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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05
MAKE SUCCESS WITH DUCKS
Dry Quarters at Night Must Be Pro-
viGed to Prevent Leg Weakness
Proper Feed Essential.

Leg-weakness in ducks Is often pro-
duced by damp quarters at night. They
can stand all the water and rain dur
ing the day time that they may be
exposed to, but at night they must
have dry quarters.
The floors of the duck pen should
be heavily covered with straw. Leg
weakness from this cause is OFTEN a
cause of cramps and rheumatism II
the trouble does not right itself in a
few days and the bird otherwise is IN
a good condition it is best to Kill and
eat it.
There is, however, another form or
leg-weakness which is more common.
This is the result of heavy feeding,
especially if the feed is too concen-
trated.
A popular feed with duck-raisers 1s
bran, cornmeal, meat scraps and green
feed or stepped clover or alfalfa.
If the birds are weak in the legs
upon lifting them up it is found they
are very heavy, reduce the quantity
of meat scraps and cornmeal and in.
crease the supply of bran. Also add
powdered charcoal to the mash.
This, in a few days, generally ends
the trouble. Never feed whole grain,
especially corn. 1t is claimed THAI
leg-weakness is more or less common
among ducks fed whole corn.-L. M. B.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05
DAIRY FARM IS PROFITABLE
Combined With Fruit and Poultry
Farmer Could Add Considerably
to His Annual Income.

Students Of good farming every
where admit that dairy farming Is the
most profitable of all farm work. In
connection with the dairy, fruit and
poultry could be raised, and they
would add great deal to the income,
possibly the two combined, if worked
to the best advantage, would produce
as much income as the dairy. The
fruit and poultry could be raised Oh
the same land, which could also be
used for the young calves of the
dairy. BY such system of intensive
farming, the profits would be in
creased to the greatest possible ex-
tent, considering the amount of land
used.
The man that keeps his share Of
dairy cows and manages them in the
right manner will never find his land
losing-its fertility. AS a means OF
keeping up the fertility of the soil,
the dairy business cannot be beaten.
Only a small amount of the elements
are taken away from the soil with
out being returned, and that small
amount is very profitable.
It is all right to pasture the COWS
in the corn field after you have re-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05
Prize Winning CockereI.

seed to whole corn in the cob. If 1t
happens to turn out single NALL
pebble or piece of glass, 1t stays in
the gizzard and helps grind up the
rest of the food.
AS chickens run loose on the farm
they pick up most OF their living IN
the fields. During the season OF
heavy laying, the spring months, they
secure nearly as much insect and an
imal food as vegetables or grain. The
eggs begin to diminish about the time
that the insect life retires for the win
ter. Is this merely a coincidence, or
natural cause and effect?
1t is undoubtedly true that the
shortage of flesh food will cut down
the egg yield and when the hens can
not find this animal food it must be
supplied to them. 1t is not possible
for the hen to produce eggs economl-
cally from grain alone, because the
proportion of grain elements and meat
elements remains about the same in
eggs, regardless Of the hens diet, and
an all grain diet does not furnish meat
elements to balance its starch and fat.
At least a twelfth of the ration should
be flesh food. The form it takes de-
ponds upon circumstances.
Table scraps may be sufficient for
a small flock, If there Is meat In them.
Burn or bury any refuse that they
leave, day by day. Green cut bone
that is, raw bone shaved to edible
size in bone cutter is the best form
of flesh food. Feed a handful per hen
every other day.
Beef scrap, If not too fat, is an ex-
cellent meat feed where green cut
bone cannot be used. 1t Is fed in
hopper or mixed with the ground
grain or mash. Meat meal Is the
same as beef scrap, but finer, and
better for use in dry mash, as the
fowls cannot pick it out. To be sure
that these two packing house products
are good, drop a pinch into boiling
water, and If the odor is bad, send the
product back. Never feed chickens
putrid or rotten meat, as it gives them
timber neck or blind staggers.
Blood meal is a most concentrated
animal food and 1t should be fed eau
tiously, principally to young chickens.
Granulated milk, or milk albumen is
a fine protein feed, but rather too ex-
pensive to use except for very small
chicks. Fish scrap takes the place
of beef scrap in the east and south.
1t contains valuable minerals as well
as the coveted protein.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05
Feed Fowls Meat.

