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Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
VITALITY is NEEDED
IN A POULTRY FLOCK
One Thing to Look For in Select
ing individuals for Breeding
Some of Markings.
By H. A. BITTENBENDER, Iowa Elk

By H. A. BITTENBENDER, Iowa Ex-
pertinent Station)
Vitality-that's the thing to seek in
selecting individuals for the poultry
breeding flock, because lack of it in
the parent stock is one of the great
causes of loss in poultry raising.
Marks of strong vitality: A head
that is short, broad, deep, compact.
An eye that is bright, full, clear,
round, prominent. A beak that is
short, broad, well curved. Comb and
wattles that are well developed and
fiery red. A body that is we'll jointed,
compact, stout; back, long and broad;
breast, deep, broad, thickly fleshed,
with a keel running well back; ca
pacity, large, especially in a hen which
needs room to develop a digestive and
reproductive system capable of manu-
featuring many eggs. A strong bird
generally stands with shanks squarely
under its body and wide apart at the
knee joints. It's toe nails are usually
worn broad and fiat across the point,
evidencing great activity.
The marks of low vitality are the
opposite of those of strength. The
head is long, fiat, sunken, narrow; the
eye is small and dull; the comb and
wattles poorly developed or pale. The
body is often loosely jointed, with
knee joints close together; the breast
is narrow, shallow and poorly 1eshed.
Long. pointed toe nails indicate less
activity.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

er it takes large portion of our milk
checks to buy the same quantity in
a more condensed form.
Providing she comes from good an
cestry, the development Of the COW
begins on the day of her birth. Cows
seldom develop much after they are
in the dairy.
The effort to develop COWS after
they are in the dairy always falls short
of what might have been accomplished
had the development been started
three years earlier.
1t is not expensive barns that make
good milk and healthy cows, but well
fed and healthy cows, though their
stables be plain ones, just as we find
the healthiest people living in plain
cottage homes.
Feed the young heifer like a little
COW and on COW foods. Let calf and
stock foods alone. Feed good bran,
middlings, little oil meal, clover hay,
silage and that sort of foods. Never
overfeed.
Young calves will soon learn to lick
at grain and nibble at hay. They are
equipped with grinders quite early in
their lives and will soon make use Of
these feeds.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
DAIRY
FACTS
YELLOW CREAM AND BUTTER
Experiments Show Popular Belief
That Color Indicates Richness
in Quality Mistaken.

The belief that bright yellow color
in milk means richness in quality is
not true Experiments conducted at
the college of agriculture of the Uni
versity of Missouri show that the
change from the white cream and but
ter in winter to yellow cream and but
ter in spring and summer does not in
dicate an increased fat percentage.
The very highest colored milk that
cow can give may have the lowest fat
percentage. Such a condition is found
in the so-called colostrum milk, the
first milk that a COW gives after Civ
ing birth to a calf.
The explanation of the wide differ
ence between the results of the ex-
periments and the popular belief in
regard to the relation of color to rich
ness lies in the cause Of the natural
yellow color of cream and | --r. It
was found that COWS were not able to
produce the yellow coloripg matter for
their cream and butter. The coloring
matter must be derived from the feed.
The yellow coloring matter OF milk
was found to be identical with a yel-
low coloring matter that is widely dis
tributed in plants and fresh grass.
This coloring matter is called carotin.
1t takes its name from the carrot,
where it is very abundant, and where
it was first discovered by scientists
more than one hundred years ago.
The difference in the color of cream
and butter in winter and spring was
found to be due to the fact that the
winter feeds contain little or no caro-
tin. No marked increase in the fat
percentage accompanies the increase
in color when foods rich in carotin are
fed It has been shown that the aver
age COW gives a higher per cent OF
fat in it's milk during the winter than
in the spring and summer.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
WOMEN SUFFERERS
NEED SWAMP ROOT

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney and bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result Of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
TO become diseased
You may suffer a great deal with pain
in the back, headache, loss of ambition
nervousness and may be respondent and
irritable.
Don't delay starting treatment. Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, re
stores health to the kidneys and is just
the remedy needed to overcome such con-
ditions
Get a fifty cent or one dollar bottle i'm
mediately from any drug store.
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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why FARMER SHOULD
HAVE A SEPARATOR
Little or No Loss of Skim Milk
Less Danger of Introducing
Disease Into Herd.

