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The Lamar register., 1916-08-09
Mr.. c. C. Linville.

called upon Mrs. C. G. Linville to give
up her loved ones.
Mr.. Charles Granville Linville (hel
husband), son Of w. j. and Sarah F
Linville, was born near Leavenworth
Kansas, Feb. oath, 1877. He was kill
ed by lightning near the summit of
Pixies Peak, Aug. 4th, 1916.
Brother Linville was converted and
united with the Pleasant Grove Unit
ed Brethren church, near Holden, Kan
sas, in 1901. He was married to Miss
Eva Lee Coin, Jan. oath, 1905. Three
sons came to bless this union. The
eldest one died in infancy
Harry Norman died suddenly No
vember %, 1915. Laurence R. was
drowned May 4. 1916.
After Laurence's funeral, Mrs. Lin
vile accompanied her husband to Pu-
eblo, where they visited Mr.. and Mrs
C. r. Linville, 3O19 <. High street, for
a short time She then went to the
camp near Pixies Peak and remained
with her husband until the evening of
August 3rd, when preparations to
break camp began and she returned
to Pueblo to await his coming.
The contract had been completed
and Mr. Linville remained to supcrin-
tend some extra work preparatory to
breaking camp.
He was held in the highest esteem
by the engineers having proved his
ability TO execute a contract and
handle men. He always saw that the
smallest detail was properly carried
out His contract finished, his life
work ended He was ushered into
Eternity in the twinkling Of an eye.
II time had been given for a mess
age to his loved ones it would contain
the following sentimc-t:
81 will not doubt, though all my ships
at sea
Come drifting home with broken
masts and sails,
will believe the hand which meyer
fails
From seeming evil, worketh good
for me.
And though weep because those sails
are tattered,
Still will I cry, while my best hopes
lie shattered,
I trust in thee"
I will not doubt, well anchored in this
faith,
Like some staunch ship, my soul
braves every goal;
So strong its courage that it will not
quail
To breast the mighty. unknown sea
Of death.
OH may I cry, though body parts
with spirit,
81 do not doubt" so listening worlds
may hear it
With my last breath.
He leaves to mourn his departure a
wife. Mrs. Eva Lee Linville. Lamar.
Colorado; his father and mother. Mr..
and Mrs. w J. Linville. Of Sterling
Kansas; six brothers, G. X. Linville.
w. S. Linville, and William Jennings
Linville, Pueblo, Colorado; B. Fl. Lin
vile, Flagler, Colorado; Edmond Lee
Linville, Wiley, Colorado; John b.
Linville. Vermillion, Alberta, Canada;
four sisters, Mrs. Anna Eliza Hamp-
ton, King Hill. Idaho; Mrs. Mary
Margaret Acers, Wiley, Colorado;
Miss Sarah Jane Linville, Sterling,
Kansas; Mrs. Ella " Morris. Wichita,
Kansas.
The funeral services were conducted
at the First Baptist church of Lamar
Monday. August eth, 1916, at 2:8O
p. M, Rev T. F. Kelly officiating.
The text used was lisa. 41:1O, "The
Best Helper" Music by the male
quartet.
He was laid TO rest in Riverside
cemetery to await the resurrection
morn.
For Sale-HOuse and LOT on north
The Lamar register., 1916-08-09

Few Suicides Among Miners.
Statistics show that there are fewer
suicides among miners than among
any other class OF workers.
The Lamar register., 1916-08-09

II you know how to spend less than
You get y~I have the philosophers
Stone franklin.
The Lamar register., 1916-08-09

WANTED--Second hand buggy. Chas.
F. Hiley, Lamar.
The Lamar register., 1916-08-09
Pigs for Sale

Inquire of Ed Williams, just east of
Goodale place.
The Lamar register., 1916-08-09

