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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-11-15
BOOK ON POULTRY RAISING
Mr.. HI. l.. Barth :

Mr.. HI. L. Barth:
In reply to yours of the 9th inst.
would say that the best l can do will
be to refer you to the following
publication entitled practical Poul-
try Culture, by Brigham Torch Press
Publishing Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
This book contains the most complete
table showing the analysis of the
different poultry feeds that have seen
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-11-15

published and the many other features
of the work have no doubt you will
find of great interest and value. The
name can be had from the Publish
ing Company or through Lowman &
Hanford of your city. The price I
believe is ST.. so.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-11-15
RATIONS FOR DAIRY COW.

Mr.. @. +. Nevins:
We have not at this Station up to
this time tried out the experiments
of feeding potatoes, but we find upon
investigation that there have been
many trials by other Stations and in
vestigators with practically the follow
ing results:
For pigs four pounds of potatoes
have been found to equal one pound
of grain, and 445 pounds Of potatoes
equal to 100 pounds of corn meal.
The potatoes should be cooked and
mixed with the meal. For cattle
feeding they should be sliced, fed
raw and with care, since over feeding
is liable to dlsarrange the animal S
| digestion. I do not find any ex-
periments reported in feeding pota-
toes to milk COWS. Theoretically, [
would feed potatoes with bran, not
with barley, since potatoes are highly
carbonaceous feed and go with bran
nicely in making a balanced ration,
so in comparing its feeding value
with the grains that you name you
might conclude that one pound of
barley is equivalent of four pounds
or four and half pounds of potatoes;
one pound of shorts to three and a
half or four pounds of potatoes.
AS to the best grain ration for milk
COWS that depends very largely upon
the roughage you are feeding. In
feeding alfalfa we find that a ration
composed of shorts and .proteina-
about eight parts of shorts and one
part OF proteina. OF this mixture
feed the COW one pound to every three
pounds of milk that she produces
daily. This is solely guide. One
must use his judgment. Some COWS
could not utilize so much and some
would utilize proftably more, de
pending a good deal upon the animal
and the period of her lactation If
you are feeding mixed hay, then you
would need to add about four parts
of bran to the ration mash.
| understand that thousand headed
kale and the German COW kale are
one and the same thing.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-11-15
DEHORNING CALVES.

Mr.. Geo. Lawler,
Dear Sir:
In reply to your request by phone
regarding the removing of horns from
the calf, would say, first, obtain a
stick of caustic potash. Before the
calf is three days old, with the calf
laying on it's side and with the help
of an assistant the operator clips the
hair off the spot where the horn would
naturally develop. Then dip the stick
of potash in cold water and apply to
the part clipped, rubbing for ten
seconds. Turn the calf over and treat
the other horn the same way. Then
repeat the rubbing of the caustic on
both horns as before. When properly
done no horns will ever appear.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-11-15
VALUE OF BONE MEAL.
Mr.. Ed. Edmunds:

Mr.. Ed. Edmunds:
In reply to yours of the list inst,
would say that the analysis that you
enclosed of soy bean meal agrees fair
ly we'll with the tables. The following
feeds contain the different parts, as
shown by the tables indicated herein:
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feed.

more than ten cents per dozen for
feed.
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Western Branch Washington Shoe Mfg. Co.. Seattle Wash
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-17
Carbon Cliff

Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Rosemond are
the parents OF a baby girl, born Sun
day, May y.
Mr.. and Mrs William Gerhardt and
daughter have returned after a years
visit at Austin, Mimi
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Gerhardt and
sons Willie and Paul of Barstow were
entertained at the home of Frank
KIeinau.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Kendall of
Silvis visited at the home of Mrs.
Kendall's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Scott
Kennedy, Sunday.
Mrs Bert ROsemOnd and daughter
Mabel were in Moline transacting bus
mess Saturday.
Mrs. John Holland visited with
friends in Moline Monday.
Miss Rosa Schreier of Coal Valley
is spending this week at the home OF
her sister, Mrs Dan RosemOnd.
William Brunswick of Rock Island
and the Misses Mary and Lena Peppen.
hOuser and George Shoeburt of Moline
were entertained Sunday at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs Clarence Ward
Frank II McKenrick is busy this
week building q summer camp at the
Colona ferry. His camp will be No.
camp.
Mrs. Henry ROeschmann and daugh
ters. Hannah and Mabel. spent Satur
day and Sunday with Mrs. Carl Ny
quist Of Moline
Otto Weitz spent several days al
Audubon, Iowa. on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Hampson Of
Silvis visited with Mrs. Hampson'
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Henuegan
Friday.
Miss Rilla Washburn visited ovel
Sunday with her brother, Justin Wash
burn, and family Miss Rilla left Mon
day for her home at Lakeside, Neb.
Mrs. Claus Hansen visited with hei
sister, Mrs William Willis OF Water
town, Ill, Friday. Saturday she LEI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-17

