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The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
Cost of a Horse.
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What does it cost to raise a colt to
the age OF four years? Wallace's
Farmer gives the following:
The first and second years it is
no more expensive to grow a colt than
a steer A colt may require a little
more pasture. and will require rather
better fencing, but will stand hard
ship better than the yearling steer,
although, to get the best results, both
of them must have some grain in
connection with forage. Give the
colt winter pasture of blue grass or
second crop clover, plenty of exercise
and shelter in time Of storms, and he
will do better and be carried through
at less expense than the steer.
At two years old, IL not before, the
steer must be put on feed, and 1t will
cost at least fifty bushels of corn with
other feed TO fit him for the market.
The FLY at two years old may be bred
If she has been well fed and nour-
ished; If not, then at three years old.
She should be able TO pay her way in
the way of light work and where the
farmer has a surplus, should be sold
TO some man who can work her or the
gelding for two years, making them
pay expenses, and sell them on the
market at higher price than they
cost in the three-year-old form.
We think, therefore, that there Is
good profit to any farmer in raising
colts for the market. provided he
limits his operations tc the number
of mares kept on the farm. In fact,
he should keep three brood mares
where he really needs but one. He
can afford TO do this If he will mate
them every year with the right sire.
The greatest profit to the ordinary
farmer lies in growing draft colts,
and the heavier the better, provided
they are sound, The 1900 pound
mare mated to an 1900 CT 1000
pound stallion will produce a type
o. colts which, IL properly nourished
and cared for, will bring, if not the
highest price in the market, yet a
price that will abundantly pay the
farmer for his feed and care. The
greatest care, however, should be eX-
ercised in securing soundness. No
mare should be used for breeding
purposes that has any defects capable
of transmission by heredity; for in
stance, moon-blindness or defects of
the bony system. SPAWN may not be
transmitted, and perhaps is not, but
the weakness that develops SPAWN I'M
doubtedly is inherited.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT
DIVERSIFIED FARMING

undoubtedly meet with much opposi-
ton for time until all the facts are
laid bare, you may rest assured of the
hearty support Of serious thinking
people who have given the matter
attention, by having been brought
face to face with facts.
AS a scavenger, the buzzard I'M
doubtedly has had his place, but I'M
questionably he is to-day one of the
greatest spreaders of infectious dis
eases among domestic animals, and
any possible service the buzzard can
render as a scavenger is far out
weighed by the seriousness of out
breaks of deadly diseases, which he
undoubtedly spreads from place to
race Such resistent organisms as
those producing anthrax, blackleg,
log cholera and tuberculosis, besides
a host Of others, may be conveyed
for long distances and deposited on
heretofore non-infected ground,
hence the mysterious outbreaks to
which we are too frequently sub
jected.
The writer can recall the outbreak
OF blackleg on a farm where the dis
ease had not before been known to
exist. Upon investigation it was
found that during the previous fall
and winter numerous buzzards had
been in the habit of frequenting the
small range occupied by the calves,
while at five miles distance numerous
cattle had died from the disease and
were left to be deyoured by buzzards.
On a farm in Eastern Virginia hog
cholera made sudden appearance,
yet no cholera had existed to the own
er's knowledge within several miles.
No fresh pigs had been brought in
| nor were there known any other
means by which the disease could pos
sibly have been imported except by
buzzards. These are costly expert
| ences.
Mr.. Editor, advocate the proper
disposal and destruction of all dead
animals, also the early destruction of
one of the greatest enemies the stock
raiser has to contend with to-day in
the South-the turkey buzzard. -
John Spencer, Veterinarian, Expert
ment Station, Blacksburg, Va, in
Southern Planter.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
When a Mans Irish.

Elinor Mccartney Lane, herself
Irish, whose last heroine "Katrine, "
in the Harper novel Of that name, is
of her own race, has certain memoir
able things to say therein Of the ways
Of Irish men-folk:
EVERY Irishman's got to have one
of three vices: whisky, love-making
or lying"
"Never let the world know you are
downed IN anything. Carry all off
with a laugh or a song"
Hes the greatest liar as well as
the most truthful person alive; but
you've got to be Irish to understand
how that can be-"
II was never addicted to work,
IL was never the way o. the Gradys,
But I'd make a most excellent Turk,
For I'm fond of tobacco and ladies'"
"A kiss on the hand and a compli-
ment to the madam, a compliment
and kiss on the lips to Peggy, but
in his heart it was to the devil with
all women-save one"
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"Is 1t good to eat?" he asked.