Meat In some form must be fed to
poultry They must have animal mat
ter Fowls running on free ranges
where insects are plentiful obtain a
sufficient supply of animal matter but
those kept in closer quarters must be
given this food in another form.
Finely chopped fresh meat is an ex-
cellent bone and muscle builder for
the young stock, but should not be
fed more often than two or three
times a week Green bone, freshly
cut just before feeding, is equally as
beneficial, but must also be fed with
judgment as to, how much and how
often. Meat foods assist feather,
bone, muscle and comb development,
consequently too much is apt to cause
too much forcing along these lines.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05
HOW Do YOU FEEL TODAY?

We want to talk to you. Il you are
happy and feeling good, will tell you
something that will give long life to that
happiness. Il you are feeling blue or IN
any way doWncast, remember Jonah:
He came out all right. We have good
news to tell you
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05
PROPER AGE FOR BREEDING
Piqs From Old Sows Weigh More
Than Those From Gilts-More
Bone and Growth Secured.
(By A. o. CHOATE.)

: If we breed and raise our own soWs
we always have to have young SOW
before we can have an old one, but as
a rule I breed from old sows and II
have any that have not proven salts
factory l Gull them out and select the
young gifts to take their places.
l find that the pigs from my old
sows always weigh from rs to so
pounds more at ten months old than
the pigs from the young sows. They
seem to have more bone and are more
growthy. This is my reason for breed
ing from old sows.
There is Gae rule which I always
follow and that is, never to breed q
gilt so that she will have pigs until
she is at least year old and always
let them run with the rest of the
shoats until about two months before
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05
CHICKENS FEED HEAT
Fowls Are Seavengers to a very
Decided Degree.
Being Possessed of Unsuitable anu
omnivorous Appetite and Power
full Digestion Hen viii Eat
Everything She Meets.

nv PROF. JOHN WILLARD BOLTEo
Chickens are scavengers to a very
decided degree. They choose tnell
food by sight alone as they are Almost
entirely without the senses OF smeii
and taste, so far as we can tell. Like
most other young animals, however
thew do not know how Or what to eat
until they have been taught, either by
older fowls, human efforts, or series
of experiments on their own behat.
Being possessed of an 1nsatlaDie
and omnivorous appetite coupled Win
a most powerful and dauntless d1ges-
ton, the chicken eats everything sne
meets that can possibly be digesteo
and much that cannot. Mighty re"
victuals are missed by those bright
eyes, in spite of lack of auxiliary SEN
ses. If a speck wiggtes, jumps, craWis
or flies, it's certainly alive, hence
good to eat. If it shines, she will take
a chance on it, and if it's yellow II
must be food. Anything goes, from
potato bugs to live mice, from BIRD
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05
Promising Applicants for Dairy.

moved all the corn, but it is highly
poor sense of business if you expect
them to keep up their milk flow on
corn fodder. Bring them in these
cold nights and give them a good
feed to supply what the corn fodder
does not. Remember that If a COW
once loses her flow of milk or 1t is
decreased in quantity she will rarely
regain it. Keep it up.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05
Market for Feathers.

There is a good market for all
kinds of feathers. Pick fowls dry and
sort feathers. the coarse from the
fine. They can easily be preserved
until enough are collected to take to
market.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05

l expect to sell the bunch and then
separate them.
AS a rule this is about breeding
time when they will weigh about ITS
pounds and not be fat, just in good
breeding order.
My reason for keeping old breeding
sows is can get more bone and more
growth on the litter and two filters a
year.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05

Weteach thoroughly the practical ben
eft of all modern office appliance, the
best, most thorough Courses Of Business
training known to the Science. lnVes-
tigate. Do not guess. But BE sure you
are right, then 60 ahead. y
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05
Fresh Butter.

