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Middletown transcript., 1916-06-03
CLOVER MAKES FINE
PASTURE FOR SWINE
System Outlined Which Has
Worked Well With Many Hog
Growers in Minnesota.

Plenty Of tender, nourishing hog pas
ture of good quality may be had dur
ing the entire season if clover is
grown, say men at the Minnesota col
Iege of agriculture. AS soon as the
pigs are strong enough, the brood
sows with their litters may be turned
into clover field. If one-third to half
of the clover is mown about June TO-,
the hogs will eat the young shoots
that spring up ani will not bother the
uncut part of the field.
The rest of the field may be cut at
the regular haying time. By having
the pasture we'll stocked with pigs
and calves one need not worry about
taking care of the pasture for the rest
Of the summer. BY fall the pigs ought
to weigh from so to 80 pounds each.
This system has worked well with
many hog raisers in Minnesota. In a
good season, one acre of pasture will
provide feed for three brood sows and
their pigs. Plenty of cot room and
trough room with proper feeding facil-
tiles ought to be provided in each pas
ture. The cots should be from 20 to
40 rods from the feeding place, so
that the pigs will get out into the pas
ture and take plenty Of exercise.
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INTELLIGENT CARE
TO SPRING LITTER
Comfortable House With Dry
Bedding, Milk in Ration With
Forage Are Essential.

with the price of hogs soaring
around ten cents per pound the farmer
who gives intelligent care to his spring
litters of pigs can lay up a neat sum
for the automobile he expects to buy"
says w. H. Palmer Of the agricultural
extension department, Ohio State uni
versity, Columbus. He interprets in
telligent care as a comfortable house
with dry bedding, milk or milk and
shorts ration by the third week Of
pigs life, and clean place to eat,
with plenty of forage as they get older.
If little pen or creep is built near the
sleeping place they can be fed when
they are young and small, which pre-
vents the young porkers from losing
their pig fat" By keeping a success
sion of forage crops for the pigs
through the summer the ration of grain
can be lessened and the profits in
creased.
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of peas and oats, oats or clover, for
hay, in the latter part Of June or early
in July, the land is plowed at once, 1t
is then disked once every week or ten
days up to the last week in July, when
the alfalfa seed is sown without a
nurse crop. Again, early potatoes may
be dug late in July and the land thor
oughly disked in preparation for seed
ing to alfalfa. By either of these
methods a crop is secured and good
stand of alfalfa obtained unless the
season be an abnormaily dry one.
An early grain crop such as barley.
rye, or early oats may also be removed
and the land handled as outlined
above. If alfalfa is sown following
grain, it is important to plOw very shall
low, or to disk the land twice thor
oughly, as soon as the grain crop is
removed, so as to start the grain that
has been left in the ground to grow.
ing.
Time should be taken to germinate
and destroy the volunteer grain before
sowing the alfalfa, so that the grain
may not crowd the young alfalfa plants.
This method, however, has not given
such success as seeding after summer
fallow or after an early hay crop has
been removed.
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Elye,pen breeding A0use for Dueks.

R. W. Curtiss of Ransomville, N. Z,
who raises about 10000 ducks a'year
and makes big profits at the business,
says it is harder manual work to raise
ducks than chickens, and the business
requires patience and good judg-
ment. He selects eggs from the
stronger birds and sets them in incu-
bators and broods them until they
are eight weeks old when they are
fattened for market.
Before these ducks are fattened
we sort out our breeding stock at the
age when the ducks are old enough
so that we can tell the sexes. l go, y
says Mr.. Curtiss, through large
number of ducks and perhaps l might
get five or ten fit to breed from out of
a large flock of one hundred. That
seems like lot of work. Every time
you change the feed the ducks won't
eat and if you change gradually they
will probably be off their feed for two
days; and just at that time we sort
out the breeding stock, and it is Just
at the time we change the feed so
that we do not lose anything.
I'VE handle the ducks by the neck;
we never take them by the legs. We
hold the duck up and look at him, and
If he has a good broad breast all the
way through and fairly deep keel, and
broad back, and not too long a neck,
and his head not too long, and if he
fights a great deal and tries to get
away, showing he is strong, then we
will pick out that duck. He has got
to be a certain weight; we do not
actually weigh them because that is
too much trouble.
we take the ducks out in May and
they are taken out in focks of two
hundred. We start and drive these
ducks over to the pasture and in driv-
ing them we will say that we have
two hundred and ten or two hundred
and fifteen.
We keep them in a large wood lot.
We take lots Of time driving them
along, not too slow and not so slow
as you would drive market ducks. We
keep them moving and when we get
them half way over two or three of
them will break down and flap their
wings, and they cannot walk. These
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House for Growing Ducks.

