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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18

worth 5000, judging from the way
well-bred, well-broken and well-kept
horses are now selling.
We will say that breeder is lucky
enough to have raised pair of four
year-olds, sound, good lockers, hearty,
with snap and style, weighing from
1000 to 1,400 pounds each, for the
pair $500 can easily be had in any Of
the big markets.
These are not fanciful figures but
are based upon actual experience OF
everyday farmers of breeding, raising
and selling colts.
Every farmer should, If possible,
keep one or more good brood mares,
not broken-winded, WORKOUT, city
hacks, but sound, well-shaped, we'll
bred animals that possess individal
merit and whose progeny will sell
readily when the dealer comes along.
Any breeder of experience knows
well that almost as much depends on
the brood mares as upon the stallion in
the raising of any breed Of good
horses.
Many colts take their conformation
from their mother, especially from
their shoulders back. For instance II
a mare has wide, ragged hips, her
colts are most liable to inherit this
| tendency. Many colts also inherit
their dispositions from their dams.
Brood mares should be sound, of
quiet disposition, strongly built, and
| they should be we'll cared for.
The mare can be worked UP to a
| week or two before the colt is
| dropped. In fact, she is better off
for the regular exercise, but she
should be handled by careful man,
who will not excite her, and she should
have a roomy box stall for her sleep
ing quarters.
Although many may disagree with
me, / am firmly convinced from nearly
| 80 years. experience on breeding
| farms, that it is risky business pur-
chasing aged mares, who have spent
the best years of their lives doing work
in the cities, and trying to make
brood mares Of them.
In the first place when a mare has
arrived at that age, and has never
| had a colt, her chances of getting in
foal are lessened each year.
Furthermore, it is safe to say that
a reasonable proportion of these mares
have slunked their colts, and for this
reason they have been sent from the
| %, or1d I'm where
they can do excellent work.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
(By C. M. SCHULZ.)

(By C. M. SCHULZ)
When the active working season on
the farm will have little let up, the
farmer can have q moment to spare
to ascertain of what value his brood
mares have been.
He will remember, in the first place,
that they have each given birth this
season and have raised to weaving age
a nice promising colt that bids fair
to develop into a good salable horse
later on.
These youngsters are increasing in
value and as they are yearlings now
will help to make their living next
season as two year Odds. The brood
mares have also done much farm and
road work.
Probably l make a mistake in cred
iting each mare with a colt every
year: so it is safer to say that count
ing for accidents mare should aver
age two colts every three years.
It would be rather hard matter
to say just what product she will give
her owner each year of her working
and breeding life. So much depends
on her quality and especially upon her
capacity as a sure breeder and like
wise as a good mother.
Mares, like cows, differ greatly in
their flow of milk and many times a
.nedium-sized animal with heavy milk
flow capacity will raise bigger and
better colt than much larger AMI
NAL whose milk flow is insufficient.
The practical horse breeder and the
farmer of experience is well aware OF
these facts and one will often be sur
prised to see farmers keep breeding
mares that to the uninitiated appear
to be Indifferent specimens.
Say that farmer has bought a
mare in January for $3.50. She Is i've
years old and he breeds her in March
The stud fee is $25, but the money is
not due unless the mare proves to be
In foal.
The colt has cost $25 at birth and
at weaving time, four months later
he would be worth, If good ind1vid
ual and good grade, say, $40.
BY next spring he should be worth
SIS. and at two years old should bring
500 to $125. Now he can be put to
work.
From then until he is four years
old he should earn his feed-say $76
a year-and give a profit of SIS per
year. although $50 would be nearer
the mark.
At four years of age he should be
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
If GIRLS WE'D ON BIRTHDAYS.

FThere are two births-the one when light
; First strikes the new-awakened sense;
The other when two souls unite.
We must count our life from thence
When you loved me, and / loved you,
Then both Of us were born anew.
/ cannot understand why it is that
as DAYS after a very ardent admirer
has paid court to a girl a hasty pro-
;posal sprung to his lips, with the I'M
usual entreaty added: Its not a bit
lof use waiting too long for the knot
Ito be tied. Six months, do you tell
me, before l can claim the dearest
girl in this wide world as my own?
Tut! tut! you are not very anxious to
exchange your beau for husband, l
iimaginei"
His sweetheart was quite diplomat
for one OF her age. Those tender
words were all in all to her. What
young woman, in such ideal moments
as those in which he had popped the
question and asked when the mar
rage day was to be in one and the
same breath. could have summoned
I'D courage to lift her rosy face to one
which bent over hers and tell him the
reason why?
There never was a girl who had re-
ceived a double heart offering at one
and the same time whose head was
not bit turned, and the wish found
Iodgment in her mind, that she should
have good times while single, fitting
butterfylike, among her girl chums
at gatherings, and least, but by 40
means lastly, having birthday party,
the last one she expected to give out
invitations for before leaving her
mothers roof for another.
There are quite number of roman
tic girls who rather prefer fuss and
joIlity made over their birthdays,
which all their mates could enjoy.
than to have tiresome, brilliant mar
riage. that his friends and hers could
dance at her wedding and obviously
comment that they were soaring high
er than they could afford. Tive mat
ter-of-fact lover has no such longings
to edge into the happiest time OF his
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
The Wav Ii Goes.

