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ADVANTAGE OF SUDAN GRASS
Heavy Yielding surme-.Growine Plant of Sorghum Fsr'ily-Three or Four
 Cuttings Yearly.

Sudan grass is a heavy yielding, summer growing grass Of the sorghum family. Il resembles Johnson grass very much. except that it has not the objectionable root stalks and hence is not a pe-nicious weed. according to Prof S F Morse, superintendent of the agricultural extension service of University Of Arizona College Of Az riculture and State Leader. United States department Of agriculture However. l. crosses with the Johnson grass freely. and some fear has been expressed that the seeds resulting from such a cross might produce a grass which would be fully as objec- tionable a pest as Johnson grass Un- der irrigation. or where the water sup ply is limited. sudan grass will yield three or four cuttings during the sum mer, giving from three to six tons of dry hay per acre However. in feed ing value il is not equal to alfalfa, and 1t Is very probable that the amount Of water required 10 produce a heavy crop. alfalfa would not only give a better feed but also would be benef- cial to the soil instead of somewhat detrimental as is sudan grass. For a given amount of water you will prob ably get a somewhat larger yield of forage per acre from sudan grass. but this Is rather offset by the superior qualities of alfalfa. as indicated. On the other hand sudan grass is more alkali and drought resistant than al. falfa. Under dry farming conditions. where a quantity Of forage produced with a minimum amount Of moisture is the main object sudan grass should prove an excellent crop. As a feed for best results it should be balanced with alfalfa or cowpea hay or cottonseed. Sudan grass must be planted every year: 1t may be planted after all danger of frost is past. using eight or ten pounds of seed per acre. broadcast or drilled.
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DAIRY
HABIT OF DROPPING THE CUD
o' symptoms Of Certain subaeu,e f0rms Of indisestion-csre-
 fully Examine Teeth.
(By W. R. GILBERT)


 Dropping the cud" takes place in eertsln diseases and conditions of the mouth. where mastication is painful. put II Is also one of the symptoms of certain sIbacute forms of indigestion dependent on bulky and inuutritious food
 la some cases the animal is un. thrifty. with irregular bowels and de prayed appetite; but these are not so pronounced when the trouble is due to pain in mastication owing to disease or the tongue or mouth. or 10 dental Irregularities.
 In young bovines, dropping the cud" Is very often due to the persistence of the crowns of deciduous molars.
 The animal eats tolersbly we'll. be- cause the food, in the first place, is nipped of by the incisors. twisted around by the tongue and hastily trans ferrec to the first stomach.
 It is after chewing the cud that the food is subjected to the reduction to minute particles by the molars. the process causing pain. and the ball of food or cud is dropped out of the mouth instead of being lsboriously masticated and swallowed.
 The first thing to do in these cases Is to carefully examine the mouth with the aid of gag and to remove the per sisting molar crowns if il is these tenn porary teeth causing the painful masti. cation.
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jaw. huge grinding teeth. retreat!ns forehead. widening behind and covered with tangles of black or brown wool iy or wavy hair-all these would i'm. press his mind. She would certainly exercise her power of speech. such as It was. in yells, howls and resonant exclamations. Perhaps she was intel. ligent enough to throw stones. sticks. fruits or whatever came to her hand. at the enemy
 These three things, all very unsu. ual in the Pliocene world-energet!c If inarticulate yituperation, an erect position and action at a distance would surely confuse and impress the primitive brain of Felis Groeneveldtii. and he would probably retire. with | dignity. to seek some easier prey" ] The description is based on a skull fragment discovered by Doctor Dubois . in Java-the skull Qt creature al. most exactly on the line between man and the higher anthropoid apes.
 The very origin of the human race according to Professor Elliot. may have been in North America. On this l subject he writes: ,
 "Is seems probable that 1t was in 1 North America that the very first primate originated, These intetestins animals are found in the lower Eocens deposits, which meap ,ha! .bsy ats perhaps the most ancient of all known mammals" ! Later, prlmates-that is. the ver5 first links in the chain binding man to his beginnings fin antiquity. the forms of mammal life aeons older than even the Missing Link-were living in Egypt. Near Paris and in South America more Eocene lemurs dwelt- they were widely scattered.
 Though the primate probably origi. hated in North America, Professor FL liot believes man did not come to the new world until after the Ice Age long after he was to be found in ths old world.
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TWO SYSTEMS OF FALlOWING
One Plan Permits Only Ore Crop of Wheat Being Grown In Two Years
 Other is for Fodder.

