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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-09-28

Tor neat ana Douy energy IN temperate
weather. In extremely cold weather
they will use about 60 to 70 per cent
for heat and energy. This will depend
much upon the age and condition of
the animal.
We also learn from experience to fat
ten with rapidity. Different feed stuffs
are required. Corn is the principal
one for the solid ration. Shorts, bran,
cottonseed meal are very good for the
protein they contain. Ald a small por-
ton Of rye will fatteE rapidly if fed
Alright. Never feed liquid and solid
feeds at the same time. for the animals
will swallow the solids unmasticated.
Feed at least an hour apart. Some
advocate giving the feeds separately,
but one directly after the other This
is safe rule for hogs which are not
being fattened, but for hogs which are
to be fed to their full capacity the
practice is wrong. If hogs are given
their fill of some feed, then slop imme-
diately afterward. they can drink but
very little slop without overlooking
Iueii SloLuaSuo anu SduSlAS ulSoiueIetl
stomachs for few days. 1t will take
careful feeding for perhaps week to
bring them back to normal condition.
Keep the pens clean, not allowing filth
heaps to produce disease germs. Also
avoid damp sleeping places. Do not
care for the hog according to it's name,
but give care as though it were the
horse, and if attended thus it will re-
turn the greater profit Of the two.-Cor.
American Agriculturist.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-09-28
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AN UNEVEN HAY CROP.
shorter Tonnage Than Usual and q
Rank Growth of Weeds.

Rank Growth of Weeds.
The hay crop is outlined as "unusu-
ally irregular and uneven" by the
American Agriculturist, which says Of
the general conditions: The range is
from almost complete failure to mag
nificent luxuriance, and when the view
is narrowed to take in state conditions
only the range is almost as great Not
only is there great disparity in state
conditions, but within the state the
same irregularity exists. 1t is thus
difficult to summarize the condition for
the whole field, but the careful returns
Of our country correspondents furnish
abundant basis for the claim that the
hay crop this year will be small in
comparison with the abundant product
of last year.
East of the Alleghanies and in the
south the long spring drought came at
time when it's full effect was appar-
ent in the grass crop. Not only was
the crop cut short, but on material
areas no attempt was made to cut any
hay, cattle being pastured on meadows
in the absence Of any nourishment on
regular pasture areas. In New Eng
land the crop locally runs from one
fourth to one-half a crop. In New
York and Pennsylvania only three
fourths of crop is in sight With
such situation in these important hay
districts it naturally follows that the
general average of condition for the
whole crop is low.
West Of the Alleghanies the season
has presented radically different condi-
lions. Instead of drought the whole
spring and summer have been marked
by great excess of rainfall, and not
looking beyond the bare records of pre-
cipitation the public has been conyinc-
ed that the grass of the west would
make good any deficiencies in the east
But such is not assured. Instead Of a
great hay crop as result Of the unu-
sual rainfall in the central valleys, the
crop is inferior to last year for the belt
as q whole. and in many localities it is
decidedly smaller than the average for
a series of years.
While the partial failure in the east is
tdC ASSuAl VI IlC luS
uneven crop Of the west is due to a
cause which Is apt to be more lasting
and farreaching. The severe winter
weather which so nearly destroyed the
winter wheat crop over a large district
left heavy mark on the meadows as
well. Glover suffered to an extent al
most beyond precedent, and meadows
were left in such shape in many Sec
lions that the plow was the only rene
dy. On this account there was q larger
area of grass land put to corn than for
many years, and much Of what was
spared will another year be plowed.
The crop promise of the west is not
up to the usual standard. Not only will
there be shortage in tonnage. but the
usual ranliness in weed growth this
year will lower the quality Of the crop.
In portions of Ohio, Indiana and Illi-
nois the complaint Of white top is
greater than ever before, and this pest
will necessitate further blowing up of
grass land.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-09-28
AustrnIasian Beef.

