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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26
WINTER FEEDING.
TrS " variety OF Grains. with Green
STUN and Cut Hone.

Trs variety OF Grains. with Green
STUN aud Cut Hone.
The great secret la making hens lay
III simply providing them with suffi-
client variety OF suitable food. on
practically every farm there In sum
Client variety TO furnish properly bal
anced ration II some one Will only take
the time and trouble TO see that IL is
prepared.
The trouble Is that on the average
farm poultry are regarded ms n side is-
sue. neglected or ut best fed without
care or thought In the west every
farm has corn In abundance, and the
temptation go simply throw this grain
TO the chickens Is often too strong TO
be resisted.
Corn. wheat. oats, barley and millet
seed are all good feeds. Some object
to corn. but IT IL highly desirable where
Il not used M nm exclusive diet. No
grain is satisfactory so used. Any
grain when used exclusively is too
heavy and rich, too concentrated.
Something must be added for bulk
Wheat bran makes an excellent bulk
10 balance II heavy. rich grain food
and besides II has good effect IN
keeping the digestive organism I'm con-
ditiOn.
In state OF nature chickens get 9th
er than vegetable food. Insects are
part OF their bill OF fure, and we must
emulate nature by furnishing them
some substitute during the winter, or
they will not do their best Meat
scraps, cut bone and kitchen refuse
should be given them. A little cut
clover or alfalfa hay Is always accept
able.
Let them scratch in straw or litter
for part OF their food. They like to
do IT. and besides IT prevents gorging
and the production OF too much fat
through lazy disposition.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26
An Error About Pur. a,ooa.

Let me call attention to a popular err
ror, says Il. &C. Orr. Many a man i'm
AGNES he has pure bred flock because
IT contains no dunghill specimens or. In
fact, no dunghili blood. Yet his flock is
scarcely better than If II had never had
any pure bred blood injected into It.
The fine flock OF Light Brahmas that
In 1892 was crossed with Brown Leg
horns Ito increase egg production"
that In 1894 was again crossed with
Silver Wyandottes ito give plumpness
of body" that In 1896 was crossed with
Plymouth Rocks ito increase the size"
that In 1898 was again crossed with
Black Minorcas "to hold the size and
still improve the egg production" was
In 1900 the most mixed up and good
for nothing flock in America. Yet #
actually contained no dunghill blood.
I'd rather take the "commonest' flock
/ ever saw and attempt to grade 1t into
something definite than the above de-
scribed much mixed flock. Why? Be
cause In grading up the mixed flock
you could MOI begin to guess where
some characteristic OF the pure bred
sires you used six or eight years be-
fore would crop up to vex and annoy
you. Cold blood is more easily oblit-
Grated.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26
GREEN BONE.
A Man Who Says IL Added Fifteen
Per Cent to His Poultry Profits.

A Man Who Says IL Added Fifteen
Per Cent to His Poultry Profits.
My experience with cut bone as a
food for fowls extends over two years
only with a flock OF 100 hens, writes
w. +. Adams I'm Farmers Voice. Prior
to that time had not used cut bone.
/ get soup bone OF the butcher,
save off the meat On little meant won't
hurt If you intend feeding as soon as
cut, and i feed the same day IL Is cut.
Some people make the mistake of US
Ing bones that have been boiled or lain
out and sun bleached. Some OF the
most essential feeding value OF the
bone has thus been lost. especially as
feed for growing chicks.
For growing chickens, after two
weeks old, | mix the bone meal with
corn chops dampened with curd milk
(water will do. so that each bird gets
from half to one teaspoonful OF the
bone meal, according to age.
Extra large and quick growth bone
In fowls means more meat, and more
meat means to 10 cents per pound.
For laying hens feed as above. only
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26
MISSOURI NUEEX:W

