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The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13
WAY OF
FEEDING CHICKENS
Grains, Greens or Animal Food
Should Not Be Given Poultry
Unless Real Tasty.
CRy d ]. IEUTZl

OF course, foods that are not tasty,
whether grains. greens or animal
food. should not be used as poultry
feed, even though they contain all the
desired elements Of nutrition. Fowls
appreciate a change of diet as often
as possible. The same grains in diff
ferent forms may be a change to them
and yet contain the same nutrients.
One man thought he was feeding on
balanced ration because he fed corn
mea' dough in the morning. cracked
corr at noon and whole corn at night.
A balanced ration for one flock may
be too narrow or too wide for another
BY narrow and wide we mean the
proportion Of protein, the flesh and
tissue-forming nutrients, compared
with the carbohydrates, the fat, heat
and energy-making elements. A good
proportion for an average flock is one
portion of protein to five OF carbo-
hydrates. usually designated one to
five. BY average flock we mean one
that is composed largely of American
breeds. The Medherraneans are nat
urally more active and will do better
on wider formula, or about one to
six. This, Of course, depends some
what upon the condition of the birds
and the season of the year
It's a mistaken notion that hens will
lay eggs when spring comes. whether
the food is properly fed or not True,
when warm weather comes they will
get around the farm and pick up
part OF their living in the garden and
about the barn. When hen lays she
is getting nutrients from somewhere
In addition TO air and water. II we
analysed a fowl or chicken, we would
find about So per cent of water, nearly
% per cent OF protein. II per cent OF
fat and about per cent of ash. In
an egg we would get nearly &C per
cent OF water. little more than IL
per cent of protein, about 9 per cent
of fat and II per cent ash. IL chicken
is deprived OF any of these ingredients
in it's food it cannot develop in nice
proportions. If it is compelled to con-
sumo a surplus of one in order to
get a sufficiency of another. 1t will
not remain in good condition
To get eggs, we must first supply
sufficient quantity Of nutrition to sus-
tain life, repair waste and give a
surplus to make the egg. II hen is
an egg machine she must be built to
make a good layer. If the egg is the
finished product Of the raw material
we give the hen. it must be such that
she can make eggs from it. No doubt
she wiz do her best to be reproductive,
but she must live while producing
eggs. Then the food must be filling
to satisfy the appetite, and not so
concentrated as to injure the diges-
tion. A properly balanced ration is
one that is healthful and nutritious.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13
GET BEST RESULTS
FROM SHEEP FLOCK
Income From Few Lambs and
Animal FIeeces Is Quite Wei
come to Average Farmer.
(By w. NJ. KELLEY

The best possible care and feed for
the young lambs on our farm is given
through their mothers and to this
end l aim to have the ewes in the
finest possible condition up to the
weaving time. BY this / do not mean
fat, but in good flesh and strong and
hearty for their ration at every feed
ing time.
My lambs are fed no grain until
they are three and a half to four
months old. when they are weaned
They will be fed a sufficient amount OF
grain during fall and winter to keep
them in good condition and thrifty,
sold the first OF next June when they
will be about fourteen months old.
They will still be lambs. as they
will not have shed their lamb teeth.
will bring lamb prices and will have
made the greater part of their flesh
on grass.
When one has little pasture the bet
ter way is to crowd the lambs with
liberal grain feed and market them in
the early winter. or better still. have
the lambs dropped in January or
February; teach them to begin eating
grain at two weeks old. crowd them
for all they will stand and place them
on the market when weighing from
forty to fifty pounds each.
This is dollhouse lamb business
There is great money in II, but few
farmers are prepared to carry 1t on.
] do not consider it as profitable to
raise sheep for wool as for mutton.
but the two are so closely connected
that they can hardly be considered
separately.
Ii is possible to grow a good. heavy
fleece on mutton carcass and the
sheep with which this can be done is
altogether the most desirable sheep
for the average farmer to raise.
II is poor individual that will not
grow wool enough to pay for its keep
ing. leaving the mutton as profit and
with good. big. heavy shearing sheep
II is possible to realize profit on
the wool. making it in this way the
two sources Of profit.
While the expense OF maintaining
flock of sheep is hardly noticeable
the addition to the income from few
lambs and the animal fleeces are very
welcome.
The sheep raiser who puts his de-
pendence in the best breeds and goes
ahead to produce as valuable mutton
carcass ant $ good fleece of wool
as is possible is pretty sure to come
out all right.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13
By J. NJ. BELL. Virginia.)