Moline for Marshalltown, Iowa, to
join her husband, who has a position
at the brick and tile works at that
place.
Mr. and Mrs. Lundquist and Mr.. and
Mrs. Eston of Moline were entertain
ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grant
Moore Sunday.
A number of neighbors and friends
went TO the home of Peter Florin Fri
day, surprising him, in honor of his
5lst birthday anniversary. The ladies'
served a fine lunch and left a nice re-
reported.
Miss B. O'Donnell, who has a posi-
ton in Moline, is enjoying a week S
vacation.
The Ladies' Aid society met Thurs
DAY at the home Of Mrs. Walter Lloyd.
The meeting was largely attended and
a profitable as we'll as a social time
is reported. Mrs. Lloyd, at the close
Of the business meeting, served a very
fine lunch
Kenneth Dick and Ralph Garbry of
East Moline, were entertained at the
Matthew Boney home Sunday
William .Mardis Wednesday took a
trip TO Peoria to meet his daughter,
Miss Gertrude, who is returning from
a several months visit with relatives
/ IN Indiana
/ Friends and pupils of Miss Ethel
Bruner Of Rock Island, who has had
a several weeks illness with rheuma
tism, are glad to see her back again
and able 10 resume her duties as pri
mary teacher in the school
Miss Melvina Weitz visited al the
home of Mrs. J. r. Wiley in East Mo
line, the latter part of the week.
Revo Phelps of Jolley, Iowa, visit
ed over Sunday al his home here.
Mr.. ald Mrs. William Gernardt and
daughters Gertrude and Margaret, Wis
tied Sunday with Henry Corbin and
family of Moline.
Earl Kennedy and Charles Milton
Jennie Wells and Ethel EngstroH
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-17

a Guarantee as to QUALITY" by W. D.
Turner; fourth, How Should Platinum
Be Stamped to Indicate quality" by
II. c. Stern; fifth, rs the Dollar Watch
a Blessing or a Nuisance?" sixth, DO
You Favor Restricted Prices on Ster-
ling Silver and on Other Lines in the
Jewelry Business?"
100 p. m-Adjourn for lunch.
EVENING.
1880 p. manual Banquet at New
Harper; music, speeches and enter
tainment
THURSDAY, MAY %.
800 a m.-Meeting called to order.
First address, Does the Jeweler Fit
the Jewelry Business" by Paul Lack
ritz, Chicago; 10-minute talks, then
open to discussion; second, What
Shall We Do with Free Engraving,
Free Valuations, etc, By H. s. Thoen-
del. Chicago: third, Should Manufac-
turers Sell jewelers. an Exclusive Line
Not Sold to Mail Order Houses or De
partment Stores?": fourth, rs a Gaia,
log Put Out by Retail Jeweler a Good
Investment: fifth, rs a Grab Sale
Good Business; sixth, rs an Auction
a Good Proposition for a Jeweler Who
Intends Remaining in Business" ;
seventh, What Do You Think OF the
Apprentice Condition.; eighth
What Do You Think of the Parcels
Post Proposition -; ninth, why Do
Club in Your City,: report of com
mittees; election of officers; selection
OF place of meeting. in 1918
100 D. m.-Adjourn for lunch.
200 D. m.-Grand steamboat excur
sion on Mississippi river.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-17

