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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
LITTLE PIGS AND
INTESTINAL WORMS
Parasites Are Most Likely to In
fest Animals Kept in Dirty
Pens and Poorly Fed.

(By PROF. A. S. ALEXANDER, Wiscon-
sin Agricultural College.)
Growing pigs are often attacked by
Intestinal worms. These parasites are
most likely to infest poorly-fed. neg
lected pigs, kept in dirty pens and
yards, fed from filthy troughs and swill
barrels, drinking stale or contaminated
water, and roofing and sleeping in ma
nure piles and stack bottoms. Such
pigs fail to thrive and become rickety,
pot-bellied and profitless ''runts." or
else succumb to the effects of the par
asites, or of some ailment made deadly
by their presence. The intestinal
worms are of two kinds, the thorn
headed and the round-headed.
Turpentine Is popular remedy. be-
ing given in the slop for three success.
I've, mornings at the rate of one tea
spoonful for each 80 pounds of body
weight of pigs. Sulphate Of iron tcop-
peras) is an effective remedy, if given
as follows: Dissolve copperas in warm
water and mix in the slop at the rate
of one dram for each 100 pounds of
body weight of hogs, and continue this
TOR five successive mornings.
Repeat as required. Either copperas
Or turpentine may be given occasional
iy as a preventive in herds where
worms have been prevalent. These
drugs should not be given pregnant
sows. In severe cases, where immedi-
ate action is required, affected pigs
should be starved for IL hours and
then given eight grains of santonin
and five grains of calomel for every
100 pounds of body weight.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
GREEN. MANURE CROPS
EXCELLENT PRACTISE, AS 1T
ADDS NEW LIFE TO THE SOIL.
Organic Matter is Gradually Convert
ed Into Humus, an Absolutely Es-
sentiaI Constituent of the Soil
Secret of Fertility.

(By W. Fl. STEVENSON. Copyright, 1914)
Any crops grown and plowed under
green to increase the productive ca
pacity of the soil are called green ma
nure crops. Sometimes such crops oc-
cupy the land for only part of the
season. They are then known as
cover" crops or" catch" cropss
Green manuring is an important
practise, chiefly because it adds or
sanic matter to tire soil, which is grad
ually converted into humus, an abso-
utely essential constituent of the soil.
OF course humus may be secured by
applying barnyard manure, but as
rule there is not enough of this ma
terial to meet the needs of the land.
However, green manuring is not
enough in itself to keep a soil from
wearing out, SO other practises must
be followed. Crops must be grown in
rotation, the moisture content of the
soil regulated, proper tillage practised,
the soil kept sweet, the supply of min
eral plant food maintained, especially
the supply of phosphorus and potas-
soil kept up. These factors all play
an important part in keeping the soil
productive, but they are not more i'm
portant than green manuring.
In general, green manures are bene-
flcial when used on poor soils because
of their action on the physical, chemi-
cal and meteorological conditions of
the soil. From the physical side green
manures influence the moisture, tenn
perature and aeration of soils. For ex-
ample, on light, sandy soils they pre-
vent rapid drying out by reducing the
losses of moisture due to evaporation
and percolation, and further make the
soil more compact. While they have
Just the opposite effect on heavy clay
soils, here the organic matter opens up
tie soil and admits air.
The practise of leaving the soil bare
during July and August following the
harvest of a small grain crop is very
bad, as it causes the loss of large
amounts of nitrogen by percolation.
These losses may be prevented in a
large measure by growing green ma
nure crops on the land; especially is
this true of leguminous crops, which
stimulate greater bacterial action, and
as a result larger amounts of available
plant food are produced. Rye, wheat,
buckwheat and rape are the non-legu-
minous crops which are commonly
used for green manrring, while red
clover, mammoth clover, sweet clover
crimson clover, Canada field peas cow
| peas, soy beans and yetches are the
best known legumes for this purpose
The secret of keeping our gardens
and fields fertile is to plow deep, and
If necessary subsoil, cultivate thor
oughly and plant leguminous crops.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
POTATO BUGS ON EGGPLANTs
Ordinary Wire Screening Placed Over
Each Plant Is Most Effective
Means of Protection.

