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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
HINTS ON DUCKS AND GEESE
Fowls Should Be Kept Away From
Chickens-Furnish Supply of Ami
NAL Food-AVoid Dampness.

Ducks and geese should always be
kept away from the chickens. If al
lowed in the same yards, the ducks
and geese would so befoul the drink
ing water that the health of the chick
ems would always be in constant dan
ger.
Ducks and geese should never be
picked after the cool days OF fall
come To grow rapidly the ration for
ducks should include a liberal guam
tity of animal food. AS long as the
range is good, geese require little, If
any feeding. But when the vegeta-
ton on the range is killed. they should
be fed literally twice a day. A good
mash for geese is composed OF two
parts bran, one part each OF middlings
and cornmeal and four parts chopped
vegetables, cut clover or alfalfa. Whole
grain should be fed very sparingly.
Ducks and geese are subject to but
one serious disease - rheumatism,
caused by sleeping in damp quarters.
They can stand any degree Of damp
ness during the day, when they are ex-
ercising, but at night they should be
kept comfortable and dry. The sleep
ing room should be kept bedded with
clean, dry straw.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
CORRECT START WITH SWINE
Investment of About $225 Is Necessary
for Breeding Animals, Hog Houses
and Pastures.

For a man to begin in the correct
way. with three good brood sows, an
investment of about 1925 is necessary
for breeding animals. fencing. hog
houses and the establishment of per-
manent pastures.
The total cost of producing a crop
OF AS pigs, which one should obtain in
a year from three good sows, will be
about $4S6. The cost per hundred
weight, estimating pigs at 200 pounds
each. would be about FIVE dollars, or
five cents per pound. Under ideal
sible to produce hogs as low as three
to three and one-half cents per pound.
The average selling price for hogs
on foot in the South is at least eight
or nine cents per pound and often it
is much higher. Calculating the profit
on the produce of three sows with a
cost of five cents per pound and a
selling price of eight cents, the profit
per SOW for a year would be 500. so,
or total for the three sows of $3.50. 50.
IL the size of the filters is small
for one of many possible reasons, the
profits will be severely cut For in
stance. if the three sows produce only
80 pigs. the profit will be only s34 per
sow. or s102 for the three. To return
large profits, sows must produce large
filters and pigs must have large guam
titles of good food.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Single Comb White Leghorn.

ularly in the Single Comb White Leg
horn variety, that will lay many more
eggs yearly than fowls that do not
carry this heavy laying trait. Pure
bred chickens of the general purpose
or meat type viii, during the growing
period, make a more rapid and eco
nomical gain in live weight than mon
grels. At no age are mOngrel chick
ems so salable as pure breds.
AS to the land required. fowls will
he contented and profitable whether
trey are confined in q house. allowed
to range over a small or large enclos-
ure or given entire liberty. The more
closely they are confined. the greater
the cost OF food and the more atteu-
tion they require. An ideal range for
a flock of twenty-five TO forty fowls in
a house such as that described in the
Clemson poultry bulletins is fifty by
one hundred feet. Such a range in
Bermuda sod and bur or crimson clio
yer will be green all the year: the
Bermuda being green in warm wealth.
er and the clover in the winter One
and one-half acres will provide suffi-
cient range for 500 hens. An orchard
or partially wooded range is prefer
able TO one that is barren of natural
shade
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
IMPORTANCE OF DAIRY cow
Most Economical Producer of Human
Food of All Domestic Animals
She Is Here to Stay.
Ry N. J. FRASER. nlinois)

Since the COW is the most econom-
ical producer of human food of all our
domestic animals. and as she can live
and produce milk on ration com
posed entirely Of roughage. she will
be the animal that will be resorted TO
in order to convert half of the energy
of our common crops, which is other
wise unavailable, into human food.
Another reason why the cow is here
to stay, and will always be of vital
importance in sustaining human life,
is that babies and invalids cannot be
nourished on cornmeal mush alone.
For these reasons, even after the
time comes that there is an actual
struggle for human food, the dairy
COW will still be vital and abiding
factor in a system Of permanent agri-
culture, IL we are to retain a high
degree Of civilization.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
SELECT THE BEST C0CKEREL
Don't Sacrifice Vim and Ginger by
Keeping Dapper Little Male Birds
Size Is Desired.