For Sale-House and lot on north
10th St, Lamar C. F. Hoag.
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the colt should be encouraged to
eat a little grain as soon as he shows
any jnclinatiou for it. Usually he will
fegfn to eat when he is about month
Or six weeks old. A MIXTURE of equal
parts of crushed oats and bran makes
nice feed. Only rs much as the
colt will clean up nicely should be fed.
1t h not we'll to try TO keep the troughs
filled. Some fresh skimmilk may also
be fed to advantage if only a little is
given at time.
Following his mother in the field
when she is at work takes too much
81 the colts energy. He Is better of
IN dark barn away from the flies dur
ing TIE day, if he is turned out to ex-
ercise at night For he first six weeks
:. should be allowed to suck about the
s,.dd3e Of each morni and each at
efnoon. II handled in this way the
eDat may be veaned when four or
Eve months old without missing the
mothers milk and without losing tho
bnit-fat, that should be kept on his
back to carry him through the first
Utnsee.-J. 8. Montgomery.
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By F. e. L. BEAI.

were examined. Although the hum
mingbirds are the smallest of the avian
race, their stomachs are much smaller
in proportion to their bodies than
those of other birds, while their liveTs
are much larger. This would inGi-
cate these birds live to considerable
extent upon concentrated sweets, as
stated above, and that the insects.
spiders. etc, found in the stomachs do
not represent by any means all their
food. The quantities of food found in
these tiny stomachs are so minute AID
insects comprising them are so
small that Identification is very diff
cult and uncertain, but it is believed
that the following statements do not
contain any serious errors.
The animal food formed 1892 per
cent of the whole, and what was taken
for vegetable matter made up the re-
mainder, SOS per cent. The principle
item of inse diet we're small ants and
beetles. of which a large proportion
are probably parasitic species. They
amount to 26.32 yer cent Of the food,
and next to spiders are the largest
constituents of the animal diet Bugs
stand next among the insects eaten
and amount to SIS per cent Of the
God.
AS a representative of the western
members of the hummingbird family,
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PRESERVATION OF OUR RUNNING BIRDS URGED

the Anna hummer has been selected.
or this species one hundred and eleven
stomachs were examined and in some
respects the food was found to differ
noticeably from tina. of the ruby
throat. The largest item of animal
food is gnats or small flies which
amount to 1923 per cent and replaces
the spiders SO characteristic of the
ruby-throats diet. Only trace Of
vegetable matter, presumed to be fruit
pulp. was found in the stomachs Of
the Anna. Spiders to the extent of
only per cent were eaten by this
species
The food of these two representa-
tives of the hummingbird family, it ap-
pears. pc ,sesses but little economic
interest, and that little is mostly in
the wrong direction. The ants eaten
are probably largely parasitic species
and so to be reckoned as useful, while
the gnats and spiders may be con-
sidered as neutral, although it is pos
sible that some of tn. former may be
of the gallgnat family and SO be
harmful. The bugs eaten are proba-
bly, mostly of the injurious species On
the other hand, hummingbirds do no
harm to any product of husbandry
and, as they are beautiful and inter-
esting creatures. their preservation
may well be urge, on purely senti-
mental grounds.
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KEEP HOGS FREE FROM WORMS.