By J. NJ. BELL. virginia)
A prominent horse dealer once told
the writer that no horse was fit for
women and children to use until 1t
was nine years old!
Rather an advanced age you will
say, no doubt, but when you come to
think OF 1t the man who had been IN
the business for forty years was not
SO far out of the way. when you come
to consider that horse is five years
old before be is really fit for any kind
OF steady work.
Now, the years between five and
nine are spent in work that will ac-
custom the average horse to the
sights. sounds and daily experiences
incident to modern conditions.
Let us try to tell what these condi-
lions mean. A countryman starts to
town with the womenfolk; he is
driving a pair Of country-raised
horses, they are gentle and kind when
at work on the home farm-wouldn't
hurt baby.
On the outskirts of the town they
meet an auto. Then there is some
thing doing for the next ten minutes.
The team is horror-struck; the ladies
are in no better condition; the good
man who prided himself on being a
horseman for the past quarter of a
century is astonished to find that his
team does not respond to his COM
mands, therefore he uses conciliatory
measures, and later the measures be-
come more forceful as the now thor
oughly frightened team try to break
away from the neighborhood of the
evil-smellling, putting devil that has
met them.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

ftr Z g
Visitors to the Arkansas building
at the Panama-Pacific exposition are
being presented with copies OF AR
kansas and Her Resources" Illus
trated booklet published under the au-
spices of the Arkansas Commission,
Panama-Pacific Exposition. The book
was edited by j. Frank Kelley of Lit
tie Rock. The book contains Illus
trated articles setting forth the re-
sources of each of the rs counties and
has special articles on the school sys-
tenn of the state. the Arkansas Com
mission, the state government and Off
Gals, the University of Arkansas and
Hot Springs. Special articles on the
collective resources of the state in ag-
riculture, minerals and timber, were
prepared for the book by John II.
Page, commissioner of mines, manu-
features and agriculture, and Robert
M. Hutchins, deputy commissioner.
The book contains more than 400
views of farms. factories, forests, pub
lie buildings and other objects of in
terest.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

This team was six years old and per
fectly gentle on the old farm.
When you have horse that you
can recommend as being family
broke" these days he must have the
admirable qualities of experience
along with those other qualities called
horse sense"
A man once told the writer an an
ecdote about gentleman who bor-
street parade with blazing barn fires
as sequel This horse and rider en-
joyed all the features Of the festive
occasion and the horse was SO immune
to terror of city sights that, according
to the narrator. he actually walked
right through the dying embers of a
fire, but turning a corner suddenly he
encountered a piece Of paper waited
along by the breeze and when his
rider recovered consciousness he was
in the ward of hospital mass of
bruises.
Later on, when fully recovered, he
upbraided the owner for giving him
such an animal and the latter replied,
in a surprised manner: why, George,
l clean forgot to say anything about
old Bob being afraid Of a piece Of
paper"
l would like to say this: When you
buy horse that is sold as city and
family broke" don't pay for him until
you are certain he is what he is rec
commended to be. Give this horse a
fair trial: remember that your wife
and children will probably use him
and that he must be thoroughly broken
to make him perfectly safe for general
family driving
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13
J. C. NORTON OF LAKE VILLAGE,
CAlCOT COUNTY, CAPTURES
PRIZE AND HONOR.
IS LATER THAN LAST YEAR
Premium Paid-C. 3. Owen Of Chi
cot County First to Sell Bale
in 1914 in the Pine Bluff
Market-Received $127.
Pine Bluff.

Pine Bluff. -
The first bale of the 1915 Arkansas
cotton crop was received at Pine Bluff
by the Hammett Grocer Company. 1t
is from the plantation of DR.. j. c. Nor
ton, near Lake Village. The bale was
sold at auction by E. B. Bloom, sec
rotary of the Chamber of Commerce.
The grower also will receive a pre-
MUM, which, it is expected, will be
unusually high. probably 40 cents 4
pound.
The first bale Is 10 days behind last
years first bale, which also came from
Chicot County. 1t was raised by c. B,
Owen on the Redleaf plantation. It
was auctioned and B. b. We'll bought it
for 40 cents a pound. The grower re
ceived premium of 1927.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13
SECRETARY REFUSED TO LET
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
HAVE RECORDS.
he ALLEGED A "FRAMEUP"
Expert Auditors Are Working Under
Direction Of Col. Geo. Thornburgh
Committee Denied officials
Statements.
Little Rock.