(By 6. i. LEE. Wisconsin Experiment
Sfation.)
There is a number of very good
reasons why a farmer should own and
operate cream separator.
!. There is little OF no loss OF skim
milk, which, of course, has a high feed
ing value.
e. There is less danger of introduc-
ing such contagious disease as tuber-
culosis into the herd if the milk is
skinned at home and only the milk
produced upon the farm is fed.
3. Time is saved by not hauling
whole milk to the factory.
f. Less products have to be cared for
upon the farm.
5. There is a wider market for cream
than for milk.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

good and I hope every suffering woman
win give them a trial" Mrs. ANNA
KELLY, 10 Chestnut Street, Burling.
ton, Wis.
The many convincing testimonials con-
Btantly published in the newspapers
ought to be proof enough to women who
suffer from those distressing ills pecu-
liar to their sex that Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is the medicine
they need.
This good old root and herb remedy
has proved unequalled for these dread
full ills; it contains what is needed to
restore woman's health and strength.
IF there is any popularity in
your case requiring special adj
vice, write the Lydia e. Pink~
ham Medicine Co. (confidentiaIls
Lynn, Mass.s for free advice.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
EXPERIMENT IN GOOD ROADS
Road to Chevy Chase Text Book in
Concrete, Brick and Stone''-Ex-
perts Are Interested.

There is here text book in con.
crete, brick and stone-the road tc
Chevy Chase, built by the plans and
under the direction of the Office 81
public roads of the United States an0
for the sole purpose of informing the
public and the members of congress
interested in the improvement of the
public highways upon the methods and
cost of construction, types of roads.
adaptability of material and economy
of maintenance.
Thousands of people travel over
this road, which is built in many sec.
tions of different types, every day, and
hundreds of practical road builders
from all parts of the country have in.
spected it from time to time and have
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

Ready Tor use, E%perimenta! Cor
crete Road, Chevy Chase, Nd.
marveled at the excellence of the
work.
Manufacturers who have supplied
bituminous materials for the treat
ment of the road have detached their
special experts for this service and
ttlae the traffic ttEaHHi ever the road has demon
strated under carefully observed con-
ditions the relative value Of the sew
eral types of road making up this great
highway.
The Chevy Chase road is expert
mental. 1t consists Of different types
Of Observation-Disclosures macadam
laid by the penetration method, sur
face treatments of waterbound ma
cadam, asphaltic surfaces on concrete
foundations, bitunlinous surfaced con
crete, plain and oil cement concrete
and Yitrifed brick, all Of which are
under daily observation by experj
road builders to ascertain whicAsOl the
types is best suited tc the traffic and
which is condemned by practica, test
under the same conditions of climate,
soil, rainfall, heat and Geld and like
traffic requirements. 1t would be just
the same to the Office of public roads
which has written this open book in
concrete, brick and stone whether any
part of it or all parts of it should fail,
failure in materials used, in construc-
ton, in durability, in cost, in meinte-
nance-the test is the thing.
Road building is a science now, and
efficiency is the only test of quality.
In the stones used in the construc-
ton Of the Chevy Chase road, their
specific gravity, their weight per cubic
foot, their water absorption, their per-
centage of wear, their hardness and
toughness are all determined by the
most careful scientific tests. Patrol
men are constantly employed on this
road to keep account Of whatever de-
fects in materials and construction
may develop and exact data as to the
cost of maintenance.
The Chevy Chase road was foytu-
nately placed for the reason that all |
of its sectionc of types have been sub |
iected to precisely the same sort Of |
traffic year in and year out and the |
section or type that has not stood the |
strain has been as important an object |
lessen to road builders as the section |
or type that has maintained itself un
der like strain. The road, as whole, !
is a great experiment conducted by the
most competent engineer to demon
strate the most practical things.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
FOR BABY RASHES
cuticura Soap Is Best Because So
Soothing and Cooling. Trial Free.