The necessity of carrying over mois- ture from one season to assist the crop growth of another has led to the practice of bare-fallowing.
 Two systems are followed; the first being termed bare-fallowing. in which the land Is plowed as soon as convent ent after the crop is harvested, and left bare until wheat is again sown the following season This allows of only one crop being grown in two years.
 Another system is that which pro- vides for fodder crop and a wheA crop in two years. After the wheat is harvested it Is preferable 10 stir the stubble as soon as possible. cheaply and economically. The land remains until February. when it is pIowed and sown with rape or barley. or both in conjunction. These are fed of by stock until August or September. when the land is thoroughly plowed and left fsnow uptil March. when it is again plowed prior to seeding to wheat in April.
 This system IS satisfactory as re- gards the wheat crop, but not so for the fodder crop. which has to depend upon the rains that may fall after the wheat Is on and throughout its growth. Under dry conditions. to en. sure the fodder crop. five or six months bare-fallow should preceds sowing
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SAVING THE SOIL MOISTURE
Time 10 Begin Operations is as Early In Spring as Land Can Be Worked
 Without Damage.

IL Is always difficult to be saving as long as there is an ample supply of anything This characteristic of hu- man beings results in the loss of enough moisture every season to pro vide for the needs Of much greater crops. so far as that essential is con cerned.
 The time 10 begin saving moisture is as early in the spring as the soil can be worked withou; doing damage to it. The millions of acres of fall plowed land will be found with a crust over the surface as soon as the snow melts The way 10 lose moisture is to permit this crust to remain on the plowed ground until the oats are sown and spring blowing done This is the first Of May Tn most cases. and many times ten days or two weeks later The way to save moisture is to break the crust with a disk or harrow and thus produce a loose soil mulch. There is scarcely a man who would think of permitting his field Of corn 10 remain crusted over during the four or five
 
