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The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13
GET BEST RESULTS
FROM SHEEP FLOCK
Income From Few Lambs and
3 Animal FIeeces Is Quite Wei
come to Average Farmer.
tBy w. NJ. KELLEY3


The best possible care and feed for
the young lambs on our farm is given
through their mothers and to this
end | aim to have the ewes in the
finest possible condition up to the
weaning time. BY this do not mean
fat. but in good flesh and strong and
hearty for their ration at every feed
Ing time. lt
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.
shorn early and turned to grass and
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 hothouse lamb business.
There is great money in 1t, but few
farmers are prepared to carry 1t on.
I do not consider 1t 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 a milton carcass and the
sheep with which this can be done is
altogether the most desirable sheep
for the average farmer to raise.
It is a poor individual that will not
grow wool enough to pay for it's keep
ing. leaving the mutton as profit and
with good, big, heavy -shearing sheep
It is possible to realize a 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 a few
lambs and the animal fieeces are very
welcome
The sheep raiser who puts his de-
pendence In the best breeds and goes
ahead to produce as valuable mutton
carcass and as good a fleece of wool
as is possible Is pretty sure to come
out all right.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13
SEEING LIFE mM
! ANaJ JOHN HENRY
2SEA ~ Geo1geVHob
EsgX<4WY4al John Henry on Servant Problem
John Henry on Servant Problem

| Joy. Il got it," she said. II haf un-
tied der meaning of dot R. s. V. P.
1t means Real Silver Wedding Pres
ents!"
was Just about to drink glass of
water. SO I changed my mind and
nearly choked to death.
Elsie's Interpretation of that we'd
ding invitation is going to set Herman
Schulz back several dollars, or I'm
not a foot high.
And maybe they don't have their
troubles at Troolyrooral with the serv-
ant problem.
One morning later on Peaches and I
were out on the top porch drinking in
the glorious air and chatting with
Hep Hardy, who had come out to
spend Sunday with us. when Aunt
Martha came bustling out, followed by
Uncle Peter, who. in turn. was fol
lowed by Lizzie Joyce, their latest
cook.
Lizze wore a new lid, trimmed with
prairie grass and field daisies. hang
ing like shade over the left lamp;
she had a grouchy looking grip in one
nanu ana q green umbrella Win Dlack
freckles in the other.
She was made up to catch the first
train that shifted into the station.
Aunt Martha whispered to us plain
lively: Lizzie has been here only
two days, and this makes the seventh
time she has started for town"
But Lizzie took the center OF the
stage and scowled at her audience.
I'm takin' the next train for town,
mem!" she announced with consider
able bitterness.
What is 1t this time, Lizzie?" in
quired Aunt Martha.
Lizzie Put the grouchy grip down,
folded her arms, and said: "Oh, have
me grievances"
Uncle Peter sidled up to Aunt
Martha and said in hoarse whisper:
My dear. this shows a lack of firm
ness on your part. Now leave every
thing to me and let me settle this OBJ
streperous servant once and for all! -
Uncle Peter crossed over and got
in the limelight with Lizzie.
1T occurs to me- he began in pol
ished accents. that this is an occa-
sion upon which | should publicly
point out to you the error of your
ways, and send you back to your hum
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13

maid in cold storage. I'm a cook.
mem. it's true, but I'm no relation to
Doctor Cook, and / amt eager to
sleep in a room where even Polar
bear would be growlin' for a fur
coat"
Very well, Lizie," said Aunt Mar
tina. soothingly. III have storm win
dows put on at once and extra quilts
sent to the room. and q gas stove II
you wish"
"All right. men," said the Countess
of Cornbeef. removing the lid. I'll
stay. but keep that husband OF yours
with the woozy lingo out of the kitch-
en-, because I'm a nervous woman-I
am that" And then the Duchess Of
Deviled Kidneys got strangle hold
on her green umbrella and ducked for
the grub foundry.
Aunt Martha sighed and went in the
house.
Hep" said; this scene with Her
Highness OF Clamchowder ought to be
an awful warning to you. No man
should get married these days unIess
he's sure his wife can juggle the fry
ing pan and take fall out of an egg
beater. They've had eight cooks in
eight days. and every time new face
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13