- Ststo oe~sna 60 3uxas - q -
sess - The Rosss's Half DpssAsN
: pr. +. B. xumford. acting dean q
Missouri Agricultural coliexs a
'umbia. has secured some figures ana
nsr information on Missouri mules
nicn reveal that the number OF i've
eoek In that state Is far greater than
~ 1soo' which. In view OF unfayorabls
conoiuons. Is remarkable evidence Of
me wonderful agricultural vitality Of
Missouri.
: Thsy show that the number OF mules
In the state has now reached 800. 600
Their value Is estimated at sos. OOO.-
600
MISSOURI alone now has per cent OF
the total number OF mules I'm the United
States There are today more mules In
Missouri than In any other state except
Texas. When II is remembered that
during the Bocr war thousands of
mules We're shipped from Missouri to
South Africa these figures are astound-
ing. Missouri has In three years leaped
10 the position of second mule state in
america, crowding Texas closely for
nrst honor.
There is another fact which l wish
20 state about the Missouri mule" said
Dr. Mumford. 1T Is the best mule in
the world In saying this take into
consideration size, weight. strength and
ability. All the essentials are found
IN the Missouri product. There are no
other mules In the entire wcrld SO de-
sirable from all points OF view.
Mule breeding in Missouri is on the
Increase and will continue. The mule
Is good investment. A good team
should bring as high as $500. Mules
90 not vary in value SO widely an
horses A great advantage In breed
Ing mules Is that they require such lit
tie care and comparatively small feed
ing. A mule can get along ON a small
er amount of feed than horse. and II
does not seem TO make much difference
what the feed U.s.
The estimate received. putting the
number Of mules in Missouri Mt BOO
oOo and their value ut $4,000. 600. IL.
Oh course, encourag lng. but | predict a
SUI greater increase within the next
few years"
There Is reason TO believe that tha
number OF cattle especially beef cat
Se, has also Increased to a remarkable
extent. There has been very great
Improvement as TO quality. The farm
ers are breeding much better stock OF
All kinds 1t will be extremely difficult
10 secure accurate estimates OH hogs
out IT Is safe to say that there has
been great increase.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26
Zig mt VIII lie Bitter
Commissioner.

Those who will persist i'm closing their
eais against the continual recommrnda
ton of DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, will have u long and bit
eertB tn with their troubles, " not en-. d
"a 'ec fatal termination Read
what L. II, Beall of Beall, Miss. has to
say: Last fall my wife had every symp
tom oil consumption. She took DIR
hing's New Discovery after everything
else had Jailed. Improvement came at
once and four bottles entirely cured her''
Guaranteed by Jackson the Druggist
Price 50c and $i.0O Trial bottle fire.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26
LIKE FINDING MONEY.
Dr.. Jackson Offers Popular Medicine
az Half Price.


a. Half Price.
DE-. jackson. the popular druggist.
is making an offer that is Just like
hnd'og money, Tor he is selling a
regular so cent bottle of DIR. How
ards celebrated specific for the cure
OF constipation aud dyspepsia a,
half price. Iu addition TO this largo
discount he agrees to return the
money to any purchaser whom the
specific does not cure.
LIZ is quite unusual to be able 70
buy hfty-cent pieces for a Quarter
but that is what this offer really
means, for il is only recently.
through the solicitation of drugpist
jackson that this medicine could
be brought for less than fifty cents
he urged the ,proprietors to allow
MIN 10 sell 1t at this reduced price
Tor little while, agreeing to sell a
certain amount. The result has JUS
tined his good judgement, for the
sale has been something remarkable
Anyone who suffers with headache
dyspepsia, dizziness, sour stomach.
speeks before the eye or any liver
trouble, should take advantage of
this opportunity. for DR.. Howard's
specific will cure all these troubles.
out II by by any chance il should
not he will return your money.
Inc specific Is very pleasant to
take, coming in the form of small
granules and there are SIXTY doses in
every Package. 1t is especially con.
venient when travelling, and no one
shonid start on a journey without a
bottle of this reliable medicine.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26

q "a - II g. E& Z "A.
Bears the hIhs Kind You Have Mxss Bought
''s' q &xNZzIMx
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26
ii = = :: VI EOrfo!k:Nestern Ri
First Class, Second Glass, and
Emlgl ant Tickets.
The Best Route to The
North and East.

