gives a very good rule to determine
how much grain should be fed:
"A grain mixture should be fed In
the proportion of one pound to each
three pints of pounds of milk pro-
duced daily by the cow except In the
case of a cow producing a flow of 40
pounds or more when the ration can
be one pound to each three and a half
or four pounds of milk An even bet-
ter rule is one pound of grain each day
for every pound of butterfat produced
during the week by the cow”
MILLET FOR STOCK
As Roughage It Is Regarded as
Somewhat More Effective
Than Prairie Hay
VALUABLE AS A CATCH CROP
Plant Is Adapted to Wide Range of
Solis and Climates — Not to Be Re-
garded as Profitable In Crop
Rotations
From the United States Department of
Agriculture)
Foxtail millet which makes up ap-
proximately nine-tenths of all the mil-
let grown In the United States Is de-
clared by specialists In the United
States department of agriculture to be
valuable chiefly as a catch crop Most
farmers use it to overcome a shortage
In their hay supply or to occupy a field
which would otherwise be idle For
such purposes millet Is admirably
adapted because It matures quickly
snd a stand is obtained with ease and
certainty -
Furthermore the plant Is adapted to
a wide range of soils and climates Al-
though large yields are not obtained
under unfavorable circumstances mil-
let does better on poor soil and In a
dry climate than most other hay crops
In seml-arld regions it frequently es-
capes periods of drought because of
Its short growing season On the other
hand It Is quick to show the effect of
dry weather because of its shallow
root system Compared with Sudan"
grass its chief competitor millet is de-
ficient both In quality and yield of hay
hut the growing season of the Sudan
PLOWING TO KILL BILLBUGS
In Lowlands "of Southern Sections
Corn Is Liable to Injury by
These Insects
From the United States Department of
Agriculture) -
Corn planted in river and creek bot-
toms or other low places especially In
southern parts of the country Is liable
to Injury by blllbugs snout beetles or
"elephant bugs” as they are variously
termed These hard-shell beetles live
normally In sedges rushes or the large
wild grasses that grow In moist low
ground from which they may Invade
cornfields Damage Is done to corn by
the grubs or young of the beetles
which live Inside the stems or roots of
the plants and eat out the central
portion of the stalk causing stunting
and serious injury The adult beetles
also injure the crop by puncturing the
growing point or "bud” of a plant
Land Infested with blllbugs should
always be plowed In late summer or
early fall This measure entomol-
ogists In the United States department
of agriculture say destroys the winter
grass Is somewhat longer and this
provides greater opportunity in the lat-
ter for Injury from drought n
- Feeding Value of Hay
In Its feeding value the hay of fox-
tail millet has been found to be ap-
proximately the same as timothy hay
As a roughage for growing stock It Is
usually regarded as somewhat more
effective than prairie hay but not the
equal of alfalfa or clover hay It can
be fed without danger to cattle and
sheep and sparingly and In connection
with other kinds of hay to horses A
continuous ration of millet hay how
ever has resulted In injury to horses
This fact says a new publication of
the department of agriculture Farm
cr8’ Bulletin 703 has been denied but
It Is scarcely open to doubt
Millet Is not to be regarded as
profitable constituent of regular crop
rotations It has been considered ex-
haustive of soil fertility possibly be-
cause It gathers Its food and moisture
from the upper levels of the soil Also
a very small quantity of vegetable
matter Is left after a crop of millet has
been harvested for hay and therefore
there is little humus added to the soil
when the stubble Is plowed under Ex-
perience in fact has shown that it
Is quite likely that a crop following
millet will not do so well as one fol-
lowing small grain or corn
- Used for Human Food
In Asia the original home of foxtail
millet the plant Is used to a certain
extent as human food It Is quite un-
likely however says the bulletin al-
ready mentioned that there will be
any great demand for It In this coun-
try as long as wheat can be produced
as abundantly as at present Proso
or broomcorn millet has been used to
some extent as a grain crop In the
Dakotas but It Is less valuable than
corn for feeding hogs and beef cattle
and as a flesh producer does not equal
barley
quarters of the bugs Corn should not
be followed by corn In the Atlantic
coastal plain region of the South but
should be alternated with cotton on
which the blllbugs cannot live It Is
necessary to destroy all sedges
rushes chufa or large swamp grasses
growing on land Intended to be plant-
ed to corn because these plants are
the natural food of blllbugs and when
present prevent their extermination
VEGETABLES FOR WINTER CONSUMPTION
Natural storage Is the simplest and
least expensive method of keeping veg-
etablee for fall sod winter consump-
tion Wherever practicable this meth-
od should be made uee of especially
this season when the conservation of
food and the keeping down of food ex-
penses Is peculiarly Important Own-