Friday took their final examinations.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Pereine OF
Rock Island and Mr.. and Mrs Tom
King OF Silyis were over Sunday visit
ors al the f. II. McKenrick home.
Ellen Settles visited over Saturday
with relatives at Coaltown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Jones, daugh-
ter Leona and son son Richard, visit
ed the last of the week with Mr..
Jones parents al Colona.
Fred Meeska is exCava;ing Tor fOun-
dations on which he expects to start
al once the building of Two COTTAGE,
one on First avenue and one in the
Holland row.
Miss Gertrude Mardis returned home
Wednesday, after spending seven
months with relatives In Shelbyyille,
Ind. Miss Gertrude, while there, took
six months course in short hand
and typewriting at the Shelbyvi!ie
business college.
Louis Jones of Keokuk, Iowa, Is
visiting this week at the home Of Mr.,
and Mrs. Mitchell.
Miss Dorothy Peasants, who filed
the vacancy in the primary room in
Miss Burners absence, returned to her
home at Rock Island. Miss Peasants
made many friends while here.
Henry Roeschmann OF Carbon Cliff
and Carl Nyquist of Moline, attended
the Masonic banquet at Colona Satur.
day
Mrs. Nelson Hansen Of Bowlsburg
Thursday afternoon entertained the
Larkin Soap club. The afternoon was
very pleasantly spent, and at the Close
of the business meeting, the hostes.
served a fine lunch.
Miss Sue Titterington OF Chicago
was a guest ar the home OF her broth
er, Forest Titterington, for the pas
week Miss Titterington before re
( turning 10 Chicago will visit az Rocl
Island with other relatives and friends
Gus Hoffman of Silvis was a yisito
At the John ETart homs Tuesday.
Miss Nellie Fiorin. Monday evening
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-17

attended the recital at Augustana col
lege,
Miss Helen Bay of Rock Island spent
Thursday with her sister, Mrs. f. Hen
negan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-17

ton Dexter; second address, Keeping
Trade at Home" by W. S. Asby, Of the
Western Clock company; l0-minute
talks. then open 10 discussion; third,
Which is Better, Time Guarantees or
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-17
MEnNEsnAN. MAY q

Convention hail in New Harper hotel
900 a. m.-Meetiug called to order.
First address, Things That Ought to
Interest the Retail JeweIer." by New
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-17

YOU can choose from the

VOU can choose from the worlds
- finest clothes here For business men we
have the elegant Hart Schaffner & Marx suits in
dignifed fabrics at $40 to SIS. For the young
men, college men, we show the swell Society
Brand suits, Yorkshire clothes, good Cothcraft
clothes at $3.50 to SIS. Call for any pattern
you like, colors, grey, tan, fancy blue, blue serges,
Scotch novelty materials rich puppies, we show
them all in the late American English Our boys
SIS to $3.50 All ready with
all 81
of wash ties 25 50c Everything
the cities leading cothiers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14

growing warm and feeling joyous thrills
that never before had been hers. She
knew also that the color had crept
stealthily into her cheeks and that the
man on the stage must be seeing it.
Not until the end of the second act.
when he knew that he had succeeded
even beyond his own hopes, did Gordon
Trevor send a note to the girl who had
accepted his flowers.
IF it does not seem like presump-
tion,'' he had written, st would like to
take you to supper tonight
And when the curtain had gone down
with storm of applause and New
York had welcomed a great baritone
Ahce LANCE waited with quickly beat
ing heart for the man who had sung in
the streets.
The scent of flowers from the elysian
neIos was in her nostrils and Alice
drew a great breath when she stood
race to face with Gordon Trevor.
His face was as sensitive as when she
mad looked down from her apartment
window, but now there was a certain
sense of happiness radiating from it,
He was very much the conqueror when
ne took Al1ce's hand within his own
and the girl was peculiarly glad that
the charm his voice had for her was
duplicated in the man himself.
or course remember you" she said
quickly and trifie nervously. You de-
serve all the praise
Oh 1reNOr stopped ner with a
deprecatory gesture.
1t was you who finally made my
study on the continent possibIe-your
generosity sent me ahead just when I
needed it most" Trevor was plotting
her INTO his own automobile, and when
she was comfortably wrapped in furs
ne sank down beside her."
am curious" Alice asked a little
nreathiessly because his mastery was
beginning to make itself felt, 'how you
happened to remember me?"
That was not difficult" he said in a
low voice Your face as 1t appeared
framed in the window above me has al
ways remained in my-vision. As for
your name-it happened to be on the
envelope which you thrust"
Alice stopped him quickly remem-
per-lt vas the envelope from a letter I
was preparing to answer" Suddenly
she looked into his eyes and leaned
confidfngly nearer him. DO Won know
Mr.. Irevor-that you saved me from
voice?'' Jun
Then you'll remember me-" Trevor
sang softly will you ot?''-(Copy-
right, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)
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EVENING CHIT
By RUTH CAMERON,

