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The Dolores star., 1916-01-14

Hogs are comparatively scarce de-
spite what the department of agricul.
ture has to say OF their increase in
1914. ~ compared with 1913. They
may have increased. but the popula-
ton 10 increasing faster. They are
not ~ high in price as we think they
should be, and we think our reasons
are good. We still believe that the
middleman IL exploiting both the pro
Queer and the consumer, says an Iowa
writer in Farm Progress.
After all, however, the hog ia the
big moneymaker in vast number of
communities. We are taking lower
price than we should. but we ought to
figure out some ways and means to
increase our Profits by lettering our
breeding, our care and our feeding of
the hogs. II we can pull down the
cost Of producing hundred pounds
OF pork, we will be increasing our
profits by Just that much. am abso.
lutely certain that nothing short Of a
genuine catastrophe is going to be
able to keep the price Of pork down
where It is for another year.
Have you considered how rapidly
the worlds whole supply Of reserve
foodstuffs 10 now being eaten. de-
stroyed and wasted? Possibly the
war lords did have great many mil.
Non prepared rations put away when
tho war began. A million men will
eat 5000. 900 rations daily, to say moth.
ing Of the waste. How can the prices
Of all foodstuffs. meats in particular,
and pork along with them, be kept
down much longer? It Is simply an
impossibility.
The man who makes good breeding
the very foundation of his hog grow
ing will make more money than the
man who does not. We are all trying
TO grow quickly. developing animals
that will give up quicker returns and
therefore better profits. Just what
characteristics do we want in hog
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
STALLION SHOULD BE
BROKEN TO HARNESS
Animal Should Be Worked Pro-
vided Driver Gives Him the
Necessary Attention.

Many farmers have written to the
Kansas State Agricultural college to
know II 1t Ia advisable to work stall
lions.
Yes, all stations should be worked;
that is, provided the man who works
them understands them and knows
how to give them the proper care"
10 the answer given by DR.. c. w. Nc
Campbell. secretary of the live stock
registry board and assistant profess
sor OF animal husbandry in the col
lege.
"A stallion should be broken to har-
ness in the winter before he Is two
years old" says Doctor McCampbell.
"As few are broken at this age the
man who usually buys stations faces
the problem Of breaking them after
the horses have reached maturity.
Several precautions must be OBJ
served when breaking a stallion. First,
the man must be thorough horse
man, and second, he must remember
that while the horse is big he is usu.
ally soft and cannot stand q great
amount of hard work until he becomes
accustomed to 1t.
In breaking stallion 1t should be
borne In mind that he should have
only . few hours light work every
day for several months, but after he
has once become accustomed to work,
he can. with proper care. do q full
days work out Of breeding season.
and ut least half days work during
the breeding season"
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
AND INSANITY.

THE seeming indifference of the
public and the authorities appears in
comprehensive when 1t Is considered
what havoc is wrought by alcohol We
spend millions Of dollars annually to
stamp out and protect the public from
infectious diseases, yet the harm done
by alcohol is infinitely greater than
that caused by all the infectious dis
eases put together. In our annual ad-
missions to Bellevue hospital Of over
5000 patients Tin the wards for mental
diseases) more than ten per cent were
suffering from insanities due directly
to alcohol, and in more than forty per
cent alcohol had played a most impor-
tant part in the causation of the in
sanity. It seems to me that 1t would
be the greatest aid to humanity II
measures might be taken to reduce
the consumption Of this poison to .
minimum, and to provide proper cura-
tive institutions for those who have
formed q habit but have not passed
the curative stage into one Of COM
plete mental and physical degenera-
ton. Such an institution should be
,custodial as well as educational. In
such institutions many will find re-
covery, while, for those who do not,
proper restrictions will prevent their
leading a life Of crime."-Dr. M. 8.
Gregory of Bellevue Hospital, New
York
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
"CASCARETS' ACT
ON LIVER; BOWELS
No sick headache, biIiousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Get q 10-cent box.