The long drawn out controversy
over the auditing of the books OF the
secretary of states Office has been
settled by Secretary of State Earl w.
Hodges. The investigation has begun
and will take place under the direc-
ton of Col. Geo. Thornburgh.
Secretary Hodges refused to let the
committee appointed by the last Gen
erl Assembly audit his books. The
reason he gave the public for doing
so was that the committee had
framed up" to make an adverse re-
port on his office in order to injure
him in his candidacy for the office of
governor. The committee denied his
accusation. A firm of expert auditors
is doing the work.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13
The Sorrel Horse.

There is no color of horse so insen-
sible to heat as the sorrel. There is
seldom any coat SO silky or which
responds SO quickly to good care as
the sorrel. and many horsemen claim
there is seldom any horse with such
sound feet and limbs or possessing tho
endurance Of the sorrel.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13
Name Each Cow.

by it and you win be surprised to find
how soon she will answer to
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

A double tragedy occurred at ST.
Paul when Tom Mahan, aged 75,
dropped dead. While a crowd was
standing around the body, DR.. Suther
land joined the group. and when Jesse
Mehaffy made remark to the physi-
clan, he pulled a revolver out of mis-
pocket and killed Mehaffy instantly.
Frank Holiday, aged about so years,
was shot and instantly killed by Ethel
Dixon, aged IA The girl used sin
gle-barrel shotgun. The shooting oc-
Cured near Van Buren,. A coroner's
jury exonerated the girl She alleged
attempted assault.
Revetment work on the river bank
at Pine Bluff will start within the next
few days, according to announcement
hy Major +. NJ. Markham of the fed
eral engineering department. Tic
$4,000 to $4,000.
Probably the largest parcel post
mail ever handled by the Hope post
office was that mailed out by Post
master d. b. Thompson recently.
Twenty-Five sacks of parcel post mail
were handled, 20 of which were for
Europe.
John Vest, 81, of Oklahoma. while
attending the Confederate reunion.
near Charleston. struck his horse with
81 whip, was kicked in the face by the
horse and died two hours later from
the injuries.
Clarence Winchester, 15-year-old son
Of Daniel Winchester, of Texarkana.
was accidentally shot and perhaps ia
tally wounded by companion about
his own age while hunting squirrels
three miles north of here
r. II. Myers, proprietor of a store
in Jonesboro was fined total of 800
Icy Justice Arlington after he had been
convicted on four charges of violating
the new minimum wage act.
Admitting his guilt Matt Hatcher, a
white man arrested in Conway on a
charge of petit larceny, declared he
stole to feed his children. who were
hungry and crying for food.
In four days time the Frisco Rail-
road has sent out from radius of 10
miles from Mammoth Springs over 400
SCENTS 100000 bushels.
L. l., Shemwell has on display in
Success corn that he planted April ..
cultivated it in the usual way and
milled some of il July %. The meal
bread.
The harvesting and shipping of FL
nerta peac.es in the Nashville section
has ended. The crop brought be.
tween 60 and So cents a bushel. Sew
eral cars of cantaloupes have been
shipped recently.
While digging a well in a cemetery
at Camden bed o. Ignite coal was
struck 10 feet below the surface, then
a bed Of mica, then gas.
The White County Fair Association
has designated October %. 81. rs and
% as dates for holding the Afth an.
nual county fair In this city.
/ Recently the Christian, the Preshy-
terrain, the Baptist ard the Methodist
Churches Of Mammoth Spring all
adopted resolutions 70 Gov Majors
of Missouri. and each sent him a day
letter asking him to put the blind
tigers across the line in Missouri cut
! OF business.
A stock buyer who has been at Nash
! vile purchasing mules. has bought Ii
ANIMAL paying $3.50 These mules
! ny.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

