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Middletown transcript., 1915-12-18
SUNLIGHT is MOST
POTENT GERMICIDE
Prevents Contraction or Spread
of Disease and Is Essential
to Good Health.
(By W. A. HENRY. Wisconsin Expert
ment Station)

CBy W. A. HENRY. Wisconsin Expert
ment Station)
Sunlight is a most effective germi-
eide. To present the contraction or
spread of disease it is therefore i'm
portant that the stables of farm ami
male be we'll lighted, with the possible
exception of fattening animals feeding
for short periods of time.
For the maintenance of health, ex-
ercise is another essential. The only
exceptions to this rule are fattening
animals soon to be marketed which
make more rapid gains if not allowed
to move about too freely. Abundant
exercise is of special Importance with
breeding animals.
Farm animals are creatures of
habit, and once accustomed to a rou-
tine Of living show unrest at any
change. The feed stable or lot, there
fore, should be free from disturbance,
and the providing of feed and water
should be uniform in time and man.
ner. Animals soon learn when these
are to occur and as feeding time ap-
proaches the secretions begin pouring
from the various digestive glands in
anticipation of the coming meal The
system of feeding and watering and
the character of the rations should be
changed gradually, and only for good
cause. In feeding operation a chang
ing period is usually losing period.
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Why the Price Was Low.

A shabby man entered a small gen
eral store in a Scotch village and
asked the owner, a genuine Scot who
was known far and wide for his
"pawky" humor. If he might have an
empty soap box.
"All right" said the shopkeeper, "ye
cen have one; but the price is two
pence"
"Tuppence:" CALCULATED the appli.
cant. That's too much money alto
gether can get them for less than
that"
Less than twopence? You're
dreaming, man." replied the other,
who disiiked nothing so much as hag.
Cling. Where can ye get them for
less?"
Down at your neighbor's, Tam
sons,' was the rejoinder.
oh" replied the man behind the
counter. apparently much relieved :;
mo doubt ye would get them for less
there, but | was never fool enough
to leave my boxes outside on the pave
ment all night. Youth Companion.
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DISEASED COLONIES
DIE DURING WINTER
Bees Affected With Foul Brood in
Fall Should Be Destroyed
or Transferred.
(By WESLEY FOSTER. Colorado Ex-
pertinent Station)

(By WESLEY FOSTER. Colorado Ex-
pertinent Station.)
Many beekeepers endeavor to carry
diseased colonies through the winter
because 1t is so much easier to treat
them in the spring than in the fall.
In a very large number of cases the
diseased colonies die during the win
ter and the honey is robbed by other
colonies, thus spreading the disease
throughout quite an extended area.
The general idea Is that, inasmuch
as little breeding is done in the win
ter, there is small likelihood of the
disease spreading in the hive. This
is quite true. However, the following
factor is the most important one:
The diseased brood is so offensive in
odor that but very small amount is
highly disagreeable to the bees. This
initiates against the natural tendency
of the bees to cluster during severe
winter weather A colony lacking
compact clustering during winter soon
succumbs. Very few colonies affect
ed with foul brood get through the
winter for this reason.
II a colony is found affected with
disease in the fall, either destroy it
entirely or transfer the bees to a clean
hive and furnish them with sealed
combs of honey. after they have been
deprived of any food for 4S hours. Su-
gar sirup cannot be successfully fed
in the winter.
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What the Doctor Knows
KIDNEYS MUST BE RIGHT TO
INSURE HEALTH

Few people realize to what extent their
health depends upon the condition of the
kidneys.
The physician in nearly all cases of se-
rious illness, makes a chemical analysis
of the patients urine. He knows that un-
less the kidneys are doing their work
properly, the other organs cannot readily
be brought back to health and strength.
When the kidneys are neglected or
abused in any way, serious results are sure
10 follow. Therefore, it is particularly
necessary to pay more attention to the
health of these important organs.
An ideal herbal compound that has had
remarkable success as kidney remedy il
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root.
The mild and healing influence of this
preparation, in most cases, is soon real.
lied, according to sworn statements and
verified testimony of those who have used
the remedy.
When your kidneys require attention,
get Swamp-Root at once from any phar.
macy. It is sold by every druggist in bot
ties of two sizes-50c and Sl.00.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation, send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for >
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
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weILoonstrue.ed sarn. Aaap.sa to General Farm USE