ducks are left right where they are.
It is simply the survival of the Attest,
and when we get to the breeding pens
there will be ducks strung all the way
along where we have been driving
them. 1t is only the ducks that have
strength to walk this distance, being
urged all the time, that are put in
the pen. Then we go back and clean
up the ones that are left and they are
put into the marketing pen. 1t does
not matter how nice duck they are,
because it is strength we are after,
We put one hundred to two hun
dred ducks in a pen, and there is no
shed or anything for them to run un-
der 1t is just simply a wood lot. It
would be just as well to have them
run in a field, provided they had some
artificial shade but decidedly you have
got to have some shade for ducks. If
you put ducks in a hot field in the
summertime there is danger. l have
seer full-grown ducks get sunstruck
and lie down and die.
I'VE feed them there for five months
on light food. We do not want to fat
ten them. If there are any ducks that
get off their iced they are taken right
off; they are not kept. We keep Ian
terms burning in the trees on dark
nights to keep them from getting
scared.
"A peculiar thing about ducks is
that they will run and trample on
each other and jump in the corner of
the pens if they get scared on dark
night. If it is a bright moonlight
night we do not light the lanterns.
The feed for these ducks is four
parts bran to one part of -four and
one part cornmeal and one-twentieth
beef scrap. For green feed we use
four parts clover. The clover should
be about one-third or little more than
one-third of the entire feed. You can
feed them all the green feed they will
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REFUSED TO TAKE CHANCES
Old Gentleman Had Come to Conclu-
sion That There Was Hoodoo
on His Paying Mortgage.

When Uncle George Pence, cham
pion teller Of tales at the statehouse,
was auditor Of Bartholomew county
some years ago, an old German in the
neighborhood owed school-fund mort
gage Of $50 and religiously came to the
auditors Office at each interest-paying
period to pay the small interest.
The records showed that the old Ger
man had owed the mortgage for more
than thirty years, and he was rather
well-to-dO.
One day, when he appeared to pay
his interest, Auditor Pence asked him
why he did not pay the $50 and stop
paying interest.
The old man said he had started to
pay that mortgage three times in the
last thirty years and that each time
he had made up his mind to pay it
and had started out to do it, one Of his
SONS had died.
Il am never going to pay it now" he
said, solemnly.-Indianapo News.
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ings and ample room for the exercise
necessary to maintain his potency.
Give the calf its meals in pals as
clean and sanitary as those used in
handling milk for human consumption.
1t pays.
Don't change the dairy cows feed
too abruptly. Digestive troubles and
a consequent falling off in milk are
likely to result.
The common practice OF compelling
the dairy heifers to shift for them
selves is to be severely condemned.
You can't develop good COWS that way.
The best receptacles for the cream
are the cans designed especially for
that purpose.
Buttermilk is a valuable by-product
and a profitable market for it can often
be found among regular butter and
egg customers.
The worn-out separator or the ma
chine Of poor make often causes
enough loss in one season to more
than pay for a new machine of a
reputable make.
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QUICKEST GAINS BY
THE YOUNG PORKERS
Sow Should Be Given All Good
MiIk-PrOducing Food She
will Consume Readily.

by feeding the young porker
through the mother and later direct
Iy from the trough, he can be mar
keted a month earlier and return a
greater profit" says Joel S. Coffew of
the animal husbandry department,
Ohio State university. To this end
the SOW should be given all the good
milk-producing feed she will eat.
When the pigs are 4 month 6tte OF
younger, they should be fed skim milk
in a shallow pan. Then slop made
of milk, shorts, bran and little tank
age should be given. The little pigs
should be fed in a creep which shuts
out the sows or other pigs. Corn
can be added to the ration later.
There will be no trouble from thumps
If the pigs are given plenty of exer-
else.
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RAISING FEED FOR THE FLOCK
Farm That Produces Its Own Grain Is
Always Most successfuI-Oper-
atins Expense Reduced.