If baby is troubled with rashes, &c.
zemas, itchings, chafngs or hot. irri-
tated skin follow Cuticura Soap bath
with light application of Cuticura Oint-
ment to the affected part. Nothing so
soothing, cooling and refreshing when
he is fretful and sleepless.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold eveTywhere.-Adv.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Milking Machine.

vented by A. Truchot of Choteau,
Mont, as follows:
By means of this device the milk
ing of COW may be accomplished rap
idly and economically and with no
danger of injuring the animal. The
apparatus is of light weight, and is
adjustable so as to permit the move
ment of the animal during the milk
ing operation. The milking operation
closely Stimulates that of manual op.
Grafton.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

Her quick wit has carried Sophie
Tucker through many ticklish posi-
tions in vaudeville, and once while re-
heaTsing for production turned an
unpleasant situation in her favor.
Ben Teal, the veteran stage director,
was doing the rehearsing and took oc-
casion to correct Miss fuckers pro-
nunciation of a certain word, explain
ing so the assembled members of the
company could get the benefit of his
remarks, that in the word disputed the
Letter t" was silent Sophie accepted
the correction with tie remark: "AIl
right, Mr.. Teal-with the TT silent"
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Exact Copy ofWrapper
Eioht Hours Enough.

While on trip out of town well
known advertising man received the
following telegram from his secretary,
who was leaving to get married and
had arranged for what she consid
cred a highly desirable substitute:
Ethel lays down at the eleventh
hour. What shall I do?"
To which the gentleman, in the full
knowledge that the supply of eticient
secretaries had not been exhausted
at this one detection, replied:
Set the alarm for seven. Eight
hours sleep is enough for anyone. -
Judge.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

Before an Insurance Company will
take risk on your life the examining
physician will test the urine and re-
port whether you are a good risk.
When your kidneys get sluggish and
clog, you suffer from backache, sick
headache, dizzy spells, or the twinges
and pains of lumbago, rheumatism and
gout. The urine is often cloudy, full
of sediment; channels often get sore
and sleep is disturbed two or three
times a night. This is the time you
should consult some physician of wide
experience-sucha as DR.. Pierce, of the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Buffalo, N. Y. Send him 10 cents for
sample package of his new discovery
=. A==....se y Write him vnIJr avmntorns
and send a. sample of urine for test.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
WHY "ANURIC"
is AN INSURANCE AGAINST SUDDEN DEATHI
Sufferers from Backachs Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble

Experience has taught DR.. Pierce that
'Anuric" is the most powerful agent
in dissolving uric acid, as hot water
melts sugar; besides being absolutely
harmless it is endowed with other
properties, for it preserves the kid
neys in a healthy condition by thor
oughly cleansing them. Checks the de-
generation Of the blood-vessels, as wen
as regulating blood pressure. "Anuric'
is a regular insurance and life-savef
for all big meat eaters and those who
deposit lime-salts in their joints. Ask
the druggist for "Anuric" put up by DR..
Pierce, in 50-cent packages.
DR.. Pierce's sFavorite Prescription
makes weak women strong, sick
pznmen well No alcohol. Sold iR
tablets or liquid.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
RECIPE For GRAY HAIR.

To half pint of water add or Bay Rum, q
small box Of Barbo Compound. and 4 OF. Of
glycerine. Apply to the hair twice a week
until it becomes the desired shade. Any drug
gist can put this up or you can mix 1t at
home at very little cost. It will gradually
moves dandruff. It is excellent for falling
hair and will make harsh hair soft and glossy.
1t will not color the scalp, is not sticky or
greasy, and does not rub of.-Ady.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
,Nother soIar.PIexus Slow.