George R. Brown, secretary OF the
Board of Trade, in replying to tele-
gram from a New York newspaper,
said that the Board of Trade, repre-
senting largely the business interests
of state and city, is in complete &C
cord with the recommendations of
President Wilson for a larger and more
efficient army and navy. He also re-
ported the thorough work of Adjutant
General Lloyd England in placing the
National Guard of Arkansas on a
higher and more efficient plane than it
lad ever before occupied.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

A stock buyer who has been at Nash
vile purchasing mules, has bought Il
animal-. poying $3.50 These mules
win b. shipped TO Europe to be used
in the Eu l2ean war.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

In response to request from Lit
tie Rock cigar dealers that they be
allowed to conduct domino games if
they were played for merchandise and
not for money, City Attorney ]. w.
Mehaffy wrote letter to Municipal
Judge Woodruff, declaring he is "un-
alterably opposed" to these games
and that he will recommend a fine in
every case brought into court.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

Gov. Hays pardoned J. b. Strong.
aged 10 years. sentenced in July to two
years in the reformatory school for
forgery. Strong was convicted in Lit
tie Rock.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

The Cotton Belt Railway was made
defendant in nine suits filed in the
PULASKI Circuit Court by lumber and
manufacturing companies who claim
that the company overcharged them
during the life of the injunction Sc
cured against the Arkansas railroad
commissions tariff number 3, ia Sep
TENDER, 1908.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

A store where secondhand clothing
and other supplies will be sold cheap
and cheap hotel for released state
oonvicts established, are being planned
Nv the Prisoners Aid Society, founded
by the Rev. l.. TONNE. former chap
lain at the penitentiary, according 10
a released convict.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

Judge Jacob Trieber's Interpretation
of his modification order in the Frisco
freight case will not be given until
the first week in September at St
Louis, according to message sent to
Assistant Attorney General John p.
Streepy, states attorney in the case,
by Judge Trieber The petition OF
the Arkansas Railroad Commission for
the Interpretation of the order was TO
have been heard in Denver, August II.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

The War Department ct Washing
ton has announced the appointment of
Z. F. Bryant superintendent of the Ma
tional Cemetery at Little Rock, to sue
coed A. l.. Krementz, who recently
died. The new superintendent comes
from the Andersonville, Ga, National
Cemetery.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

Chief Justice f. A. McCulloch OF
the Supreme Court granted attorneys
of Sam Bell an appeal from the deci-
sion of the Conway County Circuit
Court sentencing Bell to electrocution
for the murder of Mrs. card Bearden.
his divorced wife's sister. The date
OF the execution was set for August
20. Bell killed four of his divorced
wife's relatives necr Solgohatchie
April rs.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

The Charles We'll Cotton Company
Of Pine Bluff filed articles of incorpo-
ration in the office of the secretary
TO state. The corporators are Ben b.,
Harold H. ana Dave Fl. Well. Capital
ssock $4,000.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

The Southern Express Company
fled a certificate showing that L. P.
Marshall of Hope had been appointed
agent for the company in Arkansas.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

The Pulaski County Boys Corn.
Pig and Peanut Clubs, will meet in
Little Rock August 1921.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

Withdrawal of Judge J. l.. B'Shers
from the race for commissioner of
agriculture. and entrance of Judge
Lewis c. Smith of Dewitt in the gov
ernor's race. have constituted, new de
velopments in the political situation.
Judge B'Shers says he expects to de-
vote his entire attention to a large
Lonoke plantation he recently pur-
chased.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

The Arkansas Evaporating Com
pany of Rogers, capitalized at $4,000,
filed articles of incorporation. NJ. G..
Clymer is president and the other cor
porators are: A. S. Teasdale M. r.
Thompson, c. c. Hall and E. H..
Thomas.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

The Pententiary Commission has
confirmed the report that {. convict.
Thomas King, had died at the state
farm at Cummins from gunshot
wounds inflicted by guards when he
tried to escape.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

Gov. Hays pardoned Thomas-Tag-
CART of Pulaski County, serving a
threeyear sentence for robbery. He
was convicted in April. Taggart is
the second of three men convicted of
the same robbery to be pardoned
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

Robert Alexander Little, planter
banker and commission merchant, re-
puted to Re one of the ealthiest men
in Arkansas, died at his home, 604
East Seventh street. Little Rock, in
the seventy-seventh year OF his age.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