A hog that is infested with worms
cannot produce pork economically, be-
cause its system is not in normal con-
dition. Furthermore, such a hog is
also more susceptible to contagious
and other diseases than one not af-
fcc:ed in that manner. We have Of
len made the statement that worms
are frequently the indirect cause of
cholera. Do not understand us to
say that worms will produce cholera
Far from it. Cholera Is a germ dis
ease and can be produced only by the
cholera germ, but a strong, vigorous
hog is not nearly SO susceptible to
cholera as is one whose system is in
a rundown condition
A very good, practical remedy for
worms consists in feeding one pound
Of copperas to 100 pigs for a period
of FIVE days. Then feed no copperas
for six weeks; liter that feed copper
as for i've days again as before and
continue this intermittent copperas
feeding from birth to block. The
copperas should be dissolved in water
and mixed with the grain, preferably
ground grain of some kind. Many
hog feeders are using this remedy
and recommend it very highly.
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the top bud on the side of the branch
facing the direction to which it Is in
tended to divert the growth. BY this
treatment there will be no difficulty
in shaping the tree into any desired
form. Open spaces in the tree may
be closed up; as, for instance. when
the tree has been deprived of neces-
sary branch by accident or otherwise,
the loss may be recovered in time by
pruning the adjoining branches so as
to divert the growth into the portion
made bare of branches.-G. B. Brack-
EFT. PomoIogist, Bureau of Plant In
dustry, Washington, D. c.. in Green's
Fruit Grower.
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Hummingbrds are popularly sup
posed to live upon the nectar Of flow
ers. and unquesttonably this substance
forms an important part of their food.
Close observation has shown, however,
that these little birds do not visit
flowers wholly for the purpose Of
gathering honey, nor do they obtain
all their food from flowers. The writer
has observed them lowering in front
of cobweb, picking off insects and
perhaps spiders entagied in the net.
They have also been observed to cap
ture their food on the wing. like fly
catCherS. Stomach examina ton sho VS.
that considerable part of their food
consists of insects and spiders with
sometimes a very little vegetable mat
ter.
Only one species of hummingbird
inha bits the eastern part of the United
States. This Is the ruby throat which
is more or less common almost every
where in that region. The writer has
seen 100 Of these tiny creatures hover
ing about the flowers of buckeye
ee, and this number was maintained
all day and for many days. though the
individuals were going and coming all
the time.
In order to obtain definite knowledge
as to the food of hummingbirds in
general, and the ruby-throat in par
ticular, SO stomachs of this species
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BY III. L. KESIPSTER.

Poultrymen everywhere have long
recognized the value of beef scraps as
food for the laying hen. College and
Experiment Station men have found by
their tests that the use of buttermilk
or sour mill reduces the cost OF pro-
duction per dozen of eggs as COM
pared with either beef scraps or no
meat ration Sour milk Is cheaper
than beef scraps as it is on the aver
age farm. Mr.. W. r. Graham tested
three different breeds of chickens and
reported that the use Of either butter
milk or beef scraps reduced the cost
of egg production very greatly. Mr..
A. G. Phillips found that when no
meat or other animal food was fed to
hens in their ration they laid thirty
two eggs apiece while those which re-
ceved meat scraps laid hundred and
thirty-f1ve eggs apiece and those that
received SKINNED milk laid 1854 eggs
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SELECTION OF SEED CORN
Prepare Profitable Next and Carefully Preserve
Supply Of Good Seed

Only during unusually damp wealth
er at seed-gathering time will fire be
necessary. If heat is employed in a
poorly ventilated room it will do the
seed ears more injury than good. If
used, the fire should be slow, long con-
tinued, and situated below the seed
ears, with good VENT alton above
them.
After hanging in the shed or lying
on the racks for two months the seed
ears should be as dry as a bone and
contain less than 10 per cent Of mois-
ture. They can remain where they
dried or be stored in mouse-proof bar
rels, boxes, or crates during the winter.
but ! either case they must not be
exposed to a damp atmosphere, for
they win absorb moisture and be in
jured. Some farmers place the thor
oughly dried seed ears in the center
of wheat bin and fill the bin with
loose, dry wheat.
In localities where veevtls and grain
moths injure stored grain, the thor
oughly dry seed ears should be stored
in very tight mouse-proof receptacles
with l pound of moth balls or naph-
thalene inclosed for each bushel Of
corn. This quantity tightly inclosed
with the corn will prevent damage
from these insects and will not injure
the seed. If at any time signs of vice.
wills or grain moths show on the corn,
it should be inclosed with carbon BIZ
sulphid in practically alright rooms,
bins, boxes. or barrels for As hours.
The bisulphid should be placed in shall
low dishes or pans on top of the seed.
One half pint Is sufficient for box
or barrel holding 10 bushels or less.
One pound is sufficient for room or
bin 10 feet each way. After fumiga-
ton the ears must be thoroughly aired,
taking care that no fire Is present
when the fumigating box Is opened.
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apiece year, or more than -Four times
as many as those which received no
animal food.
In tests conducted with three tWess-
ty-flve bird pens, about two-e1rfrus a
the ration given to each pen consisted
of scratch food made by mixing two
parts of corn and one part Of wheat
The remainder Of the feed given to
each pen was mash made By MIXING
bran, middlings or shorts and corn
meal for the no-neat pen, or the pen
which received no animal food what
ever. The sour milk pen received the
same mash and all the sour milk the
fowls wanted, while the beef scrap pen
received the same mash with the ad-
dition of beef scrap mixed with the
mash.
The usual poultry yard method OF
feeding was followed practically the
only difference being In the protein
concentrate or the animal food given
to the. hens In the morning little
scratch feed was sprinkled IN the straw
litter deep enough to make the fovh
scratch and take exercise. Water wal
placed in clean padls and pan OF soul
milk was given to the sour mix pen
At noon the proper amount of dr3
mash was measured into trough and
green feed was frequently given at the
same time during the winter. Two
or three times a week the fowls were
made to eat more Of the mash by
mixing the dry mash with water OF
with milk in case Of the sour milk pen
This wet mash was fed at the rate OF
handful for every four birds. At night
the scratch feed was given again and
the birds were allowed to eat all the,
would in order that they might go tc
roost with full crops. The purpose
of this method of feeding was to keel
the hens busy all day and keep theil
appetites keen and yet give them al
the feed they would use. Feeding
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BOTH ARE NEEDED.