Are you keeping your bowels, liver.
and stomach clean, pure and fresh
with Cascarets. or merely forcing .
passageway every few days with
Salts, Cathartic Pills. Castor Oil or
Purgative Waters?
Stop having a bowel wash-day. Let
Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg
ulate the stomach, remove the sour
and fermenting food and foul gases,
take the excess bile from the liver
and carry out Of the system all tho
constipated waste matter and poisons
in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will make you
feel great by morning. They work
while you sleep-never grippe. sicken
or cause any Inconvenience, and cost
only 10 cents a box from your store.
Millions of men and women take .
Cascaret now and then and never
have Headache. Biliousness, Coated
Tongue. Indigestion, Sour Stomach or
Constipation. Adv.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14

AkEzaRgNyDlIgS
EEA
,e.ser u,eu TO HIGHEST.

LIceNsE-HIeH TO HIGHEST.
In Massachusetts the minimum cost
of q first class saloon license Is $l'0oo.
The maximum is not fixed by law. but
there are instances on record wnere
licenses have sold for $500 and $lO'-
600. The average price is about
$500. -.
How does It work-this license sys-
tenn raised to it's highest power? The
New York Commercial-certainly not
. dry advocate-speaking Of the in
crease of the license fee In the state OF
New York from $1,000 to $500 a year.
sHys: rsl r-a-.
TT seems plausible to reduce the
number Of drinking places and raise
their status by imposing heavy IL
.cense fees, but In practice It results in
turning over the business to a few
brewers who are able to finance the
license fees and to drive Independent
dealers out OF business. In some cities
In Massachusetts brewers and whole
sale dealers control practically all the
saloons and hotels and form syndi-
Gates to handle the monopoly SO given
to them by the high license law. It
would be easy to form a syndicate in
New York city that would pay $4,000
a year for each license taken out. The
revenue might be increased by giving
such a monopoly, but the liquor bust
ness would be run for all there was in
it, and social conditions would not
be improved Massachusetts has given
high license fair test and the results
are not what its original advocates
promised"
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
FIVE REASONS.


DR.. Henry Williams OF New York,
an eminent specialist In nervous and
mental diseases. has summed up his
Investigation concerning alcohol in
these words:
Il am bound to believe. on the evi.
dence. that II you take alcohol habit
ually in any quantity whatever, 1t is
to some extent a menace to you. If
you do this. am bound to believe in
the light CT what science has re-
vealed:
Il. That you are tangibly threaten
ing the physical structures of your
stomach, your liver and kidneys, your
heart, your blood vessels, your nerves,
and brain;
"2. That you are unequivocally de-
creasing your capacity for working in
any field. be it physical, intellectual,
or artistic.
"3. That you are in some measure
lowering the grade of your mind, dull
ing your higher esthetic sense, and
taking the finer edge of your morals.
-. That you are distinctly lessen
ing your chances for maintaining
health and attaining long life; and,
IS. That you are entailing upon
your descendants yet unborn a bond
Of incalculable misery"
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
COMFORTABLE SOWS
ALWAYS PROFITABLE
Good Shelter, Preferably in Cot,
Literally Supplied With
I Straw, Is Favored.

The brood SOW should have COM
Portable shelter in winter. Good shell
tor, preferably in q cot well supplied
with straw, will contribute to her
we'll being. and In that lies strength
for her offspring.
The shelter should be placed con-
siderable distance from her feeding
place, in order that she may be COM
peiled to take exercise.
Her feed should consist Of bulky
foods, such as milk. roots and clover
hay, and enough grain to keep her in
good condition without causing her to
put on fat.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14