InosI OF US are continually regrettinls
otI'e IiiIhg IN our past L don't mean
az ANY suHer1ng from remorse, but sim
ply feanzing that we might have acted
much more wisely. 1t is strange that We
90 not more often reflect that we ara
InaKlhg a new past even at the very mo-
iheht OF our regrets, and probably MAX
fore. "iu OS
BY BY your leave, I'll take my own case
III an instance. My besetting sin is hur-
Tylhg- have always hurried too much
tried to crowd too much into my DAYS. I
iook pack over my past and I say: How
IpolSn l was; how much better off I
should have been if / had not tried to do
SO much. How much happier and
healthier I should be today if 1 had not
hurried so. And so few of the things I
did were vital might have left out half
OF them and not affected my happiness or
welfare at ALL" And yet when I sion to
think, l realize that 1 am hurrying today
'Ihls year, this month this very day I
am making past of which I shall prob
ably say much the same thing ten years
from now.
But all these are vital. could not
spare any of them" I remember ten
years ago I said the same thing when
anyone warned me that L was trying 20
do too much
That is my personal experience. I tell
You about that because it is the one
with which L am the most familiar. But
does 1t not find a parallel in your own
life? Perhaps your besetting mistake is
not planning far enough ahead You look
back and say: eff 1 had only planned
my life wisely and methodically five
years ago, how much farther ahead L
might be today" True. my friend, but
very unimportant as compared with the
fact that if you plan your life wisely and
methodically today. you will be much
farther ahead five years from now.
Perhaps the weakest point in your
character is procrastination. "Ah" you
bewail as you look back five or ten
years, 'ff I only hadn't put off taking
that course in advertising, I might have
as good a position c today. know I
have just much brains as he" Come
back, my friend. Come back to the pres
ent past. and look into your life, and see
what you are procrastinatfng now
Experience is a good teacher but we
are all poor scholars. The past of five
years ago is unimportant compared with
the past you are making now. If we
could only look at this present past with
the unprejudiced clear-sighted eyes which
we turn the buried past how differ
emily we should live
Perhaps such detachment is impossible
but surely we might take more interest
in this vital past which we are making
now and which have chance to in
fluence than in that unimportant dead
past, which no regrets can change
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ADXER Using TAKS
BY WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

John II. Pray & Sons Co., Boston, print
ed an advertisement in the Boston Herald
of February %, occupying a space OF 81
inches by three columns. which read as
follows:
MY hat is in the ring"
This is a declaration OF conviction.
courage and red blood.
There is fight on against untrue and
misleading advertising.
Every merchant is either a progressive
or standpat advertiser
The consumer, as the chap who always
pays. is vitality interested in the outcome.
The standpat platform:
Let us alone.
It seems almost useless to include price
and comparison of value in any advertis-
ing law mat would be enforceable.
The progressive platform:
Misleading advertising is Illuminated
Knowingly untrue or misleading adver-
Using of price. worth or value, IS mis-
demeanor subject to penalty.
Every newspaper in Boston and Massa-
chusetts is also either progressive or a
standpatter.
Everything is "grist that comes to our
mill"
The progressive newspaper platform:
Loss of public confidence in the state
ments made lessons the value OF advertis-
Cut out the bait of misleading COM
parsons of values. and the advertiser
must describe the goods and give rea-
True advertising requires more space.
not less.
Some states have drastic laws against
the Jack Rabbit promoter" who adver-
tIses a hole in the ground as a producing
mine.
A broadening of this law TO include un-
true statements regarding the worth ana
value of merchandise is demanded.
We stand squarely on the progressive
advertising platform.
The above is a sermon by itself and in
1icates what is going through the minds
of merchants throughout the country Who
stand on a platform of plain, old fasnion-
ed honesty in the matter OF their anVer-
Using and the conduct Of their business.
(To be continued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