One vegetable that potato bugs like
better than potatoes is the eggplant,
says Agriculturist You may pick the
marauders twice day, but even then
they often get the better of the sue
culent plants. An effective method of
meeting the situation is to protect the
plants by covering, Cut ordinary
wire screen, such as is used for win
dows, into the proper form to make
cones Ca semi-circle) and fasten to-
gether by sewing with fine wire. Ap,
ply coat of thin paint for their pres.
ervation and set one over each plant
The patch of August Graft of Ulster
county, N. Y, certainly showed well
the difference between protected and
unprotected plants, in spite of dill
gent efforts to save the latter The
covered plants seemed also to be bene-
flied by the slight shading during their
early growth.
The wire cones cost money, it is
true. Mr.. Graf invested s32 in the
material for 500 covers. However,
one or two good eggs from each plant
Will cover the cost. The cones may
be used year after year. This device
on first sight appears impractical but
on actual test it has proved money.
maker.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
By N. J. sHEPHERb)

By N. ]. SHEPHERD)
Two Of the best paying crops may
be grown on the same piece of ground
the same season
The piece of ground intended for
peas and celery is lightly covered with
weilrotted manure some time during
the winter, preferably while the
ground is frozen. In the spring just
as soon as the soil will work nicely
the ground is disked and turned and
put in the best shape possible
The peas are put in with a drill
The drills are two feet apart, and take
one quart of peas to each 100 feet of
row.
These are cultivated two or three
times or just enough to keep down the
weeds and to prevent crust forming
On the surface soil. The peas are
gathered complete at two pickings.
The vines are cut and cured for hay.
Cows eat them with relish. Good
varieties are Alaska, a smooth green
pea and Maule's the earliest of all,
which is wrinkled variety and will
do to gather Just as the Alaska gives
out.
AS the peas do not require as highly
fertilized soil as does the celery the
greater part of the manure should be
scattered on the ground after the pea
vines are taken off.
Then the manure is turned under,
the soil is stirred every three or four
days with a disk or a cutting harrow
until ready for the celery plants which
should be fine and stalky with a large
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
VARIOUS SOILS FOR WHEAT
Moisture Content, Especially During
Period When Grain Is Filling,
Affects the Quality.
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There is a quite common idea that
the difference in quality of wheat
grown in different localities is due
to the effect of the different soil types
upon the composition. In order to
ascertain whether this be true the
writer, in an experiment conducted in
another state, shipped soil from each
of two localities, where wheat of
widely different quality is grown, to
the other, and after carefully placing
the soil back into as nearly its natural
condition as possible, planted seed
wheat from each locality upon both
the native and the transferred soil at
both places. This was repeated for
two years, and each year the wheat
was of one quality when grown at
one place, regardless of the kind of
spill upon which it grew, and of a dis-
ferent quality when grown at the
other place. Further, the wheat
which grew on the different soils, at
either place, was as nearly alike as-
any two samples grown on adjacent
plots of the same soil were found to
be-
A similar experiment which is being
conducted by the United States depart
ment of agriculture, in which soil has
been shipped from Virginia and Cal
ifornia to Kansas, and from Kansas
and California to Virginia and seeded
to wheat in the same way, is giving
precisely similar results. It appears,
therefore, that the composition of the
soil has very little influence upon the
quality of the wheat which grows on
it. The moisture content of soil, es-
pecially during the period when the
grain is filling, does have very
marked effect upon the quality of the
wheat.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12

bunch of strong and vigorous roots.
These varieties are good: Winter
Queen, Golden Self Blanching, and
Pink Plume.
The Golden Self Blanching and the
Pink Plume are the early dwarf var
ieties. Plant a row of these between
each two rows of the Winter Queen
which is late and taller-growing
variety, as the self blanching variety
and it is out of the way in time to
give more space for the rows of Win
ter Queen.
In preparing the rows for the plants
lay deep furrow and work the bot.
tom of it up nicely by going several
rounds in each furrow with a COM
bined one-horse cultivator No. 5, hav-
ing the cultiyator teeth closed up
close to each other
A high grade of vegetable fertilizer
should be scattered in the furrow and
thoroughly Incorporated with the soil.
Use about ten pounds to 100 feet OF
the row.
The rows should be as near four
feet apart as you can get them. Then
when the early celery comes of there
is space eight feet wide to work on
in hilling up the Winter Queen.
The plants are set eight inches
apart in sthe furrow. The furrow
should be ten inches deep; and as
soon as the plants are eight or ten
inches tall begin working the soil up
to them and keep it up until the
! celery is ready for market.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
MAKING THE ASPARAGUS BED
Patch May Be Renewed by Liberal
Application of Stable Manure
Weed Out by Hand.