Don't sacrifice the long, rangy cock
erel until you are sure that he isn't
a better bird than some of his more
"cocky" brethren. Sometimes the
early maturing cockerel stops right
there and makes little further growth,
while the bird that has gone to legs
and bone at first fills out and makes
the larger and more desirable bird for
the farm flock.
Size is usually desirable in any
flock, If vim and ginger go with it..
Don't sacrifice it by keeping only the
dapper little male birds that looked
like their dads when they were only
four or five months old.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
START WITH POULTRY
Making a Good Beginning With
Fowls in the Fall.
Poultry Husbandman of Clemson
College Tells How to Establish
Flock at This Season-White
leghorn Is Favored.

Many people prefer spring as time
at which to make a beginning with
poultry. and there is no doubt that
spring has many advantages for this
purpose But a successful flock can be
established in fall or winter. accord
ing to the poultry husbandman of
Clemson college. who gives some
advice along this line for those who
wish to make their start in this indus
try now.
When a beginning with poultry is
TO be made in fall or winter. he ad-
vises buying a breeding pen of young
stock One cockerel and from five to
fifteen pullets will make a suitable
breeding pen
These fowls should be pure bred.
One can purchase stock of strains
bred for heavy egg production. partic-
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
IMPROVING THE DAIRY HERD
to Pay for Their keep-Breed
Cows to Purebred Bull.

CBy GEORGE HUMPHREY. University
of Wisconsin,
l. Treat COWS gently and avoid ex-
element.
2. BE regular in time of milking.
8. Keep stables clean, well-lighted
and ventilated.
4. Weigh the milk OF each COW at
milking time.
5. Get your neighbor to share with
you in owning a Babcock milk tester
and test the product Of each COW.
6. Discard the animals which have
failed at the end of the year to pay
for their keep.
registered dairy bull from a family
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Purebred Holsteins.

having large and profitable prOduc-
ton of butterfat.
s. Raise well the heifer calves from
cows, which for one or more genera
tions have made large and profitable
productions of milk and butterfat.
9. Breed heifers to drop their first
calves at "a to 80 months of age. Give
cow six to eight weeks rest between
lactation periods.
10. Join a dairy cattle breeders as
ISOLATION. 1t will help you to keep
posted and in touch with the best and
most modern ways of managing your
dairy herd.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
DON'T MIND PlMPLES
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Will Ban
ism Them. Trial Free.

These fragrant supercreamy emol-
lients do so much to cleanse, purify
and beautify the skin, scalp. hair and
hands that you cannot afford to be
without them. Besides they meet
every want in toilet preparations and
are most economical
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. KY,
Boston. Sold everywheTe-Adv.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
WRITE
WYANDOTTE

Experience has shown that any
variety of hen will lay, and lay album
dainty, if bred along the right lines.
If YOU are satisfied as to shape and
color of your fowls, do not change for
something else in the hope of get
ting more eggs, such as Leghorns for
Plymouth Rocks, or Wyandottes for
Nlinorcas or Brown Leghorns.' This
is the advice given by a breeder, who
has found from experience that this
changing is merely waste OF time
and patience.
One frequently sees or hears OF
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
WHITE LEGHORN
PETNOUTH ROCK

poultry keeper whose birds lay pro-
fusely and almost necessarily, while
a neighbor across the way has the
same variety, gives his just as much
attention, and yet they scarcely lay
at all continues this authority.
Now, while this neighbor has the
same variety or breed of chickens as
the other he has not an egg-laying
strain in that particular variety
Of breed. and that is just where the
trouble is To get a large egg yield
one must have birds which were de-
seconded from an reproducing strain
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
BEST RATIONS FOR CHICKENS
Whole Grain Is Entirely Too Fatten-
ing and Liable to Cause Some
Kind of Digestive Trouble.