Butter will keep fresh for months
If put into clean jars and then packed
in charcoal 1t should be set in
cool place.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-12-05
Cheap and Excellent.

Air-slaked lime, freely busted every
where, is cheap and will destroy lice,
gapes and the roup.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
Sunday Afternoon Concerts
a Blessing to Atlanta
They Are Given Hour That ntereres With No Service of
Religious Character and Upon Day Furnishing Hundreds of
People With Their Only Possible Opportunity to Attend

1t is gratifying constantly popular in
teres in the Philharmonic from time to time
der the auspices Of the Atlanta Musical association,
The forthcoming Sunday afternoon bids fair to be the
of the thus far It viii take place at 80
in the Atlanta theater
is difficult the value OF these Sunday
afternoon They hour that ntereres
with service of religious character and upon day furnish
ing hundreds of people with their only possible opportunity dur
ing the week attend
There thousands Of Atlanta who
ly have the chance to hear it, These people particularly
terested in the Of the Philharmonic offerings
Parents will find these Sunday afternoon immense
ly pleasing to their children they experiment along that line
bit And how much better is to have the young folks attend
ing of these engaging instructive and altogether pleasing
musical events than roaming the dvrng themselves
IN useless and inconsequena ways!
The Philharmonic orchestra under Mortimer Wilson'S d-
recton has be recognized generally organization of
quality It renders selections of genuine merit requiring
great skill upon the part Of the musicians yet always full of
popular appeal Those who attend invariably
That is demonstrated in the evergrowing audiences,
Atlanta being given opportunity establish per
manent these Sunday afternoon The this
seasons interest will tell whether Atlanta will support them
1t is hardly be doubted that the final will be
thusiastic affirmation Of the project
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
More Pay for LetterCarriers
This Should Be One Feature Of Parcels Postand withou

The parcels post is the important step government
the Civil
1t for the distribution of material objects
phone means for the distribution of thought
The parcels post which will constantly usefulness
and will do for the prosperity the average citizen
the the
Than anything that this government HAS EVER DONE
Every citizen manufacturer should not forget
THE LETTER CARRIER UPON WHOSE BACK THE LOAD IS
TO BE CARRIED.
The men that the mails undepaid 1t would be
outrage add to their burden without considerably
>heir pay.
With the increased of living the
neglected, and their rights have been ignored.
And the parcels post which will do much for
citizens is added to the heavy load of the letter
The pay of the letter should be increased
week And Democratic congressman spend
the public wisely should introduce bill to that effect and
get il passed as quickly possible
This recommendation which will be published in all of the
Hearst newspapers will into least 100000
homes And from every those ought 90
letter and to demanding fair
for mail carriers
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
Patience
BY GLADYS HALL.

I KNOW some day it will all come
right.
You, in your place., in mine.
That somehow, through a rift in the
clouds
me summer sun VIII shlhe'
NAT roses VIII oioonl where the
ihornS are now
iN"t tue udN VIII replace inc nlSut
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
HOChe's Descent on Ireland
BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

founder of the United urishmen"
and a tireless worker i'm the cause
of Irish freedom.
1t was in the interest of that
cause, to him one of the most sa-
cred in the world, that he visited
Paris in the spring Of 1896
Calling upon the directory, he be
sieged il with his passionate elo-
quence to try TO do something for
Ireland
The directory cared nothing for
Ireland, but to do something for
Ireland was equivalent TO doing
something against its greatest en-
emy England. and Tones PRAYER
was heard; the force under Hocne
was sent Out. and but for the raw
ages of the clements. ireland might
have been given its freedom
The failure OF the expedition
brought great woe TO Erin. Sol
diers and police marched an over
the island torturing and numbering
the people The slightest suspi-
ciou. the most unfouuded charges.
were taken as warrants for blood
shed
S. said that more than 100000
llshmen We're killed in the imme-
ulate aftermath of the Hochs de-
scent and the rebellion which fol-
lowed. The situation was SO terri
BILE that even the hundest of Enc
iish Tories were given a thrill of
horror
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10

