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Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

it is only when, from advanced age.
their grinders fail to allow them to
thoroughly masticate their food that
their daily usefulness ceases.
Their immunity from accident and
disease is proverbial and SO true is
this that it is seldom that one ever
hears of a mule being seriously in
jured unless by gross carelessness or
neglect
They are not subject supposedly to
CHAMBERS or farcy, the two most fatal
diseases of horses. The conformation
and texture of their hoofs renders
them much less liable to lameness
than horses and when used regularly
on the farm and even occasionally on
the road, they will not require shoes.
Another thing in their favor is that
they can be stabbed without haltering,
stable of 20 head of mules turned
loose will not give the trouble of three
horses turned lose, as the former will
not fight but will live peaceably to-
gether as visit to any big sale stable
will prove as here the mules are al
ways kept in pens, free and turned
loose, while each horse is battered in
his stall.
In feeding mules it may be well to
remember that they will keep fat on
about three-fourths the allowance of
horse of the same weight, that they
will eat up roughage and that their
grain ration will only be about two
thirds that of horse.
When it comes to daily care and
attention, the mule will live where the
horse will soon die.
These large-eared friends are also
more sure-footed than the horse,
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22
FAvoRITE DISHES FROM FAMOUS
COOKS.

The following recipes have been
gathered from the cherished stores OF
many cooks:
Baked Round Steak.-Put slice OF
round steak that has been scored and
pounded with flour; season with salt
and bits of butter. cover with cold
water and bake in close dish for one
and a half hours. Add hot water as
needed in the cooking. Onion may be
added if the flavor is desired.
Orange lce.-Make strip OF four
cups Of water, two of sugar and cook
until thick. Cool, and add the rind
and juice of two oranges, and freeze.
Orange and Lemon Sherbet.-To the
Juice and rind of three oranges and
pint of cream; strain out the rind and
freeze. This is very pretty served
in the halves of oranges. or In grape
fruit shells with the meat course.
Cream Torte.-Beat the yolks of six
eggs. add cup of sugar and three
tablespoonfuls of fine bread crumbs
which have been sifted with a tea
spoonful of baking powder. Add a
half pound of dates cut fine half
pound of walnuts and the we'll beaten
whites of the eggs. Bake in layers
and put together with whipped cream.
Pineapple Puff.-Beat the whites Of
three eggs until stiff, add three table
spoonfuls of sugar and four table,
spoonfuls of grated pineapple. Beat
together and put into slightly buttered
cups. Partly fill the cups and stand
In hot water and bake a light brown.
Turn out of the cups and serve with
whipped cream. Garnish with little
preserved pineapple.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

sible, from among the membership of
the corn clubs. 1t will be all right,
especially for the larger boys, to con-
tinue the corn work and at the same
time take up the cotton.
The members of the cotton clubs
will be expected to work at least two
acres. Thus practically every boy
will grow enough seed cotton to make
bale. The boy is advancing in this
work and is more capable of handling
a larger amount of land Likewise
he must have enough cotton so that it
can be ginned separately and two
acres is emphasized as the basis for
the work. This plan will also have a
tendency to classify the work The
boy who has time and strength to
work but one acre should be a mem
Der of the corn club only.
1t is not so important that larg.
number of boys be enrolled the first
year, but it is exceedingly Important
that every boys crop shall be a first
class demonstration By doing the
same kind of intelligent, persistent
work which has been done in the corn
clubs, the boy can grow a large yield
of improved cotton at a good profit in
the worst infested boil weevil sec
tions. Boys in Louisiana and Texas
have already done this.
1t is expected also thai the boys
in these clubs will study cotton-grad-
ing and Standardization so that they
Will be able to classify and market
their crnns intelliuautlu,
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

5 5 :. N||,,0rES s
If hay will feed 100 sheep

Ten tons of hay will feed 100 sheep
one year.
Fowls are almost as subject to colds
as persons.
Let the pigs grunt. but never let
them squeal.
Leaky feed troughs are leaks in
your farm profits.
A poorly grown, heart-broken colt
can hardly be given away.
Rations for chickens should include
a small proportion of meat food.
Don't let the cows out in the storms
to stand around 1t doesn't pay.
Jerseys have been bred at seven
months, but fifteen months is better
Old ewes should be fattened and
disposed of before they lose any teeth.
Ducks are never troubled with lice
unless housed with chickens or tur-
keys.
1t is best to reduce the milk produc-
Ing food, SO that a mature COW will
dry and rest for month to six weeks
before calving.
Ground oats, wheat bran and little
oil meal, together with some alfalfa
or clover hay, will keep the brood
sows from becoming feverish.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