Most farmers feed too much whole
grain TO their chickens; many feeding
nothing but grain. The feeding OF a
ration composed entirely of whole
grain throws an undue strain upon the
organs of the hens, which is likely TO
cause digestive troubles Besides,
whole grain is entirely too fattening
and hens receiving such a ration are
never thoroughly nourished, nor do
they preceive the egg-making elements
in the proportion to induce a good egg
yield
In feeding poultry best results are
obtained by feeding one-half the food
ground. The by-products of mills are
usually richer in egg-making elements
than the grains from which they are
made. Thus, wheat bran is much rich
er in protein, the egg-making element,
than whole wheat, and it is much
cheaper. The same can be said of mid
dlings.
The ground ration should be bulky
in character, that is II should occupy
a rather large bulk in proportion to its
weight. A mash that has given good
results is composed Of two parts bran,
one part each of cornmeal. middlings,
cut clover. beef scrap and ground oats
with hulls sifted OUT. This mash can
be fed dry in self-feeding hoppers, or
as a wet mash. II skim milk or but
termilk is to be had in mixing the
wet mash, the proportion of beef scrap
can be reduced one-half.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
PLANTING Currants.

The best time 20 plant currants is
in the fall. The reason that they do
not always succeed in the spring is
that they are planted too late. Spring
planting should be made very early.
There is nothing easier to plant than
the currant if it is done at the right
season.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Way to Store Cabbaaes.

Store cabbages in a cool cellar,
heads down. They may be hung from
supports. or the roots may be cut of
and the heads wrapped in newspaper
and laid on a shelf. but they should
be hung heads down for a while 20 in.
sure draining the water out,
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Massachusetts Mash Formula

Mash formula. used by the Massa-
chusetts experimental station. with ex-
cellent results: Mix thoroughly equal
weight of cornmeal. ground oats. -four
middlings. gluten, bran, oil meal and
beef -scraDs; then add one pound of
salt to each 100 pounds OF the mash.
This may be fed dry or wet (mois-
tened, not sloppy.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Weed Out Poor Hens.

There is a greater difference in the
egg production of hens in the same
flock than most people realize. In
trap-nesting work with a small flock
of 16 Plymouth Rocks for a year in
Canada the best one laid 231 eggs and
the poorest II. 1t is a good thing to
weed out the poor layers and consig2
them to the pot.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Don't Harbor Scrub Boosters.

There is no reason or excuse Tor
harboring scrub ROSTERS on any farm.
If YOU have been doing so, send the
scrubs to market now and get some
purebred males to head your hockS
next season. Scrub poultry is a posi-
tive abomination.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04

ing In on ones premises. In short
they add to the beauty of the home
grounds. give the whole farm neat
er, more businesslike appearance, add
materially 10 the value of the farm,
and keep one on better terms with his
neighbors
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Cause of Winter Kittino.

Trees should not be kept growing
until too late in the fall because the
wood should have plenty OF time to
mature before heavy frost. so that il
will not winter xii. IL trees severe
ly winter kill thoy should be severe
ly pruned and all the dead wood re-
moved.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
pure Water is important.

An egg contains about &C per cent
Of water. which shows that it is very
important for flock to have plenty
of pare water.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Clean the Poultry House

Drive all hens out of the poultry
house occasionally and. after cleaning
thoroughly. treat it with a five per
cent solution of coal tar disinfectant
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Used Whenever Quinine is Needed
Does Not Affect the Head

Because of its tonic and laxative effect LAX.
ALIVE BROMO QUININE will be found better
than ordinary Quinine for any purpose for
which Quinine Is used. Does not cause ner-
vousness nor ringing in head. Remem Der there
is only one "Bromo Quinine." That is Lara
tive Bromo Quinine. Look for signature of
4. w. Grove. 25c.-Adv.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Feed Hens for Erqs.

