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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
SHIP EGGS LONG DISTANCES
Good Results Can Be Secured by U.s.
ing Excelsior for Packing
JoIting Causes Trouble.

If Matching eggs are carefully
packed in basket with a good cush-
ion of excelsior in the bottom, they
will carry great distances and give
good results. It must not be expected.
however, that they will give as large
a percentage of hatch as might be the
case nearer home.
It is the iolting eggs are apt to get
by transportation by rail, that is likely
to weaken a strong germ or kill a
weak one. For that reason they should
be well packed in excelsior. Excel
sior is to be preferred to any other
material, as it is of springy nature;
and baskets are better than boxes, for
the reason that being more convenient
to handle, railroad employees are nat
uraliy more careful with them.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
WAY OF SPREADING DISEASE
Dirty Water Pan Is Surest Way Of
Creating Trouble Among Men,
bers of Any Flock.

How often do you clean up the wa.
ter pans in your henhouses? You
ought to clean them every day. For
a dirty water pan is the surest way of
spreading disease throughout your
flock.
The best way of handling water in
the poultry house is to keep it in a
cheap, fiat washbasin that can be
easily cleaned and refilled. 1t doesn't
pay to bother with patent water tanks.
You will have to fill them just as Of
ten as the basins, and they are harder
to clean up.
Place the open basin on box some
eight or ten inches high and perhaps
eighteen inches square, and make a
runway for it. This keeps it from
filling up with dirt and straw from
the floor, and the hens do not climb
into it in drinking.
Then put the box and basin in a
sunny corner of the house away from
the roosts and nests, so that no dirt
can fall into it from above.
Clean it and refill it with clean,
fresh water every day and you will
have put the disease germs to fight
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Station.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
WINTER QUARTERS FOR HENS
Make Sure Houses Are Free From
VerTnin and Disease Germs by
Thorough Cleaning and Spraying.

Are you sure the winter quarters Of
the layers and breeders are free from
lice and disease germs? Better make
doubly sure by cleaning all manure.
rubbish, dust, and litter out of the
houses, then spray the walls, ceiling,
fisor, roosts and nest boxes with
whitewash made thin and strained so
that it will spray readily. This formula
government recipe) is one of the
best:
l. Sixty-two pounds Zone bushel)
quicklime, Stake with IL gallons hot
water.
2. Two pounds common table salt,
one pound sulphate of zinc dissolved
in two gallons of boiling water.
3. Two gallons skinned milk.
Pour 2 into l, then add the milk (3),
and mix thoroughly.
Into each Ave gallons of whitewash
mix one pint of crude carbolic acid
and make sure that every crack and
creVice is full of this disinfecting prep.
aration. Incidentally, the poultry
house will be lighter and more cheer
ful for the biddies.
The house should be allowed to dry
out for several days before the fowls
are allowed to occupy it.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
GOOD MANAGEMENT OF ROADS
Road Specialists of Department Of Az
ricuIture Place Blame for De-
fects in Highways. e.

When county builds a good road
and soon lets it become rutty, washed
out, or uneven, who or what is prin.
cipalIy to blame? AS a result Of a
study of conditions in a number Of
counties, road specialists of the de-
partment are inclined to place the re-
sponsibility upon the following de-
fects in road management, some OF all
of which are found in all counties
where good roads are not properly re-
paired and maintained:
1. County boards, although having
full administrative authority, appear
not to attach to their official action in
road matters the importance or legal
effect which it should have.
2. County boards do not generally
have sufficient accounting control of
road funds to know what is available
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
Unstable Moon.