Quite as much depends upon the
proper preparation of the soil for the
best development of plants as the use
Of fertilizers. A case in point is that
of an intelligent Missouri farmer who
lived in section where the idea pre-
vailed that wheat could not be profit
"a bly, grown there. He had tried to
raise wheat on his farm, in the old,
rough way, and could get but o or IL
bushels per ere. He visited the state
experiment station at time when a
plot of ground was being prepared for
wheat and became so impressed with
their thorough methods of soil pre-
paration that he prepared field on
his farm in the same way, and from
this harvested crop of IS bushels
of good wheat per acre, the only fer
tilizer used being stable manure.
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small amount of the scratch feed In
the morning encouraged the hens to
eat more of the mash. An attempt
was made to get them to consume
about half as much of the mash a.
they did of the grain or scratch feed.
Co.'S of Feed.
The prices paid for feed VIII Of
course vary from county to county and
state to state and from year to year
but these prices quoted by a local mill
are probably fairly representative for
that season. Even il they should be
little too high or little too low to
show the probable cost in the readers
locality they will enable him to COM
pare the cost of egg production on no
meat, beef scrap, and sour milk ration.
Eggs Lsid.
The twenty-five hens in the nc-meat
pen laid 1873 eggs or an average Of
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Central and Southern States, all other
things being equal. short, thick stalks
are preferable. Short stalks are not
so easily blown down and permit
thicker planting. Thick stalks are
not so easily broken down. and in
general are more productive than slen-
der ones. The tendency for corn to
produce suckers is hereditary. Other
things being equal. seed should be
taken from stalks that have no suck
ers.
The same day seed corn is gathered
the husked ears should be put in a
dry place where there is free circula-
ton of air and placed in such a manner
that the ears do not touch each ether.
This is the only safe procedure. Good
seed is repeatedly ruined because it is
thought to be already dry enough
when gathered and that the precau-
ton mentioned above is unnecessary.
Many farmers believe that their au-
tumns are 60 dry that such care il
superfiuous. Seed corn in every local
ity gathered at ripening time will be
benefited by drying as suggested. IT
left in the husk long after ripening it
may sprout or mildew during warm,
wet weather or become infested with
weevils. The vitality of seed Is often
reduced by leaving it in a sack
or in a pile for even =, day after
gathering. During warm weather,
with some moisture in the &C .
and kernels. the, ears heat or mil
dew in :. remarkably short time.
The best possible treatment immedi-
ately after gathering is to string the
ears. Ordinarily the best place to
hang strings Of ears is in an open shed
or loft. Wire racks are more con-
venient. and in the end cheaper than
binder twine Such racks may be
made from electrically welded lawn
fencing. The cutting Of the fencing
into seed-corn racks Is done without
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fruit This can be fully demonstrated
by the placing of A paper sack over
the fruit when half grown; specimens
thus treated would have no color
whatever The sun does the painting.
Il not only puts on the delicate tints
but it evelops the higher quality, the
delicious flavor and the aroma of the
fruit, An apple, pear or peach ripen-
ed on the inner lower branches where
light does not penetrate is lacking in
all the requisites that go to make good
fruit. The fruit thus treated is with
ut color and without quality.
In many cases there is far too much
pruning done in commercial orchards.
but one cannot make hard and fast
'ule that will apply to all sections Of
i,lis great country.
In sections where there is much
9sloudy and foggy weather the pruning
should be more liberal than in sec
lions like Colorado and New Mexico
and other states where the suns rays
are much more intense.
\ Then again. the rules applicable to
the pruning of the apple will not ap-
ply = other species of fruit trees. The
cherry requires little or no pruning at