The Queenslander contends that, fed
GRAFTON or no federation, Queensland is
destined to be the great beef raising
section Of the Australasian group. In
1897 she possessed G,0S9,OO0 cattle, or
about half the number in the whole of
Australasia. 1t is true that, in conse-
quence of drought and the tick pest, the
cattle number half million less than
they did two years ago, but correspond
ing losses have occurred in other colo
MES. But that federation would I'M
mensely stimulate cattle breeding in
Queensland there Is no doubt, as 1t
would sweep away duties on cattle
varying in the different colonies from
20 shillings to 40 shillings herd.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-09-28
Cotton and Sheep.

Texas cotton growers are using a
good many sheep in connection with
their work. Old cotton fields make ex-
cellent sheep pastures, and the combi-
nation Of the two lines OF work is a
good one. OF course, sheep under such
circumstances are not grown in large
numbers, but they can be made very
good. and farmers soon see the value
Of paying attention to quality where
they are limited as to quantity.-Dro-
vers' Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-09-28
Scientific Aids.

The secretary Of agriculture has an
nounced that any graduate Of col
lege receiving aid from the United
States has the chance, on certain CON
ditions, to be learned from the United
States civil service commission, Wash
ington, Of becoming Scientific aid"
in the United States department of ag-
riculture for period limited to two
years at salary not to exceed $40 per
month. The minimum age limitation
for entrance to examination for the po-
sition is 20 years. There is no maxi
mum age limitation.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-09-28
THE HEssIAN FLY.
What May BE Done After Wheat Har-
vest-Sowing Decoy Crops.

What May BE Done After Wheat Har.
vest-sowing Decoy Crops.
The Hessian fly is giving trouble in
various sections of the country. In q
bulletin Of the department of agricul
ture on this fly the remedies discussed
at length are burning the stubble,
blowing under the stubble, destruction
Of volunteer wheat, planting decoy
strips, rolling, late sowing of fall
wheat, intermittent wheat culture, pas
turing with sheep, moving and selec-
ton of resistant varieties. Mr.. II. Os-
born, the author of the bulletin, says
that little thought concerning the
measures discussed, with recognition
of the life history facts upon which
they are based, will suggest that the
best practical results will be obtained
not by reliance upon any one method,
but by an intelligent adaptation of two
or more, according to the conditions
prevailing for the season. These will
| constitute a practice which can be
modified for each year as the condi
tons will indicate.
With the harvesting of grain there is
open the policy of burning the stubble
or blowing it under or allowing it to
stand for the exclusion of beneficial
parasites If the weather is very dull,
! it will be best to defer burning, to al
low the issuance of as many parasites
as possible, but if burning is to be
adopted at all it should be done before
| fall rains set in or the field has grown
up to weeds. If rains occur early,
burning will be best, and in any case
the stubble should be plowed under
and rolled as soon as there is any ap-
pearance Of a volunteer growth of
wheat The ohaff from thrashing
should be burned and the screenings
burned or fed to stock as early as pos
sible, and care should be taken during
autumn to piow under and roll the vol
unteer wheat that springs up in the
stackyard. If winter wheat is to be
planted, strips of decoy wheat may be
put in to be plowed under at the end of
three or four weeks and finally the
crop planted at as late date as prac-
ticable, according to dates given in the
4 paragraph on late planting. This prac-
tice can be duly combined with the Sc
lection of resisting varieties of wheat
and the application of fertilizers
1t will be observed that the modifica-
lions are based primarily on the wealth
er-whether dry or moist. condition
apparent to every one, and that the sug-
gestion amounts to postponement of
burning or blowing if dry, or the early
adoption Of one or both If wet.
The proper time for sowing decoys
will vary with the latitude. According
to Webster for northern Indiana they
should be sown during the latter part
Of August, and in the southern part of
the state not later than the first week
in September. To the north and south
of this he does not undertake to give
dates, but it would depend upon the
date Of appearance Of the fall brood
Of flies, the wheat being planted early
enough to attract the flies at the time
of their emergence. A decoy crop
should be destroyed within four weeks
at the utmost, and turned under sc
deeply that any insects maturing
would be unable to escape.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-09-28
Care of Hogs.