IT'S 1t good to est?" he asked.
"Oh, no! Not at ALL" said George,
throwing away the seeds and skin of
the one he had finished, and taking
another from his capacious pocket,
Just watch mel"
How do you eat it,"
Break 1t in two and go at it
just like this"
Uncle Jared proceeded to follow his
example. AS he tasted the creamy
pulp for the first time he paused,
smacked his lips, at first doubtfully,
and then with gusto.
why, | like it," he exclaimed.
TITS good"
Yes, it's good II you like it," said
Nephew Sam. Some people don't.
It's too rich for them"
Are they wholesome?"
i've seen this boy eat a dozen of
'em many a time, and live through
it,"
How does it happen that l never
tasted papaw before?"
you've never been here before in
October"
Are there plenty of them here?"
Bushels and bushels OF them
grow along the bank of the creek,
half a mile outside the town, and
lots of them go to waste"
Well" said Uncle Jared. as he
finished his papaw and reached out
his hand for another one. "I'll be
out here every October for the next
ten years, Sam, and maybe longer!"
Youths Companion.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07

One Of the most characteristic as
poets of the present time is the en-
largement of opportunities Of every
kind and the increase of the number
of them. Any young person who has
courage, ability, and suitable train
ing may now begin life with such op-
portunities as never invited or
tempted the youth Of any ago before
since the world began. All the world
IS open and youth has now every
where to choose, and everywhere the
invitation comes from nature and
human life to enter upon the develop
ment and control of such forces ply
steal, commercial, social, Intellectual
and religious, as were never presented
before.
The difficulty and the DANGER is
caused by the fact that these oppor-
tunlties often come to persons OF sa-
gacity who are not "all-around men,"
who are not trained in heart, mind,
conscience and active powers to ac-
cept the tasks of masterful perform
ers on the stage of life, and this TO
do Justice to all those who are az
fected by the release and control Of
mighty energies.
Some years since it was seen that
by damminS controlling and releas-
ing the waters Of the Colorado River
in southern California and Mexico a
vast tract of land which was hot,
arid and uninhabitable, might become
a fertile valley, giving homes and sus-
tenance to millions. The opportunity
was great, the power to be controlled
and regulated was as great as the OPP
| portunity, but failure came in the
mind and executive ability of the men
| who were drawn to this great task.
| The waters escaped their control, and,
where they intended to irrigate fiov-
ering gardens and fruitful planta-
tions, they let loose a devastating
| flood, which burst all barriers and
| threatened to establish in place of the
desert an inland sea. In time the in
tellect of man solved the problem,
met the opportunity with due achieve
ment, and now the original promise
is in the way of fulfilment.
In social life, in the financial world
in industrial operations, in the con-
troll and release of natural forces,
and in the chances Of government the
world over, similar opportunities
tempt the strong, defeat the unwary
| and bring into the life of mankind
amazing benefits, mingled with
wrongs of many kinds, catastrophes
which are heart-breaking, and viola
tions Of the established laws OF right
eousness and truth which seem to
/ threaten universal deterioration and
downfall to established institutions.
A man may plan wisely to bring
new benefit to mankind through his
exploits in the industrial world.
| He may see how benefit can be
brought to many men by new plans,
by increase of power, and by the CO.
ordination of forces. But the oppor-
tunity being new and great, his power
limited or unknown, and his training
for the great new task incomplete,
he may, like the men who let loose
the Salton Sea, work devastation and
havoc where he expected only benefit
and blessing. This may happen II he
is a good and wise man. II he lack
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
AN INCENTIVE AT LAST.
Old Codger Decided to Live After Discover.
ing the PapaW.