Sapleigh-t-aW-am suah we are
going to have beastly hawd wintah.
doncher know
Miss Knox-No' I'm sure I don't
know But why are you so sure Of
it?
Sapleigh gh-Er-because I-aw-feeI
it in me bones
Miss Knox So you still
believe in that old goose-bone theory?
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Make Hens Pay.

The hind of chickens you should
breed depends largely on what you are
breeding for, whether for eggs or for
market broilers. Then some like one
breed the best and some like another.
This question of breed is best left for
the breeder to decide, but whatever
breed you may choose, be sure that the
etrain is pure.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Cost of Keeping Cow.

The annual cost of keeping a COW
is close to $65, if man values his
labor at Is cents an hour. 1t takes a
good mixer to pay her way, one that
produces anyway $500 pounds of milk
a year separating out 200 pounds Of
hnfferfat
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
The Social WhirI.

Blondine-I notice Bennie Bean
brough is home for the winter.
Brunetta--Yes, after spending the
summer at a seaside resort he says he
is tired of the social whirl.
Il don't wonder he is tired of the
kind of social whirl he knows about"
What do ycu mean?"
He earned his living during the
summer by collecting tickets on a mer-
ry-go-round Youngstown Telegram
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Watering Plants.

The color of the foliage is a good
guide in watering plants. A dark
green color indicates that the watering
is all right. 1t does not pay to sprin.
kle water on every day or two. AS a
rule plant beds should be soaked and
no more water added until really
needed.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

but after taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound Tablets and
using two bottles Of
the Sanative Wash
I am fully convinced
that / am entirely
cured of these trou-
bles, and feel better
all over. / know
your remedies have
6A~A vA v1~,ll- -
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Left Behind.

How dc you like Chugson?"
Not at ALL"
why, he speaks well CT you"
Perhaps he does, but he's always
my motor car"
Aren't you mistaken about that"
Certainly not I've had to take his
lust too many times"
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Good Stretches Useless.

Local control il road building means
a good patch where the officials are
up to date. and poor stretch where
the local authorities are slack in their
road work-and the poor stretches Of
read make the good stretches useless.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Let Hens Rest in Winter.

Hens that have rested the winter
through and have been Injured to cold,
coming off hardy and well, will show
the largest percentage of fertile eggs
when they do begin laying.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
up-to-Date Roads.

We have the spectacle in most
states of pioneer roads for twentieth
century farmers whose equipment in
farming consists Of modern machinery
and modes OF travel. When, oh when,
will he put the up-to-date mode of
travel on an up-to-date read!
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

It's poor rule that won't work
both ways. Some people don't believe
half they hear, and some don't hear
half they believe.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Ventilation Is Essential.

Ventilation is absolutely essential
for the health of the COWS, but is one
of the hardest problems to solve in
most barns
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
nisnard unnrofitabIe Cow.

Discard the COW which has failed
at the end of the year to pay market
price for all the feed she has con-
sumed.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
.nran Innroves Surface.

Is your road to town rough and
hard to travel over? A split-log CT
iron drag drawn over the road after
each rain helps to give : good sur
face and does not cost much
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

Sometimes you can judge by appear
ances. Many a woman appears to be
strait-Iaced because she really is
laced that way.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Green Food Needed.

Do not forget that the fowls need
green food. If change of yards is
not poss BILE see that some is fed them
daily.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Be Friendly with Poultry.

Be on intimate terms with your poul.
try. Pick them up occasionally. They
will lay better if you treat them in q
sociable manner.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Value Of Good Cow.

A good COW is better than two poor
ones-yes, better than three that can't
more than pay for their feed.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
HBad Eoos."

A few bad eggs in a case is SUN.
eient to give the whole lot a bad name.
Be careful that every egg is strictly
fresh.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
For Poultry Success.

Careful management of poultry is
4OAO ACOCS0eAy EOE NtEN7@7NzE7E7 -
many other classes OF live stock.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
MILK MACHINE WORKS QUICK
Task of Milking Cow May Be Accom-
pIished Rapidly and Economically
NO Danger of Injury.