all.
4 Pruning the apple tree should be-
gin as soon as the trees have been
planted by cutting back the one-year-
old tree to the height from the ground
that it is proposed to start the
branches to form the head of the
tree, hich should be from Is to "a
inches from the ground. This cutting
back will cause several buds to break
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On these five limbs that have been
cut back five new shoots should be al.
lowe i to grow distributed around the
stem at equal distances.
This same system of pruning Is con-
tmued on the tree at three years OF
age.
In all, pruning to give the desired
form to the head, and especially while
th1 tree is growing, the orchardist
should keep clearly in mind the fu-
.ture form Of the tree-that is. what it
should be when old; for what may
seem an open head when young may
prove, when the tree is older, to be
too dense and crowded, the branches
too closely formed together for con-
venience in getting around in gather
ing and thinning the fruit or giving
the necessary pruning.
During early springtime. or even
late winter, for the convenience when
the wood is not frozen. each year
every tree should be carefully looked
over and branches which are likely to
interfere with the adjoining ones
should be cut out and the centers of
the dense growth thinned out, side
branches which are making a stronger
growth than the others should be
checked by heading in the central or
terminal shoots, and all parts of the
tree should be cut back whenever
needed to maintain an evenly balanced
head. Some varieties have an upright
haolt or growth and some make
slender growth. Such need close at
tention each year in cutting back one
half of last years wood growth, leaving
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Autumn Is the T. to prepare for
a profitable corn cr"p the following
season. At corn-rip ming time drop
all other business nd select an abun-
dance of seed corn. The process Is
too important to be conducted :nci-
dentally while husking. When select
ing seed corn give the process your
entire attention. Get the very b. 81
that is to be had and preserve it We H.
and your increased yields will return
you more profit than any other work
you can do on your farm.
In Is years Investigations conducted
Piketon, Ohio, with WOODBURY. White
Dent, U. S. Selection II, the yield was
raised from an average of So bushels
of dry shelled corn from 1901 to 1907
to an average of IS bushels from 1907
to 1913. The principal influence pro-
ducing this increase in yield was the
selection and the care Of seed corn.
The only proper way to select seed
corn is from the stalks standing where
they grew. as soon as ripe and before
the first hard freeze. AS soon as the
crop ripens go through the field with
seed picking bags and husk the ears
from the stalks that have produced
the most corn without having any
special advantages such as space, mois-
ture, or fertility. Avoid the large ears
on stalks standing singly with an un-
usual amount of space around them
Preference should be given the plants
that have produced most heavily in
competition with full stand of less
productive plants. In all localities
the inherent tendency of the plant to
produce heavily of sound, dry, shelled
corn is OF most Importance Late
maturing plants with ears which are
heavy because of an excessive amount
o. sap should be ignored. Sappiness
greatly increases the weight and is
likely to destroy the quality. In the
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PROGRESS OF SHEEP INDUSTRY.

It Is a remarkable fact that within
the past IS years the sheep of the
United States have changed wonder
fully. Formerly two-thirds were lit
tie Merinos and were raised mainly
for wool, with mutton as the incident,
whereas today two-thirds are Eng
lish mutton sheep raised for meat,
and with wool as the incident There
are many Merinos on the Western
ranges but most of them are fully
one-third larger than they were in
1882, when there were plenty of sheep
and not enough good muttons to talk
about The change was caused by the
continual reduction in the price of
wool, which closed many wool grow
ers out of business. Now that the
change has taken place, it is very good
for those who remain or intend to go
into the business.