''I tell you, Sam, when a man gets
to be seventy-four years old, and has
quit business, and there isn't any
body depending on him for living,
he oughtn't to want to hang on any
longer. He's lived four years longer
than the Psalmist thinks he ought to,
and he's in the peoples way"
Thus spoke Uncle Jared, as he sat
on the front porch of his nephew's
coy home in Ohio, one afternoon In
late October, when the air was full
of the dreamy haze Of Indian sum-
mer. To the ordinary mortal it was
a Joy merely to be alive.
1--WE heard you talk that way be-
fore, uncle" said his nephew, "and
it isn't reasonable. Seventy-four
years is not so awfully old. OF
course, you've spent nearly all of that
time in northeastern Maine, but even
that ought not to make you tired of
living, and"
Northeastern Maine is just as
good locality to live in as any on
earth" interrupted the elderly man,
with some asperity.
"Well, whether it is or not, you are
still healthy, and have the use Of all
your faculties. You ought to want
to live to a good old age, and en-
joy"
whats that you're eating,
Georgie?" broke in the old gentle
man, turning to one of his grand
nephews, who had just come in from
a long walk, and had thrown himself
into che hammock.
Its a papaw, uncle responded
George.
whats a papaw?"
"Well, it's--it's just a papaw.
Try one"
a. Uncle Jared gingerly inspected the
otloRg, Ereenish-yellow specimen of
Western fruit the boy handed him.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
A SHORTER LEASE.
THE DOCTORS WIFE
Agrees With Him About Food.

A trained nurse says; I'm the prac-
tice Of my profession ! have found SO
many points In favor of Grape-Nuts
food that unhesitatingly recommend
1t to all my patients.
1T Is delicate and pleasing TO the
palate Gan essential in food for the
slck) and can be adapted to all ages,
being softened with milk or cream
for babies or the aged when deficien-
cy OF teeth renders mastication i'm
possible. For fever patients or those
on liquid diet find 'Grape-Nuts and
albumen water very nourishlng and
refreshing
This recipe is my own idea and Is
made as follows: Soak teaspoonful
OF Grape-Nuts In glass of water for
an hour, strain and serve with the
beaten white Of an egg and a spoon
full of fruit Juice for flavoring. This
affords a great deal of nourlshment
that even the weakest stomach can
assimilate without any distress.
"My husband is a physician and he
uses Grape-Nuts himself and orders
It many times for his patients.
Personally | regard dish Of
Grape-Nuts with fresh or stewed fruit
as the ideal breakfast for anyone
well or sick"
In any case Of stomach trouble,
nervous prostratlon or brain flag, a
To-day trial Of Grape-Nuts will work
wonders toward nourishing and re-
building and in this way ending the
trouble.
There's a Reason" and trial
proves.
Look in pkgs, for the famous little
book. 1.-THE Road to MELVILLE"
Ever read the aboveietter? A new
one appears from time TO time. They
are genuine. true, and full OF human
interest.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
Poultry Pointers.

We not only want fancy poultry,
but poultry which combines fancy and
utility, thereby having show fowl
and market fowl in one bird.
Fowls should have green feed in
winter time, and for good feed plant
oats in part of the yard and you will
be surprised how they will eat 1t.
What is best for the fowls is a
change of food about two times a
week. They like a change as well as
people do, and they will show you
their appreciation by filling the egg
basket for you.
We do not want ninety-ave or
ninety-six point bird that has no other
qualities, but we want birds that will
score high and produce eggs as well.
When we breed for both points we
are upbuilding the industry.
Where most Southern people make
their mistake is in feeding too much
corn. Cogn is good when fed right,
but II fed to excess it is very harmful,
because Of its fat producing proper
ties; and when you get lot of over
fat hens you will surely have an
empty egg basket. Oats is an excel
lent feed and should be fed in litter
to make the fowls scratch for It,.
Chop is another good feed, as is mash
feed.-N. u. Walton. in Progressive
Farmer.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
Farm Gate.

On farm often a long gate is nee
essary, but 1t is very heavy and hard
to open and shut. The sketch which
I send is an easy way to overcome the
difficulty of handling the heavy gate.
Take a piece of 2x4 about three feet
long and size one end down until it
will enter the hub Of an old cult
vator wheel. After the wheel is fas-
tened to the end of the 2x4, fasten
the latter to the gate with two or
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
How Hay Raising DepIetes the Soil.