ers of home gardens are In general
best situated for storing vegetables
since they probably have surpluses of
vegetables In the full It often Is pos-
sible however for other householders
to buy vegetables cheaply enough In
the fall to Justify the preparation and
stocking of storage places
Storage Is especially successful with
the root tuber and bulb crops such as
carrots potatoes onions etc Cab-
bage celery pumpkins also winter
squash mature beans and peas and
a number of other vegetables also tusy
be stored
The successful storage of vegetable
Is not at all difficult In fact good
storage facilities already exist In most
homes it being only necessary to make
use of the cellar - the attic a large
closet or other parts of the dwelling
depending upon the character of the
product to be stored
Storage Room In the Basement of the
Dwelling
A cool well-ventilated cellar under
the dwelling offers good conditions for
the storage of vegetables Many cel-
lars are not well suited for storing veg-
etables because of poor Insulation or
lack of ventilation Cellars contain
Ing a furnace for heating the dwelling
usually are too warm and too dry for
the storage of root crops It Is often
possible however to partition off
room either In one corner or at one
end of the cellar where the tempera-
ture may be controlled by means of
outside windows At least one -window
Is necessary and two or more are
desirable for admitting light and for
ventilation
Construction of the 8torage Room
The size of the storage room should
be determined by the space available
and the amount of material to be
stored Natural earth makes a better
floor than concrete or brick as a cer-
tain amount of moisture Is desirable
The walls of the storage room should be
parallel to the walls of the cellar Lay
2-by-4-lnch scantling flat on the floor
and secure them with pegs driven In-
to the floor or by nailing thera to the
top of short posts set In the ground
Set 2-by-4-lnch studding from this
sill to the celling spacing them 16
Inches apart from center to center
Locate the door to the storage room
at the most convenient point making
It large enough to admit barrels
than 6 inches wide
boxes etc feet wide by 64 feet
high being a good size Set the studs
on either side of the door 32 Inches
apart which will allow for the door
and the frame Put a header over the
door allowing 1 lqch for the frame
and of an inch for the sill at the
bottom Set the studs against the
walls where the cellar walls and storage-room
walls meet- Care exercised
In making the frame square and plumb
will enable the builder to get the struc-
ture tight with a minimum of labor
A good room Is made by covering the
studding on the outside with tongue-and-groove
material but a better way
Is to sheathe the outside with plain
lumber' tack building paper on this
and side with tongue-and-groove ma-
terial This construction In connec-
tion with lath and plaster or wall
board on the inside makes an excel-
lent room
Ventilation may be secured by open-
ing - one or more windows An air
duct constructed of wood metal or
terra cotta and fitted In one of the
windows as Illustrated in figure 4 Is
desirable as It permits the cool air
to enter at the bottom of the room
Two or more joints of 6-lnch stovepipe
one with a damper and an elbow may
be used A piece of board with a hole
the size of the pipe Is fitted in the
window In place of one of the panes
of glss Another pane of glass may
be removed from the sash and a small
hinged door fitted In Its place which
when open allows the bested sir to
escape In - cold weather both the
hinged door snd the damper In the
stovepipe must be closed The win-
dows In the storage room should be
darkened In order to protect the vege-
tahles from the light
Barrels crates boxes or bins may
be used as containers for the various
vegetables but movable containers sr
preferable to bullt-ln bins as It Is pos-
sible to remove them for cleaning It
Is advisable to construct shelves or
a slat floor to keep the crates boxes
baskets and other containers off the
ground This Is highly desirable to In-
sure a' free circulation of air and to
prevent the containers from harboring
mice rats and other vermin The
shelves for canned goods along one
side of the room need not be more
Make for Prosperity More Than Any
Other National Undertaking Bays
Alaskan Englnoer
"Good roads mors than soy other
national undertaking make for the
prosperity happiness and contentment
of the people" declared Col W P
Richardson engineer" In charge of high-
ways In Alaska - "This Is particularly
evident at this time when In every
large city there la protest against the
high prices of food In my Judgment
good roods more than any other
agency will help to solve permanent-
ly the high cost of living Transporta-
tion of course Is at the foundation
of prices It Is truthfully said that
where there Is Inadequate transporta-
tion food prices mount high We know
that In cities prices are greatly In ex-
cess of those In rural districts and It
Is all s matter of transportation and
distribution If eve have good roads
we can get onr products to market If
ORGANIC MATTER IN STRAW
Three Dollars' Worth of Plantfood
Contained In Every Ton— Should
Bo Applied to 8oll
Farmer spare that straw stack!