The Scientific American illustrates
and describes a milking machine, in
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

A frenzied fnancier-one who can
borrow money from a bill collector.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
CIean Out Drains.

Clean out the drains and bitches
and see that they are free from OBJ
structions.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
strainina spraY Mixture.

OLIdAu Cie spIe-y WtIISIIEII through d
good. fine strainer. It avoids cIogging
hoszles and wasted time.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Piles Cured in 6 to ~ Davs

Druggists refund money il PAZO OINTMENT
fails to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud-
ing Piles. First application gives relief. soc
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

To keep clean and healthy take DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach.-Adv.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
cows Food Before caIvinc.

=...e-,--. +-sl.-...- 4t,n oo1r,s food should
be reduced in quantity and Of lax&
tive nature.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
PAINS IN SIDE
and BACK
How Mrs. Kelly Suffered and
How She was Cured.

Burlington, Wis.-'T was very irreg-
olar, and had pains in my side and back,
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

Many a man would never be heard
Of were it not for his obituary notice.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

Not Gray Hairs but Tired Eyes
make US look older than we are. Keep
your Eyes young and you Will look young.
after the Movies Murine Your Eyes. Don't
cell your age. Murine Eye Remedy Co.
Chicago Sends Eye Book on request.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

'Tw1uIo Spoil It All.
Mother-Young man, don't ever let
NE catch you kissing my daughter.
Young Man-No, ma am. won't.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

The bewhiskered old humbug il
more popular than the barefaced lie.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

The man who attempts to match his
logic against woman's tears is one
kind of padded-cell candidate.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-12-22

and they even offer you good imita-
ton of expression" 1t is not difficult
to teach ordinary children to read at a
very early age. 1t is not difficult to
have them read a great deal and to
reproduce much of what they read. But
what is the use of all this? The as
sumption is that the more the child
reads the more he will remember, and
the more he remembers the better off
he is.
The facts of the child's development,
however, are against the forcing sys-
tenn of education. We can make a
child reproduce beautiful passages
from our "best authors" long before
we can give him an inkling of what
the authors are talking about. The
child may read about passions and in
trigue, but he gets only words and
the child at our side and fill him up
with thousand facts of history and
enough other words to qualify him for
three or four grades ahead of his
years. But this learning does not add
to the child's power, because it has no
real meaning to hint is not con-
nected with his emotions and expert
ence.
There is real danger in the at
tempt to shorten the child's develop
ing period by forcing him TO an early
completion of the school work. The
fact that the child is capable of pass
ing the school tests in fewer years
than are ordinarily required may not
be a real gain. If it were possible
TO make the child condense his yalG-
able experience so that he would at
ten years of age be where most chill
dren are at fourteen. that would be
worth considering. In so far as learn
ing represents condensed experience II
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-12-22
Mcurinov Married Couples.

If every wife who is trying to cure
her husband and every husband who
is trying to cure his wife would stop
the operation, and all the husbands
would devote their energies to curing
themselves and all wives. devote their
energies to curing themselves, the
homes would be a great deal happier
than they are today. There are scold-
ing wives who are bending all their en-
ergies to the task of curing their hus-
bands of habits far less detrimental
to the happiness Of the home than the
habit of scolding. There are husbands
who have set themselves the task OF
curing their wives of imperfectjons OF
much less consequence than the in
firmities of character and temper pos
sessed by the husband himself.-Edin-
burgh Scotsman.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-12-22
Good Breeding.

Civility is the essential article to-
ward pleasing and is the result of good
nature and good sense, but good breed
ing is the decoration, the luster of
civility, and only to be acquired by a
minute attention to, and experience of
good company. A good-natured plow-
man or fox hunter may be Intentionally
as civil as the politest courtier, but
their manner often degrades and viii
fies their matter; whereas In good
breeding the manner always adorns
and dignifes the matter to such a
degree that have very often known it
to give currency to base coin.-Lord
Chesterfield.