There should be developed a gen
eral style of architecture which could
in the main be adapted to the differ
ent farm buildings. 1t should straight.
forwardly meet the needs to be served
and should be dignifed and pleasing
in form and line. The material to be
used will react upon the style in no
small degree, for it is evident that a
stone or concrete structure is func.
tionally different from one built Of
wood.
With regard to the barn, the needs
are not fixed, but widely varying In
certain forms of farming, it may exist
chiefly for storage, while in other
cases it may serve mainly for hous-
ing the animals. Whatever its needs,
it should look the part of the barn,
and not that of a country school or
church. 1t should be proportionei
and fitted to meet the internal needs
for which it is built.
Since the barn and the house are
the nucleuses of the farm group, it is
well at this point to consider briefly
the arrangement of farm buildings Ger.
tainly the part of architecture is not
fulfilled when a given building is de-
signed. Its relation to other buildings
both existing and future should be a
concern. Usually there is an absence
of any logical relationship between
the different buildings of the farm
They have been dropped down here
and there, as it were, the house here
the barn there, a shop in one place
and shed in another. Indeed of all
this there should be a careful group
ing. There will be decided advantages
in convenience, in economy of con
struction, and in protection. The
esthetic possibilities will be much
greater and from the very nature OF
things, the unattractive features viii
protrude less prominently and will be
! much easier of concealment
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(By D. A. CLARK.)


At the present time farm buildings,
In common with most of our Amer
lean structures, offer but little evil
dence that serious thought has been
bestowed upon their character or
their disposition. In a general way,
buildings are frequently proportioned
to meet their needs and are rather
conveniently placed in their relation
ship to one another. Yet, in respect
to architectural character, they are
almost without exception, very bad, if
we disregard the few that have come
down to lis from colonial days. Even
the very books which treat of farm
buildings while discussing matters of
economy and convenience and details
of construction, fail to give considera-
tion to artistic excellence. In fact,
many of their illustrations depict
buildings as faulty in this respect as
those on the most despicable farm.
Their hard lines stand out boldly,
while nature tends to soften the bad
lines of the real.
In discussing this matter of a fit
ting farm architecture, it will be well
to consider the following broad as
poets: Materials of construction and
the factors determining their use;
style of architecture and the influences
controlling it; the elements that
should give it character; the design
ing of the principal farm buildings;
the relationship of the buildings to
one another; and the methods to be
employed in accomplishing this bet
terment.
The material which is used in the
construction of any given set of farm
buildings will depend upon a number
Of factors. Yet in weighing these, we
should never overlook the desirability
of giving the buildings a local color
and of having them harmonic with
their native surroundings.
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In turkey-raising, even more than
with chickens or most other kinds of
poultry, good birds are essential to
good profits. To make scrubs pay more
than minimum is almost impossible.
About the only place where one can
succeed with mediocre turkeys is in
sparsely-settled country, where q few
hens, or small flocks Of below-ayerage
turkeys, ranging for themselves in a
wild state, cost their owners little or
nothing, and at the end of the season
bring in a little understanding a
small sum on an outlay of a still
smaller sum.
Yet the overwhelming majority of
turkey-raisers appear to be content to
start with very average birds, and al
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pauohter's Idea.

Mrs. Brown was in the habit Of in
PRODUCING her big daughter as, This
IS Jane; she is only fifteen-you'd new
er think 1t would you?"
At last the girl protested. ITS
mean of you to tell everybody how
young l am. could have lot bet
ter time if you didn't"
Perhaps you could. But ! don't
propose to have people saying. after
you've been out liz society a couple OF
seasons, Don't tell me Jane Brown is
only twenty-why. she was a grown
girl years ago."
Just the same" retorted the daugh-
ter, you wouldn't like it IL intro
duced you to my friends as. This is
my mother. She's only forty-eight-
you wouldn't think it. would youT"-
Judge.
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CAUSE OF GAPES IN CHICKS
Small Worms Fasten Themselves to
Inside Wall Of Windpipe obstruet-
ing Passage of Air.