"Three dollars’ worth of plantfood
goes up In smoke every time a ton of
straw Is burned” declares R I
Throckmorton associate professor of
agronomy In the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college "Many Kansas farmers
are overlooking the chief by-product
of the farm
The soils In Kansas are becoming
deficient rapidly in organic matter and
straw Is a means of Increasing that
content Wheat fields produce quanti-
ties of available straw”
The best way to use straw Is to
bed stock with It By this method
the moisture content of the manure Is
absorbed by the straw What straw
cannot be used In this manner can be
applied as a surface dressing to soli
In the late fall or winter months
Straw should be scattered with uni-
form thickness at the rate of one ton
per acre The surface dressing acts
as a soil mulch and thus prevents loss
of water during rains It also aids In
holding the snow and In preventing
winter killing
This new drug Is an ether compound
discovered by n Cincinnati chemist I
la called treasons and can
now be obtained la tiny
bottle aa here shown al
very little cost from any
drug store Just ask for
froesona Apply a drop or
two directly upon a tender
corn or callus and Instant-
ly the sorenees disappear
Shortly you will find the
corn or callus so loose that
you can lift It off root
and all with the fingers
Not a twinge of pain
soreness or Irritation not
even the slightest smart-
ing either when applying
freesone or afterwards
This drug doesn't eat np
the corn or callus but
shrivels them so they loos-
en and come right out It
le no humbug I It work
Ilk a charm For a few
cents you can get rid of ev-
ery bard corn soft corn or
corn between the toes as well as pain-
ful calluses on bottom of yoor feet It
never disappoints and never burn
bites or Inflame If your druggist
hasn't any freesono yet tell him to
get a little bottle for you from big
wholesale house — adv )
The Very Worst
Penelope — I suppose he broke you
heart eventually?
Perdlta — Far worse!
Penelope — Tou don't mean to say he
broke the engagement?
Perdlta— No He played poker with
papa and broka him
8AVE A DOCTOR'S BILL'
by keeping Mississippi Diarrhea Cor-
dial handy for all stomach complaint
Price 25c and 60c — Adv
FALL WORK ON RASPBERRIES
Prune to Remove Dead Wood Which
Bore Fruit Preceding Year-
Break Of? the Tips
The chief pruning for raspberries Is
to cut out the dead wood which bore
fruit the preceding year This may be
done any time dprlng the fall winter
or early spring
As the young shoots spring up from
the roots and get to be about two feet
high It is often good practice to break
off with the hand the tip four or five
inches back thus causing the sending
out of lateral shoots and increasing
the amount of frultlng-wood for thf
year following
Good Road Over Rocky Mountain
we haven’t' we cannot - - Products on
the farm are worth nothing if they
cannot find a market I am convinced
that the most important governmental
work Is In the Improvement of the
roads In this day of motor trucks
It Is much easier to haul products to
the cities or to railroad terminals than
It was a few years ago but we must
have good roads to do It There Is not
the slightest doubt that good roads
many times over pay for themselves
They are a fundamental economic ne-
cessity "The Initial outlay In the building of
good roads may seem large but It Is
small In comparison with the benefits
that accrue In Alaska we have ap-
proximately 900 miles of Improved
roads varying from the ordinary coun-
try dirt road to the best kind of ma-
cadam In Nome there is a stretch
of road over which In the summer
time thousands of tons of products are
hauled”
DONT FORGET THE H0RSE1
There Wa Another Hero In Wild
Midnight Rldo of Paul Revere
Reminds a Writer
Paul Revere's name was made Im-
mortal when he rode from Boston t©
Lexington and Concord warning the
patriots along the way of the British
approach and his fame has been se-
curely enshrined in the hearts of all
Americans
Historians have honored themselvee
In honoring him Poets have found In-
spiration In praising him He la an
Idol of childhood an example in the
prime of manhood and a solacing mem-
ory of old age
How few characters loom up like
great peaks above the mountain ranges
of time !