that Is to do these things? We might
enumerate them here:
First, easy keeping. something that
means much TO the breeder, the grow.
er and the feeder.
Second, quick and early develop.
ment. We have no time any more for
hog to put in couple Of years
growing bony framework on which
to put the fat layers.
Third, prolific breeding qualities.
The SOW that will drop litter of ten
pigs every time is worth three times
as much as the SOW that will farrow
Ave pigs about every other time. OF
course not every SOW is ten-pig ami.
NAL.
Fourth and fifth. we want animals
that are of quiet disposition and Wig
orously healthy. We don't want a
breed Of hogs that will put on pound
of flesh in the morning and run 1t on
in the afternoon. We want animals
that will resist ordinary hog ailments,
and we would be greatly pleased II
someone would develop . breed Of
cholera-immune swine.
OF course. there is no perfect breed
Of swine, but there are numbers that
are very popular with practical hog
growers. Pick out any one of the
better breeds, stick to that one breed
and try to pay more attention to the
selection Of individual sows and boars.
Watch the SOW whose filters develop
rapidly. Get rid of the SOW whose lit
ters grow slowly and whose pigs are
chicken killers, fence breakers and
persistent rooters. Pay particular at
tention to the SOW whose litters are q
little larger than the average.
II you have any scrub hogs get rid
Of them. The razorback is all right in
his native canebrakes, but he has no
place on q farm. All these things will
help In reducing the cost of growing
hogs and will mean more money for
the grower.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
Sorry He Spoke,

A senior of one of our large manu-
featuring concerns came through the
store and noticed a boy sitting on .
counter swinging his legs and whis-
Ting merrily. The senior eyed him
severely. as he confronted him. ana
inquired: rs that all you have to do?"
Eyes, SIR"
Very well: report to the cashier
and tell him to pay you on. We don't
need boys like you around here"
'But, SIR" said the astonished boy.
Il don't work for you. l have Just
bought some goods and am waiting
for the bill. "-Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
ALWAYS LOOK YOUR BEST
A. to Your Hair and Skin by Using
cuticura. Trial Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal. These
fragrant, super-creamy emollients pre-
serve the natural purity and beauty
of the skin under conditions which, II
neglected, tend to produce a state of
irritation and Disagreement.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. I.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVANCE.

Total abstinence is no longer a rid
iculed fanaticism. It sits in regal
state on the throne Of empires and
Of kingdoms. and in republics sways,
In everincreasing measure. the voting
citizenship. 1t safeguards the soldier,
the aviator and the crew of the subma-
rine. 1t gives a clear brain to the
railroad man. the athlete, the autoist
and the commercial, industrial and
agricultural worker. 1t says: "The
first man to be taken of and the last
man to be taken on is the man who
drinks. Anna A. Gordon.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
Always a Drawback.

First Man-"Don't you feel that it's
good to be alive?' Second Man
why. yes, Of course: but 1t costs like
the dickens."-Boston Transcript.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
What He Was.

I'm afraid, Rastus. that you are
something Of pessimist."
"Pessimist? No. sub. amt no pes
sumist. Use a opposumist."
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14

Red Cross Bag Blue makes the laundresa
happy, makes clothes whittier than snow.
AL good grocers. Adv.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
DRINK AND ACCIDENTS.

The following report was sent by
the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad
company to the interstate commerce
commission:
Average number Of employees Febru-
airy 15. 1915. to September l, 1915. g. $50
Average number Water Wagon club
members February Is to September
l. 1915 :..........1.5 800
Total number accidents causing en-
ployees to lose three or more days
time ....:........:......... 224
Number of the 224 employees injured
who are members Of the club. . q
Percentage Of total number OF mem
bers injured ...................... &c,
Percentage Of club members injured. 2s6
percentage OF men injured who are
NOT c!0o members ..:.:............... 9.63
Percentage OF total club members to
total number injured .....,..,,1 10 Il
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
Exchange Places.

Opportunity knocks at every mans
door. After that the man who didn't
respond does the knocking.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14

Most men would be content with
their lot-if It were lot of money.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14

Short (who Is but Eve tally
Do you believe that brevity is the
soul Of witt
Miss Long-Well, not in your case.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14

Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
ago. They regulate liver and bowels..Adv.
The Dolores star., 1916-01-14
INTERNATIONAL
Sl|lYlNYS0bDOL
LESSON

by z. O. SELLERS Acting Director OF
the Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago)
Copyright. 1915. western Newspaper Union. }
New-York tribune., 1916-07-02