While a boy is boy he is ruled by
a certain philosophy. Many of the
things he sees around him are abso
lutely beyond his comprehension. The
ways of humanity are past finding out
A boy cannot possibly understand
them: so why wreck his intellect II
trying? After he has reached man
hoods estate and has shuff1ed along
therein to where gray hairs and bald
ness are fighting for the possession
of his head, he again reaches the con
clusion that the ways of humanity are
past finding out, and such being the
case it is not worth while to waste
any more time trying to do SO.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
Business of Living.

The business of living is made OF
daily venturings. To live means tc
have ventured for profit each day; fol
profit of the spirit-indeed, for hap
piness. e
They who are successful in their
ventures bring to their trade of living
steadfastness of heart and purpose
cheerfulness and devotion. To have
lived we'll, means to have ventured
much and well, to have come triumph
ing through great joys and great des'
olations. For in both joy and sorrow
are the profits of happiness to be
found.-Kansas City Times.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18

the best of the hard time she has,
they encourage her to look about her
and marry early-and be sure not to
miss a good chance. Some time ago
she met a man who paid constant at
tention to her. He never invited her
to accompany him to places where it
would cost him much money, though
he heard her mention how well she
would like to go to places now and
then. Moonlight strolls, boat ride,
or a picnic was all that he showed an
inclination to take her to.
She could not master courage to
find out where the fault was, in keep
ing her away from few costly en-
ijoyments, which all her girl chums
participated in. She blushed when
she told these many companions that
she didn't care rap about going out
many nights in the week with him.
Merry-goers know better. They laugh
ingly taunt her with either being
prude, or not much interested in
young men and girls whom she used
to chum with. How could the love
she had for him endure, when he did
not appear to be concerned about her
pleasure, If cost figured in it?
Yet she would have married him
had it not been for one reason. That
he insisted a man who would marry
wisely, should start in with a wife
who would forego all expenditures, ex-
icept those absolutely needed. That
they should begin their welded life
with love in cottage" That the hus-
band should be aided by the wife in
holding on to the family purse strings;
while the married woman, who never
had very much money to call her own,
was happier than one who enjoyed a
palace, and was spoiled by luxurious
habits and gay fashions that Slapped
her life in idleness.
Should she break with this wOoer
who was manly enough to teach her
the humble, yet better way to start on
matrimonial life? Or, was it wise to
hint that the best part Of her days
she would give to washing dishes,
sweeping and busting the floors, with
no servants hand, all for the sake OF
a dear little cottage and the love OF
the man she had wed.
No, don't hint that! her conscience
told her. If you do, the poor heart
tortured lover would run far and away
from you. Instead, girl-like, she fol
lowed her best impulse, stood beside
the man WHO had told her the truth
and looked straight in his eyes, say
ing in low voice: You have taught
me the true feelings of what l ought
Ito do, to become a real helpmate.'
He had won her by not giving her
sentimental words and airy promises
lbut by true persuasion that made her
heart beat with delight at the pros
lpect of beginning their 'love in cot
itage," with surety ',of happiness
ever after.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
PICKING Chickens,

Instead of dipping fowls in scaldiRs
water to get the feathers Off you
will use that poor way of picking-put
boiling water in a wash boiler or some
big vessel, lay sticks on the top of it
to set the fowls on, then let the water
boil hard. The steam will loosen the
plumage without wetting it. Turn the
birds over and over until the feathers
come off easily. Do not leave them
over the steam long at time.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
REFUSE TO LEARN ENGLISH
Ruthenians in Manitoba Problem to
School Authorities Of the
Province.

ton from their church, the Ruthenians
are refusing to send their children to
schools teaching English. This is one
of the most difficult conditions with
which the provincial educational au-
thorities have to deal in their attempt
to enforce compulsory attendance
laws.
There are several thousand Ruthe-
mans in one section of Manitoba, and
the school inspectors make little head
way there. The schools maintained
are teaching the native tongue of the
settlers in most instances.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
CLAY Soil Fertility.