The celebrated observatory at
Greenwich, the place from which we
reckon longitude, was founded by
Charles II in 1875, mainly for the pur-
pose Of Investigating the movements
of the moon in the interests of naviga.
ton. Although in the intervening two
and a half centuries astronomers have
worked at the problem, the moon has
not yet become entirely amenable
to their mathematics. The astrono-
mer.royal of Great Britain, in his re-
port of the work at Greenwich during
the past year, calls attention to the in
creasing deviation between the cal
culated position Of the moon in the
sky and its real position as shown by
the Greenwich observations. The de.
Walton has lately been growing in a
serious manner. The error last year
was more than twelve times as large
as the error twenty years ago, and the
average annual increase during the
two decades has amounted to half a
second of arc in longitude. The rea-
son that astronomers have failed in
getting exact results from calculations
based on dynamical laws of gravita-
ton is possibly the existence of some
attractive force that they have not
yet discovered, although the result
may also be affected by the true shape
of the earth, which still awaits accu-
rate Observation-Disclosures Compan.
ion.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
FEEDING CALVES DRY GRAIN
Digestive Tract of Young Animals Is
Small and Giving Small Amounts
Often Is Favored.

In feeding skim milk calves the
grain needed to supply the missing
fat may be corn, barley, oats or a mix
ture. Occasionally a feeder has skim
milk or alfalfa or clover hay on hand,
and to these he adds linseed meal,
Cottonseed meal or gluten feed.
These are all high in protein, and
when any one of them is combined
with skim milk and alfalfa-both high
in protein-an unbalanced ration re.
suits and scours or other digestive
troubles follow.
The digestive tract of calf is
small and frequent feeding of small
amount during the first month is best.
During the first month it is better to
grind the grains fed. At the end of
this period either oats or corn may be
fed unground. Hard grains like kafr
and milo give best results when
ground. ALI grain should be fed dry
in trough. Mixing feeds with milk
is not recommended, as calves chew
their feed better when fed dry.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
A Michigan Improved Road.

for any particular project, where funds
Aave been or where existing balances
are to be expended.
8. Lack Of any systematic prac-
tice in lhas hiding road funds among
most conn lies makes it very difficult
to carry ott over even single year
any persistent maintenance policy, be-
cause funds officially obligated for
maintenance purposes are not pro-
tected against sporadic and irregular
drafts Tor miscellaneous purposes.
The greatest likelihood consequently
exists everywhere that there will be
no balance in the maintenance fund in
the last half or third of the year, al
though only part of the fund al
lotted may have been spent, =.
4. Local labor available for main
tenanc8 work is made dissatisfied by
the constant, unintelligent, and un-
favorable criticism Of those using the
road.
5. Maintenance continuing over 8
period of years-the ultimate indis-
pensable condition of effective main
tenanceEis jeopardized by the lack of
accounting control that will prevent
spendii next years current income
in this ,ear.
6. Il be lack Of skilled supervision
in construction and the effect of this
in increasing the cost or in making
effective maintenance impossfbly ex-
pensiVd is everywhere seen.
z. The county authorities are COM
monty opposed to following suggesl
tons for maintenance that involve ty-
ing up road funds in any way, such
as purchasing materials in advance to
store along the road for making re-
pairs or maintaining the road surface.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
CBy L, M, BENNINGTON.)

(By L. NJ. BENNINGTON.)
All kinds OF grain, both whole and
ground, are so high in price that it
will pay us to study how to feed the
hens as cheaply as possible and still
secure good results.
Bran is a heavy expense, and the
amount used can be greatly lessened
by feeding cut clover, or cowpea hay.
These contain the same elements as
wheat bran and are very palatable for
the hens, when steamed.
Cut or break the hay into small
pieces, pack into q tub or bucket and
pour over it all the boiling water 1t
will absorb, then cover closely and let
stand thirty or forty minutes before
feeding. In the winter when the hens
cannot get green grass they relish this
very much.
Sprouted grains are another cheap
food. This was sold few years ago
as o poultry secret Of feed at 10
cents bushel. Oats are generally
used for this, although wheat, rye and
other grains are as good.
The grain should be soaked for "a
hours, or even So hours, in warm wa
ter, when spread in shallow boxes and
kept in warm place. Keep moist by
sprinkling two or three times a day
with warm water. Feed when the
sprouts are about two inches long.
The hens will eat grains and sprouts
both, and by the process Of sprouting
the amount of feed is greatly increased
without increasing the cost.
sunfower seeds, If raised in the odd
corners where nothing else will grow
to advantage, really cost us nothing.
Hang the heads up where the hens
will have to work little to get them,
or scatter the seeds in the litter.
If these seeds are fed mixed with
the other grains that are scattered in
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
MILK AT SEAS0NABLE HOURS
No Time on Farm When Hired Man
Is Making SO Much Money as
When He is Busy Milking.