BILE station with a better knowledge
of your status in this household"
Scat" said Lizzie, and Uncle Pc
ter began to fish for his next line.
"I want you to understand he went
on, that l pay you your wages"
Sure, IL you didn't" was Lizzie's
comeback, I'D land on you good and
hard, that l would. What else are
you here for, you fathead?"
'Fathead ~ echoed Uncle Peter in
establishment
Peter, leave her to me-" pleaded
Aunt Martha.
Bpt Uncle Peter rushed blindly
on to destruction. Elizabeth" he
said sternly. lin view of your most un-
refined and unladylike language, it be-
hooves me to reprimand you severely.
l will therefore"
Then Lizzie and the green umbrella
struck Casey-at-the-bat pose, and cut
in: "G'wan away from me with your
dime novel talk or III place the back
of mo unladylike hand on your jowls,"
''Petcrl" warningly exclaimed the
perturbed Aunt Martha.
Yes, Martha, you're right" the old
| gentleman said, turning hastily. II
must hurry and finish my correspond
ence before the morning mail goes
And he faded away.
1T isn't an easy matter to get serv-
| ants out here" Aunt Martha whis-
pered to us. 81 must humor her.
Now, Lizzie, what's wrong?"
You told me, mem. that | should
have a room with a southern expos
ure." said the Queen of the 8unga-
low.
And isn't the room as described ?''
asked Aunt Martha.
The room is all right, but | don't
care fer the exposure said the PrIn-
cess OF Porkchops
Wen. what's wrong?" insisted our
patient auntie.
Sure. said the Baroness of Broad
| Pudding, tho room is so exposed,
mem, that every breeze from the North
Pole Just nachully hikes In there and
keeps me settin' up IN bed all night
shiverin like | was shakin dice for
the drinks When / want that kind
OF exercise IN hire cut as chamber
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13
NO IDEA
What Caused the Trouble.

Il always drank coffee with the rest
OF the family. for 1t seemed as If there
was nothing for breakfast If we did
not have 1t on the table.
Il had been troubled for some time
with my heart. which did not feel
tight. This trouble grew worse
steadily
Sometimes 1t would beat fast. and
at other times very slowly, so that I
would hardly be able to do work for
an hour or two after breakfast. and if
walked up hill. it gave me a severe
pain
Il had no idea OF what the trouble
was until friend suggested that per-
haps it might be coffee drinking.
tried leaving Off the coffee and began
drinking Postum. The change came
quickly. am glad to say that I am
now entirely free from heart trouble
and attribute the relief to leaving OF
coffee and the use OF Postum.
"A number of my friends have aban-
doned coffee and have taken up Post
um which they are using steadily.
There are some people that make
Postum very weak and tasteless, but
II made according to directions. It ia
very delicious beverage" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum CereaI-the original form
must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pack
ages.
Instant Postum-a soluble powder
nissolves quickly in cup Of hot wa
ter, and. with cream and sugar. makes
delicious beverage instantly. 300
and SOC tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious and
sost about the same per cup.
There's a Reason" for Postum
sold by Grocers.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13
PRACTICAL WAY OF
FEEDING CHICKENS
Grains, Greens or Animal Food
Should Not Be Given Poultry
Unless Real Tasty.
tBy d. ]. LEUTZ.)

or 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 change to them
and yet contain the same nutrients.
Che man thought he was feeding on a
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 Mediterraneans are nat
urally more active and will do better
!
six. This. of course. depends soma
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 a
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
analyzed fowl or chicken, we would
find about 90 per cent OF water, nearly
20 per cent of protein. II per cent OF
fat and about 4 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 8 per cen,
of fat and IL per cent ash. II a 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, it will
not remain in good condition.
To get eggs, we must first supply a
sufficient quantity of nutrition tc sus
tain life, repair waste and give d
surplus to make the egg. If a hen is
an egg machine she must be built tc
make a good layer. II 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 will 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 sc
concentrated as to injure the diges
ton. A properly balanced ration Is
one that is healthful and nutritious.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13
Iy ]. NJ. BELL. Virginia }

tBy J. NJ. BELL. virsinia)
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 It the man who had been in
the business for forty years was not
80 far out of the way when you come
to consider that horse is FIVE years
old before he is really fit for any kind
of steady work.
Now. the years between five and
nine a-e 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-
tons mean. A countryman starts to
town with the womenfoik; he is
driving pair of country-raised
horses, they are gentle and kind when
at work on the home farm-wouldn't
hurt a 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 Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13