Pullman Vestibuled Coaches.
Sleeping aud Di ling Cars.
See that your tickets read oyer the
Norfolk 81 Western Railroad
Cheapest Seats and Quickest line.
Write for Rates; Maps; Time-ta BILE;
Descriptive pamphlets to any station
Agent, or TO w. b. Bevill, General
Passenger Agent, Allen Hull, Divis-
ION Passenger Agent, M. F. Bragg,
Travelling Passenger Agent, Roam
oke, Virginia.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26

A cross between Il Hereford and n
Jersey might produce good animal.
but the chances are that the product
would be very little account for either
milking or beefmaking purposes. Here
lords are good for enc thing and Jer.
seys are good for another but the two
breeds do not form good merger.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26
FOR THE FEEDER

1T has been a matter OF only eight
zen months or so since alfalfa began to
revoiutionize the hog business in our
part or the state and farther west"
writes Milton Hancock, Belvue. Kan.
In the Denver Field and Farm. RE
lore that time one hooted at the iden of
feeding grown swine. much less pigs.
alfalfa hay during the winter months.
now the feed is used to Che exclusion
or corn. Our sows fed upon alfalfa are
raising filters Of from seven to eight
pigs each, and the youngsters are de-
veioping into heartier hogs than they
would be had they been raised on corn
instead OF alfalfa. The latter, we have
discovered. gives the sow more milk
ana thus helps the pigs better than
when corn is used ON the old swine.
Every farm out our way now has from
thirty to forty acres Of alfalfa, and on
1t we are growing all sorts Of pig
crops. We can compete with the corn
belt In growing and fattening swine
and give them big margin to spare"
Wheat Screenings
The value OF wheat screenings Is
best understood by taking some note
Of what experiment stations have done
with IT. In the Montana experiment
station, where some comparative values
We're ascertained, II was shown that
wheat screenings were the most yalu-
able for feeding 10 lambs, while barley
proved the most efficient for wethers.
One experiment. however, does not give
conclusive proof OF the value Of any
ration. Where corn is produced 1t will
be the universal grain ration in fatten-
Ing sheep or lambs.
Roots stock Feed.
Turnips. carrots and potatoes contain
a large proportion Of water, and, though
such crops are bulky. yet the actual
proportion of the solid matter taken
from the soil Is small. Containing such
q large quantity of water, they are
very succulent and are equal to ensi-
lage for cattle, though ensilage is
cheaper In cost When sliced or cooked,
these crops can be fed In connection
with ground grains with more profit
than In any other manner, and they
give a greater value to the grain by
assisting digestion and keeping the
stock thrifty.
Dfgesttbility OF Foods.
The value OF cattle foods depends
largely upon their digestibility. There
Is more protein in straw than in corn
fodder. but the latter is more digestt-
BILE. Some coarse foods are valuable,
however. in assisting to digest the con-
centrated foods by giving bulk to the
x<I
pecially when the coarse foods are 20
duced to a fine condition. Even If but
portion OF the straw foods Is a.
gested. they are prepared for the ma
nure heap by the animals and are thus
increased IN value compared with
wasteful use.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26
Patton House.
RIuefeId, w. Va.

Near Passenger Station. Of
fers good accommodation to
travelling public. Rooms and
beds are clean and comfortable.
Table furnished with the hest
the markets afford. B a t b
rooms-hOt and cold water.
Porter meets Ill trains.
j. L. PATTON, Prop.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26

COMMISSIONER Office, Tazewell. Va.
Feb. 8. 1904.

Commissioner Office, Taxewell. va.
Feb. ., 1904.
ALBERT 6oss Complainant
w In Chancery-
Graham Supply Co. ct al. Descendants
To Albert koss, Graham Supply Co. a
corporation, W. Il. Sheets, Grin Ross.
E. King Crockett Administrator of JOS
eph cardwell decd, Mrs. A. II. Prich-
ard aud Frank Carroll, and to all the
creditors OF the Graham Supply Co,
anu all other persons interested i'm this
cause:
You are hereby notified. that have
liked upon March 9th. 1904 IA the time.
and M office in the town ol Taxewell
Va, a. the place to take the account
and make the report directed by a do
cree entered In the above cause at the
December term 1908, of the Circuit
Court of Tazewell County, Virginia in
which said Cosrt the said chancery
cause is depending; at which time aud
plt ce, all PERSONS interested are RIO aired
tn attend and do what they may deem
necessary 20 protect th'ir interests in
the said cause.
III from any cause the said account and
report be not commenced on that day.
or AZ commenced aud not completed,
the sane wi'l be continued from day to
daN OF lime To time, at the same place.
and II necessary from place to plac
until completed
j. IL STUART.
Com miasinnar
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-26

kSEG Package of Or. Miles Anti
Pain Pills. the New Scientific Remedy
for Pain. Also Symptom Blank. Our
you what Is wrong, and how to right II,
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LABORATORIES. ELAHART, IND.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06
POINTED