Early milking and late milking in
the evening may be all right if man
is overly anxious to make money and
do the work himself. But, if hired
help has to do it, the owner of that
particular farm will soon gain the rep
utation of being a hard man to work
for.
. Why not send the man who takes
care of, the cows home from the field
at five o'clock in the afternoon, and
have the chores done in seasonable
time? There is no time when a man
is making so much money as when he
Is milking. Then why shouldn't 1t be
done during seasonab!e hours OF the
day?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
RING FOR SELF-sUCKlNG cow
Habit Is Brought on by Putting OF
Milking-There Are NumberIess
Ways of Prevention.

In most cases it pays to try some
remedy, for a COW of this kind is u.s.
ually a heavy mixer The habit is
brought on by putting off milking. The
COW suffers and tries to relieve her
self and the habit is formed. Ways
Of prevention are numberIess.
A cure after the habit is formed is
almost impossible The most effective
remedy is putting two rings in the
cows nose. Ring the COW in the usual
way, and in this ring hang another,
forming two links of chain. Some.
times one ring will stop the habit, but
in most cases two are needed.
If the COW is not a good mixer bet
ter sell her to the butcher.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
HER POOR, PETTED HUSBAND
Wife's SoIicitude for His Health, and
Her Own, Was Very Touch
ing, Indeed Yes.

The petted husband and his wife
were amiably discussing the adyisa-
bility of trip to Palm Beach, in or
der that the wife of the petted nus
band could get back some OF the
strength that, with her, wasn't so
latent as the distinguished physician
who called upon her some time dur
ing the petted husbands Office hours
thought it ought to be.
"The only trouble, darling said the
petted husband, "is this: that if you
should want me to go with you |
should have to leave my business just
at the period when am most needed
to make our profits large enough for
me to maintain you in the proud posi-
ton to which you have been accus-
toned.
ION the other hand, should I remain
behind, the first Of the month will
come without your being here, and
the thought of opening all the bills
for things you have ordered but for
gotten to mention, without your moral
support, is rather disconcerting."
And l suppose" said the wife Of
the petted husband, you have not
considered that il l should go alone
there would be no one, absolutely no
one, to see about my baggage, arrange
about the sleeping compartments and
hotel rooms and protect me from be-
ing insulted by total strangers. I
should think, after our being married
all these years, you ought to feel pref
ty good about my wanting you to 60,
anyway, and you would if you had
spark Of human feeling in you
Thereupon the petted husband in
terviewed the tourist agencies, saw
the hotel representatives, made ar
rangements to stave off his creditors
and close up his business for six
weeks.
At Palm Beach the wife of the pet.
ted husband remarked to a friend:
Eyes, brought my petted husband
along. The poor man absolutely need
ed change Of scene. Life.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
Fruit Trees Along Roadside.

]. H. Taylor RECOMMENDS the plant.
ing ofsfruit trees for shade along
country roads. He suggests that the
owner Of row Of maple trees gets
no fruitsfrom them. and that he might
plant fruit trees III the same spirit,
letting travellers have what they de-
sired as they passed along. It is not
uncommon to meet with a nice apple,
pear or cherry tree now along coun-
try roads. but in the vicinity OF cities,
where boys are numerous, they play
havoc with such trees.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
VALUABLE FEED FOR LAYERS
Missouri Agricultural College Expert
Recommends Giving Hens Sour
Milk in Their Rations.