To keep the fertility of clay soils
it is necessary to add considerable
vegetable matter. This is best done
by using all available manure and in
addition by turning under an occasion
al second crop of clover or other
legume. Even in the natural state
clay soils rarely contain much hui
mus. The supply of phosphorus is also
limited and should be increased by the
addition of phosphate fertilizer to sup
plement the farm manure.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
HELPFUL WORKING GIRLS.

cannot tell the spell that binds thy
image
Forever in my heart;
1 only know that of my existence
It's very vital part.
There is nothing that is more inter
esting to men, in the course of CONVEX
sation, than to listen to the ways in
which many of the working girls have
advanced themselves, unaided. If she
has lover, how to pass the time with
him, making the hour lively instead OF
regretting the time passed, is sub
ject which is not apt to enter the pref
ty head of the average single girl.
1t is matter of considerable mo-
ment to the young man whose posi-
ton is not very lucrative whether he
seeks the company of q sensible work.
ing girl to share his summer jaunts
or a girl of high notions, in her COM
Portable home, who expects her es-
cort to dance attendance upon her and
spend his money for her every within
in a reckless fashion.
Many high-spirited young men like
to appear liberal when they take a
young woman on an outing. He is in
luck if she is prudent companion,
who does not crave too much. And
greatly to be pitied is he il she is
selfish, extravagant and puts him out
all she can.
If he invites ladylike, interesting
working girl for an afternoon stroll
at seaside or inland resort, she real.
ICES that with his limited means she
must, before leaving her home, eat a
hearty enough lunch to last her till
shutdown. She is different from her
stylish sisters who imagine that they
are hungry half an hour after reach
ing the pleasure grounds and as they
pass by inns. Another lunch they will
accept with a smile little later. His
heart sinks, as we'll it may, when his
extravagant companion selects the
costliest viands on the bill of fare.
The young woman of this type is in
the habit Of getting thirsty, too. He
has to go down in his pocket for quar-
ters every half hour for ice cream
sodas and lemonade. She wants all
the pleasures going; rides on the Fer
ris wheel, on the merry-go-rounds
chutes, elevators, etc. Eagerly she
stops for him to spend money on cor
ners where he is solicited by popcorn
peanuts, candies of the vendors. She
may tell her neighbor girls what fine
time she has had, but the young man
feels crestfallen, while in his hall bed
room, under the hot caves, In board
ing house, as he counts over the
meager pittance left him from his
weeks pay envelope.
The working girl does not forget
that young mans expenses are
certain amount week, and as much
| for clothing, laundry and carfare. AS
| we'll, she advises him to lay by little
for rainy day. The helpful working
girl tries her best to reduce the
amount which she should permit him
to spend for her pleasure to as little
| as he can afford. They enjoy them
selves here and there in the summer
bloom and sunshine. They may miss
treats and expenditures, but he will
| appreciate her with hopes o. becom
| ing nearer and dearer. Ere the win
ter evenings have come and gone the
helpful girl has proved herself worthy
of the engagement ring he places or
her finger. .4t.a7,..
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18

opportunities IL
to turn to love
and matrimOny,
while their hearts
are tender and
easily impressed.
More than one
w b ose school
days are over are
forced into the
knowledge til a t
they must start
in to go to work,
or get married.
Keeping b o u S e
for the father
and mother is
not to their lik-
ing. If she is
a sunny-hearted
girl. and makes
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
OVERSIGHT SAVES HIS MONEY
Indiana Grocer Forgets to Take Cash
Home and Thieves Are
Fooled.

Marion. Ind.-When Jack Lines, of
Lines & Grose, grocers, went home
after closing the store he forgot to
take with him the cash receipts for
the day, about $400.
Just after he retired someone
knocked and shouted that his barn was
burning. While Lines was away
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
Doo Bitten by Snake, Puns Blind

Lewiston, Pa. - Winfield Scott
Bishop, residing near here, reports an
entire litter of seven Scotch collie pups
blinded by the bite of a copperhead
snake suffered by the mother two
months before the pups were born.
While enjoying constitutions, along
the mountains one day the dog at.
tempted to shake large copperhead,
which sank its fangs twice into her
nose below the right eye.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
It's Quality.

"A shoemaker ought by his calling
to be an ethereal sort of creature"
why, there's nothing Sc prosait
as shoemaking. Why should a shoe
maker be ethereal?
Because it is his business to de
velop an affinity for sole mates"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
Concrete for poultry Floor.