The residence OF Fred Schaer, near
Galloway station, one of the most
beautiful homes in the vicinity of Lit
tie Rock, was struck by lightning dur
ing an electric storm and burned. The
loss is estimated at between $4,000
end $4,000. Mr.. and Mrs. Schaer are
spending the summer in Ashville, N. G.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

l.. L. Shemwell has on display in
Success corn that he planted April s,
cultivated it in the usual way and
milled some of it July %. The meal
Is a good quality and makes excellent
bread
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

Recently the Christian, the Presby-
terrain. the Baptist ard the Methodist
Churches Of Mammoth Spring all
adopted resolutions TO Gov Majors
of Missouri, and each sent him a day
letter asking him TO put the blind
tigers across the line in Missouri cut
OF business.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

r. II. Myers, proprietor of store
in Jonesboro, was fined a total of 500
Icy Justice Arlington after he had been
convicted on four charges of violating
the new minimum wage act.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

Red Thomas, who was recommend
ed for the postmastership of Fordyce
by Congressman Sam NJ. Taylor OF
Pine Bluff. has received his commits
sion and has taken charge of the post.
office.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

Clarence Winchester, 15-year-old son
Of Daniel Winchester, of Texarkana.
was accidentally shot and perhaps ia
tally wounded by companion about
his own age while hunting squirrels
three miles north of here.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

In four days time the Frisco Rail-
road has sent out from a radius of 10
miles from Mammoth Springs over 400
cars of Elberta peaches, This repre-
SCENTS 100000 bushels.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

Admitting his guilt. Matt Hatcher. a
white man arrested in Conway on a
stole to feed his children. who were
hungry and crying for food.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

The harvesting and shipping of FL
nerta peacres in the Nashville section
has ended. The crop brought be.
tween GO and So cents a bushel. Sew
eral cars of cantaloupes have been
shipped recently,
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

l.. NJ. Gary Of Dumas has been ap-
pointed county examiner by County
Judge Parker, to succeed j. w. Rey-
nolds, who has moved from this
county.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

: Commercial organizations in the
Arkansas River valley, especially De
tween Little Rock and the Mississippi
River, are arranging to take active
steps to have the government con-
tinue it's work of dredging the Ar
kansas River and to counteract the ef-
fects of recommendation by fed
eral engineers that the dredgeboats
Tabor and McGregor, now in the river,
be removed to some other work.
Secretary Carl Baer of the Little
Rock Chamber OF Commerce is en-
pected to issue a call for meeting to
be held at Little Rock at an early
date.
Major f. NJ. Markham, in charge OF
the engineers in this district, partici-
pated in a conference with local bust
ness men on the subject, but had lit
tie to say except what had already
been covered in the engineers report,
which is to the effect that river traffic
has gradually decreased and the cost
of maintaining the channel is not near
ly commensurate with the amount OF
business done on the river.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

A largely attended farmers insti.
tute was held ut Murfreeab6ro. II Is
planned 20 hold three days Institute
in September.
Charles Bono ana George Fultz, both
OF Pine Bluif, left here in en- auto fer
San Francisco.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

While digging a well in a cemetery
at Camden a bed o. Ignite coal was
struck 10 feet below The surface, then
a bed Of mica, then gas.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

The White County Fair Association
has designated October 26. 81. rs and
% as dates for holding the Afth an.
nual county fair In this city
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

a Frisco south-bound freight train
killed an unknown white man eight
miles north of Rogers. Tho man was
apparently asleep and lying across tbs
track.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

John Vest. 81, of Oklahoma, while
attending the Confederate reunion.
near Charleston. struck his horse with
q whip, was kicked in the face by the
horse and died two hours later from
the injuries.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13
SHORT ARKANSAS ITEMS.

A double tragedy occurred at ST.
Paul when Tom Mahan, aged 75,
dropped dead. While crowd was
standing around the body. DR.. Suther-
land joined the group. and when Jesse
Mehaffy made a remark to the physi-
clan, he pulled revolver out of mis-
pocket and killed Mehaffy instantly.
The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-08-13

A total of 1856 persons OF school
OF 1871 over 1914, is shown by the an.
nual report of County Examiner ]. NJ.
C. Vaughter.