 CUTS. vet there are many who permit crust 70 remain on their corn ground for almost an equal length Of time be- fore the corn is planted
 The cornStalk and stubble lands which are 10 be plowed in the spring are other places where the disk can be used with great profit as early as the condition of the soil will permit. Not only will the disking of these lands save moisture which would oth- erwise be lost before blowing. but it will also pulverize the surface so that when turned ucde- it rin form bet ter contact with the solid soil below the furrow slice. In order that the moisture in the lower soil may rise into the soil cut os by the blow, it is essential that the furrow slice fit closely upon the solid soil beneath This Is impossible when clods and coarse soil are turned to the bottom of the fu-row.
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water 10 cover tone pint, simmer l5 minutes. rub through a sieve. heat, add two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour rubbed together, add two cup fuls of milk and half cupful of cream. whipped. and seasoning 70 taste. A yolk Of egg beaten and added to the cream adds both to the taste and nutrition of the soup.
 Parisian Potatoes.-Wash, pare and soak in cold water half hour eight potatoes. Boil in salted water l5 min utes. Drain and place in a deep pan bast!rg three times with a third of cuptul Of melted butter. Serve wi:t broiled steak
 Soak bread crumbs in the milk hal. an hour. add soda, salt. and melted butter, four and beaten eggs. Fry on a hot creased griddle. Serve imme- diately with hot maple sirup, or butter and sugar
 Praised Liver With String Beans.- Wash calf's liver and lard with fat bacon. Roll in -four. season with salt pepper and celery salt Cook liver iu a hot pan with little hot fat, tried out of bacon Turn until the surface is well scared. then add five slices of carrot. one-half an onion. two sprigs oi parsley, bit of bay leaf, one clovs twelve pepper corns and two cupfuls of brown stock or water. Cover close ly and bake in a moderate oven twc and a half hours. basting five times during the cooking. Remove the liver, strain the stock and reduce by slow cooking. Add two tablespoonfuls of orange juice, pour over liver. Serve surrounded with seasoned, hot string beans
 Celery and Cheese Sslsd.-Mix hali cupful of very finely chopped celery with one of cream cheese. moisten with thick cream. season with salt and paprika and form into balls. Arrange on lettuce leaves and garnish with rad ishes cut in tulips.
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cept putting together A dessert is often better to serve if made the day before. especially gelatin desserts.
 Veal With Sour cream.-Take a loin of veal for roasting and lard with strips of fat salt pork, lay some in the pan before putting in the meat. Brown in hot oven or scar over in a hot pan on top of the stove. dredge with -four and season and baste freely with sour cream the first half hour, then cook slowly. The flour will thicken the gravy sufficiently and 1t may be served either poured around the roast or in a sauceboat
 Cherry and Grapefruit Saiad.-Cut the chilled fruit in halves Take out ihe pulp with a spoon and dress with French dressing. The juice of the grapefruit may be used in the place of French dressing. Serve on lettuce leaves or return to the skin from which the pulp vas removed. Take half a cupful of canned cherries or maraschino cherries and add to the grapefrui.
 itaiisa Potstoes.-Cut potatoes in cubes and cook in boiling, salted wa ter. Drain and arrange in layers with a rich white sauce and a generous sprinkling of cheese. Bake until the buttered crumbs over the top are brown.
 Grape-Nuts Puddins.-One cupful of grape-nuts, one quart of milk, two eggs beaten until light. half a cupful of sugar and half cupful of raisins. Rake slnNlY in a moderate nven Serra
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these-a meal with bread and butter A puree of beans or peas is another satisfying soup.
 Asparagus soup.-Take bundle of asparagus. cut oif the heads and put them aside for a more delicate dish or to be used as a garnish for the soup. Cover the shoots. after cutting in small pieces, with a quart of water: boil up and drain Of the water. throw. salted water and cook until the as paragus is tender. Rub through a col ander. add this to the liquor in which !: was cooked and with pint of milk put on 10 heat. Cook together two tablespoOufuls of flour and butter. add to the heated soup and cook for five minutes. Serve very hot with crou- tons
 When you have boiled cabbage for dinner. save the water in which 1t was cooked for
 Celery Soup.-Put two tablespoon fuls of butter In a saucepan. and when bubbling hot add a slice of onion: cook until brown, then add the cab bage water Ia pint and four good sized carrots. put through the meat grinder tfine). Stew gently for an hour in tightly covered kettle. then add two tablespoonfuls of butter: put the puree through a sieve. reheat. season with a dash of lemon juice and sal:. and serve piping hot.
 Cream Of Celery Soup.-This, per haps is the soup which is the best liked of all the cream soups. Take three punches of celery, wash and cut into small pieces and cook slowly for half an hour: press through a col ander. using as much of the celery as can be pushed through. Put this into double boiler with quart of milk. Cook together three tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour and add to the puree. Cook until smooth: add sea:oning of salt and dash of paprika
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FIND POOR MILK PRODUCERS
Many Fine Appearing Animals Found to Be Quite Unprohtasle by
 Work Of Testing.

The work of testing the dairy herd is most interesting and produces many surprises. Many of the finest appearing cattle will be found to be the poorest producers. while some Of the animals thought to be scrubs will be worthy of a place in the construct ed herd.
 No time should be lost in disposing o7 the unproductive cows. A market can readily be had for those in good condition. while the money received for their sale can be most wisely ex- pended by purchasing sire and two or more dams of dairy breed. These new animals should not be purchased without first knowing their record of production
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R0BBlNG THE MILK BOTTLE
siphon Invented for Removing Cream When De:ired-ooes Its Work
 Without Any Loss,