In making concrete floor for the
poultry house or cellar, have the earth
as firm as the natural condition, lamp
it if you please, spread two inches OF
coarse sand, wet it down and apply
the concrete while wet three-fourths
inch thick. 1t will hold for all pur--
poses except driving on.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
Wanted a Kiss.

st. Louis.-Harry d. Alexander, a
book salesman, was fined $25 and costs
by Judge Hogan recently upon a
charge Of disturbing the peace of
Marjorie Humphrey, fourteen years
old, No. 3929A Shenandoah avenue.
The fine was stayed pending good be-
havior. The girl testified that Alex
ander, in trying to sell her a maya
zine, asked her for a kiss.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18

thieves searched his house from top
to bottom. They made away with all
the change in Lines clothing, and it is
the belief of the police the barn was
first set on fire by persons who knew
Lines was in the habit of taking the
money from the store to his home each
Saturday night.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
Consumption of Poultry.

It has been estimated that 250,000,-
600 chickens and other kinds of poul-
try are annually consumed in the
United States.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
Winter Wailow for Hens.

Don't forget to gather in road dust
or sifted coal ashes, so that the hens
will have something to wallow in this
winter.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
To Heal Burns.

Burns are healed quickly by apply
ing compress soaked in milk This
should be renewed night and morn
ing.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
Poultry Most Profitable.

Poultry keeping is more profitable
than dairying-for the man who likes
poultry better than he does cows.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
c.n,o;+v If coIonv House.

With the portable colony house 20
hens are about as many as can be
kept in one flock, and in the perma-
nent house so hens are the limit.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18

The war lance of the middle aget
was about sixteen feet long, the pres
ent-day lance rarely exceeds clever
feet.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
Benefit of Tran Nest.

The trap nest has destroyed the
peace and happiness of the slothful
hen.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18

II is said that about 1,4OO earth ire
mors were felt in Japan last year.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18

LOVE IN a COTTAGE.

Today love Is ours
Why should we carelessly lose 1t?
This life shines on lovers
Just as we weak mortals use it.
TITS time enough when its flowers deca
To think of the thorns of sorrow,
In our tomorrow,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18

The only solace for young women
who have missed their girlish golden
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-18
IItllltv If the Sito,

The man that doubts the utility OF
the silo is the man that hasn't one.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02
LOWERING THE DEATH RATE
Report Shows a Gratifying Decrease in the Victims of Tuberculosis
 During Recent Years.

At the convention of the National Association for the Study and Proven ton of Tuberculosis, held recently at Seattle, it was shown that the nation al death rate from tuberculosis has decreased from 326 per 10000 in 1880 to 1466 in 1913. This decrease is equivalent to the saving of 179 OPT lives in single year. It proves that the fight against the scourge is being waged wisely and effectively.
 It is estimated that there are to- day 1,43O,0O0 consumptives in the United States. Their existence means an economic loss of S214,500O 900 a year. Any movement tC lessen the number of sufferers is commendable, not only from the standpoint of the Humanitarian, but also from that of the practical economist.
 Such figures are highly interesting just at present. They show that while more than half the world is almost wholly absorbed in the work of taking life, the American republic remains concerned in the business of saving life. The contrast between the hu- manitarians in session at Seattle and the strategy boards which are meeting today in all the great European cap itals is sufficiently striking.-Cleve- land Plain Dealer
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02

"l wasn't week ago." and Allison looked out across the starry sky to the tree-scalloped hills. With the compile tion of the consolidation of New York's transportation system, and the build ing of big central station, 1 thought l was through. It seemed big achieve ment to gather all these lines to a com mon center like holding them in my hand; to converge four millions of people to one point, to handle them without confusion, and to redistribute them along the same lines, looked like a life's work; but now I'm beginning to become ambitious"
 "Oh, l see," grinned Jim Sargent You want to do something you can really call job. If I remember right ly, you started with an equipment of four horse cars and two miles of rust ed rail What do you want to conquer next?"
 Allison glanced down the hill, then back out across the starlit sky. Some new fervor had possessed him tonight which made him a poet, and loosened his tongue which, previous to this, could almost calculate it's utterances in percentage.
 "The world" he said
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02
Thouqhtlessness and Accidents.

"The vast majority of personal in jury accidents are not due to mechani- cal defects" writes H. L. Gannett. in spector of safety and fire prevention of the Commonwealth Edison com. pany at Chicago, but are plainly due to some thoughtless act on the part ot the injured or his fellow man.
 An arm or leg off can never be re placed-an eye lost cannot be put back, and life once surrendered car never be recalled.
 Life is sweet. A home with a crip pied father is not filled with the happi ness that 1t is entitled to enjoy; and home from which the father has been called to that land from whence nc traveller returns is truly in distress and has an added sadness when it is known that an avoidable accident caused by the thoughtless act had caused the untimely call of the grim reaper"