And Paul Revere was one of these
Ho was one of the precious few great '
enough to grasp an opportunity to de
an Incalculable good to mankind
But while we give deserved glory to
Paul Revere let us no longer forget
that there was another hero In that
wild midnight ride says a writer In
the Christian Herald
There was the horse
“Any other horse might have done as
well" you think? Well so might any
other man have done as well perhaps
So might we flippantly disparage any
here
But the fact remains that it was Paul
Revere’s horse that did it And the
POOR ROADS ARE EXPENSIVE harder work fell on the horse But for
1 the true horse's faithfulness Paul Be-
In the humid sections distribute the
polsoned-bran bait for grasshoppers
early In the morning ‘
Join with your neighbors in buying
spraying materials and thus get the
benefit of wholesale prices
Clear up Johnson grass Bermuda
grass and salt grasb In order to de-
stroy the desert corn flea-beetles’ win-
ter quarters
In the semiarld sections polsoned-
bran bait for grasshoppers should be
Mistaken Idea That Improved High-
ways Are Solely for Benefit of
Automobile Owner
Poor roads are very expensive things
for country communities The farmer
who thinks that Improved highways
are mainly for the benefit of those who
drive automobiles should reflect on
the results of a recent Investigation by
the department of agriculture which
finds that the cost of hauling farm
produce over ordinary country roads
Is 23 cents a ton mile whereas over
hard-surfaced roads It Is only 13 cents
—Youth’s Companion
vere would have been a failure
Undersea Wit
“Who has old Shark been fleecing
now?”
“Why the poor suckers of course"
CAPITAL REQUIRED FOR BEES
Strong Point In Favor of Honey Indus-
try Is Small Amount of Money
Needed for Results -
Sweet Potatoes for 8torage
- Don’t dig your sweet potatoes for
storage until they are fully matured
Let them mature In the ground and
yon will have larger potatoes and
therefore more food per acre The
mature potato will keep better
Much Food Ruined
Much food is ruined by being stored
Where files or other Insects or rats and
mice can get at It ’ Much cereal food
Is ruined becaues it Is not protected
against weevils or other Insects
Swiss chnrd and lettuce ore very
much liked by chickens Fe:d them a
little every day
The men who are engaged In honey
production as an exclusive business
are getting results equal to those de-
rived from any other form of agricul-
ture with less capital invested and
with less risk according to Dr J H
Merrill assistant professor of ento-
mology In the Kansas State Agricultu-
ral college —
“The fact that It requires far less
capital to engage in beekeeping than
In general farming Is a strong point
In favor of the Industry” commented
Doctor Merrill
“As an exclusive business beekeep-
ing requires high-grade talent It
looks so simple and easy that those
who engage in It are not willing to
take the time to master the work In
all of Its details as they would In any
other line of business For this reason
comparatively few persons succeed In
making It profitable?
distributed in the late afternoon ' or OPERATION OF A ROAD DRAG
early evening
Use Pokiest Laziest Kind of Team
and Let Them- Have Their Own
Time— Just Keep Moving
beekeepers thnn there are today but
there has been an Increase In the num-
ber of bees kept Doctor Merrill pointed
out This plainly Indicates that the
beekeepers are becoming specialist
BLANCH EARLY CELERY CROP
Special Paper Twelve Inches Wide
Made for This Purpose — Two
Weeks Time Is Require
Early celery is best blanched with
boards or paper a special paper 12
Inches wide belng(made for this pur-
pose In warm weather it will blanch In
about two weeks when the boards may
be removed along and so used several
times In a season
Blanching Celery Crop
Celery may be blanched by placing
boards paper or dirt about it A drain
tile will do Soil Is likely to cause
decay In the early varieties If put on
during hot weather
Use the poisoned bran bait to control
Fifteen years ago there were more grasshopper " V
Do not wait for anything build a
drag and get out onto the road
Drive very slowly Use the pokiest
laziest team you own and give them
their time Just so they keep moving
they will be going swiftly enough
After you have used the drag a year
and have learned when to drive rap-
idly and when to drive slowly you can
carry a whip or drive a mettlesome
team
Vetch as Cover Crop
An expert says that winter etch
does best as a cover crop If a little rye
la seeded with It One bushel of vetch
to one-half bushed of rye per acre Is
about right
Bad Habit of Cow
Once a cow finds out she can get
over an old fence there will be trouble
perhaps for all time
Rats Are Expenslv
Fifty rats on a farm will cost the
wner $100 to $300 a year
Making It 8ur
Prisoner — Listen Judge Til stop -drinking
for a month
Judge — I believe you thirty days
hit
you never
tasted
FOOD
you have
missed
one of the
good things
In life
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