The "gapes" often cause heavy loss
in a flock of young chickens. If care
is taken to keep the chicks off the
ground and to keep them out of the
wet there need be little danger
"Gapes" are caused by small worms
that fasten themselves to the inside
wall of the windpipe. They thus OBJ
struct the passage of the air and cause
suffocation. The gapeworm is para
site in the common earthworm.
The chicks pick them up and thus
introduce the gapeworms into their
systems. Some ground that has long
been used for chicken runs may be-
come badly infested with gapeworms
A change of location is advisable.
Plow up the old range, grow crop
on it and in year or two it will like
" be free from parasites.
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DESTROY INSECTS BY
BURNING ALL TRASH
Much May Be Done to Eradicate
FIea-Beetle and Leaf-Hop-
per by Fall Cleaning.

Several grape insects winter among
the fallen grape leaves in trash in
vineyards, and much may be done to
destroy them if the trash be raked to-
gether and burned.
Such work will be of value against
the grape-berry moth and the grape
leaf folder, which hibernate in the
pupal condition in the fallen grape
leaves.
The grapevine flea-beetle and the
grape leaf hopper spend the winter
as adults under trash of all kinds in
and about vineyards, and the destruc-
tion of trash as indicated will expose
them to adverse climatic conditions.
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SUPERIOR FEED FOR POULTRY
Dry Mash Made of Mixture of Several
Ground Grains With Meat Scraps
Is Recommended.

A good mash is made up as follows;
Two parts of bran to one part each
Of middlings. cornmeal, ground or
rolled oats, meat scraps or cracklings
cut clover, all parts by weight. A dry
mash is simply a mixture of several
ground grains with or without meat
scraps. etc.
1t is best to feed it from a hopper
giving a small portion first thing in
the morning, then closing thu hopper
in order to keep the fowls busy
scratching in the litter for scratch
food.
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SECURING OF EGGS
DURING THE WINTER
Good Results Secured at North
Dakota Station by Follow
ing Fixed Feeding Rules.

The securing of eggs in winter de-
Rends great deal on the feed. At
he North Dakota experiment station
he following has given good results:
Morning feed-Whole wheat.
Noon-Bran mash with meat scraps
'r house scraps and some green food,
Is roots.
Evening-Corn and oats mixed
1t is also important that the hens
have grit, as crushed granite, and
crushed oyster shells to furnish lime
for she'll making. The housing is i'm
portant, too. The poultry house
should be well lighted and we'll ven
tilated.
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NihhIIna.

To nibble, or not to nibble; that is
the question.
Whether it is better to eat three
square meals a day or to take arms
against a score of little nagging ap-
petites, and by yielding. end them
Tor the time being.
To bite, to crunch-aye, there's the
Iuestion-and by a bite to think we
end the heartburn and the thousand
stomach aches that nibbling is heir to
there's the rub.
Much better were our quietus made
with a rare beefsteak. ak.-Life.
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EczEMAS AND RASHES
Itching and Burning soothed by cutI-
cura. Trial Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal. Relief,
rest and sleep follow the use of these
supercreamy emollients and indicate
speedy and complete healment in most
cases of young and old, even when the
usual remedies have utterly failed.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept KY,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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His Svnnnathu.

Tut, tut, muh brudder!" admons-
ished good old Parson Gagster. Don't
say anything yoll be sorry for
Done said it already, pahson!" rO-
piled Gin Johnson, the reformed gam
bling man. Il spoke de name o. Lank
Fuller Well. I'm sorry for po' BFud-
der Lank. Come along and see what
happens to him. and yo'll be sorry for
him, too"-Kansas City Star.
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low the quality of their flocks to drop
a little lower season after season
through careless handling, inbreeding,
selling off the largest and best-grown
birds for market, and so on.
Good stock does not necessarily
mean showroom stock. Nor does it
mean necessarily expensive stock,
though of course as a general rule
one has to pay in proportion for quail
ity. Good stock, with turkeys, means
essentially good utility stock; if the
showroom qualities are superimposed
on these, so much the better, but the
utility points are the ones that will
be found to count the most in the
long run. The most useful turkeys
are the. strong, alert, hardy birds.
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PIaVino Safe,