One sure rule of health is that you can't
buy 1t in bottles.
There are several ways Of spelling a
child, including a club
Calling guess prophecy doesn't great
ly increase its accuracy.
Not as many people do their best as
say they do, and not the same ones.
1t is an unusual man who doesn't blame
his plumbers on a cruel Fate.
Be good natured, but not enough so to
make everyone impose on you.
Lafe Dolittle's idea of a statesman is
a delegate who gets all of his expenses
paid.
Next to his hunting coat, a mans night
shirt is the worst looking garment in his
wardrobe.
crouch is another contagion which
should be subject to the general rules of
quarantine.
The mere fact that man needs exer-
else is no sign he will feel friendly
toward a snow shovel.
1t sometimes occurs to renter that
he paws too much for the privilege of
fussing with the landlord.
Only few people are sufficiently bull
headed to warrant risking a long con-
versation with an agent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
says UNCLE CAV

Hold on. young man; hold on II
you let that fellow with the rattle
iran tongue, and the legs that are al
ways working on the high speed CLUTCH
fool you into adopting his methoos'
you're done for, so far as ever amount
ing to anything is concerned. True
by sedulously initiating his methods
you may be able to make few thou
sand dollars a year-a very rev. II
Won keeping on bluffing as hard as hc
does you'll not be in great DANGER Il
starving You'll always be in demand
with people who need buffers, and
there are a good many who need blui-
fers in their business. You can 20
through life noisy loud-mouthed' glio-
tongued, slap-him- on-the- back-in-the-
barroom, $2,00O-a-year sort OF sue
cess.
And If you have really mad up your
mind that you want to be just that
much Of a success, and to associate
with people of just that cast OF mind
go ahead. ii you have the kind Of
mental makeup that goes most httinsly
with that kind of ideals, you'll probd-
bly, be happy, and you'll find plenty
of your chatterbox, feather Drained
kind of buffers to share your joy.
But before you decide to go in for
noise rather than substance, think a
minute. The loud mouth is always
in the limelight. He generally monop-
oIizes the conversation, and usually eff
fects that result by turning it to his
own doings. There are a few people
always who will take his word for it
that he is a great man and a success,
but over at the edge Of the group you
will invariably find the quiet-voiced,
smooth-spoken chap with the air Of the
thinker who, if he pays any attention
whatsoever to the little fellow does it
merely for the latter's undoing. Sin e
he doesn't have to spend most OF his
time talking, your quiet man usually
has time to think; and brain power. not
wind power, rules the world. The yap-
per does the more dignified and substan-
tial man a great service by keeping the
attention of the crowd away from hia
while he acconiplishes his personal de-
signs with a minimum amount Of lin-
drance. 1t is for you to choose whether
you wiz be among the noisy mob or
among the quiet workers-the parrots
or the real doors of deeds.
I sometimes think that the Creator
made the human unit in two parts--a
man and his voice; that If the voice
be large the man must be small IN or
der that the two may dwell together
At any rate, many man has LIT
his voice crowd him into inaiEaif-
1912, by W. Is. WIZ
liams.)
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FROM OTHER PENS


ENGLAND'S NEXT PLUNGE?
The failure of the government to avert
the national strike OF the coal miners IN
gloomily predicted in England. Sixty per
cent of the owners have agreed to the
principle of a minimum wage for a stipu-
lated days work. but this is only frac-
ton Of the battle. The real conflict is
over the Interpretation and application OF
this principle. 1t is further Complicated
by necessary differentials in various dis
tricts.
According to opinion in the Hobbies OF
parliament, "the next step will be a re-
sort to legislative enforcement Of the
minimum wage This effort to establish
legal wages, If attempted, will be a fur
Their plunge into state socialism by the
ministry Granted that, as the govern
ment intimates and public opinion ap-
pears to hold, the British coal miners are
underpaid-is this the only way out? Are
the mineowners' so absolutely persistent
in their indifference to popular opinion
and governmental argument that they
are ready to invite remedial legislation
so radical? 1t is possible some of them
may, because IL a minimum wage We're
esta blished by law, labor would very soon
find it was also the maximum-Pittsburg
Dispatch.