Fatten the hogs before the mercury
drops to zero. Better start in August,
even if little grain must be bought
until the corn is ripe. 1t will pay. The
weather for the next three months is,
as rule, moderate. If hogs are fed as
much as their stomachs can digest and
---ssi.ze. about 80 per cent. is first used
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-09-28
WIrh The huMoRlSr,

You gave Tungay a job in your Of
flee the other day, understand. Hasn't
he talked the arm off you?"
"No, but he talked his own head off.
He's hunting another JOB. "-Chicago
Tribune.
Josephine started on summer trip
but didn't co.
'.Why not %
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-09-28
CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund money
if it fails to cure; 25c. The genuine
has b. l.. Q. on each tablet.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-09-28
Alfalfa For Ho. Pasture.

An ONO FARMER correspondent asks
whether alfalfa can be sown in an
orchard for hog pasture which has
been in timothy and clover and is all
heaved out. and Joseph e. Wing an
swers: Alfalfa undoubtedly makes the
best hog pasture of any plant that can
be grown. Whether the soil Of this or
chard will grow it or not is another
question. The clover having frozen out
may simply be the result of it's having
died from old age. or it may be that
the soil is undrained and apt to heave
things. If the soil is really rich and dry,
should SOW the alfalfa without any
hesitation. Plow the land deep. throw
ing up an inch or two Of new soil and
sowing the alfalfa along about the
middle Of April or later. Cover by roll
ing. Be sure the land is smooth, so that
the mower can run over it easily, for
keeping it moved off two or three
times the first summer to destroy the
weeds and to invgorate the alfalfa by
the close clipping is the secret Of sue
cessful alfalfa growing. Do not pas
ture it the first year, and do not pas
never allow the hogs to run on it when
the alfalfa is frosted. or the plants will
be destroyed.
Harvesting Sofa Beans For Seed.
Cut as soon as first pods turn yellow
or become a light brown. If left too
long to ripen, the leaves will drop Off
thus injuring the value Of the hay and
straw. The stalks will also become
too hard and tough to cut with now
er or reaper. An old fashioned self
rake or dropper is the best. Put the
beans in small piles, containing a good
forkful each, and allow them to cure.
They are best thrashed from the field,
as this saves extra handling, the she'll
ing of the seed and prevents heating
if stored when not perfectly dried.
Care must be taken in feeding the hay
like corn fodder, for it is rich COLI
densed food, advises American Agri-
culturist.
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-21
The Start for the Last Lap of the Centuru.

poor wretch of woman, weeping over the body of murderer; The never beat me where the marks would show
 "Then, it seems to me, man might re- solve not to unload all his troubles on the family hearth. Of course, know every day man has to go through with enough to try the patience of saint, bat because cotton has gone down instead of up or things haven't run smoothly at the office is no real reason for skipping Sammy and kicking the cat as soon as he gets within his own door. A man might occasionally remember that woman has troubles of her own and needs to be cheered and frightened. We are continually told that woman should always meet her husband with smile, but no woman can smile long enough or bright ly enough to raise the temperature in house where man is sitting around with a scowl on his face. It takes reciprocity, and it's just as much mans business to smile and help to make home happy as it is a woman's.
 There's always room for plenty of good resolutions New Years day and other days. He might resolve, if he really meant to turn over a new leaf and try to do his part towards making home happy, to make his wife an allowance and pay it promptly, as a debt of honor; to remember that servants are mortal, and that you can't hire three dollar-a-week girl to cook like 1000 chef;
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-21