The most inexcusable thing in the
world is to unjustly abuse a decent cit
iZen.
It doesn't do people any good to be
old enough to know better unless they
are also too old to enjoy meanness.
Every mar needs a chart to tell him
the degrees of kinship in his family,
but his wife knows them so we'll she
can say Them backward.
The truth about some people who
seem to be doing so much is that they
always put things off until the last
minute and then have to rush.
The early bird may get the worm,
but the late bird has as good an argu-
ment: He gets his rest which the early
bird misses and has never yet starved.
Be patient with the girl who takes
so long to dress. By and by she will
be able to do up the work and dress
herself and three or four children in
half the time she takes for herself now.
-Atchison Globe.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06
German paternalism.

American tourists returning from Eu-
rope bring back stories of the paternal
watch which is kept upon them in Ger
many. One woman vas requested by
a policeman to hold up her gown,
which was a trailing, elaborate affair
Of lace and chiffon. 1t was after din
ner, and she was taking a stroll with
her husband through a park whose i'm
maculate walks seemed to offer no
harm to its delicacy, SO she let it hang.
The policeman was polite enough. He
Informed her gravely that any dress
that was allowed to trail was liable to
collect undesirable matter and prove
injurious to health, and he reminded
her that N time a law was under
consideration to make the wearing of
such skirts a INSTRUMENTATION York
Tribune. 81. .....
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06

On the seashore the play of the At
lantic with the coast! What wealth is
here! Every wave is a fortune. One
thinks of Etzlers and great projectors
who will yet turn all this waste
strength to account. What strength
and fecundity, from the sea monsters,
hugest Of animals. to the primary
forms of which it is the immense era
die, and the phosphorescent infusories;
it is n vast rolling bed of life, and
every sparkle is a fish. What freedom
and grace with all this might! The
seeing SO excellent a spectacle is a GER
tificate to the mind that all imaginable
good shall yet be realized. The sea is
the chemist that dissolves the noun
tain and the rock, pulverizes old con-
tinents and builds new, forever redis-
tributing the solid matter of the globe,
and performs an analogous Office in
perpetual new transplanting of the
races of men over the surface, the ex-
odus of nations. We may we'll yield
us for a time to its lessons. But the
nomad instinct, as l said, persists to
drive us to fresh fields and pastures
new. Indeed the variety of our moods
has an answering variety in the face
Of the world, and the sea drives us
back to the hills.-Ralph Waldo Emer-
son in Atlantic.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06
An d Present.


There is a strange custom prevalent
among the old fishermen and hand
loom weavers of Girvan, Scotland. The
Industries Of the town r fast decay
ing, only a very few weavers being
kept busy now, SO the younger genera
ton have to migrate in search of fresh
fields. When the grownup sol and
daughters have been successful in
their new spheres, often at the other
side of the world, their thoughts are
busy with the 'auld folks" A very
common present to the latter is that
Of a Certificate giving the right to
be buried in the old churchyard. Thus
their parents last resting place is Sc
cured, and so common is the custom
that only to a stranger does it's grew
someness appeal. The old people tell
Of the possession with pride and thank
fulneSs.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06
A Worms Skin.

The Annelid Podynce cirrata is a
mean looking worm about an inch and
a half in length, of lattened shape,
blunt at both ends. apparently covered
by a smooth skin of a dull brown col
or. On being touched it throws itself
into elegant %serpentine curves, and
then what appears to be the upper skin
is seen to be composed of a great num-
Der of round, fiat. membranous plates
or shields, arranged in two rows, over
tapping each other. These. though OF
larger size, are attached to the body
only by a small point in the center of
their sides. so that when the animal
moves the edges of these shields are
lifted and reveal their live structure,
sliding upon each other in a singular
manner.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06
winning an Opponent.

In the campaign Of 1900 Senator Gull
lom was called on to face a large audi
ence in his home city of Springfield.
He saw in the audience a fellow
townsman who had formerly been an
influential Republican, but who had
Joined the opposing party and display
ed a dangerous activity in it's support.
This man arose from his seat and APP
parently was ready to begin a series of
''catch questions" Before this inten-
ton could be put into execution Sena-
tor Cullom paused in his speech and
in a conversational tone called out:
"John Simpson, you're too old a man
to stand up in any audience that l
talk to. just come right up here and
hold down this chair next to mine."
The invitation was accepted and at
the close of the mass meeting the man
announced that he was "back in the
fold" and had "come to stay"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06
COMPENSATION.
All Things Are to He Had IL One Will
but Pay the Equivalent.