The hen must feed her body first.
Unless she has something left after
her body needs are taken care OF ne
eggs will be forthcoming.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Hens Are often NEGLECTED.

Hens contribute enough to the ma
tons wealth to warrant them having
buildings made especially for them.
but they too often get whatever can't
re used for anything else.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Winter Supply of Sand.

Provide the winter supply or SAND
before it is too late. When put in the
henhouse it should be thoroughly dry'
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Ideal Chicken House Eioo-

The concrete floor is the ideal me
for the poultry house-if properly
made.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Hard Work.

PA. what is meant by literary en-
deavor?
Trying to sell the stuff. SON.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04

The patience of those who sit down
and wait for dead mems shoes isn't
virtue.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Soiendid inXestnnc.,t

A single setting of good purebred
eggs is about the best investment A
farmer can make.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Paradoxical Proof.

You see she was put out.
How 500"
BY the fire i'm her eyes.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04

STOP THOSE SHARP SHOOTING PAINS
"Femenina" is the wonder worker for all
female disorders Price 81 90 and soc. Adv.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04

1t doesn't pay to own things you
owe for
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Cleanliness ls ,r,,,-.

Cleanliness Is lmportanj.
Cleanliness is much more important
with poultry than ornardental bu,ld.
ings.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
DEATH Turks IN A WEAK HEART,

SO on first symptoms use "Renoyine'
and be cured. Delay and pay the awful
penalty. "RenOvine' is the heart 5
remedy. Price $1sO and JUc.-Adv.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04

KENTUCKY HOME-Spun Tobacco. sold IN
hands for sDlokipg or chewing win twenty
years experience In Leaf Tobacco. am w.
OF the old and mellow grade Soc pOunn'
Ave pounds 81 IS west OF the NocAi"s y 49,
post paid Satisfaction guaranteed H. n
GILBERT. MURRAY. Ky.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
Excellent Chicken Feed.

Swiss chard makes excellent chick
en- feed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-01
Why Magnates Roar

Speaking of the tremendous patronage given the
auto busses, writer says: at is a token Of the
wrath of the riding public, long impounded against
arrogant transportation DULLES, spilling at
last"
If that were all the street railway magnates have
to fear they would cease roaring There's nothing
much more ephemeral than the wrath of the travel
ing public. We do not remember instance when
the public, during any considerable PERIOD went out
Of it's way to exercise it's wrath.
What terrifies the street railway magnates, who
have long laughed at public wrath is the fact that
transportation by auto is becoming popular because
more rapid and comfortable than transportation by
their cars. Such superiority in speed comfort and
convenience, once demonstrated means, in great
measure what discoveries of electric power meant
to mule-power. The public will finally have what
best suits the public
Competition of superior article is the most diff
cult of all things to be put down. Such very rarely
is put down. The street railway magnates have
reason to roar and to marshal all their powers of
politics, money and influence. Threatened with
competition supported by the public ON grounds Of
better service, they find themselves stuck with
oyercapitalization and decadence of franchise val
ues. There's no business man, be he Bill Smith,
barber, or Andrew Carnegie, steel maker, who
wouldn't roar, under such conditions.
Meanwhile the public, not wrathful but anxious
to get the most for it's money, will sail along in the
cute little jitney busses, if it so pleases.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-01
Of Course He Does