UTIEN Peaches and get tired OF the
" Big Town-tired of its noises and
lullabaloo; tired OF being tagged by
axis as we cross q street; tired of
watching grocers and butchers hoist
ng higher the highest cost of living
hats our cue to grab a choo-choo and
breeze out to Uncle Peter Grants
arm and bungalow in the wilds of
Westchester, which he calls Trooly-
.ooral
Just to even matters up. Uncle Pc
Ter and his wife visit us from time to
lime in our amateur apartment in the
Big Town.
Uncle Peter is a very stout old gen.
.leman. When he squeeZes into our
little fat the walls act as IL they were
oowlegged.
Uncle Peter always goes through
The folding doors sideways, and every
lime he sits down the man in the
apartment below us kicks because we
move the piano SO often.
Aunt Martha is Uncle Peters wife
and she weighs more and breathes
oftener.
When the two of them visit our bird
cage at the same time the janitor has
10 go out and stand in front of the
building with view to catching it
Il It falls.
When we reached Troolyrooral we
found that Cousin Elsie" Schulz was
also visitor there.
Cousin Elsie" is sort of privileged
character in the family. having lived
with Aunt Maria for over twenty years
AS a sort of housekeeper.
They call her Cousin Elsie just to
make 1t more difficult.
Three or four years ago Elsie mar
ried Gustave Bierbauer and quit her
Job.
Cousin Elsie" believes that con-
versation was invented for her exclu-
sive use, and the way she can grab
a bundle of the English language and
break it up is caution.
Two years after their marriage old
Gustave stopped living SO abruptly
that the coroner had to sit on him.
The post mortem found out that
Gustave had died from a rush of
words to his brainpan.
The coroner also found, upon fur
ther examination, that all of these
words had formerly belonged to Elsie,
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13

with the exception of a few which
were once the property of Gustave's
favorite bartender.
After Gustave's exit. Aunt Maria
tried to get Elsie back on her job, but
the old Dutch had her eye on Her
man Schulz, and finally married him.
So now every once in a while Elsie
moseys over from Plainfield, N. j.,
where she lives with Herman, and
proceeds to sew lot of pillow slips
and things for Aunt Martha.
One morning while Peaches and
were at breakfast, Elsie meandered in,
ton which Herman had forwarded to
her from Plainfield.
Elsie read the invitation: "Mr and
Mrs. Rudolph Ganderkurds request
der honor of your presence at der
marriage of deir daughter. Verbena,
to Galahad Schalzenberger. at der
home of der brides parents. Plainfeld.
N. j. March Sixteenth. r. S. v. p"
Well" said Elsie, 81 know der Gan
derkurds und know deir daughter,
Verbena, und l know Galahad Schmal-
zenberger; he's floorwalker in Bauer
haupt's grocery store. but | dcan'd
know vot it is dot r. S. V. p. yeti"
l gently kicked Peaches on the in
step under the table, and said to Elsie,
We'll. that is new one on me. Are
| you sure it isn't B. & o. or c. r. R
of N. j.? I've heard of those two rail.
roads in New Jersey, but never heard
of the r. S. v. p"
For the first time IN her life since
she's been able to grab sentence
between her teeth and shake the pro
nouns out of it Elsie was faxed
She kept looking at the invitation
ana saying to herself. "R. S. v. P!
Vot is it? l know der honor of youI
presence; 1 know der brides parents
but don't know R. S. V p"
All tnat day Elsie wandered through
the house muttering to herself: "R. s
Y, p! Vot is 1t? is 1t some secret
between the bride and groom? r. S
v. p! 1t ain'o my initials. because
they begin init E. S vot is dot r. S
v. p? vot is it? vot is it?'
Ttat evening we were all at dinner
when Elsie rushed in with a cry O
The Elbert County tribune., 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 a gentleman who bor-
rowed a gentle horse to ride in a
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 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,
clean forgot to say anything about
old Bob being afraid of a piece OF
paper"
! would like to say this: When you
buy a 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 Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13
The SorreI 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 the
endurance of the sorrel.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13
A Natural Question

Nearly a billion bushels of pew
wheat in America this year. Shall We
refuse to export the surplus because
wheat will undoubtedly help to pro-
long the war?-Springfield Republi-
can
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13
Portable hostelrx

When l landed l took the car for a
hotel"
What singular Boston
transcript
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-13
Name Each Cow.