An old asparagus bed can be re-
newed in vigor by covering it freely
with stable manure in late fall OF
early winter, removing the coarse part
IN the spring, such as would impede
the cultivator. When spring comes
cultivate, but not too deep, with the
horse cultivator, and clear out the
weeds and grass with hoe, being
careful not to cut off the new growth
which springs up very early in the
spring. Perhaps it would be better
to weed the patch out by hand rather
than to endanger cutting of the
young shoots. A slight scattering OF
salt along the row would do no harm
Salt is supposed to be a special fertil-
izer for asparagus.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12

large enough to admit good, big
rat. 1t is not necessary to use
poison in the jar for the purpose Of
killing the rats, for the rodents can
not get out of the jar and may easily
be drowned. A bait of cheese or
some other food which rats are fond
of will attract the rats by its odor.
This kind of a trap is very effective
around barns, corn cribs, sheds and
other outbuildings.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
One Man One Vote.

a small sum, that the magistrate un-
dertook to deliver moral lecture to
the prisoner.
Again you are brought here on the
charge Of stealing COAL" said his
honor, "and again l must warn you
that repetition will result in a more
severe fine. I've good mind to send
you to Jail. would have done so long
ago had it not been for your white
hairs. I'll let you off with the usual
fine, but don't let me see you again"
IF you please, your honor" said
culprit. with the utmost politeness,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
HANDY COVER FOR HAYsTAcK
Covering Works Automatically as
Stack SettIes-Wont't Blow Loose
in High Winds.

The Scientific American in describ-
ing haystack cover, the invention of
F. A. Freeland of Athelston, Ia, says:
This invention has special refer
ence to novel and useful improve
ments in covers for haystacks. The
primary objech of the invention re-
sides In the provision of an improved
cover which will automatically adjust
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
Haystack Cover.

itself to a stack as the latter settles,
whereby the stack will not only be pro-
tected, but the cover will be prevented
from blowing loose in case of high
winds. The accompanying iliustra-
tion is a perspective view of the i'm
proved self-adjusting haystack cover
applied to stack
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
Great Value of Silo.

Has your farm a silo? If not, you
had better enlighten yourself more
concerning their great value in the
dairying business. A silo enables the
farmer to store greater amount OF
feed In less space than he can other
wise do. 1t requires double the
amount of space to store the aam~
amount of dry nutrients and reagh
aga.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
PURELY ON BUSINESS BASIS
Habitual Maiefactor Objected to Sen.
timentafity Being introduced Dur
Ing Court Proceedings.

There resides near a railway station
of certain town in the West very
original sort of character, an elderly
purloiner of coal. wood and such sup
plies as he can lay his hands upon.
Now, this old man had been hailed
before police magistrate SO many
times, upon each occasion being fined
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12

In feeding cattle, the feed used is
not the only factor in the matter of
profits. Unless man knows how to
buy feeders right he is likely to lose
money, even though he has an abun.
dance of good feed on his farm.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
EFFECTIVE TRAPS FOR RATS
Other Farm BuiIdings-Rodents
Cannot Escape.

The Burmese use an ingenious and
simple method of trapping rats. A
jar with weighted coser is sunk
into the ground. A hole is punched
in the side of the jar on u level with
the surface of the ground and just
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
Pop Gave It Up.

"Pop!"
Yes. my son."
"Do you believe that history repeats
itself?"
Yes, my boy"
We'll, if it does. who is the other
man like Washington who never told
a lie?"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
Reason for SjIo,

One reason why corn fields should
be turned into the silo is that dried
fodder corn deteriorates rapidly and
toward spring becomes hard. brittle
and possesses little palatability.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
Ration for fha HnIf

One part corn, one part oats, two
parts bran or one part shorts and a
little clean. bright hay make excellent
and healthful rations for the colt just
weaned.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
Ionic for Hons.

1t is surprising how much charcoal
ashes and salt hogs will eat when
they are being highly fed-thege are
the best of tonics.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
Mistake With Stock.

It is a mistake to feed all sizes of
stock together whenever the smaller
ones are at a disadvantage
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
Thinking Dairymen.

If dairymen can be set to thinking
and calculating, eventually a much
better price may be obtained for their
products.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
Go Slow With Horses.

Go slow with the first few days
blowing; the horses are soft, and
must be worked in carefully.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
Must YieId Wealth.