(By H. L. KEMPSTER, Professor of
Poultry Husbandry of the Missouri
College of Agricultural
Milk or meat in the ration may
make all the difference between profit
and loss. We know from our tests at
the experiment station and from the
experience of poultry men everywhere.
We got only 945 eggs from a pen
Of hens that ate no animal food, while
another pen of hens, no better in any
way but fed sour milk, laid 1888.
Those fed beef scrap laid 1902 eggs.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
FOR TETTER, scar,
Continual Dls.n.

know a clergyman '' ~
+. Smith, of such a sstn, saI4
countenance that when ra',' I
MS hands in front Of bis n.y. ~ ny
toward each other and '0 : !
touching, to pray, l alvsy, .lla
the next minute he will .s s'ta
tandem with the thumb 4 y :
hand touching the little :, q
wheel hand and the thpms !, I
ter touching his nose. r. I
done SO yet, however, And ),
not make good pretty sooD !. Y
to quit attending chu,S, !.
City Star.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
A Good Sour Milk Ration.
Corn 4 parts.
Wheat, 2 parts.
Bran middlings, 1 part.
Cornmeal. / part.
Sour milk separately.
Give 100 hens 21a gallons of
milk and from 10 to 25 pounds
of other food day.


While this is a higher record than Ell
Their of the others, the sour milk is so
much cheaper and easier to get on
most farms.
At 20 cents dozen, the eggs from
the hens fed sour milk brought s29.71
and those from the hens fed beef
scrap, $30.03. The difference wouldn't
begin to pay for the extra cost and
trouble of beef scrap,
The big thing to remember is that
the hens fed no animal food brought
little more than half as much egg
money. Theory and experience both
say Feed the laying hen sour milk as
part Of her ration
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31

water, rinse thoroughly with boiling
water and place them where they will
come in contact with the direct rays
of the sun.
In washing the ordinary five, eight,
or ten-gallon milk cans, be sure that
the inside Of the shoulder of the can
is rubbed, with the brush, as this is
the most difficult part to clean.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build In MI

Take the Old STANDARD Cgis
TASTELESS chill TONIC nj MI
what you are taking. as il. n
printed on every label, sssTgiI
Quinine and Iron in a tastelss n
Quinine drives out malui, !, !
builds up the system. j. ID
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
His Meshnd

You've been driving tor n,
never had an accident y0p -, ~
That's true"
How have you MANAGED i.
Well | make my rule. IA,
out for the other fellow, ~
insisting on my rights apl I
him look out for me-"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
Green Feed Needed

Poultry need green feed In winter.
Mangels. turnips and cabbages are
good. Alfalfa or clover cut early and
cured green and lawn clippings are
excellent. Some of these should be
fed every day.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
Old Story in MAJ. NJ.

George (timely)-Miss Win
Alma, | haye-er--that Is.
Miss Willing (encouradlb
Well, George?
George-Do you-er-fbb1
mamma would care to actea Ii
job of mother-in.laW 10 ne!
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
INA. Al HMM
CARING FOR DAIRY UTENSILS
Tin Is Regarded as Best Material and
Vessels Should Never Be Used
for Any Other Purpose.
(By CARL e, LEE.l

Dairy utensils should be made of
the best grade of tin and never used
for any other purpose. Wooden or
galvanized pals are Objectionable.
See that all joints in the pals, cans,
and strainers are well made and filled
with solder
Cans with the tin partly worn off
are not suitable receptacles for milk
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
MIX strainer, Showing Center Re.
moved.

and cream because they rust and this
condition imparts a metallic flavor to
the butter. Utensils that come in con.
tact with milk or cream can best be
cleaned by first rinsing with cold wa.
ter and then washing with a brush
and hot water.
: WashiHg powder suitable for use in
the dairy should contain no grease.
Ordinary, sal-soda used in small
amounts is also a good dairy cleanser.
After washing the utensils with hot
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
The Best lInlmsst