Give each COW a name and call hei
by it and you will be surprised to find
how soon she will answer TO It.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-03-20

would imply that the United States
and other neutral countries possess
on the high seas only such rights as
England may see ft to concede to
them The day before the order in
Council was issued there appoareatt'
in the New York Sun an article writ
ten by General Won Bernhard in
which he thus described the menace
of English navalism: Like the
sword of Damocles, English navalism
hangs suspended above all peoples
possessed of the coast or trans
oceanic colonies open to attack. They
all in q certain sense are dependent
upon England. which at any moment,
owing to her superior maritime
strength, is able to make impossible
their oversea trade and cut off their
communication with their colonies"
These words, twenty-four hours
after they were put in type, were
confirmed by the English ukaso plac-
ing the Atlantic under an embargo.
1t was a proceeding unprecedented
since the days when Captain Kidd
throw to the breeze the Jolly Roger
and sailed the seas in search of
booty Piracy is piracy whether
practiced by a nation Of pirates or by
an individual pirate. That being the
case, il is incumbent upon the United
States to call a halt upon England
in her role of international buc-
cancer. Even the most pronounced
pro-British sheets published on this
side of the Atlantic are indignant
over the Order in Council The New
York Tribune, which has ever been
an apologist of everything England
does, thus criticises the proposed
piratical raid upon the commerce Of
neutrals: 1T is q piece of arrogance
for any one nation to hold that in
ternational understanding must
yield in an emergency to it's tenn
porary self-interest. That is what
Great Britain is doing in calling on
neutral nations to suspend commerce
with Germany, although Germany's
ports are not blockaded and Great
Britain declines to accept the mill
taiy risk Of blockading them There
is no reason why the United States
or any other neutral nation should
abandon the right OF trade with Ger
many simply because such volun-
tary cessation of such trade would
allow Great Britain and her allies TO
reap all the benefits of a legal block
ade without incurring any OF the in
conveniences OF maintaining one"
Such is the view of a rabid pro-
English organ which will not be ac-
cused of desiring to twist the lions
tail It makes plain that England
proposes that American commerce
shall suffer i'm order that England
may escape the danger and the cX-
pense attending regular blockade
Of German ports. If the United
States endorsed that proposal il
would thereby become, to all intents
and purposes, England's ally as
against Germany The duty, there
fore, devolves upon our Government
to make it plain, in the most en-
phatic language and at the earliest
possible moment, that the Order in
Council issued last Monday will be
treated by this country as dead
letter.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-03-20
NEITHER EQUALITY NOR IMPAIR
TIALI1Y.

Editorial from the New York World
one Of the accepted rules Of a
blockade is that it must be applied
imparually to the ships of all ma
tions"
DO the British and French Gov
ernments purpose to apply their new
orders in Council to the ships Of all
nations? Win they send their fleets
into the Skagerrak, the Kattegat and
the Baltic to stop trade between
Sweden and Norway and Germany?
VIII they send their cruisers into the
Belt to prevent trade between DEN
mark and Germany? Are these or
ders in Council to be applied to some
nations or to all nations?
IL is safe to say that they are to
be applied only to some nations.
They are to be directed chiefly
against the United States and Hol-
land They viii not be enforced
against the Scandinavian countries,
which will continue to traffic with
Germany by way of the Baltic, as
they have done heretofore, whatever
violence is done to the trade between
neutrals and the Scandinavian coun-
tries.
If Great Britain and France in
tended to apply their veto to the
commerce OF the scandinavian coun-
tries with Germany there would be
no occasion for shirking the re-
sponsibilities Of blockade 1t is be-
cause Germany holds the Baltic and
the entrances to the Baltic that the
allies refuse to establish q lawful and
effective blockade. They assume that
it would cost in men and ships more
than il would be worth. Hence, in
place of a blockade, we have orders
in Council under which Great Britain
will harass the commerce of two
neutral and friendly nations while
leaving the sea-paths open to the
German commerce or other nations
In place of equality and impartiali-
ty of treatment, we have open and
obvious partiality and inequality.
The accidents of geography make it
difficult to stop trade between the
Scandinavian countries and Germany,
and the supremacy Of British sea
power makes it easy to stop trade
between the United States and Hol-
land and Germany. Great Britain
therefore follows the line of least
resistance, and on the pretext OF ne
cessity applies rules to our commerce
which her Government has no inten-
ton OF inforeing against the COM
merce Of various other countries.
This is q plain violation of treaty
obligations which would be intoler-
able in any circumstances, but which
is doubly intolerable when imposed
by a Government that has heretofore
been the great defender of the rights
Of neutrals. In this controversy the
United States is upholding the prin-
ciples and precedents of British law,
which Great Britain is willing to
abandon in the hope Of securing a
temporary military advantage that
at best is of only minor importance.