soldier have to 90 up against anything
like that
But this is only the field ration l
put in apologetically THE American
army pays the highest price,
But these soldiers are not in the ield
yet" came the retort. Il was with one
battalion of French infantry for a few
weeks. Our cook in peace times was a
chef who drew something like $4,000 a
year. He could take anything and make
it taste. We had banquet at every
meal. even out in the trenches. They
got it out to the men somehow. If a
French army cook had the same allow
ance that is given the American cooks
the army fare would equal that of any
Broadway restaurant.
The arraignment of the American
army ration as it is served was justified.
Travelling with truck train attached
TO the Pershing expedition, ! found the
same monotonous rations that they
served us in the Philippines. 1t was
dished up in the same monotonous and
shipshod manner.
There were all of my old gastronomic
friends. the canned beef, known as en-
balmed horse; the canned corned beef,
still travelling under the name of
"Corned Willie" and my pet aversion,
the canned salmon which is still known
As Goldfish
The only thing that was missing was
New-York tribune., 1916-07-02

ness in preparing food properly ard
partly to the inexplicable axiom that the
War Department never gets full value
for what it pays.
was watching some cooks Of the
New Mexico National Guard preparing
a meal on the dust swept mesa near
Columbus, n NJ. The preparation
of the main dish was simple. Tins of
army beef were opened and dumped into
a fiat pan. A few slices of onion we're
sprinkled over it. One of the cooks was
dumping canned peas into a bucket. The
coffee was boiling in huge pot. A
cooks helper was slicing loaves of bread
into the regular ration chunks ~
This was the principal meal of the
day's ration, for which the United States
pays twice as much as any other nation
in the world. In few moments mess
call would sound, and the New Mexico
volunteers with their mess tins in their
hands would file past the kitchen and
cat this mess with sauce of alkali dust.
There was man with me who had
been with the armies of France since
the war opened. He had lived in the
advance trenches for weeks at time
and he had eaten the rations of the
French army. His face was eloquent
with repugnance.
"How can they cat that truck day
after day." he demanded. Never IN
the hardest emergency would French
New-York tribune., 1916-07-02

the hardtack. Our train had bread,
which started fresh and finished in
highly petrified state. | was told that
our truck train lived high" The other
trains and the small detachments of the
Pershing expedition ate hardtack. | was
pretty lucky, they told me, to be with
train which was blessed with an indus
trious cook.
There has been much talk of the prog
ress of the American commissary de-
partment since The days of 1898.
failed to find it. The embamed horse
has the same flavor, the Corned Willie IS
lust as stringy. As for the Goldfish |
cannot testify. Once upon a time in
the Philippines | lived for nearly a
month on an exclusive ration of Goldfish
and rice. Since that time the sight of
can of salmon takes away my appetite,
and it is not a fastidious one either.
That can prove by testifying that on
my last night in Mexico | ate three
plates of Corned Willie-a record for
the evening-and liked it.
While the army field ration is sub
stantially the same as it was in 1893, it
is safe as yet. AS far as ! could ascer-
tain there had been no cases of ptomaine
poisoning in the Pershing expedition.
There had been time to select the rations.
there had been no rush orders up to that
time. The danger will come when the
War Department has to hurry rations
New-York tribune., 1916-07-02
Drawn By Will Crawford.

to the new army. That is the time when
the utmost vigilance must be observed.
Perhaps the chief reason why the
American soldier is fed so poorly at so
high a cost is that there is no glory to
be obtained in the commissary delart
ment. The officer who invents a new
explosive or a new field pack feels that
he has achieved something, and the
achievement is recognized.
But there is no glamour to inventing a
new bake oven or grub wagon that will
prepare hot and savory food on the
march. An officer who can plan new
system of barbed wire entanglements
would feel that he had accomplished
much. but an officer who had planned
a palatable menu from the field ration
would feel timid about mentioning it.
He would feel that he had done some
thing which might bring derision in
stead of praise.
At West Point the most promising
graduates are assigned to the engineer
corps. the next to the artillery. and so
on. But there are no selections made
for the commissary department. Even
if there were the ambitious young sol
der would be trying to escape the detail.
Yet the commssary department is one
of the most important branches of the
service. The greatest of all generals
acknowledged that in striking cpl
gram.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-01-06
Cure For Slackhead In Turkey.