. The sight of qiautity of rich cream on top Of the milk bottle is a sight which few housewives can resist, and they are tempted to remove il and make use Of 1t for one purpose or another. IL is almost impossible 10 pour the cream of, and usually any effort made 10 insert a spoon or other implement of this character has the effect of stir ring up the crown of cream so that it is lost. The device shown herewith
 has been recently patented and will drain of all the cream Of the bottle without any loss by agitation ot the
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nothing to signify. for even at this period he probably chased small anil mals and hunted on foot
 "At night he would retire to a rough ly woven nest in the branches of tree. When sleeping his head would be bent forward over his wrists; these would be crossed In front of his chest, with elbows down and outward. His legs would be strongly bent or fiexed, so that the knees were also near the wrists. Ills waist measurement would be excessively small or he could not assume this position. which Is. as matter Of fact. hardly possible and certainly painful for civilized man. On a similar nest close by would be his wife or wives. with Titan red or bronze babies sound asleep, and yet clingIng round their mothers neck.
 Should a raging gale. with sheets of driving rain. fall upon him, he would still sleep on. The rain would be conducted away by his hair and beard by his elbows and hip joints, so as to drip nearly clear of the face and DOuN. ut 4d4l OL4 lAlt 1A OA those civilized men who retain suffi- cient to trace the arrangement, turns down both upper and forearm to the elbow; outward and downward from the wrist. Moreover. If the reader tries t9 realize this attitude he will See that what with halr, whiskers. beard and eyebrows, even midges and mosquitoes might be pusyled: they might lose heart. being diverted and led astray by the tangled labyrinthine masses of his chevelure. But We must leave him in this position asleep. per haps dreaming. | e. experimenting by his senses some particularly delectable dainty (perhaps with corresponding motor refiexes).'
 Can you trace. from this descrip- ton. family likeness in any of his descendants?
 And here was his diet:
 Fruits of all kinds (nuts and feshy fruits). small birds and eggs. honey. grubs and insects.
 He may. Of course. have eaten shellfsh. and especially oysters: West African monkeys are still fond of them and for many primitive peoples she'll fish are of the first importance"
 Barring the grubs and insects, he was something of an epicure. it seems plain
 Even in those days. 1t seems. "the female of the species was more dead ly than the male" Mrs Pithecanthro- pus Erectus was a fighter-a danger ous foe for beasts, no matter how fero- cious.
 Professor Elliot says:
 One of the hardest problems in the story of the earliest ancestors is to understand how early man succeeded in surviving through a period when many ferocious carnivora undoubtedly existed. Suppose that Pithecanthro- pus was caught. when munching fruit, by the redoubtable Felis Groeneveld- til. the name (somehow appropriate enough) of the fearsome creature. half Hon and half tiger. which was one of her contemporaries In Java
 She would at once draw herself up to her full height (about HOO milli- meters). Her appearance would then be sufficiently alarming; the strongly marked eyebrow ridges, the powerful
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ely from the cold. The explorer. Dr. J. B. Charcot. sonin-law to the poet Victor Hugo. has suggested the use of a very big shoe. Polar explorers never found their shoes large enough he said. and in all cases of frost-bit- ten feet the cause could be traced to the tightness of the footwear confin- ing the foot so that 1t cannot by its own exercise accelerate the circulation
 of the blood. This, Doctor Charcot thinks, k the difficulty with the French military shoe, which is SO fiat at the toe as not to permit the free
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contents of the bottle during the op eration. as with a spoon or pouring. The siphon is of glass principally. but the lower end is a tuee of rubber with one end thrust up into the glass. The belLshaped end of glass is lowered carefully into the cream and when in place will about reach the lower part of the stratum of cream. The rubber tube is then closed by pinching and drawn slowly from the glass tube. This draws the cream up and starts the flow, which continues until all the cream has been drawn of.
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Elk in Farmers Barn.

A farm hand out at the Copeland ranch, two miles from Globeville, a Denver suburb. wen, out to get some feed for his horse and found a big bull elk eatiZg breakfast in a box stall. He slammed shut the door and made MT. Elk a prisoner As he left the barn he saw another elk, also a bull, streaking away over a hilltop.
 The animal the farm hand saw and he one he captured were honest-to- goodness elk They were a pair that esoppsd from . ear at the Denver
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Big Shoes Keep Feet Warm.

Frozen or swollen feet are so com mon among soldiers living in the trenches, says the Paris correspon- dence of the Associated Press. that hundreds of depots havo been estab- lished behind the line for the repose of these lamed soldiers. who are other wise in perfect fighting condition. There they rest from four to eight days before they are able to return to the trenches.
 Tn addition to the action of water and mud the men have suffered cru
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Related to Judge lynch7

There's new sort of photoplay com. ing out soon; It's entitled Judge Not"
 Guess I've read about it in the pa- pers, of course. but must have forgot. ten. By the way. who was this Judge Knott and what did he do to get him. self into the limelight7>-Paramouns Magazine.
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D,irx Profit and Loss.