make household angels sing together for joy would be if men would remember that be- ing a woman doesn't make anyone enjoy
 having all their theories and ideas derided and scoffed at. There are plenty of women who can't venture an opinion on any sub ject from the weather to the political situa- tion without having their husbands tell them they don't know what they are talking about, and they'd better keep quiet. It may be true, but if a man marries fool it is his own fault. He picked her out from among all the other women in the world be- cause she was the one that suited him best and was most congenial to his taste, and if she doesn't know blessed thing he has no right to say word. AS general thing men fall into this fault of disparaging their wives opinions through sheer carelessness of their wives feelings and conceit of their own views. But just let one stop and ask himself how he would like to be continu- ally made to look cheap before the chil- dren and the servants, how he would like to have his ideals, and often even his reli- zion, ridiculed, and every time he tried to tell joke or good story have somebody who went out into the world more and saw and heard more remind him that it was heary chestnut. Could there be a more ex- quisite cruelty practiced? Yet thousands of women go through this daily martyrdom from men who think they are good hus- bands. Tom was always good to me- said
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-21

New Years day in Washington. It is the grand rallying day of the neighborly proclivities of the people of the entire dis trict. Many men make their first and last visit of the year on this day, and only see certain of their friends on this one day of the year. As they grow older these fes- tival days seem to come closer and closer to- gether. Lists are published in the news papers of the houses where receptions will be held, with the names of the ladies who will assist in receiving. The assisting lady often attracts more callers than the hostess, and newly-arrived families are on the look out for popular women for their New Years day receptions. There is no need to interrupt the grand round of calls for luncheon or dinner; the carriage is hired for the day, and, dressed in his very best, the caller must see all the old friends and make as many new ones as time will per init. Everywhere open house is kept in the lavish southern fashion. Tables are loaded with viands hot and cold, supplemented with real southern eggnogg, or bowl filled from the housekeeper's winter supply of Fish house punch, mixed from a we'll guarded formula that is an heirloom in Philadelphia families. The whirl of revelry is intense, but this gala day comes for Washingtonians but once a year, and 1t is celebrated with true southern warmth and enthusiasm"
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-21
OYerdoind the Being Good Business

"I say, Jimmy, don't you think you are rather overdoing this being good business% volunteered one young hopeful in confidence to his chum.
 Not on your life. Don't you know Christmas is comings" replied the youngster who was accused of being too good.
 "Yes, that's all very well. But you may . be maxim mistake"
 "You don't know what yer talkin about. You ought to hear all the folks at our house talking about what a good boy Jimmy is getting to be-, and how that fake Santa Claus is going to give him such a lot of nice presents"
 "Aw, yes. That's all right But, then, I want to tell you that it may not turn out the way you want"
 What are you giving mel"
 Well, ought to know. tried your game last year, and I got four Bibles and three Sunday school books for Christmas. Not a pair of skates or anything of the sort They said they thought I would like the Bibles and the books better. Aw, I tell you, Jim my, you don't want to overdo the being good business. Chicago Times-Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-21
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS.
Me Should Each and All Tru to Make the
 Dau Thoroughly Enjoyable.

Because we cannot have the Yule log and traditional roast pig, shall we refuse the cheer of anthracite coal and baked tur. key" asks Florence Hall Winterburn, writ ing on the Spirit of Christmas" in the Woman's Home Companion. "0r if even the open fire, the mistletoe and the family gathering are beyond us, must we disdain the homemaking attempts of the steam radiator, and find no comfort in the dainty elaborateness of a well-spread table, cater ing to the needs of refined modern tasteg Suppose the misanthrope (for the recluse who lives only in an imaginary Christmas is misanthrope) came out of his shell and gathered the young people about him to charm their ears with tales of the old ways of holiday-keeping when he was a boy Would not this be better than grumhling out protests against the new ways that have their own reasons for being, and offer in turn their own measure of enjoyment 10 willing spiritsg Genial old age is always welcome presence, and it never suggests any contrasts that put us out of conceit with the pleasures that lie within our reach. But carping, even if it proceeds from the patri- arch, is an infiiction severe enough to blight any holiday.
 'In the nature of things there must be holidays. How poverty-stricken is that soul which does not recognize this necessity and throw itself heartily into the work of help ing forward the good time youth and all unspoiled minds accept with gratitude. There is no predeterminhte set of condi. tions for holiday making that need tic ad- venturous hands, and if traditional customs belonging to Thanksgiving and Christmas are vanished beyond recall we can harmonize the day with our present abilities.
 My sympathy is with those who wish to bring back upon Christmas day the sweet old traditional observances. I love them well, even those that are known to me only by hearsay and were outgrown in that shadowy period alluded to as before the war But no one thing is indispensable to happiness with any of us, unless with children, and not even with them if judi cious substitute is made. Whatever we have, or whatever we lack. the quality that makes the occasion is the spirit we bring to it. Good will never fails to create good time. It finds merit in rain, lifts fog and lights, a cheery blaze within that passes for the sunshine in its absence. And good will has not passed away with chivalry, nor perished under the onrush of science. It lives and breathes now, and is here at this moment to light our Christmas fires and swing incense before our atars. All we need do is to recognize and adapt it."
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-21
NEW YEAR IN WASHINGTON
When Every One Keeps Open House with
 Lavish Southern Hospitalitu.