TT was 116 years ago that the
famous General Hoche, clear
ing the harbor of Brest with
his 40 sailing vessels and $500 men,
headed for the shannon. for the
purpose Of ending English rule in
the Emerald Isle.
The importance of Hoches at
tempt may be gathered from the
words Of Green, one of the most
level headed of English historians.
who. speaking Of this expedition.
says: Had II reached Ireland UNI
broken, and under such a general.
the island might well have been LOST
10 tile English crown"
But Hoche never reached ireland.
The winds fought against France,
as they had fought against the
great Spanish Armada zoo years
before. and the ships were parted
from one another by the tempest
which broke upon them soon after
they had got out 20 sea
Some of them reached Bantry
bay. but, hearing nothing Of their
leader or OF the rest of the feet
they sailed back 10 their starting
point IN France Another division
r-ached the shannon. but only to
be scattered and driven home by
second storm. Many vessels were
wrecked or captured. and the flag
ship, In which Hoche had em
barked. returned 10 Brest without
having seen any OF its companions.
The prime mover In this u-
starred expedition was the cele-
bratcd Wolf Tone. ass stauncn a
. friend as Ireland ever had. Prot
~ ant and a. Socialist Tone WAS tH,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
The World Grows Cheerier.

You couldn't find a broken heart
ed lad or lassie with a search war
rant, yet people love Just as hon
estly and truly as they ever did.
They have simply recognized that
all emotions are transitory ana
that nothing is so easily transfer
able as the affections
Even poverty used to be great
er source of misery than it is to-
day. In former times when peo-
pie lost their money about three
generations sat down and cried
over what they used to have And
everybody sympathized with them.
Now when people lose their money
they roll up their sleeves and go to
work and get it back again. They
don't waste any time beating upon
their breasts or recounting their
former glories, because they see the
contempt in everybody's eyes for
has-been.
Undoubtedly the greatest sorrow
in the world is to be unhappiy
married, but people are beginning
to meet even this misfortune more
sanely than they used TO- The
courageous rectifv the mistake as
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10

Life Hash t Changed.

We have to get a perspective on
the past to realize how different
conditions are today and how we
have cheered up without realizing
it. We no longer mistake bilious
ness for sanctification. Indeed,
there are several religions, with
millions Of followers, that are based
on the cult Of happiness.
For our souls sake and our stom-
ach's sake we are adjured alike by
priest and doctor to think bright
and joyous thoughts and to dwell
on the good in the world instead
of the evil. People with tales of
woe to tell find no ready listeners
and are made to feel by the public
attitude toward them that they are
towards and winners, and if wom-
en- have tears to shed they shed
them in private, where they won't
afflict anybody else, nor ruin their
own compilations.
Life hasn't changed, nor have it's
sorrows been vanquished. The
griefs that have torn the human
heart since the beginning of time
have not been exercised. Death still
robs us of our beloved; sickness
tortures us; the treachery Of those
we trusted stabs US to the quick;
riches fly out of the window, and
poverty crawls in through the
crack of the door.
Women still keep lonely vigils
waiting for the drag of drunken
footstep on the stair; mothers bend
above empty cradles, and gray
headed, old wives are deserted for
younger and fairer faces. Nothing
in the whole category of sorrows
is changed, but somehow we have
struggled up to a Drawer attitude
toward life and saner way of
meeting our troubles.
Just as many terrible things hap
pen to us now as ever happened
to our forbears, but we do not let
a single misfortune, however great.
ruin our lives as they did. Il isn't
the fashion to be miserable. and so
We make a bluff at cheerfulness.
We should be as much ashamed TO
be pointed cut as broken-hearted
as we would be to be pointed out as
having a penitentialy record.
Looked Like Ravens.
Any of us who are middle-aged
can recall two or three old ladies
with long sweeping black wells. and
mourning garments and melan-
choly countenances. who used to
come and visit our mothers. They
looked like ravens and they spent
the day in a perfect orgy Of tears
When they went away our mothers
would explain that these women
had lost their husbands. or child.
or a mother some 80 or 40 years
before, and that since that time
they had never worn stitch of
H.f,r.T sI,fr ans fat no.. tl. .-H .
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
BY DOROTHY DIX.