The poultry farm that produces its
own feed or goodly part of it is al
ways the most successful" according
to William H. Pfeifer of Attention. Mo-,
because the feed is always right at
hand when needed, no drayage, no
waste, the range birds seeing to the
latter.
"The shattered grain does not go to
feed sparrows, crows, ETC., but pro-
duces chicken-meat and eggs. The
droprings go back to the fields as
fertilizer and the operating expense or
upkeep is greatly reduced.
Such farm has a great advantage
over the one that has to buy all it's
feed, hauling it over miles sof rough
country roads, paying dearly for the
time wasted in drayage and extra han
ding. This in itself is important evi-
dence of why the farmer can produce
cheaper poultry and eggs THAN the
poultryman. Those who after serious
consideration decide to go into the
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eat. A good indication is to watch
theiI troughs, and after they have
eaten their feed if they leave a little
clover in the trough you know they
are getting ali they want, and may be
a little more; and if they clean this
trough up they haven't quite enough
to eat. If they have too much to eat,
they pick the green feed out and leave
nothing but the mash, and then you
know they haven't enough green feed.
I'VE feed them wet mash; mix it a
little more moist than you do for
fed all they will eat, because if you
do they will get in good condition.
They are not to be starved, but you
must keep them just a little hungry,
and they will go out in this one or
two acres of land and eat more or
less green feed, and they will run up
and down the pen and it will give them
muscle.
we keep them in this manner until
they are five months old, and then we
change and put them in permanent
quarters. Most any kind of a build
ing Will 90 for duck house. 1t does
not require very much light, but if
you want eggs all the winter you must
have it warm enough so that the eggs
won't get chilled. If you go through
pretty often and take up the eggs they
will not get chilled.
I'VE do not have any nests in our
duck houses; we simply bed them
with shavings. We did try nests, but
we could not see any great benefit
from them. They will dig hole
in the corner and lay the egg and
cover it up and when you go through
in the morning you have to be careful
that you do not walk on the eggs.
I'VE breed from a pullet, we never
breed from yearling duck. A duck
will take un fat very easily, and if you
ke1I them over the second year they
get too fat, and they will not lay as
early, and the eggs are not fertile, and
we cannot get good results.
I'VE mate one drake and five ducks.
We start these in October, and as the
season advances, say about the first of
March, we watch the ducks, and If
we see two brakes get to fighting,
we catch one of them; we catch the
poorest and put him in pen by him
self Whenever we\see any fighting,
we take out drake, and when there
is no fighting, we leave them alone,
and they balance themselves up.
Sometimes you will find they will
run for long time and there will be
no fighting; then. there will come a
rain storm, and there will be puddles
of water in the yard, and II you go
out you will find dozens of them fight
ing. and they will tear each other to
pieces. They will get the blood
started and your five brakes will get
after one and fairly eat him. have
seen it when we would not have more
than one drake to ten or twelve ducks,
and we would get just as good eggs
as we got in the winter"
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USING SWEET CLOVER
AS A SOIL BUILDER
It viii Produce Crop on Land So
Poor That Red Clover and
Alfalfa Won't Grow.

Investigations by the Iowa Agricul-
tural college among the farmers of
that state show that the common sweet
clover is more than equal to the other
clovers, or alfalfa, as a soil builder. 1t
will produce a crop on land so poor
that red clover and alfalfa will not
grow. 1t is sometimes claimed that it
will grow on land totally devoid Of or
ganic matter. This seems somewhat
doubtful, but there is no question as to
lJS DelnS one Oh In0 IduhOoI 6EOTT V1t5
known on poor land.
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GET MOST MILK FROM HEIFER
Animal Shows Dislike for Unneees-
sary Noise and Delay in Dimin-
Ished Quantities Of Milk.