All AMAAB0 are 10 ne 11uu H OnG Will
but Pay the Equivalent.
Life consists almost wholly of buy
ing, selling, paying. There are no
gifts, nothing that does not call for an
equivalent. II we cannot pay for gifts
in kind we must pay in gratitude or
service or we shall rank as moral bank
rupts.
It I would have a good situation I
must pay for it not only in labor, but
in promptness, intelligence, faithful
ness and good If 1 would
have good service l must pay not only
In money. but in consideration, recog-
milton, appreciation, fairness. I can
hold no one to me if l misuse him.
All things are to be had for the buy
ing. Would you have friends? Then
pay the price. The price of friendship
is to be worthy of friendship. The
price of glory is to do something glori-
GUS. The price of shame is to do some
thing shameful.
Friendship, glory, honor, admiration,
courage, infamy, contempt, hatred, are
all in the market place for sale at a
price. We are buying and selling these
things constantly as we will. Even
beauty is for sale. Plain women can
gain beauty by c%ultivating grace, ami
nation, pleasant speech, intelligence,
%helpfulness, courage or good will.
Beauty is not in the features alone; it
is in the soul also.
Good will buys good WILL friendli-
ness buys friendship, confidence be-
gets confidence, service rewards serv-
ice, and hate pays for hate, suspicion
for suspicion, treachery for %treachery,
contempt for ingratitude, slovenliness,
laziness and lying.
We plant a shrub, a rosebush, an or
chard, with the expectation that they
will pay is back. We build roads,
mend harness and patch the roof with
the same expectation. We will trust
even these unconscious things to pay
their debts.
Some of our investments are good
and some are bad. The good qualities
we acquire-moderation, industry, cour-
| tesy, order, patience, candor-are sound
investments. Our evil institutions and
habits are bad investments, involving
us in losses. We become debtors to
them, and they are exacting creditors,
forcing payment in full in money and
labor and sometimes in blood, agony,
tears, humiliation or shame. - From
Balance: The Fundamental Verify
by Orlando ]. Smith. "
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06
PAYING IN CENTS.
Creditors May Refuse Large sums Of
Small Change.

Creditors May Refuse Large Sums Of
Small Change.
Ordinarily when a debtor appears be-
fore q long time creditor there is no
questioning Of the United States coin
in which the debt is to be paid, but
the wide possibilities possessed by an
arbitrary creditor in STIMULATING just
what coins and in what amounts he
will receive payment are enough al
most to discourage borrowing.
You can't force a nee creditor to
take more than 25 cents worth Of nick
els or % cents worth Of copper cents.
II you could get al much as IS worth
Of old silver three cent pieces of an
other generation you could unload IS
worth on him, just as he would have to
take SIS worth of the silver five cent
pieces and SIS worth of the obsolete
twenty cent pieces, which made SO
much trouble in the late seventies. But
you can pay out $40 in silver dimes
and silver quarters and silver half dol
lars. The trade dollars, of which there
are a few still coming into the treasury
Of the United States for redemption,
are worth nothing, while the standard
dollar is an unlimited legal tender, as
is the old "dollar Of our dads" the first
Of which was coined in 1894 and the
last in 1873.
Coins that virtually have disappear
ed from circulation are gold three dol
lar and one dollar pieces, the trade dol
lar of silver, the nickel three cent
piece, the copper two cent piece, the
copper half cent and silver three and
five cent pieces.-Omaha World-Her-
aid.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-06
N weathercock.

The efigy of the cock so often seer
on church steeples is usually connected
with a legend in connection with st,
Peter. AS a matter Of fact, however,
the figure of a cock used to be placed
on the tops of sacred trees long be-
fore it was used on buildings. The
movement of the bird in the breeze was
supposed by the superstitious to ward
OF evil spirits. On a number of mod.
ern churches the familiar vane is miss.
ing, but in days gone by a church was
hardly ever built without the weather.
cock on it's steeple.-London Standard.