had a flock Of eighty-five half
grown turkeys that began to NOPE,
droop and die, writes 4 correspondent
Of the Farm Journal. l examined one
and found it's liver full of sores or
ulcers. | was told this was %blackhcad
and incurable. I got down to thirteen
poults and decided to experiment on
them, as they We're all sick. | got the
druggist to mix calomel and rhubarb,
the same as for humans. l bought 25
cents worth and mixed IL good tea
spoonful in about a pint and a half of
milk. ! took the worst case and shut it
up and gave. it the milk, and on the
third day it came out and commenced
eating. l then treated the rest Of the
flock and did not lose another turkey.
AS turkeys sick with this disease have
great thirst, there is not much difficulty
in giving the remedy.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-01-06

Il box or hopper, as should also a liber-
al supply Of oyster shell to prevent soft
or thin shelled eggs.
Laying hens drink freely, and if they
do not have access to q natural supply
fresh water must be furnished them
daily in receptacles which ought not to
be exposed to the sun and which must
be kept clean.
The total cost Of feeding a laying
hen for a year varies considerably, de-
pending upon the breed, the feeds
available and the amount of feed the
hen is able TO pick up. 1t is estimated
to run from 80 cents for a small flock
on the farm to $1.3O where all the feed
has to be purchased.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-01-06
THE CHICKEN YARDS.
Sow Rye This Fall In Preparation For
Next Seasons Matching.

y few moments attention this fall
will help make ideal conditions for next
seasons chickens, says the Orange
Judd Farmer. Rye planted in the yards
about September mot i'll the yards
now should make a good catch this
fall and in the spring come up With
strong, rank growth making excellent
green pasture. Even though the area is
small, chickens seldom get ahead of
growing rye, and the culnlS nf grain
shooting up high furnish shade and
later on in the season the ripencd grain
skaters out, giving the chickens eXer-
else scratching for it.
For later summer this spring pastur-
age may be easily supplemented by Il
spring planting Of oats and peas with
a little clover. Dwarf Essex rape also
planted in the spring makes good sum
mer feed, but because of the green
color it imparts to the yolks of eggs it
must be fed only in limited quantities
to laying hens. Growing chickens need
green food Rye planted in the fall and
oats and peas planted in the spring are
convenient and economical feeds.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-01-06
Her Unfortunate Plight.

Mrs. Cumso-Poor Mrs. barley CON-
plains that she can't get any new
gowns. Mrs. Fangle-Why, thought
she married a ladies' tailor! Mrs.
Cumso-So she did and that's just the
trouble. Her husband is SO busy with
orders that he can't make his wife's
gowns, and, Of course, 1t would never
do for her to so Observation-Disclosures
Press.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-01-06
A Narrow Escape.

I'll give you a hamburg steak" be-
gan the kind lady. 'if you'll chop
Here the man darted out Of the yard.
III you chop the meat" she con-
cluded. "Come back If you're hungry.
I wouldn't think OF asking you to chop
w0od."-Louisville Courier Journal.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-01-06
PICkiNGs.

: II the fowls are left out Of
doors during the Geld fall rains,
! they are apt to catch cold and
= roup; hence the necessity of get
: ting them housed.
: Chicks Matched after the list Of
: June are likely to be lacking in
: the vitality Of chicks from the
= same flock Matched earlier in the
$ season.
: Puilets that were Matched the
+ latter part Of February or the
: early part of March should be
: laying eggs now.
! Don't try, by mixing it with
+ their food, to force ducks to eat
{ o grit than they want.
: Don't be afraid Of overlooking
{ ducks. They should be fed four
: Or five times daily.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-01-06
SENSlTIVENESS

To be unduly sensitive is to SUI
fer needless pain. Sensi6veness is
a form Of fear greatly exaggerated
by introspection. Like al mega
tive emotions sena6veness grows
with indulgence and easily becomes
a fixed habit Of though. and feel
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-01-06
Apprehe

Little Violet had been carefully
coached as to the necessity for quiet
ness upon the occasion of her first
church attendance. She remembered
admirably. Feeling that her behavior
was worthy Of some audible recogni-
ton, she said to her mother at the close
Of the service:
"Say, mother, 1 didn't wake anybody
up, did I?'-Woman's Home Compan-
ion.