I'm surprised to see you riding in
the smoker every day. You never use
tobacco in any form, do your"
mo, but if | ride in one of the other
cars my wife expects me to be able to
tell her what every lady on the train
was wearing, and whether it was be-
coming or not, and if / tell her she
accuses me of taking too much interest
in other women. If | cant tell her
she Gays I'm too stupid for any kind OF
use"
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THE VERY TIME
When Powerful Food Is Most Needed.

The need of delicate yet nutritious
food is never felt so keenly as when q
convalescent gets a set back on ac-
count of weak stomach, Then is when
Grape-Nuts shows its power for it is a
most scientific and easily digested
food.
About year ago." writes Kansas
woman, my little six-year-old niece
left the invigorating and buoyant air
of Kansas, where all her life she had
enjoyed fairly good health, to live in
Ohio. She naturally had a change Of
diet and of course a change of water,
and somehow she contracted typhoid
fever.
After long siege her case seemed
hopeless, doctors gave her up, and she
was nothing but skin and bones,
couldn't eat anything and for weeks
did not know even her father or moth
er Her parents, in trying to get some
thing delicate and nourishing that she
could eat, finally hit upon Grape-Nuts
food and it turned out to be Just the
thing.
She seemed to relish it. was soon
conscious of her surroundings and be-
gan to gain strength so rapidly that
In a short time she was as well, play
ful and robust as If she had never
been i'll.
I'VE all feel that Grape-NHts was
the predominating factor Il
the sweet little girls life"
Name given by Postu1 le
Creek, Mich.
Ever read the above eW
one appenrs from ttE ley
are genuine, true, 3 ~
interest
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Animal Food Is essential.

Animal food, in some form, is neces-
sary. Fowls that are confined to yards
do not have the opportunity to get in
sects, worms, etc. They should be sup
piled with animal food, such as beef
scraps, ground green bone, butchers
cracklings, etc. Ten per cent of ami
NAL food three times a week is ad-
Visable.
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Leuumes Hold Reaal Position

Corn is not king. He never was.
He is one of our most valuable crops,
but the legumes and the grasses are
entitled to the regal position. The
farmer who neglects the clovers and
alfalfa and similar plants is cutting
himself OF from his surest source of
sustenance,
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SERIOUS DISEASE OF FOWLS
oanerene Will Pass From One to An
other-kiII All First Cases and
Burn Them at Once.

Gangrene of the crop is serious
disease and will pass from bird to
bird. An offensive smell comes with
the crop condition that causes gan
creme. Kill all first cases and burn
them.
If there are several cases, these, If
not Immediately killed, must be quar-
antined from the we'll birds and fed
the sulpho-carbolate compound. The
runs and all parts of the poultry
houses must be disinfected after the
departure of such birds.
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Back to Life.

did you call me little while ago."
asked the wife of her husband over
the phone twenty minutes after the
telephone had rang at home.
mo, didn't call you"
well, was dyeing and couldn't an
swer the phone then" she said.
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Shut OFF Cold Drafts.

A roll of building paper and some
laths rightly applied will reduce the
feed bill in winter because it is cas-
Ter to keep the cattle warm by shut
ting off the cold drafts than to keep
them warm by extra feed.
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Bad Sion.

Pm afraid that play of yours is go
ing to be failure, old man."
What makes you think so?"
We'll, the management doesn't seem
to have any trouble keeping the ticket
spectators away from TIE door"
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Phllosonhie.

Kelly (growing pathetic)-Pity a
poor unfortunate man, Kelliher. that's
got to go home to his wife.
Kelliher-Brace up, Kelly! Brace
up2 Ye should be thankful ye are
not the sultanl-Puck
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Causes OF Bowel rroubIen.