A heifer does not like unnecessary
noise, or delay, and shows her dis
like by diminished quantities Of milk.
Milking her regularly at as near the
same hour night and morning as pos
sible is important.
The first streams of milk contain
many Objectionable bacteria, and onto
the ground is where they should go.
It is poor policy to wet the hands with
milk. Instead rub a little vaseline on
the hands. This keeps the teats in
nice condition and makes milking
easy.
OF course the mixer ought to be
clean, kind and sympathetic. He
should not sit off at a distance, but
his left arm should be in close contact
with the leg Of the heifer so that she
cannot kick. If she maker the attempt
he will only get push instead of a
blow. 1t is necessary to do the milk
ing quietly and in the shortest possible
time, and it is important that the heif-
er be MIXED clean and dry every time,
otherwise she will be injured as a
mixer, besides the richest and most
valuable part of the milk will be lost.
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SWAMP ROOT FOR
KIDNEY DISEASES

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent as . remedy for
diseases Of the kidneys, liver and bladder.
Dr.. Kilmer's Swamp Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
10 be just the remedyoneeded in thousands
upon thousands of even the most distress
ing cases. Swamp-Root, physicians pre-
OcriptiCn for special diseases, makes friends
quickly because it's mild and immediate ef-
feet is soon realized in most cases. It il
9 gentle, healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at all drug
stores in bottles of two 'Eizes-6fty cents
and one dollar.
However, If you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for q
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paPer.-Adv.
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COOK BUSTED UP THE TEA
Little Doubt as 70 Who Was Boss on
Ranch Owned by Robert Louis
Stevenson.

"A party of visitors to SaranaO
Lake, N. Y, went to call on Robert
Louis Stevenson" says the late DR..
Edward L. Trudeau in his autobios-
raphy, recently published.
When we knocked at the front
door a voice from within called out
You cannot come in this way. The
wood is up against the door, Go
round by the kitchen
so we all fled through the kitchen
to the little sitting room with the big
fireplace, where Mr.. Stevenson re-
ceived us. After a while Lloyd Os-
borne asked the ladies if they would
have a cup of tea, and as they assented
he departed for the kitchen. Soon he
returned with a broad smile on his
face.
II am sorry, but you cant have any
tea; the cook scouts the ideal And
we didn't have any," Doctor Trudeau
added
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GOOD MIXTURE FOR
CHICKS FIRST MEAL
Stale Bread, Hard Boiled Egg
and Chicken Grit Recon-
mended by Iowa College.

For the chicks first meal the Iowa
State college poultry depay tment rec
ommends the following mixture: one
fifth loaf OF stale bread, one hard
boiled egg, one-6fth pound chicken
grit. Feed only what chicks will clean
up at time. For the second meal
feed mixture, one part by weight pin
head oats, one part fine cracked dent
corn, one part fine cracked wheat. The
third meal should be the same as the
first and so on until the bread mixture
is used, which is based on a supply Of
20 chicks.
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PROBLEM OF PURE-BRED SIRE
One Solution Is for Several Neighbors
to Club Together and Secure
Needed Males.

The farmer with only few animals
can hardly afford to keep pure-bred
males. Yet he cannot afford to use
scrubs. One solution of the problem
is for several neighbors to club to
gether and secure tie pure-bred sires
needed. This will really make the
cost of the pure-bred sire less to each
farmer than would be the cost OF
scrub sires if each owned one.
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work and washing for eleven and l can
truthfully say Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound has been a godsend
to me for 1 would have been in my grave
TODAY but for it. 1 would tell oil wo-
men suffering as was to try your valu-
able remedy. Mrs. WIN. GREEN, 1872
S. Addison Street, Indianapolis, Indiana
There ishardly neighborhoOd in this
country, wherein some woman has not
found health by using this good old
fashioned root and herb remedy.
If there is anything about which you
would like special advice, write to the
Lydia E. Pinkhan Medicine Co, Lynn.
Mass.
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GIVE THE HENS FAIR CHANCE
Eggs Cannot Be Expected If Fowls Are
Not Cared For ProPerIy-Cows
Not Neglected.

Hens cannot lay with no care. LooA
at the dairyman. See how he cares
for his cows. He gives them a nice
warm barn, with plenty of light, good
water, clean stables and plenty of good
wholesome food to eat. And what do
the cows do for him? They fill the
milk cans to overfowing with good,
pure milk. Why not give the hens the
same chance?
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GOOD ADVICE FOR DAIRYMEN
Profitable Milk Producer Has Wide
Sprung Ribs and Deep Abdomen
Give Bull Exercise.

A COW which will do her full duty at
production will generally have wide
sprung ribs and a deep abdomen to
provide great capacity for the diges-
tive organs.
The cream screw on the separator is
a small thing, but a mighty important
one. See that it is properly adjusted
and that is does not become clogged.
The manure carrier is a necessity on
the dairy farm. With this device the
manure can be carried vel! away from
the barn, and a potent source of con-
tamination is thus removed.
The bull, though he should be con-
fined, must be given clean surround
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EGGS SHIPPED FOR HATCHING
Should Be Nested Deeply and Careful
Iy Wrapped in Excelsior-CoVer
Basket With Cloth.