People are not careful enough about feeding their stock They take 1t foi granted that when they have thrown an allowance of grain fin front Of the cows their duties are finished. On the other hand, the COW that is rightly fed |. carefully studied with each ration. She is watched to see if she will re- .nond to a little more feed or if she |. getting more than she can use. Thsss li,tIe wastes are what make the n,oat and loss in dairyfng-
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possible, so that the day may be a
 day of rest. II a roast is 10 be served it may be cooked on Satur- day and relocated. The salad may be prepared. all eX.
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 tus family. you know. Old Pithecan- thropus was the founder of the line: he makes us kin to kings and emper- ors. to Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie; to Sitting Bull and Raisuli as well He gives us a family tree which reaches back to the Pliocene age, making American colonial geneal- ogies mere sprigs on its most extended boughs
 And our great-great-great (repeat ad infinitum) grandfather was quite chap. take it all In all c. F Scott Elliot has been making an extended study of the old fellow and presents the result in his newly published book. Prehistoric Man and His Story" O.. B. Lippincott Co)
 No family portraits remain, 1t seems. Old Fan Pith-etc. was not much on beauty and. anyway, he couldn't paint or photograph
 Yet says Professor Elliot, "it is possible to give rude, blurred pic. ture of the Pliocene precursor when he was just on the point of yenturing on the great step upward"
 So here goes-and remember you owe him respect as the head Of your family:
 His body would be covered with hair or fur except on the palms or soles of his feet. On his head the hair grew long and thick and was contin. ued. in all probability, down his cheeks and chin to form combined beard and whlsker fringe. We do not think he had much of a tnustache, but prob. ably his eyebrows 'beetled'
 ,'Tha hair was wavy or curly. 1t may lave had q tendency to be lank. straight and stif on his head. but this is doubtful. It was not so woolly as that of the negro. His children prob. ably had a rich Titan red or bronzy coat of fur like that which one sees on young Galloway cattle In the epidermis as well as in the hair were both black and orange pigment. but on the whole he was probably moderate Iy dark skinned.
 The face would probably be low and broad. as compared with modern races
 His nose would be as broad as it was long, with nostrils wide apart and facing g little upward and outward The bridge would be almost concave upward, and the nose itself-all that there is-of the most retrousse. The eyes were small and deeply sunken under the rather prominent eyebrow ridges. It would not be easy to distin- guish the peculiarities Of his jaw on account of the hairy beard, and per hSps 1t was best so. for he had no real chin and a very retreating lower Jaw: a long and narrow as well as pro jecting or prognathic upper jaw. heavy cheekbones and extremely large teeth. often with five roots to them. Those muscles which are at work when chewing hard food would be enormously developed, but those which are used in speaking would be feeble and weak.
 Seen from fin front, his appearance would be the reverse of prepossessing the narrow, recsding forehead. be- ginning with It's strong eyebrow ridges. would scem to disappear under the mop of dark. thick hair. out of which the little apelike ears could hardly be seen. He might have stood about four feet high, with hands, when so stand ing. reaching to the knees; both hands and feet would be large, chest narrow: he would be slightly bandy-legged. but
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Ie<kE. A~<..xN-.

stockyards There are 50 more of them out there. They are being trans ferred from Yellowstone park to gov ernment reservations at Estes park and Aspen. Colo.-Denver (Colo) Dis patch to Los Angeles Times.
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The Economical Swat.

Surgeon General Blue estimates that the cost of supporting the ny popula- tion of the country is $157, 800. 900 a year. so you see that every time you swat fly you are really doing some thing to reduce the cost of living.
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with sauce as follows: Two table spoonfuls of flour added to two of bubbling hot butter. add the iuiSe of one lemon and enough water t. make a thick sauce. sweeten to taste. This will serve eight guests.
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more tasty. ualntv soup than this If well prepared.
 Cream of Pea Soup-Drain and rinse a can Of peas. add a tCaspoOa.u! of sugar, two slices Of onion and cold