The strictly healthy fowls do not
have bowel complaint. Looseness Of
the bowels in fowls is simply an indl,
cation of indigestion, or arrangement
OF the digestive organs.
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Winter Sheds for Ducks.

Ducks prefer staying out in their
runs all night, and this is best for
them during the summer season, but
they are better protected in well-venti.
lated sheds or houses during the win,
ter season
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RANGE Not Necessary.

Farm range is good. but not neces-
sary to raise healthy and profitable
fowls. Many of the most successful
poultry raisers have only village lot.
Success may be attained in a small
way as we'll as on larger scale.
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AGENTS sAMPLE-SIO RAINCOAT FOR
e2.9S postpaid. Tan colored waterproof coat
out in very latest style. All sizes for men
and women. Great chance for live agents
w. 8. HOWARD. WALD0BORO, MAINE
WRnted-Ambitious men and women TO open .
cleaning, dyelnR and pressing shop in every neigh
Dorhood. We teach you how No capital or xperence
necessary Jas W. hereeE, $40 12Srd New Yorh city
WANTED-Hyerybody suffering Piles, Fistula
etc., write FREE TRIAL positive, painless Pile com
binatlon. 8. u Tarney, Box 456, Fort Wayne. Ind
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Alert Hens Are Profitable.

The wideawake, alert hens are the
ones that leave a neat profit between
their feed bill and the price the egg
basket brings.
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Grow sunfIowers.

Many poultrymen recommend grow
ing sunf1owers in the poultry yards.
The seeds are good feed for both
chicks and older birds.
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When a man sits through an ANA
teur show, it means that he belongs
to the lodge, or has relative in the
cast.
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Barley Not Appreciated.

Barley is not appreciated by the
farmers. 1t is a good feed, easily
grown and very handy to fall back on
in case the corn is caught. It usually
pays We as a market crop. Do not
naoieat Alav,
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Keep the Hens BUSY.

Favor the hens but keep them rus,
tling and scratching. A chilly hen
just standing around isn't doing much
laying.
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And lots of singers would never get
A hearing If they were not members
of a volunteer church choir.
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Not Gray Hairs but Tired Ewes

make us look older than we are. Keep
your Eyes young and you will look young.
After the Movies Murine Your Eyes. Don't
tell your age. Murine Eye Remedy Co.,
Chicago. Sends Eye Book on request.
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And many a mans progress down
the stream of life is impeded by his
getting stuck on a bar.
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DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
original little liver pills put up 40 years
ago. They regulate liver and bowels.-Adv.
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Defined.

Knicker-How much is he making?
Bocker-Between a motorcycle and
q car.
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securinu WInter Enne

Winter eggs are most successfpIly
secured by keeping small colonies.
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Arranae sheep Eeed rrouuha.

Arrange the feed troughs so that the
sheep cannot get their feet in them.
A fouled feed trsugh is an abcmina-
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II a woman is good looking she
can easily fool a man without brains.
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Imnortnnt 70 Mothara
The Reason.

Long before a woman asquires any
jewels she likes to worry for fear
they may be stolen.
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Blessed is the woman who can gea
along on a short allowance.
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Look After Water sunnIv

Be sure to keep plenty Of pure, tres
water before the hens.
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3es Way to Kill Weeds.
The best way to kill weeds Is to
work the ground before they're up
Milford chronicle., 1915-06-25

as the agriculturists organized under the
Grange. Gatherings at the various COM
munity centres to hear lectures delivered
to the fifteen or twenty individual far
mers and their families of that district at
convenient times for them, and where
discussions of the various points of
understanding along the general lines
of the subject, as touching individual
interests can be had, without fear of dis
playing a lack of either knowledge or
understanding, will be brought out.
Something along this line will advance
every community in the State of Della
ware. This can be accomplished and
will he accomplished when the right man
arrives, and until then the Grange must
continue to be the connecting link between
advanced agriculture and the ordinary
everyday farmers. The average farmer
is of retiring disposition, and hesitates
to take part in public discussions away
from his own neighborhood, and for that
reason, the community centres of gather
ing appears to be the real means of
reaching them, even for their own in
terests. Get their attention, and an
active interest will Immediately follow.