Eggs to be shipped for Matching, II
packed in baskets, should be nested
deeply in excelsior and each egg care
fully wrapped in excelsior
The basket may be covered with a
piece of cloth which is seved to the
basket at the edges, or held in place
by tacks carefully pushed in the bask-
ct, or may have it's edge pushed up un-
der the top strip of the basket, outside,
with the edge of case knife.
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AIM TO PRODUCE DRY BUTTER
Proper System of Manufacture viii
Produce Article That Will Per-
fectIy SecreAe Moisture.

Aim to produce butter that is visibly
dry while yet containing percentage
of moisture approaching the standard
A proper system of manufacture will
produce a butter in which the mois.
ture is in such fine state Of subdi-
vision that it will not ooze out in
transit or when the butter is cut up.
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SETTING EGGS FROM PULLETS
AS General Rule Young Fowls Are In
Poor Physical condition-Hens'
Eggs Are Best.

Better matches and stronger chicks
will result by setting eggs from hens
than from pullets. AS rule, pullets
lay more during the winter and are
poorer in physical condition at the be-
ginning of the Matching season than
are the hens, which gives rise to a
larger number of small eggs and more
infeTtile ones.
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RED, ROUGH, PIMPLY SKIN
Quickly Cleared by cutIeura Soap and
Ointment. Trial Free.

You may rely on these fragrant,
super-creamy emollients to care for
your skin, scalp, hair and hands. Moth
ing better to clear the skin Of pimples,
blotches. redness and roughness, the
scalp of dandrufH and itching and the
hands of chapping and soreness.
Free sample each by mail with Book
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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On DUTY.

Young George sat on the top rail Of
q fence kicking his heels against q
lower rail. Along came young Henry.
Let's 60 down to the creek and
have a SWIM" suggested Henry.
Cant" said George. I've been
put out here to mind Aunt Sallie's and
Aunt Hattie's children"
Henry looked around wonderingly.
There were no children in sight
Where are they?" he asked.
Blamed If / know" said George
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Charcoal for Turkeys.

Never attempt to go through sea.
son without feeding or placing char
coal (chick size) where the poults can
pick at it. You will be surprised at
the amount of charcoal a clutch OF
turkeys will eat in a weeks time. It's
a great health promoter.
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After the Accident.

Where am II"
'Tn the hospital. You were knocked
down by an automobile"
What make was it?"
"A -Blank-the finest car
made"
"Ah, remember-it struck me as .
fine car."-F1orida Times Union.
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down that / cooIo
not work. / was
thin, pale and weak,
weighed but 10S
pounds and was in
bed most of the
time / began TAX
ing Lydia E. Pink
hams Vege table
Compound and FIVE
months later l
weighed 1873 pounds.
I do all the house
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Cow Under ohaervation.

During the pasture season there ig
no better plan than to leave the COW
in the pasture under observation until
the calf is born.
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HINTS TO ORCHARDISTS
Spray at the right time.
Distribute spray evenly.

} Spray at the right time.
Distribute spray evenly.
) Use correct materials in right
proportions.
) Avoid the use Of bordeaux
mixture in wet weather and
, lime-sulphur in hot, sunny
, weather.
Improve the physical condi-
) ton of the tree by correct prun-
, ing. The object in pruning is
; to force the development of new
, wood through the center of the
, tree.
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Hunurv Hoas pon't Paw.

Hunger toughens the hide Of a
hog" is an old saying. Possibly;
hungry hog may be good to cut up In
to purses, but he is no good for filing
fhnU
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Avoid Hanhazard Methods

Don't breed haphazardly from all the
flock, but select the best specimens
and make sure that all the young
stock this year is from those birds.
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Good Sound Advice,

Again we say: don't try too many
experiments with new crops and va
rieties this season. Put your main de-
pendence upon what you know that
you know. This is not just catchy
phrase; it is good sound advice.
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cor+so,ous Abortion.

If your cows are losing their calves,
have a veterinarian examine and treat
them for contagious abortion.
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Grain for Chicks

When buying dry grain chick feeds,
be sure that they are clean and fresh,
tree from mustiness and mold.