In general, do not think it wise
for farmers to run their lands in a
long rotation, or to keep them in
grass for moving for a long time,
writes Professor Massey, in Pro-
gressive Farmer. The main need Of
all the Southern uplands ia restora-
ton Of the humus, and hence a short
rotation in which the Rgumes come
in often is better than leaving the
land in grass for several years.
Some Of the worst depleted lands
in Pennsylvania are the naturally
strong soils north of the city Of Phil
adelphia, where the farmers have
been making hay for the city market
and have run their lands in grass as
long as they could get ton per acre,
till the land has gotten into such a
condition that they cannot make a
crop OF clover on 1t.
Moving hay from land year after
year Is just as bad as getting any
other crop off the land continuously,
and single cropping in hay will run
the land down as we'll as single crop
ping in anything else.
The Southern uplands need legumes
more than grass, and for horned
stock, cowpea hay and crimson clover
hay are immensely better than any
grass hay. and these have the ad-
vantage that II the supply of phos-
phoric acid and potash is maintained,
they will do away with the need Of
buying nitrogen.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07

three strong bolts. Place the 2x4
and wheel Just high enough so the
gate will clear the ground when
swung to one side. When the gate is
shut the wheel stands between the
end OF gate and the post as shown in
illustration. A child can open and
shut it without dificulty.-Mrs.
Blanch Cubine, in the Epitomist.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
A Corn Harvester,

Our illustration shows the details
OF one row corn cutter, which will
do good service. 1t is not difhcult
to make and will do an astonishing
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07

amount of work where it is handled
right. OF course, the harvesters you
can buy will do more and quicker
work and are what you want If you
have much corn to cut, but the home
made affair we show herewith fills
place with the small farmer and Is
comparatively Inexpensive.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07

Hicks CAPUplSB Is the best remedy
relieves the aching and feyorishness-cure res
NE Cold and restores normal conditions, It's
liouid-enects Immediately iOc, CSC. and
Oc,, At drug atoreR
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
The Diagnosis.

1T suppose, Mr.. Chapleign,' said
the romantic maid. that you have ex-
perlenced many heart throbs?"
Indeed have" replied the callow
youth. my physician attributes
them to cigarettes.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07

Oyster shells are inexpensive, and
furnish the grit and the needed lime,
for the egg shells. II more oyster
shells were provided there would be-
fewer egg-eating hens.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
Old Coin Found on Lincoln Farm


While eXcavating on the Lincoln
Farm, preparatory to laying the foun.
dalton for the Memorial buildings
now nearing completion, Robert II.
Whiuow, one Of the hands employed
in the work. picked up a Spanish
coin, bearing the date I'VE. Not
thinking of the valuable history which
might be attached to this little coin,
Mr., Whitlow took II home and his
children have been using it as a play
thing until last Monday, when Or.
W. f. Rodman called to wait on a
case Of typhoid fever in the family,
and CHANGED to see It, From Mr.,
Whitlow he learned how he came in
possession OF It, and also secured
permission from Mr. Whitlow to re-
tain It and to bring the matter into
public notice.
The coin is well worn, and. from
its every appearance, must have been
lost hundred years ago. II would
do no violence to our imagination, nor
yet strain a historical point TO as.
sumo that this same little coin was
once the property Thomas Lincoln,
and that his distinguished son once
made It plaything as did the chill
dren OF its more recent owner
Larue County Herald
A SHORTER LEASE.
Gle says he's your friend for life.
Says you loaned him $50"
so | did But he's not my friend
for life. propose to ask him for 1t
next pay day."-Louisyille Courier
Journal. =
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07
For COLDS and GRIP.