THERE is one feature of mod
ern progress that has not at
tracted the attention it de-
serves and that is that people are
happier and more cheerful than
they used to be.
In the past, in America at least.
piety and gloom were synonymous
terms and the more melancholy the
individual the more religious he or
she was esteemed. 1t was thought
that to be cheerful showed you to
be light minded, and those who
laughed easily, especially women,
were looked upon with suspicion
as being no better than they should
be. When people met together
they told each other their trou-
bles, and women enjoyed them
selves by mingling their tears when
they foregathered for a pleasant
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
Some Get Large Salaries.

Life consists either i'm being In
and looking out or in being out and
looking in. And the man who is
outside looking in has a little better
view. often, than the man who is
inside struggling with details per-
picked, aggravated, worn and Won
dering whether he will ever get his
money back.
There are now upward of twent-
thousand men in America prepar-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10

ing advertising copy. Some of
these men command salaries of
princely magnitude, say thousand
dollars a month, and there are a
dozen or so whose figure is just an
even hundred dollars a day.
There is no doubt, however, that
the genius required in writing adj
vertisments has been more or less
overrated, and there is soon to be
a swinging back Of the pendulum.
We must understand the truth that
writing is more or less of a knack.
Dean Swift said that a good man
could write on any subject and
make the theme interesting.
Then" said Stella, write me an
essay ON a broomstick." And
straightway the Dean accepted the
challenge and wrote an immortal
thing in literature.
Charles Lambs essay on Roast
Pig is another example of good
writing about nothing in particu-
lar
Both Charles Lamb and Dean
Swift, if they lived today. would be
writing advertisements for depart
ment stores, and they would be
making a deal more money than
they ever made in literature.
America has 5000 men who can
write Just as well as Dean Swift.
Charles Lamb Coleridge. Dick
Steele or DR.. Johnson.
1t Will Be Standardized.
We work from the complex to the
simple. Your high school graduate
ana your "highbrow" write John
sonese-long, involved, strange sen
fences. Men with minds like little
fishes write like whales. Good ad-
yertising copy has the gentle flow
OF Addison and the swing of Victor
Hugo.
The adj writer's who get the large
checks would do well to enjoy their
brief moments of butterfly exist
ence. Advertising is going to be-
come standardized. and not forever
will this financial gulf exist be
tween the clerics and the ad writ
ers. All the colleges are putting
in courses in advertising
Good literature is an advertise
ment, and all advertisements well
written are literature.
The invasion Of the advertising
field by the poets, essayists and
clerics means an equalization Of the
Pay envelope. When the poet does
mans work he is going TO get o.
mans pay
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-10
He Needn t Starve Now.

The poet need no longer starve in
a garrett, getting his living through
uuasi-mendicancy or the uncertain
favor Of patron, Advertising has
opened up field for any one who
can push pen shake the literary
brush piles and put sal. ON the tail
of am idea.
Twenty-Five Years ago the aGver-
Using man was unknown. Tbe pro-
prietor of "a store wrote his own
ads, and. of necessity. inertia pre-
vailed to such "a degree that an
"ad" once written was run in the
paper until the type wore out. The
idea of new advertisements every
day was a thing uuguessed.
A. r. Stewart wrote his own ad-
vertisemeuts He wrote them In the
impersonal style, simply:
"Mc. A. n. Stewart begs to in
form the people of New York that
he has just received a few cases Of
Irish linens. especially selected for
him in Belfast These win be opened
ON the sidewalk in front of the
Palace of Business. and offered 10
the tirst-comers at fully ten per
cent below the figures which the
same goods will bring after they
M, carried into the store"