tBy ROY c. POTTS, Oklahoma Agricul-
tural Coliege.)
The calf should be allowed to take
the first milk from its dam, as nature
requires this, and if her rules are vio-
lated, there will surely be trouble.
After the calf has once nursed, it
should be removed from Its mother,
but fed It's mothers milk for a few
days. depending on the vigor of the
calf Commence to add skim milk
after week or ten days, adding a
small amount at first and increasing
1t daily until the calf is on an entire
skim milk diet
There are few simple rules to
follow in growing calves on skim milk.
The milk must be sweet; it must be
as warm as the mothers milk and
care must be exercised not to feed
too much of it. There are many more
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22
MORE MULES NEEDED
animal win Do More Work and
Costs Less Than Horse.
Their immunity From Accident and
Disease Is Proverbial--Good Quail
tiles More Than Offset OBJ
jections Raised.
CBy J M. BELL, virgipia.)


For generations the mule has been
used exclusively on the farm in the
south. They seem not to be in favor
to SO great an extent on the farms in
the north and west. This seems q pity
as the 1,000-pound mule will do as
much work, live on less and last
longer at hard work, than the 1900
pound horse
There is an old saying in the south
to this effect: Two sets of mules will
last a farmer his lifetime. For in
stance farmer starting out at 21
years of age buys a team of mules
three years old. They are ready to go
to work. Four or five years of age
might be better, but at three years
they are capable of doing steady farm
or road work if properly cared for.
The writer has known them to be
put to regular work at two and half
years of age and kept at it until they
had crossed the quarter century mark.
But to get back to the young farm
er. He starts out at 81 years of age
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

with his team of three-year-old mules.
For twenty years, or possibly with
care, twenty-five years, they will do
good work. At the end of that time
they will, at the present prices, if fat
and sleek, bring from $50 to SIS each.
The farmer is now AZ years of age.
He buys another set of mules, they
last him twenty-five years. BY this
time the owner is 70 years and prob
ably through with the daily struggle
for existence, in fact, is in a position
to rest on his oars" as the saying is.
leaving to servant no doubt the
management of the farm
The longevity of the mule has been
a well-established fact for SO long that
like the common law, the memory of
man knoweth not to the contrary.
Pliny, in his writings, mentions the
mule that had been used to carry
grain to the markets of Rome until he
was 60 years of age, turned out as too
old to follow his daily labor and this
aged, but faithful beast declined to be
shelved but insisted upon making the
regular trip to the market place al
though free and unloaded, falling in
line as the other beasts of burden
began their journey.
It may be safely asserted that
mule will last as long as it's teeth and
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

resist heat and flies better and do not
chafe so easily.
The objection many farmers raise
to the use Of mules is that they do not
breed. that they are stubborn, often
vicious and that they are entirely un-
suited to pleasure purposes.
Those objections are worth con-
sideration but the many good qualities
of these sturdy beasts seem to more
than Offset them.
From a commercial standpoint it
may be well to remember that a pair
of six-year-old mules, well matched,
we'll broken and we'll grown, say
weighing LOO to 1900 each. will bring
from $3.50 to $500
Now it takes mighty good class of
farm horse to bring such a price
More mules should be raised by the
farmers all over the country. Breed
your heavy set farm horse mares to
good-sized. stylish Jack and when
your colts come take care of them and
they will prove to be about the most
profitable stock on the place, either
to work or to sell.
You will find them easier to raise,
easier to break and cheaper to keep
than horse colts. And, when you
want to dispose of them they are al
ways in demand.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22
Ie<A<- 1ze,1e.e,N-.
Lions Destruction peereed.

Every mans hand is against the
lion His destruction is encouraged
by all the governments of Africa:
and the occupation of most parts OF
the continent by the white race is
likely before a great many years. to ;
close his history except in few re-
gions
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

calves injured by being fed too much
skim milk than there are by not hav-
ing enough. Four quarts at feed
twice per day Is sufficient for the
average sized calf for the first month.
Add spoonful Of ground flaxseed to
each feed and teach the calf to eat
little corn meal as soon as possible.
Corn is the most economical food to
balance a ration containing so much
skim milk.
At the Indiana experiment station,
in Bulletin No. AZ, a record OF work
is given to show the relative cost OF
calves grown on skim milk and on
whole milk. The skim milk calves
cost less than four cents per pound
and the wkole-milk calves cost ten
cents per pound. and the calves fed
skim milk make as good growth as
the ones fed whole milk.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22
EeeLEss FOODS.
.Longfellow.