In investigating the s0-called Santo Domingo
scandal they've got hold of letter of Bryans that
they pronounce to be simply awful. 1t appears
from the letter that Bryan regards campaign work
ers as deserving democrats who are entitled to
rewards and that political debts are to be quidated
by positions in the foreign service.
It's a most horrible expose. It's shock such as
the public has not had to endure since that honest
got up in national convention, years ago, and
roared 'What here for if not for the offices
However it's likely that the expose will not lead
to much reform and that the nation will survive the
shock Germany may make France present Of
her 42-centimeters Villa may surrender to Carranza
and Taft may nominate Teddy for president, but we
guess that for time to come, democrats will be-
put in the offices when democrats win and repub-
icans when republicans win. The proposition that
the victor take the spois is reasonably well estab-
lshed. The policy has it's arguments, too Under it
the people can sweep out the house without leaving
any dirt in the corners when they want to-
Bryan has simply rewarded his party workers
with jobs It's customary and human In politics
the fellow who turns his unsapped cheek to the
slapper usually gets both cheeks slapped off him,
and if there's any man in America who owes nothing
to republicans it is William Jennings Bryan. If
Bryan's minister to Santo Domingo isn't guilty of
anything save being rewarded party worker, his
Investigators had better go to playing pins, ring
around-a-rosey something in which there's pleas
ure and results. At any rate, they won't make
a respectable noise by cunning for Bryan on the
ground that he is democrat following the estab-
lished practice OF rewarding party workers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-01

wanted his gem back. Grove re-
fused to kill a $500 rooster for a
mere $125 diamond. The rooster
wouldn't cough up the stone. Now
the court must decide whether or
not a rooster that dimes ON dia-
monds should be axed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-01

childhood undoubtedly have
their beginning i'm the rousing to
activity Of germs in the nose and
mouth.
Can one trust to antiseptio
mouth washes, gargles, nasal
sprays and douches, to keep the
nose and throat free from disease
germs and thus to prevent colds
and intentions? No doubt they
help in certain circumstances and
when judiciously used, but to rely
upon such measures absolutely is
faulty hygiene.
Antiseptic solutions may de-
stroy the most specifically lying
bacteria but they do not reach
those which have penetrated the
deeper layers, and they fall espe-
cially because they do not correct
the actual alterations in the
membranes themselves.
There is indeed harm, rather
than good If the antiseptics used
are of such character and concen-
tration as to irritate the menu
brane, especially the delicate
membranes of the nose, interfer-
ing with the natural processes of
protection and repair.
II you are always catching
cold" look to your general
health, strengthen your resist
ance against cold.
Do not overeat. Keep the or
gans of elimination normal. Take
frequent baths; sleep in a cold,
we'll ventilated room; avoid
crowds and overheated rooms:
keep the teeth, tonsils, nose, and
throat clean, and breathe moth
ing but clean air.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-01
Same Old Ohio Sort

W. G. Harding, Ohios newest U. s. senator, has
been sizing himself up for San Diego newspaper men.
With one breath, he favors big ship-subsidy With
the next breath, he condemns Wilson's ship-pur-
chase BILL the ground that it is opposed to the
policy of individual endeavor which has given the
surprising development of all civilization"
In short, subsidy for private ship-owners isn't bad
for individual endeavor, provided that you are the
individual. This logic Harding must have imbibed
while at worship at the feet of good old Mark Hanna
father of logic in the matter of squeezing out sub
sides in behalf of individual endeayor'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-01

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. I.
Where's the Daniel who will
come to judgment and settle the
row between w. A. Grove and
Walter Kiefer.
Grove owns a $500 rooster.
Kiefer did own a diamond, simon
pure stone, no phony, worth 1925.
Kiefer likes chickens almost al,
well as he likes diamonds. He
liked Groves rooster, had quite a
visit with him at the chicken
show, and it was then that he
carelessly dropped his diamond in
the sawdust. All sparklers are
corn to rooster. Groves rooster
promptly put Kiefer's diamond in
his craw.
Then the row began. Kiefer
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-01

find their way
into the sys-
TEN through
the nose and
m o u t h and
that the germs
of m g a s ! Q s
scarlet fever
and whooping
cough may orig