Zaccheus was rich, dishonest, dissat-
listed. but desperately in earnest, and
a man of prompt decision. The esti-
nation of his fellow-citizens is indi-
Gated by v. T. Notwithstanding all OF
this Zaccheus was not so welded to
his money as to let 1t keep him out
of theN kingdom. In chapter Is we
read of the rich man who lacked one
thing" He was lost-"went away
because he would not yield his wealth
(see also 1926, 27). What took place
within the house of Zaccheus we are
not told, but for the Master to enter
was looked upon either as amazing
ignorance of Zaccheus' character or
else extreme carelessness concerning
the maintenance of his own character.
Jesus was dealing with one man, not
the multitude, hence he leaves them to
their amazement. While this is true.
yet we can surmise something of that
interview by the result ". 81 for FAC
cheus seems to have made a public
avowal of his ethical and moral
change of heart Note the stepss
(1) He sought to see Jesus" John
3:14, Is; lisa. 45:22. (2) He was very
much in earnest. climbed a sycamore
tree" Luke 1924. go He made mol
delay, make haste" Isa- 55:6. The
result was that of great blessing to
the people and joy in the heart OF
Zaccheus. (4) He was obedient. joy
ously and promptly. The genuineness
of his Transformation was evidenced
by the way it affected his pocketbook
He made abundant restitution and
gave bountifully to the poor. The
love of God shed abroad In the heart
OF miserly, selfish man or church
will promote honesty both to God and
man, and make men large-hearted.
self-forgetting, ministering saints.
Prov. 11:24; Rom. 12:13; ii Cor. S:5-
1t was as "Son of Man" that Jesus
went to the house of zaccheus. Gods
pattern, Gods man. He made no ref
erence to race, nor to caste. His pur>
pose was to reach LOST" man and
twas for such he came into the world.
to "Save the lost"
From the combined parable and
story we can read the lesson that Je-
sus is the friend of sinners and not
of sin.
Thus the frienl OF sinners seeks and
saves men. He sees the acts and the
attitude of men and is ready to justify
those whose attitude is that of humil-
ity and supplication. He seeks men
even as he sought Zaccheus. and as
he saves he produces in them those
fruits of righteousness which are the
evidence and demonstration of their
salvation. The scribes and the Phari-
sees saw Jesus eating with the publ.
cans and expressed this disapproving
surprise only to receive his rebuke
They that are whole have no need OF
physician, but they that are sick:
, came not to call Sb,s righteous"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12

"dont let's have any false sentimental
ity about this matter. l steal my coal
[ pay my fine, and there's an end
of it."
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
siIaae Always ReIished.

Silage loses much less than dry
corn fodder and is always relished by
the animals. summer or winter,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
Excellent Hay Crops,

The ranker growing cowpeas and
the finer stemmed soybeans are excel
lent for use as annual hay crops.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12

More than one-third of Australias
residents live in four cit1es-Sydneyi
Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
EGG of the Duck.

The egg Of the duck is more rich in
fat than that of the hen.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12
TO OUR FARMER READERS


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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12

LESSON TExT-Lulxe 1914; 19:1-10-
GOLDEN TEXT came not to call
the righteous but sinners" Mark Iii.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-06-12

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Products Marketing
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Evening star., 1914-08-16

THE great world war comes in dog
days and hosts Of people the world
over will charge the monster calamity.
the incalculable catastrophe, against the
dog star.
When the sun is ardent and the air is
sultry, as must often be the condition OF
the weather in our temperate zone during
mid and late summer. many persons are
prone to speak Of the period Of excessive
warmth and moisture as the season OF
dog days" They are giving voice to an
ancient superstition. The same thing has
been said since the human race was
young. and the phrase or its equivalent
has come trippingly from mems tongues
ever since recorded history began.
Yet It. is a superstition. It has no
basis in fact. It is q ,fgment Of the fancy.
Dog days have no relation to dogs nor
have dogs any relation to dog days. There
is the same relation between excessively
hot weather and dogs that there il be-
tween the same kind Of weather and men.
There is greater danger Of heat prostra-
ton. there 10 q thirst for more water and
suffering II 1t cannot be had and there 10
From the time that the eastern shep.
herds watched the skies at night and
drew a more or less fanciful likeness be-
tween groups Of stars and objects known
on the earth there was constellation
called CAMS Major, or the Greater Dog
The brightest star OF the heavens was In
the mouth of that constellation. which 70
some imaginations possessed resemblance
to the outline of dog. That star In the
constellation OF the dog came to be called
the dog star. 1t has another name. WIN ch
is Sirius. 1t has been estimated that this
star has more than thirteen times the
magnitude of our sun.
It was a superstition with the early
dwellers in the hot portions Of the world.
and there civilization developed frst that
the rising Of the dog star with the sun
produced pestilential heat. As this event
occurred In the summer. there was often
pestilential heat, but the dog star could
not logically be charged with that mis-
fortune. There was great heat because
it was the time when great heat might
be expected, and with excessive heat
often came pestilence because Of the
ignorance Of the people in matters OF
sanitation. hygiene and medicine. The
dog star had no more to do with intense