When eggs are forty and fifty cents
dozen one feels inclined to look for
dishes that call for few or no eggs.
Here are few for those of US who
must economize:
Oatmeal Cookies.-A cup Of fine oat-
meal this may be made finer by put
ting it through the meat grinder),
cup of flour, a half cup of lard or but
ter and lard mixed, half cup of milk,
two-thirds of cup of sugar and
fourth OF teaspoonful of soda. dis
solved In milk. A little grated lemon
or orange peel and nutmeg. with -four
enough to roll thin.
Apple Sauce Cake.--A half cup of
shortening, a cup of sugar. cup of
sifted apple sauce, teaspoonful of
soda, one and three-fourths cups of
flour, and spice to taste. Add raisins
or currants if desired and bake in
small cakes or in loaf.
Hot Water Gingerbread. -Dissolve
In a cup of boiling water two tea
spoonfuls of soda; add a cup of mo-
lasses. a quarter of cup of melted
shortening, and cinnamon, ginger,
Glove and nutmeg to taste. Use -four
enough for soft batter and bake In
small patty tins. These are delicious
with apple sauce and cottage cheese
for luncheon or a dessert.
Feather Muffins-Take a cup of
milk, tablespoonful of melted lard
or butter, half teaspoon of salt a ia
blespoonful of sugar and two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder Mix to-
gether with flour enough to make a
batter as stiff as an ordinary cake
batter Bake in muffin rings.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22
IZeKI'FGnEN
|22es1ABINET
HERE'S little word below with
letters three

HERE'S little word below with
~ letters three
Which, If you will only grasp its 20
tency,
Will send you higher
Toward the goal where you aspire
Which without its precious aid. you'll
never see
NOW.
Success attends the man who views It
right
The back and forward meaning differ
quite
For this is how 1t reads
To the man of ready deeds
WON.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

A girl of seven in California saved
a passenger train from wreck on bro
ken rails by presence Of mind and
timely warning This is one of the
few exceptions proving the rule
against the use in life of the infant
phenomenon.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22
Brake shoe.

may save trouble. 1t is better than
locking wheel with chain for it does
the wheel no damage. An iron shoe
is fastened to chain long enough to
let wheel ride on shoe When at bot
tom of hill back off and hang shoe on
hook
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22
Bantams As Watch Dogs. 9

A half dozen bantam hens and a
well-bred rooster will protect the
poultry yard from cats, dogs and even
rats almost as well as dog. They
are brave and spunky and will permit
nothing dangerous to approach t.he:,
twemises
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

A bride in Pennsylvania is accused
of trying to poison her husband by
putting ground glass In his pie If he
compared it with the kind his mother
used to make any :ury of hous ewives
would acquit her on the score of pro-
~Acstton.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

Another severe blow has been given
simplified spelling. Because the indict-
ment against North Carolina muir
derer recited that he shot his victim
in the "brest." he was discharged
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22
Cauaht the Audience

Patience-Did the rendition of "Ju.
lius Caesar" meet with the approval OF
the audience? Patrice-Oh. yes; you
know they killed julius in the first
act!-Yonkers Statesman.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

An Illinois alienist says a wave Of
remorse is sweeping over the country
Come to think of it, this is the season
Of the year when the greatest number
fall off the New Year water wagon.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

There seems to be a. probability
that the government will not have
majority in the German reichstag.
Nobody seems to be able to explain
what difference it would make
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

A boy in London got damages from
zoo because he was bitten by polas
bears. The dangers of up-to-date civil
iization are now Independent of time,
place, season or appropriateness.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

Any man who can't recall an old.
fashioned winter in sleigh. with her
sweetness smuggling close and the
stars twinkltng poetry, has poverty.
stricken memory.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

The hens are usually blamed for It
when the price of eggs becomes pro-
hibitive. but for some reason nobody
has attempted to hold the COWS re,
sponsible for the present pFice of but.
ter.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

The incineration of 800 old square
pianos scheduled for next spring in
New Jersey would be righteous II
among the number were your naigh-
boris untuned instrument
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

AS for the fellow who has been 60
ing with girl three years without
renting fiat and asking the question.
he had better look out Something is
likely to happen.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

When the weather man predicts that
the weather will be colder 1t always
becomes colder; but we consider II
only right to give the weather man
credit for refraining from Boosting
about it.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22
WAGON BRAKE is BENEFICIAL
Continuance Used by City Transfers
Comes in Handy When Nego-
tiating Any Steep Hill.