Living too high has laid many q
man low.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-02-04
HE DESCRIBES AN ELEPHANT HUNT

We thought when we came to
Africa we would be near to nature,
where the natives were simple and
most naked negroes can give the white
men cards and spades and little casino
and then beat them at the game.
Pa has been blackmailed and scared
out of his boots and lot of money,
by an injured husband, as natural as
he could have been film -flammed In
New York.
We noticed that Pa was quite inter
ested in likely negro woman, one Of
20 wives of a heather, to the extent
of having her wash his shirts, and he
would linger at the tent of the hus-
band and teach the woman some
words Of English, such as, you bet
your life," and mot on your life" and
a few cuss words which she seemed to
enjoy repeating.
She was a real nice looking niger,
and smiled on Pa to beat the band,
but that was ALL OF course she en-
joyed having Pa call on her, and evi,
IDENTIFY showed her interest in him, but
that seemed only natural as Pa is a
nice, clean white man with clothes on
and she looked upon him as a sort of
king, until the other wives became
Jealous, and they filled the husband
Yp with stories about Pa and the
young negreSs, but Pa was as innocent
as could be. Where Pa made the mis-
take was in taking hold of her hand
and looking at the lines in her palm,
to read her future by the lines in
her hand, and as Pa is some near
sighted he had to bend over her hand
and then she stroked Pas bald head
with the other hand, and the Other
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-02-04

bed. Take your night-gown, Willy,
and don't sleep on the damp ground"
Let Pierpont alone" restorted Bar
ris; you shall go next time, Roy
"Oh, all right-you mean when
there's shooting going on?"
"And II" demanded Pierpont,
grieved.
You too, my son; stop quarreling!
VIII you ask Hewlett to pack our kits
lightly, mind you-no bottles-they
clink."
MY flask doesn't" said Pierpont,
and went off to get ready for night s
stalking of dangerous men.
ut is strange" said l, that nobody
ever settles in this region. How many
people live in Cardinal Springs, Bar
ris?"
Twenty, counting the telegraph
operator and not counting the lumber
men; they are always changing and
shifting. l have six men among them.
where have you no men? In the
Four Hundred?"
81 have men there also-chums of
Billy's, only he doesn't know it,
David tells me that there was a strong
flight of woodcocks last night You
ought to pick up some this afternoon. -
Then we chatted about alder-cover
and swamp until Pierpont came out of
the house and it was time to part.
eau revoir," said Barris, buckling
on his kit; come along, Pierpont, and
don't walk in the damp grass"
''If you are not back by tomorrow
noon," said l, Il will take Hewlett
and David and hunt you up. You say
your course is due north?"
Due north,' replied Barris, consult
ing his compass.
There is a trail for two miles and
spotted lead for two MORE" said
Pierpont.
(Which we won't use for various
reasons" added Barris pleasantly;
don't worry, Roy, and keep your con-
founded expedition out of the way;
there's no danger"
He knew, of course, what he was
talking about, and held my peace.
When the tip end of Pierpont's
shooting coat had disappeared in the
Long Covert l found myself standing
alone with Hewlett. He bore my gaze
for a moment and then politely low
cred his eyes
Hewlett" said /, take these shells
and implements to the gun room, and
drop nothing. Did Voyou come to any
harm in the briers this morning?"
mo arm, Mr.. Cardenhe, sir" said
! Hewlett.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-02-04
NOTE HAD PERSONAL FLAVOR.
Directions Considerably Astonished
Good Man in Pulpit.

The minister had just finished a lit.
tie opening talk to the children, pre-
paratory to the morning service, when
Mrs. Berkeley suddenly realized, with
all the agony Of careful housewife,
that she had forgotten to turn the gas
off from the oven in which she had
left nicely-cooked roast, all ready
for the final reheating Visions of a
ruined dinner and smoky kitchen
reused her to immediate effort, and,
borrowing pencil from the young
man in front, she scribbled a note.
Just then her husband, an usher in
the church, passed her pew. With a
murmured Hurry" she thrust the
note into his hand, and he, with an
understanding nod, turned, passed up
the aisle, and handed the note to the
minister. Mrs. Berkeley saw the act
in speechless horror, and shuddered as
she saw the minister smilingly open
the note and begin to read. But her
expression of dismay was fully equaled
by the look of amazement and wrath
on the good mans face as he read the
words: go home and turn off the
gas!"-Lippincott's.