Mary Nimmo Balentine, writing of "New Years Day in the White House" in the Woman's Home Companion, thus describes the public receptions: Announcements are published in the newspapers proclaiming the levee at the white house and the exact minute at which the different officials of the government service will be received, but it is usually near one o'clock before the sovereign people are admitted to the grounds.
 ''The state levee at the white house is but the beginning of the calling that con- tinues throughout the afternoon and we'll into the night in official and private houses. The official social season is inaugurated on
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-21

little welcome reformation, and who might make us so much happier if they only would.
 "What would I suggest? Oh, lots of things. To begin with: I'd have them make a cast-iron resolution to spend more of their time at home. When man marries wom- an he leads her to suppose he does it be- cause he yearns for unlimited quantities of her society, and it must strike any fair minded person good deal like getting goods under false pretenses, if, as soon as the hon. eymoon wanes, he chases of to the club or downtown the minute he gets his dinner, leaving her to solitude and the unexciting delights of her own company. It is situ- ation that perhaps man never appreciates, because he has never been there himself. It couldn't happen to him, because the mo- ment he detected symptom of lonesome ness he would put on his hat and go of to the theater or the corner saloon, or some place where there were light and brightness and gayety. A woman has no such resources. She can't go around at night by herself hunting up company, but must sit at home, no matter how lonesome and bored she may be. Men are forever wondering why women want to congregate together in boarding houses. One answer to the conundrum is that they want somebody to talk to while their husbands are downtown at night. I have yet to see the woman whose husband was housekeeping and home-loving man who wasn't satisfied to stay there, too. There's one thing dead certain, and that is that if men were as anxious to stay at home evenings as they were to call on a girl be- fore marriage, and if they took as much trouble and pains to try to entertain their wives as they do their sweethearts, the do- mestic millennium would be in hailing dis tance.
 Another good resolution that would
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-21

An want to jes' submit and to kinder
 push 'em through. Whereas, we've been neglectful an forget
 ful of our work, Whereas, we've been too careless an too
 often prone to shirk. Whereas we've been unmindful bout the
 little acts O. love, An little deeds O kindness, why, I'm goin'
 to make this move: Resolved. we'll be more faithful an more
 watchful all the day: Resolved, we'll scatter sunshine all along
 the weary way; Resolved. we'll let no brother who may
 need our friendly grasp Plod on another single step without our
 warmest clasp. An now'n somebody second O the resoiu-
 tlons. then Let every feller vote an IT." an add a
 strong "Amenr An then go out an act 'em right in all his
 daily walk. An make his Twin tally with his resolu-
 ton talk. ID. c. Bickers, in Atlanta Constitution.
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-21
For the Children.

"Yes," said Mir. Blykins, I've always celebrate Christmas for the children's sakes. They expect it, you know, and I wouldn't have the heart to disappoint them"
 But you and Mrs. Blykins always re. member each otherg"
 "Oh, yes. l am going to give her two. hundred-dollar coat and l have reason to think she intends to give me a ffty.dollar chair. We always settle we'll in advance what our presents will be. All we have to think of now is doll for the little girl and tin wagon for the boy."-Washington Star.