When hauling hay or big loads,
which prevent use of brake lever
and hills must be reckoned with such
a continuance as city teamsters use
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

One doctor who writes for the mag
azines says an automobile is a fine
thing for catarrh He doesn't say how
often 1t should be taken.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22
But He Cot !.

MY boy came home de oder day
NIT a black eye" said Cohn. land
asked him, Woo gave you dot eye9
Believe me, papa he said. / had t,
fight like blazes for it
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

The thermometers are bravely striv-
ing to become normal again and If the
weather forecasters will quit forecast
Ing all will be WELL
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

Lower California. having permanent
sy lost it's revolution, has turned again
to bull fighting as the only satisfac-
tory substitute.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

Itaiy's war expense is rEillion dol
lars day. To get an idea rof the
enormous cost reduce a million dol
lars to spaghetti.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22
FIX PLOWSHARE FOR ALFALFA
Edge Ground Around to Resemble
Blade of Bread knife-Roots
Cut Off Easily and Clean.

Anyone that has ever plowed al
falfa sod knows how hard the roots
are to cut, says Canadian writer in
Popular Mechanics. In blowing many
of the roots are not cut off, had a
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

The tipping evil has reached point
where it should stop. A waiter in
Chicago got an heiress; also. another
In Philadelphia
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

The peach crop having been killed
twice already. we may be justified in
counting on heavy preserving season
next fall.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

With prices continually soaring be-
fore long our scientists will have to
give their attention to finding a sub
stitute for food
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

No enc has yet explained why wo-
men never need ear ruffs
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

Mr. Edison says he likes to read
novels because they don't require him
70 think. Perhaps that's also the rea-
son why so many people like to write
them
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

field of alfalfa at one time that 7
was unable to plow, as my team was
too light to draw the pillow through the
the roots.
After thinking it over for time,
decided to make the edge of my
plowshare like the cutting edge of a
bread knife. The edge was ground
on an emery wheel as shown in the
sketch had no trouble in plow-
ing the field The roots slip over the
scallops and are cut off easily and
clean.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

Fresh air is not necessarily cold air
This little fact in natural science
should be kept In mind.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

Russia has imprisoned a man for
writing volume Of poems. Over
here we merely let our poets starve to
death.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

A statesman is simply a politician
who politicates to suit ones own fads
and fancies.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

You will not have to wait long for an
authoritative announcement concern.
ing the peach crop for 1912.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

We have entire confidence in the
opinion that it is not yet time to put
away your winter Undertaking.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

When the millionaire for a day got
hack home he had $153 in his pockets.
The walters did not know he had 1t.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

This is the weather that makes the
roses blossom on the sweet girls
noses.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

Discretion is thing that most men
are able to use as long as they are free
from temptation.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

In weather like this a little cold IL
sraught with great danger.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

is ALWAYS morning some
AaA where,
And above the awakening continents,
From shore to shore,
Some where the birds are singing ever
more.
-Longfellow.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-03-22

A million-dollar wedding does not al
ways mean happy married life
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-21
MISS VIOLET OAKLEY.

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state. from the Tyndale Bible period
to Fox's vision Of multitude, and the
other depicting the life of William
Penn. showing bis youth at Oxford,
his conversion to the sect of the
Friends, his arrest and imprisonment.
his vision of a new colony. his winning
OF kings charter and his approach to
Philadelphia.
Miss Oakley's early ambitions lay
entirely in the field Of illustration. and
her attention was turned toward deco
ration by the smallest of incidents.
She did tiny color sketch as her
first color experiment when she was
studying under Howard Pyle in Phiia-
delphia, and some one remarked that 1t
had strong decorative quality
To Miss Oakley's surprise, she was
asked to try her hand at stained
glass window design for decorating
company in Philadelphia. From the
design she received an order for the
large window In the Church of All
Angels. New York That was thirteen
years ago. and she has been working
at window designs and mural paint
auss ever sane
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