For falls on icy walks slii !
bruises, rub on and rub II
Balsam of Myrrh. Apply biz y
thoroughly and relief Should
follow. ADV.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
SHIPPING Live Poultry,

When shipping live poultry to mar
koE, be sure It is not crowded in the
cOops, for stock that suffers en- route
viii lose considerable weight.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
Too Sudden.

sad affair about Jones hi4
cussion of the brain, wasn't Y
What was the matter
"He was struck with az lala
Record.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
INN EDIATE Ar7ru,,..

s should be given to sprsip u', y,
bruises, rheumatism AMI ~ ~
Keep Mansfeld's Magic ln ~ |
ment handy on the sbsli n.y. n.
Csc, 5Oc and s1.Oo.-Adr '-'a
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
His Glass,

HIS Sldoss
Isn't little Mrs. Brlslll'
devoted to the races
Yes; she calls nln Y
half"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
LADIES'!
Fixing the slam.

Fixing the blalhs
do you believe in hOOl0at =
the superstitious person,
WELL" replied the nan d
failed to make good in dels
ent enterprises, I've got y ~
my self-respect, you know
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31

Not Gray aairs sst li !.
make us look older l .la', Eli b
your Eyes young and 5lILi ySay III Fl
After the Movies MqIlnsr vs Pan
tell your age. Murine ,d Is 4
Chicago. Sends Eye BOOB J. {.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31

THAT GRIM WHITE sP Y
Pneumonia, follows On lls l v,
neglected cough or eoh y, "
longer. Take Mansisl 4 4!
sam. Price SOC and SLa
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31
It Is
n.,.e c.,red IN s 70 y Y y.

Druggists refund m0n Di;,s BissdIa
fails to cure Itching, p .,;oo rivsifs
ing Piles. First appiicalisA
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31

The waves Az s ~
First What %
on us now? ,..siI
Second Waye-A
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-31

10 keep clean sI a. I
Pierce's Pleasant r Isa,osel ll
liver sea bowels and at9Ill IT,.
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-02-19

raises a crop of one thousand bushels of wheat and his neigh bor should buy a bushel, snd the price was two dollars or less, and the neighbor says, "Ill pay you the sum in a few days As the farmer doesn't want to be small in the matter of small things, he says, "all right. . Another one comes in the same way until the whole of the one thousand bush els are gone out to the one thous- and different persons, No one purchaser concerns himself about
 it, and of course that could not
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-02-19
HORRY HASN'T JUST TALKED DlVeRSlfl-
 CATION; SHE HAS TRIED IT

Mir. w. s. McCaskill, of Horny County, South Carolina. sends us a drawing w h ic h we wish we could reprod uce. It shows a prosperous-lo looking far mer sitting beside an overhowing corn crib with fat porkers all a. round him. To a neighbor who calls to him in great alarm, Cot ton is only seven cents a pound, " How about hog and homminy?' In sending the cartoon MT Me Caskill gives an interesting gli- mps of his section whose people have not merely talked diversi- fiication but have actually pract. iced it. He says:
 "The enclosed picture is an al- most perfect illustration on pre- sent conditions here in HorrY Co., unity. We plant for money cot ton, tobacco, strawberries and truck crops and could sacrifice tke whole of either and not be financially demoralized-c could live over the effects in year. A bigger per cent of our farmers own their own homes than in probably any other county in the country. Public works h ve fortunately taken the Negro out of our rural regions, so the jolly red-faced boys and girls ex- change work in the tobacco and strawberry seasons and it all gets done. To stay out of bad debts is a me-honored rule with us. handed down through the gener- ations. and no legislation is nec- essary here O reduce cotton acreage when conditions demand if '
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-02-19

Wanted One of the large mag azlne publishing houses desires to employ adjective man or wom- an in this community to haadle special plan which has proven unusually profitable. Good open ing for right party. Address with two references. Publisher, Box 155, Times So. Sta, New York City.